The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1875, Page 6

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Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Henan office as early as possible. For further particulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be slightly warmer, clear or partly cloudy. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henaup mailed to Wiem, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wau Srezer Yesterpa®—Stocks were dull and firm. Gold declined to 115}. Foreign exchange was weaker. Tae Mormovrs Panx Races continue to be the attraction at Long Branch. There were four interesting contests on the Monmouth track, and in three out of the four the favor- ites were beaten. Boxarartist Howor was queerly illustrated by M. Rouber in the French Assembly yester- day, who admitted in his speech the direction of a committee the existence of which he had previously denied. Tue Amenican Tram is to be offered a cup at Wimbledon, which is to be competed for at Creedmoor forever. This, we presume, is in the nature of an olive branch for the re- fusal to allow the American eight to compete with other teams on equal terms, Tz Srrvation i Bzxerum is the subject of a very interesting letter in the Hznatp this morning. So much bitterness is evinced on religious questions that even the monarchy itself is not free from danger. The whole subject is one that will excite general atten- tion on this side of the Atlantic as a sign of the complications which are likely to beset European politics during the next few years, ‘Tae Exroriox or tae Exes Rarmwar Di muctons yesterday was an indorsement by the stockholders of the management under Presi- dent Jewett, now the receiver of the road, Ont of more than two hundred and sixty-two | thousand votes, less than a thousand were cast for the opposition ticket, and the old Board, with a very few alterations, was elected. The decisiveness of this result will greatly strengthen President Jewett’s hands, as it proves that the sharcholders regard their interests as best protected under his manage- mont, os Tur Ixqvest in the South Side Railroad sloughter seoms to establish culpability on the part of Conductor Hibbard aud Manager Poppenhusen, but that their faults were errors of judgment is plain enough. As we said in the beginning, the accident was chiefly due to the system upon which the trains are run by cast iron rules instead of intelligent direc- tion. It is due to the public that these blind methods should be discontinued, and that our railway system should be managed with such knowledge and foresight that similar acci- dents in the future will be impossble, ‘Tue Revetarions through the investiga- tions of the Assembly Committee on Crime are becoming more and more interesting. If they continue we shall know before long how New York is misgovernei. The police captains are to appear before the committee on Fri- dsy. Their testimony ought to be made the basis of g etill more searching investigation, and if most of them impress the committee as Captain McDonnell bas already succeeded in doing it is not impossible that some wise sug- gestions ag woll as important revelations will be thexesult of the inanirv WEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Situation in Spain. The correspondent of the London Times informs us that the situation in Spain is becoming critical, and that the most important events may be antici- pated. Disraeli once said, in his half mystical rhetoric, that what always happens is the unexpected. Spain has been a problem for centuries. Apart from the rest of Eu- rope, without sympathy with the civilization of the Continent, it is partly Eurepean and partly Oriental. Spain isa country of con- tradictions. It is a combination of nationali- ties. When we speak of Spain we use & geographical expression, There are several distinct races in Spain, with different languages and customs, The Catalonian and the Basque are as far removed as the Teutonic and Slavonic. One of the problems of modern science is the origin of the Basque. A small, gallant, proud race, hedged in by the moun- tains and the sea, loyal to traditions and the Church, who, under the ancient monarchs, hetd only a nominal allegiance to the throne, cherishing their rights and privi- leges with extreme devotion and jeal- ousy, willing to die for Carlos against the Alfonsists, but quite as ready to die for their inherited rights against Carlos, the Basque is only one of the many nationalities that are embraced in this peculiar country. Conse- quently national politics are invariably com- plicated by the local controversies, provincial rivalries, the desire of the Andalusian to rule the Castilian and the Basqne to govern the keen-witted, enterprising Catalonians. There is no interwoven nationality of thought and sympathy and religion which we see in Ger- many and England. At the same time, and what is a sign of hopefulness in looking at the future, Spain always divided against itself is always united against the foreigner. Isolated from Europe, it has responded slowly to the