The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year. Four cents per copy. Agnual subscription price 912. ‘LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be Teceived and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. i Volume XEXIK.........cccceeseeeeee Oe 159 ee AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ——_+—__ BOOTH’S THEATRE, ‘Twenty third street and Sixth avenue.—THE GLADI- ATOR, at5 P.M. Salvin NIBLO’S GARDEN, ‘Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—THE ‘LADY OF THE LAKE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P, M. Bir. Joseph Wheelock and Miss Ione Burke. BROOKLYN NEW PARK THEATRE, (Pulton_ street, opposite the City Hall—LE PAVILLON ROUGE, at Ge. My elosse ef 1030 FM. Mine Minute THEATRE COMIQUR, ‘No. 51¢ Brondway.—THK BOY DBIKCTIVE, at 8P. M.; ‘cloves at 10:80 P.M. Miss Alice Harrison. WALLACK’S THEATRI "Broadway and Thirteenth street —FA’ ‘Closes at i P.M. 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M.; | oul Fairy corner of Thirt loses at 10 P.M, ROMAN HIPPODROME, jadison avenue and twenty-sixth street.—GRAND {SG SANE, CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:3) P. M. and | “TRIPLE SHEET. Pow York, feaaay,. dane 8, 1874, piers age cola we GL that the weather to-day will be clear and tol, with possibly a local storm. A Gumese at Amenican Art os Pare Jill be obtained by the perusal of our corre- mndent’s graphic sketch of the homes and ives of our artists and students domiciled in The gey, busy and ssthetic capital of France, Horses or Famous Ractya Bioop are s0 2089 offered by public competition in this eighborhood that the sale of Mr. Belmont’s tock on Thursday next will be an event of mnustal interest and importance. Many gen- lemen who have no desire to compete at the aces have a taste for a pedigree in their paddle horses extending nearly two hundred ears, and this, it appears, from our account minted elsewhere, is the case with many of ir. Belmont’s offers. _ Lapev Roum Ixsisrep recently in the bly that a republican form of govern- ent has never yet had a serious and fair trial France. He seems to have stirred up the i in the menagerie pretty effectively. does not believe in tampering with the it form of election. But what happiness left to France if you deny her the right to i away at the franchise? She seems to afflicted by a chronic political fever and At one moment she is in a high state excitement over a Bonapartist plebiscitum, hich, like our quack medicines, is to prove a for every social ill, and the next she trembling with cold, while the Left are rorking for a majority and calling out lustily lor the European Powers to cover her with ta of sympathy. A steady purpose and | real and tangible object in her national ffairs would do France more good just now anything else. It is time for her to stop @ football to be kicked in turm by the ight and Left. Tae Smnmons Yesterpay.—The divines at akg churches yesterday seemed to be ® theological rather than practical vein. Many elaborate theories and deductions from Gospel texts were advanced, but little calcu- Jated to touch the hearts of the hearers. Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, in Brooklyn, delivered a ser- mon expressly designed for the benefit of the Ynale members of his congregation, referring fo religion as the most perfect healer of all ills Bhat flesh is heir to. Rev. Dr. Hall, in a ser- Won on the Comforter, spoke of the wonderful Jnfluence of the consoling Spirit from above won the mind. Mr. Beecher descanted upon fhe science of Genesis and the end of man, pavising his congregation to be Christians, not by ecclesiastical doctrines alone, but by fhe inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Dr. Wild brought in the case of the Williamsburg mother who murdered her children as an ex- pmple of religious insanity. The summer Weather is beginning to exert a baleful in- Buence upon the attendance at the principal whurches, Tae Fovrrn Avenve Gras.—It was not, haps, more than usually difficult for Com- odore Vanderbilt to secure the passage of Cbapter 702” of the Laws of the State of Wew York, by which half the cost of the great Pabors in progress on the line of Fourth ave- was to be paid by the city; but whatever | or whatever else the act may have cost | apparently thrown away, simply because cheap legislators do not know how to jake good binding laws, and because the rail- lawyers were not on hand to give timely ions. ‘Thus we see that stupendous which involve great capital and involve the proper operations of law- bodies, come to a standstill by a | solemn legislative declarations. It is > NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. President Grant’s “Memorandum” on the Currency. The paper in which the President has set