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4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subseription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nuw Yore Henav. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth stree, DARING DICK, Bt PPM closes at t30P. M. SWAMP ANGELS, at. | M. ; closes at 10:50 P. M. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—IVAN- HOE; OK, THE Ji WE=s, at 8 P.M. ; closes wt lu:dd P.M. 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Monmovrn Panx.—In spite of the hot weather there was a good attendance and excellent sport at the Monmouth Park races yesterday. ‘The course is not suited to feeble specimens of horseflesh. Blind Tom was the | sufferer yesterday. Savery or THE Farapay.—The cable ship | and, in spite of the fine phrases in which the | President MacMahon and the French Assembly—Dissolution Necessary to Brance. The news from France has been growing in interest as the divergence between the Assem- bly and the Ministry becomes more marked. It has seemed all along a necessity of the situation either that the Assembly should dis- solve or that the Ministry should resign. Neither of these results has happened. The Assembly has defeated the government, but | President MacMahon bids the Ministry re- main. The government evinces a desire to appeal to the country, but the Assem- | bly has not dissolved. So far it has been | @ game of shuttlecock and battledore between | the two branches of an undefined power which | exists in France through the excesses of the | Commune and by the courtesy of the army and the people. But it is a game that cannot | always last. President MacMahon seems de- | termined that it shall not last always; but his | message to the Assembly yesterday betrays a purpose which is not less reprehensible. | Though he is unwilling that the Assembly | should occasionally stir him up with unpleas- ant motions and resolves he is quite ready to live in amity with the Assembly if that body will define his powers and confirm his au- thority. Inu a word, MacMahon is content that the Assembly shall prolong itself in- definitely if it will only give him what he wants and then let him alone. It must be confessed that this is not a very broad policy, old soldier's devotion to France is clothed, it does not strike us as an exceedingly patriotic one. Marshal MacMahon must know that he is as much an accident as a necessity, and that it is the aim of the people to be rid of him and of the Assembly which gave him official | powers, He is well aware that the Assembly is reluctant to grant him the full authority he believes it originally promised him, and | though he is perfectly right in insisting that every pledge shall be fulfilled he is wrong in making the gratification of his own selfish- | | ness the terms upon which the Deputies | may gratify theirs. Besides, he cannot expect to be long in accord with an Assembly that | has already treated him with so much whim- sical severity. And yet his message shows that for his seven years of power he is not only willing that the Assembly shall be in- definitely prolonged but that it shall vote the | constitutional measures necessary to the per- | manent government of France. It was a singular mistake to make, but it reveals how | little republicanism is understood in France | | even by those to whose keeping the Republic has been intrusted, and more than ever shows | how necessary it is that the Assembly should | dissolve. The dissolution of the Assembly is the key- | | note to the security of the Republic and the | well-being of France. Already it has been too | long in existence. In the beginning it did | not fairly represent the sentiment of the na- tion, especially the republican sentiment. Its | Assembly placed him in power he is not | in ruling France while they can. of the people. Discussion would mean something, for it would be directed |to one great and ultimate object— | of that constitution is the work of the next | single year. Intion so imperative and will compel it in the end. The snggestion we made a moment ago that | the republicans can better afford to wait than the monarchists and imperialists must be taken with some qualification. It is only true upon the hypothesis that President Mac- | Mabon will remain faithful As against the monarchists it cannot be doubted that he will firmly administer his trust. He will not allow himself to be broken down by Bour- bon intrigues. Of this he has given the world | every assurance in his attitude throughoat the | present crisis. But while we believe he would not invite the Empire we are not so sure he would resist it with equal sternness, The per- sistent selfishness of the Assembly and the petty persecutions to which he is subjected by the combinations and intrigues of the Depu- ties may not only weary him, but discourage the whole people Though the | | | likely to forget that it has no authority except what it assumed, and that it ought to dissolve. | His supposed legitimist tendencies may be | weakened by coalitions of republicans and | royalists, made for the express purpose of an- noying him. In the end even the people may go with him in inviting, if they do not force him into accepting, the young Louis Napo- leon. In this respect delay is dangerous to the Republic. It is so easy in France to raise the old Napoleonic