The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETO Volume XXXVIIL wossecncceecneoose No. 76 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. SY, JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.—Bor- esque Orens—Lucneata Bowls. , p10 THEATRE, Broadway, between Mouston an Bitecker streets Wu arre Desir UNION SQUARE THE. roadway and Fourth ay. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and “hirteenth treet.—Dav ip GAaRRick. Mnion square. between Nuss WOMAN. ROOTH’s THEATRI enty-third street, corner Sixt aveuue.—appy O°) BRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twent UNCLE Sam. nird st, and Kighth ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ax (num Fance— Destiny, ac, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fomrteenth street.—Irauian Ovewa—Favst. ae: ; 4YHEATRE COMIQUE, No. 54 Broadway.—Daawa, Buniesgue anv O10, LATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticths sh— Frvant. Aiternoon and Evyeuing. NEW PtFTH AVENUE i way. Aa ATHRNEUM, No, 38 Broadway.—Grano Variety Ey. wm erAINMENT, GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street. near Third fy. —Dig SPreZeNKOENIGIN. NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houstog streets.—L0 AND LOTOS. MRS. RL Monte (xiaro. PARK THEATRE, opposite the City Hall, Brooklyn,— Vanowama or Cnicago, BRYANT'S OPERA HOU: 6th av.—NeGRo MINSTREL! TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Howery.— ‘Vaniery yuan TAINMeNT. STRINWAY HALL, Fourteenth — street.—Rxapinas FkOM SHaKsreaRE any THR Porrs, COOPER INSTITUTE, Third avenue and Fourth st.— Laveuine Gas Exuiprtion. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Seamer avy Arr, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRR,— entysthied st. corner TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, March 17, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. (@o-Diy is. Coutente ot the Herald. “THE NEW YORK CITY CHARTER AT ALBANY! A ®LURRY AMONG THE POLITICIANS” — LEADING EDITORIAL = SUBJECT—Strru Page. ‘VESTED RIGHTS FOR THE METROPOLIS! WHAT THE ALBANY LEGISLATORS ARE DOING ABOUT THE NEW CHARTER! A COA- LITION FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE PUB- LIC CRIB—SEVENTH PaGE. MODOC TROUBLES! THE SAVAGES RE- JECT THE PEACE OVERTURES! A RE- NEWAL OF THE WAR IMMINENT! THE HERALD COMMISSIONER'S VISIT TO CAP- TAIN JACK IN THE LAVA BEDS! THE WRONGS OF THE INDIANS! INSIDE THE MODOC STRONGROLD—Tuirp Pas. RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF SPAIN BY AMERICAN WAR VESSELS! A HEARTY WELCOME ON BOARD AND FULL HONORS FOR THE SPANISH PARTY! SEVERE FIGHTING ON THE SHORES OF THE MED- TTERRANEAN! THE CARLISTS ROUTED— Seventy Pace. ENGLAND STILL IN THE THROES OF THE CAB. INET CRISIS! @LADSTON ABLY BE RECALLE! IN HIS DECLINATURE! s AN INTERVIEW WITR HER EX-PREMIER— SEVENTH PAGE. RELIGIOUS EX THE IN THE TRUE AAFOR- \ CRRISTIANITY ON THE ESTIALS, SITTING THINGS ALONK, PATRICK AND FOS AS PASTORAL TOPICS— VourtH Pace. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHEKT. _bany—A Flurry Among the Poli- tlelans. We publish elsewhere in to-day’s Heraup a communication from an Albany correspondent which affords some insight into the doings of the politicians at the State Capitol and into the sudden halt that appear to have taken place in the progress of the new charter pre- pared for the city of New York and already passed by the Assembly. The Senate Com- mittee on Citica has been engaged for several days in the consideration of the charter, and has heard over again all tho arguments from the Committee of Seventy and others, which had been previously de- livered before the Assembly committee, in re- lation to the mode of appointment proposed by the majority. The temporary illness of Senator Woodin, the chairman of the com- mittee, was last week assigned as the reason of the unexpected delay in the report which was looked for as early as Monday or. Tuesday last; but itnow appears that there is some other cause for the sudden halt, and rumors are afloat of difficulties at this end of the line, arising out of the action of the Boatd of Al- dermen, and of embarrassments at the other end of the line occasioned by the expectation of an Executive veto and the apprehensions of the leaders that they may not be able to surmount such an obstacle. Whichever of these reports may be true, or whether thoy are both unfounded or both partially correct, it is certain that an apparently unnecessary delay has occurred in the passage of the charter through the upper House of the State Legis- lature, and that the cause is to be found in the twenty-fifth section of the bill, which relates to the manner of making the municipal