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4 BENJAMIN. DISRAELL Sa The Briiish Premier---Personal Appearance, Parentage and Parliamentary Career. The Israelite Exodus from Spain Under the Inquisition. HIS TILT WITH O°CONNELL, MM ie Qhancellor of the Exchequer, Premier, Leader of the Opposition and Forming a Ministry. The political aspect of affairs tn England has for some months past made it more than probaple “that the reins of power would soon fall from the hands of Mr. Gladstone. In che hope of averting the Ministerial catastrophe he advised the Quecn to dissolve Parliament, His appeal to the people has been uusuccessiul, and by command of the Crown, in accordance with the will of the nanon, Its great political antagonist, Benjamin Distuell, is at this Moment engaged to constructing a Cabi- net for Great Britain. The battie having been fought and iost by Mr. Gladstone, tt is under these circumstances that Mr. Disraeli again triampnantly | realizes his prophesy that the House of Commons “would hear him,’ for he wiil this time return not only to ofice, but accede to ministerial power. DISRARLI's APPEARANCE—SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, ‘This great conservative leader, in whose hands have been reposed all the matertal interests of the Chureh and aristocracy, is anything but the type of an Engitshman. He is @ tall and rather broad shouldered man—though otherwise not of stout bulld—with a slight swop of a very sphinx-like head, which is surrounded by dark and eli-like locks; a sallow complexion and a dreamy expres- sion; @ long and shaven upper lip, closely shaven whiskers, and an imperial. His walk is more like that of a dancing master than of a genuine Jonn Bull, his toes evidently doing much more work than his heels, A hearty, joyous laugh from him would seem to be impossible; but there is frequently a very sardonic smile upon the face of this master® ofirony. Whatever may ve his religious views— and they appear by some of his novels to be a sin- gular mixture of Christianity and Judaism—he is the first of the Hebrew race who has attained the proud position of Premier .of England, and he is equally proud of the favored people from whom he traces a distinguished lineage. Alvhough in his sixty-minth year, Disraeli shows no signs of senility, and could wear out many & much younger man in hours of oratorical effort, or in watching the (nterests of the party he presides over, even from the foremost opposition bench of the House of Vommons. The exact place of Mr. Disraeli’s birth is involved (2 some obscurity, aluhough it is certain that he Urst saw the light in the Enghsh metropolts. His lmeal ancestors were turned out of Spain when Torgaemada and the Inquisition swept that country of Jews and Moors, at which time they found rétage on the more hospitable shores of the Venetian Republic. The first migration of any part of the family into Engiand was in 1748, when the ex-Premier’s grandfather came from Venice and established himself in trade in that country. de married a lady of his own race ana faith, and their only child, Isaac, who was born at Enfield m 1766, first made the mame of Disraeli re- owned in the paths of literature. Despising the arudgery of a counting room im Amsterdam, he teturned to England at the age of fifteen, an srdent disciple of Ronsseau, and lived afterwards slone with his books, a proiessed enemy of com" merce as @ vocation, and on terms with all the iterary men of the day, leaving the ‘Curiosities of Literature” as the permanent memorial of his steady and application. Although himseif so de- voted to a lettered life, he resisted his eldest son Benjamin’s uncontrollable lterary aspirations, snd placed bim in an attorney’s office in the Old Jewry, but was at length induced to release him Tom the irksome ietters of the legal profession. The younger Disraeli now revelled in the produc- aon of fugitive pieces and in preparations for a ife of fame ior some years, until, at the age of twenty, he burst upon the world in his FIRST AND BRILLIANT NOVEL of Engrish society, “Vivian Grey,’ which was said by the critics of the period to have been read by everyboay west of Portiand place. Sattrizing ail the most notabie celebrities of the day, this novel, which he himself m advanced years described as “‘as hot and burried a sketch as ever was penned,” raised him at once to the first rank of fashionable novelists, and, as the Known author of this most popular work of the period, he formed the personal intimacy of tne Countess of Blessington and the rest of the high “ton” of English society, He is thus described at this period in a work called “Novels and Novelists:—“His ringlets of silken plack hair, his flashing eyes, mis effemi- Bate and jisping voice, bis dresscoat of biack velvet, lined with white satin; bis white kid gioves, with his wrists surrounded bya long, hanging fringe of black silk, and bis tvory cane, of which the handle, tniaid with gold, was relievea by more black silk in the shape of a tassel. Every one laughed at him for being affected; but the women Geciared that his was an affectation of the best style, and they feit his personai vanity was a flattering homage to sheir most notorious weak- ness. Such was the periumed boy-exquisite who forced his way into the saloons of peeresses. Men held him in light esteem; but observant women, who, as @ rule, are More discerning jndges of young men than themselves, prophesied t) he would live to be a great man.” TRAVEL TO THE ORIENT. Having previously visited France, Italy and Germany, Disraeli now made an extended tour of Eastern travel; and, among other adventures and perils, nearly risked his life in an attempt to pene- trate the Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem. A CANDIDATE POR PARLIAMENT. During bis absence he forwarded to nis pub- Ushers the copy of “The Young Duke” and “von- tarini Fleming.” In 1831, during tne last stage of the struggle for Parliamentary reform, he returned to Bngiand, and then made his first assay to get into the House of Commons as candidate for the borough of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire. He was at that time backed by Hume and O'Connell, and went in for the radica) votes, although bis po- ittieal creed was of a singularly indefinite and am- biguoas complexion. He was deieated, but not long afterwards issued an address to the electors of Margiebone, to whom he commended bimseli as @man who had siready iought the battles of the people, and as an advocate of triennial Parliaments and the ballot, In other respects he was jast splitting from the party, and in 1836 be ap- Pr at Taunton a@ @ supporter of Sir Kobert eel and im@true blue tory colors, but he was again deieated; and while ingeniously detending his apostacy he made a fierce ONSLAUGHT UPON O'CONNELL, whom he tized a8 an “incendiary,” a “traitor” a ip action and word,” an out- barat which cost him the following retaliation :— THS IRISH REPL’ In one of his reguiar Conciliation Hall addresses, O'Connell said ;— “There is @ habit of underrating that great and oppressed nation, the Jews, Tuey are cruelly per- secuted by people calling shemseives Obristians. I have the bappiness to be acquainted with some Jewish jamilies in London, and among them more accomplished ladies, or more humane, cordiak high- mil Or better educated gentiemen I have