cry that the “Empire is peace” that the republican Deputies have no right to risk it. The dissolution of the Assem- bly will avert this danger—the only one that seriously threatens France. In any event the Assembly is best out of the way. It has no right to exist. It can achieve nothing for France though its sittings con- tinue forever. While it lasts it must be an element of constant discord. Its discussions must be as they always have been, mere dis- sension. Its continuance is a bid for legiti- mist and Bonapartist intrigues. Its interpella- tions are all reminders that France has no set- | tled government. The excitement of a gen- | eral election and the struggle in defining the form of government are better than this weary, wasting policy of the selfish men who persist At the gen- eral election the people would speak and the | Assembly would then become the voice the adjustment of the constitution. The day fur platitudes has gone by. If France is to have a permanent government it must be based upon a written constitution. The formation Assembly, not of this. It is a work not to be accomplished ina single day nor even in a While it is being perfected Mar- shal MacMahon may well be trusted with the Presidency, and we see no reason why the terms of the Septcnnate should not be allowed to ex- pire before a successor shall become necessary. The danger of France is in the undetermined | tion | gain no advantage. ment would enable the national government of the Peninsula to restore the financial credit of Spain and suppress the insurrection. This would be a much wiser and more patriotic course to pursue than to continue a useless struggle in Cuba, which can only result in the complete ruin of the island and the total pros- | tration of Spain. Governor Dix and the Mayor. The duties of Governor Dix in dealing with the accusations against Mayor Havemeyer are in their nature judicial, and there is no reason | to doubt that they will be discharged with | judicial impartiality. He will.give the Mayor the fair-hearing to which he is entitled by law; he will strain no points against him ; | but we may be sure that he will act with characteristic energy and decision if he finds | grounds for removal. He will not be re- strained by party considerations as District | Attorney Phelps was in his neglect to prose- cute the indictments against the Police Com- missioners. The Mayor has acted with such astounding folly that no political party can afford to defend him. The political aspect of the situation has entirely changed since the resignation and reappointment of Gardner and Charlick. If they could have been re- tained in office without stirring up all this commotion the republican party would have profited by their active enmity to Tammany Hall, which set on foot the proceedings against them. Their party zeal would have been quickened by personal vengeance, and they would have exerted their dangerous power in appointing election officers to secure the defeat of the democratic candidates. But since they are stripped of all power the repub- lican party has no longer any motive to pro- tect them nor to screen the blundering Mayor who staked and lost his reputa- in a vain If Governor Dix should now hesitate to do his whole duty it would cost him his election this fall. Havemeyer has suddenly made himself as notorious as Tweed ; though less wicked he is more contemptible. Never was an officer so universally condemned by public the republican party unless it washes its hands of him. If the disgraced Havemeyer is removed by a republican Governor the party will not suffer and the democrats will His successor would be the republican President of the Board of Aldermen. effective party cry against the Governor and the republicans who elected Havemeyer. Our State election this year isto be a close, hard fought contest, and it is quite possible that its result may turn upon the action of Gover- nor Dix in the case of the Mayor. The com- munity is unanimous in believing that Have- | meyer ought to be removed, and if the Governor fails to satisfy the public sense of justice the party that supports him will have to carry the odious load of retaining this scandalonsly unfit man 1m office. It is nevertheless the duty of the Governor | accounted for by the results of the minute effort to save them. | opinion, and this odium will be reflected on | The democrats would lose an | Faraday, which was reported lost, has | jission was intended only to be that of a ee safely at Portsmouth Harbor. Her | committee of public safety. But French As- detention, it now Ls coped due to se | semblies are proverbial for the tenacity with prevalence of fogs. It is expected that within lwhacie they hold on to power when they once a few days the work of laying an additional | oitain it, The Deputies are unwilling to give ocean cable will be proceeded with without |. their places lest other men should be Gurther delay. elected to fillthem. It is thus the present Wruuss’ Picxics.—Little Johnny Horner | body, chosen in the stormy days which is in trouble about another plum. He is wor- | succeeded the return of peace, is still ried over those picnics, ‘‘you know.’’ So long | in existence. As it was not as he conld appropriate quietly the credit of | elected | to frame a government for France it has | another man’s efforts in a good charity every- thing was lovely, but the exposure of his little game, by giving the honor to the right man, makes him feel that he is not such a big boy as he thought and hurts him. Hence his howls, or rather, ’ence 'is ’owls. Br a Sprciuat Tereceram to the Heranp we sre informed of a graceful tribute paid by the people of London to the memory of President Lincoln. In commemoration of the emancipation of the slaves they bave erected a tower on a commanding site on the south side of London, which will be known as the Lincoln Tower, in recognition of the lamented President’s consistent advo- cacy of the abolition of slavery. The repre- sentative of the United States, Minister Schenck, was present and made an appro- priate address. Ovr Guoriovs Detzctrvss.—So it appears that during the whole time while the Nathan | house was in the hands of the police, and | while the hunt was hot for evidence, there | was somewhere on the premises the bloody nightshirt probably worn by the murderer | when the crime was done. Could the failure | to find it have been an oversight? Was it | possibly an accident? Here was a clew lead- | ing directly to the fact that the murder was done by an occupant of the house, who had probably got out of bed todo it, and who might have been distinctly identified by the testimony of the laundress as to the owner- ship of the shirt. Here is a grand opportunity | for the Mayor. He should assume the an- | France. | may at least earn plaudits for patriotism. | failed to form one, and to-day it represents only the selfishness which all along kept it | alive. It cannot give Francesa king, though when it chooses it may overturn a ministry. It cannot recall the young Napoleon. It can- not even declare the Republic. Consequently, its defeats of ministries are only trifling with | France; its gravest measures of legislation | are the mere by-play of statesmanship ; its consideration of the future form of govern- ment is an absurdity. If it had the power it, has not the moral right to | speak for the nation. None of the Depu- | ties, whether Orleanists, legitimists or Bona- partists, represent anybody but the masters | whom they are anxious to serve. The people | | chose them not to choose a master for France | or to be themselves her master. Whatever | mission was intrusted to them in the begin- ning is ended and they have no longer an ex- | cuse for continuing to grasp an authority that | does not belong to them. They can bestserve | their country by giving up the power they | | now hold and allowing the people to choose | an Assembly that will be representative of | Sooner or later this necessity will be | forced upon them, and by doing it soon they | We are not astonished that the republican | journals of Paris yesterday insisted upon ‘the | dissolution of the Assembly as a necessity growing out of its powerlessness. That is a fact established beyond all dispute, and the legitimists and Bonapartists ought to see it | as well as the republicans. Neither the | thority to appoint a commission to investigate this sabject. We suggest that he name as | such Commission Mr. Hugh Gardner and | Mr. Oliver Charlick. If Matsell cannot be | lett out they could make him permanent | secretary and send him to Coney Island. | Teaumarion or THE Formosan Waz.—The | special despatch to the Hzraup from Amoy | announces that the Japanese expedition to Formosa bas been brought to an end by the interposition of the Chinese gov- ernment. The Celestials seem to have | suddenly discovered reasons for taking renewed interest in the affairs of that in- hospitable country. Probably this awaken- ing is due to jealousy of the progressive and plucky nation that seems destined to play prominent and worthy part in reviv- ing the torpid energies of the East. We almost regret the moderation which the Japanese seem to have displayed in retiring from Formosa merely crownless Bourbon nor the exiled Prince Im- | perial has anything to hope from this Assem- | bly. The republicans can better afford to | wait than the monarchists and imperialists. | If they were not sure of the result of the elections delay would be their wisest policy. But in the meantime France suffers. Progress in a country is never so much impeded as | while grave constitutional questions are in abeyance. What France needs above every- | thing else is relief from the discussion of the forms and functions of government. In the | agitation of these questions are the seeds of revolution in any country. We see this jeven at home. There is a spirit of discontent in this country which shows | itself only in rising new questions ot | policy in regard to old time practices | | which may develop into the spirit of revolu- | tion, For instance, an incipient statesman in | one of the weekly journals is dissatisfied be- | | cause the Congress which is to be elected this | fall does not come into existence until a year | on the promise of China to protect foreign- | from next December. It never occurred to ers and pay the expenses of the expedition. | So far as the interests of civilization are con- | cerned, it would have been infinitely better | for the Japanese to have taken possession of | this young writer that a change would sweep | away the most conservative element in Amer- | ican legislation; that this early election | of each succeeding Congress is what pre- Formosa