The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1874, Page 4

4 ee St NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND DANN STREET. SAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yore Hxerarp will be sent free of postage, pense SB EERE! EE All business or news letters -and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorr Hezarp. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. Rejected communications wil] not be re- | turned. 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. Volame XXXIX No. 332 | AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, ats 'P. M.; closes at 100. wr Boucicault, Matinee at 1:30 P.M. NIBLO’S GARDEN. Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.— | PIZARRO and WILLIAM TELL, ata P.M. Matinee at | TB) P M—IVANHOL and PAREI'A ROSA. BROOKLYN ATHENZOM, BEGONE DULL CARE. Mr. Frederick Maccape. Matinee at 2 P, M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRI Twenty-eighth street and roadway. THE oe sea oa | MIDLOTITAN, a8 Closes at 10:30 Fanny Davenport, Mr. Wished. Matinee at re z es ROBINSON HALL, Fixteenth street, pees Broadway and Fifth avenue.— VARIETY, at8 P.M Le phe bl OPERA HOUSE, | ped Sixth avenue.—NEGRO | L.; closes at lO P.M. van Weet Twe' MINSTRE Bryant Maunee ‘a RE, t 8. M. Lina Mayr. ADT Ti Bowery.—DIE PLEDARMAU TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bo. 21 Bowery.—VARIBTY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10P, M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, a corner Twenty-nin! street —' EINgTRE LAY ¥, ars P. M.; closes at P.M, Matinee ut MRS. CONWAY'S BROUKLYN THEATRE, qMAQBETG, ate a. Miss Clara Morris, Matinee at GLOBE THEATRE, ps mnt pe a ‘at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. Matinee at 2 P.M. bettie THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGO?, ‘a8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss | ‘smuly Soldene. Matinee at i:3) P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—ULTIMO, at 8 P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirteth street—ROUND THE | grece. at@y. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M, Matinee at 2 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Ma 585 Broaaway.—VANIKTY, at § P. * M.; closes at 10 P.M. Matinee at? P. M. 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE fo, 604 Rroaaway”, TYABIETY, ate Fr. AL ;closes at 10:48 | P.M. Matinee at 2 P. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third streetand Kighth avenue.—THE BLACK Gee ai SP. M.; closes at ll P.M, Matinee a11:30 PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets—GILDED AGE, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:3) P. M. Mr. John T. Raymond." Matinee ai2 P.M. ACADEMY OF MU:IC, place —Italian Opera—La TRAVIATA, NORMA, H, FAUST, at 1:30 P. M. Irvin DINO! ... STEINWAY Fourteenth stréet.—THEO. TH’ AM; closes at 10:30 Psat. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Poorteenth street.—Opens at 10 A. M.; closes at SP. M. FOURTEENTH STREET ARMORY, CONCERT, et 8 F. M.; closes at 10 P.M. "Gilmore's | Twenty-second Regiment Band. THEATRE VOMIQUE, yes 5i4 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at 2P. M. BOOTH'’S THEATRE, corner Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue,—HAM- LET, at 8 P.M. ; closes ar 10:40 P.M. Miss Julia Seaman. Matinee at 1:30 P. M.—RIP VAN WINKLE. Mr. Jeffer- son. HALL, OmAS’ CONCERT, at 8 P ROMAN MIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and evening, at Zand & Mew York, feta day,. “Nov. 28, 1874. ‘From o our oe this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy with possibly slight fog. Wars. Sezer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was dull, and the transactions moderate and without feature. Gold is still firm at 1113, Money easy at 3 and 4 per cent on call. Gaznerat Sueripan denies the report that the Black Hills have been invaded by miners, | so that one fear of trouble with the Indians is dispelled. Tue Porr’s ALLocuTion, pronounced on All Saints’ Day, condemning the abuses of the press and improper theatrical entertainments, is an interesting document, and is elsewhere published in full. Tue Ancentiye Repeiion.—The Indians who accompanied the rebel General Mitré have surrendered to the government, from which it would appear the “backbone of the tebellion’’ is broken. Prormsson O'Leary's lecture upon the tendencies of modern scientific thought is elsewhere reported, and is a manly protest against the mistaken policy of arguing scien- tific questions upon purely theological grounds. Ovr Lovistana Despatcn to-day indicates that whatever may be the end of the struggle for the control of that State, Mr. Kellogg is not likely to remain its master. His opinions and those of Warmoth and others upon the Sena- torship are reported by our correspondent. ‘Te Cononrn yesterday made an investign- tion into the facts of a homicide committed on Saturday night, which will take its place be- side the ‘“car-hook murder,’’ under the title of the ‘‘Cart-rung Murder.’’ This crime was the result of a drunken spree, and the pris- oner was committed to the Tombs, Tue Von Anyi Tr1at.—The Court before which Count Von Arnim is to be tried will be usked by the Public Prosecutor to exclude the pablic, The ground is taken that the official documents to be read must be concealed, ag the State might be injured by their publica. tion. So it is to be a Star Chamber affair after all if Prince Bismarck can make it so, but we doubt that it will be possible to hide NEW YOKK HERALD, SATURDAY, The F cial Question im the Forth- coming Message. President Grant is preparing hie annual Message without the aid of a new and strong Cabinet abounding in fresh ideas and saga- cious advice. The Message ought to be an in- spiring document, It ought to sketch, in bold outline, a policy fitted to revive public confi- dence and lift up the republican party from its prostration. A tame repetition of old ideas and stale recommendations will not match the occasion, But without abler advisers than the President has at present it is extremely im- probable that he will conciliate the country by sagacious and admirable recommendations or infuse new courage into the republican party. It seems evident that the Cabinet will not be changed before the meeting of Congress, and that the only chance of any fresh wis- dom in the Message depends on Sec- retary Bristow, who makes a favorable impression as an administrative officer, but who has yet to give the first proof of sucha mastery of financial principles as would qualify him to strike into a new path. But even if Mr. Bristow should unexpectedly bloom into a Hamilton or a Chase, his recommenda- tions will have less weight than if supported by a strong Cabinet of new members high in public confidence, Our purpose in referring thus early to the Message now in preparation is not to pique public curiosity by idle conjectures respecting | its contents, but to tender to the President such timely advice as he might, perhaps, have received from a reconstructed Cabinet, Of course the great topic of all the topics, which ought to overshadow and dwarf every other, is the condition of the currency. have no Cabinet so strong that it would fail to point out this as the most im- portant subject that can engage the attention of Congress. But while it will necessarily find a place in the Message, and must loom up in conspicuous prominence, | it might ag well be left out and ignored as to be introduced for the mere purpose of recog- nizing its importance. If the President has | no specific measures to recommend Congress | will be no wiser and the country be no better satisfied than if he passed over the whole question in silence. It will not suffice to say, no matter with how mach emphasis, that the country ought to return to the specie stand- | ard. All sound thinkers recognize this as in- disputable; but until some safe path to so de- sirable a consummation is shown business will continue in an unsatisfactory state. It is | the duty of the President to devise and present such a plan as he can see his way clear to carry through Congress at the coming | session, and which the mercantile community would be likely to approve. Nothing could be more futile and imbecile merely to tell Congress that legislation on this great subject is necessary without a clear ex- position of specific practical measures, In order to get a thing done it is necessary for somebody to point out how it may be done, and this duty of proposing feasible methods belongs peculiarly to the President, whose annual Message should be a chart for the legis- lation of the session. The currency and finances were a promi- nent topic in President Grant's last annual | imendedj') General Schenck spake’ the old | Message, which was sound enough in its gen- eral ideas, but failed in practical methods. | In the Message of last year the President in- sisted that the most important step toward | specie payments was to make our exports ex- | ceed our imports, and thereby retain in tho country a part of the products of our gold mines in order to accumulate a stock of gold for the redemption of our paper currency. We do not so much object to this idea as to the stage at which it was introduced. The President, to borrow a homely phrase, put the cart before the horse in his last Message. In steps toward re- sumption, the place where the shoe pinches, to borrow another homely phrase, is not a | } dearth of gold in the country, but a revolt of the powerful debtor class against discharging | their obligaticns in a more costly medium than that in which they were contracted. We should move forward on a plain and easy road toward specie payments if this formidable ol stacle did not hedge up the way. A supply | of gold can always be had when it is really | wanted. France, which is not a gold-pro- ducing country, has accumulated a great stock of that metal since the German war, but it has not, as yet, made any use of it, be- cause the first object of its policy is to bring its paper currency securely to par before pay- | ing out any gold for its redemption. It | would be preposterous to attempt a redemp- tion of the greenbacks in gold until they are first brought to par by other methods. So long as there is a difference of a fraction of one per cent the experiment could not be safely tried, because the inevitable consequence would be a ran upon the Treasury which | would speedily exhaust its whole stock of | gold. The indispensable condition of equi- | librium between gold and paper is that they | be previously brought to the same value, so that nothing can be gained by exchanging one | for the other beyond the convenience of the | holder in making certain classes of payments. So long as gold is worth three mills in a dol- lar, or even half a mill in a dollar more than | paper, the profit to be made by the exchange would quickly transfer all the gold into pri- ; vate hands. It is truth of which our states men have as yet but a dim idea, but a trath on which the currency question really hinges, that our currency must be previously brought | to par by other means before a single dollar | of gold can be wisely applied to ite redemp- tion. The Bank of France has a clear per- ception of this truth, and, although it has accumulated an ample store of gold in its vaults it deters any offer to redeem its notes until it gains a permanent assurance that | there can be no substantial variation between the value of its notes and of the coin they Tepresent. If President Grant is wise he will say very | little about accumulation of gold or the bal- ance of trade in the Message he is preparing. The balance of trade will adjust itself without any legislation as soon as our currency is at par, snd no gold will be actually used for re- | demption until after the greenbacks shall pass | in commerce as the equivalent of coined dol- lars. It is absurd to regard actual redemp- tion as the means of bringing greenbacks to par; instead of a means it will be a conse- quence, and @ very easy consequence, of re- storing the value of our paper currency. jxom the world any of the important facts, there were no differance in the norchasing The Presi- | dent's Cabinet is not so feeble, and he could | | than | power of a greenback dollar and a gold dol- lar gold could, even now, be had for the ask- ing; and specie paymente will come of them- selves very soon after the greenbaeks are brought to par under circumstances which guarantee a permanent equality of value, The great problem for the President to solve in such a manner that Congress will adopt his solution is not how a supply of gold can be obtained for specie payments, but how the currency of the country can be brought to par as @ preparatory measure to resumption. In the necessary order of events the actual use of coin for redeeming our paper currency will follow and not precede the restoration of the The Canadian Reciprocity Question. The general expression of the American people is in favor of a reciprocity treaty with Canada, When the old Reciprocity treaty wae in existence the Canadians, although receiv- ing the larger share of its benefits, were un- wise enough to violate its spirit, if not its letter, by the imposition of discriminating tolls on their canals and by other illiberal acts, They had themselves only to thank for the termination of the treaty by the action of the American government on its conditional expiration. A renewal of reciprocity is now proposed, and certainly it promises greater benefits to the colony than to the States. It currency to par. The notes of the Bank of England were at par before that great insti- tution began to redeem them after its long suspension, and there is no instance in all history of a resumption of suspended specie payments until after the paper to be redeemed had already been brought to an equality of value with the redeeming medium. Nobody will dispute that our paper circulation might be brought to par by curtailing its amount The great difficulty consists in discovering method by which this may be done without a great shock to trade and injustice to tho debtor class. This, and not the means of procuring a supply of gold, is the great point which President Grant is bound to eluci date in his Message. Schenck on Our Relations with England. General Schenck, our Envoy Extraordi- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary near | the court of St James, was at the | Cutlers’ annual banquet at Sheffield the other day, which was attended by large and dis- tinguished company. Being called out by a toast from Lord Houghton, in which the United States