The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1874, Page 8

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STRINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street —Maccabe'’s BEGUNE DULL CARE, at8P. M.; closes at 10 F. M. | SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of Twenty ee treet, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, avs P. | cause of the revolution in France. Since | atism and back again. | Servatism and the tory ideas of Wellington ; in Germany, emancipation in America and | Catholic influence in Pagliament, which dis- | sented from his views on education and gave j censure of Lord Salisbury. And now all NEW YORK AERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1874.--QUADRUPLE NEW YORK HERALD! | A Religious Excitement in England— Controversy Between Mr. and Archbishop Manning. The London Times, in a recent article upon the elections in America, mentioned a point which attracted our own attention at the | time—namely, that the world seemed now to be under the influence of conservative tides. Some years since and the affairs of the nations all ran into radicalism and change. The French Revolution wes the beginning of the new order of events. This was in some respects an inspiration of our American Revolution ; for, while the French uprising would have taken place sooner or later, the successful attempt of the Americans to found & republic was the direct impelling Gladstone then we have had periodical movements of the political tides from radicalism to conserv- The Reign of Terror was followed by Waterloo and the Holy Alliance. Then came the revolution which established Louis Philippe and the English Reform bill agitation, followed by Guizot con- aud Peel. Then we rolled back to the revolutionary movements of that year of | change, 1848, when socialism began to be a political power; then to the Napoleonic Em- pire and the rise of Prussia into a first class nation; then back to the national movement the Commune. Then once more the con- servative tides which bring the Septennate, Disraeli’s Ministry and the astounding demo- cratic victories at the late election. This shows how the nations of the world are becoming more and mors as one family by the advance of science and the diffusion of univer- sal intelligence, and how as members of one family they respond to the same political emotions. We believe in the steady advance of mankind toward peace, freedom and repub- licanism. But before we come to the ultimate realization of these hopes the tides will come and go with the varying changes of party strife. It is interesting to note, also, the close sympathy between these political movements and religion. Thus Germany, which only yesterday was ina controversy with France, suddenly finds herself in a struggle with the Papacy, and we are tanght that in Bismarck’s eye it is only a new phase of the old controversy. The first blow at the liberal Ministry of Mr. Gladstene came from the him his first defeat. Mr, Disraeli had only one debate in the last segsion of Parliament which menaced the harmony of his Cabinet or the influence of his admjnistration—the de- bate on ritualism, whick led to his public England is excited over another religious dis- cussion between Mr. Gladstone, as leader of the liberal party, and Archbishop Manning, the head of the Catholic Church in England. | The religious tide has swept from the politics of Germany to the politics of Great Britain. His Grace tNe Archbishop addresses the Heraxp a letter, explaining his part in this AY OF MUSIC. BROOKLYN A FP an ls a JULIET, at 8P. M.: closes uPM New York, ‘Sunday, Nov. 15, 1874. From our reps: this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold and lear. Wart Srrezt Yzsterpar.—Prices in the stock market were firm. Gold advanced to 1103. Money was easy at 3 and 3} per cent. ‘The bank statement showed an increase in the reserve. Tae Free in Thi:y-eighth street last night unhappily resulted in the loss of two lives and severe injuries toa man and woman. It appears that this calamity was due to the fright or ignorance of the spectators. Tae New York Cheap Transportation Association has deemed it necessary to take into consideration the recent reports of a com- bination of the principal railroads, and a meeting of its directors was held yesterday. We present the report of the Committee on Railroad Transportation and the resolutions which, after a spirited debate, were adopted. Tar Halse of the Count von Arnim is now attributed to the fact that he intrusted some of the missing documents to his counsel, Dr. Trunkel, who is supposed to have ac- quainted himself with their contents. Dr. Trunkel refuses to be examined in the matter, on the ground that he holds a privileged posi- tion as counsel. Tue Tzmprnance Men are strong enough to bave given their candidate for Governor | eleven thousand votes. Temperance is be- coming a power in politics. Two years ago; the vote was less than two hundred. When the elections become close, as in the past, cold water will play as important a part in politics as the third term. A Conxiston on Chesapeake Bay resulted in the sinking of the steamer Louisiana. Fortu- nately all the passengers were saved, among them, by a curious coincidence, being the members of a naval court martial on their way to Norfolk to investigate the grounding of | the steamer Brooklyn. Of the details of the disaster we give a full account, including the statement of the Captain of the Louisiana. | Tue McKexna Homwrcrpz.