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WHO WILL BE OPE The ‘Grand Catholic Question, Who Will Succeed Pins 1X.! Tlistory of the Sacred College of the Vatican—- Its Glories and Defeats, The Election of a Pope--Coun- cils and Schisms. Living Eminences--Can One of Them Be Elected? Or Will Christianity Hear of a New De- parture in the Holy City ? Rome, August 6, 1875. ‘The College of Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, to which Archbishop McCloskey, Metropolitan of New York, has lately been added by favor of Pius [X., is ono of the most ancient institutions in the world, Few cor. porations in Christendom possess a higher origin or can trace a nobler lineage. In the second century of the Christian era S, Eleuterio was created a cardinal deacon by 8. Aniceto in the year 167; and tradition intimates that an Orsini, a member of one of the four principal bouses or families in Rome, was one of the first car- dinals of the Catholic Church. During tho fourth cen- tury, in the time when Sylvester I. held the pontificate, seven cardinal deacons, together with a presbyter car- dinal, appeared at Councils held in Rome; and in,a dona- tion made by one Zenobius, a Roman senator, to the church of Arezzo, occur the words, “I, Jonx, Carpr- RAL Deacox or the Hour Romay Cancun, conrirnm THs Girt ON THE PART oF Pork Damasvs.”” Pope Damasus received the pontifical dignity in the year 367, go that it may be concluded that cardinals were an established and well known institution at least in the fourth cen- jury of the Christian era, The very namo of cardi- nal implies an important ofMfce, Italians, when they would describe the axletreo of the heavens, call it “Cardine del Cielo,” and they term the poles of the world ‘I Cardini del Mondo.” To cardinals is somo- Mmes applied a Scriptural allusion from the eighth ‘rerso of the Second Book of Kings, where the Douay version reads:—‘‘For tho poles (cardini) of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them He has set the world.” THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CAYMOLIC CHURCH \8 certainly in modern times set upon the cardinals, and it may well be imagined that the functions formerly at- ached to them wero of the very highest dignity and Importance. They were regardod as exercising a power on the due administration of which the welfare, if not existence, of the Church depended, just as a door de- pends on its hingo or as the universe revolves on its axis, Most probably cardinals in the carliest times acted as councillors and advisers to the Bishop of Rome and as administrators of ecclesiastical funds. The Roman Pontiff, in his -government of the Catholic Church, exercised visibly the same kind of authority exercised by Christ when upon carth, and as tho Vicar of the ascended Jesus was the chief ruler of Christians and had tho cardinals for his assessors or min- Isters, just as Christ had His twelve apostles and His seventy disciples, The Emperor Frederic Il., who was by no means a protector of the Holy Soo, ob- served, in a letter written in 1239 and recorded by Matthow Paris, that, ‘“‘as Christ, the head of the Church, founded His church on a rock in the name of Peter, so also he constituted the cardinals successors of the apostles." It was needful to institute an august assem- bly of men, who could by their learning counsel com- fort and aid tho Pontiff in administration of sacred things, and who could by their virtues and conduct give pattern to the faithful. The number of printed books in divers languages giving an account of cardinals prob- ably oxcceds at the present day 1,000, A work printed in 1792 gives a list of nearly 700 such authors, CARDINALS ARE NOW CLASSED as cardinal bishops, cardinal pricsts and cardinal dea- tons. It was not, however, until the eighth century that cardinal bishops were mentioned. Cardella, among alist of cardinals living in 494 under the Pontificate of 8. Gelasius L, reckons twerty-eight cardinal priests under their respective titles and seven cardinal deacons, but no cardinal bishop. To the deacons at that period no titles or churches were assigned, but they were nominated to the several districts or wards into which the city of Rome was divided, each of the seven deacons having charge of two wards or rioni. Thero were then four- teen rioni in Romo. At the Council celebrated by Paul I. in 761 cardinal bishops of Albano and Palestrina appeared. In another Council held in 769 by Pope Steplien III. four cardinal bishops, of Ostia, Silva Candida or 8. Ruffina, Albano and Porto, wero present. Under Leo III. is found a cardinal bishop of Sabina, while a cardinal bishop of Velletri attended the Council held in Rome in 853 by Leo IV. Thus before the close of the ninth century it would seem that the samo bishoprics of Ostia and Velletri, Porto and 8. Ruffina, Albano, Palestrina and Sabina, which