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—_—__——_____ eee ee ENGLAND. A Statesman’s Lecture on the Foreign Diplo- macy—Comfort for the Ruler’ of Canada. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. . Lonpon, Oct. 29, 1872, Sir Joun Pakington, in a lecture delivered at Stourbridge last night, adverted to the settlement of the Alabama claims, declaring it was painful and humiliating to apologize for wrongs never committed and to pay fine for injuries steadily de- nied. Im the disposition of the San Juan boundary ‘question, however, he saw no reason to censure the government. DOMESTIC JOY FOR LORD DUFFERIN. Mr. Patterson, private secretary of the Governor General of Canada, sailed yesterday for Quebec, taking with him Lord Dutterin’s children. IRELAND. —e1—_—- ‘An Aristocratic Rural Residence Destroyed by Fire. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Dunn, Oct. 29, 1872. ‘The country seat of the Hon. Hugh Hammond Angoldsby Massy, Lord Massy, situated near Castle Connell, in the county Limerick, was destroyed by @re last night. The loss is $75,000. FRANCE. The Question of Compulsory Education and - School Discipline Reform—Agricultural Dis- tricts Flooded—Heinrich Heine's Remains. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Oct. 29, 1872. The Council General of the Department of the !Beine have adopted a resolution in favor of com- }#pulsory education and the employment of lay teachers in the public schools, and will petition “the Assembly for legislation to that effect. FARMERS’ LOSSES BY FLOODS. ‘The floods in the South of France have subsided. The damage done to farms and vineyards is exten ~ tive. SROVINCIAL SYMPATHY WITH A BONAPARTE PRINCE. Itie said that one of the Deputies from Corsica emill resign his seat in the Assembly to make room for Prince Napoleon. PRESIDENT THIERS’ PRECAUTION AGAINST BONA- PARTIST TENDENCIES IN THE ARMY. It is reported that an inquiry has been ordered “py the President into the conversation of certain ‘army officers at La Fare, who are charged with jasserting that the Minister of War, Gencral Cissey, .@nd the members of his staif entertained strong Bympathics for the Bonapartes. ‘)HEINRICH HEINE'S ASHES CONSIGNED FOR BURIAL AT HOME. , The mortal remains of Heinrich Heine, which ‘ywere buried in the Montmartre Cemetery, have been isinterred and taken to Hamburg. GERMANY. “The Legislative “Deadlock” Maintained by the Prassian Baronial Party, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, Oct. 29, 1872. The members of the Upper House of the Prussian “Legislative Diet—or the majority of the body speak- in its name—remain firm in their opposition to the County Keform bill. Count Von Eulenburg, Minister of the Interior, An view of the defeat of the measure, has tendered his resignation, but the Emperor refuses to ac- ~Gopt it. SPAIN. Political Party Protestation of the Coming Down- fall of Amadeus’ Power. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, Oct, 29, 1872, ‘While the Army bill was under consideration in ‘the Congress yesterday Seifior Garridos said the fadical party in Spain existed only by the suffer- ‘ancé of the republicans. This remark gave rise toa warm debate, during ‘which a sharp encounter took place between Sefior @Zorilla, President of the Council, and Sefior Figue- fras. The latter in the course of an excited speech that “the present was the last Spanish pnausey that would be formed under King Ama- deus.” BRAZIL. Wrogress of the Treaty Negotiations with the Argentine Confederation. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LisBon, Oct. 29, 1872, The mail steamer has arrived here from Rio Waneiro, bringing later advices from that city. The negotiations between General Mitre, the f€nvoy of the Argentine Confederation, and the government of Brazil, for the settlement of the @ispute which has arisen between those two in relation to the Paraguayan treaty, were ‘conducted in secret. It was generally believed in Rio Janeiro at the ftime of the sailing of the steamer that the result of Rhe negotiations would be a friendly settlement of Whe controversy. CANADIAN RAILROAD AOOIDENT. Beveral Cars Thrown Off the Track on the Great Western Railroad—A Number of Passengers Injared. BEAMSVILLE, Ont., Oct. 20, 1872, + While the Pacific Express on the Great Western Railroad was passing Beamsville station, twenty miles East of Hamilton, at half-past one this after- moon, the wing rail of a switch broke and six cars rere thrown off the track. Conductor Furness was badly hart about the head @ number of passen- Mr. Thomas Kennedy, of Lexi r lore, telegraphed Vins wife that he was'hurt, fo to it not seriously and would probably be abi in afew ‘days. ‘9 2 o , THE GREAT RAILROAD INJUNCTION OASE. ‘ The argument on the rule to show cause why an {njunction should not issue to restrain the Na- tional Rallroad Company from constructing a rail road from Philadelphia to New York was set down brig ip the Court of Chancery, at Trenton, it as the he fom nag for the Pennsylvania Railroad for this morning. NON-ABBIVAL OF THE STEAMER MISSOURL Havana, Oct, 28, 1872, ’ The steamer Missouri, which safled from New York on the 17th instant for Nassan and Havana, jhas not yet arrived, and is now five days overdue. THE PHILADELPHIA-LIVERPOOL STEAMERS, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29, 1872, ¢ The steamship Ohio, the second of the Philadel- ys and Liverpool steamship line, will be launched morrow at Kensington. ‘MUBDER BY A POLICE OFFICER. OMcer Sullivan, of the First precinct, was ed ~=pefore Judge Dowling, yesterday, pharged with felonious assault and battery pn Patrick Devaney. Devaney is the captain of a ee lying in the East River. He avas walking along South street Monday night, near By ec sthens wwe anaes ae tet te ai ke teu eged, hit him over the case was set down Qnd fractured his skull out love of amusemient. Mr, Devaney had to be removed to Bellevue Hospital, and OMicer Suill- wan wea held to await (he resuli OF hjs Injuries, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. —— OFFICE OF THE IBF SIGNAL OFFICK! Wasurnarom, D. C., Oct. 30—1 A. Jor the Past Twenty-Jour Hours. The barometer is high over all the Atlantic States, with generally clear weather and northerly to easterly winds; on the Gulf and thence to the Ohio River southeasterly winds and partially cloudy weather; in the Northwest the low barometer, brisk and high southeasterly winds and threaten- ing weather continue and extend eastwardly; southeasterly winds and increasing cloudiness pre- vail on the Lakes and thence to the Onio Valley. Probabilities. In New England and the Atlantic States gener- ally clear weather, with northeasterly to easterly winds will prevail; in the Guif States southeasterly winds and cloudy weather. The barometer will fall on the Lakes, with threatening weather, rains and brisk northeasterly to southeasterly winds; in the Northwest brisk southeasterly winds, veering to northerly and westerly, with threatening weather and rain, Warning signals continue at Duluth, Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Haven, Detroit aud Toledo. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four houra in comparison with the corresponding day of last ‘éar, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HERALD Building :— 1871, 1872. 7 mo. 5 44 «3:30 P. M OP. M. 52° 48 a 46 47 12 P.M. ul 4t 4% Average temperature for corresponding date last year... seeeeee cess SBNG UTAH. Progress of Lieutenant Wheeler’s Expe- dition. SALT Lagg City, Utah, Oct. 28, 1872. The Journal publishes late advices from the Wheeler expedition. Its rendezvous was at Touquevilie, Utah, last week, at which point the Party would divide, Lieutenant Wheeler, with a suitable escort, xpomt ao to the Colorado River and Northern Rane the other parties would work towards Buckskin Mountains, Southeastern Nevada and the road towards Salt Lake City. The members of the expedition were in good health. Heavy snows in the mountains have somewhat retarded mining operations, and an oan and heavy Winter is apprehendod. Proiessor Hayden is a here to-morrow trom the Yellow Stone country. YELLOW JACK IN CONNECTIOUT, Yellow Fever at Stonington on Board a St. Domingo Trader—A Suicide’s Novel Method of Effecting His Own Destruc- tion. New Lonpow,-Conn., Oct. 29, 1872. The schooner Crown Point, of Newburyport, Mass., from St. Domingo for Boston, was driven into Stonington yesterday by the heavy gale. To- day she was boarded by the authorities, aad it was found that there were two cases of yellow féver on board in the persons of seamen named Brown and Hiendoff. Both have been sick about two weeks and will propel. die, The vessel was at once quarantined; but, though every precaution has been taken, there is much excitement exist- ing, as communication has been had between her and the shore. Late last night James B. Dimock, an engineer in the employ of the Vermont Central Railroad, com- mitted suicide by drowning. He attached a piece of railroad iron, weighing sixty pounds, to his body and holding it in his hands, walked to the end of & wharf and jumped overboard. His body was re- covered. Depression, consequent upon ‘ill health, was the cause, Captain John Gann, of Narragansett, R. I., while sailing on the Thames River in a small boat, yester- day afternoon, was knocked overboard by the boom and drowned. CALIFORNIA'S DEAD SUBSIDY SCHEME. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28, 1872, The City Attorney sent a communication to the Board of Supervisors to-night, giving his opinion that the Board has no legal power to withdraw from be- fore the people the proposition to vote a subsidy of $10,000,000 to the San Francisco and Colorado Rail- road Company, notwithstanding the directors of said company have publicly abandoned the scheme. He holds that the question must be decided by the peo by -vote on the 5th of November. Other leading lawyers here concur in this opinion, As all iperne however, agree that the scheme Is dead, me spigoune at the polls is deemed a foregonc con- clusio: OUR INLAND COMMERCE. Pithy Resolutions of the Buffalo Board of Trade. BurFa.o, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1872, The Board of Trade of this city, on a motion to reconsider the resolutions passed a few days since regarding the bridging of the Detroit River, re- affirmed the same, with the following addition :— Resolved, That bri the channels of the Detroit River wost of Stony Point is objectionable only as part of the system for ing the main channel between Stony Island and Canada. The Board of Trade also adopted the following resolution :— solved, That the action of this Board has always been free trade and tree commerce between the States, and in favor of all facilities for our inland com- merce, such as bridges and tunnels when required by rail- roads, and free canals to secure cheap transportation; and that the first duty ot —— interested 18 to examine whether a tunnel is practicable, and when it is reper the aes shi a eee vee mon sing are, an en not practical ‘ldges shoul be permitied, and ouly fatiabe on the ground of great Public necessity to facilitate our inland commerce. Upon Ro other ground do we believe that our great natural channel-ways for inland commerce—now greater than or i va) commerce—and its sources should ever be ridged. SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ MEETING. A well-attended meeting of the soldiers and sall- orsof the Twentieth Assembly district was held last evening at Brevoort Hall, in East Fifty-fourth street, near Third avenue. Among those present were William A. Darling, General George H. Sharpe, General Henry E. Davies and a number of Post Office and Custom House employés sitting well in front. General SHARPE addressed the meeting and de- nied the charge that General Grant was a nepotist or a drunkard. He said that it lowet fat (01 1e ast Mnglish ai of Frank Lesie's {Qustrated or, When ® wi * r irishman had knocked him down and beat im ignominiously. (Cheers from the Irish Vel of the audience.) ls English artist had been in the habit of goa er ge Grant by represent- ing him as ee runk constantly, and when Morgan, intoxicated as he was, found himself in a cell for his conduct, Providence must have fur- nished him witha little hell of his own. General Grant was no nepotist, and had Vnapet his foot as he would on a spider’s back on the bodies of Hi