—The rumors and counter rumors, recriminations and angry accusations which have followed the murder of McKenna, should all have been made super- Auous by the plain, straightforward action of the law. It is now reported that Coroner Croker and several other persons have been indicted, and this will have the effect of les- | sening the public indignation. The death of | McKenna has been treated as the result of a political quarrel, with which the community bas no concern; but public opinion does not | in these days tolerate the settlement of per- eonal feuds by pistol fights in the streets of New York. The fact that Mr. Croker is a Coroner entitled him to no more consideration from his official colleagues than if he were merely a private citizen, and as the weight of | uvidence, whatever its character, at the inquest | was against him, his indictment would be one step, at least, toward fixing the responsibility ‘| a Jesuit in disguise in the heat of political | always been. lor the crime. | wtatesman, now for the first time darkened bv controversy. This letter, in our desire to con- | vey it at once to the public, has been sent by cable from our London office, and is printed this morning. In order that the controversy may be intelligible to our American readers | our correspondent sends us also by cablea Summary of the manifesto of Mr. Gladstone, "to which the Archbishop's letter to the Henarp is a reply, and the opinions of the London press. The chapter thus pre- sented is an important and extraordi- nary manifestation of the influence of religious questions upon the politics of England. We see how fiercely the tide is sweeping, and that religion is about to play as important a part in English political affairs as in those of Germany. Mr. Gladstone ad- vances the extraordinary and irritating propo- sition that no one can become a convert to Rome without renouncing his mental and moral freedom, thus directly assailing Lord Ripon, a member of his own Cabinet and recently a convert to Rome. The Vatican, he contends, controls the civil actions of a citi- zen, and a Catholic must regard his alle- giance to the Pope as paramount to his allegiance to the nation. The dogma of infallibility exacts from the Catholic absolute and unquestioning obedience to Rome, not only in Europe, but “even in the United a cloud, and fears that Mr. Gladstone’s mani- festo may wreck the work of his (Gladstone's) career and tarnish an illustrious name. It is one of those controversies which can have no end, and which Mr. Gladstone would have been wise, perhaps, to have ignored. ‘The pre- tensions of churches and church ralers, rest- ing, as they do, upon a belief in the heavenly origin of religion, and the direct over- ruling Providence of God over the affairs of men, are frequently in antagonism to the decrees of Commonwealths. We have them in the United States. Many of our churches advance doctrines which might directly con- flict with the citizen's duty to the State. But they rarely, if ever, assume a practical shape, because the tendency of human nature is to regard religion as a sentiment and to make it subordinate to the duty of citizenship. No Catholics in America accept or reject the dogma of Papal infallibility. They may feel that it’ the Pope chooses to regard himself as infallible he has a perfect right to do so, and to find as many as he can to agree with him. So with any other person. There is no rea- son why every clergyman in New York may not advance the doctrine of per sonal infallibility. We are not concerned about the assumption, because it is, after all, | a sentiment, a faith like a belief in the sacra- ments and effectual calling and the commu- nion of the saints. If the Pope or any other religious ruler were to declare in his infallible wisdom that a citizen should not pay taxes, or that he should take up arms against the country, his mandate would be disregarded, if not by the citizen from a sense of patriot- ism, then by the violent and summary process of law. We practically adjust the relations between conscience and allegiance. We have | never yet found them conflict If they ever should conflict the power of the State would be asserted as firmly as it is by Bismarck. There should be no such conflict, and we | believe there is no real ground for it, either in Germany or England. Mr. Gladstone's fear that the Pope is about to drag Europe into a war seems to be baseless, and is proba- bly intended for political effect upon the minds ot Englishmen. A religious war would be the most dreadful of all calamities. Arch- bishop Manning only asserts what has been | the teaching of the Roman Church since St. Peter, and what every clergyman in New York will reiterate, so far as his own creed is con- | cerned, that the law of conscience is para- mount to any other law. Practically, how- ever, the claim has no value, and for Mr. Gladstone to present it now as a new assump- tion of power on the part of the Roman Church is to create a danger that has no life and need