now have cardi- nals attached, possessed the samo honor. A cardinal bishop of Tusculum or Frascati does not appear until 1050. The seven cardinal bishops were alone privi- leged to say mass at the high altar in the basilica of 8t. Jobn Lateran. YHE ELECTION OF A POPE IN THE PAST AND IX THE PRESENT DAY. The present cardinals possess the exclusive right of electing a future Pope. They only are the persons who are entitled to vote at Papal elections, and they must elect one of their own body, and none other, to fill, when vacant, the Pontifical chair, It was not so in early times. Popes wero chosen at first by the com- bined voices of priests and laymen. The choice of tho multitude was not limited to bishops, much less to cardinals, and on certain occasions very great pressure ‘was put on the electing body by partisans of ambitious candidates or by despotic emperors. In modern years it has been professedly the aim of European Powers to secure the cardinals in conclave full protection against external influences and to leave them free liberty of ‘ction when discharging thcir important function of selecting a new Pope, Yot, under color of providing facilities for free choice, certain European potentates | aro suspected of a design to further their own views | and obtain the election of a pope who may bo deemed likely to advance some particular line of policy. It may be well, accordingly, to trace the successive steps by which the present arrangement was reached, that, pamely, which confines to tho body of cardinals the oMce of conferring a vacant tiara on one of their num- ber, thus:— For a space of full 830 years after Christ the Popes | were choson in Rome by the clergy and laity. Tho | suffrage or vote was given by those bishops or pricsts | who happened at the time to bo in the city, including, | of course, the Roman ecclesiastics and cardinals, The | people or laymon approved or ratified the choice. As | night be expected, the occasions of these elections were somotimes seized upon as pretexts for seditions and scends of disturbance, and the authority of the | Emperor had to be interposed to check violence or | tumult. Honeo it was judged fitting by the Emperor | Jastinianus, inthe year 530, td issue a decree to re: move CAUSES OF DISSENSION AND RIOT, by which It was enacted that no election of a pope | should be considered valid, or confirmed, without the | coasent of the Emperor. Whatever may have been the intentions of Justinianus himself, it soon be. | camo the rule that the Greck Emperors would | not give their consents without a good sum of money. Gregory the Great, who was elected | to the Pontifitate in 590, against bis own will, tried to make use of this decree of Justinianus, to escape the Pontificate, He wrote to the Emperor Maurice, im- ploring him to refuse consent to the election, but as Grogory’s letter was intercepted by the Prefect of Rome, who was a warm advocate of Gregory, the Emperor sont, instead of a refusal, a ratification of the election. jumption of the right to confirm Papal elections, | although recognized, as we have seen, by Gregory, was denounced by the same Popo as unjust, iniquitous and tyrannical, The imperial intervention, however, lasted for a century until the time of Constantine [V., a good Emperor, who restored in 684 to the Church the liberty | of choosing Popos without the Emperor's sanction, | | dinal deacon. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1875, -TRIPLE SHEET. Pope Hadrian 1., in 778, moved by gratitude for the many temporal favors bestowed: on the Church by Em- perors, and notably by Pepin and Charlemagne, gave to the latter Emperor and his successors the right of con- firmation, which scems, notwithstanding, never to have been employed, and in 897 the Emperor Ludovicus II. formally surrendered to the Church its independ- ence in Papal elections, which was still more cleary set forth by Pope Hadrian IV., who declared that Popes were to be consecrated without concurrence of the King or of his ambassadors. But in the year 963 the bad Pope John XII. was deposed in a Council by aid of the Emperor Otho, and Pope Leo VIII. was elected, and to suppress the disorders caused by Roman citizens the right of confirming Papal elections was granted to Otho and his successors in the imperial dig- nity, sf THIS RIGHT WAS SET AT NAUGHT In 973, but was again given to the Emperor Henry II. in 1048, when Damasus II. was elected. This Pope diod twenty-three days after his creation, and his sudden de- cease was attributed to the Divine displeasure at the intervention of Emperors tn the clection of Popes. On the death of Damasus II. Henry chose Leo VIIL, in 1049, but this Pope was so terrified by the fate of his predecessor and so alarmed by the preaching of the monk Hildebrand that he, on his journey to Romo to take possession of the Papal throne, cast