forth his matured views on the great subject which has engrossed public attention since the September panic is a most noteworthy document. It is alike remarkable whether we consider the combined soundness and boldness of its monetary doctrines, the pe- culiar manner in which he has made them public, or the political consequences with which they may be fraught. In our judg- ment not only are the monetary views of the President admirably sound, but their publica- tion in this peculiar way is justifiable, or at least excusable, and their political effect will be salutary even for the republican party, unless the inflation leaders are mad enough to break with him and disrupt the organization. This vigorous manifesto is wise from a party point of view, because its practical effect will be to forestall the necessity of another veto, It is not asafe thing fora political party to encounter a series of vetoes on the same sub- ject and prolong a public conflict between its elected head and its majority in Congress. Even one such collision on a question of par- amount interest has a shattering tendency, and the republican party cannot safely risk a second. The republican party, indeed, lost nothing by breaking with Andrew Johnson and defying his vetoes; but the circum- stances were entirely different, In the protracted struggle with Johnson the repub- lican Congress was united, and was strong enough to repass all the bills he vetoed. As no considerable portion of the republicans supported his policy, his vetoes, instead of dis- integrating the party, bound it more firmly together by acommon feeling of vindictive hostility. The only political consequence was the excommunication of the pugnacious President. General Grant cannot be read out of the party so easily. A respectable proportion, though not a majority, of its Senators and Representatives support him. Moreover, he stands on the strong vantage ground of public pledges of the party, reiterated without dissent in national platforms and sible for the inflationists’ to Greak with Presi- Rs 9 Grant on this question without splitting ind ruining the réptibiitan party. The President has acted with singular party wisdom as well as personal boldness in clear- ing-his views of all doubt and giving the in- flation majority the means of avoiding a con- flict which the party cannot afford. At any rate they will proceed now with their eyes open. After the high ground the President has taken in his explicit declaration of his policy they cannot pass another infla- tion bill with any expectation of its becoming a law. As men are always presumed to intend the known conse- ‘quences of their acts suother inflation bill could now be regarded only as a declara- tion of war against the President. Its mani- fest purpose would be to defy him and pro- voke a new veto, and so damage him witha large and zealous section of the republican party. There is no comparison between the exasperating effect of a second veto and a first when both relate to the same subject matter. Tyler's first veto of the United States Bunk was disliked by the whigs, but submitted to; but the second set them in a flame. ‘They alleged that they had consulted with him after the first veto ; that the second billwas framed in conformity with his sup- posed views ; that he had, therefore, deceived Congress by exciting, or at least knowingly permitting, delusive expectations. General Grant has fortified himself against that kind of accusation. He has put it out of the power of the inflationists to say that he has not acted squarely. They know precisely where he stands. They cannot patch up some nondescript meas- ure, call it a compromise, and arraign the President for vetoing a bill intended to meet his views. No such insidious game can be played. The course of the President has been as wise as it is unusual in committing his views to paper, to stand as an attesting rec- ord. To usea Scripture expression, he has “hewed up to the line,’ and a very straight hard money line it is. He is willing to yield something in a spirit of compromise, but he has marked with perfect distinctness the point where he stands and from which any such deviation as he may be induced to make must be measured. The difference to be split is not the pitiful difference between the original House bill and the same bill as amended in the Senate. That would be merely a compro- tise between the two houses and not a com- promise between Congress and the President, The President stands on no such trimming dawdling measure as the House bill. The compromise he intimates a willingness to make is not a descent from that, but a descent from the highest hard money level. A very few remarks will suffice to show how boldly President Grant takes the inflation bull by the