and reduced its semi-barbarous pop- | serves the country from the excitements and ulation to obedience. The interference of China can only have been prompted by selfish and jealous reasons, and it will encourage the Formosans in their hostility to foreigners rather than prevent the recurrence of similar outrages to those which impelled the Japanese government to undertake a distant and ex- pensive expedition in the interests of humanity end civilization. passion of partisanship. We must hold on to the sure landmarks we possess just as France must obtain them. Our form of government is determined ; that of France yet remains to be settled. While republicans, legitimists and Bonapartists are straggling for that which seem best to each there can be no peace. Under the present Assembly there can be no settlement. It is this that makes disso- | quite possible that unfair dealing and unnec- | on the | and anomalous form of her government; secu- | rity can only come with a carefully worded | and well defined constitution, prepared by an | Assembly specially chosen for this duty. | | The Indian Troubles. The Sioux Indians have evidently made up | their minds to give trouble, and it is becom- | ing clear that the warlike measures taken by ! the government were fully justified by the unsettled state of many of the tribes. It is | vantage and be guided solely by the law and the evidence. But although he must not be swayed by his personal interest as a candidate, or the interest of the party that supports him, he is not confined to any narrow, technical, | legal view of the subject. He is not restrained | by the rules which prevail in a criminal court. | equities of the case and of the public interests | If the proof shall convince him | it involves. essary provocation may have caused the un- easiness noticeable among the savages. This, | however, can only be regretted, for, until | | some better system of dealing with the In- | dians has been adopted, it will be impossible | to prevent bad men inflicting wrongs | redskin, which that child of | nature will seek to avenge on | the helpless frontier settlers. We doj| not believe in the canting peace policy, which | General Sherman criticises with dry humor, but we are in favor of treating the redskins with justice and humanity and protecting } them from the dishonest scheming of con- | scienceless white men. Until some steps have | been taken in this direction it is vain to hope | that peace can be maintainzd at the border. The Indian is shrewd enough to know when he is robbed, having had a thorough educa- tion in this respect, and having been trained | in the idea of avenging bisown wrongs. See- ing no means of obtaining justice he naturally | enough appeals to the rifle and the scalping | knife for revenge. Unfortunately, his ven- geance too often falls on the innocent. IE it were possible to confine his scalping opera- | tions to the dishonest traders and agents who plunder him he might be allowed to continue | uninterruptedly his amusement without serious | loss to the community. Free Cuba. The arrival in this country of Colonel | Cespedes, son of the late President of the | Cuban Republic, once more turns attention | to the struggle going on almost at our very doors. Having escaped the Spanish cruisers he comes to this country with the object of procuring, if possible, assistance for his countrymen in the field. His account of the death of his father, the ex-President, differs very little from that already given bythe Heraup. Unfortunately, there is reason to suspect that treachery had something to do with the Cuban leader's un- timely end. Much as this is to be regretted it does not furnish any good reason for de- spairing of the ultimate success of the patriots, for there never was a cause which escaped the taint of treason. What it concerns most the world to know is that, despite the terrible sufferings of a six years’ war, the spirit of the Cuban insurgents is unbroken and that they are resolved to continue the struggle to the end In view of the resolute and tenacious spirit shown by the insurgents there is little reason to doubt of their ultimate success. Day by day the resonrees of Spain are wasted by @ civil war, which has grown in strength within the last year until the hope ot its early sup- pression has been completely dissipated. In that Havemryer has grossly violated his duties and is unfit tor his station the Governor is not bound by any of the technicalities of criminal jurisprudence by which substantial justice is sometimes defeated in ordinary | courts, The charter gives him the same power | of removal that he possesses in the case of sheriffs, with the exception that he must order the investigation to be conducted by the Attorney General of the State when the Mayor is accused, instead of the District Attorney of the county. There is also the further differ- ence that he may suspend the Mayor for thirty days during the progress of the investigation. He is not compelled to do this; it is an act of discretion, his exercise of the power of course depending on his sense of the gravity of the charges and the sufficiency, on a primd facie view, of the proofs offered in support of them, the charges must be served on the Mayor, eight days to prepare his defence. The tes- timony must be taken before a judge, whose duties, however, are