away bis purple and pontifical ornaments received from the Emperor andentered Rome in the dress ofa simple pilgrim, when he was raised to tho chair of St. Peter by the voice of the clergy and people. “I will go to Rome,” he had said in reply to the mandate. of the Emperor, “and if the clergy and people elect me to be Pope I will obey your behest,” Pope Nicholas {I., in 1059, decreed that the election of Pontiffs should devolve chiefly upon the cardinals; the rest of the clergy and the people being called on to ap- prove, and with a reservation of due honor and rever- ence tothe Emperor, Now, for the first time, cardinals were invested with the sole privilege of chosing Popes. But two years later, namely in 1061, a schism aroso from electing a Pope without the Emperor’s consent, and the effects of the schism were so deplorable that Hildebrand, when elected Pope under naine of Gregory VIL, refused to receive consecration until he had gained the approval of the Emperor. In the formula used in his election there is, however, no mention of the Emperor, and ho is said to have been chosen, not by cardinals only, but also by acolites, subdeacons, deacons and priests, in the presence of bishops, abbots and monks, and with consent of crowds of both orders, Likewise, in 1088, Pope Urban II. seems to have been olected by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and with the written consent of clergy and laity; that of the clergy being given through the Bishop of Porto, and that of the laity by means of the Prefect of the city. SCIISMS COUNCILS. The evils produced by such a number of electors and thd schisms occasioned by thoir disputes were so { responsibility. numerous and calamitous that the eleventh General Coun- cil (the thirdLateran), held in 1179, under Pope Alexander IIL, decreed that thenceforward the cardinals, and the cardinals alone, to the exclusion of the rest of the clergy and the people and sovereigns, should enjoy the right of electing, creating, confirming and enthroning the suceessor of St. Peter, with a proviso that he only of the cardinals should be deemed canonically elected who should receive the suffrages and votes of two- thirds of tho electing cardinals. Tho first Pope elected under this decree was Lucius III, created in 1181. The provisions of the Lateran Council wero confirmed in 1274 by the Council of Lyons, under Gregory X., and in 1311 by the Council of Vienna, held under Clement ¥., with tho assistance of the kings of Franco and England, From the date of this rule of limiting Papal elections to cardinals only few schisms have occurred. During the previous centuries no less than twenty-six schisms divided the Church. During the five centuries which have followed the election in 1181 of Pope Lucius III, only three schisms afflicted the Church, and of these three one only, that in time of Urban VI., can be charged on the cardinals; for, of the other two schisms one arose in time of John XXII, by fault of the Emperor Ludovicus, and the other was occasioned by the Council of Basle in the time of Eugene IV. The number of cardinals has varied in different periods, atcording to the will of successive pontiffs and the conditions of the Church. The Cardinal bishops were never more than seven. Cardinal priests were originally twenty-five, wero in- creased to twenty-eight and so remained until about tho year 1455, when Calixtus I{L, a Spaniard, added one his example being followed by Sixtus LV. who added’ another, and by subsequent pontifls, who, at last, by the time of 8, Pius V., brought the number of Cardinal priests up to fifty. i THE CARDINAL DEACONS were at first seven, but afterward became fourteen, and at one period eighteen in number, Thus the total num- ber of cardinals might, if all the posts were filled, arrive at the large reckoning of seventy-five, and theoretically there is no limit to their creation, save the pleasure of the Pontiff for the time being. During the first eleven centuries of the Christian era the College of Cardinals rarely contained as many as fifty-three, and never ex- cecded that number, which was made up of seven bishops. twenty-eight priests and eighteen deacons, the chief of the latter order being styled Cardinal Arch- deacon, From the year 1125 they declined in number, through neglect in filling up vacancies, until at the election of Pope Nicholas III, in 1277, only seven car- dinals were found present. Twenty seems to have been the standard number of cardinals in the time of Boni- face VIII; and in 1331, when Pope John XXII. was s0- licited to create two new French cardinals, he answered that of the twenty cardinals then existing eighteen were" Frenchmen by birth. At the death of Pope Clement VI, in 1352, the cardinals resolved that twenty should be their limit. Pope Urban VL, who, when elected in 1378, found only twenty-three cardinals, made