The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD » BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No, 133 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth ‘avenue.—Amy Ropsart. . THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Dnama, UE AND OLI0. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rir Van WinKte— Jemimr, &c. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723and 730 Broad- ‘way.—Divonce. fi WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwa: Nosopr’s Cuiup. Afternoon an corner Thirtieth st.— evening. ATHENEUM, 58 Broadwa, anp Vanixty ENTER- ‘TAINMENT. y DEN, Broadway. between Prince and Houston sis cAsnari; on, tux Macto Cua. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Fxou Frov. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadw: ‘and Bicecker street.—Humrry I . between Houston Y. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tux Squime’s Last Saiu.ing, RAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Monre Cuisz0. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third svenue.—GERMAN COMEDY. MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Unper Tax Gasuicut, 4c. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— Frsnou Orera—La Granpe Ducuxssx. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vantery ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 23g. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner @th av.—Nucro Minsrnezsy, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— Bouncy any Axr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tucsday, May 13, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ®A NEW PHASE OF THE EASTERN QUESTION! THE INFLUENCE AND AIM OF THE KHE- DIVE” -LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIO—SixTa Pas. ANOTHER BATTLE WITH AND DEFEAT OF THE MODOCS! THE NEW FORTRESS RECON- NOITRED AND THE BODIES OF THE SLAIN WHITES BURIED! EXCEEDING STRENGTH OF CAPTAIN JACK’S PRESENT POSITION— SEVENTH PAGE. €HIVA IN THE HANDS OF THE RUSSIANS! A SUCCESSFUL CROSSING OF THE DESERT! A NEW BASE OF SUPPLIES ESTABLISHED! THE ROADS BY WHICH THE TROOPS ADVANCED—SEVENTH PAGE. RUSSIA STRENGTHENING HER NAVY—A BRIT- ISH FLEET ORDERED TO ZANZIBAR— SEVENTH PaGE. @ GRAND CORONATION IN SWEDEN! OSCAR SECOND, WITH HI8 QUEEN, ASSUMES THE SCEPTRE OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY! A REGAL BANQUET! FETES IN PROSPECT! THE NORWEGIANS TO WITNESS SIMILAR CEREMONIES—SEVENTH Pace. fHE EUROPEAN MONEY CENTRES AGITATED BY THE VIENNA PANIC! A GENERAL COLLAPSE IN THE VALUE OF GERMAN AND AMERICAN SECURITIES—SsvENTH Paar. HE RULERS OF RUSSIA, PR IA AND BEL- GIUM TO VISIT THE VIENNA WORLD'S FAIR! A SERIES OF GRAND FETES—THE FRECH CABINET AND THE ELECTIONS— SEVENTH Pace. BRAZILIAN POLITICS—GENERAL TELEGRAMS— SEVENTH Pace. POPE PIUS PASSES A SLEEPLESS NIGHT, DIs- TURBED BY VIOLENT FITS OF COUGHING! HIS PHYSICIANS ESTOP ALL AUDIENCES! SOME OF THE CARDINALS VISIT THE HOLY FATHER—SEVENTH PAGE. S60LEMN INTERMENT OF THE DEAD CHIEF JUSTICE! THE CAPITOL CROWDED BY DISTINGUISHED MOURNERS OF ALL CLASSES AND PROFESSIONS! THE FINAL SCENES—Tuirp Pace. SAVED OF THE ARCTIC AT ST. JOHNS, N. F.! WILD EXCITEMENT AMONG THE PEOPLE! PROMINENT MEN CARRY THE LITTLE ESQUIMAU WAIFS IN THEIR ARMS! THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF CAPTAIN HALL! LATEST OPINIONS OF THE WELL INFORMED AS TO THE DIS- ASTER—Turep Pace. {HE ITALIAN PULICE ARREST TWENTY PAR- TICIPANTS IN THE MOB ASSAULT ON THE QUIRINAL—REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT DEMANDED IN ENGLAND—SEVENTH PaGE. EWS FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE— LEGAL BUSINESS—THE TROUBLED CON- SUL GENERAL—TEstH Pace. {tHE THE MAYOR AND THE ALDERMEN! THE AP- POINTMENTS AND THE OFFICIAL DIGNIIY! ALL THE MES DESIRED! NO ACTION—Tninp Pace. @PECULATORS KEEPING UP THE VIENNA AGITATION ON ’CHANGE! THE GOLD CLIQUE DISBURDENS ITSELF! FALL IN THE PREMIUM! BEAR ASSAULT ON ERTIE— Fourta PaGE. & BRILLIANT MILITARY GATHERING—THE REAL ESTATE MARKET—A STOCK TRADER IMPRISONED—Fovrtn Pace. Tae Vienna Money Catactysm.—By our special cable despatch from London it will be seon that panics and financial trouble are not confined to Wall street. The panic, which occurred at Vienna on Saturday, just at the time of the opening of the grand Exhi- bition, must have been no ordinary one, for the excitement created involved Rothschild in personal danger and forced the government to come to the rescue, And now we hear that the government finds it necessary to go even further than issuing more money or making a loan. It proposes to modify the Bank act, with a view of relieving the stock market. We have not received the details concerning this panic, and are curious to know if the building of the grand temple of industry for the Expo- sition had anything to do with it. Whatever may have been the cause or causes, it is evi- dent that Wall street is not the only place in the world where stockjobbing, extravagant stock speculations and panics occur. Human | nature, and particularly that phase of it con- mected with stock exchanges—whether at New York, London, the Bourse of Paris or at | Vienna—is the same. Our bulls and bears may console themselves with the knowledge hat with all the odium attached to them, there re animals of the same kind in the financial metropolitan centres of Europe. Tae Ierrniaist Ivrenests or Evnore will be powerfully and brilliantly represented in | Vienna within