horns. Nothing that can compare with it has been uttered by any member of either branch of Congress. The President strikes at the chief prop of inflation as Sam- son exerted his strength against the main pil- lar of the great Philistine temple and brought down the whole edifice in ruins by a single push of his mightyshoulders. President Grant has the courage to demand a repeal of the Legal Tender law, to take effect only one year hence. This is the boldest word yet spoken for a sound currency in any quarter. The whole crazy superstructure of inflation rests upon that single foundation, which nobody has so directly assailed in all the discussions of this wearisome session. People take a de- preciated currency in payment of their dues because the Legal Tender law compels them. ‘As soon as this law is repealed nothing but gold and silver coin can discharge debts with- out the consent of the creditor, who can then sue in the courts and recover real money. Repeal the Legal Tender act, and our whole system of‘ false money topples to the ground. General Grant surveys this question with what we may call a military eye. He directs Srivial insufficiency somewhere, just as o grain {of sand will derange the working of the finest gonchinery. There were the votes to pass the ‘aw and there was the constitution to tell them | der. All the currency schemes, even the least | ‘how to do it, and yet they did it wrongly, and Mayor need not pay the money. It will 1 have to wait for another Legislature. Doubtless these cheap legislators of late years yare apt to make this sort of law that bas {hitches in it, but it is unpardonable in the Hawyero of great corporations not to provide his guns against that point of the enemy's | works whose loss would render all their forti- | fications untenable and force a total surren- | objectionable, which have been proposed in | Congress leave the Legal Tender law un- touched, although this is the sole support of the paper money fabric. The idea even of the foremost contractionists has been to bring | the paper currency gradually to par with gold and repeal the Legal Tender act afterwards. The President boldly proposes to begin where impo they would end. He would make a repeal of the Legal Tender law the first measure in point of time, aa it is undoubtedly the first in ing but gold or its equivalent will be taken. His recommendation of this heroic remedy places him at the furthest distance possible sound and excellent idea is too far from practi- cal realization to be worth discussing now in any other view than as illustrating the wide and impassable distance which separates General Grant from the inflationists and extinguishes all expectation of any compromise which they would sccept. He has placed himself on such high ground that they would have to march 6 very long way up to find @ point at which he could meetthem. They will prefer to leave the currency as it is rather than accept any compromise which is possible with such views as President Grant expresses. If they pass a bill now it can be with no other purpose than to beard the President and provoke a rupture. They will think twice before trying that experi- ment. The inflationists cannot afford to come to close quarters with Grant as the recon- structionists did with Andrew Johnson. His habits of taciturnity protect him from weak- ening his position by intem; abusive harangues, as Johnson did. stands upon the regular party platforms, which Johnson did not. A quarrel with him would split and demoralize the republican party, whereas the quarrel with Johnson strengthened and stif- fened it. Nothing remains bat for them to submit $2. the inevitable with as good a grace ey can. A “ae for nearly | three years, and the inflationists cannot doubt that during that period their Policy is effectually blocked, nor that further agitation of this question in a sense hostile to the President's views would weaken and dis- organize the republican party. The republi- can ship is freighted with all their political hopes. It cannot founder or go to pieces without engulfing every prominent infla- tionist, unless they are destined to exemplify the saying, whom the gods wish to destroy they first smite with madness, They will forego any further efforts to inflate the cur- rency against the strongly declared views of the President. If Mr. Morton and half a dozen other aspiring leaders will keep still and let this question rest, their followers, before Congress assembles again, will quietly make up their minds to accept the situatio:. Expecting the President's determination to operate with the steadiness of a lew of nature, the inflationists will submit.as the democratic party submitted to the new amendments to the constitution, when they saw that resistance was vain. The