never met. It is not to be supposed, then, that when I speak of Disraeli as a Jew |’ mean to tarmsh him om that account, They were once the chosen people of God, There were miscreants among the also, and it must certainly bays beon tromtone of these that Mr. Disraeli deseended, He possesses Just the lities of the impeni thief on the cross, whose pame, | verily believe, been Disraeli. For aught | Enow, the present Dis raell 18 descended from him, ana with the impres- Sio0 that he is, | now iorgive the heir-at-law of the blasphemous thief who died upon the cross,” DISRABLI RETALIATED this Gagellation in the columns of Times 10 a letter, in which le said eng Skeletons canvassed for me; and Crossbones was not blazoned on my danners. MY pecuniary resources, too, were limite I am those public bey not cone ot gars We see awarming, with tie the London 0 threaten- @ deatn’s head NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY the English aristocracy. it is stated that he is & man who has never been overmindiul of kind- | much jess significant brought on by Sir nesses shown him in this struggling period of bis | John Bowring with the e. of 0! for very hie, An instance wilt we have had Revaarariva bead a as Her J to us by the disappointed friend | he not been uasell, G novelist and aspiring states- | Commiasioner Yen, the imperial man had m: the acquaintance of a Bond street | representative of the uear relative of tne solar Cendeaeean, who united Big Ry Usoresure a ; System, ” the desire 40 be & poot w sale of hosiery, THE ZENITH, hnafuch necktice Bnd gloves as would Atingy | AN this timo ‘Disrnelte, sear was work! become the companion ol the Countess of Biess- quietly in the ascendant, and by the fortune ington, He had accum & Weil-selected and litical warfare he returned to office as Chancel- costy library, and was at that time in the lorof the Exchequer under Lord Derby's second aMuent condition of successiul western , Premiership, in 1 * tradesman 10 Londo! ‘the future Premier not | LOUIS NAPOLEON. only had acarte blanche w regard his study as bis At the bouse o! Lady Blessington Disraeli had, own, and, to use his own army “potter Over’ bis | some filteen years before, when he was a refugee valuable volumes, but manage jo to get into | in England, made the intimacy oi that marvellous those books of the poeti¢ hosier, which were man of destiny, ruled with perpendicular columns’ im red ink. singular comcidence the now Some years since, when Disraeli was for a brief France became at this time the ect time Premier, this poor man jailed in business; st: merge i A of hia reaocession to office. The and, thinking of his now great and mighty friend, | attempt of Felice Orstni to assassinate Napoleon intervie wer in the lobby of the House by a plot concocted on mee soil gave rise to a of Commons for the purpose of asking request—which rather took the form of a demand— him for his standing account of old date, that the law against the omfence of conspiring to amounting to something tess than $500, {ne mem- | murder a ioreign potentate snould be changed to | make it a (felony instead of a misdemeanor, such not only came By rar but was told by the | dictation naturally aroused the national feeling. Statesman that tf he owed him se tie the sum conecially when @ proposition was made by the was the property of his creditors and not of him- British Ministry to do the bicdiaee of the French self Kindlipeas of heart or @ too proiuse gen- | Emperor, and & “Conspiracy to Murder vill” was erosity 8 not undersiood in England to be among | brougiit before Parliament. Sioguiarly enough a the failings ot his nature, while many greater meu subordinate ofMce-holder of the government of lave been much more approachable. Lora Palmerston, Mr. Stansfield, the member for IN PARLIAMENT, RICH AND MARRIED. Halifax, was found not to be altogether free of It was now Disracii’s good foriuue not only to | complicity with the perpetrators of this crime. He obtain a seat in Parliament, but to become a man | had, at all events, incautiously allowed his bouse of Substantial wealth. He was returned lor the | to be used for the meetings and to receive the cor- borough of Maidstone in 1837, on the occasion of | respondence of Orsini, and he was accordingly the general clection which succeeded Queen Vic- | compelled to resign bis Manisteriai office. Mr. tortws accession tothe throne. It was bis fifth | Disraeli had voted for the frst reading of the bill: attempt to become a representative of the | put now, on its second reading, with bis usual People, and, in bis exuitation at i3 | tact, he joined Mr, Milner Gibson, who had the coun- suc he uttered words which will al- | try at his back, to defeat the Ministry, and re- ways be memorable :—“I have begun many times turned to oifice with precisely the same majority ory of the past had somehow iaded, and the hosier several things, and have always succeeded at last.” | (of nineteen) aa that by which he had been ousted “wa ” “never despair,” was the in 1852, Lord Derby coming back ag Premier. Dis- motto which gutded him tu eminence, snd by which | raeii now tried his prentice hand upon Parliamen- ne at length planted his feet upon the lowest rung tary reform, and at an early period of the session of the ladder whica led him to statesmanship; but | of 1859 introduced a measure which, on the one it may seriously be doubted whether his success | hand, caused him the secession fiom the Cabinet would have been so great had it not been for | of two of its members, and on the other exposed another fortuitous event. He was elected for him toa full attack from the whig party and irom Maidstone, with Mr. Wyndham Lewis, of Pantg- | that veteran reformer, Lord John Russell, After Castle, in the county of Glamorgan, who | an unusually protracted debate in the House of had forsome time been hia intimate friend, and | Commons, within two years, his Parliameutary colleague being | ‘THE DERBY-DISRABLI MINISTRY struck with mortal sickness, he ried his widow, | was defeated by a majority of thirty-one—an Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, who brougat him a fortune | event which induced the government to exercise of at least 000 a year. AS an eX-Premier and = their constitutional privilege of appealing to the Secretary of State he is now entitled to a pension | country. The result did mot tend to strengthen when Out of oMice of $10,000 annually; and, among | their position in Parltament, and a direct vote of other windfalls in his successful and eventiu! life, | want of confidence being moved they were again he was left a legacy of $200,000 by a Mrs, Williams, | deieated by a majority of thirteen; Lord Palmer- of Torquay, in Devonsuire, an eccentric lady, who | ston them forming his second and last administra- Was among his most ardent admirers, Not tion, and remaining in power watil October, 1859, only was hig success gow assured by wealth, | woen he died in the Premiership. but he had & most admirable wife, & CABINET CAREER, jady of the bighest culture and refinement, | Disraeli’s frst speil of ofice had lasted only ten Who not only brought him conjagal felicity but | months and his second tenure of the Chancelior- became the mainstay of hts political career ; | ship only sixteen months, while he was now always working with wonderiul womanly tacc for | doomed to remain on the left-hand side of the the husband she adored. Ata Harvest Home at | Speakers chaw for seven long years. From this his Manor of Hughenden, some six years since, he | time Mr. Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Ex- suid that “be had the best wile in Engiand’’ and | chequer, was enabled to press through Parliament i Napoleon, and by & | be ee accepted the offer of his Soveret his great tree trade measures, although ae ny fe | to make her a Peeress in her own right, by t | Was constantly proving himself a thorn tite of Countess of Beaconsfleld, preferring him- | that statesman’s side, It is greatly to self to remain a Commoner, aud the leader of the | Disracli’s credit, and should not be passed Conservatives, or as itis called by themselves, the | Constitutional opposition in the Parliament, FIRST SPEECH IN THE HOUSK OF COMMONS. On the occasion of Mr. Disraeli’s first speech in the House oi Commons he followed Mr. 0’Connell, redeeming his promise of ‘“‘meeting him at Poul- lippl,” but, after exhausting himself in vitupera- tion, he was met by murmurs and disapprobation, and was compelled to sit down, using the remark- abie words, “i will sit down now; but the time will come when you will hear me,” He aid not adaress the House een months, after which he rose steadily {to Par- liamentary authority and public estimation, eviden: those statesmanlize qualities which have subsequently made bim so renowneu. At the Dext Parliament Disraeli was returned for Shrews- bury, and it was thought possible that Sir Robert Peel would have given some minor Ministerial office; but the great Lord Derby—the Rupert of debate—put a0 unkindiy spoke in the young aspirant’s wheel, and told Sir Robert Peel that “ne would not have Mr. Disraeli at any price,” little expecting that in the course of time Disraeli would be nis leader of vhe House of Commons, apd would succeed him as Pre- mier of England. In spite of this, however, Dis- raeli mainly supported Peel for the next two years, When the Premier, having introduced a measure to zeliove Gapedian and over colonial pokaale lige the aty imposed upon foreign colonia! corn alixe, Disracht seized the opportunity, and de- nounced Sir Robert’s governineot as “an organ- ized hypocrisy,” Asssted by Lord George Ben- tinek, be lost no opportunity of lashing Sir Robert with an unbdridied torpens of pohticai abuse, nd delivered himself 0. jose speeches which have principally rendered his name famous asa debater. How little patriotism und how much personal ambition prubably had to do with the course he now adopted may be guessed srom words which are atiributed co him, thus:—‘‘lt is quite a { Piste! e,”’ hé is reported to have said, ‘‘to suppose ever hated Peel. On the coatrary, he is tne only man under whom I| snould have liked to have served. Butl saw very clearly he was the only man it would ‘make’ me to atiack, and J attacked him.” FREE TEADB—SARCASM ON PREL. The potato rot, the irish famine and the high Price of corn, at length, aiter the conversion ot Jones Lioyd, the great banker; Lord Morpeth and Lord Ashicy (the three suosequently known as Lord Overston, the Earl of Carlisle and the Karl of Shaftesbury), induced Sir Robert Peel to ackuowl- edge limsel! a tree trader and the humble dis- ciple of kucbard Cobden; aud, oaving given up his office with his previous convictions, he was brought back early in 1846 to carry out his great measure Of iree trade gud to endure the incessant attacks and irony of Insraeli. [n one of the best speecnes ue ever delivered Disraeli said :— “There 1s a difiiculty ip finding a parallel to the position of thé righ€ honorable gentleman in any part of nistory. ihe only paraliei which Il can tnd 18 an incident in the late War jp the Levant, which ‘Was terminated by the policy of the oble Lord (Pal- merston) opposite. I remember when that great struggle was taking place, when the existence*of the surkish Empire was at stake, the late suitan, aman of great energy and fertile in resources, was determined to fit out an immense fleet, to maintain is Empire, Accordingly, a vast arma- ment was collected. It consisted of many of the finest ships that were ever built. The crews were picked men, the officers the ablest that could be found, and both officers and men were re- warded vefore they fought. There never was eople’s House of an armament which leit the Dardanelles sinwarly appointed since the days of Soliman, the Great. The Sultan Tson- ally witnessed the departure of the feet; ag ail the mutts bere prayed lor the success Of the last gen- eral election. Away went the fleet; but what was the Sultan's consternation when the Lord High Admiral steered at once into the enemy's port! Now, sir, the Lord Migh Admiral on that occasion was very much wisrepresented, He, too, was called a fraitor, and he vindicated himself, ‘True it is, said he, 1 did place myself at the head this valiant armada; true it is that my Sovereign embraced me; true {t is that ail the muitis in the Hmpire oOfiered up prayers for my success; but 1 have an objection to war. 1 see no use in prolonging tbe struggie, and the only reason I had for accepting the command was that Imight terminate the contest by betraying my master.” Such was the burning sarcasm with which Sir Robert Peel was uow assailed by one who nad uo- til then, since he had been im Paruament, been an adherent 01 his party. LEADBK OF THE CONSERVATIVES, On the death of Lord George Bentinck Mr. Dis- Taeil succeeded to the leadersuip of the conser tives in the Lower House, and became the kKnowledged champion of the landed interest and the Church. it was not yet thoroughly certain that the tory party might not become reunited; bat, fortunately ior Disraeli, the succession of the Peelites and their union with the whig party was permanentiy maintained, thus securing him a chance of offce which he might not otherwise have obsained, ‘NOVELS AND NEW BNGLANDISM.’? He had lately vrought out two poiitical noveia, “Sybil” and “Coningsby,” which gave utterance to anew creed of politics called “New Englandism,” a range and fantastic mixtare of High Uharch principles aud popular sympathies, of which he be- came for awhile @ kind of arch priest. An over- weening Vanity and exaggeration of themselves constituted the new school of future regeneration of England, anc tt was well said o! this insigniti- cant clique of would-be statesmen, ‘“‘iheir poutics were based on the rejection of all expertences, and much ot their philosophy was contempt ior ali ex- periment,” HARD WORK UP AIL. From the passing of Free Trade to 1852 was per- haps the bardest period of Parliamentary work in Disraeti’s lite. it was in this year that Lord Jotun Russell, who bad been Premier since the downfall of Sir Kobert Feel, dismissed Lord Palmerston trom the post of Foreign Secrecary—a step which led by Necessary consequence to the breaking up of nis jeedie and vottering government. Lord Derby was summoned by the Queen, and entrusted with the responsibility of forming a Ministry, and at once constituted the man whom a: one time he “wouldn’t have at any price,’ Chancellor of the Exchequer, and jeader of the House of Commons. in that capacity the now “Right Honorable” Ben- jamin Disraeli proved that ne was not only a good Parliamentary taiker, eat that he had administra- tive powers, and was capable, at ali events, of