declared to be merely ministerial. The judge has no authority to pass upon the competency of any part of the evidence offered by either side. He is bound to admit it all, and to require the exact words of any witness to be reduced to writing and transmitted to the Governor at the request of either party. The final action of the Gover- nor must be based upon the testimony thus procured and recorded. If Governor Dix should suspend the Mayor during the progress of the investigation his shadowed by that act. We judge it improba- ble that he will take a step by which he would be so far committed. Unless Havemeyer should meanwhile cut some new antics he will probably be permitted to retain his office while preparing his defence, the danger which impends over him being accepted by the Governor as a sufficient guarantee of cautious behavior pending his trial. If the guard his decision against every possible im- putation of haste, hostility, improper zeal be all the more respected and impressive if dealt with evident reluctance. Grve Us His Namz.—The Washington cor- ; respondence of the Tribune speaks of ‘‘one | member of the Appropriations Committee, | who was most conspicuous in cutting down | the clerks in the departments, has @ man on Cuba the financial crisis is scarcely less dan- gerons than is the political one in the Penin- sula, and so in both hemispheres Spain is | rapidly approaching national bankruptey. The loss of Cuba must therefore of necessity result from national prosiration induced by the constantly recurring civil wars. Under these circumstances a wise statesman would not hesitate to surrender the island to the Cobans in exchange for an indemnity of a hundred million dollars, Such an arrange- near the office except to sign his name and draw his pay. The man is a very good short- hand writer, and makes a capital secretary to | the member.” | name of this member. ; might find him useful as a member of our | Police Board, and he would be a good man to | run as a relorm candidate for Congress. | Tribune has shown a great deal of enterprise | on various occasions of its history. Here is an opportunity tar a new teat to disregard all considerations of party ad- | | He must take a large view of the substantial | Notice of | and, like an accused sheriff, he is allowed | ultimate decision would be pretty clearly fore- | Governor is constrained to perform the pain- | ful duty of removal he will naturally wish to | or party bias. When the stroke comes it will | the rolls of the Post Office of the | House at eighteen hundred dollars a | year, and that the man never goes ; We should like to have the | Mayor Havemeyer | The | The Pathology of Hydrophobia. Apparently the two points of supposed importance in Dr. Hammond’s pathological observations in the case of McCormick are that he found fatty degeneration or defective nutrition in parts of certain nerves, and that he also found extravasated blood in the nerve tissue. Can it be argued that there is any- thing special in these tacts? Extravasation of blood is a necessary consequence of such softening as was shown to exist in this case, and extravasation from mere injection to the presence of a clot is, according to extent, an indication and measure of the degree of softening. Only the softening, theretore, is to be explained, and it seems a very bold hypothesis to pretend that there is anything to account for hydrophobia in a degeneration of nerve substance, which is a pathological condition as widely and universally known as the similar degeneration in other tissues. There seems no safe indication here, and the pathology looks far more like a mere coin- cidence than like the starting point of the physical derangement peculiar to the disease. Physicians examining the dead body for the cause of one disease often come upon enough to cause forty other diseases. This was the case with Entwistle, in whom the kidneys, the liver and the lungs were all found in very bad condition; but these combined disorders did not account for his symptoms, and neither are the symptoms in McCormick's case observations made. There is in the case, per- haps, one instructive point. Some men bitten by hydrophobic dogs take the malady and some do not, and this indicates, no doubt, the differ- ent resistance of different systems to the same poison. Perhaps as the medulla oblongata and the nerves that seem to originate in and | near it are the implicated organs the question of resistance may turn on the healthy or mor- bid condition of these parts of the system and not on the condition of the system generally. Essentially in its effect the disease is a de- ranged action of the organs whose operation depends upon these nerves, and the hydropho- bic poison circulating in the blood acts for some unknown reason especially upon these nerves, just as belladonna, veratrum and sev- | eral other substances also act on these nerves. | Now, perhaps the poison acts with certainty and vigor where the health of the part is re- duced by the results of previous, probably un- suspected, disease, while if these organs are | thoroughly sound the resistance may be such as to give time for the complete elimination of the poison. Tae Saratoga Recarta.