oad Mr. Corbin, both brothers-in-law of the resident. Mr, WILLIAM A. DARLING then followed, and said that he expected the honest democrats of the dis- trict to send him to Congress, and allow Fernando ‘Wood, the illustrious politician and adroit schemer, tostayat home. The speaker said that he was giad to find tnat he had to fight Fernando Wood single-handed and alone, as he did not want to go to Congress from the Tenth district unless by an honest ae tgs! of the voters of the district. A lee club then sang a glee, and other speakers fol- wed, after which the meeting adjourned, SECRETARY BOUTWELL AT POUGHKEEPSIE. POUGHKEEPSIE, Oct. 20, 1872. There was an enthusiatic meeting here to-night at the Opera House to hear Secretary Boutwell. Mr. Philip Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, presided. Secretary Boutwell was met at the de- pot by a company of tanners. A band and glee club were in attendance at the meeting. Hundreds were unable to find seats. Boutwell leaves in the morning for New York. His speech was the usual one, THE RELIGIO-HIPPOZYMOTIOS OF POLITIOS. A Letter from Mr. Havemeyer. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: — The Sun publishes this morning what appears to be an appeal to the clergymen of this city, and to have been read yesterday at a mecting of the preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is hardly necessary for me to state, after ap- pealing to the people, without reference to party, nationality, sect or condition, to support the present movement jor the reform of the city gov- ernment, that the use of my name in that con- nection was unauthorized and without my knowledge. I never saw or heard of the document in question until it met my eye in the paper referred to. F, HAVEMEYER, New YORK, Oct. 20, 1872. ARKANSAS’ POLITIOAL TROUBLES, Memruis, Tenn., Oct. 20, 1872, It is reported that Governor Hadley has declared th tration in six townships of Mississippi county Atk inglading Osceola, null and void, 7 THE PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS. The Liberal Republican Headquarters. There was no news at the Glenham Hote! head- quarters yesterday, The liberals may be, and Probably are, working very industriously, but it does not appear on the suriace, Letters of cheer- ing import come in continually, and there remains little else to do at this near. end of the canvass than to receive such letters and wait for the de- cisive day. The result of canvassing tue various States is beginning to come in aud presents a very cheering prospect. Connecticut is counted sure, ona very thorough canvass, to give Greeley 7,000 majority and New Jersey 5,09), The Republican Headquarters. The Fifth avenu: headquarters were somewhat lively yesterday. The work of the committeemen has about ended, but they remain actively in session to hear the resulta, Among the visitors yesterday were Speaker Blaine, Governor Perham, of Maine, and £. D. Webster. Chandler is in charge, having returned trom Washington—where the branch beadquartera have been ciosed—and [ enetpensd offers amnesty aiter election to all the oral republicans who, after their overwhelming defeat of next Tuesday, may want to come back. He offers them the universal amnesty which the liberais waut for the South, and is willing to accord them all the privileges of laithful adherents of the Grant party except a share ef the spoils. He sug- F ecped hat Grecley, Sumner, Banks and all their followers resurn to the fold, and give out the idea that the whole thing was intended as a humiliation for the democracy. COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY. oes Endorsed for Offices, The Committee of Seventy met last evening at the Everest House, Seventeenth street and Fourth avenue, About twenty-eight members were pre- sent. The chair was oceupied by Mr. John Wheeler, Mr. Joseph H. Choate, Acting Scoretary, read the following report from the Chairman of the Committee on Elections :— Resolved, That tho Committee on Elections endorse the follow ing Candidates for the offices of Alderman, Assist- ant Alderman and Assembly respectively — The following candidates were then endorsed by the committee in session after the usorits, quaill- cations and wisdom of each were carefully dis- cussed :— Candidates Municipal CANDIDATES FOR ALDERMEN. Oswald Ottendorier. Peter Gilsey. 3. B. H. Vance, Peter Kehr. Frederick Germann. George Burkhardt, John J. Morris. Peter B, Giney, John Falconer, Townsend Cox, O. P. C. Billings. Henry Clausen, Jr. 8. V. R, Cooper. David M. Koohter, George Koch. ASSISTANT ALDERALEN, Dist, dst. 1—John Ham. 3—Thomas J. Geary, 5—Henry Wisser. 6—Daniel J. Crowley. 7—Thomas L, Thornell, 8—J. C, Julius Langivien. 9—William P, Bonsel, 16— 17—5, N. Simonson. 18—Frederich Ii. Man. 20—Christian Schwartz, 10—Joachim Maidhorr. 21—Otis 1. Hall. ASSEMBLY. Dist. Dist. 1S. J. Huy 13—James Kelly, gains, 3—William H. Rooney. 6—John 0, Rapp. 7—George W. Ulark, 14—Robert B, Boyd. 15—Joseph Blumenthal, 17—Andrew Blessing. 8—Solon BK, Smith. 20—Jonn D. Coughlin, 9—Stephen Peil. 21—Charles Crary. 11—Alonzo D, Cornell. ’ ‘The missing districts will be filled to-day by the endorsement of suitable canatdates, It was announced that a mass meeting in the in- terest of William F, Havemeyer, for Mayor, will be held on Eriay next, at noon, at the corner of Wall and Broad streets, after which the meeting ad- journed until to-day. THE UNITED NATIONALITIES, Grand Rally of the Foreign Populsa- tions in Support of Grant and Wilson at the Cooper Institutc—Speeches in Many Languages. There was an immense assemblage of the various foreign elements of New York city last evening in the big ball of the Cooper Institute to express their determination to vote the Grant and Wilson ticket next Tuesday. The movement was engineered by General Sige! and others and is intended to form the basis of a permanent organization to be known as the United Nationalitics. And judging from the numbers and enthusiasg of iast night's gathering, such @ purpose will probably be eminently successful. It 1s svarcely possivle to enu- merate all the various races that thus” met in conclave. ‘There were Germans, Italians, Swi: French, Hungarians, Poles, Span- tards