never exist under a free and wise government. Heb riba takes The New Mayor and the Municipal Government. Mayor Wickham took an early opportunity after election to proclaim hisintention to gov- ern the city independently according to the best of his ability, and to be ‘“‘nobody’s man.” | The declaration was the more significant inas- much as one of the Tammany Johns had laid claim to Mr. Wickham in the nominating con- vention as “my candidate,’’ and the impres- sion prevailed that the power behind the throne rather than the power on the throne would control the city government during the next two years. The new Mayor could not have better satisfied the people of New York than by this timely announcement of inde- pendence, and, as Mr. Wickham is a practical business man and bears a good repu- tation for integrity, his fellow citizens will give him credit for meaning just what he says. Indeed, the lesson of the election must teach him the prudence of refusing to make the interests of the city subservient to the | interests of any man or set of men in his ap- pointments or in his official policy. The can- didate of one of the Tammany Johns was de- feated by ten thousand majerity in a city which gave a democratic majority of about forty-three thousand—a rebuke administered by more than thirty thousand democratic voters. The same result might have followed a union on a popular opposition candidate for Mayor, and perhaps Mr. Wickham owes it to the respectability of his own character and to a latent belief in his independence that such a combination was not made. He is young in political life, and it will not be well to disap- States, where separation between the Church and State is supposed to be complete.” The natural sequence of this claim on the part of the Pope must be a renewal of the agitation for the temporal power and consequent jeop- ardy tothe peace of Europe. In other words, Romanism is driving the nations to war, and Mr. Gladstone calls upon Englishmen to re- member what sacrifices their fathers made for Protestantism and to be true to religious freedom now. This is certainly an extraordinary mani- festo. Mr. Gladstone has been denounced as strife, and he certainly destroys that impres- sion. His Holiness the Pope, whose temper does not mellow with advancing years, is said to have become angry and to have publicly stigmatized Mr. Gladstone as ‘‘a viper assail- ing St. Peter."’ Archbishop Manning comes into the lists. He denies that the Vatican decrees change in any way the civil re- lations of the citizen to the State. Infalli- bility bad been a doctrine before the act of the Council making ita dogma. That Coun- cil did not create a new doctrine, but de- clared an old truth, and the relation of the Catholic citizen to the State is what it has “Civil obedience,” says the Archbishop, ‘‘rests on natural law. Revealed truth is the law of God.” Consequently the law of God teaches all men that they must, for the good of socicty, obey civil ralers “in all things which are lawful."’ The Archbishop thus admits in this reservation the same prin- ciple which was so much in vogue during our anti-slavery discussions, and which Seward spoke of asthe ‘‘higher law."’ Seward and the anti-slavery statesmen contended that a “higher law’’—a law of conscience—com- paid them to disobey the Fugitive Slave de- crees. Archbishop Manning advances the same principle when he reserves to his Church the right to decide what laws are or are not binding upon the conscience of the Catholic citizen, ‘This is, as we have said, an extraordinary controversy. The Archbishop evidently writes under deep feeling, for he refers to the forty- five years of his fmendship for the great point public expectation on his first trial. There ought to be changes in the municipal departments. The failure of Mr. Havemeyer's administration is proverbial, and that failure is due to the character of his appointments. If Mr. Wickham will act toward the citizens as he would act in his own private business, and will place at the head of the departments men of character, capacity and intelligent liberality, without regard to the political aspirants who will clamor for office, or to the leaders who will-want to use the appoint- ments to increase their own power, the most sweeping changes he can make will meet with public approval. But, if he should be an in- strument in the hands of political managers, or should imitate Mayor Havemeyer by dis- placing one set of official harpies by another, he will forfeit the confidence of the people and leave bebind him a reputation worse than that of his predecessor. With the consent ot the Governor he will have the power to remove any heads of departments, tor he is the sole judge of what constitutes a “cause” for removal. The people want a change. They want to see the management of the city finances in competent hands; the streets put into decent condition; the police made as good a force as it was under the Met- ropolitan Board; the public charities and the Fire Department rescued from their present managers ; the uptown improvements dragged from the mire of stagnation in which they have been sunk for the past three years. This is the work they expect Mayor Wickham to perform through respectable and indepen- dent appointments in the several municipal de- pariinents. He has the choice between satis- fying the roasonable demands of the people or becoming a mere partisan tool in the hands of men who will use him as their ‘candidate’ as long as they have need of him, and then cast him ont and cart him off to the political junk shop. Mr. Gienpenntyo's Drrencr.