and England were honored os “engaged in the good work of preserving in- dividual liberty,’’ General Schenck re- | sponded. He said that his countrymen, above | all things, were thankful that they were at | peace with the world, and were particularly | | satisfied that peace prevailed with England; that both countries had powerful reasons for | maintaining a good understauding with each | other, and believed that it necessary they could, united, stand against the world. This is the old and tiresome flapdoodle of the mutual admiration society. Of course the | people of the United States are gratified that, | as our good old ‘rough and ready” President | Taylor expressed it, ‘they are at peace with all | the world and the rest of mankind.”’ Of | course they are particularly gratified with the happy accord prevailing between John Bull and Brother Jonathan, and so on; | but the toast of Lord Houghton | called for something more than these threadbare platitudes, Lord Houghton’s | compliment called for something from General Schenck in exposition of the good work of the United States in “preserving individual lib- erty.” The theme was broad and inviting and the door was thrown open to our Minister ; to enlighten his English audience on such American mysteries as Southern reconstruc- | tion, United States troops, scalawags, carpet- | baggers, Ku Klux Klans, White Leaguers and military Governors. But, mindful of the good old maxim, ‘‘The least said the soonest Minister | speech for such occasions and sat down amid | general applause. And what more could these { | Sheffield cutlers desire than the assurance | | from the United States Minister that the team | of John Bull and Uncle Sam can stand against | the world? ‘‘Soft sawder,"’ according to Sam | Slick, is the essence of wisdom. Russia and the Laws of War. In Europe, and especially in England, the | evident relations of sympathy between Russia | and the United States have been the subject of no small degree of comment, generally | cynical in tone and pharissically deprecating | the notion that the freest of people could | have any points of amity and good will toward | the great autocracy which in theory denied | altogether the claims of individual liberty. ; In England it was fancied that what was | | called the coquetry between this country and | \ Russia was an attention to John Bull. That | | self-sufficient personage flattered himself that | it was only to keep him on his good behavior | that we troubled ourselves with any attention to the Northern Bear. But here is now be- fore the public a fact that indicates | deeper and an unconscious sym- pathy in good purposes between the two nations—a relationship not accounted for | by the shallow theory referred to. Only the United States hitherto among nations has | really endeavored to subject war to rales as | strict as those that govern peace. Onty this nation ever put in the hands of its command- | ersin the field » code for the protection of | the people in whose country war was necessa- | rily carried on. Now Russia is endeavoring | to do in Europe what we did here. It has pre- | pared a code that will take trom war half its | horrors, and present it to the nations and in- | vites their attention to its provisions, Eng- j land turns « cold shoulder, France gives half- | hearted assent and Germany proposes the ad- | dition of impossible conditions, and the | “Great Barbarian North,” like the Great Re- public, stands well nigh alone in the assertion of the interests ond the claims of humanity. This is one of the strange spectacles of the politics of our time. Tax Satany Gravpers.—Tho salary grab- | bers have learned a costly lesson in the dear school of experience, but it comes too late to be of any advantage to them, however impressive as a warning to | bers of the present Congress who voted for salary grab only twenty-four were re- | half of those twenty-four were defeated at the polls. If an expiring Congress had raised the compensation of their successors the public indignation would not have fallen with such severity ; but for men in the public service to ® year previous to the passage of the act evinced so sordid and dishonest » spirit that | the people were justly incensed. Less than one in six of the salary grabbers have been returned to the next Congress. We trust this impressive rebuke will not be lost on their successors. Tue Present Conprrioy of the strike of the A ‘longshoremen and the opinions of steamship | owners on the result are tho subject of gall 4) revort elsewhere nominated by their constituents, and nearly | raise their own pay and date it back for nearly | therefore appears singular that the proposi- tion should call forth the alarm of British Chambers of Commerce and manufacturers, and that the Foreign and Colonial Secretaries of England should deem it neces- sary to explain and in a meas ure apologize