The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1875, Page 8

8 ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY ANO ANN STREET. JAMES. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, : NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henarp will be gent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henan. 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 a6 in New York. FOLUME XL... NO, £5 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. OLYMPIC THEATRE, a a Broadway.—VARIZTY, at 8b. -; Closes at 10:45 > ROMAN HIPPODROME, aren re street aud Fourth avenue.—Afernoon and « atZand & THEATRE COMIQUR. ar a Broadway.—VARLETY, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fysey.cigny street and Broagway. WOMEN OF THE DAY, at 5P.M.; closes at 10:50 P.M. Mr. Lewis, Miss Davemport, Mrs. Gilbert. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, sora Bowery.—VAKIeTY, at § P. M.; closes at 1045 LYCEUM THEATRE, Foarteenth street and sixth avenue.—OFF THR LINE and THE DODGER, at 8 P.M. ; closes at lU:40 P.M. Mr. J. L, Toole, BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Wost Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO BIREEERLE, &c,, at SP. M.; closes at WP. M. Dan BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE gopouat SINN’S VALIETY, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street—DIE FLEDERMAUS, at 8 P.M; Closes wt 10:45 7. M. Miss Mayr. PARK THEATR' Broatway.—French ()pera Boutle—-GIROFLE-GIROFLA, ater. Mo Mile. Coralie Geott NIBLO'S, Broadway. THR OCTORUON, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 45 | +. M. Edwin ¥. Thorne. BOOTH'S THEATRE, -third street and corner of Twenty. Sixth avenae.— HENRY V.,at8r. M.; closes ut P.M. ire SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS Eroedway, corner of Twenty-nisth street NEGRO MINSTKELSY, at § P.M. ; closes at WP. M. ROBINSON HALL, Sixtéonth street —BEGONE DULL CASK, at 8 P.M.; closes at 45 P.M. Ar. Maccabe. ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty-third # d Fourth BIBITION OF WATER COLOR PAIN from 9 4. M. to 5 P. M. and trom 6 P. M. to WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, at SP. M; closes at | 40.0 P.M.” Mr. Boucicau Broadway, corner of 1 | The Constitutional Aspects Rapid Transit Question. of the | metropolis. We feel that we should lead the other cities of the Union in practical improve- ‘consummation of rapid transit, nor that any ‘authoritative and ultimate judicial decision will interfere with the passage of an efficient tational Commission, reqnesting his jydgment as to the bearing of the new amendments on’ the great question of rapid transit and on the minor question of aid to public charities— the only points as to which there can be a reasonable difference of opinion as to the seope and character of the amendments. Among the answers we have thus far re- ceived the most intelligent and satisfactory is that of Mr. Erastus Brooks, whose up her engagements in America and will return intimate Imowledge of our local affairs, | +, Rarope, Whethor this is from an indispo- of which he was the most important repre- | sition, depression in business, or because sentative in the Constitutional Commission, | sho wearics of the Southern question and the gives peculiar value to his opinions. Mr. | Beecher case, we do not dare toask, Won- Brooks’ reply to the Hznatp's inquiry is alto- | Geral are the ways of the prima donna, and gether the most vaiuable and satisfactory of | i¢ is not for us to rudely question. This may any which has yet been recsived. Mr. | be said to certify the downfall of the Italian Brooks is one of the best judges of what the opera season. We are sorry that our impre- Constitutional Commission intended, and his | sqrii have not had better fortune, But even opinion as to the interpretation of the amend- a Napoleon did not win in every campaign. ments bas @ corresponding value. But his | Russia came after Wagram, and while mourn- views are not singular; they are strongly | ing over Albani let us remember Nilsson and supported by the opinions of the other mem- | her splendid triumphs of last year, They bers of the Constitutional Commission who | winl come again. ‘The ploasant thought is that have answered our inquiries. we have musical comforts still. Gilmore and It is evident, on the face of the question, | his band go banging over the country, to that the Constitational Commission did not | pare people buy lottery tickets, #o that if intend to hamper and obstruct rapid transit! the adventurers do not draw a prize they in the city of Now York. This question had | wiiihavethe music. Theodore Thomas has had been widely discussed long before the Com- -great success this winter, and has elevated | mission met, and no member could have been |‘our musical taste. In Mr. Stuart's little Park unaware of its great importarice. If members | Teatro the French people are merry with from the raral districts had ignored or for- | their “Girofié-Girofla.” Miss Heilbron, who gotten it Messrs. Brooks, Opdyke and | has made a fire impression as a pianist, will Townsend would have recalled it to the at- give a concert, and we shall have, we pre- tention of the Commission. It is altogether sume, other novelties and attractions. incredible and preposterous to ss Seg that so At the same time, our greatest comfort has important a question as rapid transit in this | begn the English opera, Tho performance of city escaped the attention of the Constitutional | Balie's +“Palisman”’ is the one recent musical Commission or that its members intended to | event. There has been much comment upon put obstructions in the way of so necessary 80 | this representation. Balfe is-well known to improvement. It the amendments, as adopted, us, especially in his “Bohemian Girl”—a erect a constitutional barrier against rapid gem in its way, and remaining like an echo in transit in this city, it is quite certain that! the memory. ‘The, Talisman” does xot mark nothing of this kind was intended by the ex- | 4 now school; nor is it altogether an incident perienced gentlemen who prepared them. It | of the old school What it lacks is the un- would be surprising and unaccountable if the | derlying melody, which is as much the under Constitational Commission had overlooked s0 | structure of true music as the granite wall is important a subject as steam railroads in this’) of the building which rests upon it, The great city, and still more astonishing if, with | taste for music is really a natural taste. Wo the subject before them, they had made it| may acquire a knowledge of classical music constitutionally impossible to prosecute such and find a beauty in the cold,@nexpressive a work. It is perfectly clear that the Consti- | strains of unintelligible symphonies that the tutional Commission could not have intended public do not know. But look at the songs to obstruct the growth of this great metropolis.| that live—the operas that become almost a by a constitutional inhibition of the most im--] yofrain of our daily life, and we see how ac- portant means of its development. If they | curate after all the people are. Take any have really erected such a barrier it is quite | national air—some air really national, ke certain they did not intend it This is as | the “Marseillaise,” the “Hymn of Riego,” or evident from the intrinsic probabilities of the | «Goq Save the Quoen,”” and written to the from its present misfortunes, We must have rapid transit, and as there is no law to forbid it we should have one to enforce it. - Music and the Dra: It is said that the divine Albani has thrown The Danger of Fire. A great city constitutes a great danger. It The Hxmaup, which always secks to en- ments and set them a useful example. We | creates luxury, indifference and crime. Pov- lighten the public judgment on important cannot hope to do this while we depend upon | erty is one of its products, and the vices and questions by drawing forth the views of those the cars of Third avenue and the omnibuses | tho virtues are almost equal results. These who are most competent to form sound opin- | °f, Broadway for our means of travel. | consequences of good and evil are daily ex! ions on them, prints this morning the opin- | Tiese methods of transit are, in fact, the | hibited in our columns; for if on the one | ions of quite a number of the members of |:i™pediments of travel. Wo do not believe | hand we present the story of crime on the the Constitutional Commission which pre- that the people of New York, in voting | other we tell the beautiful tale of benevolence pared and digested the new amendments.” We |:!°F the constitutional amendments last | and mercy. But among the greatest, of the sent o circular to each member of the Consti- |,‘* bad any intention of proventing tho | Gangers of the metropolis is that of fire—the sun-created element, which is the indispensa- ble servant of mankind, and as a master its worst foo. Fire bas recently been the it has devastated property and life—as, for example, in Hartford—and we owe it more to good fortune than to our good manage- ment that wo have thus far escaped a terrible conflagration. Ohicago should have taught New York a lesson. The intense cold which we have-recently experienced in this latitude has called the attention of the community to the danger which fire is to this crowded city. At any time, even in midsummer, our water supply is not equal to the demand, and in periods when the pipes are frozen, and. water, instead of being a luxury, becomes really one of the necessities of life, we feel the extent of the evil. If a fire should break out in New York to-night no one knows where it would end. It might be suppressed, or it might defy all the efforts of our