—The amateur oarsmen assembled at Saratoga are working gallantly'to get themselves into trim for the annual contest which will decide the boating | championship for the year. Considerable in- terest is already shown in the result by the outside world, and, judging from the appearance of the men, the race prom- | ises to be well contested. The conditions } under which it takes place are very favorable, | and it depends in good part on the Regatta Committee to make the Saratoga race as popu- lar as is the annual straggle between Cam- bridge and Oxford in England. We hope the | committee will neglect no precaution to pre- vent any hitch in the proceedings. The race | should start without fail at the moment appointed, and any crew failing to put in an appearance at the time indi- cated should be ruled out. Nothing | | injures the popularity of contests such as this | like bungling in the arrangements and need- | less delays. The oarsmen, we feel, will do their duty, and it only rests with the com- mittee to see their arrangements prompily car- | ried out to make the Saratoga regatta thor- oughly popular with the people. Macurz Pority.—An ingenious Yankee, according to a Boston journal, has invented a machine which, if all is true that the inventor claims, will do more to purify elections, re- | store the public tone, bring the country back | to the teachings of Washington and the fathers and prevent corruption than the reso- lutions of s dozen political conventions and the efforts of two-thirds of the party press combined. This machine is called ‘the patent safety ballot box,” and the inventor assures us that it can neither be stuffed nor manipulated. It seems to have made so deep | an impression upon the Senate that we won- der an appropriation was not made to send it into Sonth Carolina, That State stands in | more need of the virtues possessed by this | | machine than any other. We should like to | see it tried on Moses and the South Carolina | Legislature. A Bountrrut Harvest.—The crops in all the States promise an increased yield over last | year, judging from the comments of our ex- changes. In addition to the cheering reports | we have had from all the great grain-produc-— ing States of the West and the Middle States the intelligence is received from Ohio and | Indiana that the crop of cereals will be more | than an average. Corn and fruit in the latter State are backward, but with a few weeks of favorable weather a very large yield is antici- pated. Later reports from the cotton and cane producing parishes of Louisiana agree that the harvest will be abundant. The corn | crop, however, does not promise to be good. | All the Texas crops, with the exception of | | corn, are good. In some of the counties the | corn raised will hardly suffice for home con- | sumption. In Wisconsin and Illinois the | prospects are brighter for all products than { they have been in ten years. This will be | gratifying news to the poor, for with abundant | harvests in all the States of the chief life- giving products prices must fall, ag a matter of course. The tobacco and fruit crops in some States are poor, but as these articles are | luxuries that can be dispensed with no serious | injuries can result. | Gotp Str Kexrs Dows, as is seen by the | quotations of the Gold Board yesterday and by the bids for that which the Treasury offers | forsale. The fluctuation at the Board was , slight, and the bids for Treasury gold | amounted to $4,280,000, at 109.26 to 109.89, ‘Tree PLANtING.—We learn from a Western | newspaper that of four millions of trees planted along the line of a certain railway | company less than three per cent have failed, j and the rest are doing well, ‘Phis is good | news from a prairie country, aud goes far to- wards solving the problem of tree-planting on | the open, wild and endless reaches of praixie land in the West, | | Rangpur, The Police Phantasmagoria—Organi- sation of the Board. The new figures thrown on to the canvas in the police phantasmagoria are of a character more ludicrous than ever, The forms of Gardner and Oharlick, with the sentence of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in one hand and the reappointment of the Mayor in the other, gave place, some two or three days ago, to a picture of Matsell and Voorhis, sup- Ported on one side by the aged Mayor and om the other by the wary Comptroller, groping their way up the stairs at headquarters af midnight and feeling round for the chairs so recently occupied by the convicted Commis. sioners. This in turn gave place to the rep- resentation of a meeting of the Police Board, with every Commissioner voting for himself for President or Treasurer. Next came the shadowy likenesses of an old gentleman ina terrible rage calling on Disbecker to resign, with the sturdy figure of the Commissioner in the background, holding his thumb to his nose and his fingers spread out in the shape of a fan. Now we behold a gouty semblance of Methuselah in the presidential chair of the Mulberry street mansion, crowned with oa high paper cap made out of an old number of the Police Gazette, while an equally venerable and gro- tesque figure is seen at his back, dancing a breakdown on his spectacles and tecth, which he has sportively but recklessly cast on the floor. On the left is Disbecker, with one hand under his coat-tail and the other sawing the air, delivering a Fourth of July oration, and on the left Voorhis disconsolate, weeping on the shoulder of Comptroller Green. In the background