intellectual movement that has changed nations like Russia, France and England. Yet every attempt to impose a foreign prince upon its people has led to misfortune and disaster. Even Napoleon could not com- mand respect for a Bonaparte, and Amadens, although elected by the Cortes, was never accepted by the people. What compelled Joseph Bonaparte to abdi- cate in the earlier part of the century and Amadeus to follow his example fifty years later was this intolerant spirit toward the foreigner. The Spaniards would much rather have an idiot like Charles IL. and a vagabond like the last Ferdinand than a monarch like Amadeus, who was the kingliest ruler on a European throne during his brief reign. But a higher spirit has arisen in Spain. The movement against the French and the patriotic uprising which assisted so largely in the victories of Wellington were the beginning ofanewera. Even Spain, dormant, torpid, unyielding, has responded to the feeling in favor of self-government, which, beginning with the fall of the Bastile, has given usa German Empire and a French Republic. ‘The revolt against Joseph Bonaparte was the opening of the eyes. The Spaniards then saw clearly that there was something nobler than a king, crown or a Church. The many resolutions and pronunciamientos and changes in ministries and parties which have marked Spanish politics in the last fifty years are only the volcanic movements which show that all nature is in convulsion, that the period is one of upheaval, and that the country 1s passing through a political change resembling the geological changes of the earth. The young men are animated by the spirit of liberty and progress. There is scarcely a class that leaves the university that is not republican, The schools have arrayed themselves against the Crown. We see in Spain what we saw in the United States twenty years ago. The young men were in favor of liberty. In the United States, those who remember the Fremont canvass in 1856, know that it was a campaigu of young men. The heart of the nation, which is expressed in its youth, was in revolt against the mind of the nation, as expressed in its conservatism, its respect for property and custom and vested rights. So with us the anti-slavery feeling rose like a tide, rose with the generation that came pouring into manhood, eager, brave, intense ; and in time it conquered, as youth must always conquer. Spain has been rising in similar fashion. Castelar, Salmeron and the men around them, who made the Republic, are young men fresh from the univorsities. In this they resembls the leaders of the French Revolution—Danton, Verguiaud, Robespierre, Saint-Just—all of whom died in early manhood. What we see in Spain is the movement of the people toward liberty and self-government, a movement driven by the fire and impuise of the growing genera- tion. Of course, a contest like this must be fought amid many discouragements and delays. We cannot change a people ina day. When the earth is torn up by the husbandman we must wait for the seasons to cover ft with grass and growing corn. Time and nature are always the sure restorers. In Spain we have arrayed against the Republic the mightiest influ- ences, a standing Church, a standing army | and an aristocracy. When our critical friends despair of the Republic in Spain, and think with complacency of what we have done in this country, and how much better we are than other people, they forget the influences against which the republicans have to con- tend—infinences absent from our fresh, young nation. The marvel should be not that there is no Republic in Spain, but that there should be evena republican party. When we consider the moral, material and religious influences arrayed against the Republic; when we see a zealous priesthood, a valiant and jealous army, ond 4 suspicious, proud aristocracy, resolved to have a | monarch or @ perpetual war; when we see them deliberately arraying themselves against the peace and prosperity of the nation and laying it down as a law that without royalty there shall be anarchy, we can comprehend the delays of the Republic. We can un- derstand how en oppostion of this kind bearing upon a ficry and sensitive people, knowing their rights and daring to be free, would lead to the excesses which stained the French Revolution, and which threatened to stain the Republic of Castelar. The Reign of Terror was the direct result of the royal intrigues, fostered by men resolved to have the King or constant war, The guillotine was not erected in Paris until the combined armies of Europe began to assemble on the French frontier to suppress the Republic. It was at the feet of these armies that the head of the King was thrown as a defiance. It was not until the republicans in Spain began to despair of any honest sympathy or recog- nition by the dominant classes of the nation that we had the Intransigente outbreaks, which held possession of Cartagena and threatened at one time to precipitate a Spanish Reign of Terror. The events that wemay anticipate in Spain, according to the Madrid correspondent of the London Times, threaten to be ot the