twenty-eight new cardinals in one day, thus transgressing the custom of his immediate predecessors, The Council of Con- stance limited the number of cardinals to twenty-four, the number also decreed by the Council of Basle in 1456, This Basle decree enacted that cardinals should not ex- ceed the number of twenty-four, and that they should be men distinguished for knowledge, morals and expe- rience in business; natives of all parts of Christendom, not younger than ‘thirty years of age, and masters of licentiates in law or divinity. At least a third part were to be masters in. sa Scripture, and nephews of the Pope or of living cardinals were excluded, as well as per sons of illegitimate birth, or deformed in person, or stained by any crime or infamy. These injunctions, as far as regards the number of cardinals, were not long observed. Pope Sixtus IV. created thirty, Alex- ander VI. fifty, and Leo X., who created thirty-one at one turn, brought the number up to sixty-five. Paul IV, raisea the number to sixty-nine and Pius IV. to seventy-six. THE NUMBER OF SEVENTY was fixed by Pope Sixtus V. in 1585, by his celebrated bull postquam, which declared that there should be six cardinal bishops, fifty priests and fourteen deacons, By this bull or constitution he decreed that deacon cardi- nals should be at least twenty-two years old, and if not ordained before creation, to be ordained deacons within ayear, He decreed also that fit. persons for the dignity of cardinal should be selected ‘as much as possible from all the nations of the Christian world.” It is curious that Sixtus V. himself, who, by his constitutios excluded boy cardinals and nephews of popes, actually, | ashort time before issuing that constitution, ereated | cardinal his own nephew, q lad fourteen years old. Five popes who lived, one in the twelfth, one in the thirteenth, one in the fifteenth and two in the sixteenth century, had been created cardinals beforo they arrived at the age of twenty one years. Four of them were nephews of popes, and one of thom, Leo X., of the Medici family, who gave the name of “golden’? to the | o in which he flourished, was only fourteen years old when created a cardinal deacon, Among tbe juvenile cardinals aro reckoned Odetto di Coligny, created deacon cardinal when cloven years old, at the request of the King of France, in 1533, and deprived in 1563 for misconduct, and Niccolo Gactani, of the same family a8 the present blind Duke of Sermoncta, made cardinal when twelve years old by his uncle Paw IIL. But the youngest cardinal on record was probably Ferdinand of Austria, son of Philip IIL King of Spain, i | who was only ten years old when created in 1619 a car- This prodigy was styled, by reason of his extraordinary merits, ‘The Delight of all the World.”” AGE OF THIRTY YEARS ; seems now acknowledged to be the standard age for all cardinals, whether deacons, priests or bishops, in compli- ance with the bull of Sixtus V. and the regulations of the Council of Trent, which put cardinals on the same foot- ing as bishops in respect to age. The last instance of a departure from this rule was in 1810, when Pius VIL. created Louis of Bourbon a cardinal deacon when twen- years old. It is, of course, in the Pon- wer to grant dispensations for — age as for other requirements of the canons, No nephews ot Pius IX. are to be found in the list of existing cardi- | nals, nor can the reigning Pontiff be justly charged with favoritiem or any corrupt motives in his choice of enn- didates for the purple, But it must be confessed that nationalities are not yet sufficiently represented in tho Sacred College, The cardinals, as the constitution of Sixtus V. implies, ought, to be chosen in better propor- tion from all the Christian nations, Pius IL, when asked to restrict the creation of cardinals, said that he, as he of the Church, could not overlook the ultra the Western hemisphere an influence which cannot be | adequately wielded by a single American cardinal, THR CARDINALS NOW LIVING, taking into account the recent creations, are fifty-six in number, being six bishops, forty-one priests and nine deacons. Five other cardinals were, at the last crea- tion, on the 15th of March last, reserved in pefto—that ik to say, they were created by the Pops, but their tames will not be made known by His Holiness for the ent, ne cardinals and vacancies, the total of le cardinals being seventy. No one but His Holiness himsel toll exactly names of the petto cardinals, yet in these namws will be found to be those of Mgr. Pacea, tho Major- domo; Antici- Mattei, Patriarch of Constantinople; Arch- bishop Vittelleschi,’ Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars; Mgr, Randi, formerly fin- ister of Police and Governor of Rome under the Pontif- ical government, and Archbishop Simeoni, new Nuncio at Madrid, Pius IX. has created during his