assisting to rule the nation. He was destined, nowever, to the same ili fortune a8 attended bis first Pariiamentary speech, A more brilliant addresa to the House of Commons in moving his Budget was never made; but his fiscal policy Was unac- ceptable to the nation. His measures were antag- onistic to the interests of the aow powerful middie clasé. ay Whom iree trade had ween carried and again for some eight- without notice, that, during our rebellion in the Soath he was about the only public man and | statesman of eminence in sngland who did not predict the success or show sympathy for the cause of the Confederate seceders. Unlike Mr. Giaastone, who used language in pubiic calculated ted. No doubt be has in “peat his | Bena" at the iailure ce ssiempt 0, convey his. ten ro! Consul, foo, would have been just ag well tat is should not have gone astray, to the Dutch as to his proce: The said to bo @ warlike and co! of! rl warriors to love their opium more than the means of carry- | ing on their resistance to the invaders of their | country. “if you delay tbe chandoo,” | writes the agent, “we shail be in great trouble. | Our Suitan lias also sent a letter to me asi for | chandoo.”? In every case the “chandoo” is put ae er ae and most in ace | the necessities of Mis-doant en. And at last he comes to this despairing ciimax:—“The country of Acheen is now in great trouble, because tne; bave nochandoo. If you cannot send the guns ai the same time, send them afterwards—send the chandoo at all events.” The opium first, then the | necessaries for fighting tn seli-defeuce, a | strange reversal of the order of things! English Opinion of the Diplomacy in | the Malay Archipelago. The London Post of February 2 reviews, edi- | tortally, the history of Engiand’s negotiations with the Datch and Acheenese from the year 1524 to the present moment, treating the present ques- | Mon of the Malaoca Straits issue thus :— Mr. Gladstune, in dealing with foreign policy, answers accusation by epigram, and assumes that | his opponeat “founders and founders.” He re- lies to close argument by careless squib and laughs at the farmers of Aylesbury. He says:— } bt the wine there was beer, With some thundoring nows From the Straits of Malcom. iy | This novel development of the facetious side of the | Prime ‘Minwster’s character might provoke some | awkward retorts ag to the opportunity of laugh- tog. But the tssue is too serious for this poor sort of chaff, and the letter of “Common Sense,” who comes forward boldly as & sort of Penang lawyer to | the rescue, only suggests the conclusion that the apologist of Mr. Gladstone has more ardor than accuracy in his attack. It is indeed not probable that the Dutch, as Hollanders, will sail up the Thames” (he should nave satd the | Meaway), or that they will threaten our commerce in the Kast; but we cannot help thinking that politicians are lacking in common foresight who do not see behind the Dutch a vast empire to whose capacities and ambition no one 18 yet able to put adetinite bound. We commend to “Common Sense” the perusal of a letter from Junku Payah. That remarkable agent of the Sul- tan of Achcen ts in serious Straits for want of the Kastern equivalent of bacca, “chandoo,” or opium. He writes:—“Send the gone alterwards; send chandoo at ail events.” “Common Sense” has made haste to send us chandoo, of which Her Majesty’s government appears to have a consider- able stock on hand. Perhaps later he wil! iorward his arguments. * * * What is past all doubt is that if the treaty of 1894 was little creditable to ‘us, 48 backing out or Stempting to back out of a treaty engagement with Acheen, the treaty of | to sustain the cause of secession, no ob- 3371, as sacrificing the independence of servation ever fell from Mr. Disraeli’s Acheen, which we had before stipulated for lips tending to hurt the sensibilities of anu secured, was simply disgraceiul to the American people, or evincing exultation inthe the country. Covaiderations regarding the deadiy struggle which was then in progress. it | was not until aiter the decease of Lord Palmer- ston—who had for many years previous to his death | successiully pooh-poohed the subject—that another Reform bili wag introduced into Parliament by the Ministry, of which Lord John, now Earl! Russcll, was the head. After a series of debates the Min- | istry found themselves in a minority of eleven on an important clause, and tendered their resigna- uns On the following day. it was then that Disraeli acceded for a third time to the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer im the Jast of Lord Derby's cabinets, whom*he suc- ceeded—eighteen months alter—in the Premier- | ship on that great statesman’s decease. With that | particular difference this administration was longer lived than any of its predecessors of wry politics since that of sir Robert Peel, and Disraeli now held the seals of oilice for two years and 8 | bau. He boldly took the wind out of his political adversaries’ sails and brought in a Retorin bill of security of our commerce ought alone to nave pre- vented acquiescence On our part with the desires of the Dutch to obtain hold over the whole of Sumatra; but when such acquiescence involved besides the abandonment of an- old and faithful ally toan ene! notoriously coveting his posses- sions anda deiiberate breach of faith, the trans- action is, to say the least of it, calculated to bring the name of the country into disrepute. Who is responaiole for this? The facts we have adduced, the letter of Lord Derby, the explanation in de- tail of Mr. Disraeli on Saturday, these all concur in bringing the charge home to the Gladstone Gov- ernment, It was that government and not Mr. Disraeli that released the Dutch irom weir treaty restrictions to Acheen, and permitted them to Joose the dogs of war against that doomed State; and so iar from Mr. raeli being left “floundering and foundering in the Straits of Ma- lacca,” those waters will engulf what little repu-. tation the government may hgye 4g eehnig of fer tl his own with a wide franchise, restricted, however, foreign affairs. It is no at Mr. Disraeli by many “safeguards” and “securities” to humor exclaimed eat tho part taken by the first Minis- Rana uta bi copservatives, the greater Dum- | ter of the Crown 18 something 80 monstrous and ber of Which were eventually taken out of the bill , unprecedented that it filled him with amazement by the pressure of the liberai party. The manner in which he passed this great Reform act, abd the tact, energy and powers of conciliation which be evinced during the struggle, won bin golden opin- ions and enhanced him in the estimation oi all parties. During the nine months of his Premier- ship it was obvious that the prestige of the con- servative party was Waning, and | FoPiRE Teale of tnd Boeke ahead, ae was not one 0! eventosily Sirew nemo ee the eet to stan riail; add upon the principal stloN, oO! Imeagures tne broad muss of the. Mgnatiah posite: who had been enfranchised and emancipated by Disrael’s perseverance and adroitness, returned | an unmistakably aaverse verdict against his con- servative policy. He honorably resigned on acom- prehension o! the situation, and Mr. Gladstone was created Premier, being backed by the large ma- | jority of 120 in the House of Commons. | OUT IN THE COLD BUT WaTCHFUL, | For five years and three months Disraeli has sat | on the opposition bench, narrowly watching the policy of his gre: opportun HE tg defeat of which Parliamentary ties Would énable him to avail himself Mr, cue stone has now, after a memorable tenure of poltt- icai power, distinguisned by measures which will immortalize his name as one of the greatest of ee ministers, to surrender to him the reins Ce tac- BREAKERS AHEAD, The question is, “What wiil he do with it?’ Fer. tile in resources and brilliant in abilities, he bas yetto contend with the dead weight of old tory prejudices, which chronically affect the part; which he leads; but he has now @ chance whic! was never betore presented to him, and wf he will show some signs of prog- ress, and can stimulate the conservative vis inertie, he may even, at threescore years and ten, attain a brilliant future and make Dis Mark, by judicious measures, upon Enghsh lustory. One solemn regret te is sure to expe- rience, and that 18 tbat the Countess ot Beaconsfield, who dled a 1ew months ago, did not live to see her adored and distinguished husband a second time Prime Minister of England, THE STRAITS OF MALACCA QUES- } TION. i American Interest 1n the Argument Be- tween Gladstone and Disraeli—Tne | United States Consul at Singapore— “Opium, Muskets and Gunpowder.” Lonvoy, Feb. 2, 1874, The curious controversy which bas sprung up between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli in regard to the Straits of Malacca has calied forth in the English papers a great amount of discussion for and against the two leaders. In the procees of vamping up a!! ducuments, however, which should throw some light on the subject, the conservatives in some way or other have come across a curiously interesting Jetter from the agent of the Sultan Of Acheen in Penang to his correspondents at Singa- pore. And this letter furnisués the Engtish jour- nals an opportunity to give their “American cousins” a gentle side thrast about “ignoring in- ternational obligations,” for the name of the American consul—by the address of the letter, I presume, at Singapore—comes therein into a greater prominence than would be evidently de- sired by him, or as can be agreeable to our iriends, the Dutch, or to ourselves, ENGLISH PREFACE TO THE NEWS. The Morning Pos! prints the tollowing remarks along with the intercepted despatch :— } | Our American cousins have a keen eye to business, and though, as we know to our cost, they are iorward to complain when their own national interests are touched, they are never back Ward in ignoring iuternauional obligations when a “stmari” thing is to be done in the way Of trading. The most recent proot of the existence of this trait in the American character has been afforded in the course oj the war which is now being carried on in Sumatra by the Dutch by the umiucky miscarriage of a letter addresses by the agent oi the Sultan of Acheen in Penang to his correspondents at Singapore, in which the more than with indignation, Is it any wonder that east and west, north and south, tne foreign policy of England has been so unfortunate, when the Premier shows such want of knowledge and appreciation of it? But he cannot escape from bs Togpoushpiisty. The abandonment ot Acheen once créwns the astounding folly of our deal- ings with the Dutch in the Eastern seas, and forms the fitting concomitant and supplement of the equivocal and entangling policy on the gold coast, THE SLAVE TRADE ANI AVERY. care aa = r a Presentation of tne Great Question to the Electors of Great Britain. Immediately after the dissolution of the English Parliament the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society Committee in London issued an address to the electors, calling upon them to urge upon ‘at rival, whom he has neglected no | government and the representatives in Parliament to use their influence to put down the slave trade and slavery. We publish this address, as 1t pre- sents @ summary of work in which the readers of the HERALD should be interested, and in whica they should help till the siave trade and slavery be universally destroyed. The Slave Trade and Slevery. BRITISH AND Foreta! ITI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, Orrick 27 New BroaD Sreeet, Lonpox, Jan. 27, 1874. Asa general clection is about to take place we deem this a fitting opportunity to ask you to urge upon the candidates tor election to Parliament tue necessity on the part of the British govern- Ment, and also on the part of each member of the Legislature, to take vigorous action, wherever British influence can be legitimately employed, to put down the slave trade and slavery, We feel tbat @ vast work has yet to be done to destroy | these evils, and itis in the power of our Cabinet and Legislature very materially to promote their i removal, Great Britain bas treaties with Turkey, Egypt, | Persia, Madagascar and other countries to put down the slave trade, which she habitually neg- lecta by her moral influence to,enforce. Though dn anji-slave trade treaty has been signed by tae Sultan of Zanzibar, the slave trade has found a new channel along the eastern coasts Of Atrica, and thousands of slaves have been sent nortnward by land, British consular establishments at proper Diaces would greatly check the trade. A consid- erable trade in human beings 18 carried on throughoat the Upper Nile district, finding an out- let down the Sile and to the south of Abyssinia to the Red Sea, and also in the Lake Tchad district, baving an outflow in the neighborhood o! Tripol. On the west coast of Alnca there ts a considerable slave trade among the tribes protectea by the British goverument, which hitherto they have allowed to continue, to the diabonor of the English name, We grieve to report that among some of Uhe Dative States in India tributary to the British Indian government slavery and slave trade extensively prevail, For instance, in Aighanistan, the present Ameer of which ree@ives a very large sum annually trom the Indian government, slave marts are established in Most O! the large cities, such as Cabool, Badas- khan, Fyaabad, Caudabar,’ Kundur, Gbuznee, What Russia has done in Khiva ana Bokha British government ought long since to have ac- complished in those territories which are under their protection. In the East Airican possessions belonging to the ortuguese the slave trade has of late increased, and the moral influence of the Britisn Cabinet could, with much advantage, be used witu the Portuguese government to suppress this trade as well as to urge the absolute extinction of the Macao colle trade. The Polynesian labor traMc cannot be regulated as proposed by Lord Kimberley’s act. Nothing bat ite total discontinuance can cure this Dew slave trade, Sir Bartle Wrere has truly said, “Wo may do what We can In the way of violent repression, but We shall never put an end to the slave trade till we pat anend to siavery, We must let slave- holding countries—Egypt, Turkey ana others— understand that they cannot be admitted into the brotherhood of civilized nations uniess they ab- jure slavery.” Among these slaye-holding coun- wries, professedly Ubristian, on whom the British government bas special treaty ciaims, and could bring their influence to bear witn name of the American Consul appears somewhat &'eat power, are Spain and Brazil. With prominently, Tegard to Spain, there are 450,000 