excellent department. The great danger comes from the severity of the weather, which has bound in chains of ice the great majority of the water conduits of the city. Our water mains are clogged, our hy- drants closed, even our wash basins are ice- bound, and when a fire begins we are desti- tute of the means to fight it. Of the present condition of the water ‘resources of the city we elsewhere present: full report, and the careful reader will apprecinte their deficiency. We do not properly guard against the danger of frost. . In St. Petersburg,.and in the cities of Northern Ger- many precautions are taken which, though | unworthy of the ingenuity of American society, are decidedly effective. We should not only emulate, but surpass these methods of preserving in the winter an efficient water supply, and we think our reports to-day, which present the best results of experts in the matter, will draw the attention of the pub- lic to this important subject. The question is one in which householders are particu- larly imterested, and it is our object to set the facts in the clearest light before the intelligent citizens of New York. All are equally concerned in the subject, for the carelessness of on? man may be the ruin of a hondred others. Our hydrants and water pipes should be looked after with as much vigilance as if we knew that the experience of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. the ballot boxes are. ‘The Reaminer and Chronicle, taking the cue from tho centennial efforts of the Baptists in favor of general de- nominational education, shows the advan- | tages of it, The benefits of an educated min- istry aro admitted, but now they must edu- cate all their people if they would make them, not only good citizens, but good Baptists also. ‘The Observer looks upon Dr. DeKoven's elec- tion to the episcopate of Illinois as a challenge from that diocese to the Protestant Episcopal Church for the defeat of their first choice, Dr. Seymour. It accords to Dr. DeKoven all that Mis been claimed for him in learning and bill by the Lemisiature to redeem the city | greatest danger of New York. In other cities | bility, and says that he fitly represents the anti-Protestant sentiment in the Church. Politics in France. No politician in France cares to make in- stitutions that may be abstractly regarded as advantageous to the country; but each is eager to make institutions that will perpetuate the rule of his own party and lead to the prevalence of his own opinions. In this also je acts honestly and sincerely, as he be- lieves, for the public welfare; for every one persuades himself that the only safety is in "the triumph of the principles and creed he professes, Institutions they deem of less ac- count than the theories and convictions of the men who are to govern through the in- stitutions, ‘That which is best administered is best;", the words ‘best administered” meaning always “administered by our party.” Thus even the republicans will consent to the , existence of a Senate if the Senators may be chosen from the nation at large by universal suffrage; for this would be practically the realization of one of their favorite schemes. It would be dissolution in another shape. For this Senate would take the place of the Assembly, and, being the issue of the same electoral body, would be its substitute as the'| depository of the national sovereignty till such time as a new Assembly should be } chosen. On the other hand the imperialists would be charmed with a Senate as the ex- pression of the plebiscitum, if the qualifica- tions for the Senatorial position could be so defined and restricted that only the old imperial functionaries and soldiers and professors would be eligible. But the royalists, who have sketched the scheme of a constitution with a Senate in it, and who have imagined this body as a sort of high conservative authority, and a place in which to put all those old monarchists of the present Assembly who were elected in the exceptional circumstances of 1871, but could never again be returned by popular vote; the men who want this sort of Senate can only contemplate with horror the Senate as it would be acceptable to their op- ponents. From these divergent views has resulted legitimately the fate of the project. Chicago would be repeated in New York, and the hints given in our report—based upon a thorough investigation—should deserve the serious consideration of all responsible citi- zens of this groat city. Echoes of the Religious Press. Bonapartists and republicans were agreed on the scheme of making the body the product of universal suffrage. This at once disgusted the Right and secured its opposition to the bill. Then the Left secured, with the alli- ance of some members of the Right—now eager to kill the bill—clauses defining the | LIFE, ath P. M.: closes at i 45 P, M. M.