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The Life and Character of “the Modern Bayard.” He was geuerally an old halfpay officer or sergeant, and now and then it hap- penea that he could not even read. Mac- Mahon fought seven of these gentiemen in the course of five years, and it is on record that he , WIS CIVIL AND MILITARY CAREER. | was never once wounded, nor did he ever kill his { Panis, Nov. 17, 1873. ‘Marie E, Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, Mar- ‘quis of MacMahon and Duke of Magenta, who has been entrusted with the task of governing the ‘moat unruly people under heaven, is one of those providential men who arise from time to time and achieve immense popularity, rather through the -effeteness of their contemporaries than owing to any lustre of their own, He bas never been an ‘ambitious man, and he is not 4 great man, nor does he think himself one. Not by any means the ablest soldier in his country; devoid of political astute- ness, and, indeed, disliking politics; a sluggish thinker, chary of words, and, in public oratory, untrained and simple, he has yet, out of homely qualities which sprightlier runnérs in the race of life despise, earned a share of renown, public esteem and love ‘such as falls to few of those who ardently covet it. . Fortune ‘takes a humorous pleasure in thus petting those ‘who never seek her favors. If MacMahon were asked to what good hazards he owed his rise he, of all men, would be most puzzlea to teil; put this is the very reason why he has risen, He is aman who has all along done his duty to the best of his might and unbraggingly. While others bustled, fussed and blew their own trumpets he obeyed orders. But, somehow, the work he did was better than other men’s; so that those who employed him g0t to feel that he could be relied on like a plain, Strong staff. Brave and obedient as a soldier, he ‘was in private life amiable, honest and true. His tongue never slandered, his heart was not man. He was singularly expert in the art of pinking his adversary in the fleshy part of the right arm, just above the elbow, inflicting a wound that was not dangerous, but which obliged his adver- sary to drop his fol! like @ hot coal, and to keep his arm ina sling for six weeks, This thrust got to be known as “la botte MacMahon,” and it earned the young officer many encomiums, for which he little cared, being in his heart averse to duel- ling. In 1829, being then 21, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and in 1830 he was sent at his own request to take part in the expedition against the Dey of Algiers, This expedition was short and brilliant, and Lieutenant MacMahon much distin- guished himself in it by his coolness under fire and by his steady zeal. But just after Algiers had fallen the news arrived that the revolution of July had taken place, and that Charles X. had been de~ throned and driven into exile. This was a heavy blow to the MacMahons, and if the young Count Maurice had been but a mere carpet soldier his prospects of advancement would then have ended. As it was, , THE MARQUIS OP MACMAHON FORFEITED HIS PRER- Age by refusing to swear the oath of allegiance to the new King, Louis Philippe. He advised his son, however, to remain in the army, and Maurice did so. He disliked the new régime, and cherished an ardent hope that. it would soon collapse, being well resolved in such an event to lend his sword in re- storing him whom he conceived to be the only rightful sovereign of France. But meanwhile he volunteered for active service wherever it was envious; but whenever he could say or doa kind.| to be found, his object being to keep aloof from the ‘thing he gladly did so; and it is by such gifts that @ man knits himself to the affections of wife, chil- ‘dren, friends and dependants in ties not to be bro- ken. MacMahon was rightly called by the Count of Ohambord “the Modern Bayard,’ for he is, like Bayard, ‘‘sans peur et sans reproche.”” The roll of ‘his great deeds may pe small, but the page that ‘would chronicle his unworthy acts isa blank. In . 6 Word, it is not so much on account of the glow- ing things that can be said in his favor tnat Mac- ‘Mahon is pre-eminent; it is because there is abso- Tutely nothing to say against him. MACMAHON’S BOYHOOD. * He was born in 1808, of a family that had emi- . grated from Ireland in 1686, after sacrificing all tueir Property to the cause of the Scuarts. Settled in Bur- gundy the MacMahons rebuilt their fortunes, inter- married with the French nobility and became, in eourse of time, rich and influential landowners. Maurice de MacMahon’s great-grandfather was + feated Count by Louis XV., and his father, who ‘was the intimate friend of the Count d’artois, sfterwards Charles X., was raised to the French House of Peers in 1517 by the title of Marquis. This Marquis of MacMahon was in all pointsa ‘nobleman