—The Rev. Mr. Glendenning's defence rests entirely upon charges of the gravest nature against poor Mary Pomeroy. In his examination betore the Presbytery he stated that she had con- fessed to him her improper intimacy with sev- eral persons and announced that he was willing American statesman cares whether Roman | to give their names. This assertion caused the | wildest excitement in the church, and the ex- clusion of the audience was the result. Mr. Glendenning will, we presume, be asked to give the names of these persons at the meeting the Presbytery will hold to-morrow, and a new | element will thus be introduced into the case. The indignation against Mr. Glendenning is principally caused Ly the belief in the inno- cence of Miss Pomeroy, and if these startling accusations against her are sustained the ques- tion of his frailty will become of minor im- portance. If he cannot sustain them the at- tempt to prove her to have been as bad asa strumpet will recoil with terrific effect upon his own head. Sunday Amusements in New York. The moral questions which are involved in | Sunday amusements receive full corsideration to-day from a large number of our correspond- ents, clergymen, actors and laymen, who are between the two extreme classes. The exact degree in which worldly or material enjoyment on Sunday is consonant with religious duty and respect for the sacred day is the point in dispute. All enjoy- | ment of the kind is certainly no longer proscribed, and, of late years, professing Christians allow themselves a latitude which would have shocked their pious grandparents. Achurch member may stroll on the Boule- vard or drive in the Park or sail on the rivers, read novels or write nov- els on Sunday without forfeiting his position. Even the clergyman who preaches a good sermon enjoys a good dinner anda fine cigar afterward. The problem to be solved is where the line is to be drawn, beyond which indulgence in amusements becomes an offence to religion or morality. Personally every one must draw this line according to his own conscience, but when we come to public amusements society is profoundly interested in the question, and the opinions of represen- tative men should be thoughtfully and im- partially studied. The practical question of Sunday amuse- ments in our large cities, and especially at present in New York, concerns theatres and the opera. Last Sunday seven musical or dramatic entertainments were given in this city under the title of ‘grand sacred concerts.” Others are announced for to-day. So we are really asked to decide whether theatres, opera houses, concert rooms, &c., shall be open on Sunday here, just as they are in New Orleans or in many European cities. Any light that can be thrown upon the propriety and morality of such en- tertainments on the seventh day of rest will be welcomed, and we there- fore present to-day the opinions of many distinguished divines, managers and actors. Among these will be found a letter from the Rev. George H. Hepworth, written in excellent taste and moderation, and valuable communications from Dr. Porteous and Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, together with opinions of a very decided character from Archbishop McCloskey, Dr. Rylance and others. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham is the only clergyman who boldly advocates Sunday evening concerts, and thinks that ‘when a man has been to eburch once on Sunday he has been enough.”’ Among the contributions of actors and man- agers we give the speech of Mr. E. L. Davenport at the Brooklyn Theatre in reply to tae Rev. Mr. Talmage, a clergyman who attacks theatres as being immoral insti- tutions on secular days as well as on the Sab- bath. Max Strakosch pays his respects to the Rev. Dr. McGlynn in reference to the produc- tion of Verdi’s new mass, and several corre- spondents of the dramatic profession earn- estly defend its interests. This targe array ot intelligent opinions, so opposite and irre- concilable, affords an interesting and, we be- lieve, an improving study to all who. would understand the new elements which are up- heaving American society. The P: xs’ Topics To-Day. Faith is the most important faculty in man, without which he could not live in peace with his fellow men any more than with his God. There are different kinds of faith, but unless it be to war against sin and evil habits we know not what ‘fighting faith’ is good for; but Dr. Deems will, doubtless, explain all about it this morning. It was the power of faith and prayer that caused the King Ahasuerus to spend one sleepless night, the results of which the Jewish people throughout the world commemorate annually, and concerning which Mr. Pendleton will speak this evening. It was faith that unveiled God, not only to the ancient patriarchs, but to the dying thief, in answer to prayer, about whom Mr. Hawthorne will speak to-day. It was faith that impelled the