slaves in Cuba, THE LETTER | nearly every one of whom is entitied to his 18 as follows :— itberty under treaty obligations. Had the From Juwxy Pavan, of Venang, to June Jnnanm and Joan Hasew nosor, of Singapore, dated I$ih Novem 1, 1873— 26rm Rawsax, 1290, Aftoe compliments I inform you that I recerved a ietior addressed in my name; | obened it and found an old piece of paper im it 1and Juche Anmad Shaik Abduliah ked hard at this. It any person looked at that lotr they would beat their heads. It you want to sead me letters dom’t send by post Moreover, in our business | with reference to opium, muskets and gunpowder, have waited #0 long have not yet received them; on | (accoumt of this weud 4 bay to deliver phils igyer to Xap. | British government faithiully discharged duty Spain would have emancipated her slaves in Cuba a8 she had done in Porto Kico, In Brazil the Inajority of the slave population, numbering about 1,500,000, are entitied to their liberty, as they or their parents were imported since i820, contrary to treaty stipulations. The unsatistactory Emanci- pation law of 1871 dooms every one of these to a lte-long bondage ; and, so iar from the law reterred. to being an emancipation act, its operation will be to continue siavery for the next fitty years, lt a p Maier of arel to kpow that while so its 23, 1874—TRIPLE § obtrasive boxes, in the chapels of your creed; nor { Sir Robert Peel compelled to do their behests, and Consul. {think if { muoh be emi tn possession of © smoely revenue, arising | he accordingly found himseif ousted irom office oy abolished tne Slave Trade irom _@ Starving set Of fanatical alaves.” This | a majority of which replaced Lord Jona Office. ‘This ts 6 sertous mmtake. of the “ Rept showa Russell ia Pewning g as as cocasion i was.at teat time inferior mateh | ble his old ident From that time until in tic inv Li antagonist. The | 1858 be remained in cool jb wi P time which followed Digraeli’s third unsu of the opposition @ sadder and Commons, ye atte to get into parliament was probaviy the # wiser man, 7 the perreipment of ence in pressing | IS” conabufor te bis life, He become 5 came, j the DOmTnE?, to eo rd ae in your } ‘BOOK coalition istry, and Lord raton. be Ss tiie we oil | Hes Ee teere neta a tons were ) ; . ) bis b: no means | in wi w ardent ally the Em- Bangs. He ars Sete © ny, 50, means | ln.companign ne nor age ten ee MiLLapp, Seoretary. ‘The Bishop of Glinda in Prison Awaiting Trial ‘His Crime Against the State—Place of Cap- tivity and Treatment—Nogotiations with the Holy fee, on the Subject of Secret of War with the Argentine Confederation. Rio JanrERo, Jan. 2, 1874. Since the 14th we have had the Bishop of Olinda among us, in the category of @ prisoner to ‘be tried for felony, for such nis “crime” is under the Brazilian Criminal Code, The most reverena gentleman, however, is very comiortably housed in the Naval Arsenal in the apartments previously occupied by Baron da Laguna when Inspector of the Arsenal, purposely refitted tor the Bishop, and the government allows $30. day for bis food, He 4g also free to receive all visitora, but not corpora- ons, and, on the whole, is enjoying the position of @ “martyr in avery comiortable manner. It had been tntended by the Catholic Association to charter a steamer and meet him at the bar, but the transport.arrived during the night and sium- ber waa 00 sweet, Next morning, how- ever, the Bishop of Rio was early at the Prison gates of the “Martyr for the Church of Christ.” Rio dropped upon its knees to kise Olin- da’s ring and ask his blessing, but the meek Olin- da fell likewise upon his knees, and the two kneel- ing pastors wrapped each other in a solemn, re- ligious and brotherly embrace. The scene was 4 most affecting one, snd all the canons, the two Senators of the Empire, with all the osher mem- bers of the Oatholic Assddiation, wiped away fall- ing tears. Outside the clerical community the “people of Rio have taken the arrival of the martyr Bishop with the greatest equanimity. ‘The Supreme Tribunal is in holiday, and 80 some Qelay is occurring in the preliminary formalities of the trial, as the Crown Prosecutor will not. report on the indictment until atter the holidays. RELATIONS TO THR HOLY SBE, The result of Baron da Penedo’s negotiations with the Pope is semi-ofMcially declared to be “most satisfactory,” but the actual terms of any eement are to be maintained secret until the ‘ancio hus pisced it in exeoution on the part of the Pope. m what has transpired, however, it seems that his Holiness has not abandoned any of bis pretensions to universal dominance, an abandonment not to pe expected, but has consent- ed, in view of the assurances given him that Free- masonry in Brazil is not anti-Catholic and does not conspire, to recommend to the bishops to use more moderation and not to attack it with the thunders of the Church, but with persuasion, and to inform them that the brief of May last had been misconstrued by the prelates when they drew from it the inference that they were orde! to carry on war @ Voutrance it Brazilian Freemasonry, But though the government feels, or professes to feel, satisfied with the result of Baron da Penedo’s diplomacy, the Freemasons consider it a fuke, and as for the clericais they langh it to scorn and carry on their war of intolerance with even [libs earoestness, refusing to marry or baptize it there be a Mason gossip, or to read prayers over @ dead Freemason, in Pernambuco, also, the Governor of the Bishopric of Olinda has just sus- pendea @ priest of the capital for saying the econ, of the dead over one o! the deceased mem- TS Of an interdicted brotherhood, not a Mason. | The clerical press also teems with opprobious epi- thets against the government, and even the Emperor, notwithstanding the silent neutrality he preserves, deciining even to speak of toe religious question, does not escape the clerical ires, they calling him the “heritical Cesar,” and finding | | parallels for bim among the worst emperors of | Rome and the heathen or betcrodox persecutors of the Church. TENDENCY TO WAR WITH THE ARGENTINE CONPED- | | BRATION. However, the war question attracts far moro of | the public attention, jor little hope is entertained | bere of pyeaine: that war with the Argentine Con- | | federation which has been looming for some time | | past. ln tah we jear now that every packet from | | the south will bring us news of actual hostile acts, and the public funds have fallen some one-half per | | cent within the last week. The tear of the imme- | diate outbreak does not arise so much irom the | strong reclamations which the Brazilian Minister at Buenos Ayres has orders to make upon the stop- | page of the Matto-Grosso mail steamer Cua, 4 as Irom the Knowledge that instructions faye beéh given to the Braziiian land ana naval forces in Paraguay to seize vessels bringing arms and munitions to the Argent; busters who have seized and fortified Pilar, | 2 strong position Sy ryt in ‘araguay, and to put dowp the so-called revolution by force, Ir Beas te saore traneboaty. In fact, tne | invasion was fitted out and armed in the Argen- Bl Bes gonk eration, and composed aimost entirely | rgentine citizens, it being winked at, if not aided, as is said, with arms and money, by the Ar- | + gentine government, the object of the revolution | | being to overthrow