of the old school. He abhorred liberals, Protestants and Jews with an equal and pious hate; he talked of the Revolution and its “rights of Man” only with contempt, and the sum and sub- »gtanoe of his political opinions were to be always royalist and Catholic, and nothing more. In ‘these views he educated -his son, and he also taught him to be a keen sportsman, for, like his foyal friend Charles, who split his time in un- «@qual parts between mass and the hunting field, the Marquis of MacMahon loved nothing so well as to chase wild boars and deer, refreshing himself efter his efforts with powerful stoops of that Bur- .gundy vintage which cheers, strengthens and paints the nose red, It is notoften thata French ‘boy is brought up amid field sports, for the Revolu- 5 tion, by morselling ali tne lands of the no- “bility, destroyed the great preserves and deer forests. But the MacMahon estates had, fortunately, escaped the common .lot, Young MacMahon ‘ learned to ride before most other French boys can Tead, and to shoot long belore he could spell prop- -erly. Yet was his education not neglected, for he ‘had a Jesuit tutor, and it Inckily happened that this priest had few of the cunning 1ustincts for ‘whioh the Order of Jesus ts notorious, but wasa ‘thorough Christian and gentleman. He did not teach his pupil much mathematics or science, for. he knew little; but he groumded him fairly in Latin, gave him a smattering of history ana Eng- lish, and sent him to the military school of St. Cyr @t the age of 17, neithér more’ nor less learned ‘than most otner young noblemen of his time. This was in the year 1825; Charles xX. had just ascended the tnrone, and the Bourbon @ynasty seemed so firmly established ‘that all who knew of the warm friendship existing between the Marquis of MacMahon and the King prophesied for the young Count Maurice the most brilliant destinies. It was felt tnat, whether the boy worked or not, his career lay smooth and pros- perous before him; he wonld be given a commis- sion in the Royal Guard, obtain a court sinecure, ‘be sent.as diplomatic attaché on some special mts- sion, and in due time succeed his father in the House of Peers and probably be promoted to a -dukedom. However, the Count. did work, and, to the great surprise of his companions, he passed the inal examination of St. Cyr, the seventeenth out of 150, and, being thus classed among the first 20, ‘was qualified for a staf appointment. HR RNTERS THE ARMY. ‘He waa then a straight, tal! boy of 19, with wide | ‘Due eyes, light-Naxen hair and a demeanor some. ‘what solemn and thonghtinl, Little given to dis- sipation, he preferred riding and the manly sports | -Of his boyhood to. the gambling, bard drinking and ‘frivolous gailantries in which mosi of his brother officers indulged ; but, on the other hand, he was a Moted and skilfu) duellist, This was one of the Mecéssities of his position, An officer who went much to court and had personal reasons for being attached to the King could not im those days _ Stand by indiverent whilst the royal family were assailed by liberal journalists and by Bona- partist officers. of Napoleon's ‘ old army. MacMahon made point of attending the Oaié Valois, in the street of that Bame, which was then the headquarters of royalist Moers, and there ducis were arranged almost every night as coolly as pigeon matches would be fn these our times. It was the custom for the liberal papers to be placed in a heap on the. cen- * tral table, At five o'clock oMcers dropped in, and St six, when the room was fall, the papers would be read alond, and if one of them contdined any. thing offensive to the King the officers drew lots among koagked to who should go and challenge court, In 1832 he accompanied the French army to the siege of Antwerp as aide-de-camp to General Achard, and obtatned his captaincy. In the follow- ing year he set of for Algiers again, and battled unceasingly against the Arabs till 1837, when he was wounded at the siege of Constantine and decorated with the Legion of Honor. By that time his reputation for quiet, unobtrusive bravery was so well established that an offer was made him of a postat court with the rank of King’s aide-de- camp; bat de declined it, and, after three years’ more tough and wearisome campaigning, hé ex- changed his place on the staf for the rank of major in a line regiment, and in 1842 exchanged again into the Foreign Legion, with a lieutenant colonel’s epaulet. Thrown very much by the chances of camp iife into the society of the Orleans princes, MacMahon grew to like them, and in 1845 he so far relaxed his hostility to Louis Philippe as to re- turn to France as Colonel of the Forty-first foot aud to swear the oath of fealty which was then required of all officers m command of regiments. Matters had much changed since MacMahon had last been quartered on Frencb soil. In 1845 Louis