The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ROWERY THEATIS, Bowery.—Pour; on, Awaw Down Boura—Famity Jans, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth ay.—Rounp tae Crock. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets.—Acxrs, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston ‘and Bleecker sts.—ALApDIN THK SECOND, WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Mux Wanveninc Durcmman, Aiternoon and Evening. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Merur Wives or Winsor. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Iravian Oruua=Linva pi Cuamousrx. WALLACK'S THEA’ @treet.—Ovr Amenic. Ky Broadway ana Thirteenth USIN. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Kuno or Car- Bora, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth favemue.—Romzo axp JULIET. “STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth strect.—Reaptnas uw Costume. = * TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Sith st., between Lex- verezia BORGLA. Angton aud 3d avs.—Oren. MRA. F. B. CONWAY ROOKLYN THEATRE.— Saver w Wotr's Crormxe—Evenyaopy's FRienp, ‘Twenty-third st. corner BRYANT'S OPF! COENTRICITY, &C, 6th av.—Nroxe M. WHITE'S ATH No, 585 Broadway.—Srt. sxDiD BU ‘Vanigty or Noverties. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.— Granp Vaniery Eytert. SAN FRANCISCO MI corner of 26th st. and Broadway. St. James Theatre, MOPIAN MINSTRELSY, KELLY & LEON’S, 718 Broadway.—Eruiortan Mty- PTLELSY. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, MEN Wourteenth street, near Broadw BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS ANB MENAGERIE, foot ‘of Houston street, East River. F AND CIRCUS, ay and Evening. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DI TGN, 23d st. and 4th @v.—Guanv Exuipition or Paintu NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— &cCigNcE anv ART. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. a = ———- ——— New Yerk, Monday, Nov. 25, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Eferald. “THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE AMERICAN NATION! THE SPREAD OF REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS"—LEADER—SIxTH PAGE. REDEEMING AFRICA! THE ANGLO-AMERICAN NAVIES COMBINED AGAINST THE SLAVE TRADE: BARTLE FRERE’S MISSION: THE KHEDIVE OF EGYPT STRIVING TU SECURE THE NILE SOURCES—SEVENTH PaGE. BIANLEY’S RECEPTION OF LIVINGSTONE IN NEW YORK! A PLEASANT MEETING BETWEEN THE HERALD'S CHIEF EX- < PLORER AND A BRUTHER OF THE FAMOUS DOCTOR: KALULU PRESENT— Turnp Pace. CABLK FROM EUROPE AND PERSIA! RADICAL OUTBREAKS IN ROME AND IN SPAIN: THE FRENCH CRISIS: A STEAM- SHIP DISABLED: ADMIRAL ALDEN’'S SQUADRON—SEVENTH PaGE. #INANCIAL RETROSPECT FOR THE WEEK! THE “CORNER” IN NORTHWESTERN: REASONS FOR THE ADVANCE TO 230 AND FOR THE NON-OUCURRENCE OF FAILURES: HOW THEY MANAGE IT IN LONDON: WHY GOLD TOUCHED 114—Eicuru Pace. MATRIMONIAL SCHEMES OF AN IRISH ADVEN- TURER ! A TOO-CONFIDING YOUNG LADY: ELOPEMENT, MARRIAGE, BIGAMY AND BOGUS BANK ACCOUNTS AT POUGH- KEEPSIE—TuirD PaGE. IMPOSING INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST JAPANESE RAILWAY! THE EMPEROR'S MIEN, DRESS AND ADDRESSES: JAPANESE BY LOYALTY, SPORTS AND MUSIC: GRAND TELEGRAPHIC = DEMONSTRATION—Firtu Pace. A CHINESE EARTHQUAKE! WHAT THE CELES- TIALS THOUGHT OF IT: TRANSPACLFIC STEAMERS: A COREAN FAMINE: INDIAN FEVER, FATAL DISASTER, SUICIDE AND MURDER—ASIATIC AQUATICS—Fivtn Page. WASHINGTON NEWS--NIBLO'S RECONSTRUCTED- LITERARY, MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL PARAGRAPHS—-PRIZE FIGHT—-NAVAL-— Tuiep Pace. BRAZIL AND THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERA- TION! NEGOTIATIONS PEACEFULLY PRO- ING: THE ARGENTINES EAGER TO ‘X PARAGUAY: AMERICAN ENTER- PRISE—TENTH PAGE. LESSONS OF THE HOUR FROM PIOUS STAND- POINTS ! DISCOURSES BY FAMOUS, SATIONAL AND UNSENSATIONAL DIVIN Fourta Pace. A MARTYR’S DUST! THE REMAINS OF ST. JUSTINUS BROUGHT FROM THE CATA- COMBS AT ROME TO THIS CITY: AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY AND MOVING PANE- GYRIC: THE VIAL OF BLOOD—Frrra Page. OUR LIGHTHOUSE SYSTEM! LENSES, LIGHTS, KEEPERS AND SUPPLIES: THE LAMPS OF CUMMERC! STERESTING FACTS AND STATISTICS—NisTH PaGE. CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF AND REMEDIES FOR THE HIPPOZYMOSIS—DESTRUCTIVE FIRE—NINTH PAGE. ART AND ARTISTS—GENERAL THOMAS' MONU- MENT—THE RAL COUNCIL OF IN- TERNATIONAL: IFTH PAGE. FATAL RESULTA! OF RUM AND EVIL COM- PANY—A WONDROUS TALE—THE POOR ITALIANS—MARINE NEWS—Tenta Pace, Tae Iuuness or rae Kiyo or Spaty.