and Scandinavians, and probably scattering Cliques of several) other alien nationalities, The In- stitute was adorned with admirable taste and nevor looked brighter or more cheerful. The platform was a biaze of flags, draped together friendly embraces, and all round the outside of the hail were stationed pennons and banners and trans- parencies with legends in many tongucs and deco- tated with wreaths of flowers. On either side of the speakers’ desk had been erected a gayly-col- ored column, bearing at its summit a gariand of flowers. The most conspicuous feature of all, how- ever, was a portrait of General Grant, with the Stars and Stripes poh an from it on either hand. Ata little © eight General Sigel called the meeting to order and made a not very long speech in English explaining the objects of the United Na- tionalities. They di probably among them- selves in opinions a8 much as in origin, in educa- tion and in experience, but they were alla unit on the question of supporting the national ticket of | Grant and Wilson and of the Congressmen nomt- nated by the republican Party: They | ben thought that the administration had erred in some ts ‘ing its three years and a half of power, but ag @ general thing it had done right and had been true and loyal to the best interests of the best people in the country. General Sigel denounced he coalition between Greeley and the democrats in terms of the most apres invective, and characterized it as the last effort of in the South to sever Union, which had cost such terrible and enormous sacrifices of blood and treasure. Let this last attempt o1 the rebels to destroy the repub- lic be overthrown and the future of the countr, was safe and reconciliation would be ble ant right; for the Southern ppeopls would then see that nothing remained to them but to submit when they found that their friends in the North were not so Numerous as they still seemed to hope. General Sige! nominated Mr. Emil Sauer as per- manent chairman, a choice which was hailed with rapturous applause. Mr. uer made a few re- marks in pledging acknowledging the honor done him, and pledging his support to Grant and Wilson. The remainder of the speeches were in foreign languages, and among the orators were Signors Tinelli and Prati, Marcus Otterbourg, Mr. Vogtits and Dr. Markiewicz. ints were hailed with frequent and vociferous cheers, though it is but fair to suppose that but a fraction of the audience knew at any one time what was being said, THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRIOT MASS MEETING. A mass meeting in ratification of the democratic ticket, national, State and local, was held last evening at Olympic Hall, 231 West Sixteenth street. Christopher Fine called the meeting to order and David Freeman presided. Mr. Freeman stated that Abraham R. Lawrence, the democratic candl- Gate for the Mayoralty, would be present later in the evening, his absence being caused by his hay- ing to attend a meeting at Harlem and a few other meetings in various parts of the city. Before Mr. Lawrence put in an appearanc e addresses had been delivered by Mr. Corbett, of Syracuse; Mr. Gerry, General Spinola, John ‘Kelly and Ely P. Norton, all of whom spoke well and fully on the issues of the eare explaining especially the peculiar combinations in regard to the Mayoralty. Ata late hour Mr. Lawrence arrived and was re- ceived with cheers. He spoke briefly, pledging himself to the CnLJiptad of the entire ticket of the arty and to a just administration of the duties of Riayor, should he be elected to the Chief Magis- tracy of the city. He did not believe that New York wasa penurious city, and he was satisfied that the laborer should receive a proper remunera- tion for ns work; nor did he think that reform in the administration of city affairs meant that the Rx, man should be kept 7 for his wages. form meant thatastop should be put to the wholesale plunder of the city treasury by an ithe that procured money dishonhestly and used it for dishonest purposes. After some remarks from Mr. Woltman the meet! parated. THE PROPOSED REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION. The committee selected by the Republican County Convention, on Monday, met yesterday at Republican Hall, Twenty-third street and Broad- way. Eighteen members were present. The ob- Ject, as announced by the Chairman, was to carry ‘out the orders of the Convention of Monday by determining upon the place and necessary ar- rangements to be made for the proposed ratifica- tion meeting, to be hela on Saturday evening next, in favor of the republican municipal candidates, Republican Hall, Twenty-third street and Broad- way, was decided on as the place of meeting. Various sub-committecs were appointed—commit- tees on resolutions, speakers, music, fireworks, &c. A delegation of five were present from the Sailors and Soldiers’ Convention to confer with the committee on the propriety of holding a parade and torchlight procession in connection with the ratification meeting of Saturday next. They were referred for a decided answer to Mr. Murphy, President of the Republican County Convention. ‘The meeting adjourned to meet to-day, at four o'clock P.M. ART MATTERS. Belmont’s Collection of Paintings at the Leavitt Art Rooms. The private view of the Belmont pictures brought together last night at the Leavitt Art Rooms a brilliant and distinguished company. For some time those interested in art have been aware of the distinguished banker's in- tention to dispose of the collection he has been gathering for so many years. The character of the works and the fact that they had occupied a place in a gallery which Was recognized as one of the best in the city give an importance to the present collection which did not belong to any other that has been exposed for sale in late years. For the most part the paintings are by foreign artists, most of them men of world-wide reputation, What is of more importance is that in nearly every case the work 18 a good example of the style of the man whose signature it bears. A few works are by American artista, but, if we except one by E. John- son, they are chiedy worthy of note as marking an epochin American art. From this