ap- pointments, or, in other words, to the control of the municipal spoils. We have already had occasion to show that, while the politicians seem to be more con- cerned about the distribution of the various city offices than about the efficient government of the city, the people are utterly indifferent what party or what men may bo chosen to fill the several municipal departments so long as they secure liberal, enterprising and honest public servants. If, however, the indecent squabbling and scrambling over the patronage is to be much longer continued there will be a general belief that the Legislature has no intention or desire to give the city a good charter, and our citizens will be as hopeless of receiving -aid from the reform party as they would be if the old Tam- many Ring had again succeeded to power. At the present moment the city government is in an unsettled and inharmonious condition. Works of great public importance are at a standstill; our financial condition is becom- ing more and more complicated and unsatis- factory; no great improvements can be pushed forward; no new schemes for the improvement and enrichment of the metropolis can be un- dertaken; everybody is in a state of uncer- tainty, and there is a general feeling that the city is going backwards instead of progressing as it ought to progress. Mayor Havemeyer doubtless desires to do his duty as the Chief Magistrate of the metropolis, but the ad- visers who surround him seem bent upon diverting his attention from municipal gov- ernment to political intrigue. Comptroller Green is daily proving more and more emphatically his utter unfitness for the important position he has sought to fill, and is increasing the embarrassments of other departments of the city government while plunging his own deeper and deeper into inextricable confusion. Every reflecting man knows that a thorough re@ganization of the government is absolutely demanded; that we need concentration and harmony of action among all the departments in place of the cross. purposes and discord that at present WHAT UUR FASHION WORSHIPPERS WILL : : ; WEAR THIS SPRING! A NEW Vooapu. | Prevail; that we require enterprise and LARY FOR OLD MATERIALS! CoLors | liberality in place of a niggoxdly, false AND TEXTURES OF THE NEW FABRICS— “tHE SOME”—Fovurrn Pack, REAL PROPERTY! E} IN NEW YORK AN AGITATION OF W TION! JOY OF SUBURB: THE A- EUROPEAN CABLE PREACHING I HYACINTHE PORTUGAL TO BRAZIL FOR | THE GERMAN | VENTH PAGE. SPECIAL ITEMS FROM 4 RAL CAPITAL! OPPOSITION TU JUL RICHARDSON, FOR ‘ TREASURY VACANCY! THE NEW STERSBIP — FOSTER,, THE DENCIES |! BIT- PORTO RICANS 1! CUBANS AR- “VIVA LA REPUB ‘OMMITTER AS TO THE ABOLI- THE SPANISH RE- OFREE i. * AND THE THE PHILHARMOY GKAMME—Firre Pa OF OPERA— iRT —-PRO- ‘TR AN AUSTRLAN PATRICK IN BROOKLYN—MARIT CHANGES—TrNtu PAGE. YHE FINANCIAL BUSINESS OF THE PAST WEEK! WHY THE NEW GREENBAC'! E ISSUED! 1 ECTS OF THE SURY CHANGES ON THE WALL | MARKETS—E!GBTH PAGE. RAWLINSON’S OPINION OF DR, LIVINGSTONE FET ASTER—Fietu Pace. TOM SCOTT, THE JERSEY DICTATOR, IN | “\ BAD FIXY—MUSICAL AND LITERARY GLINTING ‘Tae War or tHE PuLprrs.—Pére Hyacinthe has commenced his course of sermons in Geneva. vavils of the more decided sectaries. Mermillod, who has been expelled tion of the Holy See and the brotherly approval of the Archbishop of Paris, so that | it is certain he will have immense audiences, It will be a grand struggle conducted in the name of the Lord. It is to be hoped that the flocks may not be plundered by the wayside ENSIVE TRANSACTIONS His congregations are crowded, and be makes many converts to his idea of a broad | chureh, free from the extremist anxieties and Bishop from Geneva nd the Territory of Switzerland for | his episcopal fealty to Rome, will begin to preach in Paris on Good Friday. The exiled Monsignor will speak with the complete ap- | pnd left to the charity of the stranger bofore its close. economy; yet we are left for weeks without any relief by a party that controls a three- fourths majority in both branches of the Legis- lature, while political leaders are plotting and combining, trading and. bargaining over the spoils of office. Probably. the principal cause of all this | trouble may be found in the fact that the prea- | ent repnblican leaders are new men in te position end not drilled and experienced vete- rans. They are young, energetic and spparently willing to accept respensibility; yet they do not seem to stand fire, well, and it appears now | | as though they were dispirited, if not demoval- ized. They agreed some weeks agorupon the | plan of appointment to be adopted in the new charter, and no person outside the politicians. affected by the proposed