Philippe looked as securely seated on his throne as Charles X. did in 1825, and the gallant Marquis (for his father had recently died) was given to understand® that if he would only show himself at court he might hope in the course of a few years to take his seatin the House of Life-Peers which had suc- ceeded the old hereditary Chamber. But Mac- Mahon'’s loyalty did not go the length of seeking political honors. He accepted military promotion because rewards of this sort re- quired no forma) surrender of his private opinions, the oath he had sworn pledging him simply not to bear arme against the King. He was still a le- gitimist, however, and when Louis Philippe fell, in 1848, he was sincerely pleased, though he sympa- thized with the Orleans princes, and wrote to the Duke of Aumale a frank and manly letter of con- dolence. P THE NEW REPUBLIC AT ONCE PROMOTED MACMAHON to major general’s rank. He was too efficient and honorable an officer to be passed over, and the republican government had hoped to win him over to their side; but in this they were mistaken. Mac- Mahon promised to obey the established govern_ ment of his country, whatever it should be; but his dislike for republicanism was too deep-rooted to be plucked out by honors, however flattering, and until the coup d'état of 1851 he lived in the daily hope that Henri V. would enter France, be ac- claimed by the National Assembly and resume the reins of power which had falien from his grand- father’s hands in 1830. The restoration of the Second Empire seemed to him to cut down all such hopes forever, and accordingly the Marquis of MacMahon gave in his sincere allegiance to Napo- leon IIL, and was recompensed with the grade of lieutenant general. Comparatively young at this date, being only 42, rich, well born and much liked by his brother officers, the Marquis of MacMahon was just such a soldier as the Emperor liked to have about him. He well knew that Mao- Mahon served the Empire rather from ne- cessity than from love; rather because he deemed it the only form of government possible than be- cause the name of Napoleon had any great attrac- tions for him; but the Emperor did not dislike legitimists. A splendid marriage which General MacMahon made in 1853 with the daughter of the royalist Duke de Castries further won him the good opinions of the Emperor, and the Empress Eugénie laid herself out to be especiatly gracious to the young Marchioness whenever the occasion offered itself, As for MacMahon himself, the Em- press liked him from the first, and one day said aloud at court, “Fle has the eyes of an honest man, and wili never betray a tryst,” MACMAHON IN THE ORIMBA AND ITALY. But the war with Russia was hurrying on apace, and before his honeymoon year was over General MacMahon was sent to the Crimea. In command of a division at the battles of Aima and Inkermann he behaved with his usual oool intrepidity, and when Marshal Canrobert was recalled from betore Sebastopol, owing to a few rash blunders he had committed, MacMahon was appointed next in com- mand to General Bosquet, who superseded Can- robert; and to him fell the onerous duty of leading the assault against the formidable Malakor fort, which was the principal key to the Russian position, For such work MacMahon was admi- rably fitted. Not imaginative enough for a Strategist, he was perfectly at home when ever tt became a question of carrying some fixed position by sheer dint of bravery and patience, When Sebastopol fell and peace was declared General MacMahon was appointed a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and received the Grand Cross of the Bath from-Qneen Victoria. In 1856 he wes far- ther raised to the imperial Senate, a disunotion which carried with {t a salary of $0,000 & year. ‘Two years after this MacMahon distinguished him- self by an act of political honesty which well-nigh wrecked all his future prospects, and which the Emperor never wholly forgave. After the attempt Of Orsini on Napoleon’s life in 1858 a Draconian bill was introduced tn the Senate, providing for the arbitrary arrest and transportation without judg- ment of suspected persons, MacMahon conceived this bill to be iniquitous, and he voted against it, though he was the only Senator who had the patri- otic courage todo so. Being told that the Em- peror was seriously displeased with him, he an- Swered nobly, “I am sorry, then, for the Em- peror;” and this reply being reported at the Tui- leries, Napoleon frowned from that day on Mac- Mahon, and for the next twelvemonth never spoke to him at court, In 1869, however, the Italian war broke out, and the clever movement by which General MacMahon saved the French army at Ma- genta obliged the Emperor to give him a conspicu- ous reward, There is no doubt that if MacMahon had not taken it upon himself to come without orders to the rescue of the Imperial Guards, whom