long pontif- icate, in seventeen promotions, OXK HUNDRED AND POUR CARDINALS, exclnsive of seven cardinals reserved in petto, for one such was reserved in 1858, another in 1863, and five, as before stated, in March last, Daring the same period— namely, the duration of the present Pope's reign—l03 cardinals died, so that the deaths nearly equalled tho creations, THE RATE OF CARDINALITIAL MORTALITY was three and a half cardinals per annum, tho highest number of deaths among their eminences ‘in any one year being eight, in the year 1867, when cholera pre- vailed, Cardinal Altieri, Bishop of Albano, fell a vic- tim in that year to that disease, after having over-ex- erted himself to tend the sick and dying. PIUS IX. CREATED all the cardinals now living, save eight who were created by Gregory XVI. THE AVERAGE AGE. of the cardinals whom Pius IX. created was, at the time of their respective creations, fifty-six. Lucian Bona- parte was but forty years old when created; Antonelli 1 Monaco but forty-one. Pius IX. created no cardi- nal—at least of those now living—under the age of forty, whereas of the eight cardinals appointed by Gregory XVI. two (Patrizi and Sforza) were thirt one (Vannicelli) was thirty-eight and another (Cai was thirty-nine years old when created, The oldest cardinal in point of years is De Angelis, aged cighty- three; the two youngest are Bonaparte and Oreglia But THE SENIOR IN RANK is Patrizi, who has been forty-two years a cardinal, while the junior in rank is Bartoli, the last cardinal deacon created by Pius IX. THE PAPAL SUCCESSION, Before examining the merits of the several ving members of the Sacred College, in view of their proba. Dilities to succeed to the tiara, whenever it shall please God to receive to His heavenly company the present Pontiff, it may be well to consider the frequent remark that the choice generally falls upon a cardinal whose so- lection causes surprise, and whose qualifications were not previously regarded as overwhelming. Chance, it is said, seems to determine pontificial elections, In the Conclave which followed the death of Paul IIL, in 1559, Cardinal Pole, in the third scrutiny, wanted but a single vote to secure his election, and that one vote he might have gained by the slightest effort on his own part, He did not make that effort, and, therefore, was not created Pope. A day or a few hours have often turned the scale, Trifling matters have altered, over and over again, the deliberations of conclaves, and given the majority of suffrages to new candidates. What is all this but to prove that Providence, not chance, regulates the selection of the Vicar of Christ? In trath it would seem that even wicked men must shrink, when the moment of supreme decision arrives, from ambitioning, by unworthy means, an office of such tremendous It is hardly fair, then, to suppose that any of the eminent personages who now wear the purple, are, or will be, candidates, in the ordinary sense of the term, for the dignity which the demise of the reigning Pontiff will leave vacant, There are some of the present cardinals whose merits are so well known that their fitness to occupy the highest ecclesiastical office would be cheerfully admitted. De Angelis, the oldest of all the cardinals, created thirty-seven years ago by Gregory XVI, is a man of first rate tilent, who was once Nuneio at Vienna, and distinguished hin self in diplomacy’; but his age, perhaps, renders him un- likely to be chosen for a fu Pope. ' The same objec- tion of age applies to Grassellini, a Neapolitan of singularly winning manners, created a cardinal deacon by Pius £X,, as well as to Amat and Asquini,. who were created cardinals by Gregory XVI, Constantine Patrizi, the senior in rank of Cardinal Bishops, and Dean of the Sacred College, was created cardinal ‘by Gregory XV. when only thirty-six years of age, and has been forty: one years a cardinal. A member of the noble family of Naro-Patrizi, and influential by his aristocratic connec- tions, as well as by his learning, piety and virtue, he possesses eminent claims to the suflrages of his breth- ren—claims which his age alone can impair. The Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Trevisanato, is a man of great talent, who has conducted himself in trying cir- cumstances with prudence and sagacity, but he 1s seventy-five years old. Vannicelfi, who is a year younger than the Venetian Patriarch, is an invalid’ and infirm, PAUL, CARDINAL CULLEN. Archbishop of Dublin, distinguished himself highly at the Propaganda, where he defended in public before Leo XIL a thesis maintaining the truth of all divinity and thology, scriptural, historical, scholastic or dogmatic. His speeches in the Vatican Council were of extraordi- nary.merit. Cardinal Cullen is also a man of business and was for years rector of the Propaganda College, and was also rector of the Irish