method made serious. objection to it. They are now again “all abroad,’’ as the saying is, and their long | discussed charter comes to a sudden halt in a Senate coramittee. There are ru- mors, our correspondent reports, of a new combination between. the Governor, Mayor Havemeyer and that venerable political wire- worker Mr. Thurlow Weed, and lo! the lead- ers stand aghast and the Senators hold their hands and find new matter for consideration in the twenty-fifth section of the proposed law. There ave threats or warnings, it is whis- pered, of an Executive veto if the charter should pass in the form in which it left the Assembly, and so the managers set to work to | make new combinations and revised calcula- | tions looking to the overcoming of this fore- | shadowed difficulty. AD this bas very much | the appearance of that trading, dickering and | corrupt bargaining to which we have been | accustomed in what are called the Twoed AL REPORD ON THE ERIK DIS- | Legislatures for the past five or six years, and | | if the’ delay should not speedily be termi- | nated it certainly will not raise the character {of the reform body in public estima- tion. We are disposed to discredit the | report that an Executive veto of the charter has been threatened, or at least that such an intimation of the Executive action has been given, pending legislation, with the knowledge or consent of Governor Dix. But under any circumstances, if the intentions of the Legisla- ture and of the republican leaders are honest, their duty is simple enough. They should take their own share of responsibility and leave the Governor to act as his judgment and conscience may dictate. Having agreed upon | such a charter as they believe would give New York a strong, efficient, enterprising, har- monious and honest government, their duty is to pass it as. soon as its details have boen carefully considered and arranged. It was for that purpose that they were elected by the people, and, having done their share, The Hew York City Oharter at al-| ond fail, will not be attributable to them. | There is much wisdom, in Lincoln's remark that it is dangerous to swap horses while crossing a stream. Nothing is so fatal to political managers or to a_ political party as to change « programme after a policy once been positively pro- claimed. It is like changing front in the face of the enemy, and is almost certain to be followed by disaster. Tho republican man- agers should, therefore, hesitate before they again disturb tho plan so long discussed and so emphatically endorsed by the Assembly on any imaginary grounds of expediency. It ia notable that no opposition is mado to the proposed charter either by the Mayor, the Committee of Seventy or any of the dissatisfied Senators on account of any provision save that which relates to the manner of appoitit- ment to office; hence it is evident that the fight is not one of principle, but of self-interest. If any glaring defects were pointed out which would be calculated to impair the officiency of the government or to open the door to renewed fraud and dishonesty the people would clamor for their removal. But the whole indecent scram- ble is over the offices, and the people take no part or interest in the question. They agree with Governor Dix that the large majority cast in the last election for the repub- lican party should be accepted as an indication that a decided republican policy is demanded by tho popular voice, and they are willing to see the party that carried the city of New York, and that will certainly be held responsible for its proper government, take possession of tho municipal offices. As the matter now stands, the republicans, by whose efforts the victory was fon Inst November, have made a charter which, if not exactly what the people would desire, has been accepted by them as an improvement on their present con- dition. The Assembly which was chosen at the last election has passed this charter by an almost unanimous vote. The Senate, which was elected in 1871, and which has already filled one not very creditable term of office, hesitates, cavils and dickers over it without proposing any positive altera- tion that might commend itself to the consideration and favor of our citizens, This certainly has a suspicious appearance, and if the Senate acts wisely it will either amend the charter in committee or report it at once in the condition in which it passed the Assembly.. The people are tired of this unseemly delay and demand immediate action. Progress of the Spanish Republic and Democratic Sympathy with America. The Heratp special telegrams from Barce- lona and Madrid which are published in our columns to-day present agreeable and en- couraging news from Spain. His Excellency President Figueras, who has just arrived at Barcelona, accompanied by the Governor of the province of Barcelona, paid a visit to the United States war vessels Brooklyn and Shen- andoah at anchor off the port. He was offi- cially attended by Mr. Ruggles, the American Consul, and the distinguished party was re- ceived with all the ‘honors by our officers. Captain Bryson, of the Snandoah, enter- tained the President at lunch} The American commander toasted ‘The President of the Span- ish Republic.”’ Sefior Figueras replied with a toast in honor of the memory of George Washington, taking occasion to thank the American people for their sympathy with Spain and the Spanish Republic. This is as it should be. Democratic ideas require care- ful culture in Europe—where the monarchists stand ready to smother the good seed by the highway—and it must produce the most ex- cellent effeet in favor of universal republi¢an- ism and self-government by the peoples: to find the President of the Council of a newly revolutionized nation seeking additional strength for his inspiration by reflecting on the work which Washington accomplished. The Spanish troops have just gained a very decided victory over the @arlist forces. A san- guinary battle has been fought at Vera, onthe line of the Mediterranean. The Carlists.num- bered three thousand men. They were routed, atter an engagement of several hours’ dura— tion, with heavy loss. The General of the Republic was in active pursuit of the retreat- ing royalists, who were received coldly by the villagers in thair moment of misfortune, and pressing them severely. Revolutions do not go backward. No Hope of Peace with the Modoos.. Captain Jack and his warriors are afraid to trust themselves in the hands of the Peace Commissioners and __ refuse to leave the lava beds. This leaves the mat- ter in the hands of General Canby, who,, with his force. of six hundred regulars, will, no doubt, soon make an effort to forcibly settle the difficulty. There seems to be no other way of doing it, and as ithas to be settled the sooner it is done the better. Our special | correspondent with the Peace Commissioners, whose graphic letter on the origin of the trouble, the efforts for peace and his exciting and interesting interview with Captain Jack and his chiefs we publish to-day, ex- presses his belief that the Mo- docs will not consent to place themselves again at the mercy of Indian agents. In the light of the statements made by the Indians to the Heraup correspondent and the facts presented we are not surprised. Indeed, it is strange that Steele escaped with his lite when on his last visit to the lava beds. The Modocs seem to have been cruelly and treacherously treated, and it is sad that there is no way of doing them justice cousistent with the policy of the government. Perhaps if, instead of placing obstacles in the way of our correspondent, the Commissioners had permitted him to see the Modoc chief be- fore the negotiations had been complicated by interested parties, there might have been a way of settling the difficulty other than “‘exter- mination.’’ The ‘Paper Man’’ they were so glad to see could have told them that the greedy crew of speculators and rascally agents with whom they had to do were not above the law, and that the government of the United States, Upugh strong, was just. “Locarsa THE Stasie Door," &c.--The United States Senate in its present special executive session has taken action with the view of preventing the further issue of Pacific Railroad bonds in certain cases until the next session of Congress. This is all right and Senators take note of such things in time to prevent the wholesale robberies of the public domain that have for so many years disgraced Congressional legislation? With a gigantic Congrossional theft of one million six hundred thousand dollars in cash from the public Treasury for back pay freshly in the minds of the people, it is some consolation to find that the Senate, ‘solitary and alone,’’ sota a ball in motion to bring about, if possible, a reform in an important branoh of one of the stealing departments of the government. It may be ‘locking the stable door atter the steed is stolen,’ but ‘better late than never.’’ There is still something left of Uncle Sam's grand farm. The Austrian Prize Article-A Raily- ing Cry to Seribelarias Americanus, The Vienna Exposition will, under Provi- dence, produce any quantity of extraordinary resulta, ‘These international shows have their prophets with the ruddy glow of rosy-fingered morn ever tipping their tail feathers and their wings. In the Lotos land it was ever, ‘Good afternoon, stranger;"’ in cosmopolite show- lend it is ever on the smallest provocation, ‘Good morning, friend."’ It is the dawn of peace, the sunrise of universal brotherhood, the. matin song of world-wide harmony. We love an optimist, and these prophets are optimists of the most gushing order. When there is an exposition of the truly Philadelphian stripo the Beechers, the Spurgeons, the Hyacinthes and the Gavazzis and all their genus basten to bless the gathering and become rapt into prophecy. Unfortunately these people are seldom looked on as prophets in their own country, and hence they become impassioned ovet the opportunity presented to talk goody- | goody to the array of dry goods and hardware from every corner of the world dis- played at an international gathering. The London exhibition of 1851 we know prevented the Crimean war from taking place. ‘That of 1862 knitted all Europe and America in loving bonds, stayed the hands of federal and Confederate and pre- vented Prussia and Austria, like two big bullies, from making war on plucky little Denmark, and hindered the former from an- nexing Holstein. It also prevented the two big bullies from fighting afterwards about the matter and kept Italy from attacking Austria in the rear. The most signally successful of all was the Exposition of Paris in 1867. Were it not for that France would to-day have had a bloody war with Prussia, would have had the Germans on her soil, and would have been a republic trying to pay off the fifth milliard of a war debt. When these things are remembered it will be appreciated how we are inclined to hail with effusion everything that smacks of international peace-securing expositions. And here is something. It is proposed to send a copy of every periodical in America to Vienna, to show what a literary people we are. In order to stimulate this collection from all parts of the world the Austrian Emperor has offered a prize of five thousand dollars for the best article of less than a column on Austria. Our breath ig taken away as we contemplate what this golden bait will tempt from the inner consciousness of our literary geniuses, who want not only the fame but the dollars. Those who have enough of the latter will write for the former, and those who have not will accept the fame without a pang, provided it brings in the money. As a matter of pa- triotism alone thousands will dip their quills in the writing fluid and let their thoughts loose upon the land of the elder Kaiser, that the Stars and Stripes may wave over the five thousand dollar prizeman. They would sooner write till doomsday than let a quill from the Gallic rooster or the British goose earry away the coin and the glory that should belong to a quill plucked from the: setting-sum wing of the great American eagle. The materials for the article are at hand. For those who will confine themselves to simple facts = school geography will furnish enough. Where the aspirant seeks a more picturesque ner, a good guide-book will suffice. For a_ still more ambitious grade, the encyclopedia will expand its ampie treas- ures. With such a wealth of material origin- ality of comment will be the next reqnisite, and when we look back through nearly thirty- seven years of American exchanges we are satisfied that that at least will be plentiful. A strong point for the last paragraph of the article will be the glowing embodiment of the writer’s prognostication of Austria’s future, when the relies of the Fxposition building shall have been sold for firewood, with the rejected articles thrown in. Some of the pro- phecies would surely hit the mark. The editors of papers who make calculations dur- ing Presidential campaigus will find them- selves at home in this part of the business. We have no desire to dictate to our literary brethren, but we warn them when they pre- pare for this glorious task to free their: minds of prejudices. Be impartial ; be calm, even though your bosom be on fire with enthusi- asm or your brain be charged with futurity, like the Sibyl before she indited her high- priced prophecy. Let not your close alliance with Bohemia cause you. to do injustice to the rest of the great Roman Empire. Be not mad- dened over Moravia, nor rhapsodical over Ga- licia, Your fondness for Illyria should steer you clear of wronging Styria. Let the capital of the Austrian be no more to you than that of the Czech ; be magnanimous to the Magyar, forhe is of Hungary. Do not include Dalmatia in your damnatory sen- tences. Crow not over the Croats. This is the merest skeleton of the state of mind in which the American competitor for this | world’s prize should find himself. Already an American editor has thrown his glove down before