Na- Poleon had tmprudently jeopardized by pitting them against a hostile force tnree times superior to them, the French army would have sustained @ crushing defeat and probably the Empire itself would have collapsed, MacMahon was created Field Marshal and Duke of Magenta; but it was well said at the time that it was not the Emperor who bestowed these distinctions; they were con- ferred on the conquering General by the unanl- mons clamor of the French army. ° MAOMAHON DISTRUSTRD BY THE EMPEROR. Tt is no secret that after the Italian war Napoleon began to look upon MacMahon with mistrust. The Marshal was too popular and too independent to please a sovereign who expected all bis servants to be absoiutely submissive. Be- sides, the Emperor had a weakness, which was to consider himself an able general, like his ancie, and MacMahon’s ascendency over the army was @ Matter of constant irritation and jealousy to him. He refused even to appoint MacMahon War Minister or to give him a command of troops in or near Paris; and in 1864 he sent him in virtual exile to Algeria as Governor General. There MacMahon remained till the outbreak of tne Prussian war, in 1870, governing the troublesome colony strictly and yet kindly; and there he might have ended his days if the Empire had sur- vived, However, the Empire started in 1870 on its road to ruin, and MacMahon was among the most active though unfortunate of its latter- day defenders. Of his defeat at Worth, Mont- méay, Beaumont, Douzy, Bazeilles, and, lastly, at Sedan, it is neediess to speak. MacMahon was everywhere overmatched, and the evidence elicited at the Bazaine trial proves that the meas- ures he himself took for the safety of his army were always overridden by the Emperor, No Frenchman layson MacMahon’s shoulders the re- sponsibility of his defeats, He Is called “Z'hérotque vainou ;’’ for it is known that he went into battle as a victim, and that he did his best against insu- perable odds. MacMahon’s defeat of the Com- mune put the crown to his prestige with the army, and he is now reaping tne fruits of a career which has been stainless from the first. He is justly re- garded as aman who loves his country with a devoted affection, and has served her through sun- shine and sorrow, nobly, heartily and disinter- estedly. ~ ASHANTEE. Severe Battl¢ and Ser:ous Loss of the British— Daring Action Against an English Forti- fled Position—Repulse of the Na- tives After a Protracted Fight. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. Lonpon, Dec. 1—1:30 A. M. Despatches from Cape Coast Castle report another engagement with the Ashantees near Dunquah, in which 40 Englishmen and native auxiliaries were killed and wounded. BOLD ACTION AGAINST AN ENGLISH FORTIFICATION. ‘The Asbantees boldly attacked the British posi- tion at Abbracrampta, but were driven off after an hour's fight, with a loss of 30 men, The British were protected by fleld works and their loss was trifing. SPAIN. Continued Bombardment of Cartagena—Sad Scenes in the City—Wounded Citi- zens on All Sides. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonvon, Dec. 1—GgA. M. Special despatches to the morning papers report the bombardment of Cartagena ‘continued on Saturday. ; There is great distress among the non-combat- ants, who have taken refuge in the suburbs Por- man and Escombreras. The city is filled with wounded. Seventeen houses and the principal tiospital have been destroyed, The government fleet remains inactive outside the harbor, "FRANCE. The Embassy to Washington—Resignation from Parliament, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Pants, Nov. 30, 1873. It is reported that the post of Minister at Wash- ington has been tendered to M. Fournier. The Marquis de Noailies will probably be trans- ferred to Rome if a change is made in the Legation at Washington. RESIGNATION PROM PARLIAMENT. General Ducrot has resigned his seat in the Assembly, MARSHAL BAZAINE. . TELEGRAM TO-THE NEW YORK HERALD, Panis, Nov. 50, 1873. In the Bazaine trial it ts expected that the ex- amination of witnesses will be concluded on Mon- day, and the prosecution will then address the Court. GERMANY. Manteuffel Engaged in a Duel—His Ad- versary Seriously Wounded. General ‘ TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, Nov. 30, 1873, General Manteufel and Count Goeber fought a duel yesterday. The affair grew out of a quarrel ‘Which began during the tate war. Ovunt Goeber was shot in the stomach aud seri- Oualy wounded, Havanese Opposition to the In- Strument of Peace. Castelar Besought (o Wait Until Ile Hears from Havana, GRANT MUST HAVE THE VIRGINIUS. Repetition of the Spanish Arguments Showing the Virginius’ Piracy. si SR The President’s Message and the Spanish Insult. —— Complimentary to Castelar and Kindly to the Young Republic,, THE WAR VOICE NOT YET STILLED. NEWS FROM CUBA. TELEGRAM TO THE