for such a treaty. The cable yesterday brought us a long account of an interview between o deputation of the alarmed Chambers of Commerce and Lords Derby and Oarnarvon in London. The repre- sentatives of the English manufacturers pro- tested against any ‘‘dependency”’ of Great Britain being allowed to negotiate a treaty with a foreign country by which England should be placed in a worse condition in trade than such foreigners, They demanded the inser- tion of a clause in any reciprocity treaty be- tween the United States and Canada which shall distinctly declare that ‘‘the United States shall néver have the right to claim any remission of duties not accorded to British commerce.” The British Secretaries entirely concurred in the views expressed by the depu- tation, but affirmed that no provisions unfa- vorable to British trade are inserted in the treaty. Lord Derby suggested to the deputa- tion that if England for any supposed inter- ests of her own should endeavor to prevent the establishment of free commercial relations between Canada and the United States it would create discontent among loyal Cana- dians and strengthen the party in favor of annexation. How far Canada is a “dependency” of Great Britain it is for the colonists to decide. The day appears to have gone by, however, when the home government would venture to prohibit the adoption of a treaty so clearly beneficial to the colony as that proposed with the United States. We do not desire the annexation of Canada at the present time, for our government is large and unwieldy enough as itis. But annexationists on this side of the St. Lawrence are naturally opposed to reciprocity. They believe in granting no favors to Canada until she seeks them bya union with the Republic. Reciprocity is therefore in reality a safeguard of the in- tegrity of the British colonial government. At the same time the most impatient annex- ationist in Canada or the United States could not ask for more effective aid to their cause than would be afforded by the opposition to a commercial treaty between the two countries incited by the selfish interests of British manufacturers. The Report of the Comptroller of the Currency. The report of Mr. John J. Knox, Comp- troller of the Currency, is published in our | columns to-day, and will be read with more than usual interest, as upon the condition of | | the currency and the practical workings of | the act of June, 1874, the nature of the Presi- dent's recommendations in his Message to Congress may to some extent depend. It shows that there has been an increase of national bank circulation in the past year of | $3,576,297, but that there is no danger of ‘ overstepping the limits of the law. The amount of currency subject to withdrawal in States having more than their proportion of circulation, and the amount unissued, places at the disposal of the Oomp- troller for redistribution among States which are deficient $47,350,743. This amount, it would seem, should | satisfy the demands the South and West have portioned will go far towards silencing the demands for inflation. The Eastern States, | with 511 banks, a capital of $162,596,482, and an outstanding circulation of $109,705,018, and the Middle States, with 585 banks, a paid in capital of $191, 471,669, aud a circulation of $123,052,872, have no wish to retain a dol- H lar of currency which is not their legal right from the other sections of the country. One great cause of complaint from the West is, therefore, likely to be removed. This new distribution is to bo made on the basis of pop- 30, 1875. The value of national bank notes, | as compared with legal tenders, the statistics | of the withdrawal of the latter, and the amounts held by the banks, with other essen- | tial points, will be found clearly detailed in the report. Failure of Negro Suffrage in the District of Columbia. It is an illogical and unwarrantable infer- ence from the bad effects of negro suffrage in the federal district to argue, as some of our proves its inexpediency in the Southern States. Andyet the argument has an air of superficial plausibility. The negroes of Washington are probably more intelligent than the average of their race. Most of them were bred in Maryland and Virginia, where session of civil and political rights, and are on their suffrage proved to be one of the most corrupt and scandalous that ever existed, and Congress was compelled to abolish it and sub- stitute a government from which the will of the people as expressed in elections is ex- cluded. If the comparatively intelligent negroes of Washington cannot be trusted with and plausible which infers the necessity of also taking it away from the negroes of the Gulf States. sound. It is really as absurd ag an argument against universal suffrage founded on Tweed's late control of certain classes of voters in the city of New York. The negroes of Washington were