gravest character. The new King Mas never had a ina military usurpation, an act of outrage and violence more detestable than the coup @éat of Napoleon IIL He was opposed by the Carlists, who represented a large part’of the Church and the nobility, and by the re- publicans, in whose ranks are nine-tenths of the youngmen. He had no personal qualities to endear him to Spain. He was in no respect aking. A boy of very ordinary intellect—an immature boy, fresh from his tops and ponies, a boy who bad been raised in exile and under sad influences—was in no sense calculated to govern a turbulent, volcanic country, rocking in the throes of revolution. Even Spain could see the difference between a republic under such men as Figueras and Castelar—first of their race and time whose genius commanded the admiration of the worid—and a raw, amiable, halt-grown boy, whose mind had been formed by confessors and ladies-in-wait- ing to Isabella’s unwholesome court, A king who was in no attribute a king, and behind whom there was no sincere party animated by a principle, could not hope to maintain the Spanish throne. Consequently, the now mon- archy has been like a sapling planted in the sand. Every breeze has turned it hither and thither, and every sunset sees it drooping more and more into decay. It wanted life and nourishment. The only two parties in Spain to-day are the Carlists and the republicans. hero can be no middle party. Louis Philippe, who was really a great man, a wise, experienced and widely gifted prince, and behind whom was the powerful and wealthy middle class, failed inasimilar effort. Don Carlos means the Church and the army, with all the splendor of absolutism. He means to be king in the old fashion, by the grace of God, and’ not with the lets and hinderances of constitutionalism. The republicans mean_ the Republic. If the Alfonsists were wise— as wise, let us say, as Thiers and Buffet and the famous partisans of Orleanism in France— they would accept the Republic. Let them proclaim it and make it conservative. When once the people are resolved the wisest men are those who follow—and in doing 60 really lead, ‘The danger is that constant opposition tothe people, renewed military outbreaks and attempts to sustain the throne on bayonets, may lead toa revolution, The char- acter of the Spanish people is such that a revolution would be more appalling than the Reign of Terror. The wisest men in Spain are those who see that the Republic means peace, and that without it thore can be no peace. Our Aquatic Reports. The victory of the Cornel! Freshmen at Saratoga yesterday was a surprise, especially to the partisans of the Harvard crew, but its effect can scarcely fail to prove salutary. It shows that the favorites cannot always win, and that the newcomers are baving ‘a chance even against the crews of the universities with a boating history. In this aspect it is an event to be hailed with great good humor. Nothing could more conduce to the best endeavors of the Freshmen crews of next year, and we may expoct as the direct re- sult of this victory more general participation in the preliminary race of 1876 and better crews. After the experiences of many years, the Freshman is the only class crew that has survived, and, without applying the Dar- winian theory of the survival of the fittest to college boating, we may say it is the only class crew that ought to survive. The Fresh- man race, to be followed on the next day by the University race, with the walking end running matches for the closing exercises of the college sports, make a programme that can- not be improved upon; and if all are worthy of each other race week at Saratoga will increase rather than diminish in interest year aiter year. The university crews should be annually recruited from the Freshmen crews of the year before, and in all of our colleges both should act together for the com- mon welfare, It is only in this way that the true interests of college boating can be best promoted, and if Cornell's victory conduces to this result Harvard will have nothing to regret in yielding the palm for once to her younger competitor. In connection with our very full reports of the racing at Saratoga yesterday we print this morning an equally graphic story of the Cape May regatta. None of the yachting events of the season have excited more general interest, and none of them have yielded better sport. ‘There was a splendid race and a brilliant com- pany to witness it. The minor honors were evenly divided between the New York and Brooklyn clubs, while the chief victory of the day was accorded to the splendid sailing of the Mohawk. Old Ocean has seldom wit- nessed a finer scene. Even Virgil’s muse could searcely do full justice to the occasion; but we are sure the balder prose in which we attempt to reproduce the struggle of the yachtsmen will be read with avidity by all who are interested in aquatic sports. These events, so iuteresting in themselves, will be followed by the great event of to-day— the University race at Saratoga, The victories of yesterday, both on the ocean and the lake, will only whet the