—A rumor was current in London on Saturday to the effect that King Amadeus was dead. It was known that His Majesty had been sick ; | but as it had not been imagined that his sick- ness was of a serious character the rumor created considerable excitement and surprise. Later despatches of an official character con- tradicted the rumor and gave the assurance that the King was in better health, Amadeus has had but little comfort in Spain. In most difficult circumstances he has conducted him- self well, and given proof of considerable capacity as a ruler. His people, however, have proved ungrateful, and now it seems that the harsh climate of Madrid is ill-suited to his Italian constitution. Dissatisfied as some of the Spanish people are with Anoadeus his death at this juncture would be a national calamity. From Tax Szverz Sxow Storm at Salt Lake City on Saturday last, coming at once from the northwest and the southeast, it is feared in that quarter that among the snowy regions along the Union Pacific Railroad travel may be impeded and trains blockaded. From the East to the West the signs so far warn us of the epproach of a rgigh winter. wme Foreign Polloy of the American Nation=The Spread of Republican Institations. As General Grant will soon enter upon a second term of office, endorsed by a popular vote largely non-partisan in ita character, tho Heratp has deemed it opportune to suggest to the Prosident such changes in tho policy of his administration as it believes will be honorable to himself, acceptable to the people and conducive to the public interests. We originally suggested the election of Genoral Grant as Chief Magistrate of tho nation, because we felt convinced that the qualities ho had displayed in so eminent a degree as a military leader would be valuable in the re- construction of the ex-rebel States after the termination of the war, and that his personal character would be likely to raise him abovo the influences of professional politicians. We have given his present administration, from first to last, a discriminating and disinterested support, decrying all factional opposition, although not hesi- tating to criticise its acts or to blame where censure has been deserved. Hence we claim the right to assume the part of an adviser of the Prosident at the com- mencement of his second term, and we are gratified to find that the suggestions we have offered for his consideration have appeared to meet his approval and have received the endorsement of independent journals in all parts of the Union. Our suggestions have had relation mainly to the future treatment of tho Southern States, the real improvement and elevation of the civil service and tho tono of our foreign policy. We havo insisted that the measures of reconstruction heretofore adopted by Congress have failed to restore peaco and order in the South; that, on the contrary, they have been calculated to keep alive the bitter memories of the war and the hatreds and sus- picions engendered by slavery; to place the States under the control of corrupt adven- turers and to create an undesirable con- flict between the white and colored races. We have encouraged the President to per- severe in his efforts to make capacity, and not political influence, the test in the appointment of public officers, and have urged upon Congress the duty of aiding in- stead of obstructing the work. We have ad- vocated such a policy towards foreign nations as wonld be likely to hasten the independence of neighboring peoples and to promote the establishment of independent republican governments in what are now the colonial possessions of European powers. General Grant has already given evidence of a desire to adopt a generous course towards the Southern States, and journals and poli- ticians hitherto opposed to his administration have avowed their determination to support him in his new departure. The necessity for a change of treatment is clearly shown in the disorders that have followed the elections in Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas, and the large vote cast for the President in tho Southern section of the country is a sufficient proof that the Southern people are will- ing to trust their future in his hands and to look to him for protection and justice. The civil service reform has been’ practically set in motion in the case of the Philadelphia Postmaster, and will, no doubt, be carried out in the selection of a Sur- veyor of the Port of New York and in other offices as vacancies occur or as changes become desirable. In regard to our foreign policy the position of the Hzratp has been somewhat misunderstood. In many quarters the im- pression seems to prevail that we favor an un- friendly attitude towards European Powers and advocate an extension of our present terri- torial limits by the annexation of Cuba, Mexico and Canada. Our Canadian neigh- bors have by this error been led to assail us with more