appears a slim general in full uniform, carrying away 4 cash box and a pay- roll and apparently well pleased with himself and the rest of mankind. When we say that Matsell was yesterday elected President of the Police Commission we complete the humiliating history of thia police scandal so far as it has yet reached. A deeper disgrace could not have fullen on the | city, even if the two convicted Police Come missioners had been suffered to resume the positions from which they were expelled by the law; but the organization of the Board will at least enable the men to receive their pay for June, and thus far it is well that the deadlock was broken. After all, in sucha commission there was but little choice as ta who should be made officers of the Board, sa far as the people are concerned, All we can now hope for must come from the action of Governor Dix. Iuports Simi Nor Excessive. —Although there has been a revival of the import trade since the effect of last winter's panic passed away the amount of importations at the port of New York has not been large compara- tively. For the last week there was an exces of $1,000,000 worth over the corresponding week of 1873, but less by nearly $1,000,000 than in 1872. For the whole period from the 1st of January the amount was $216,261,011 ; for the corresponding period of 1873 it was $217,215,615, and for the like period of 1872, $230,715,490. This is merchandise only and exclusive of specie. So far, then, the im- ports of 1874 were over $1,000,000 less than in | 1873, and upwards of $14,500,000 less than in 1872. With an augmenting population and a larger increase of exports the balance of trade is becoming more favorable. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. There’s that Bates again! Grand march through Europe—fages of all nations. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man! Professor O. S, Peirce, of Harvard College, ts at the Brevyoort House, Alome ruler, hearing the sphinx spoken of as “g monster man,” said, “A Munster mani [ thougiit he was from Connaught.” Congressman W. J, Hynes, of Arkansas, has am rived at the Astor House. ‘The Governor General of the Dominion and | Countess of Dufferin arrived at Tadousac on Tues- day, They are expected in Quebec early next week, Apropos to the mooted succession of the Duke of Edinburgh to the Grand Ducal turone of Saxe- | Coburg Gotha, the Prussian journals think it mon- strous that an English Prince should get aGerman Duchy. Do they always want German Dukes to get English thrones? Judge Armstrong, of Ottawa, Canada, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘The Court Journal says that Sartoris and Nellie are in Europe “for their honeymoon,” and are “asked out a good deal to Tyburnian dinners and Belgravian balls.” The Emperor of Austria will pass six weeks im | the Isle of Wight this summer, The opening of the new Admiralty Gardens av St. Petersburg has created a peculiar jealousy im Germany. The |Weser Zeitung calls it the ninth or tenth wonder of the world—a breathing place for the lineal descendant of Peter the Great, Bishop Hendricken, of Providence, is sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. if anybody appoints Gardner, Charlick or Matsell to any place whatever, shoot hiin on the spot, Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada, 1s resid- ing at the Albemarle Hotel. It is reported on good authority that on the last pennies coined at the British mint the head of the Queen reaily resembles her. The Spanish Geveral Caballero de Rodas is ren- dered harmless in a Carlist point ofview. He te down with rheumatism. Captain W. Watson, of the steamship Parthia, te stopping at the Everett House. Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., died at Donore, [reiand, Jane 25, Professor Tracy Peck, of Corneli University, te registered at the Astor House, As the British freeman continues to beat hts wife it is proposed to try the effect on him of the lash a8 in the case of garroters. Senator Jonn P. Stockton and family, of New | Jersey, have apartments at the Gilsey House. Mr. Levien’s conduct has been investigated at in Hindoostan, and prononnced im- proper. The Shartstadar 1s also in bad odor. Major A. S. Nicholson, of the United States Ma» rine Corps, ts quartered at the Albemarle Hotel. A BRECHERISM. Let Mrs. Stowe, who found the loop ‘Yo hang Lord Byron’s guilt on, Now try her rl at vindicate ‘The lame of ly Tilton. —Cincinnatt Commerciat. Judge J. A, Campbeli and General George A. Sheridan, of New Orleans, are at the Filth Avenue | Hotel. Assoctate Justice Joseph P. Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hote! yesterday from Washington, Mr. Burton, of Engiand, disliked Si Reginald Barnewell and eased his mind by writing ta “vartons members of the aristocracy” letters, ef which the following is a specimen:—~ Are yon acquainted with that dangerous, lying, slandering. penniless scamp, Sir Reginaid Barne- well—she disgracet) man; in which hi and writes about young ladies and pions persons. amongst whom are om ‘enslemen of high character in order ry and damage their reputation, whiea is most shamefal * i nave been assured that he i a profigire Insm adventurer and fortune hunter.—Very truly yours BELGRAVIA, SATURDAY, LOUISA PLET, A jury of his countrymen have disapproved ot this plan and pronounce Burton enilty of bel