—MOLL PITCHER, Matinee at 2 P. this morning, of the members of the Constitu- tional Commission. The view of Mr. Brooks is strongly sup- Fighih street, perween Seeond’ wat Phi A by tween Second’ and ird avenuen — VARIETY, ac P. M.; closes at 2. M, case as from the opinions, which we publish | order of a monarch—and we see how it is that music will fall upon the heart of a nation and become a part of its feeling, its patriotism and its pride. Thisis the highest office of Politics, education and religion attract the | categories of persons eligible to the Senator- attention of our religious contemporaries this ship, and this guaranteed the hostility of the week. Under the first head the Independent | Bonapartists, and on the vote for the adoption claims the right of black men in any State | or rejection of the bill as amended the Bona- QUADRUPLE S NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY HUET. Brom our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy. ‘Wa. Srarer Yestrupay.—Speculation was dull and without feature. Gold, 114§; money 2) per cent on call, and exchange steady. Ovn Larzrany Dzparrment to-day is fall of interest, and includes reviews of some of the latest publications. Toe Anoument in the case of “The Shaughraun” is published to-day, and it will be admitted that, the trial is likely to bo almost as dramatic as the play. Herr raz Poon—that is the first duty now, and there are few so poor that they cannot aid some one else who is poorer. If it be only five cents that you can give, give it. Tar Bounty Brix was passed in the House yesterday. It proposes to expend thirty millions, but it is intimated that it may cost # hundred millions. The amount is of far less importance than the principle. Waar m tue Use of going to church to- day unless you do some good to your unfortu- nate neighbor? Do you suppose your solici- tude for your own sou! will compensate for your neglect of somebody eise’s body ? Tue Ick Szason.—The proverb which says it is an ill wind which blows nobody good might be changed to define a cold wind, for the benefit of the northern breezes is indicated by our correspondence from up the Hudson, which illustrates the sport upon the frozen | bosom of that noble river. Yacht races and | skating on the ice are pleasures of the cold which contrast strongly with the pains that the Winter King imposes upon the poor. ‘Tux Oran Day we published the startling | fact that a man absolutely starved to death in the immediate neighborhood of this city. Such an event ought to be impossible in this civilized community. Yet that it could oceur should make al} liberal citizens more active in the relief of the poor in their neighborhood. The man we have spoken of did not perish because bis neighbors were hard-hearted, but because they did not inquire into the necessi- ties he was, perhaps, too proud to reveal. Tae Bercure Txt, as it will be in 1900, is reported with great faithfalness in our col- | umns to-day. We do not see that the pro- ceedings differ materially from those of last Friday or that there is any reason to doubt | that this case will be bequeathed from this generation to the next, There is an sir of verisimilitude about this report which makes it appear like ancient news, instead of an anticipation of the events of the future. Seriously, there is no doubt that this trial will live for a long while; for it will surely survive Mr. ‘Tilton’s poetry, or Mr. Beecher’s sermons, both of which have been destined to perenmial fame by their ad- | mirers. Our: report is simply logical, not ; it is on example G priogi roa soning, and is entitled, as such. tothe full cre- Genes of the public. ; ported by that of a gentleman whose remote- ness from this city makes him an impartial: judge. Mr. Morris, of Chautauqua county, who makes the briefest of all the replies we have received, evinces the clearest perception of the point on which the rapid transit con- troversy hinges. Mr. Morris is a lawyer, and he puts the whole controversy in a nutshell by declaring that, ‘as a public highway for the benefit of thé city,” the amended consti- tution puts no obstacle in the way of rapid transit. ‘This answer is creditable to the legal acumen of Mr. Morris, who goes straight to the point on which the controversy hinges. “A public highway for the benefit of the city” is not forbidden by the new amendments, as Mr. Morris thinks, and his residence in the distant county of Chautauqua exempts his opinion from any imputation of local bias. It is safe to assume that the Constitutional Commission did not intend to erect barners against rapid transit in the city of New York. The only question’ is whether they have in- advertently erected such a barrier against their intentions. On this point the opinion of Mi’ Brooks is entitled to great considera- tion, inasmuch as‘no other member of the Constitutional Commission was so peculiarly a representative of