violence than reason, conservative American journals have protested against our supposed aggressive policy, and an English writer in a London publication—the Anglo-American Times—whose views will be found in another column, seeks an explanation of our imaginary ‘‘Anglophobia’’ in the cor- rupting influence of Russia. According to this authority the two great newspapers of the Old and the New World—the London Times and the Heratp—are engaged in the congenial task of undermining the peace of England and the United States, and both are in the Russian service. To be sure they are journals repre- sentative of their respective countries; to be sure their circulation is enormous and their influence great; but by some mysterious means they are controlled in St. Petersburg, and their mission is to destroy the nations with whose growth they have grown and with whose prosperity they have prospered. There is something supremely ridiculous in the fancies of this English alarmist; yet they are in fact no more chimerical than are the im- aginations of those who believe that the Henan is the fierce advocate of war and an- nexation. When the great Napoleon held the destinies of Europe in his hands he had it in his power to destroy forever the doctrine of the divine right of kings and to teach the people how to govern themselves, whether under the form of anempire or of arepublic. He had given to the French an emperor of their own creation and had made legitimacy tremble on every throne in Europe. If he had left the nations he conquered to choose their own rulers, as the French had chosen theirs, he would have built up | allies, bound to him by interest and self-pride, on every side, But when he “annexed” throne after throne to his own family circle | he lost the power and influence he would otherwise have secured, and raised up enemies where he should have created friends. The American Republic does not need any more territory than it now possesses, and a policy of aggression and annexation would weaken rather than strengthen our own government and the principle of republi- canism. With Canada free and inde- pendent—free, we mean, from her present colonial complications—we should have a friendly neighbor bound to us by tics of mutual interest, and more valuable to us than she would ever be as a State or States of the Union, With Cuba free and inde. pendent we should have relations with the Island Republic equally advantageous to both nations without the evils that would inevitably follow annexation. The same is true in regard to Mexico. A strong and stable government across the Rio Grande would give us largely increased trade and be \ beneficial to us in every way, whilo aunexa- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1872—TRIPLE SHKET, tion would be in many respects undesirable. The American Republic will not commit the error of Napoleon. The desire of our people is to see freedom in its broadest sense spread over all the territory of the globe. Especially should wo be gratified to find our neighbors on this side of the Atlantic living under republican forms of government of their own choosing, as independent of our- selves as of the monarchies to which they are now attached, but bound to us by sympathy, principle and interest. But we have no wish to compel them to accept our freedom as their freedom, or to have any closer relationship with us than that of fellow republics. Tho Henatp is the advocate of peace and not of war. All ita hopes and interests are bound up in the progress and prosperity of the country. If wo advocate a firm and dig- nified tone in our relations with foreign na- tions it is because we believe that firmness and dignity are the best sureties of last ing peace. We appeal to tho reason, not to the passions, of our Canadian neighbors, when we point out to them the advantages of that independence which the leading journal of England, inspired by the government, urges them to take up. It is un- deniable that the separation of Canada from England would remove the last faint chanco of war with the United States, and the alli- ance with the mother country can be of value only in the event of such a calamity. When we advocate such a policy towards Cuba as would aid the success of the Cuban Republic and lead to the aboli- tion of slavery on the island, we plead in favor of peace—we seck the extinguishment of a firebrand that is burning on our threshold. When we suggest a protectorate in Mexico we propose the pacification of our borders, the cessation of murders and robberies that may at any moment lead to more serious hostilities, and the protection of a neighbouring people in their rights as citizens of a republic. It is, then, strictly in the cause of peace—of peace not