Congres- sional elections of the present year will help purify the air on this as on some other ques- tions, creating a possibility of rational legisla- tion next winter. After embroiling the sub- ject during this futile session the republicans must take the consequences in large demp- cratic gains, and if the democrats shall have the wisdom to nominate stanch hard money men and the good fortune to elect them, this Congress at its next session will be con- strained to accept the financial policy of Gen- eral Grant as the only means of saving the republican party. No Republic in France Just Yet. Once more the Republic is overboard in France. Two factions that are moderate in the sense that the small boys say they are— _less furious than the factions which are more furious than they are—these two doubtfal moderates were the faint hope of a possible / republic. They were the Right Centre and the Left Centre. The Left Centre is made up ot republicans who like their house but do no want always to ride on the peak ; they desire good government and care comparatively li for the republican “‘idea’ and doctrinsi fancies. The Right Centre are monarchist wl do not believe in divine right, nor in any ticular man, but prefer the notion of a pef- manent Executive to that of an elective Exect- tive and believe that some men are botter others. Politically the Right and Left Centes are nearer to one another than the Right Centre is to the Right or the Left Centr) to the Left, and if they should coalesce ‘hey could establish a republic to which the Left Centre would give liberalism of spirit and for which the Right Centre might secure a strong constitutional form, in virtue of whijh the dregs of the people which tend to rule in democracies would be kept where the dregs belong. But the hope of this combisation is finally done for, and one hundred and ten Deputies of the Left Centre have pitched ne- gotiation into the water by a declarstion for a definitive republic—a republic, of course, such as they want; not such as is possibly or can be obtained. They would rather hay¢ no repub- lic than not have their own. Sparn.—According to one of our latest cable despatches a serious mutiny hsd broken out among the republisan troops in the province of Guipuzcosa. We do not much wonder at the news. The Spanish soldier labors under the serious disadvantage that he does not know whether he fighting for the republic or the monarchy. If Marshal Serrano does not on an early tay come forth with a well defined and intellizible programme the chaos which has so long existed in Spain will be- come worse confoinded than ever, Tr Is Sax that sats contain an appreciable quantity of phophorus, Now, since phos- phorus is used t clear the cobwebs from the brain and to giv) @ man common sense who never experionces its sensations before, would it not be well t give an oatmeal supper to some of our higk national and State function- aries? We migat begin with a thin gruel, since it would mt do to begin with too strong | the niéet imporlaht contribution that has bera President Grant will still remain In sesal Ostrich Journalism. We print a suggestive article from the Evening Post in reference to the lecture of M. since. The Hvening Post responds to the sug- gestion of that gloomy and painfully virtuous compilation, the Nation, that it should have avoid all observation and be completely “‘ig- nored” by the pursuer, it buries its head in the sand, We haye « ojass of journalists in America who carry out this principle in dealing with public The case of M. Rochefort affords an amus- ing illustration of this policy. That gentle- man upon his arrival in New York addressed a letter to the Hzratp, which we published in French and English, giving his experiences in New Caledonia, some recollections of the Commune, and. his views in reference to the present condition and probable future of France. A few days after he delivered a leo- ture in the Academy of Music on the same subjects. As the Hvening Post says of the leo- tare, ‘‘not only was there incomparably less material in it than in his letter, but what there was was indifferently worked up.” In other words, the letter was as fine a piece of wit and raillery and invective, in a literary point of view, as any of the numbers of the Lanterne. The lecture, on thg other hand, apart from an allusion to Jules Favre, was tame and prosy, and was in no way a contri- bution to the history of France. Yet the jour- nals who were anxious enough to pri eal lecture, which amounted to nothing, dimitted allugion to the letter, which is decidedly ‘tmadato the history of France since the fel of the Empire. ‘tthe ostrich policy of ‘4gnor- ing’ was never Wore amusingly ilkustrated. It reminds us of the history of France which at one time was written by @ devout believer in the Bourbons, Azxious to say nothing that would wound the feelings of the Bourbons, or recall unpleasant memories to the Christisn kings, the pious author omitted the whele history of the Em- pire and ssid that uring’ the’ Imperial rule the armies of the King were “intrusted to the command of Marquis Bonaparte, a distin- guished office.” M. Rochefort is not a man to ourfancy There were many things in his letter, but more particularly in his address, repugnant to our sentiments, He and his friends have shown themselves the enemies of republicanism, and have probably thrown the French Republic back many years. But he can be no more ignored than Robespierre, whom, by the way, he calls ‘‘a great citizen;’’ nor Marat, who was a type of the practical effect of his principles; nor Camille Desmou- lins, whom he so strikingly resembles in char- acter and genius. We might as easily ignore John Wilkes in the history of England or Jefferson Davis in our own history. These men exist as facts. They are creations and illustrations of their time, illuminating iit, not always with a wholesome light, but enabling us to see the men and times as they were. M. Rochefort is a type of the wonderful age in which he lives, and without studying his carcer and his utterances we should beat a loss to understand many things in France that otherwise become clear and natural. A good deal of this ostrich journalism comes from the necessary machine qualities of our newspapers, An editorial staff is quite as apt to become a machine as the presses in the press- wom. Traditions grow into laws, and much of the “ignoring” and misrepregentation, and pmission to credit—the departing from the famenities of the proiession, which are as / marked as in any other calling, come from the woodenheaded night editors afd subordinates, who have no plan but to imitate the custom of twenty years before, when our newspapers were mostly experiments and anxious to make a noise and to fight their way into power and recognition, We have a memory of this kind which remains asa natural curiosity in our own cabinet of relics. During the Frotich and German war, when the Tribune, admirably served by the wide-awake agent in London and backed by the enterprising manager in New York, was telegraphing those wonderful reports of Gravelotte and Metz and Sedan, reports which under the rules of the Associ- ated Press were as much our property as our own specials, our own midnight ostrich de- clined to print the reports because they were not Hxnatp victories, just as our contem- posaries would not print the letter of M. Rochefort because he had not addressed it to them. The omission of our own ostrich was speedily rectified, as we could never make the mistake of declining to print news when we obtained it, merely because it did not come from our special correspondents, To be sure, it is rarely that we have such a chance, but we do not despise it. How much better, even in the way of enterprise, to quietly assume all the credit of a neighbor's victories, especi- ally as the good, easy, confiding public never know any better! The admirable letters in the World from Acheen describing the war would have been welcome, if they had come to. us, under the rules of copartnership in the Associated Press, These wore the only letters written from that interesting point. As they came by mail we were not ontitled to them, much to. our regret. We “ignore” nothing, The public is entitled to know the history of the hour, If we once began todo what the Nation advises, simply to print what we fancy personally, to ‘‘ignore,” and omit, and prune, and sit in judgment over men, accepting Mr. Gladstone, for instance, because he is conserva- tive and safe, and rejecting M. Rochefort, be- cause he is wild and revolutionary, we should soon find ourselves out of journalism entirely and printing meditations or sermons or tracte, ora solemn penitential compilation like the Nation, The world would go elsewhere for its news. Some time since—six months ago, perhaps— we made arrangements in Europe to receive a stimulant, andincrease the dose by thickon- ing the porridge until they were able to do ) their work and «arn their vay. every day a cable despatch cantain- ing @ list of all the arrivalg of Ameri- can shins in every part of the world, As this despatch cost us a dollar a word our readers may fancy the yearly ex- Pense of the service, We offered it to our the scale of importance. As soon as nobody | Rochefort the other evening and the manifesto | Partners in the Associated Pross, under the is compelled to take anything but gold noth- | addressed by him to the Hunaup afew days | Tales, but they all ignored it, just as they ignored our offers to share our special ship- ping news facilities at home, The