our city interests, Mr. Brooks’ opinion, as will be seen from his letter in other cbiumns, is quite free from | doubt as to the authority of the city to con- | struct a road for rapid transit. He cautiously music—certainly its highest attribute. In this quality ‘‘The Talisman” fails, but the failure is not that of the author, for in the “Bohemian Girl” he shows it in a remarkable degree. The objection to “Lohengrin,” that it is mystic, unintelligible, weird, too much constrained by classical rules, would be fatal to its popularity. But ‘Lohengrin’ is bathed in delicious melody from beginning to end, which carries the listener with it like the waves of an impcelling sea. Those who com- pose our music should remember the people, and that the natural taste of the multitude never errs in its appreciation. It flies from the hard conditions of a sym- phony to the true genius in a negro plantation song—from the barrenness of an oratorio to the light, bracing Paris airs of the opéra bouffe, as bright and gay and full of life and coior as the Boulevards themselves. There is no trne music that fails to move the heart of the people. Our theatres have varying fortunes. Wal- lack’s keeps on in the full tide of success. AtBooth’s we have a great hit in “Henry V.,” one of the finest plays as a work of dra- matic art ever put on the stage It isan honor to our city and to art to have Shake- speare with this royal setting. Mr. Daly, in his byow of a theatre, deserves the fortune which seems at last to smile on him. Mr. Toole has returned from his provincial tour, and although the solemn Lenten days will retrains trom expressing himself as to the ex- | have a depressing effect on business there are pediency of the city undertaking such 4 work; | enough of us who must be amused even in | but on the constitutional question he has no | these penitential times to recompense the | doubt or reserve. He thinks that a rapid | managers and the players for the pains they transit road is as entirely within the municipal | take to please us. | jurisdiction, if the Legislature consents, as the Central Park or the Croton water. We do not feel bound by the views of Mr. Brooks or of any other member of the Con- atitutional Commission, and must be per- mitted to have our own opinion. Certain it is that, in prohibiting special or local legisla- | tion, the new amendments do not forbid local | legislation for the charters of cities. The con- | dition and wants of the cities of the State are so very different that a uniform law would be absurd. The Qonstitutional Commission per- | ceived this, and omitted from long list of | subjects on which they prohibited special or | jocal laws the incorporation of cities. Every city charter is @ local law, and the Legisla- | ture is as free to alter city charters ns it was | before the constitution was amended. The streets of citues and the uses which may be i P | made of them are among the things which | ©8* One ot the Pleasantest features in this {are usually confided to the discretion connection is the keen rivalry that has been 1 ot thee. Common Councils, and the | provoked oe Sake and gpg oe 7 ituti Our artists have nothing to regret; for, under new amendments to the constitution impose Css ‘laid ol wbosealll, AN, Wav. was ak | | no restrictions on the State Legislature in = | this rospect. There is no limit to the author- | fom the ‘‘Sleepy Hollow’ where they were | ity it may confer on the Common Council of | 20#ing life away. a city, inasmuch as this is not among the| Tae American Buorzan.—Americon pota- Water Cowe Exuiwitions.—Extraordinary success has attended the exhibition of water colors this year. Perhaps the change in the public mind is somewhat due to the’ better quality of the work done at home and the higher class of paintings imported by the dealers. The sale of works from the Academy walls has been great beyond precedent, and the interest shown by the public has induced the dealers to bring forth their , wares and offer them to the public. The Wust sale was highly successful, at least so far as the water colors were concerned, and now Knoedler is in the field with a col- lection that has never been equalled on this side of the water. These sales, coming so | close together, might be expected to cloy the public taste, but the contrary seems to be the | | | legisiation is prohibited. Woiless the members | lest the Colorado bug shonld devastate the of the Constitutional Commission, whose an- | Fatherland. Could the government at Berlin swers we publish this morning, are ntterly | exelude American ideas and notions 46 suc- mistaken, the amendments interpose no ob- | cessfully ax they can the potato Bismarck | into Germany much the more ig the fastest of all the American cities-- [mas than Boston, Baltimore, or even than obnoxious and dangerous of the two, Philadelphia, Our own conscioygnoss is that | Gerinan official mind to be able to ostracize our progress is too slow lor e American | something cepublican which refuses them equal rights to rise and crush their oppressors. And yet it does not see the need of passing the Civil Rights bill, because under our form of government Con- gress has no more to do with ‘sentimental ad- vantages’ for negroes or whites than it has to appoint a regent for China. The bill isa righteous one, but it is not one within the province of the federal government, and the Independent would commit the whole matter to the several States. The Methodist wants states- men who can deal with the problems that not only affect the South, but the whole country— men whose statesmanship will not consist in passing a bill to-day to meet what they think they want and passing another to-morrow to correct the mistakes of the first, and whose foresight is limited to calculating the effect of their work upon the next party caucus or the next election. The Christian Union, contrasting Schurz and his successor in the United States Senate. Cockrill, regrets the substitution, for the lat- ter is a new man, untried, while the former is a statesman of great ability and high charac- ter, and the Southern people, in his defeat, have met with a great loss. He is known to be in favor of a just, generous and strictly con- stitutional course toward the reconstructed States, and there is need of such menin the Senate at the present time to moderate parti- sanship and sectional feeling and to promote harmony between the North and the South. The Evangelist, after reciting the chief politi- cal measures for good advanced by the Coun- cil of Political Reform here during the past four years, calls upon all good citizens not to slacken their vigilance nor divide their forces, but to act together for the common good of the whole, and the result within the next four years will be something of which we may all be equally proud. And, meantime, it hopes the Council will go on with its work, encour- aged by the support of all the better part of our population. ¥ ei Tho Jewish Times is alarmed and calls upon the Gefmans to aronse themselves ere the Board of Education shall withdraw the small concession of their language in the public schools made a few years ago. The Freeman's Journal is in unusually bad humor. Its edi- tor’s pen has evidently been dipped in gall, for it abuses the ex-Queen of Spain and her son Alfonso and the Spanish government and General Grant for their persecutions of, or djg- courtesies toward, the Catholic Church. It apologizes for the Pope sending the “rose’’ to Isabella and his blessing to Alfonso on the grounds that he (the Pope) is not by his office gifted with a sure knowledge of the character of those personages he has to deal with—he is not infallible—and that it was the office, and not the person, who was thus honored. Com- pared with sacrilege it thinks marital infidelity isa light crime; and hence, while it does not | subjects in relation to which special and local | toes will no longer be admitted into Germany | acquit Isabella of the latter, its anathemas aro heavy on her for her confiscation and seques- tration of convents and religious houses. On the subject of education the Christian _ Advocate declares that the battle between stacle to any plan of rapid transit which the | and his friends would feel happy. Of the two | ignorance and intelligence has fairly begun in Legislature of the State and the Common evils doubtless these military gentlemon who | this State, and it calls upon the friends of | Council of the city may agree in. control the destinies of Germany think the ' universal education not to desist from their | The charge has been made that New York political and social ideas siowly infiltering | labors until the facts shall demonstrate that it is better to educate the people than to be crime. * It thinks the common schools are | much more effective to break un “ringa’’ than partists and the Right together defeated tho measure. As the constitutional scheme re- ported by the Committee of Thirty included a Senate as a necessary part, it would appear that the whole of the bill must go down ina common ruin with the one on the Senate, and thus the ‘‘organization of the Septennate”’ seems indefinitely postponed, and the alterna- tives of dissolution and coup d’éat loom more ominously than ever. Irish Home Rule. The resolution of the Irish members elected on the home rule platform to abandon the British House of Parliament, in case their demand for a repeal of the union should be denied, will be a surprise even to those who have watched closely the progress of the movement. It is open to question whether the resolution, all things being taken into account, is a wise one at this juncture, Although the home rulers have undoubtedly the vast ma- jority of the Irish people in sympathy with