point of view they have value far above what TUE TECHNICAL SKILL displayed on the canvas could give them claims to. These works, however, do not count more than halfa dozen. The chief strength of the collec. tion lies in the foreign works, and certainly the array is calculated to give sincere Pleasure to the most exacting amateur. The French, German, Belgian, Dutch, Swedish and English schools are all well represented by such names as Tryon, Gérome, Meissonicr, Meyer von Bremen, Calame, Achenback, Bonheur, Verlat, Knaus, Diileas, Schelfhout, Weissenbruch, while modera Spantah painters are represented by a re- markably brilliant example by the lamented Zama- cois. The number of works is not so great as in former sales, but what is lacking in number is made up in importance. No collection of the aame high char- acter, and where THE LEVEL OF MzRIT Was 80 equal, has ever been offered to the American public. This, of course, is due to the circumstances under which the pictures were brought together, ed Pag careful exclusion of inferior or second rato We regret that neither time nor g; will per- mit us to notice the exhibition at the mone iy itrae. serves. We shall have to content ourselves with goancing at a few of the principal works. The ames of the artists we have already mentioned as representative of the rest are, however, suMeient guarantee in themselves of the Value of the collection. One of the pictures which will make the strongest and most lasting impres- sion on the educated admirer of art is unquestion- ably “A Mountain Scene,” by Calame. It is full of vigor, and has been treated with great breadth and freedom. Itis, however, in the marvellous way in which THR SPIRIT OF THE SCENE is caught and arrested on the canvas. There are the quiet and gloom of the mountain, with the overhanging cloud which portends storms, while the mountain torrent rushes down in zig- zag current and seems to flow out of the picture. The composition is perfect, and so nicely balanced that no object obtrudes itself, so that we are en- abled to look at the pinense as a whole without having our attention unduly attracted to any of the details. Yet everything hasbeen carefully studied, fron tho rock in the foreground in coo! gray to the dark purple hills in the distance. This picture isan admirable example of the highest landscape art, and possesses those qualities of MYSTERY AND SUGGESTIVENESS which are so sadly absent from even the best ex- amples of the American school. Genre painting is represented by a canvas of considerable size by the celebrated Knaus, It is called “The Poacher and the Priest.” There is a vigor in THE CHARACTER DRAWING that betrays a master hand. A woll-to-do-looking priest is in the act of lecturing a submissive, hag- gard-looking rustic. The alr of confident supe- riority in the holy man, and the Sogmatic manner in whic he lays down laws of meum and tuum, show that he is not prepared to discuss the question whh the layman. The latter is too much overawed to reply, and stands meckly before the priest, evi- dentiyewishing for the moment when he shall be pene ‘about his business. The story is conveyed ADMIRABLE FORCE. Everything in the composition is subordinated to the effect of the two main figures. These have been painted with the closest attention, and are drawn with a knojvicdge and firmness only found-in the works o. the best artists, GrROME is represented by his “Diogenes,” a work of great wor certainly, but not an agreeable subject. je surly philosopher is scen seated in his tub, in the act of lighting a lamp, while a trio of tnquisi- tive dogs are solemnly regarding his proceedings without in the least disturbing the seli-com- Placence of TUR NUMAN SNARLER. The drawing ofthe figure is very bold and mas- teriy, but the color is not pleasant, “The Baby,” by Meyer Von Bremen, is one of the most delightiul examples we have ever seen after this artist, His light effects were not yet lowered to the level of a trick when he painted this canvas. There is a delightful sense of atmosphere, pure, soit daylight this work which makes us regret the many very inferior works Von Bremen has since manufactured. The composition is simple, but there is a deal of touch- ing nature in it. @ cradle a baby lies asleep, and two younger children are kneeling by the side of the cradle anxiously watching the younger child while he sleeps. Out of thia little incident the painter has managed to make a picture of REMARKABLE INTRREST, We should like to have noticed the works by eee, Achenbach, Bouguereau, Bonheur, Bel- ‘troyon, and especially one by Melssonier, in is remarkab!, tailiiani in color, and painted with the minut finish for which this artist is re- markable. We shall, however, return to this sub- ject in a few days. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. op neetn pete Miss Neilson played Juliet in Liverpool previous to embarking for this country. She will arrive in New York next week. “Pygmalion and Galatea” is to be withdrawn from Wallack’s at the close of next week owing to Mr. Sothern’s engagement at that theatre. The first public rehearsal of the Church Music Association will take place on the 5th of December. The private rehearsals of the society have begun. The programme adopted by some of the leading places of entertainment in Chicago is not bigger fran @ man’s hand, but it is very pretty and conven- jen! Professor Pepper delivers his ghost lecture at Steinway Hall, this evening. It is said to be an ine teresting and dramatic presentation of the won- ders of science. An entertainment consisting of Mrs. Jarley’s Wax Works is to be given at Association Hallon this and to-morrow evenings, for the benefit of the library and reading room of St. Barnabas church. M. Capoul has made his Paris début in Italian opera as Lionel in Flotow’s “Martha.” He was encored in his song of the third act, and called forward at the close of the opera and loudly ap- plauded. : Many of the celebrities of the Paris stage are sparring it the provinces, Mme. Doche is at Tours; je. ‘at Chambé: Léon Achard at Nantes, and Bertheller at yn, all drawing good houses, Mr. Irving, who is now playing the king in “Charles I.” at the Lyceum Theatre, London, and