the rest of mankind and submitted his article, which we print else- where. The glove is a stout buckskin, num- ber twelve, and the article will shout for it- self. Honor and glory to the gallant editor’ of the Ottumwa (Iowa) Democrat. Over the great billiard table of the American Continent rolls the first ball, and if it carroms against the exhibition building may he be the man to “pocket’’ the prize. We are not at liberty just yet to analyze this fine piece of com- position ; but we can say that the statesman- ship, candor, historical research and geo- graphical and mineralogical knowledge which it displays will make the best among us tremble for our hopes. Rouse up, Mark Twain; bound to your cane-bottomed chair, Brot Harte; spring to your caligraphic darn- man- ing needle, Susan B. Anthony ; wilt not at tho defaat of the charter, if it should im the | proper, But why do not qur conacientions,| the competition, Mrs, Woodhull; be a lit- erary woman instead of » business female, Olive Logan, or the sweet oil of your dis- position will turn to gall ; give us your most killing style, Laura D. Fair; ‘Intellectual Departments” of the great dailies and pensive weeklies, rush to the front to pick up the glove of the sage of Ottumwa. Young mon of the press, who are entering on your wild careers, let not the graybeards of the journals outface you from the contest. Delightful blue stockings, emulate your loving brothors of the press. We can fancy every scribe upon the Conti- nent plunged in thought preparatory to writing the composition. It is midnight. The stars are shining, also the moon. The wind fans the temples and raises the elf-locka of the thoughtful tens of thousands. Hush! Hark! Thoy have begun. At every instant a gallon of ink is shed, a square foot of paper cov- ered. A sound, very scratching at first, is heard. It rises; it becomes # harmony. It mingles with the music of the spheres. Every tune that ever the Old World sung and many very original and modern ones are woven in the chorus of tingling quills. Crescendo it swells until one ecstatic note is reached, and thon follows silence. Let Hamilton Fish be careful. We want an American Plenipotentiary at Vienna to look after our literary interests there. Francis Joseph should have a care lest, by giving away the prize to other than an American writer, he bring not down upon himself a sanguin- ary war which may sweep him from his impe- rial throne. This is uttered without any desire on our part to intimidate him. Dificulties of the English Question. A special cable telegram to the Henan, dated in London yesterday evening, informs us that the British Cahinet crisis was main- tained at the moment when our despatch was forwarded. Mr. Disraeli still refused to ac- cept office. Parliament will reassemble to- day. Mr. Gladstone was again at audience with the Queen. The probability, most gen- erally accepted last night, was that the leader of the liberals will resume office. It is thought that his Cabinet will remain unchanged. It may be taken as a truth that Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby cannot, and that Mr. Glad- stone is personally unwilling to, carry on the government of England. This is pretty much the political situation just now. The former are not in the least averse to power, and from inclination, as well as from the pressure of the tory party and hungry politicians, would gladly administer the government; but they are afraid to make the attempt with a majority in the House of Commons against them, and they have so informed the Queen. The very first measure which they introduced might be defeated, particularly if it should be one of a general character, involving principles of governmental policy. They might be placed at the outset in a more embarrass- Cabinet ing position than Mr. Gladstone was with the Irish University bill. Then, in accordance with the constitutional theory of government in England, they should resign. There is no way of acquiring the necessary support but by a reconstruction of the House of Commons through a dissolution of Parliament and a new election. But even in that case a majority of liberals or anti-tory members might be returned. That is more than probable. It would be simply a doubt- ful experiment. We see, then, the diflicul- ties Disraeli and Lord Derby would have to: encounter either with or without a new elec- tion, and are not surprised that they decline to accept office. Then there is an aversion to plunging the country into the agitation and ex- pense of electing another Parliament. On the other hand Mr. Gladstone seems to be indif- ferent about retaining office and to be de- sirous of retiring from public lite. He