subject to influences which operate in few other places. They were dependent for employment on the local public works, man- aged by the notorigua Washington ring, whouo made for more currency, and if it is justly ap- | ulation and wealth, in the year evuding June | contemporaries are doing, thatits failure there ; slavery was least oppressive, They were the | earliest of the negroes to come into pos- | presumed to have bad superior guidance from | | friendly whites interested in their welfare, | thers. Of thi bund: aan | She catc one Sanwted and Sweeny But the Washington local government founded | the elective franchise the argument is specious | But the argument is only specious and not nh | claim is not universally admitted even as a } NOVEMBER 28, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT; control over fheir means of subsistence operated as a bribe for their votes, In the greater part of the South they are exposed to no such temptation, and as soon as federal coercion is withdrawn from that section negro voting will be just as safe as that of the illiterate whites of the South, who have always exercised the right of suffrage. “Boss” Shepherd's bribes in Washington prove just 8 little as “Boss” Tweed’s bribes in New York as to the safety or expediency of uni- The Philosophy of Cold Weather. At the recent Philadelphia meeting of the Academy of Science an interesting paper was read on the cause of our sudden and extreme cold, which has long been a matter of inquiry among scientific men. The conclusion ar- rived at by the eminent author of the paper was that the rapid transitions from heat to cold are not occasioned by the horizontal sweep of polar winds from north to south, but by the vertical descent of frigid air from high to low levels of the atmosphere. Although this generalization is not new it is of great inter- est in many climatic points of view, and very suggestive to those interested in atmospheric changes, It is contended that the climatic ex- tremes are due to a reversal of the differently heated strata of the atmosphere, occurring daring the variations of pressure so incessant in the gaseous ocean above us, The discus- sion of the paper elicited from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution the equally valuable suggestion that the sudden fall of temperature is rather attributable to high northerly currents of air, which, under the given conditions, dip downward till they touch the surface of the earth and impart their chilling influence. Without attempting to decide the relative merits of these two varying views it is im- portant to notice how far they may be sus- tained by observation. For, if the former is exclusively to be accepted, it would seem to involve conditions hard to find realized in the actual operations of nature, and it upsets many rules of meteorology which experience has in- dorsed. According to the reasoning of the paper mentioned the sudden declension of | temperature is precipitated from the upper atmosphere when its equilibrium has been violently disturbed, the cold cloud strata ex- changing places with the warm surface strata of air. It can hardly be questioned that it sometimes happens the ther- mometer st a place will fall very low, when at more northerly places in the vicinity the corresponding fall is less marked. Much weight is attached to this circumstance to preve that the thermal de- pression isnot propagated from the regions nearer the pole. The fact that in summer storms, very localand circumscribed in their extent, the mercury suddenly drops down, when clear and hotter weather prevails north of the storm, is also pressed into service by the advocates of this view; but the evidence adduced in its support is by no means exten- sive or conclusive. If the polar cold which often develops itself so quickly is due to a disarrangement of the aerial strata we should expect the lowest thermal depressions in the tropics, where the Most violent disturbances occur. The high air over the tropical ocean is intensely cold, | and if it descended during great barometric | changes it would be felt in Cuba and Jamaica | as a cold snap in midwinter is felt in New York and New England. Especially in the tropical hurricane season, from August to October, when the greatest agitations of the ‘atmosphere occur, the severest frosts and | freezes might be looked for, and the cane fields | could scarcely survive the shock thus induced one year in twenty. Experience shows that no such thermal phenomena are observed in the warm latitudes as the theory calls for; and this known fact, wore there no other explanation of our sudden cold spells, such | better solution than any afforded by the hypothesis proposed. If, on the other hand, the suggestion of Professor Henry, which accords with the views generally entertained by scientific inves- tigators, be accepted, it explains most, if