EW YORK C2 Excitement on Receiving the News, but Order Prevailing—The Authorities and the People Dissatisfied with the Settle- ment—Fears of United States Aggres- ston. Havana, Nov. 30, 1873. The newa of the settlement of the Virginius question between Spain and the United States and the terms upon which it is based was received here with much excitement, but perfect order prevails among the people and the volunteers, WANTING CASTELAR TO WAIT. The chief authorities of the island, assembled in conference, have sent a manifesto to the Spanish government asking it to wait until it shall have received @ protocol about the Virginius case which shows the right of captare and the justice of the subsequent proceedings. POPULAR OPPOSITION TO THE SURRENDER. ‘The maks of the people oppose the surrender of the Virginius or any yielding to pretensions which may dishonor the Spanish flag, The tone of the press is tn accora with the popular feeling. PEARS OF AGGRESSION. Extraordinary means and resources are being created to resist any aggressive act, although thinking people do not expect it, knowing the prudence of the American government, THE NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Bat Little Excitement Over the Proto- col—Grant Resolved Upon the Suar- render of the Virginius--The Spanish Argument for the Vessel’s Piracy. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 1873. It is not expected that the House wilt complete tts organization to-morrow until late in the after- noon, and when the committee of both the Senate and the House walt upon the President to inform him om Congress is organized und ready for the transaction of business he will inform the commit- tee that he is not ready to communicate his Message, but will do so on Tuesday. THE PROTOCOL agreed upon yesterday by the Spanish Minister and Secretary Fish will be referred to at length, and attention called to the diplomatic correspondence which has taken place between Spain and the United States during the past year. It is not gen- erally known that one of the last acts of the Forty- second Congress was to request the President to transmit @ resolution to the American Minister at Madrid, with instructions to present the same to the Spanish government—a joint resolution that, in the name and behalf of the American people, the congratulations of Congress are tendered to the people of Spain upon their efforts to consoli- date the principles of universal liberty in a repub- lican form of government. This has been done, and the President will allude to the manner in which it was received by the Spanish government. The publication of ‘ THE POINTS OF THE PROTOCOL by the government has scarcely excited any inter- est in Washington. Those who have given it any consideration express the opinion that it will be subsantially @ victory for Spain, if she can show that the Virginius had denationalized herself und bad no right to carry the American flag. The State Department has become satisfied that the only offence committed by the Virginius was that of smuggling, ana the harshest words the Spanish government was entitled to pronounce against her was that she was a smuggler, That is not am offence against the neutrality laws or any Other laws of this country. The Virginius ran the risk of being captured as such in Spanish waters, but beyond Spain’s jurivdiction she was not subject to search or detention. If, however, the Spanish government can prove that THE VIRGINIUS PORFEITED HER RIGHT to the protection of the flag by violation of our Registry laws, in any way whatever, then she will have the satisfaction of knowing that our govern- ment has protected with the mavy a denationalized vessel and will proudly flaunt the fact to the civilized world that many months ago she asked the United States to investi- gate the character of the vessel and examine the proof which was then in her possession in support of the fact that the vessel had no claim whatever upon the United States. Of her ability todo this the Spanish Minister says there fs no doubt, and had it been attended to long ago the United States would have avoided the expenditure of millions of dol- lars and his government would have been spared a most serious strain upon her effort to firmly estab- lish @ republican form of government. SPAIN GENEROUSLY ADMITS THAT THE SEIZURE OF THB VESSEL WAS NOT LEGAL, but will plead in extenuation of the act the preser- vation of her jurisdiction in the Island of Cuba and the unwillingness of the United States govern- ment to apprehend the vessel for abusing our flag, ‘There is no pretence that there was a blockade, or any acknowledgment of an armed rebellion beyond the Spanish government, but it will be sbown that the Virginius was BOUGHT BY THR CUBAN JUNTA | through John F, Patterson tn New York for the very purpose she has been engaged in since she left