result was that every merchant in New York and all who from the inflationists of every color and de- ignored the presence of M. Rochefort in New had friends at sea were compelled to read the scription, The supreme importance he at-| York, that ‘the policy of ignoring public oo- | Hxmazp, and we are now rapidly becom- taches to an actual currency of the precious | corrences is not one we are disposed to adopt.” | ing the Lioyd’s of America. But our metals is attested by his recommendation to | «go little is known of the true history of | **gactous friends of the Journal of suppress small bank notes, He would permit France since 1870," adds the Post, “that we Commerce in time discovered the ostrich the circulation of no paper representatives of | value every source of information on the sub- | ™ember of their staff, who fancied that, money of s smaller denomination than ten ject, quite independently of any feeling of sym- | ® ® Commercial journalist, be could not dollars. It would not satisfy him merely to | pathy or mptipathy in respect to the person | ignore ship news, and the result is that they carry back the currency to the condition in | from whom the information reaches'us."’ In | 2OW avail themselves of the rule and accept which it stood before the war. Hoe desires ® | other words, the policy which the Nation ad- | °UF despatch. They see plainly enough, as more thoroughgoing, radical reform, which | vocates, and which is criticised with so much | C™F contemporaries all must see, that the day would cause the clink of gold coins to be | justice and truth, is that of the ostrich, of | ¥Bena journal could afford to ignore any one heard in the pockets of every citizen. This | whom we are told that, whan it desires to featare of journalism is at an end; and this is especially true under the rules of the Asso- ‘ciated Press, which bind the seven journals into a Procrustean bed, or, go far as enterprise is concerned, link them together like so many chained galley alnves, making independent enterprise. very difficult and giving weak and indolent journals all the advantages of enter- prise aud foresight. Wilkes’ Antarctic Continent. Geographical discovery has béen advancing of late, Geograptiical societies have sprung up in all parts of the world, and we hear of ex- ploring expeditions everywhere. The subject of geography has indeed come to be one of great public interest, and perhaps it may be for one particular and plain reason, that as Malte-Brun has well expressed it, ‘Geography is a living picture of the universe, and is there- fore essentially popular.” It embraces every- thing which conceras the interests and well being of mankind, It concerns all the sci- ences. People have only latterly come to look upon geography in its proper light, and to re- alize how ® newspaper correspondent or a natiopa] ship of war may upset old and long established notions or create new ones. Stan- Tey, whol afar ivi stone, opened fresh ideas with respect to Afric the” Oballenger bas revolutionized our ideas of the Antarétd te- gions. The world begins to realize that Cen- tral Africa is not a mere malarial jungle, but possesses the elements of riches and is des- tined ultimately to become a seat of civiliza- tion, empire and wealth. No such destiny awaits the Antarctic regions; but still the men of soience have become interested in that quar- ter of the earth. There is no higher exhibition of the progress which civilization has made than that men now seck their pleasuro on the sea, ‘The ocean is no longer the tmpassable river of the ancients, nor the *pirutes’ field’’ of the old Northmen, but isa part of the world whero every one may be at home and at péace, if so inclined. Witness our various yacht squed- rons, vying with éach other in honorable rivalry upon @ course where the highest s! and the loftiest bravery are called in requisi- tion. Yet all is peace and “the world of waters" is every man’s own. It matters not, perhaps, to the present ma- terial interests of the world whether there is or is not an Antarctic continent. All school boys have been taught there was, but we aro all at present in an inquisitive state of mind. We want to know. Quick transits by steam and telegraphic wires across the oceans have very much reduced the dimensions of this world of ours, in the imagination. It seems to us pitiable that we cannot run hither and thither at will; no matter whether it be to the centre of Afrioa, the centre of Asia, to the North or South Pole. Henoe, when the Herat published, some days ago, an account of the British ship Challenger having sailed over a goodly portion of Wilkes’ Antarctic continent, there was much wondering. The truth is, we have all become so used to hav- ing the ideas of our school days disturbed that we are no