a few days, when the Ozar of Russia, the Emperor of Germany and the King of the Belgians will greet His Apostolic NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. A New whase of the Eastern Ques tion—The Influence and Aim of the Khedive. Napoleon was accustomed to say that the greatest deeds of modern times would be achieved in the East, While the path of empiro takes its way to the West the hidden, romantic, antique lands, in which were born our language and our religion, possess an in- terest even to peaceful, busy Americans, who, according to the Pope, are too assiduous in making money to always remember it as tho root of all evil. We have had an Eastern question in European politics ever since Eu- rope was a Civilized continent. It perplexed the Romans; it attracted the genius and the courage of Alexander; it gave inspiration to the visions and laws of Islam; it animated Napoleon in his invasion of Egypt, and came to him as a rapturous and not impossible dream when he was an exile in Elba, The Third Napoleon brooded over it and made war against Russia to solve it. In America we have an Eastern question that in our chil- dren’s time, perhaps even in our own, will be- come as momentous as slavery and free trade ; so thatno matter how rapidly or distantly our American Commonwealth advances in our mission of enlightenment, it does not seem possible to dissever our national policy from Eastern questions, which threaten to affect us as keenly as they do England and France. Whoever commanded the Bosphorus was master of the world. This was one legend of the Napoleonic times. Whoever held Egypt had the road to India. This was another legend of the great Emperor, and was fully shared by even as practical a man as Palmer- ston. It was under the Pyramids that Napo- leon made the first grapple in that long war against England, which terminated at Water- loo; and when he fell English policy, as in- spired by Palmerston, was devoted to the aggrandizement of British power in Egypt. We can understand how the effect of these struggles for the supremacy of the Nile would have ended in the efface- ment of Egypt, except as a mere province otf the Turk. That land, rich and mighty be- fore the time of Jesus or David or Moses, with a civilization and a history running back to the earliest days in the earliest ages, seemed to have fallen upon a fate like that which effaced Troy and Carthage and Baby- lon. The Egypt of Sesostris and the Pharaohs was only a name, and the puny Mussulman was master of ruins and deserts where once had _ reigned a mighty race of men. And philosophers said that even as upon men there comes the evening after the noon, and decay and palsy and death after vigorous, beaming, sunny manhood, so to nations, no matter how great and aspiring, there will come desolation. But all this time, as if to show how God’s beneficence mocked the theories of the philos- ophers, the sun shone upon Egypt as brightly as when Joseph gathered its corn, and the great river kept its mysterious life-giving and life-renewing way—carrying fertility into the desert and bringing the har- vests on its full Spring tides. Instead of death and extinction new vigor came to the vener- able land, and in this last generation we have had the spectacle of a nation rising with new life from the earth which threatened to en- tomb it, and showing signs of its former su- premacy and splendor. This spectacle, which is of course familiar to our readers, indicates what the genius of a man like the Khedive can achieve in spite of adverse circumstances. Twenty years ago if the world had been told that the day was coming when an Egyptian prince would have honor and consideration not only in the courts but in the money markets of Europe, it would have listened as incredulously as if it were said to-day that an Aztec prince was about to revive the empire of the Montezumas, or that a new Inca was about to restore the barbaric splendor of Peru. Yet what Egypt is its ruler has made it. By his enterprise and statesmanship we have the Suez Canal, next to the Atlantic cable the most important work of the age. This is one of a succession of achievements upon which it is not necessary to dwell. Let it be sufficient that Egypt, which, in the last gen- eration, had no more influence in Europe than Arizona or Sonora, is now the centre of an Eastern question as important as any phase that problem has ever assumed. We in America are called upon to say whether our influence will be given in favor of the past or the future; whether we shall assist an en- lightened and courageous prince, whose friend- ship for Americans has always marked his reign, to win and hold his sovereignty, or whether we shall unite with those selfish Powers who would make Egypt as Car- thage. Happily, it is mot a ques- tion involving war or peace, although more important than many which have resulted in war. The Khedive proposes to institute what are known as judicial reforms in his domin- ions. There have been scandals in jus- tice surpassing any in New York, how- ever extravagant it may seem. These scan. dals came from a treaty system, by which foreign consuls are permitted independent and irresponsible judicial power over their own citizens and over all matters in which their citizens are concerned. So justice has been destroyed by the alien in the dominions of the Khedive. But as that prince concedes to foreign Powers by treaty this