the present Brazillanized gov- ernment of Paraguay and supersede it by Argen- tine tools who wili consent to cede the Chaco and serve the Argentine policy of annexation here- | after, The Brazilfans, hoWever, have still 3,000 men in Paraguay, aud two more small tron-clads and three gunboats left Rio Jor the Plate last week, together with the new commodore, Baron da Pas- sagem, who has been sent specially to take com- mand of the considerable squadron which Brazil has in the Piate. ~. ! As regards the present position of the two | Powers, Brazil is in very good order to carry ona defensive war, as her gunboats and small monitors could prevent any Argentine torce of importance from tuvading Rio Grande do Sul from Corrientes, the broad River Uruguay separating these pro- vinces, and the part of Corrientes whieh has a ter- , Titorlal fronuer with Brazil leading only into an sepopusies back coyntry far from settlements, $a coyered with iorests. To assail Matto-Grosso is possible Only from Paraguay or by the River Paraguay, for the swamps on the Chaco side ren- der a land invasion on the west of the Paraguay impossible. But Brazil has several smail iron-ciads and gunboats on the Paraguay and the Upper Parana holds Humaitd, and virtuuily all the Para- guayan River coast, together with the Island of Atajo, at the mouth of tne Paraguay, where is the Brazilian naval arsenal, and whose cession the Argentioes are therefore so anxious to ovtain from Fareguay By mail just in from the River Plate, we have news trom Asuncion to January 10, The Para- are. Congress has put all the territory of the puolic in a state of siege. The government has applied to the Brazilian, Oriental and Argen- tine representatives for aid to put down the re- volution of Capallero, who was stillat Pilar. The Oriental can only give moral aid, the argentine, whose jorce consists of only about thirty men, re- grets he cannot go beyond the city, but the Bra- zilian declares that the Brazilian troops and ships shall, if necessary, co-operate to maintain order within the district of the capital and will permit no attack upon Asuncion. THE NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT DIFFICULTY, The privates and non-commissioned officers of the Ninety-sixth regiment hela # meeting yester- day at No. 48 Urcnard street, Mr. William Bischoit presiding, The meeting was very largely attended and the present position of the regiment discussed with considerable animation. It was reported by the committee having the petition relative to the armory scandal in charge that Senator Gross, to whose care it had been commended, had refused to submit the same to the Governor unless tue signa- ture of Captain Moehring, of the Ninety-sixth, was attached, Assemblyman Scherman, oi the Kighth district, had then been waited upon by the com- mittee, and had promised to present the petition to Governor Dix. The indignation over the conduct of Senator Gross was very apparent among the men, and it was freely insinuated tuat undue influences had teen brought to bear on him, the officers and the subal- terns of the regiment being at variance in the armory matter and considerable tl-ieeling existing on both sides. ‘The following resolution was Passed by the meet Mg and received the signature of @ great pumber of the members of the regiment, who are determined not to yield their nonor ag soldiers and citizens ;— We, the undersigned non-commissioned officers ana Privates of the Ninety-sixth regiment, do hereby, by the subscription of oar names pledge oaF word not to ‘weet | any uniform or arms until the request which we have | made with regard to General Order No. 4 is granied, snd Bat any order issued atter this time shall mot be | FATAL ACCIDENT AT A PUBLIC SOHOOL | Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to 126th street, near Sixth avenue, to hold an inquest on the body of George W. Long, a lad seven years of age, who died on Friday. Deceased attended the public school in 126th street, near Third avenue, and on Mone aiter- noon of last week, when school was missed, , there was a general scramble among the scholars | to reach the street. While jostiing and pusiin; each other on the staira Gearge fell and ao injur his head as to cause death, a8 tated. In their verdict the jury recommended that greater care be used in dismissing scholars at tnat schooi, inas- ae 4s @ sumilar accident had previously occurred JAPAN. Cabinet OMcers Alarmed by Dread of Assassine- tion—What Has Resulted from the Assault Against the Life of Iwakura—Class In- torests in Politics—Popular and Power- ful Demand for Representative Government — Honest Home Bulers Against Placemon of the “Ring”—A Probable. Yoxomama, Jan. 28, 1874. Since my last despatch the situation in Jeddo has not altered. The late attack upon Iwakura still affords food fur discussion and excitement. Several of the Ministers seem to be in fear of # similar assault, and some jof them have had special guards placed around their houses for protection. It waa reported yesterday that an attack had been made on Ito’s house, at Shinagawa; but assailants, finding Ito absent, retired oad doing any damage. Okubo'end Kido) keep close to their hoases. ney are sick in health, Four men have been captured who are said to be implicated in the attempt on the life of Iwakura, They are Tosa men, and it 1s said that they acknowledge thetr guilt, bus state 1t was done under instructions from the head of the Tozaclan. If this be true is will seriously complicate matters; for Toza tsa powerful man, and the government are a lit- tle afraid of him, One thing is certain, another change, and a radical one, in the government is inevitable. Iwakura, although o clever man, and to acertain extent admired by a large portion of the offictal class, is not popular, nor has he the confidence ot the higher orders. His being pl iced at the heaa of affairs was merely an experiment, and a great many have come to the conclusion that he has proved a failure. Why itis so lcannot say, because the Ministry under Iwakura was certainly a poweriul one, and the only solution to the position is that Iwakura “put his foot down” upon what would have been an “enthusiastically popular expedition, A WAR WITH THE CORBANS. Now, it 1s a fact that the term “popular opinion” is scarcely Known and certainly but very little uo- deratood in Japan. Yet it is equally as certain that in no country in the world nas public opinion such force and effect asit hasin this. Hence an unpopular Minister soon knows that he is unpopu- Jar; and not naving the means of ex- pressing this opinion as we have at home, through the medium of the press or of public meetings, it very often expresses it- self through violence, and thus comes to be unmistakably understood. But these conditions, a8 well as others in Japan, are changing. A press 18 being developed. The public is appealed to now and again by an address or & memorial, and public affairs are beginning to be publicly dis- cussed, Hence the strange position in which Iwakura is placed, My opinion is that he will have to leave the Cabinet altogether, or, at any rate, such Changes will be made as almost to nullify his influence in the Dai-jok-wan, the Corean war party getting uppermost. FOREIGN DIPLOMACY AND THE SPECIAL MISSIONS. The following memorial has been presented to the Sa-in. It was considered of