that port, and that be was only her nominai owner, the real owners being the Cubans themselves; that she has been officered by foreigners, cleared under the Cuban fag from @ Venezuelan port, and has, 4n oumer- ous imetances, forfeited ail right to carry the Amerigan flag; that it was not until the United States government, throagh its oMicial representative, seemingly winked at the service the Virginius was giving to the insurrection; that she was judicially condemned as a pirate, not law- fully entitied to the protection of any government, and the officers of the Spanish navy ordered to ap- prehend her wherever found. ‘The Spanish government will not defend TAR SKIZURR ON THE HIGH SRAS except Ou that ground, @nd the commanding omicer of tie ‘Tornado, as well as General Burriel, will assert in self-defence that they only obeyed the orders of the Spanish government and did not act on their own responsibility. This is the position asserted by the Casino Espaiiol, and our govern- ment has fully anticipated opposition from the Havanese. Whatever Spain may hereafter prove, tho President will insist on the immediate delivery of the Virgintus at Key West, and SHOULD ANY IRRESPONSIBLE PERSONS SCUTTLE HER she will be raised at the expense of Spain, what- ever the cost, and brought to the United States, or should there be opposition te her delivery our naval force will assist the Spanish war vessels in escorting her out of Havana harbor. Neither will the President extend the time on account of any protests On the part of the colonial authorities. Our relations are ,with Madrid, not Havana and the Virginius. Though her record is worse than that of the Alabama, though she has a thousand times forfeited her protection to the American flag, the President in a determined man- ner says, if she has violated our laws, she shall be adjudged guilty by the government whose laws she has broken and whose flag she has abused, and not by @ foreign Power, What the President Will Say in His Message About Cuba. WASHINGTON, Nov, 30, 1873. Ic ts understood that the President’s Message, in dealing with the case of the Virginius and other pending questions growing out of the Cuban re- bellion, will accord nigh praise to the government of President Castelar for @ sincerity of mtention and readiness to fulfil obligations and promises to the United States that uas found no parallel in any of the preceding Cabinets at Madria. TOLERANT TOWARDS CASTELAR. The question as to whether the Spanish govern- ment will be able to carry out the several engage- ments into which it has entered tor the release of the embargoed estates, the surrender of the Vir- giniug and the extinction of slavery in Cuba the President is ‘not expected to discuss directly or at length, the policy of our gov- ernment being manifestly to avoid adding @ feather's weight to the embarrassments of Castelar in carrying into force projects and engagements which in part are as much mat- ters of self-conviction with the present Spanish rulers ag pledges exacted by our own government, In the words of a distinguished Senator, high in the confidence of the administration, “Having carried our main points our proper course now is to be patient, quiet and firm; and from the same source the ‘opinion comes that if we are to intervene actively in Cuba it will be more to our interest, and cer- tainly more to our honor, to appear there as the suppartors, or, at least, tiie respecters, of Castelar’s government and authority than as enemies thereof, even in a justifiable cause, as the gravest doubts are still entertained by our govern- ment of the ability of the present goverument of Spain to execute its engagements with the United States. STILL WARLIKE, The situation is still warlike, if the term can be applied te the probable necessity of making a hos- tile demonstration against the government of the Casino Espafiol to compel obedience to orders from Madrid and observance of the rights of our own government and citizens; but if Castelar maintaing himself at Madrid it is not ex- pected by the State Department that there will be insuperable difficulty im the way of our disciplining the insutordinate Spanish ele- ment in Cuba without rupture of peaceable rela- tions with the home government, or breach of the neutrality, so far preserved by our government, between Spain and her insurgent colonists. Now, however, that the whole question is opened up by the late outrage upon our flag in the case of the Virginius, your correspondent is as- sured that it is the President’s determination that there shall be no final settlement which does not insure the end of a barbarous war, which has long since exhausted the pattence of the gov- ernment and people of this country—the eradica- tion of slavery from the island of Cuba, and the es- tablishment or fair commercial relations between the United States and