independence of judicial responsibility, and as this is a con- cession exacted from all Oriental nations, from Japan and China and in Africa, the reforms he craves can only be consummated by the adhesion of the treaty Powers, The two nations that have the most interest in the settlement of the question, outside of Turkey, are England and France. And here comes another illustration of the truth that science and commerce and trade begin to dominate our politics. When the Suez Canal was planned it was denounced im England as the dream of a visionary Frenchman. Lord Palmerston publicly scouted it. It would never be built. It was not for British interests that it should be built. It was only a French scheme to menace England's power in Asia to control the path to India. According to a statement in the House of Commons the effect of this animosity on the part of England was that the canal was made to cost a great deal more than it should have cost. But French energy and the aid of the Khedive completed the work, and at once Majesty of Austria amido grand national and givic ovation. the whole trade between the European nations the Suez Canal thousands of miles were saved in the route to the East. To go through the canal a new class of ships had to be built. Of this carrying trade at least seventy per cent carry the British flag. So here was a canal which England had opposed and ridiculed, and yet it was not only successful, but neces- sary to her commercial supremacy in India. It was owned by Frenchmen, and an Egyptian prince had it in his power. France insists that, her capital having built the canal, she should control it, as she does her property in telegraphs and railways. England insists that the work is so useful to the world— so necessary to her own power, of course— that it should be taken from the control of any company or any nation and made neutral and free, like the great rivers and the high seas. This commercial quarrel—this emulation in the contest for supremacy in Asia—is behind the opposition now made by the great treaty Powers to the judicial reforms of the Khedive and his general policy of progress, In plainer words, Egypt must be stifled because of a mis- understanding between France and England. Now, if anything were clearer than another, it is that in a controversy of this kind America has no patt. In the first place, we have the wholesome and hallowed doctrine that there should be no interference in foreign affairs. There is no foreign affair more insidious and perplexing than this Eastern question. There is not one with more complicated and embarrassing contingencies. In no case should we be more particular to avoid entan- gling alliances, We can have only one general, generous, magnanimous policy. We must deal with the ruler of this ancient and re- nowned dominion as we dealt with Thiers when he became President of France, and with Figueras as President of Spain. We must encourage him in his reforms, assist him in the regeneration of his kingdom, aid him in every honest effort to improve the condi- tion of his people, and pray that the time may come when Egypt will be as mighty as when her sons ruled in Memphis and in Thebes. Surely no course is clearer than this, and yet we have our Secretary of State taking an ac- tive part in the quarrel and refusing to con- sent to judicial reforms in Egypt because it gratifies the French Minister. This is the attitude of Mr. Fish. That worthy Secretary is quietly making a diplomatic record for us on this new East- ern question that in time may lead to great harm. It will make a precedent that in the future may be followed to our sorrow. It will injure us in Egypt, where we are strong, and embarrass a prince who is entitled to our sympathy and our respect. It is a practical interference in foreign questions that will do us neither credit nor honor. It may be the result of inattention on the part of Mr. Fish. It may come from a misapprehension of the question—from a friendly desire to please the distinguished gentleman now French Minister in Washington. We are afraid, however, it is to be attributed to that tendency in what may be almost regarded as traditional in our State Department, to always take the side in inter- national questions most unwelcome to Eng- land. In other words, to irritate England and surrender to her when she becomes in earnest. However much this question concerns Eng- land, it more directly affects the Khedive, and, withdrawing from the mérely European fea- tures of it, we are bound to aid the ruler of Egypt in his splendid struggle, and to aid him as cordially in regenerating the empire of Pharaoh as we have aided Figueras in found- ing a free commonwealth upon the empire of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Coronation of Oscar Il. as King of Sweden. Our special despatches from Stockholm bring us the story of the coronation of Oscar II. as King of Sweden. The grandson of the French- man Bernadotte, as the able, intriguing man who was afterwards Charles XIV. of Sweden is best known, is King of the entire Scandina- vian peninsula. He succeeded his brother, Charles XV., who died in last October, but, in addition to the ceremonial described else- where, has yet to submit to a similar process in Norway next July. The time of Sweden’s active influence on the affairs of Europe has apparently passed by; but the hardy race that it nourishes should never be over- looked by those