College. He saved the property of the Propaganda in 1848 when the Triumvi- rate sought to confiscate it, by appealing to the inter- vention of Mr. Cass, then American Minister, on the ground that some of the students who lived in the Propaganda were American subjects, The Trinmvyers acknowledged the claim and gave permission that the American flag, if necessary, should be hoisted over the Propaganda College to save. it from revolutionary insult or injury. Archbishop Callen, being an Irishman, will probably be looked on as not likely to be chosen’ to a post to which Italians, in modern times, are regarded exclusively as cligible, CARDINAL, DE LUCA, seventy years old, a Sicilian by birth, was formerly Bishop of Aversa, near Naples. He was’ also President of the Academia Ecclesiastica, and was once secretary to Cardinal Weld, He is fond of Englishmen, and is both learned and practised in affairs, Cardinals Di Pietro, Sacconi and Carafa are none of them too old for office, The first was Nuncio in Portu- galand displa talents; the second was Nuncio in Paris, and the third is distin Cardinal Pitza, a Benedict in France, has lived long in Rome, and is deeply learned in books and manuscripts. He has written well on Oriental hymns, with special reference to their doctrinal. impor- tance, and is librarian of the Holy Roman Charch, CARDINAL BONAPARTE, the youngest of all the cardinals, was born in Rome, and lives with his sister, Princess Gabrielli, in. a pala in Monte Giordano, not far from the Castle of § Angelo, He is very devout and_ pious and goes twice a week to visit his aunt, a sister of the late Prince Canino, who is a nun at the Novitiate of the Sacred Heart, estab- lished at Villa Santi. CARDINAL CHIGI, member of one of the best families in Rome, did not be- come an ecclesiastic until late in life, He was well known and estcemed* in fashionable gociety, and was one of the Noble Guards of the Pope. He served as Nuncio at Paris, CARDINAL BERARDI was a married man, and took holy orders aftor the death of his wife. He has no children, He was a law- er, and is wealthy. | He distinguished himself in pub i¢ affairs as assistant, for many years, to Antonelli, and was selected to go as Nuncio to St. Petersburg, but was prevented by an imbroglio between Iussia’ and the Vatican, CARDINAL MERTRI was alsoa clever lawyer and displayed great ability in spite of somewhat retiring and unassuming manners. CARDINAL RANCHI, PREFECT OF TILE PROPAGANDA, is but fifty-six years old, and was always prominently before the public notice. He made his studies in the Roman Seminary with great ability. He has filled most important offices, haying been Internuncio at Florence, then Secretary for Ecclesiastical Extraordinary Affairs in Rome, Nuncio in Spain, and finally Pretoct of tho Propaganda, He is keen in business, active and prompt in decision. CARDINAL ANTONELLL There is one Cardinal, whose life has been so identi- fied with that of Pius IX. in_ his official actions that he deserves a special notice. This is Antonelli, the head of the deacon cardinals, Secretary of State to His Holiness, and the oldest surviving cardinal of all those created by Pius IX. Six cardinals were created before him, but allofthem are now dead, and Antonelli, the seventh Cardinal made by Pius IX., although but sixty-nine years old, has been twenty-eight years a cardinal. Dur- ing all that time he has followed the fortunes of his master in good or evil days with unswerving fidelit He has had the opportunity, more than other cardinals, of making friends in the Sacred College and of securing | a preponderating influence in conclave. That his post as Secretary of State gives him extraordinary claims cannot be doubted. But as Antonelli bas never taken priest's orders, nor shown any disposition to exchange | as is political and diplomatic ofiice for episcopal functions, | it may be taken for granted he will not seek in the next conclave the Pontifical dignity. ARCHBISHOP. MANNING, Archbishop of Westminster, has been named in certain English circles as an expectant of the tiara. It is foreign to the noble nature of the English car- | dinal to look forward for promotion to sacred offices, Had he desired woalth and dignity he would have re- mained in the Anglican establishment, wherein rich prizes awaited him. His wonderful industry, talent and earning well qualify him to be Pope, but no one imag: | Ines that any but an Italian cardinal’ will succeed Pius WHERE WILL THE NEW POPE BE FOUND? by some persons that the next Pope of one of the religions Orders. Greg- ory XVI. was a Camaldolese: monk, and made an excel- | lent Pope, and the convent training and probation are judged good things for those who have to rule their brethren, Ifa Dominican be chosen, there is Cardinal | Guidi, a Bolognese, Bishop of Frascati, now residing fre- | quently in the Irish