such importance that the Mikado called a special session of this body, and himself presided, for the firat ime, over their deliberations, Tne paper is an interesting one. In the first place, it is signed by three ex- Ministers, namely—Soejima, Goto and Itag- aki—and one member of the present Dai-jok- wan—Yeto or Ito—Minister of Public Works. The others are all influential men, Yuri was formerly Governor of Tokio and more recently in London. The memo rial aske fora REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, They desire that a Parliament shall be established, with @ representative or representatives trom every province. The document is rather verbose, but, nevertheless, it contains some sound argu- ments and strong expressions. I give a copy of the translation of its sulient points:— Gxntieuxx—We have the honor to address to you the accompal memorial, and to beg that you take it into consideration. You will find in its proposals some which we often made to you during the time we were in the government service; for they are all matters whicts ve always carnestly desired. As, however ambas- sadors were visiting all tne treaty Powers in Europe and America, to obtai practi _ knowledge, it was decided to delay the discussion until turn. Now, though the amb; ‘of concord existing ready returned several mon! oy in bese Gone, From the want of co “zistin foverninent an 16 people, io pila nthe a Seyret ctebat itis table to be ronght to destruction, We extrem t that this state of danger should hav h Oce by nothing else than the prevention by the government 0! Iree ex- pression of opinion by the- public, SOKJIMA TANETOMI, Shizoku Saga Ken, GOTO SHOJIRO, Shizoku Yokel I ITAGAKI TAISUKE, Shizoku Kochi Ken. YKTO SHIMPEL, Shizoku Saga Ken. IMASU, shizoku Tsuruga Ken. KOMUXU NOBUO, Shizoi OKAMOTO KENSABURO, ku Miyoto Ken. Shizoku Kochi Ken, PURUSAWA, YRO, Shizoki wiwontat, ‘u Kochi Ken. THR + . Your respectiul memorialists, having considertd with whom the power of the government at present lies (see that) it is neither with the Emperor nor with the people, but with the officials alone. Well! Although the officials would not show disrespect for His Majesty, the honor and magnificence of the Imperial councll chamber grad- ually disappears; and, although they do not wish to neglect the people, the laws are too changeablo; go that the proclamations 9 the morning ere changed in, the gning. all things are doné according to the tndl- (dual Wil of the officials. Rewards and punisoment administered with partiality ; the ublic are fox ceedings, and (hey &! bidden to discuss government pr ound to must be evi- ent under the oppression. It denteven Ai tranquiliy to govtee tHE: Saffire unger gurh conaitions igh tl ‘wpier watts conditions. And the country will quickly be ruined najess there is an improvement in its present mode of government. Now we beg to lay before vou the toliowing opinions re- specting the above :—As the people, as is their duty, pay the taxes to tho goverument, they should possess the right and power to examine government affairs, This, being a #elf evident proposition, should be understood Dy all, without requiring any explanation from us We bey thereiore, that the officials cease to oppose thid right, They may oppose our proposition to establish the | parliament, by saying that as our people do not yet them- selves promote the march of civilization, aud are ignor- ant and unlearned, the tine has not arrived for establish - ing a parliament. We repiy—Ls it be $0, so much the more necseeery) ig it to establish the Parliament, in order that the people may advance in knowledge and wisdom. and Promote themsclves to the stace of civilization, Hecause, ‘n order that they may so progress, they should first be taught to watch their rights and powers, and then they should be led to discuss public affairs, s0 ay to rouse up each one to prize his rights and privileges and to iden- lity hitnseli with the prosperity or adversity of the na- tion. Then there would none so indifferent as to be content to remain ignorant. if the expected naturally to advance and progress of without any such spur, we may wait perhaps a century; just as it the muddy water in a river were expected to clear itself natarally, Again, the officials most unm- Teasonably To establish a parliament now, at once, Would be like nothing but the assembung together the fools of the whole empire. Alis! Why are 'Y So sel conceited, and why so look down upon the people? Alb otticialy ought, of course, to be the most clever of people; but asit may be oncertain whether or not there are more learned and intelligent persons than they them- selves, they should not teel this Contempt. It the peo 01 be so ‘foolish as tor the officia eapize ther. oittctals tpust themselves be nd unintelligent, for theY are. but of the people: But whieh is the overningt a8 best way of g 1s it by the absolute acts of a sinall party of officials alone; or by the public opinion o! ‘ast body—all the inhabi- tants—oi (he empire? We dare say that poliucians or of Is have greatly increased their knowledge and pared with what they had betore ‘the re- cent great revolution of the government—seven years ago; for, the more learning and knowledge are culti- vated, the better they are able to be advanc For this Treason, we say again, the parliament must be 1 at once, in order to enable the people to improve in edu- cation dud knowledge, and promote theinselves to a state ot civilization. Jt is the duty of the governm torn. courage m the people an ambition which shall gause them to step forward in such ML es The purpose we have pow disc is wtive parliament mast be established the degree ot progress made by our le suitable for its establishment. We do not consider it cessary to retute the opinions of 1080 Official oppose it, but onty to rouse the sion; to acknowledge people; and to excite them fo activity, so that the gov- ernment and the people, being agreed between cach other, the Emperor and his subjects shall love each other; and our empire shall become happy, strong and pow. ertul ‘The memorial has been published in all the Japanese papers and hag been irecly discussed. ‘Already changes are talked about that speak of placing Sogerhima, back 1p the State Department and Goto in the Treasury. If these cha! be made iwakura will assuredly leave and a war with Corea will be inevitable. WAR OLOUDS IN MEXICO. Very recent letters from the northern frontier of Mexico bring forebodings of an antticipated revolution in that part of the neighboring Repub lic. One writer says:— I am afraid we are going to have another revo lution within the present year—the most formi- dabie, perhaps, that has ever been tn the country. Ic will attempt nothing less than 10 separate the territory into two republics. Tne title of the now ower Will be that of the "Republic of the Sierra ladre.” The States to be included im it are Ta- maulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Da- rango, Jalisco, Colima, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora and Lower California, ould the Governors and the people of these ree the federal powers a to do to put them will have more than enough ison take place pacity, as com, down. [hope this revolution the country completely, The las! that wo bad caused Tnuch suitor! and tia neanle have Dot ret egt over the omeot af it,