longer shocked with the up- setting of anything, but, on the contrary, are inspired with new expectations, Great ex- pectations they are, generally, and the South Pole is no exception to the rule. We had settled ourselves down into a quiet belief that the South Pole was in the middle of a vast continent—as large as the whole of North America—and until the Hzzatp published the letter of Lieutenant Hynes, of the Challenger, nobody cared to question the matter. But now a general curiosity is aroused, and curi- osity is the guiding star of progress. Some would defend the declarations of Wilkes, some would find out more than he and Ross, and d‘Urville arid Biscoe, and Bel- linghausen and Cook and Kempt had found before, and say to a certainty where the Sonth Pole really is. There are plenty of men ready to do such work, and the world is not only ready to have it done, but wants it done. It is no longer a question, ‘What good,”’ but ‘‘We want to know;”’ and know we will some of these days. A better oppor- tunity than the present for the display of some of the rather misplaced energies of the United States Navy could not be found than the fitting out of a suitable expedition for Antarctic discovery. Suitable, wo say, for no ship has ever yet been sent into the Antarctic waters to combat the great ice barrier which Cook was the first to find, sheathed with iron and strengthened og have been the ships of Parry, Franklin, Kane and others who have fearleasly pushed through the heavy ice of the Arctics. We give to-day a general résumé of Antarctic exploration, with special reference to the con- troversy which has.sprung up relative to the existence of Wilkes’ continent, together with an excellent ond carefully prepared. map, showing a good part of the Antarctic regions. The candid reader can have very little doubt that Wilkes did actually discover land, but whether to the extent claimed remains tobe seen. We scarcely need remind our readers that, as we have always been, we are now and always will be the advocates of enter- prise and discovery, and therofore say, let us have an expedition forthwith to the South Pole. It was the Secretary of the’ Navy who was almost solely instrumental in setting on foot the expedition of Captain Wilkes. Will not Seoretary Robeson bestir himself likewise? MaoManon is at least a man of pluck, Six days ago the De Broglie Ministry resigned, and ever since he has been expecting the for- mation of a now Cabinet. But the Cabinet makers were bunglers, who could aot get eight statesmen who would pull toget/aer in harness, Each had his own axe to grind and his own pet theory of running the Government. Mac- Mahon bas been getting, into an iragcible ET atate since the seoond day, and yesterday he fairly bubbled with indignation. He sent fos M. Buffet and a few of the Deputies, to whom he delivered a neat little speech, the exact meaning of which they did not find it diff- cult to understand. Hoe figuratively called them all apprentices and hinted that they were not worth their salt, Then he scratohed down the names of some gentlemen who, he thought would be willing to ocoupy high po- sitions, and informed the President of the Assembly that if he did not like the nomina- tions he might do the next best thing. So the crisis ended. MacMahon declares that he does not care a rush whether the votes for a monarchy ora republio, but in- sists that they shall make up their minds one way or the other and stop this everlasting clatter about nothing. The Dear Friend of the Parks. The impertinent claim of Mr. Andrew HL Green to be considered the father of Central Park must be amusing to those whe remember the early days of that magnificent enterprise and the wealthy and influential citizens, some of them now in their graves, by-whom it waa conceived, upheld and even- tually carried to sdtoess. It is true that socom after the disinterested efforts of Mr, Dillon and others had secured this great public blessing to the city Mr. Green emerged from obscurity to take a sbare in its management ; but if he has been “fighting the battles’ of the Park for ‘the greater part of fifteen years” it has been in the capacity ofa well remu- nerated soldier, for the pay and rations he has drawn during that period amount to over one hundred and forty thousand dollars. It is not always that persons are fortunate enough to be able to combine patriotism with personal profit. Almost all the prominen{ citizens who have given their time and abilities to Central Park have done so at @ pecuniary sacrifice to themselves. It haa been reserved for Mr. Green, while holding a nominally unsalaried position, to squeeze out of the often impoverished treasury an amount in salary and perquisites of over twelve thou- sand dollars year for ever ear’s service | he