hollow and insecure, but earnest and assured—that the Henratp calls upon President Grant to inaugurate a firm, dignified and courteous policy toward foreign powers with the commencement of his new term of office. It is in the cause of peace that we desire to seo Canada act upon the challenge of England and assert her own manhood and independence; that we hope for the speedy success of the republican cause in Ouba, and for the establishment of a strong and stable government in Mexico. But we want no annexation—we seek no territorial expan- sion; and our contemporaries who look upon us as fire-eaters and filibusters are as much in erroras is the English alarmist whose terrors picture the London Times and the Heraxp as the agents of the Russian Empire, only await- ing the favorable opportunity to “anand over England and the United States to the govern- ment of St. Petersburg. Christian Crusade Against the African Slave Trade. Tho eyes of the Christian world are being directed with still more eager and anxious intensity towards the coast of Africa daily. The horrors of the slave trade. as they have been specially depicted by the pen of Living- stone in the universal press of the world from New York, have moved the sympathy of the peo- ples for their immediate abatement and final obliteration. The great liberating and enfran- chising governments ascertained the emo- tional aspiration of the popular heart instantly, and have obeyed its humani- tarian impulso. A special Henatp telegram by cable from London, published in our columns to-day, reports that the United States steamer Yantic bas arrived at Aden bound to Zanzibar, and that it is probable the American frigate Colorado will carry the flag of one of our Admirals from the waters of Asia to the African coast at the same point of destination. The British war steamer Briton awaits Sir Bartle Frere at Aden, and we are told how the naval steam yacht Enchantress is employed for the service of the same British expeditionary missionary. This intelligence is at once ex- citing and consoling. The era of “man’s inhumanity to man’’ will, we doubt not, be soon closed and a new day of light-dawn shine on the people of Africa. The force of the Europo-American movement has been felt in Egypt. The Khedive is preparing to despatch troops to Zanzibar. We are informed that His Highness hopes to be enabled to anticipate the Engish expedi- tion in the seizure of the lake regions of the Nile. The wording ‘‘seizure of’’ appears to indicate that the Egyptian ruler either mis- apprehends or misinterprets the slavery aboli- tion resolves of the Anglo-Saxon nations or that his ideas of materialist profits and commercial advantages have momentarily overtopped his good nature. Germany is being instructed by her scientists, cautiously yet carefully, as to her national duty in the crisis of the African liberation cause, and she will be found, we are quite persuaded, on the right side and for complete justice, without distinction of color, at the proper moment. Ms, Wuu1um Butter Duncan has come forward with a card, published in another column, denying the statement made to one of our reporters on Saturday by Jay Gould in reference to Mr. Duncan's share in the events at present agitating Wall street. He had, he states, no connection with any ‘‘pool,’”’ and that he has not been, directly or indirectly, in- terested in any such alleged combinations. He adds, more explicitly, that he has not bought or sold nor had any interest in the troubled Northwestern stock, His connection, he explains, with the proceedings against Mr. Gould is as one of the Erie Railroad Executive Committee, in which capacity he has aided President Watson in bringing the suit against the great ‘bull’ and becoming one of the sureties for costs in the action. The evidence, Mr. Duncan states, has been in pro- cess of collection for months, Evacuation Day.—Remember, romember, that this is the 25th of November, Tae Mexican Borper Comsusston, at Mata- moros, have issued a notice inviting all parties on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande who have been plundered by freebooters from our side, and all parties on our side who have been plundered by the banditti from the other side, to bring in their claims and their testi- mony—a proceeding which, we aro glad to say, looks like business, | An American Political and Commers ctal System Wanted=The Policy To Be Parsued. Every great civilized nation has some defined Political and commercial system in connection with its relations to the rest of the world, and one that is believed to be adapted to its own interests, development and future, except the great American Republic. England has had her colonial policy—that of the conquest of India