who read history through the peoples as well as the kings. The tendency of the present age, in spite of racial hates and imperial ambitions, is to turn the efforts of men towards their own homes. The world has had Alexanders, Charlemagnes and Napoleons enough. The periods marked by each were eminently those of transi- tions. The empires which Alexander and Charlemagre put together with such force and insuch haste were too great for their successors, and the process of falling to pieces under the generals of the one and the wenk successors of the other only showed that they were before their time. Napoleon Bonaparte differed from the others in that he saw his conquests melt away before himself. The doctrines of the Republic under whose wing he rose to fame were too crude and too bold for the acceptance of king- ridden Europe. His recognition of this fact, and his swift employment of the forces of the revolution against itself, mark him as a wonderful phenomenon; but the fifty odd years since Waterloo have shown how little so brilliant a man could do to stem the tide of opinion that makes or un- makes governments. The ‘Little Corporal,” it is true, lett an indelible stamp upon the world’s history. Plebeian as he was, he built up thrones in a day that perished in the night, while the old feudal world looked on in fear and wonder. But he will be regarded, when the philosophy of this age is written, as one who, finding the temptations to absolute power too great, tried ineffectually to compromise with the old kingly order he had displaced. Naples, Spain, the Netherlands, his phantom kingdoms, have disappeared as such. France, that he held enthralled, is to-day a Republic, as Napoleon found her. Only in the old Scandinavian Kingdom of the North does a substance of what now seems the Napoleonic phantasm remain. The people who crowned Oscar Il. King of Sweden yesterday have taken the family of the French Marshal to their hearts, and, as the latter have become 80 thoroughly naturalized to their new country as to strike at need against that from which they sprung, nothing seems necessary to conse- crate the union. Relieved through the genius of the century even \ond India was changed, By going throvgh | irom taking an active part in the affairs of Europe, the Kingdom of Sweden and Nor- way has ample time to devote its energies to the cultivation of its own industries. The prudent and passably wise family that now rule there are limited within close constitu- tional bounds, and the utilitarianism of the two peoples can be traced in no better way than in their long Parliamentary debates as to whether it was necessary to spend money on the ceremony of crowning aking at all. They appeared to be tolerably well satisfied with their King. That he was their monarch they were ready to admit; but it required a good deal of soft.speeches and appeals to glorious tradition before the Swedish Parliament could see the necessity of providing the necessary number of rix-thalers for the coronation ceremonies, This is instruc- tive. The country that threw off the Danish yoke under the lead of Gustavus Vasa has come down to the consideration of what royalty of imported or home manufacture may cost, and that it has allowed a little extra expenditure this time after some grumbling may indicate what its temper will be with the next king who wants to be crowned. The energy of the Scandinavian peoples has left its mark on history. They produced a Gustavus Adolphus anda Charles XII. The former may have been an ambitious religious enthusiast, and the latter may have justified Lord Byron’s coupling him with ‘‘Macedonia’s madman;’’ but the feats of both show what wild dreams in hardy, fearless natures can be nursed among those peoples of the north. We are rejoiced to think that now those peoples have the ways of peace before them, but in their sturdy manhood it is well to re- member what changes they wrought in Eu- rope through the ways of war in the centuries past. From the present and the past we may learn, if not the future of the Scandinavian peoples, at least what possibilities for the un- born time they have within themselves. Pablic Improvements—Small Projects Against Great Enterprises. At this time the prosecution of the im- provements which tend to develop the great public interests of the metropolis, and es- pecially those which will aid in extending the city northward, are objects of paramount value and importance. Enterprises of a pri- vate or local kind—as, for instance, the con- templated widening of Ann street—can only help to paralyze improvements of a more vital character to the general welfare. These. small affairs can only serve to draw attention from the great projects which, just now, are of paramount importance. With such improve- ments as are imperatively demanded—enter- prises which are, gigantic in conception and completion, requiring constant aid and atten- tion—we cannot afford to waste a thought on small projects. We do not want to see the petty prevent the accomplishment of the great, and as the Ann street widening is the first of the small things to interfere with the great we oppose it as ill-timed and pernicious. General city improvements are the great need of the people of New York. Rapid transit has been too long deferred, and the well being of the metropolis requires that the delay shall, not continté” tmuch longer. ‘The annexation of lower Westchester is a matter