who intends visiting New York before the close of the season, first attained distinction as Mathias in the favorite Bowery piece of “The Bells.” Popular concerts and classical music never went weil ther ; but the stillness which relgned at the Grand ra House on Sunda: evening while or Padovanni was playing ‘“‘The Last Rose of mer” and other commonplaces showed a most per- verse disposition on the part of unmusical people to be pleased with what musical people contemn. The adoption of successiul ae seems to be the 5, in England. “The High lander,”’ based on Mr. Lester Wallack’s play of “The Veteran,” has been produced in Liverpool, and Mr, Charles Mathews, who has returned to the Gayety Theatre, London, after two years’ absence from England, gives, without apology, an almost entirely new — of The Critic” and other sterling old come- jes. Mr. Charles Fisher's transition from light comedy into the “old men” of the stage was so natu- d easy in spite of certain little deficiencies incident to a new line of acting that a fresh career is evidently opening before him. A finished per- sonation of Falstaif would round his artistic ile with @ completeness unequalled by any actor now on the stage, and parts like Old Dornton in “The Road to Ruin” will be excellent preparation for a character that combines the vivacity of light comedy with the heaviest tread of years. JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE. Dr. Paul Hoffman lectured on the subject of “Japan and the Japanese” last evening before an audience quite respectable in numbers and appear- ance at Association Hall. The lecturer is new to our people, but even bgt Bee | many more famous talkers now among at created a very pleasant im. ression and was Iii to with thorough in- erest. He described the products, religion, gov- ernment and general features pe andthe owing “ haracteristics of her ree in very g) te and frequently eYojted hearty applies a: a WASHINGTON. Claims Disallowed Before the British- American Commission. THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION. WasHtNcTon, Oct. 29, 1872, A Deputy Cabinet Mee The only heads of departments at the Cabinet meeting to-day were Secretaries Fish and Belknap. The Treasury Department was represented by As- sistant Secretary Richarason; the Interior, by Assistant Secretary Cowan; the Justice, by Assist- ant Attorney General Hill, and the Post Ofice, by First Assistant Postmaster General Marshall. The Late Raid Into Mexico—A Q: of Nationality. The recent roport that an armed band of Ameri- cans had invaded Mexico, murdered the Alcaide and burned a number of houses was given out by the State Department, it is alleged, in the interests Of the Secretary’s foreign policy. The official des- Patches show that the invasion was by Mexicans resident on the Texan side of the Rio Grande, The State Department, however, maintains that they Were Americans, on the same ground that Amert- can citizens living abroad are regarded as owing allegiance to the country in which they reside. The Hanse Towns and Our Commercial ‘Treaty with Prussia. The Hanseatic cities, Hamburg, Bremen and Lubec, forming what has heretofore been known as. the Hanseatic Republic, have, in consequence: of the consolidation of the German provinces, been placed under the provisions of the treaty of com- merce and friendship existing between Prussia and the United States, When the Northern States of Italy—Lombardy, Sardinia and Naples—were united the State Department decided that, aa the ruling power was resiacnt in Sardinia, the treaty with that province should be regarded as binding on the other provinces, The minor German princi- Palities, it is now contended, have merged their nationality in the German Empire, and are conse- quently bound by the provisions of the treaties ex- isting at the time of the union, The question is now pending before the State Department, and in- volves the collection of tonnage ducs on the Ger- man line of steamships. The Southern Claims Commission. The Southern Claims Commission to-day heard a claim amounting to $55,000 of the estate of the late Robert M. Aiken, of Aikeh’s Landing, Va., where the exchanging of the Union and Confed- erate soldiers took place. Mr. McCauley, a neigh- ber of Aiken's, appeared and recited various acts of disloyalty on the part of deceased, whose loyalty had been testified to by General Lorenzo Thomas and his son, and by General John E. Mulford, of Richmond, formerly United States agent for the ex- change or prisoners. The Commissioners to-day decided that they will not reopen any cases which they have reported to Congress aa disallowed, except under the same cir- stances as courts of law grant new trials—yiz,, the discovery of new and material evidence not known or attainable at the time of the original hearing. The British Mixed Sommission—Claims Disallowed. The American and British Claims Commission to- day disallowed the following claims which had been submitted on their merits:— J. W. McDonald, against tho United States, claimed $250 for the alleged wanton destruction of his property in West Virginia by Union soldiers. There were depositions to show his property was not destroyed or injured, but that he was removed, for a military reason, outside the mill lines. Jonn Preston Rogers, against the United States, claimed $13,000, for the rent of his stores in Mcm- his and damages by reason of removal of goods, Fesknee and loss and interruption of his business. According to the brief of Mr. Hale, agent and coun- sel of the United States, the claim was without foundation, utterly fraudulent, and sought to be sustained oy Borjury. Thomas McMahon, against the United States, claimed over $60,000, for property destroyed by the bombardment of Fort Pickens, and Jacob T. Moore, who claimed $900 for five mulea. Increase of Expenses and Receipts in the Post Office Department. The forthcoming report of the Postmaster Gen- eral will show that the expenses of the depart- ment were increased during the past year as com- pared with the preceding year by about $2,500,000, mainly for increased transportation and other postal facilities, foreign and domestic, and that the increased receipts have nearly