and the accession of territory in all parts of the globe—with a view to enlarge her com- merce, to find markets for her manufactures, to increase her power and dignity and to en- rich her people at home. She had formerly, too, a Continental European policy for main- taining the so-called balance of power and up- holding her commercial supremacy. She had her period of tariff protection to foster manu- facturing industry and the land-holding in- terest. And now, when she is able to produce so cheaply and abundantly as to compete suc- cessfully with other nations, or to sell more cheaply in the markets of the world, she advo- cates the principle of free trade, The policy of England changes with varying circum- stances, both politically and commer- cially, but is always adapted to her own interests and aggrandizement, re- gardless of abstract principles or the welfare of other countries. Tho same re- marks would apply to the national aggrandiz- ing ambition of France under different gov- ernments, and particularly under the Napo- leons, until prostrated and shorn of her glory by the late war. Even the protective tariff policy of M. Thiers, whether right or wrong, according to the principles of political econo- my, is based upon a system in which the in- terests of France are only considered. Ger- many is thinking solely of her own grandeur and destiny in the consolidation of the Em- pire, in the acquisition of territory, and in laws made to regulate commerce and inter- course. Russia gives no heed tothe opinions fof other nations beyond what suits her own convenience or safety, in extending her em- pire or fostering her industry and commerce, Spain clings to her remaining American colonies and rules them witha rod of iron, against the will of the people, and upholds slavery in them, in defiance of the sentiment of the civilized world, because they are deemed profitable and ‘because Spanish pride would be wounded at the loss of them, In the same way we might mention other nations which have some defined system of policy in their external and commercial relations, as well as in their territorial ambition, bearing exclusively upon their own interests and ag- grandizement. But, as was said, this great Republic has no determined policy or system, commercial or international, within the particular sphere of its influence, It is the overshadowing power of the American Continent, yet is hemmed in and partly surrounded by European posses- sions, restricting trade, imposing injurious tariffs and giving continual annoyance. We have bad prolonged trouble about Cuba on one side and the British possessions on the other, both with the mother countries and the colonists. With regard to the British Ameri- can colonies we are compelled to keep a little army of custom house officials on the border, and even then cannot prevent extensive smug- gling and frauds on the revenue; and as to Cuba, we are called upon to maintain a naval force to prevent the slave trade with that isl- and, to protect our citizens from Spanish aggression and to carry out treaty obligations with Spain. Nor have we that freedom or amount of trade we ought to have with sucht neighboring countries. The policy of the European home governments has been to draw as much of that trade as possible from us and to prevent free intercourse. The local or geographical advantages we possess have been set aside to some extent by the restrictions imposed upon our com- merce and the greater freedom given to the trade between the colonies and the mother countries. Nor have we that extended trade and political influence with the Spanish- American Republics we ought to have as the great and dominant Power in this hemisphere. England and other nations have taken away a large portion of the business that lies at our door. In fact, we have had no comprehensive American policy to attach the different nations of this Continent to our country and to encourage commerce with them. The extension of our republican empire has been the result of accidents and the liberal impulses of the people, and did not come from any defined policy. Even the Monroe doctrine, protesting against the re- conquest of American territory and extension of European monarchical institutions on this Continent by the governments of Europe, which England for selfish purposes induced our government to proclaim, has been practi- cally almost a dead letter. We have territory enough, and care not toannex more, unless the people inhabiting adjacent countries should adopt our institutions and voluntarily ask to be admitted to the Union. But we do want to see the whole of America republican and to have the most free commercial intercourse with these United States. So long as Eng- land and Spain