the Spanish West Indies. CONSEQUENCES. When these points are gained it becmes, in the view of the administration, a secondary question altogether where or by whom the sovereignty of the islands is exercised, a3 the loss of the siave labor and the monopoly of commerce would leave Spain nothing but the barren honor of possession. It is shrewdly intimated that Cuban independence and ultimate annexation to the United States might reasonably be expected to follow in due time and without violence or entangling alliance between ourselves and the partisans of free Cuba. A FIRST AND VITAL POINT OF SETTLEMENT. Nothing is better known here than the fact that the President regards the utter extinction of siavery in Cuba as the fundamental question to be decided between ourselves and the Casino Espafiol, and though the government of Castelar will not be unduly pushed to extremities on+ this point if it develops sufficient sustaining power in dealing with the other ques- tions at issue, its overthrow will, beyond question, be the signal to our government to take up an at- titude of compulsion, and to end at once and for- ever, the long catalogue of crimes and injuries against American interests and humanity itself. LONDON PRESS OPINION. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, The “Daily Telegraph” Considers that Peace Depends Upon the President's Message. Lonpon, Dec. 1—6 A, M. The Datly Telegraph says it would be premature to regard the Virginias difficulty as approaching a termination until the actual language used by President Grant on the subject in his Message to Congress 1s known. THE EPISCOPAL CHU: RCH. Views of the Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., on the Schismatic Movement of Bishop Cum- mins and His Supporters. Yesterday evening, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., discoursed to a large congregation on the subject now most mooted in the Episcopal Church—“In What Direction is the Revolution in the Protestant Episcopal Church Tending?’ He took his text from the twenty-eighth chapter of Acts, fourteenth verse— “Where we found brethren and were desired to tarry with them seven days, and so we went toward Rome,’’ The reverend Doctor described St. Paul’s journey to Rome and his tarrying at Pu- tioli, which thing, he said, was a parable, Putioli exists less to-day in the ruins which mark its ancient site than in the journeys of mind which prisoners of superstition make towards Rome. It is the very type of that midway delusion in which certain brethren tarry and to which they invite our submission, It has charms and attractions which cannot be scorned, It may (or a lifetime satisfy some dreamy souls; but he that is thorough and positive in temperament and purpose soon tires of its nnreality. Though it be in chains, yet, with all sincerity of conviction and conscience, he seeks his final residence and rest in Rome it- self, And that which is true of one may be the record of acompany. How large that proportion of our own household of iaith may be who have taken refuge in Putioli on their way to Rome is the question we have before us to-night. Last Sunday evening I asked the guestion—“Tlas the Protestant Episcopal Charch been revoiu- tionized?” and I suggested some facts and quota- tions as tending to prove vhe affirmative. These it is impossible to review now at any length. The principle of that revolution I stated tn Chilling- worth’s law, that he who would usurp absolute power over any people need not abrogate or dis- anonl the laws made to maintain the common liberty. If he can get the power and authority to interpret them as he pleases and ad to them what he pleases and to have tis interpretations and additions stand for laws; iC he can rule his people by his laws and his taws 0, his lawyers, that will be suM@cient. I admit, sai Dr. Tyng, that tie text of the Book of Common ir and the Thirty-nine Articles 1s unchanged, and et | maintain that by the invention and im- which would not ia a constitutional been accamolisned manner ofa new interpretation of both that are withous suudering bails Church | act that has ever tending is Ri ‘Yhe question, he said, was not one of the but of the present and of future. These lutionists are inconsistent in their ai ments; some ny amnity pery, others seeking union with Church. Whatever their differences to all critical observers that wards Rome, @ fiction which has no living reality. of this statement Dr. Tyng quoted fro; Quarterly Review, from the work of @ sermon by Dr. Ewer and other autho High Church and ritualistic parties, co Dix's catechism with the Catechism of fl of Rome, and quoting irem @ work enti! of the Altar.’ In conclusion he stated that eve: holds in any sense the fact of virtue post Succession Is a fair subject for the Church of Rome, He wiil be moved more and more towards it. ceremonial usages, sacramental language, sal mission and obedience now dominant in the Church, are evidences that the revolution is: cessful. ‘There is no reason why, by the ¢ bulsion of a very few noisy the position should not be taken of going bod over to Rome, “Is there,” he: asked, * reformation?” If by that was meant the ancy of Evangelical views he would answer Every memorial made by the evangelical p the House of Bishops and general convention been treated with contempt. hate the circumstances, it would be craven in cal men to give up. They must stand their gre and maintain a warm sympathy with all who compelled to go out. He spoke of Bishop Cum { as being perfectly justified in seceding, and had no hesitation in jag that if the action of six of ther — bishops, which was indicated in yesterday’s paper, be consummated, it would be the most infamous en perpetrated in any Oly called by the name of Jesus Christ, The assui 9 tion of such power by six bishops in the face written law—and that a law about which there no doubt in the Church—to depose Bishop Cum- mins would be @ most monstrous assumption of power, a culmination of a pian on the part of the bishops which would demand such @ protest as perhaps might stop this course of things from any furthée and more dangerous developments, WASHINGTON. — WAstinaTon, Nov. 30, 1873. Contested Congressional Elections. The following isa list of the contested in the present House of Representatives :— ARKANSAS.—First district—L. C. Gango Asa Hodges; Second district—M. L. Bell against | P. Snyder; Third district—T. M, Gunter against 1 W. Wilshire. sf eORGIA.—First district—Andrew Sloan st Morgan Bawiee fe district—Marion Betaune against Henry jarris, 43 InpiANA.—Nintn district—John P. ©. Shanks Nef. bi ih against John KENTUCKY.—Tenth district—Johnn M. Burns against John O, Young. ViRGINtA.—Fifth district—C, Y, Thomas agains: Alexander M. Davis. Urau.—George K. Maxwell against George Q Cannon. In addition to the above there are two sets off certificates {rom West Virginia and four from Louisiana, There are in the full House 293 mem~ bers. Deducting the 9 vacancies there are now : members, of whom 190 are said to be straitous republicans, 89 democrats and 4 liberals. A Cure for Financial Disturbances, . Senator Ferry, of Michigan, a member of the Committee on Finance, will propose @ remedy for’ the finanoial disturbance as follows:—Banking to be open and free toall; the maximum currency’ of the country, exclusive of the fractional, tober» $800, 000,000, issued by the’ government direct andi made lawful money, as the greenbacks are; imme- diate relief through use of the $44,000,000 reserve,, and $56,000,000 of new currency on the purchase of bonds, vhus making up the $800,000,000, and convertible into currency bonds bearing 3 65-100 per cent interest, récon. vertible into cufrency on demand; bonds not to be taxable; national currency to be exchanged for new lawful money currency at the convenience of the government, within such practicable periods as the Secretary of the Treasury may designates the fractional currency to be substituted with sil- ver, and the fractional currency, ag fast as so Tm — deemed, to be destroyed. A New Rule Applicable to Investiga= tions, It 13 understood the Hon. B. F. Butler will intro- duce a resolution in the House to-morrow embody~ ing a new rule that in all cases of applications oF requests for investigations the statements of par- ties making such application shall first be referre@ to some appropriate committee, who will deter- mine whether there are suficient grounds for ime vestigation or not. SINGULAR DEATH. Last evening an unknown woman entered the, confectionery store of L, Long, No. 8 avenue A, and asked the proprietor if he would call im a priest. She had scarcely finished the senteno@ — when she fell on the floor apparently asifin @ fit. Mr. Long went to the Seventeenth precinct notified Captain Walsh, who sent Roundsmam Flanagan and some officers to convey her to the, station house. Police Surgeon M was tor, but before he had arrived the uni woman expired. She was about 45 years of five feet four inches in height; stoutly f brown hair, mixed with gray; gray eyes; di ina black alpaca dress trimmed with jet buttonss: black merino shawl, crape hood, woollen one gray and one brown morocco person a pair of prayer beads and @ attached were found; one white pocket chief and three small keys. The will be to the Morgue and the Coroner will be notified hold an inquest to-day. FIRE AT NEWARK, bet Shortly alter eight o'clock last evening ee broke out at the enamelled cloth factory of J. Aschenbach, on Chariton street, Newark. loss Will probably amount to. from $5,000 At nine o'clock a general alarm was sounde: EUROPEAN MARKETS. Perrorevw Manker.—Axtwerr, Nov. 20-—Petrol closed at 8244 francs for fine pale. Died. 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