Dominican convent of St, Clemente. Cardinal Guidi is very learned, has great judgment and lives a most holy life, If an Augustinian cardmal | be required th Martinelli, aged forty-six, two years younger than y noted for piety? learn- | ing and irreproachable conduct, 8, because by ‘the constitutions of many pre- pontifls and ‘by councils, it had been decreed | that cardinals should be taken from every nation, the better to learn the habits and customs of évery people, | and thus more efliciently to judge the entire Christian world, Out of fifty-six existing cardinals at least thirty seven are Italians, while six are French, six aro German | or Austrian, four are Spanish or Portuguese, und there | is but one English, one Irish and one American cardinal. | X. took # step in the right direction when he | PRPLE ON THK ARCHMISHOY OF XEW YORK, claims of the vast hierarchy in the new | continent can. hardly be satisted without the appoint. ment of the Archbishop of Quebee, for. mstance, tor that | portion of America, and of some other prelate for South America, to sit as cardinals in the Sacred College, Events are tending day by day to give to the Catholic Church in the mighty republics and in the growing colonial empires fouuded by the Anglo-Saxon race in | Spe | the public is Panebianco, a Cardinal Bilio, of the clerks regular of the congrega- tion of St. Paul, and aged forty-six years, has been often en of as likely to be made Pope. He is the author | | Suao and a military road of the famous Syllabus, Another cardinal whose name has been much before | . aged fifty-three, a Franciscan of the Minor Conventuals, a man of many virtues and of iron resolution, He is thought by somo to have too much durezea for a pontitt, Cardinal Pecei, archbishop of Perugia, aged forty-three years, has been also mentioned as a likely pope. Borromeo, a cardinal deacon, of the age of forty-six, belongs to the noble house which had for its noblest member St. Charles Borromeo, of Milan, Cardinal | Edoardo Borromeo walks worthily after the pattern sot him by St, Charles, He devotes’ himself to charitable works, assisting the poor with his time and money, and paying special attention to educational institutes, He is very pious and most devoted to the porson of Pins IX. He was almost isolated from his own family for a time. so-called liberalism. Borromeo was one of the private because he opposed their revolutionary tendencies and | chamberlains at the Vatican and served the offices of Maestro di Camera and Maggiordomo. The cardinal, however, who is most frequently men- tioned as the successor of Pius IX. is RIARIO SFORZA, ge of thirty-five, wax made XVI. Archbishop of Naples, and, when thirty-six years old, was created by the same Pontifl a riest cardinal, with the title of St. Sabina, He was the jast cardinal created by Gregory, who, it is said, pre- dicted he would oue day occupy the Pontifical throne. The first cardinal ever created by Gregory was Lam- bruschini, his Secretary of State, who, in the conclave held on Gregory's death, had at one scrutiny more votes than Mastai Ferretti. Riario Sforza was at one timo one of the four principal chamberlains and is of high rank, being by birth a , sesses a princely fortune, which he spends in doing good. His influence in Naples is immense, and he ean Go almost what he will with the population, ‘Attached to the old dynasties, he yet holds aloof {rom polities, de- voting himself singly to bis ec astical duties, Hoe worked harmoniously with Vigliani, the present Lord Chancellor or Guardasigilli of Vietog Emmanuel, when Vigliani was Prefect of Naples. In his daily life he is a mode! bishop and a model cardinal, and doubtless, if Providence shall so appoint, will do his duty as a model pope. A RICH JEW IN JERUSALEM. Mr. H. Guedalla has favored us (writes the Jewish World) with the perusal of some private letters, giving particulars of the visit of Sir Moses Monteflore to Jeru- salem. On the Wednesday following his arrival in Jeru- salem the venerable baronet visited the large synagogue in the Holy City belonging to the Ashkenasim congre- gation, This handsome house of worship was splendidly illuminated, and all the decorations, floral and other- wise, usually exhibited on the festivals, adorned the synagogue on this occasion, The synagogue presented ¥ dorgeous spectacle, the enthusiasm of the vast congregation considerably enhaneing the beauty of the scene, Sit Moscx Montetiore was received at the doors sis a Neapolitan, who, at th by Gregor of the synagogue with every demonstration of honor by the. Rey. Haham Bashi, at whose house he was entertained immediately after the service was concluded. Sir Moses expre highly delighted with the reception wh siven him. The aged philanthropist fatigued from the visit that he was compelled his bed the whole of the following day. On making his exit from the