have colonies here there will be injurious tariffs, jealousies and complications, leading us sometimes to the verge of war, and some day possibly, to war, and therefore we desire to see these colonies independent and become members of the family of American republics, It is desirable, also, to form closer relations with the republics that now exist, so that we may exercise that influence which properly pertains to the dominant Republic of America, and, as a consequence, to enlarge our com- merce. One of the first questions that should en- gage the attention of the President and Con- gress in connection with this American policy is that relative to Cuba, The state of things in that island is a disgrace not only to Spain, but to the civilized world. The horrors of civil war there are appalling. Nowhere in modern times have such barbarities been known. They have existed for four years, and there appears to be no prospect of a termina- tion of them. American citizens and interests are not safe there. Indeed, the Spaniards in Cuba have committed the most brutal out- rages upon our citizens. Slavery exists thero, and is likely to exist while Spanish rulo con- tinues, in defiance of the public sentiment of the world and protests of our government. Spain mocks at these protests, They will be unavailing 18 long as this country and the rest of the world indirectly encourage slavery by trading in and using slave prod- ucts, The people of the United States are specially responsible for this blot upon civilization. Of the five hundred and forty thousand tons of slave-produced sugar in Cuba, to say nothing of other prod- ucts, the United States takes about sixty per cent. The trade between this country aud Cuba is really the main support of slavery, for without that the island would prove profitless, comparatively, to the Spaniards. Should wo not, then, prohibit the introduction of slave- grown sugar, or impose a duty of a hundred per cent or so, and thus strike a blow at slavery. The Cubans, if independent, would supply us with the products of free labor, for they have abolished slavery in their constitu- tion. It has been said that we should punish ourselves by such a course. Are we not pre- paredto make some sacrifice if necessary to abolish slavery and to help the Cubans to inde- pendence? What becomes of all our profes- sions of love of liberty if we are not? But we should not be deprived of sugar. Cuba would ere long supply that as a product of free labor, and we would obtain it from other sources. We have a vast sugar region in Louisiana, and such a policy as we propose would give an extraordinary stimalus to the production there. Let us, then, begin with Cuba to promote republican institutions and to establish a comprehensive political and commercial system for America at the same time that we strike a blow at slavery on our border. FranceeThe President and the As- sembly. According to our latest news {rom Paris the relations of the President and the Assembly are still far from satisfactory. The committee of the Assembly appointed to draw up a reply tothe President’s message has not yet re- ported, and as itis generally admitted that the reply will either avert or precipitate the crisis now impending, the report of the As- sembly’s committee is awaited with much anxiety. President Thiers has hitherto been strong because he has leaned for support mainly on the Right. The Right, however, has of late become somewhat obstructive, and now the President looks to the Left and leans particularly on the Left Centre. It is onlya few days since the Deputies of the Left held a special meeting, when it was unanimously agreed to recommend for the adoption of the Assembly certain measures looking in the direction of radical constitutional change. Some of these measures, it appears, the Presi- dent is disposed to favor. He will not oppose the formation of a Second Chamber, and he is willing to favor some definitive settlement of the relations between the legislative and executive departments of the government. As tothe conduct of the internal affairs of the country, the President adheres to the conserv- ative ground taken in his message. On Satur- day he had an interview with the committee appointed to draw up a reply to the message, and stated his views freely. It is quite mani- fest that the President is anxious to do all he can in the way of conciliation. It is doubtful, however, whether he will be able much longer to compel the obedience of the Assembly. The reply to the message will fully reveal the situa- tion. Taz Vore or New York--Curtovs Rz- suLts.—We have at last the complete official returns of the vote of the Empire State in the late elections, State and national, and the figures exhibit some curious results. Our Presidential vote of 1868 and of 1872 was as follows: — 1868, 1872, 429,883 Grant.. 