appetite for what isto come, and our aquatic reports of the two days’ sport will be high testimony to the progress that has been madein the last few years in the management of the sail and the oar. Never | before has the aquatic season been more brill- iant or more enjoyable, and we seein the successes of the year the highest hopes for the repetition of these glories for many seasons which are to In tHe Twerep Cask the motion to vacate the order of arrest, or reduce the bail re- quired, was argued in the Supreme Court yesterday and will be continued to-day, It is plain that every step toward a trial is to be contested, and the first battle appears to be upon the point whether the suits can be maine tained at all. firm seat on his throne. His accession began | Shakespeare and the Stage. Mr. Henry Irving, whose performance of Hamlet has been the sensation of London, closed his two hundredth performance a few evenings since, and was the subject of a pop- ular demonstration, which reminds the critic of the London Times ‘of the excitement of which we hear in the biography of Edmund Kean.” In acknowledging this courtesy Mr. Irving made a speech, in which he announced that in September he would’ play Macbeth, supported by Miss Kate Bateman, and after- ward Tennyson’s new drama of ‘Queen Mary.”’ Furthermore he said it was the in- tention of the management that no play, ‘af possible, should ran beyond one hundred nights.” Mr. Irving’s success is gratifying to all who love Shakespeare. It is pleasant to think of a masterpiece like “Hamlet’’ run- ning for two hundred nights inLondon. It shows that popular taste has not run alto- gether to jig dancing and burlesque. Mr. Irving is now the dramatic rage in the British capil. He is not as good an actor as Mr. Booth. In fact, beyond a certain grace and earnestness of style, he cannot be called any- thing more than a fair average tragedian. His success, therefore, is more a tribute to the reviving taste for Shakespeare than to any high and rare genius on the part of the artist. This success in London recalls Mr. Booth’s hundred nights of Hamlet some years since at the Winter Garden—the beginning of that great’ actor's fame. It also recalls the success of Mr. Rignold os Henry V., last winter, at Booth's Theatre. It shows that Shakespeare has as much life in New York as in London, and that, although we have moods when we yearn for Irish comedy and ballet troupes, under all is an honest, hearty love of the great master. Weshall this winter, probably, have a season of Shakespeare, Mr. Booth will come again to New York, where he will be welcomed. Mr. Sullivan will return to New York for asecond season in America. Mr. Sullivan is remembered as a brilliant and original actor. The announcement of Mr. Irving that he will not play a character more than a hundred times in a single run is sug- gestive. It shows that even in London there isa protest against ‘long runs.” They take the life out of the drama. The managers crave a sensation. Once found and the season ex- hausts itself on the one play. The actors grow weary. The people turn to other amusements. The play is run through, skipped and clipped and hustled by perform- ers weary of a part. Now the success of Irving, as well as that of Booth and Rignold, shows that the love of Shakespeare is as much a popular taste as the love of music. Why, then, should not some one of our theatres take up Shakespeare for a season and deal with him in an honest fashion. Why not, instead of exhausting a season on ‘‘Hamilet’’ or ‘Henry V.,” arrange at the outset for a half dozen plays, to ba well cast, well mounted, with all proper at- tention to stage accessories and competent acting, even in the smallest parts? Let plays be given alternately during the season, just ag operas are given. Let us suppose ‘Ham- let,” “Othello,” ‘Richard,” ‘Romeo and Juliet,” “Much Ado About Nothing,’’ “The Taming of the Shrew’’ and “The Merchant of Venice’’ for a répertoire. Here are plays that would suit all tastes. “The Taming of the Shrew,” which is only played as a farce from the outrageous adaptation of Garrick, could be made one of the most amusing and delight- ful comedies on the stage. It any one would rescue ‘Romeo and Juliet” and “Richard IIL” from that fearful Colley Cibber sepulchre of melodrama and cant in which they have rested for a century, and play them as Shakespeare drew them, it would be a re- vival worthy of the name. As for “Othello,” we have in Booth and McOullough the best actors of Othello and Iago now on the English stage. There is no lack of resources, either in men and women, competent to play, or in audiences willing to see and hear. What we do lack, however, is courage on the part of our managers. There is no reason why a Shakesperian theatre should not be- come an institution in New York. It must begin, however, by playing Shakespeare and not indulging the idiosyncrasies of stars, Burglary in Daylight. Although the police are blamed for the burglary in West Eleventh street, we do not see how any part of the evil can justly be placed to their account; and the occasions are