of the greatest importance to the commercial greatness and the social and political con- venience of the city. Without the latter the tormer is scarcely practicable, both on account of the inconvenience toa rapid transit com- pany in having the lower end of the line in one county and the upper end in another, and because of the necessity of exercising a thor- ough metropolitan supervision over such a line. Until these two things—rapid transit and annexation—are accomplished, it is idle to talk of minor improvements in the downtown districts. The upper part of the island, where roads and bridges and secure tunnels—indeed, all the equipments of a great city—are imme- digtely demanded, takes precedence over the private interests further down, and asks that these little affairs shall not stand in the way of the general growth of the metropolis. The bill for annexing lower Westchester has passed both branches of the Legislature, and is now in the hands of the Governor, whose signature only is required to make it law and unite the destinies of part of the sister county with our own. In view of the immense im- portance of the scheme to the people of New York, a great number of whom live from year to year in filthy overcrowded tene- ment houses and unhealthy localities, we would recommend the Governor to sign the bill as soon as he can do so consistently with a proper consideration of its provisions. It is as much a question of health as profit to the people. By signing this measure General Dix may ad- vance us several steps towards that millennium of rapid transit so long dooked forward to by New Yorkers, if it doest directly contribute to its establishment. it should give us the means of erecting cottages for the laborer in locations where he and his family can breathe the pure atmosphere of nature, giving him a home, at a reasonable rent, it will be an inestimable boon. Butif by this means the man of business and the mechanic, as well as the man of leisure, are enabled to live out of town and yet reach their homes within fifteen or twenty-five minutes after leaving the cen- tres of business, it will be a blessing anda comfort that the people will aeknowledge and appreciate. There are, however, two sides to every ques- tion, and public improvements should be made conformably not only to the interests of specu- lating capitalists but of the taxpayers and the general public. The question of rapid transit has been made the basis of extraordi- nary privileges to one of our great railroad corporations. The Fourth avenue, for in- stance, has been widened to such an extent that it literally divides the city, but while the difficulties to the persons going across the city have been heightened, and, in some places rendered insurmountable, the railroad company is preparing to enjoy all the advantages granted by the State, but so far has failed to erect bridges or provide means of crossing the tracks at points where excavations are made. We must insist that the improvements be made in accordance with the public safety and convenience, and that if the company is to derive additional benefit from the concessions it has obtained it must erect bridges and provide the safest means possible for the passage of persons whose business may compel them to cross the avenue. The Comptroiler’s receipts yesterday were B17, i i “would justify PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Mayor Wiliam G. Fargo, of Buffalo, is at the Astor House. : Ex-Governor Randolpn, of New Jersey, is at the New York Hotel. State Senator H, L. Swords, of Loutsiana, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Baron E, de Pormneliac, of France, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. General Manuel Campos Diaz, of Cuba, ts regis- tered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain J. M. Bacon, of the United States Army, is registered at the Astor House. Captain W. G. Mitcholl, ef the United States Army, is at the Coleman House, Lieutenant Genera Philip H. Sheridan yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman Robert II. Pruyn, ef Albany, is Staying at the Fifth Avenue Hetgl. Ex-State Prison Inspector F. L, Lafiin, of Sau- gertics, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, Ex-Secretary of State Homer A. Nelson, of Pough- keepsie, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain E. W. Clift, of the United States Army, has temporary quarters at the Sturtevant House, Major J. D. Bingham and Captain 8. ©, Lifford, of the United States Army, have quarters at the Glen- ham Hotel. A plumber at York, England, is imprisoned for three months, for driving a horse so hard that both his fore feet came off. . The Ear! of verby is to lay the foundation stone of Rey. Newman Hall’s new chapel, in Westminster Bridge road, London, which is to cost $150,000, Two Russian gentlemen are registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, as Prince V. Wiasemsky and Cap- tain Aux, of the Russian Imperial Guard of Hus- ears. Senator Sumner, who is greatly improved in health, made his firat evening visit since his latest attack, on the occasion of Congressman Hooper's dinner party, a few evenings since. Is Napoleon dead? A correspondent of the Paris Figaro says no, and that the person interred at Chislehurst is a counterfeit Emperor, while the real Bonaparte 18 travelling quietly through ¥rance, testing the political feelings of the people. Count Kreutz, Secretary of the Russian Legation; Marquis de Noailles, the French Ambassador; Tount Corti, the Italian Minister, and Mr. Steven- son, the Swedish Minister, have secured cottages and will spend the coming Summer at Newport. Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, who supplies the pulpit of the Universalist church in New Haven, Comn., celebrated her fortieth birthday on Tuesday even- ing last. She received numerous presents from the members, a rdil of greenbacks being the mest ser- viceable. Rey. J. Fletcher Williams, of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South, has been convicted of conduct unbecoming a parson, before a church council in Marion county, Kentucky, and expelled from the fold. The principal witness against him was a young girl. One of the Iowa Congressmen having spent his $5,000 back grab, and ascertaining tnat he has become in consequence very unpopular among his constituents, is ndw shinning around with the hope of borrowing the amount to enable him to return the money and redeem his patriotism, Mr. Henry William Wilberforce, formerly a clergy- man of the English Church, who joined the Roman Catholic communion some twenty years ago, has just died. He was the youngest son of the great abolition leader, William Wilberforce, and brother of the present Bishop of Winchester. Chevalier Lobo, Minister of Portugal, left Wash- ington a few days ago in arrears to his landlady one month of occupancy and five of his contracted tenancy. This bit of gossip ia the scandal of the diplomatic corps, and the delinquency will be promptly represented to his government through our Minister. DEATH OF MAJOR CHANDLER, nen tT ES, WASHINGTON, May 12, 1873, Major John G. Chandler, @ well known and much respected regular army OfMicer, died yesterday morning in the St. Elizabette Hospftal for the Insane, where he had been for several months. John G, Chandler was a native of Massa- chusetts, and graduated at the Military Academy. In July, 1853, he was brevetted second lieutenant in the Third artillery, and was promoted to first lieutenant of the same command in May, 1856. He served on frontier duty in Utah and California in 1845-'55. He was with the “yo River expedition and was engaged in several skirmishes against the Oregon Indians. He was engaged in the disturbances in Kansas in 1837. During the rebellion he was Chief Quartermaster of the De- partment of West Virginia, and was engaged in action at Carnifex Ferry in 1861, at the battle of ‘Shiloh in 1862 and at the battle of Perryville; was | Ae at the siege of Port lindson; with the Sa- ine Pass expedition in 1863; with the Red River expedition, and took part in the battle of Mans- fteld; also at the battle of Pleasant Hill and the operations of the Thirteenth army corps in Texas in 1864. In March, 1865, he was promoted to brevet colonel for ‘faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion.’ Subsequently he served in Ree Departments of the Gulf and akota. juelling WEATHER REPORT. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGTON, D. C., May 13—1 A. M. Probabilities. For the Middle States and lower lakes falling barometer, southerly and southwesterly winds, followed by low temperature, partly cloudy weather and occasional local rain; for New England and Canada falling barometer, southwesterly winds, in- ereasing cloudiness and possibly rain; for the Gulf and South Atlantic States southerly and southwesterly winds, rising temperature and partly cloudy weather; for the Northwest and up- per lakes, and thence to Kentucky and Missouri, northeasterly to northwesterly winds, falling tem- perature, clearing and clear weather. Cautionary signa!s continue at Duluth, Chicago, Milwaukee and Grand Haven, Reports are missing from west of the Mississippi. WAR DEPARTMENT, } The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, Herat Buitaing:— 1872, 1873, 1872. 1873. S wees 18 66 3 A.M. 57-63) -8:30 P. M. 6 . 7 68 9 69 5T ise 6355 Average temperature yesterday... BT Average temperature for corresponding date IASt Year ..ee esses : 68% THE SPORTSMAN'S CLUB. Last evening the Sportsman's Club, of this city, met at the residence of Mr. Clinton Gilbert, 20 West Tenth street. In the absence of the President of the association, Mr. Royal Phelps, who was un- avoidadly detained by reason of illness im his family, the Vice President, Mr. Robert B. Roose- veit, acted as Chairman, and Mr. Wight, acting as Secretary, read the minutes of the meeting. Mr. Gilbert with the courtesy and kindness pos- sessed by him, offered every hospitality as a host in his own mansion. Among the gentlemen present were Messrs. Roosevelt, Gilbert, Colonel Alfred Wag. staf, Dr. Green, Messrs. Hays, Wight, Meyer, White- head, Curphey, Hilmers, Holberton, W. C. Barrett, and others, It was the last meeting of the season, and a private one, The next meeting will be held at the residence of Mr. Royal Pheips in November, to which month the meeting was adjourned. It is the custom of these gentiemen te meet monthly, at the residence o: one of their members, and the ‘proceedings jast night indicated that they will, as in honor bound, send five delegates to the Sportsman’s Con- vention, Several matters were discussed in relation to the fin which were to be recovered, and notably was one—that of Mr. Rob- ert P. Now —Wwhom the law had assessed to the extent of Mr. W. C. Barrett stated that he im, and he asked the club to accept the fine