440,804 419,883 Greeley. 87,357 Seymour's maj... 10,000 Grant's majority. 63,447 And this gain to General Grant and this loss to the opposition are chiefly in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, as the figures will show: — 1868—Vote of New York city for Seymour... 103,316 1872—Vote of this city tor Greeley. ‘17,798 Opposition loss..... 518 Increased vote for Gra 6,975 Total opposition loss in this city.......... 37,493 In the full vote of the State we find that Dix runs some 5,000 ahead of Grant, while Kernan runs 4,000 ahead of Greeley, and that Dix’s gains and Kernan’s losses are nearly all in this city and Brooklyn. And, again, on the full State vote we find that Depew leads Greeley by 10,000 votes, while Robinson leads Grant by over 1,000. From these figures it will be seen that as in 1868 and 1864 the Gover- nor and State ticket in New York in 1872 drew out a larger vote than the Presidential Electors, although the national contest carries every- thing with it. Lastly, while the General Grant vote of 1872 exceeds by nearly 21,000 his vote. of 1868, there is a deficiency this year in the whole vote of the State, compared with 1868, of 21,605, which may be set down to those Bour- bon democrats who on election day stayed at home. Pourrtcan ConszrvatisM mx Iretanp.—The return of Mr. Lewis, a conservative tory, to the English Parliament as member for Lon- donderry, Ireland, goes to show that the Anglo-Hibernian aristo-democracy is deter- mined to sap and mine industriously in its political engineering against the Gladstone Cabinet and the Premier's parliamentary coa- lition prior to and at the next general election in Great Britain. Mr. Lewis, the new mem- ber for Derry, isan Englishman, but notwith- standing the fact of his beinga stranger he has defeated the candidate of the home rulers, andalso beaten the nominee of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and laity, besides out- voting an eminent local city merchant, a Pres- byterian, of the same stripe of politics as him- self. The result will give a heavy blow to the power of Irish insular combinations with views and interests adverse to the genoral national spirit ot the United Kingdom. Curious Conprtion or Arrams ry Spain— Opposrrioy To THE Army Conscription Law.— The Spanish capital was disturbed during the day on Monday, the 18th instant, in conse- quence of the opposition which wag given by the people to the operation of the Army Con- scription law. Madrid was isolated from com- munication with Barcelona, Gerona, Seville and Cadiz, the telegraph wires communicating with these important points having been cut. ‘The interruption in the transmission of news was so complete that the report of the occur- rences only reached England, by mail, yester- day. This latter fact is at once novel and ex- traordinary, and demonstrates torcibly how quickly the onward tide of human knowledge and progress may be set back by revolutionary Tih Here we are told of tha existence of a 4 very Gangerous movement for governmental change in Spain, and yet the English people, deeply interested as they are in the condition of affairs in the Peninsular Kingdom, did not know of the fanning of the flamo which was being carried on almost in sight of their upper windows for @ week after the flicker of the light. Almost as bad as the days of Badajos, ‘Talavera and Waterloo, The Italian Oper: a Defenders, In yesterday's Herat we published throes letters from correspondents signing themselves “Freo Lance,” ‘Musicus’’ and ‘Viator,’ on the state of Italian opera in this city, together with an interview accorded by Mr. Maretzok to one of the Herarp writers. Betweem all of those thus enlightening the public on musical matters we find, as among doctors generally, considerable disagreement, Mr. Maretzek, speaking under his name, gives an opinion which may fairly be expected under the circumstances, since it quietly accepts the judgment of the public as represented by the relative filling of the house at certain performances. Managers may think and aspire inwardly about art; but their reci- tative for the public will usually have a bank note rustle obligato. In an appeal, however, against the critics who have spoken un- favorably of his company in bulk, he opens a bag for the escape of a managerial feline that has long and justly been complained of. Defending his theory that artists grow favorably upon the “public by familiarity, he gives quite a new turn to the idea, which robs it of all strangeness, since he admits that it is from the actual improvement of the artists themselves. In his own words, it is ‘the more the