has shown, consequeptly, more sensitiveness over the defeat, by only a small majority, of the Irish University bill than.one more tenacious of office would have manifested. But how can he abandon his royal mistress.to embarrassments and complications when the opposition cannot and will not undertake the administration? A compromise Ministry is spoken of, but there are great difficulties in the way of that. There appears to be no line of¢general policy upon which such hybrid government would agree. The altemative is either an appeal to the coun- try and the election of another Parliament, or the Gladstone Cabinet to remain in power to carry out the general policy of the liberals, with an abandonment or modification of the Irish University measure. It is not often that the offices of administration in England go begging for men to take them, but the political situation at the present time is peculiar. If Mr. Gladstone wished to. retain office, and were determined to do so, he could, no doubt, overcome the present difficulty. There may | be some foundation for the rumors at the clubs in.London that Ear) Granville is to be Premier and Mr. Cardwell Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the absence of news to tha contrary we still think Mr. Gladstone will have to guide the ship of State for some time longer,, unless he should meet with a more sig- ga nal defeat on some other measure in Parlia- | ment. The Filthy and Reeking Condition of Our Streets. New York is just now about the most filthy city im the country. It ought to be the clean- est. There are all the facilities of making it so. Who is to blame for this state of things? The police authorities were charged with the duty of keeping the streets clean, and, we be- lieve, it rests especially upon Superintendent Thorne. Except Broadway and Fifth avenue, and, perhaps, portions of some few other streets, the rest of the city thoronghfares are either packed with the unbroken snow. and ice of the long and severe Winter or have a con- tinuous line of dirt heaps piled. up by the city | workmen. ‘Then, in most of the streets | through which the cars run the snow and ice | are thrown from the sides into the middle and are there made an unbroken mud pool The city is just in the condition to reek with disgusting smells and disease the first warm day that comes, and then to blind every one by clouds of dust. Why are not the heaps of filth carted away instead of being piled up and left in the streets? A few thousands of dol- lars spent now by employing a host of laborers and numbers of dirt carts would be worth hun- dreds of thousands to the property, comfort and health of the city. No excuse can be, offered, and.none will be admitted, for negle«t- ing to have New York thoroughly oleaned,be- fore tha, warm Spring weather sets in, The Sermons Westerday. Tho Lenten abstemiousness is ovidently be- ginning to tell upon the mental constitution of our theologians, if wo may judge from the batch of sermons laid before our readers to- day. It may be tho result of frequent and long fasts and vigils, or it may be caused by a lack of study or both; but certain it is that, from some cause or other, we present to-day some of the sickliest trash it has ever been our lot to read as pulpit productions. To be sure, the preachers may have said some passably good things, but if they uttered nothing grander, nobler or more sublime than what now lies before us tHere is scarcely a thought in their sermons worth remembering. They are the veriest commonplace compositions, of which many @ schoolboy would be ashamed. The philosophical 0. B. Frothingham is repre- sented, for instance, as uttering such logic as this:—‘‘Suppose there were no world, there would be no God. Sup pose there were no human love and kindness, there would be no heavenly love. If man suspends his efforts, 50 does God." And more of the same sort. And all this, too, in elucidation of the doctrine that men are coworkers with God. This idea, Mr. Frothingham thinks, has gradually lost its force and is fading away from the human mind; and he thinks it is due to the idle and vain efforts men have made toward reform. No one seems to need reform so much as re- formers. We fully agree with the reverend proacher in this statement, and also in that other, ‘if men were fellow workers with God there is no evil in the world that could not be rooted out,’’ But if men are to sit under the drop- pings of such logic as the above and be in- strneted that they are the all-important and God the least important copartner in thin firm, will they »ot be more inclined to work without God thari to take Him into partner- ship? And is not this the very