so few when injustice of this sort is done them, or when a word is to be said in their defence, that we the more willingly seize this one. It is evident that if there were forty policemen placed on every corner in the city they could not guard or guarantee the people against o crime like this. No vigilance ot public authorities can be so close as to pre- vent the entrance toa private house of two men in the guise of mechanics, who come with a plausible protext ; and that is the only aspeet of the present case with which the police could possibly deal. No vigilance could be so minute and effective as to meet sucha difficulty without ten times as many policemen on the rolls as our people are will- ing to pay for; and even then the people would object to and repel a protection that must necessarily become meddlesome and im- pertinent. In some countries custom—the experiences of many generations —has led to the acceptance of the notion that the people at large are nurslings in the hands of the police authorities, and that if a window is up too far or down too far—if too much smoke comes from the chimney, or none at all—it is the duty and the province of the policeman of the occasion to investigate the cause of these “effects defective.” But people here would regard such attentions as domiciliary visits, and demand ao change in the Board of Com- missioners, Without such attentions, how- ever, and carried out systematically at that, how are the police to know at any given hour that two roguos, who have been letinto a house without violence, have gagged an old lady and are examining the crannies of the establishment in a hunt for portable property? For our part, we can see no othor way in which the police can prevent such crimes, unless it be conceived as possible that by a general course of long continued vigilance our brass-buttoned guardians might eventuaily make the city too warm for any one or two of the gentry who are given to such habits toward old ladies. But as all the rogues have never yet been driven out of any city, is it supposable that they will ever be out of this city? Bat there is one provision acainst burglarias like the above, and itis with the people themselves. If rogues who ap- pear as plumbers are let in it is the foult of the occupants themselves that there is ma- terial to attract them. Where the honey is there will be flies. Robbers do not venture these expeditions at random. They knew all about the bonds before they went there; they knew all about Mr, Dancer; they had studied their game as a keeper studies his foxes or his pheasants; they knew the habits of the household, and went there with full knowl- edge on every subject related to their pur- pose; and the people who tempt to such enterprises, by keeping large amounts of portable values in their possession, and who leave their bank to the protection of one old lady, are the only persons upon whom blame properly rests for attempted robberies like this, Tex Compruonien anp tHE Repupuican Aldermen are evidently in sympathy in their united attempt to obstruct the business of the city government, Mr. Green, like Aldermen Vance and Simonson, can discover nothing offensive or dangerous to the public health in the stench that arises from the Harlem flats. They appear to forget that a hundred thou- sand people who pass the abominable pest hole daily or live in its neighborhood are witnesses of the disimgenuousness of such an assertion. The car passengers as they ap- proach the infected district are nauseated by the sickening smell, The testimony of every medical man whose opinion is worth having is conclusive as to the perilous character of the nuisance; police surgeons who were en- trapped into a contrary statement have one by one declared, after a personal examina- tion, that the present condition of the flats threatens a pestilence; the Board of Health have presented the district asa public nuis- anes, yet Mr. Green and his two allies in the Aldermanic Board tell us that the Disbecker garbage is neither offensive nor dangerous and that there is no necessity that any steps be taken for the protection of the health and the lives of the citizens. They, should find some more plausible excuse for their action than one which is known to be false by every man, woman and child who breathes the tainted air of the foul district. Every person knows that their op- position to the necessary work of filling the pest hole is incited by a desire to prevent the employment of laborers by the Public Works or Health Department. The republican Al- dermen, who acknowledge this to be the mo- tive of their action, are at least entitled to more respect than are those who atiempt to impose upon the people with such flimsy ex- cuses, Fuxrs’ Fare,—The story of the finding of a skeleton supposed to be the mortal re- mains of Filkins, the express robber and would-be murderer of Halpine, deserves to be sifted to the bottom. The escape of so des- perate a criminal in a mysterious way from custody reflects infinite discredit on the American prison system, and it is very desira- ble to find ont if the newly discovered skele- ton is really that of the robber Filkins. As it is known that Filkins had lost his upper teeth and the toes of one foot, it will be easy to identify the skeleton. If it has not these dis- tinguishing marks the skeleton must have be- longed to some other body, and the question arises how it came where it was found. Soime suspicion hangs over the officials of the prison which this skeleton may serve either to confirm or clear away. Rarm Transir—Tue Finst Farsz Srer.