kept pace with the expenses, the increase being a little over $2,000,000, Efforts to Reinstate the Assaulting Naval Cadet. Strong efforts will be made for the restoration of Cadet Midshipman Diggs, recently dismissed from the Naval Academy for assaulting Cadet Midship- man Conyers (colored). The authorities are not disposed to reinstate him, as the assault was with- ~out provocation, Roman Consul General. The President to-day appointed William B. Crosby, of New York, to be Consul General at Consular Fees and Salarics. The report of the Fifth Auditor will show that the fees of Consuls for the year 1872, over the previous year, in excess of their salaries, were over $76,000. Cabinet Rumors and Movements. (Washington (Uct. 28) correspondence of the Bos- ton Traveller.) . The rumor that the resignation of Secretary Fish is an event daily to be expected is somewhat con- firmed this morning by the statement of a Cabinet Minister that the matter has been quietly consid- Sista, APRESS fePoon andes ve bt out lacing of Minister bi about such & resul Washburne in Mr. Fish's » however, and Mr. Fish in Minister Schenck’s, is purely voluntary and extremely considerate on the part of a few newspaper correspondents, I have reason to belleve that the President has not yet decided whom to appoint to Peepers not yet made vacant. In conversation with an intimate friend a few days ‘Mr. Fish satd he had made up his mind before the settlement of the Alabama c! resign his position when everyt! in connection with those claims and the San Juan boundary should be satisfactorily adjusted. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Conveyance of Goods in Bankruptcy Cases—History of a Promissory Note— A Caution to Counties to Look Sharp After Their Bond Issues. WASHINGTON, Oct, 29, 1872. No. 175, Jenkins vs, McClallen—Error to the Circuit for the Northern District of Illinois.—This ‘was an action by the plaintiff as assignee in bank- ruptcy of Johnson & McClallen, a firm of Chicago merchants, to recover of the defendant (a brother of the junior member of the firm) the value of cer- tain goods conveyed to him as security for an ad- vance made to the firm after it became embar- rassed in circumstances, The claim is that the goods were not delivered to the defendant until after the insolvency of the firm, and that the conveyance was therefore fraudulent as to creditors and void. The defence was that the bill of sale was made at the time of the advance for which the security was given. and that it was accompanied with such a oeu the the goods as rendered the proceedings void. ie judgment was against the assignee, whe here in- slats that the Court below erred in instructing the jury that the rights of no one had intervened be- fore the defendant took ssion of the goods, and in refusing to instruct that because the goods were not delivered at the time of making the bill of sale the latter was void. Submitted on printed briefs for plaintiff in error by C. Bently, attorney, defendant not appearing. HISTORY OF A PROMISSORY NOTE. No. 177. Philpot et al. vs. Cyminger, executrix— Error to the Circuit Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Hlinoig.—This was an action brought by the defendant in error, as executrix of her deceased husband, on @ promissory note made by the plaintiffs in error as copartners, doing business in Philadelphia, The defence was no consideration, and this was the only question presented to the the Court and jury. The ‘verdict sustained the va- lidity of the note, and the plaintids in error here insist that there was a preponderance of evidence tending to show that there ‘@ fatiure of consid- eration, at least, as to one of the mombers. The defendant in error submits that, as counsel when the case was on trial distinctly stated that there was no claim of fatiureof consideration as to any one of the ties which did not apply to ali, that question should got now be gone into. Gor: 7 kins & Roberts for plaintids in error; BE. K. Hatchingon for defer larg cal nda No. 178. nde va. County of Wine! lowa— Error to the it Court for the District of lowa.— This was au action on bonds issued by the county for the building of a court house. The defence was that byl Age I issued ipa a h yore a the people as " were, therefore, irre; gular and void. The jadgment was for the defe} on the fasts shown; and it ia here contended that as the bonds on thelr face re- Cited that they were issued in pursuance of a vote of the people, the couaty is estopped to acsy the fact as against an innocent holder for value. The bonds being thrown upon the market by the county, so reciting, and falling into the hands of ersons without knowledge that thetr recital was false, the judgment must be to bind the coumty. Shiros, Van Duzee & Henderson for platntiils:im er- ror; Withron & Wight for defendant, THE DEFAULTING DRY GOODS OLERK. Confessing the Crime, John W. Hoctor, formerly employed by the fitaw of Lord & Taylor a8 a floor waiker, and now locked up at Police Headquarters, charged with robbing that firm, made @ confession of his guilt yesterday to Mr. Warren, the superintendent of the Broad- way establishment of Lord & Taylor. The con feasion of Hoctor, it is said, implicates a number os other persons, and several arrests wiil be made to- day in consequence, It appears Hoctor has bee in the service of the firm for @ number of years, and it is now supposed he haw been engaged in betraying their confidence almost all the time. Captain Irving yesterday ordered the arrest of the niece of Hoctor, and De- tective Bennett took the young lady before Mr. Warren at the store on the corner of Twentieth street and Broadway for the purpose of examining her, The police have discovered that Hoctor wae in the habit of calilug at the house of his niece day after business hours, but whether she ta implicated in his defalcations is yet in doubt. private detective was commissioned by Mr. Warren some three months ago to look after the move- ments of Hoctor, aud this officer wormed himselt into the confidence of the shop walker, and finally caused him to relate the manner of his stealiuga. The arrest followed this information, aud the police are now endeavoring get, at the