them they have not as yet secured that thorough control of the Parliamentary representation likely to render the retire- ment of the Irish members from Parliament effective as a national protest. No doubt it is in great measure brought about by the belligerent and insulting attitade adopted by the government and their supporters in Parliament toward the home rule mem- bers. Whatever the provocation offered by the British members we are inclined to think that less decided action would have been wisér under existing conditions, There seems now @ prospect that an agitation directly aimed against the government will be entered upon by the home rulers, and the result must certainly be to render the government of Ireland very difficult. The new movement will receive the earnest support of the ad- vanced or physical force party which has hitherto helped the home rulers without any very warm enthnsiasm. When the representatives present themselves for election, pledged not to take their seats, the national feeling, which has grown so in- tense within the last ten years in spite of the party, will carry most of the clectious like a tidal wave. The strange spectacle will then be presented of a people supposed to be gov- erned by constitutional means refusing to associate themselves with or ac- knowledge their rulers. It is difficult to see where this state of things may lead, England cannot well afford to undo the union which has cost her so mach blood and treasure. Ircland seems equally resolved to achieve a semi-independence. Either Eng- land will be forced to consent to some modifi- cation of the present system, which brings beggary and disgrace to Ireland, or sho will have to abandon the pretence of governing by constitutional means and begin’a now con- quest of Ireland by unsheathing the sword os an answer to an agitation she cannot repress by legal measures. \ Tux Crry Goverxment.—Under the present city rule the first question is to-earn a decent salary and the next is to get it, Mr. Comp- troller Green stands as a permanent obstacle between eflicient service and just payment. It will gratify the | taxed for tho sad resalis of ignorance ‘and | What is thought of his policy by the Alder- men of New York is elsewhere set forth in plain terms, with on indication of the blunders and failures of the chiefs of the | | course determined upon by me teacing cemos cratio politicians. The democracy have the responsibility in the city as well as tho State, and we hope to see thom assume it with doth fearlessness and wisdom. Mr, Green may be a very terrible man; but then the New York democrats used to be called “the unterrified,” and there is no known reason why they should be more deficient in courage ia tho present than they were in their victorious past. ‘ Pulpit Topics To-Day. The season of Lent seems to have little or no influence whatever over the topics enter- stained by the city pastors for discussion in their pulpits. They take up themes regard less of this annual fast time and treat them without any reference to it, The champiov- ship of the Bible against the assumptions of Universalism which Dr. Fulton at first easayed and which Dr. Talmage took up last Sunday will be responded to to-day by Mr. Nye, of Brooklyn, and Mr. Pullman, of New York. So that by stirring up this subject it takes om new life and receives attention to which it is hardly entitled. That there is complete harmony »between law and grace, though scarcely Believed, will be demonstrated bY Mr. Kennard, who will also define the un- *pardonable sin—that sin which has power to scare some peopte almost out of their wits. The topics that’ appear to have a distinct bearing upon this penitential season are “Christ's "Greatest Sorrow,” which Mr. Mao- Arthur will consider; ‘Cross Bearing,” which will command Mr. Hawthorne's attention, and “Conscience,’” which is believed to be more tender af such seasons than at any other time, concerning which Mr. Kirkus will dis- course to-day. That Christianity has in it elements by which it is perpetuated from gen- eration to generation will not be denied, but what those elements are is not so susceptible of proof. It will bethe province of Dr. Moran to-day to present some of them and to show how they insure the progress and perpetuity of the Christian religion, even against organ- ized opposition and secret treason. Mr. Terry will continue his Apocalyptic series of dis- courses by a consideration of the picture of the woman and the dragon, and Mr. Saun- ders will explain what is meant by “the bap- tism of power” and what its value is when received. The present movements for reviv- ing ancient worship will be reviewed by Mr. Andrews, while Professor Taylor will discuss the truth or falsehood of Spiritualism, which is just now attracting unusual attention by the recent exposares of jugglery and humbug- gery connected with