from Mr. Nooney. On metion of the Chal this was accepted, Several papers were read, and at the conclusion Mr, Gilbert, the host, oifered to his guests @ most elegant dinner, flanked with the choicest wines, at which twenty gentlemen sat down, After theyviands had been attended to— during which time there were libations offered to a Most gallant sugar-cured ham—toasts were made and responded to by Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Meyer, who spoke Ina “symbolical’ manner; by Col. Wagstaff, Dr. Green, © outhside’ fame; Mr. Wight, who related hia misfortunes; Mr, Whitchead, whordelt- catoly touched on the ‘“Pactic Slope,” and other gentlemen, The occasion was marked by that get Uemanly feeling and enjoyment which. alwi mark the career of amateur ee a Mr. d. Flies was clegted a member of the clu! od AMUSEMENTS, —_—--_— Miss Neilson at Booth’s—‘Amy Robeart.* Nothing which has been produced on the New York stage in a long time has #0 thoroughly illus- trated the want of American comedy as “Amy , Robsart,” played at Booth’s Theatre last night for the first time in this country. Some very good acting and a few telling situations made the piece ‘@ success—as the times go, an unusual success—but much of the piece, netably the whole of the act, was not at all in sympathy with the tastes of the people who saw the play. It is unnecessary to relate the plot, for all readers of English litera- ture know the story of “Kenilworth” by heurt,and it is equally unnecessary to lament the introduc- tion of Queen Elizabeth and her Court as the infe- rior characters in a play where the daughter of Sir Hugh Robsart is the heroine. If it were the purpose of such plays to ridicule monarchy and to show that the devotion and constancy of a woman's heart are preferable even to loyalty to a selfish Queen, no better plan could be found to bring the time-honored in- stitutions of England into disrepute. At least such were the tendencies of the representation last uight, Miss Bella Pateman, ar Queen Elizabeth, had a part far beyond her powers as an actress, which orought her art into painful contrast with the yamerml and finished conception of Miss Neilson’s my Robsart. We have seen this distinguished actress in nothing more admirably suited to her genius than in her — represen- this unfortunate, I and discarded creature of Sir Walter Scott’ tion, In all respects she reaches the sta her fame in the part. In the scene with Varney in the drat act, where he reveals, though dimly, the villanies he conten ee, she exhibits the beauty and force and strength of trae womanhood. The meeting with Leicester was also admir- ably done, for it showed love and constancy with- out degenerating into sentiment. if Amy Robsart had been a foolish and sentimental have deplored the iack of “gush” which Miss Neilson generally shows tn mere sentiment, as, for instance, uline,. in “The Lady of Lyons; but here she had Somcthing nobler to portray—a wife who regarded her own honor as more sacred than her lord’s ambition—and it was nobly por- trayed, The interviews with the Queen in the third act and with Leicester and Varney were also exquisite bits of art. Nothing could be more ime passioned or suggestive than her invocation of the rotection of Elizabeth, the scene being so power ly done as even to elevate Miss Pateman’s Qui far above her usual level. The wiiely tenderness for Leicester and the womanly detestation of Var- ney were also forcibly exhibited. The ol scene of the play, where Varney drags her from Mervyn’s power, but mects the Cg on the draw he had _ designed her, was @ good sensational point in a drama where the excitement of the audience had been wrought sufficiently high for the fearful cli- max. Mr. Bangs, as the Earl of Leicester, played with evenness and good taste, but failed inmaking the part the strong and powerful creation it may we should and ‘heart’? arts of become. Mr, ell Warner's Varney im the first het showed mar races of a bad Bschool of acting, bit he gré better as the play proceeded, and after a few days the part will meliow into a very good performance. Mr. Robert Pateman as Mike Lambourne, Mr, N. W. Decker as ‘Tressjlian, Mr. Sol Smith as Wayland Smith and Mr, 8, W. Glenn as Tony Foster were allde- serving ofa word of recognition. Sir Walter Raleigh was very Gat because nobody ever sup) Sir Walter could have been so awkward. and the pellet though well enough in its way, would not fatisfy those patrons of art who regard this as the first merit ofa dramatic picture. The piece promises: to have 9 good long run. The house was large and enthusiastic, and Miss Neilson was repeatedly called before the curtain. Raubinstein’s Piano Recitals. Yesterday afternoon, at Steinway Hall, before & very large audience—principally composed of ladies—the great Russian pianist commenced a series of farewell recitals of such a gigantic char- acter as regards the multiplicity and variety of the selections that he seems determined to leave the impress of his genius on the memory of the, American public in imperishable lines, For two hours the wonderful virjuoso brought the audience back to the days of Bach, Handel, Scarlatti and Mozart, and held them by the vividness of his illustrations until the close of & performance which, in less experienced hands, would prove intolerable, First came a shoal of preludes and fugues from “Le Clavecin bien empery and for a time it seemed as if e Would go through