thas perfortied. a Park ts deat to Mr.” Green he has, indeed, been dear to the Park. In attempting a rebuttal of the charges of continued and mischievous intermeddling with the Park management Mr. Green only’ proves the justice of such accusations. Hia reply to the letter of Mr. Wales convicts him of impertinent interference with all the buai- ness of this co-ordinate department of the city overnment, from his dictation of the ftayaze appoin mot abet Gommissioners down to his unauthorized intermeddling with the proceedings of the Board. His overween- ing self-conceit forbids a denial of the state- ment that his “incompetent friends” are kept in the department in the convistion that theit removal would insure the hostility of.the Comp- troller and seriotisly embarrass the work of improvement and maintenance. But the only question of interest to the public in allvhis new squabble is, By what right does the’ head of the Finance Department of the city government meddle with the man- agement, the patronage and the officera of other municipal departments? It is notorious that the Comptroller's office is badly managed. Confusion and im capacity are evident in all its details. Why does Mr. Green interfere with the Parks or with any other business to the neglect of that’ for the proper discharge of which the city pays- him his present liberal salary? If he is so familiar with Central Park og to render it. necessary for the officers of that department to constantly harass him for information, why does he not refer them to the written history of the Park by Andrew H. Green? We pre- sume such a work is in existence. At least we know that Mr. Green received seven thousand five hundred dollars in advance from the Park Commission to write it, and’ he would not be likely to receive the money: and fail to do the work! Tue Swatara Sars To-pay on a oruise: quite unique in the history of the United States Navy. Her mission is to carry a large party of accomplished scientists to the South Seas, where they may be able to observe the transit of Venus—an event which will be the first of the kind during the present century. —— Ovn Consoxan Senvice in Europe is ex- haustively, interestingly and pleasantly treated in our Paris correspondence, printed else- consular system, or rather want of system, are very suggestive, and attention being thus drawn to them some improvement should re- sult. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Congressman D. J. Morrell, of Pennaylvania, is staying at the Windsor Hotel. General Thomas L. Rosser, of Minnesota, is reg- fatered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Queen Victoria has sent Koffee Kalkali’s big um- brella to the South Kensington Museam. Canon Dillion has been appointed Chaplatn-ia- Chief of the Irish Catholics in Buenos Ayres. Mr. R, B, Angus, Manager of the Bank of Mor- treal, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Admiral J. R. Tucker, of the Peruvian Navy, ar- Tived here in the steamship Colon, from Aspinwall, yesterday, and is at the New York Hotel. Sir Garnet Wolseley’s mother lives st Monks- town, Ireland, from where he has been unduti- fully absent, until a couple of weeks, for several years, Mule, Calderon, third daughter of the Peruvian Minister to Italy, has been married at the Catholie chapel in the Avenue d’Eylau, Paris, to Baron Lefebvre, nephew of the Duc Decazes, ‘Mr. Wiliam Hardwick deserves his name. His flame of industry canmot be snoffea out. seventy- five times have the Lonaon (England) police ar- rested him a8 a sturdy beggar, and ho has come out of jail seventy-four times with his professional ardor unquenched. He is likely to do so again. This Hardwick’s been alight for seventy-two years, thirty-eight of which he has spent aga tramp and beggar. On the 26th of May, after an absence of over four years, the Right Rev. Dr. Croke, Bishop of Auck- . land, New Zealand, returned to St. Colman’s Col-/ lege, Fermoy, treland, in which institution he presided for @ period of ten years. Bistop Croker intends returning to the antipodes with several! laborers in the cause of Christianity, his mission. being to fill vacant places in the Catholic churches: of Auckland, There is a rumor that seems to be generally credited that Mr. Norval, well known for many years as an associate of Henry J. Raymond, and @ journalist of wide experience, has about consummated an arrangement to become the editor of the Axpress, He will, # rumor is accurate, make the Azpress a morning Journal, in the interest of the republican party, and an exponent of the views of the President and his party. Such @ newspaper would be very useful in New York and Mr. Norval haa the ability and Khe exverionce to make tt anonseds where. The crudities and incongruities of our | a ee Snetis ee Sn