it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Sala has lett England for Spain to report for the Daily Telegraph. General Grenvilie M. Doage, of Iowa, is residing at the Filth Avenue Hotel. is quartered at the New York Hotel. State Senator John H. Seikreg, of Ithaca, yester- day arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel Michael V. Sheridan, United States Army, is among tne latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain C. P. Patterson, Superintendent of the United Staies Coast Sarvey, is staying at the Everett House. Mr. J. M. Walker, President of the Chicago, Bar. lngton and Quincy Ratiroad Company, is sojourn- ing at the Windsor Hotel, 1 is proposed to erect in Paris, on the site of the Palace of the Tulleries, an editice suitable for the sessions of the National Assembly—a Capitol, in fact, Count de Larochefoucauld, recently attached to the French legation at Madrid, ts now in Paris on his way to Washington, where he succeeds the Marquis de Clermont Tormeneas as First Secretary. It fs rumored from Ashantee that Koffe Kalkalli has “retired to his country seat,” and that Gua- moali Mensai1 has been declared King. Here is a hint. Let some one give His Excellency a country SoA a hearing in @ case of libel’ azainst the Lon- don World, which discussed “West End Usurers,” ope of the plaintiffs admitted that he bad lent money at rates of interest varying from atxty to eighty per cent. Ip Engiand people who refuse to have their children vaccinated are put in prison and wol- comed with torchlignt processions when they come out, Every Evglishman claims the right for his children to have smallpox as guaranteed by Magna Charta. By the French code it is forbidden for any doctor to inherit under a will the property of his patient; but a rich man in Marseilles recently left 300,000 francs to his docvor’s wife, and his heirs appeal to the courts on the ground that this is in contraven- tion of the principle of the code. It ta said that there are in existence three im- perial loans contracted by the Empress, the totat of which 18 32,500,000 irancs or $6,500,000. These bear no interest and are only payable upon the restoration of the Empire; und then are to be paid ten times their face, that ls to say 325,000,000 . francs or $65,000,000, Election expenses in England are not triviat. Messrs. Bell and Palmer, cnosen for the Northern division of county Durham, spent together $83,006, and they have not the least chance to get even by @ neat little bit of brivery. One can see ata giqnce the grearer advantage of our freer country to poor candidates. It 1s said that Washburne’s letter from Paris de- nies what was not charged and does not deny what was charged. That ts not true, It wae charged that $10,000 was given to a third party tor Washburne—that is, given to him indirectiy. He straightforwardly dentes that he ever received » dollar, or was ever offered one. He therefore dentes distinctly the allegation made, It is @ queer fancy on the part of Manchester to present Cnfef Justice Cockburn with an address referring to his “invaluabie services in reference: to the Alabama claims.” He did his utmost to defeat the treaty ahd break up the negotiation, and as he succeeded in neither his gre bers came to naught. His peculiar services, therefore, fatied of their only aim, and if he Lad succeeded he would have ruined Manchester. Strangely enongh the time has come around when this progressive people may learn something even from countries a8 hopelessly decrepit as ‘Turkey, Anatolia bas been many times devas- tated by grasshoppers, and they have provided a remedy in the destruction of the eggs against the continuance of the scourge, and this remedy we might study. They have gots good judge in Anstralia. Hie name is Skinper. In an insoivency case His Honer Gecilned to grant @ certificate on the ground that the insolvent had concealed himself from his cr {tors by advertising the meeting in the Gazette only. The Gasette is an oMcial paper like our Cuy Record, It was bad enough in any case, the Judge said, to advertise only in @ journal which no one ever reads, but it is much worse when the sppi- cant could not pay thirty cents on the dollar, y There was ® panic in @ Paris street over the conduct of @ magnificent retriever tn front of the window of @ dealer in picture frames. He jumped, yelled, barked, a to throw himself through the glass; and he was mad, of course. They were about to kill him, but @ philosopher intersered. {¢ seemed to him that all those eccentricities of the dog had rejation to @ portrait in the window, So it proved, All this was joy at sight of the portrait ofalady. That lady lived in Marseilles, and tue dog had been stolen from her many months be~ fore, Strange chance vo find his way nome by the picture placed there casually to exhibit the trame, Captain W. H. Hains, of the steamship Abysainia, |