patriarch Noah to build the ship that car- ried the world’s inhabitants-—-emblem of the Gospel-ship that carries the inhabitants of the world of bliss thither, about which Mr. Boole will speak ; and it is faith that makes the life that now is worthy of our regard, and the life that is to come, concerning which Dr. Thompson will speak, a reality to the pious soul. Faith putsa man on the safe side, os Mr. Sweetser will demonstrate, and shows him his rights and his duties toward God and toward all men; it helps men to love their neighbors, because they have confidence in them, as, no doubt, Mr. Terry will demon- strate, and it sets up God and His attributes as the model of perfection for humanity to copy, as Mr. Hitchcock will show. A hard winter is probably before us, and anything tbat will tend to inspire and encour- age people should be welcome in view of the months to come. Mr. Kennard bas a few hopeful words, which he will utter thereon. He will also show the majesty of the character that can say ‘‘No’” to temptation, however gilded and specious it may appear to the eye or themind. ‘‘The Prodigal’s Return” is still able to do its share in persuading prodigals of Mr. Merritt. Dr. Ganso will strike the note to the heavenly host who tuny their harps anew for every prodigal’s return and make the upper regions ring with the melody of heaven. The example of Dorcas and her memorial work has led hundreds and thou- sands of her sex in the Christian Church to do likewise, and the seed of the good woman has multiplied in every land ; and yet there | is work and tospare for all of her name and kind could they be multiplied a thousund- | fold more. There will be work for Dor- cas in this city between this and the 1st of April, and we dare eay Mr. MacArthur will stimulate his people to noble deeds and almsziving in this direotion to-dav. to-day to return, and will be so used by | ) With a handsome surplus. The threat of the SHEET. The Religious Press on the Elections. The smoke of the election battle having cleared off the religious press now review the lists of killed and wounded and take account of the gains and losses of the victors and the vanquished. ‘This is the uppermost topic in their columns this week. The Independent thinks the defeat of the republican party now is as overwhelming as was its triumph two years ago in this State. And the power that has done this, it thinks, can elect a President. It says that it would not be an over-statement of its magnitude to call this reversion a general hurricane in politics. The change is not due to any inherent strength in the democracy, but to the indifference or the designed rebuke of their own party by republicans. If the republican leaders appreciate this fact and act accordingly they will repair all the dam- ages of this election. The Christian Union discusses a few great. questions which seem to be involved in this election. One cause of the defeat of the republican party, it thinks, is the general industrial dis- content, which would be fatal to any party in power. Another is the loss of esprit de corps in the republican ranks through long con- tinued power and hopeful expectation of con- trol, which have produced ambitious jeal- ousies and quarrellings and consequent weak- ness in the party. ‘Chird, the disturbed mone- tary condition of the country. Fourth, the substitution of policy for principles in the government and mind of the nation, and the discussion of a third term—though this last point, the Union thinks, did not weigh very much with the people. The Union indicates the policy, based on these causes, which shall prolong its power in the country. The Chris- tian at Work gives three cheers for the suc- cessful candidates and three more for the defeated ones, and administers a pain ex- tractor to the latter by reminding them that the successful candidates have now care, anxiety, hard work, temptations to worldli- ness and additional temptatione to dissipation, all of which the defeated ones have escaped. The Baptist Weekly says the causes of the defeat of the republican party are numerous, not the least of which was the President's silence in regard to the third term; the Crédit Mobilier and Sanborn scandals, together with temperance, monetary and industrial questions, which entered more largely into the canvass in cities. The Liberal Christian says it is not in all respects quite clear what the people intend to do about the revolution in politics. The result has astonished alike those who lost and those who won. Among its most prominent indications are the death of King Caucus, the refusal of intelligent, thinking voters to be controlled by results of ® caucus, in which fair play had no place, and their refusal also to permit the policy of the country to be be declared for them by a set of government officials moved as puppets by in- trigues behind the screen. The Methodist thinks that so sweeping a revolution as this is matched only by that by which the whig party was destroyed in 1852, and by that by which Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. The causes ascribed by the Methodist for the downfall of the republi- can party are similar to those already given by the Christian Union. The Christian Leader says it is difficult to find a