artists sing together the better the ensemble becomes. I think that a new company, strange to each other and stranga to the public, should not be judged at first as an ensemble, for a new opera company can no more be really effective in drill and discipline than a newly formed army." While all this is very plausible it is a plain admis- sion that he has brought a company bofore the public without a decent attention to wear- ing down their crude incompatibilities, for among the best artists such would exist at the start. Itisa serious acknowledgment of the justness of attacks made upon what is pecue liarly the duty of the management. When referring to the individual artists of his company he ‘naturally deals tenderly with them, asa dealer would with any merchandise in his storehouse. We may, therefore, turn on this point to our three cor- respondents. We have found in them fre- quently a reference toa parti pris—that is to say, each accuses the other of a deliberate effort to defend some particular artist or ar- tists on private grounds, and grounds un- worthy, on that account, of place in a critical essay, Weare not called on to adjudicate in thia matter, and for this all-sufficient reason leave platonic or interested likes and dislikes be- tween them. ‘Viator’’ and ‘Musicus’’ are both intense admirers of Mme. Lucca, while ‘Free Lance’’ declares her to be a false god- dess in some of the points wherein her adorera most chant her praise. That both these writers should have compared him to tho youth who set fire to Diana’s temple did not escape our notice a week ago, and ‘I'ree Lance,” in yesterday's Heraup, chuckles tri- umphantly thereanent in calling ‘Viator’ the alter ego of ‘‘Musicus.”” Here again wo leave the matter of the parti pris out of our consideration and come to the point at issue. Is Lucca all her championg declare her? The only serious attempt to controvert ‘Free Lance’’ in his condemnation of her conception of Cherubino in the ‘‘Mar- riage of Figaro’ was ‘Viator’s’’ quotation from Beaumarchais. This “Free Lance’— satisfactorily, we imagine—meets, leaving him thus far in the saddle and his critics on their mother earth, We do not at all hold that it is “brutal” to find fault with defect, and are not willing to admit that Mme. Lucca is by any means above criticism. ‘Free Lance,”” however, hag enough chivalry to admit that this lady in the fourth act of the ‘Huguenots’ displays qualities in her acting deserving high praise, but does not withdraw one whit what he has said of her singing. Whatever luxury there is in a prolonged high C he fairly pines for it in the third act of-the laste named opera; and as it appears in the music why should he be denied it under false pretences? Such he fairly claima to be the apology of “Musicus’’ about the compression of the prima donna’s voice into two octaves. ‘Musicus’ thinks the upper notes to be a judicious omission, ‘Frea Lance’’ avers that it is judicious because the little lady has worn them out and cannot sing them. This fiery correspondent, it should not be forgotten, has shivered a lance for native talent in the person of Miss Kellogg, praising her singing, but almost agreeing with the others on the want of inspiration in her acting. Where information is thus put forward, although requiring some trouble to sift it out of differing opinions, we have not felt at liberty to exclude these communicstions, From all sides in the controversy we learn that opera is not anything like perfection as given here this season. This has been all along so apparent that the public may shrug its shoulders and add ¢a va sans dire. Notwithstanding the real ex. cellence of Mme. Lucca and one or two others in their proper spheres, we must, however, add one more, lesson from the controversy—namely, that the company wag not intended by its projeectors to be even an approach to that apparent Utopian perfection. Rarway Oprentna Ceremonman Fere 1 Jaray.—Our special correspondent in Yoko- hama, Japan, reports the event of the formal inaugural opening of the first line of railway built in the Empre—that running from Yoko- hama to Jeddo. The solemnization was com pleted on the 21st of October with imperiak state display amid the universal popular re- joicing of a general holiday. His Majesty the Mikado attended in the full pomp of royalist attire, with soldiers of the line, body guards, bands, Cabinet Ministers and Court officers. He was simply dressed, but in costume of gaudy: colors and Eastern ‘‘makeup.” Foreign min« isters, native and foreign traders, shipowners, and silk cultivators and manufacturers wore present in great numbers. The leading cor< porate interests offered addresses, to which tha Mikado returned replies, which had the areal Critics ana