thing that thousands are doing every day, not only to their own detriment, but to the injury of their fellow men also? Let every man work, but let every man labor together with God, and, whether it be for material ends or for spiritual, success may always be counted on as certain. Rev. Mr. Hepworth spent his time demon- strating the weakness of atheism, instead of taking it for granted and giving the people the afitidote. Atheism, by virtue of its consti- tution, is nothing but weakness and folly. Like a soap bubble, it may float about us for # while and reflect some of the rainbow colors caused by the light which it affects to deny; but the heat of the sun or the breath of the Almighty will melt and scatter it so that not s vestige will remain. History has not been writ- ten for naught. [tis full of imstruction and haa ample illustrations of the weakness of atheism: If it be true that in this age there is but little philosophical denial of God, because the peo- ple have too much common sense to encourage such denial, is not this an additional reason why the common sense of the people should be trusted more and their faith encouraged by having the object of faith brought so tangibly before them that men and women: caa, as if were, not only touch the hem of His garment, but take the hand of the Saviour? Dr. Seymour's logic in defence of the min- istry was a‘ little like Mr. Frothingham’s in that it made the Word of God of little or no importance without the ministry. If the Bible, he said, were left merely a written book it would soon be forgotten or at least slighted. But Bunyan’s “Pilgrim's Progress,'’ ‘“Shak- speare” and ‘Mother Goose’ were: left written, butthey have not been forgotten: nor slighted, and for a reason similar to that which would make the Bible precious without the minister—namely, that they and it answer felt wants of the human heart. Hence there are freshness apd power in them, and they wilh never die so longas the heart of humanity. is capable of emotion or aspiration in this life. The record of the Church of the Holy Trinity is such as we should expect from the labors and ministrations of its rector. Starting, out with Christ in his heart and the Bible. in. his hand, Rev. S: H. Tyng, Jr., has within nine years gathered a parish pow among the largest and wealthiest in the city, where before his advent, there was none. He has baptized) 768 persons, buried 438 and married 212, and has now a church consisting of 1,300 come municants and. a Sunday school which numbers 1,863 scholars. But this is not all The Church has a very valuable pro- perty and a bank account of six hun- dred thousand dollars net, besides having. contributed for local and mission and other church purposes $519,000 during those nine- ‘years. No wonder he chose the significant text he did yesterday—‘‘The Iron Did Swim’” The impossible has been demonstrated possi- ble, for God has declared that all things are possible to hinr that believeth. Mr. Kemble; in St. Ann's church, presented the claims of the Indians of the Far West upom their Episcopal brethren in the East for the Word of Life. Rev. Mr.. Sweetzer presented to his hearces the Universalist idea of hell, which. may be summed up-in these two contradictory propo- sitions: —Kirst, there is no such place as. hell, and wherever the word occurs in the Bible it means the grave; and secondly, the bell of the Bible is an accusing conscience, which goes with the wicked into the other world, but in some future cycle of eternity leaves them and they become pure and good. We would, not encourage any of our. readers to put off the search for goodness and. purity to the future life on the strength of this style of theology. Let God be true though every man, be a liar. How true and scriptural is the declaratios made by Rev. John M. Farrelly, that in the hour when conseience acenses of sim and the heart is appalled before ‘the weight and blaak- ness of its guilt the best comforter that a sin- ner can have is prayer. with hope, umility, a contrite heart and a: determination of amendment, God's grace comes flowing in upon the soul. And how true it is also, as Father Farrelly remarked, that many 9 man is. criminal and an outcas from soeiety to-day who might have been an ornament had he resorted to this simple act of the mind toward God. We may offset Mr. Sweetzer's hell theory by Father Far~ ‘yelly’s, that “in hell no reparation can be nrade; no one can render assistance.” Hence now is the time to seek and serve God. Father Farrell, in St. Pat's church, Brook- lyn, made a startling proposition, which seems to conflict with Catholic theology. Baptism gud the knowledge of Christ, he . If yttered in faith, «