— The meeting of the Rapid Transit Commis- sion yesterday was the occasion of many loud complaints on the part of inventors, who were denied access to the presencd of the Commis- sioners. These persons could hardly expect a bearing at so early a day, and thore is yet ample opportunity for all of them to be heard ; but, while they will lose nothing by this ac- tion of the Commission, we think that in itself it was very unwise, Cause for objec- tion and criticism is thus afforded at the out- set, and the least the gentlemen composing the Commission can expect on account of their absurd-resolution is to be laughed at by the press and people. It is always a false step for any commission or committee charged with the public business to attempt to do it in secret, and the Rapid Transit Commissioners will find before they are through with their work that their snobbish action of yesterday has lowered them in general respect and con- fidence. In all kindness we would advise them to reconsider their course and give a public hearing to everybody who has a plan to present. They have no right that we can see to sit in secret session, and even if they have the right they are only making them- selves a laughing stock by doing so. Tar Frequency with which daring rob- beries are committed in this city in the day- time is becoming alarming. Within two days two ladies were assaulted and robbed in their own houses, and in neither case has the police the slightest clew to the perpetrators of the crime. Such offences would not occur at all if immunity from punishment was not almost certain because of bungling police management. In the. last five years the Metropolitan Police has scarcely made a single clever arrest, and the certainty of the escape of daring criminals seems to grow greater with every year. We shall see whether the perpetrators of the bold crime in Eleventh street on Monday, and in Mangin street yes- terday, are arrested ; but their escape, which is more probable than their punishment, will be another evidence of the worthlessness of the police force of the metropolis as at pres- ent constituted. Tue Action or Jupaz Kyarp, of Jorsey City, in refusing to debar the jurors in the Kehoe murder trial from reading the news- papers was wise and will meet with general approbation. If juror can be trusted to de- cide a case intelligently and conscientiously he can be trusted to read the. newspapers, even though they should contain comments on the trial. It is time the narrow view ot this matter usually held by the courts should give way to common sense, CenTENsuaL Cevesnarions.—Nothing could be more important than the objects proposed by the newly organized New York Centennial Association, and wo hope the society will meet with much favor. This city and State were the conspicuous theatre of events in the year 1776, and it is proper that the trials and sufferings as well as the achievements of our hundredth anniversary of that memorablo epoch. he names of the officers and mem- bers of the! association are a guarantee that everything necessary to be done will be gen- erously and creditably performed. Now Let Us Have Restitution! The announcement that ex-Court House Commissioner Walsh has, under the advice of friends, concluded to settle the claims against him by paying twenty-five thousand dollars, is one of the best illustrations of the progress of the reform movement. ‘Ihe case of Walsh, as we understand it, is a technical one. He is not charged with positive crime, but with neglect of duty, and consequently there is no reason why he should be treated harshly, or as any other than an officer who, by inadvertence or negligence, brought him- self under the law. The fact that he proposes to restore the money which was lost to the treasury through his fault shows the begin- ning of a new and better spirit. When the ‘Tammany Ring fell it became evident that the city had been outrageously robbgd. Four courses remained open to the robbers. The first was to run away, and the ability and promptness shown by Sweeny, Connolly and the rest in accepting this alternative was sur- prising. The second course was to become informers; to buy immunity by confessing their share of the crimes and naming the partners. We have had a brood of informers— Garvey, Davidson, Keyser, Norton and others, who took this path. The third course was to pay back, and the fourth to go to jail. Boss Tweed has taken the last. Walsh proposes the third. He will pay back to the treasury the money lost through his acts. The example of Walsh should not be for- gotten. Why should not the informers return some of the mbdney