not all, of the facts observed, and affords a ready key to the winter climatology of the globe. The inquiry is one of great interest and im- by others skilled in such investigations. English Views of Infallibility. Whether the command to render unto God the things that are God's has really any- thing to do with the position Mr. Gladstone has taken is being earnestly debated in Eng- | Catholic Church as bitterly as any one could— the two giants in the caves, who were impotent to harm the Protestant English nation. Mr, Gladstone’s fears of the effect of the doctrine of infallibility seem to be unnecessary two hundred years after Bunyan’s time. ' stone, which we publish to-day, had any Catholic said, “I am a Catholic first and an Englishman after,” it is doubtful if Catholic , emancipation would have been granted by Parliament, but it is now too late to specu- late upon such questions, It is not | probable that many English Catholics now have any intention to dispute about priority of allegiance to the State or Church, for the reason that the S:ate and Church are | unlikely to come into conflict. Lord Camoys, who isa Roman Catholic, refuses to accept the doctrine of the personal infallibility of ; the Pope and concurs in Mr, Gladstone’s views. Here is a new proof that the question is not practical. We find additional evidence in | the reply of Monsignor Capel to the criticism of Mr. Gladstone on the Vatican decrees, who shrewdly points out that conscience is re- garded as supreme in all matters by the Prot- estant Church as well as by the Catholic. impartial observers. Ifthe Pope chooses to claim infallibility we do not see any objec- | tion, especially when Lord Camoys’ example shows that even in the Catholic Church this | matter of theory—much less of practical rule. Sunpay AmusementTs.—A large number of our most influential citizens, whose names are elsewhere printed, have signed a letter to the Board of Police Commissioners demanding that the Sunday laws in respect to amuse- | ments shall be impartially enforced, the | ®8 Professor Henry suggests, would require 9 | portance, and we hope it will be followed up | Cawsar the things that are Casar’s and unto | land. Even in Bunyan’s allegory—and the | author of the ‘‘Pilgrim’s Progress’’ hated the | the Pope was placed with Pagan as one of | The dispute does not seem at all necessary to | | Bierstadt, called ‘King River Canyon, California.” China and Japan. From the basis on which has been arranged the settlement of the differences between China and Japan we get the most accurate ine dication of the exact point of difference, China agrees to pay to Japan half a million taels, or seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and Japan agrees to withdraw her forces from the island of Formosa. Japan has, therefore, offered to China either horn of a diplomatio dilemma. China, it will be remembered, had declined all responsibility for Formosa or her people when there was something to be done in the interests of humanity against that diffl- cult country. Energetic little Japan, how- ever, went and did what was demanded for the safety of the seas, and having punished the pirates seemed disposed to make the coasts safe by keeping possession. Thereupon Obina discovered that the country was hers. She had a claim, and demanded that Japan should withdraw her troops. ‘Very well,’’ said Ja- pan, “if this country is yours we want an in- demnity for the money we have spent in punishing the pirates, and will leave; if it is not yours we will stay, So China has decided that the country is hers, and will pay the money. Japan’s firm attitude ona point directly and clearly in the interest of civilization and commerce does her honor as the foremost Eastern student of Western thought. But the solution is, nevertheless, to be regretted by commercial nations, If Japan had remained in possession of Formosa the barbarous conduct of the savages of that island would not have been heard of again, But as China comes again into possession there will be other piratical butcheries when the savages have forgotten the lesson lately administered. And for this solution Mr., Bingham must apparently be held in some degree responsible, Tue Sare Burcuany Tux at Washington has ended in the acquittal of Williams, andin the disagreement of the jury upon Whitley and Harrington, indicted as conspirators; and so there is to be another protracted and tedious trial of this curious, complicated, dark and mysterious burglary—perhaps. Commanper ALFrep Marxuam will certainly have command of the English expedition to the Arctic regions, according to a cable despatch from London, FERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. There are more Jews in London than tn Pales- tine. Mrs, Abraham Lincoln arrived in Jacksonville, Fia., on Tuesday last. Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, is stay- ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Alvin Saunders, of Nebraska, is sojourning at the Astor House. Some of the London volunteers propose an ex- cursion for next year to Moscow. Ex-Congressman D, J. Morrell, of Pennsylvania, is stopping at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Rev. Dr. J. Ireland Tucker, of Troy, is among the latest arrivals at the Hofman House. Ex-Governor John T. Hoffman arrived from Al- bany yesterday at the Clurendaon Hotel. Generat Samuel W. Crawiord, United Statea Army, 18 quartered at the Glenham Hotel. Sir John Swinburne arrived trom England fn the steamship Parttia yesterday, and is at the Bre- yoort House. Mr. J, A. Chapleau, Solicitor General of the Pro- vince of Quebec, has apartments at the Grand Central Hotel, Professors C, M. Mead and J. W. Thayer, of An- dover Theological Seminary, yesterday arrived at the Everett House. Messrs. George Hillyer, of Atlanta; W. H. Hayes, of Kentucky, and J. N. Barrett, of Washington, are at Barnum’s Hotel, The Rev. Dr. Scarborough, of Pittsburg, formally accepted the Bishopric of the Southern Diocese of New Jersey in a letter published yesterday, In Paris there are 671 women who serve as Models for pa'nters and sculptors. The age of the largest number is from sixteen to twenty years. Mr. Schuyler, Chargé d’afatres at the United | States Legation in St. Petersourg gave a Thanks. giving entertainment to American residents in the ; Ruselan capital. Sir T. F. Buxton and Right Hon. W. E. Forster, of England, have returned to this city from their Eastern trip and taken up their residence at the Filth Avenue Hotel. J. Milton Turner, United States Minister to Liberia, is stopping at the Continental Hotel, Puiladelphia, He was formerly a slave. This is his second visit te this country since originally ap- pointed Minister to Liberia in 1871, Earl Russell, who is living in the house built for Mr. Tennyson, at Haziemere, is putting the finish- ing touches to his ‘Recollections, whicn, I be- | lieve, will be quiet as interesting, if not as piquant, as the “Greville Memoirs,”” Kladderadatsch touches & humor of the day ing sketch of the Sultan as Don Juan, before whom Egypt, Servia and Roumania, as three Leporellos, are indulging themselves in the freedom of a jig, with the declaration that they shail be their own masters hereaiter. “La Colonelle Vindt” otherwise “La Belle Can tiniere,” but properly Virgine Bedict, a French woman of thirty, has just been transported for Mile for participation in the murderof the hostages at Paria, She was one of the viragos who went about with the National Guard in uniform. Copper ts plenty in Italy, but gold ts scarce, dn@ the copper money of Italy and France are of the same value, #0 @ trafic was organized of carrying | copper money into France on @ pretty large scale, and getting gold to return to Italy. One dealer ‘was arrested with $800in copper in his possession. The rumor tnat the Prince Imperial is to be married to @ Russian Grand Duchess has created ii i | considerable dissatisfaction among the Bora- 1a Sete Lela) ate | partists, The Grand Duchess referred to ts the : offapring of a morganatic marriage, and the im- perialists think that the heir of the Napoleons | ongnt to cast nia eyes higher. They say also thas the Prince, like his father, should win bis throne berore he wins a wife. There is much talk in London over the “neglect” of the Empress of Russia by the Que The Em- press has now been the better part o! month in the country apd, apart from her own son-in-law, has not seen a single member of the royal family, except that on one occasion the Prince and Princess of Wales paid her a morning call. itis said, however. that she rather likes the freedom from ceremonial which she thus enjoys. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, A fine collection of of! paintings 18 on exhibition at 845 Broadway, the proceeds to be aevoted to the country branch of the Nursery and Child's Hospital at West New Brighton, 8.1. The commit- tee consists of many of the most prominent Jadies and gentlemen in New York society. Mr. J. A. Roosevelt has Kindly donated his gallery tree of charge. Among the numerous works of art may be especially mentioned the mag- nificent painting, six feet by ten, by Mr. ‘The exhibition will probably remain open until the approach of the holidays, but Mr. Bierstadt’s picture will be sent away soon, as it has veen pur- chased by a nobleman in Engiand for $30,000, The other well known studies are “latertor of St Peter’s During Holy Week,” by Winderbach; “Marine Sunset.” by Mr. J, Kead, Scenes during the war—‘Sherman’s Raid Through Georgia,” by Edwin Forbes; Mr. Clarke Bell, owner. “Wash- ington at Valley Forge,” by D. H. Matteson, and “Mount St. Vincent on the Hudson,’ by Winder- bach, Tickets can be obtained of members of the committee, or of Miss Gibbous, at the gallery, 444 Broadway.