man of good sense even among those who voted for Governor Dix who is in anywise sore over the defeat of the republican party. This, the Leader remarks, is a remarkable state of affairs; and yet “what it means is as plain as the headline of an administration organ’ —a pertinent way of putting it. It means that the republican party, as a party, has been ruined by success. It is not dead, nevertheless, though its principles are lying about some- where. The Evangelist contents itself with a valedictory compliment to the ont going Governor and a salutatory to the incoming one, whose political crotchets is the only thing it fears. His integrity and politi- cal sagacity are above suspicion, and no doubt is entertained, except on this score, that he will make an excellent Governor. The Free- man’s Journal calls it a political earthquake, an overturn—revolution is no name for it— and says there has been nothing like it since 1852. It is not the result of any platform, plan, party or combination intending such a result. The Tablet discusses the philosophy of the elections and believes there is no more indubitable demonstration that Kuow-Nothing- ism is dead; but the Tablet wants the Otten- dorfer-Havemeyer party completely ousted and the Americans and Irish more thoroughly united. The Chicago Interior is pleased with the activity which has produced this political change in the country, because it indicates a healthy life, whereas stagnation means cor- ruption and death. Our remaining exchanges discuss a variety of topics of more or less de- nominational or party interest, but none of equal importance to this, School Teachers’ ries. The members of the Board of Education announce their intention to reduce the sala- ries of the regular teachers in the public schools, to meet the reduction in their appro- priation made by the Board of Apportionment, There is no reason why they should do any such unwise and unpopular act. They can save more than the sum deducted from their estimate by discontinuing the services of all special “professors” of German, French, music, &c. The common school system does not contemplate instruction in these fancy branches of education, and the special teachers, who are generally protégés of the Commissioners, are paid at a rate of compensation largely in excess of that awarded to the legitimate teachers. Let the Board of Education abolish these agreeable little sinecures and there will be no necessity to reduce the teachers’ sala- ries a single dollar. When the appropriation of the Charities and Correction Department was cut down this year we were threatened with the closing of some of the institutions. They remained in operation, however, and the close of the year finds the department Board of Education is no doubt intended to have its effect on the Aldermen, who now have the city estimates under consideration. The Aldermen should take the hint, and by resolution direct the discontinuance of these special fancy teachers in the Lic schools. ‘Tae New ‘Gcncotanatrosts t Anxansas, in reference to the constitutionality of the new State constitution and the eligibility of the recently elected Governor. threaten snother reign of strife and confusion in the State and another settlement by the intervention of the President with another proclamation. Already an appeal has been addressed to him against the recognition of the Governor elect; but our special despatches inform us that he recognizes the extreme difficulty of dealing justly with these internecine State quarrels, and has given the Attorney General instructions to ‘‘fence” the issue until the meeting of Congress. If the adherents of Baxter's Lieutenant Gover- nor insist on placing him at the head of affairs 8 conflict cannot be avoided, and it will then be impossible for the President to withhold federal aid for the prevention of further blood- shed over the miserable squabble maintained by the politicians of Arkansas. The Removal ef the Commissioners of Accounts, Poor Mr. Havemeyer seems determined not to die in peace. The people disposed of him quietly enough, and have been willing that he should pass out of sight as calmly as a dissolv- ing view and be forgotten. But the restless old gentleman will not have it so. Like the tailor’s wife, he insists on creating a disturb- ance and having the last word. Fortunately for the people he is within seven weeks of the close of his official life. It might be supposed that he would be anxious to make amends fos his former vagaries so far as the brief time left would permit, and, at least, avoid any further scandals. His removal of the Com- missioners of Accounts dissipates that idea, Messrs. Howe and Bowland are among the very few of poor Mr. Havemeyer’s appointees wha have discharged their public duties honestly ond efficiently. In their investigations of the departments they have acted with indepen- dence. They have exposed the looseness of the Finance Department, the corraption of the Department of Charities and Correction, and had recently concluded an investigation of the Fire Department not very creditable, it is said, to its management. They had just commenced an official examination of the Parks and Dock Departments and of the Chamberlain’s securities, when their work was stopped by their removal. Poor Mr. Havemeyer may have simply ine dulged in one of his customary pranks in making change in this Commission at the present time, or there may be a reason for the removal in which the taxpayers have an interest. As the latter idea seems to prevail, Tax Commissioner Wheeler, who is ex officio at the head of the Commission, will be held responsible for its future action. It is hie duty now to personally superintend the work in which his late associates were em gaged at the time of their removal. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. +. Francis D. Moulton, the “Mutual Friend,” is vise iting Richmond, Va. If the girls want Mr. Tilden to marry why don’= they propose to nim? Mme. Camilla Urso is among the latest arrivals at the Union Square Hotel. Miss Braddon’s novels are translated into com gental French by M. Bernard Verosne. Major Close, of the Britisn Army, has gone into close quarters at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Anew history of the county of Cork has been written by a Miss Cussock, and will soon appear. Moltke went to his country home for a period of rest, but was suddenly recalled to Berlin. Whats for? . Secretary Bristow arrived in this city yesterday morning from Washington and is at the Filth Ave. nue Hotel. Mr. Richard Potter, President of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, has apartments at the . Brevoort House. “Tidal Wave” ts the subject now referred to when anybody uses the initials “T. W.,” which are famous letters in politics. Lieutenant Colonel Washington L. Elliott and Major Oliver D. Greene, United States Army, are registered at the Sturtevant House. A new book on “The Civil Law of France to th¢ Present Time” has been written by Mr. D. M. Aird an English barrister, and will soon be published, Mr. David Chadwick, a member of the Britis¥ Parliament, returned to this city from San Fram cisco yesterday and took up bis residence at th¢ Brevoort House. ‘The election for Lord Rector of the University a Edinburgo was held yesterday and resulted in the choice of the Earl of Deroy, who received 77! votes, against 583 given for Right Hon. Lyon Play fair. There is published at Barcelona, Spain, a repu lean comic paper entitied La Flaca, which ts full of caricatures of men and events. It made great fun of King Amadeus during his brief occupancy of the Spanish throne. An American firm baving advertised for sale a book entitled ‘Paths of Life,” purporting to be written by Princess Alice, of Engiand, tt is deniea op authority in London that she wrote any bocg or is engage‘ in writing any. Among the distinguished arrivals in Wasaington yesterday were Elisha H. Allen, Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Sanawich Islands, and H. A. P, Carter, Special Commissioner. Their business i¢ stated to be the negotiation of atreaty with the United States, Five bogsheads, containing forty-five saddies, were at Bayonne the other day, on their way from Germany to Spain, sold by Germans to the Car. lists. They bore, however, the mark of the Frenck government factory and were of French make; but the Germans got them at Metz, so their title regarded as good. The jate Dr. Granville, whose autobiography hag just appeared in London, was a sort of Gil Blas among doctors. He wandered all over Europe, led a gay and varied life, traversed half the seas of the world asa naval surgeon, and wrote halfa dozen books on the spas and watering placeg, dying at the age of ninety. Twenty barrels entered as “salt meat’ and “Australian beef” were seized at Portsmouth, Enge land, October 23, and in each barrel was found the corpse of a full grown negro. They reached Eng- land fromthe United States and were intended for dissection in London; but who sent them and where did the sender get them? ‘The main feature of a new plan, on trial io the British Navy, jor raising sunken ships are closing hermetically toe hatches and ali openings in the upper parts and pumping down alr. The air thus introducea rises toward the under side of the deck, and, not be.ng able to escape, presses the water duwn and out through the holes made in the ship’s bottom. The vessel by this means will be rendered buoyant and rise to the suriace, If Beecher ts tried on Tilton’s suit with Moulton asa witness the case is strong against Beecher; but 1f Miss Proctor’s case against Moulton shoud come of frst the chances irom the necessary dif. Aculttes are against Moulton, nud if he 1s beaten there it will greatly weaken hts evidence in tue other case. Hence Beecher’s counsel wish to de- lay their case that the other may be tried first, For this reason they will push their demand for a vil of particulars irom court to court, up to the last resort, In 1791 8 company of the Paris National Guard, who culled themselves tne conquerors of the Bastille, formally presented themselves to the Dauphin, the mythical Louis XVII, a set of dom: inoes, made out of a dark colored stoue and murble taken from the aévris of the famous prison. Louis playea with them, Napoleon played with them and even Louts XVII, had them in his pos- Session. These dominoes survived many stormy times, but they disappeared when the Communists burned the Tutleries, Are they in the rains, oF were they taken before the firay