they stole? There is Garvey, for instance, who is only out of prison by the courtesy of Mr. O'Conor. Has he re- turned a dollar to the treasury of the vast sums he avowedly accepted from Connolly? How much has Davidson, the safe maker, paid over? What has become of Keyser’s gaivs, and especially of the assignment made to Jackson 8. Schultz? Has the city ever realized a dollar from that? How much of Ingersoll’s money has Comptroller Green received? Who has heard of any money from Wilbour and Corson and the printing gang? Connolly is said to live in sumptuous splendor abroad. Has he proposed to givea dollar of his im- perial revenues to the treasury? Tweed said to a reporter the other day that he had paid a half million of dollarsas “lawyers’ tees” sinco his trouble began. In other words, rather than restore one dollar to the people ho robbed, Tweed preters to waste the public revenucs now in his keeping upon lawyers and leeches and blackmailers. He has money to hire lawyers to browbeat judges, but not one dollar for the treasury. Walsh has set a good example. Let it be understood as an infiexible rale in dealiog with the thieves who brought so much shame and sorrow upon our city that there can be no mercy until there is restitution. ‘Tae Por has seat « donation of four thou- sand dollars to the sufferers in the devastated districts of France. This donation from the treasury of the Holy See, which is not in the most prosperoas condition, is a mark of kindly sympathy on the part of the Pope that cannot but make a good impression on the world. Acts like these do more toward uniting the various nations in bonds of Chnis- tian and fraternal sympathy than any other influence. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Well, won’t Plymouth church pay Juryman Care penter’s grocery bill? Colonel J. G. Ness, of Philadelphia, ts stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General William B, Franklin, of Hartford, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. . Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. lt is said that Loochnoo will ‘destroy the In- dian ;’’ there is hope in Hoochnoo, therefore, Captain John Mirehouse, of the steamsmip City of Montreal, 15 staying at the New York Hotel. Professor 0, ©, Marsh, of Yale College, arrived at the Hoffman House last evening from Washing- tan. Colonel Camberland, of Governor General Du ~ ferin’s staf, is sojourning at the Fith Avenue Hotel. Csptain Wiliam B. Remey, of the United States Marine corps, is stopping at the Metropoltian Hotel. The unfortunate position of the husband in tne case 18 that bis salary cannot be raised to $100,000, Brevet Brigadier General Napoleon B. McLaugh- Mn, Untved States Ariny, has arrived at tae Sturie- vant House, Senator Francis Kernan and Judge, Charles Mason, of Uuuca, have apartments at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Mayor Medcalf, of Toronto, left that city yester- day to attend tue banquets to be given by the Lora Mayor of Londos, B. H. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, Wash- ington, D. C.; Edwards Pierrepont, Washington, are at Deer Park, Md, General Sherman js visiting Hon. A. G. Davis, United States Senator, who is at his country place at Deer Park, Md, Thurman, speaking ia support of infation, and Morton for hard money, Will be two of the 1unny scenes this year ont West, Mr. George S. Bangs, Superintendent of the Raliway Postal Service, has taken up his resi- dence at the St. James Hotel, Lietitenant Colonei Jedediah 4. Baxter, of the Medical Department, United Staves Army, is re- siding temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. And if Waldenberger, imprisoned in Pennayi- yania filteen years for alleged infanticide, was innocent ail tue time, What 1s his remedy against the State? Major Featherstone, of Ottawa, Ont., hag ro- celved an invitation to the imternational bangues at Guthinall, and wil sail vy the next Allan line steamer. Only fancy, Mr. Bergh, when you look at tnat beautiful banner Of silk given to your society, how many poor, ttle innocent worms were prob. ably seaided to death to produce it, England could have raised six Woolwich infin’s for tue sum paid on account of the arbitration »t Geneva, and their prattle might have veen more convineiug than Evarts’ was, The Courier-Journa’s observation that in the next Congress there will be more representatives who “fopght against” the Union than whe fought with It, classifies the democrats perhaps witacut their consent, Acabie telegram from London, under date of yesterday, 13th iust,, reports Mr, McKenzie, the Canadian Premier, is visiting Dundee, where his reception has been most flattering. The Corpo- ration bave presented him with the frecaom of the city. Poor Hoche! The republicans in France have mado his birthday an auniversary for thetr party because he died 4 republican. But the otners say that was only because he died early, and that if he had lived he also would have been a duke like Lefevre, Ney, Soult and Fononé, who were alt | ancestors should be fitly celebrated on the | flerce renubiigans in the beainniag,