the entire forty-eight num- bers of the series. Next followed a lively “gigue,’” which would set an “Arrah-na-pogue’s”’ head crazy, many an eminent performer. Passing from the works of the great Bach to those pf his scarcely less accomplished son, Philip Emmanuel, the pianist ave a rondo by the latter, who first concetyed the idea of making the hurpsichord sing. Then the colossus of choral music was introduced as a piano writer. Handel's air and variations in D minor, a gigue and air and variations in E major, gave ap intelligible idea of the style of one who was as re- nowned a periormer on the harpsichord as on the organ. Old Father Haydn was represented by @ delightful “Andante” with variations, Then came the real creator of the advanced school of the harpsichord, Domenico Scarlatti, the man who first broke through old established rules to produce new and bold effects. The cat’s fugue and a sonata represented Scarlatti, Mozart closed the honored line of old masters with a fantasia in ( minor, @ gigue, a rondo, and an oriental waif from the A Inajor sonata. With the immortal composer of “Don Giovanni” piano music assumed a new form, and the fertility of his genius was shown no less im this direction than in his orchestral and vocal works. At the second recital, which takes place on Wednesday afternoon, Rubinstein will play six sonatas by Beethoven. Schubert, Weber and Men- delssohn will be illustrated on Friday afternoon, and in the evening, at Mile. Liebhardt’s benefit, | Schumann’s “Andante” and variations, for two | ianos, will be given by Rubinstein and Miss mae jig. After the recital yesterday the great phony, which was performed there last night. ART MATTERS. Antiques at Clinton Hall. A collocation of rare antiquities was to be seen yesterday at the Clinton Hall salesroom and will ‘remain on view during the week, the evenings of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, however, beiigap- plied to its public disposal. They lately constituted a private cabinet, owned by a gentleman of this city, and collected in Europe during an experience of many years. They consist of stone cameos and intaglios, mounted and unmounted; miscellaneous: relics from churches and convents, purchased im Rome; armor and oil paintings, miniatures, painte ings on ivory and enamels on copper; coins, bronzes and medals, carvings in wood, engravings, shell cameos, sculpture in lava, coral and con- chilia, mosaics, pottery and sauffboxes and water color drawings and engravings on copper. , ‘the stone cameos and intaglios are prob- ably more numerous than those constituting any other collection hitherto seen in this coun- try. ‘Traces of Etruscan wor! nship are visible in many that are searcely less than three thousand years old, and which in this respect sustain comparison with some of the gems in the celebrated Cesnola disen- tombments. Of the one thousand engraved ston haif are Etruscan, Greek, Egyptian, Roman Persian, and many are of the Medici epoch. There are three iundred pieces ot jewelry, mostly pow About two thirds of these are fine cameos and intaglios, antique, medieval and modern, and have been heavily mounted in eighteen carat solid red gold. One-third uf the ringsare cameos and two-thirds intagiies. The convent relics, pur- chased during the suppression of the convents by Victor Emmanuel, inciude fine carvings in ivory, woooden crucifixes, ebony crosses of the Byzantine period, pictures in silk embroidery, ola panel carv— ings, holy water basins in enamelied pottery, and pre-Raphaelite paintings on canvas, wood, ivory and copper. The armor presents specimens of every countr: in Europe. Over one hun- dred il paintings are mostly representa- tive of -the pre-Raphaelite and Byzantine schools, and among an equal number of ivory miniatures are gems in the school of Peru- gino, and medieval copies of Guercino’s ‘Sibyl? We have heard the ename! watches described as beautiful abnormalities, and are scarcely disposed to criticise the epithet too severely. Two deserve particularization, one of them being inclosed in @ spherical eighteen carat gold case, and presenting the enamel of the last century; the other ts of more recent date, but encased with equal richness, The coins, medals and bronzes consist of several hun- dred pieces—examples of the early Roman, Greek and Egyptian styles, Grotesque and religious sub- jects of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, are represented in the antique chests and the carvings in wood. Lastiy, sixteen pieces of heavy copper, from ten to twenty inches long, are covered with fine engravings, among which are Titian’s “Venus” and “Napoleon [. blessed by Pius VIL,” containing nearly thirty portraits ot person- ages in the suite of the great French Emperor. Avery’s Sale To-Night. To-night is the first of the sale of Mr. S. Pv Avery's. fine collection of oil paintings, to which attentiom was asked yesterday. The affair will come of at the Somerville Art Gallery, and be concluded to- morrow evening. The Archiepiscopai cross, which was manus factured in Paris and supposed to have been lost in the shipment, was found in the bonded ware~ house at Jersey City and forwarded to His Grace Archbishop Kayley last Thursday by John Mesorley ‘ot this of a magnifice! city. It ficent piece wor ra Skah and 1, Hohest 4 iva guna’ ta we. | and the famous chromatic fantasia, the bugbear of | ! left for Philadelphia to conduct his “Ocean’ pam |