amount and extent of the affair. It 1 surmised Lord & aay ior have lost a good deal more than was originally supposed from the fact that for the last couple of years @ de- cided falling away has been noticed tn the returne of the Grand street house. [For some time it was thought a change in the management had cauacd this, but it is now belleved the firm was being ex- tensively robbed. The case is surrounded with mystery, the police naturally not wishing to give any information on the subject until they are: thor- oughly satisfied they have learned all the particu- lars. Captain Irving seems confident a large pro- portion of the stolen property will be recovered and the really guilty parties arrested, A NOTED ORAOKSMAN DYING AT A HOTEL Boston, Mass., Oct. 29, 1872. The man who registered hia name as “A, McDow ald, Montreal,’” at the Merrimack House a few nights since, and was found dead in bed the next morning, has been tdentified as a noted heist ser and pic! ‘ket, He has operated in Detrois, Hatt fax, St, John, N, B., Boston and other places, and recentiy served eighteen months i the State Prisom at Charlestown. He was forty years old and a me tive of London, Canada West. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Idaho will leave this port on Wednesday for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMee at twelve o'clock M. ‘THe New York HeraLp—Eaition for Europe-= will be ready at half-past nine o’clock in the morning. Single copios, in wrappers for mailing, six cents, Burnett’s Miniature Toilets.—Elegant ASSORTED COLORED BOXES, containing a complete Toilet Appendage, admirably adupted to the Toilet Tabt and traveller's portmanteau, ACCKPTABLE HOLIDA) PRESENTS. Wholesale by dtugyists’ sundry men every where. A.—For a First Class Dress or Basiness HAT go direct to the manufacturer, ESPENSCUBLD, Us Nassau atreet. A.—The Horses Employed by the Man- hattan Feed Mills Company, although daily visiting the infected stables, carrying nourishment to the sufferi horses, are in pertect health, untainted by disease with a’ magnificent glossy akin that attracts general wt tention. They arc fed with TAYLOR'S COMPOUND FOOD, which is manufactured solely by the Manhattan Feed Mills Compan; ‘West Twenty-xixth strect. A.—Herring’s Patent CHAMPION SAFES, 251 and 252 Broadway, corner of Murray strost. A.—Herald Branch Uffice, Brooklyn, corner of Fulton avenue and Bo street, Open from 8 A. M, to 8 P. On Sunday trom 3 to 8 + A.=—The Terrible Horse Disease. In Buffaio there are not well horses enough to carry merchandise through the streets. Boats on the Erie Canal are tied up irom one end tothe other, and thou- sands of tons of produce cannot reach market. fm Rochester the Common Council has established a regula- tion for hand-carts, there being no horses to truck goods, and it iy,with dithculty that they can be obtained to attend tuierals. The President of the United States has sent instructions to our Consuls on the Canadian line to the further importation of diseased horses. here are probably 12,00) sick horses in, New York and Brooklyn to-day. ‘The disease travels in the air and seems to attack about one-third of the horses in a stable at the same instant. Then others come down by degrees, It exhibits three phases—the Catarrhal, Rheumatic aad Gastro-Erysipelatous—and all termed Epizootic Intluenza. Its treatment is not understood, and the disease is fre- quently fatal. The animal must be kept unusually warm and clean, the legs, throat, &c., washed with emollients. The CENTAUR LINIMENT sceins to be the specific acting both upon the glands and joints, and superior to tuepen tine, opodeldoc or capsicum. When the throat, belly and ubbed with, this ‘Linkment, legs of the animal are carly r and cloths saturated with pound ‘on the legs, the is checked and the animal soon recovers. The nose and eyes should be pe pte d sponged with warm water. e feed must be soft mash—carrots and salted hay. The water must not be cold, but tepid. When the cough hag become severe give warm flaxseed tea, with a little spirits of nitre and belladonna muriate ot ammonia tm small doses three times a bsolute prevent- lve to horses taking the disease is the early use of the CENTAUR LINIMENT, effects of which are simply wonderful, and warm, clean bedding, with no exposure or hard work. 5 Angell’s Turkish Baths, 61 Lexington avenue, invigorate an: vitalize before breakfast, appetize and retresh before dinner, soothe and tranquilize befora retiring. Ladies, day and nignt, A.—A.—Vote for Whom You Please, But buy your Hats at KNOX’S, 212 Broadway, if you wish be- coming and stylish fabrics, A.—Dr. Thos. 2 Pe ie Bot His it in ATMO! d PLATES FOR ANTIPICIAL TEETH. ‘They are the small- & eveniag; gentlemen, day and est and most compact plates ever wor unsurpassed for strength, lightness, clasticity and bility, and are almost immovable in the mouth. No. 42 East Twenticus street, between Broad’ md Fourti avenue. Christodaro’s Hair Dye.—This Splendid Dye tsthe only one that has ever been analyzed amd found harmless. Exercise, Health, Ama pores vin rkish. Bath, special treatment for dyspepsia, gout, &c., at J. WOOD'S GYMNASIUM, Twenty-cighth street, near Fifth avenue, Fine Gold Jewelry, Earrings and Pins, Etruscan, FY Lowest Prices.=- Garnet. Carbuncle eos. 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Nicol, Reviews cA es will open on Monday, 23th inst., ase8 ‘AL BRONZES, GILT MANTEL SETS. and chotee, Minie Goods well worthy the examiaation of their customers and the public generally. ect Your Horses from Cold and Wet with RUBBER HORSE COVERS, from GOODYEARS, 205 Broadway. Royal Hava: Lottery.—Prizes Cashed, fon furnished, highost rates paid toe See ed tet LOW CO, Saukors i Wall gt Sackett’s Magic Coloris Changes the FeaeeeeeeatifalBrown of Black. Sold everywhere, depot, 12 Liberty strect._ Disense bats clams cuted ty BROMO-CHLOR ALUM Srantx, 15 Noetm Freanucn Street, Exctance "Hogingrae 2 ‘ ENT iF . Tinpex & Co.—We Dave use Or res b rg Stars) Stratrorn, Ont,, Oct 24, i: HeSEADUS od Sine tay thas Uae Star forse ch HICHARD SATLOIS. horses, i of 212, Broadw: be séming am Mere you should bi bert gsm Cards—Eegant St at WILLIAM EVERDELL'S 80,95", los Fulton street