synagogue it was with great difticulty that Sir Moses Montefiore was enabled to make his progress through the streets, upwards of 20,000 people, it is said, being assembled, anxious to obtain a sight of the venerable baronet, | Jews, Christians and Moham- medans rushed backwards and forwards in seeming frenzy, just for the purpose of feasting their eyes on the countenance of the white-headed champion ot Juda- ism, who, in his ninety-lirst year, left home and com- fort to succor the distressed, In fact, so great was the excitement and so numerous the difliculties which impeded the progress of Sir Moses through the streets, that the authorities were compelled to order out the military to disperse the enthusiastic crowds which besieged the aged hero, Atter much trouble Sir Moses was permitted to pursue his way. In a letter sent by Sir Moses Montefiore to Mr. H. Guedalla, dated Jerusalem, July 29, Sir Moses states that the number of buildings (dwelling) houses, we believe) has greatly in- creased, and, seeing how densely crowded is the Holy City at the ‘present. moment, Sir Moses thinks that it would be very desirable to erect suitable dwellings out. side the city. He states, moreover, that all he has se in Jerusalem since his arrival contirms his opinions of the merits of its Jewish inhabitants, and all that has come under his view strengthens him in his belief that the Halestinian Israelites are eager and anxious to give their attention to avy kind of remunerative employ ment, THE ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA. PREPARATIONS AT PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD FOR THE VOYAGE, Acorrespondent of thé London Standard, writing from Portsmouth August 3in regard to the Prince of Wales’ visit to India, says:— For some time past a large staff of workmen have been employed upon the Serapis, Indian troopship, se- Jected for the conveyance of the Prince of Wales to and from India, Considerable progress has been made, but though at the present time upwards of 400 men are en- gaged upon the big white-hulled trooper, which now fies alongside the southern jetty of the dockyard, the authorities have a somewhat arduous task to complete her ready for departure from this port — early in October, Tho Prince and Princess of Wales, who, with their two eldest children, have been on a visit to the Queen, at Osborne, left yesterday morning, crossing over to Portsmouth in the Alberta, Staff Commander Welch, and as she neared her destination a royal salute of twenty-one guns was fired from the garrison saluting battery, which commands the narrow entrance to the capacious harbor, followed by a salvo of artillery from the Duke of Wellington, flagship of Admiral G, Elliot, Commander-in-Chiet The Princess and her two sons, with Miss Knollys, took their seats i a two-horse open carriage, while the Prince ot Wales, accompanied by Admiral Elliot, went on foot to the Serapis, the distance being onl: a few hundred yards. The route was lined with hundreds of workmen, who were returning from dinner when the royal yacht steamed alongside. The royal suite included Lords Aylestord, Charles Beresford and Clonmel, General Probyn, Lady Alfred Churchill and Miss Knollys. The phic party entered the Serapis by a prow leading to the main deck, where they were received by Captain the Hon. Henry Carr Glyn, C. B. (who has been appointed to the command of the Serapis), and the officers of the ship. About a quarter of an hour. was devoted to the main deck, on which fitteen cabins are being fittea up for the suite of His Royal Highness. Mr. W. B. Robinson, chief construc- tor of the dockyard, was in attendance to afford the royal visitors any information that might be required, From the main’ deck the royal party ascended a new handsome staircase to the saloon on the after part of the upper deck—a noble apartment, which has been ex- tended back to the stern windows, and enlarged by the removal of five of the aft cabins on either side. The saloon is now undergoing refitting and __re- cnibellishment, and on two tables in the fore- part of the saloon were plans and drawings of the proposed alterations and additions, which were carefully examined by the Prince of Wales, Specimens of water bottles, decanters, barometers, carpets, cur- tains, &c., were’ submitted’ for the inspection of the royal visitors. The ordinary saloon tables are to bo replaced by one which can be so arranged as to accom- modate cither twelve or twenty-iour persons, and this, on special occasions, will grve place to another of horse- shoe shape at which no fewer than sixty can be seated, ‘The saloon is to be fitted with six punkahs, the Hindoo name for large revolving fans, which will in all probae bility be worked by punkah wallahs, Some little time was spent by His Royal Highness, accompanied by Captain Glyn, in an inspection of his sleeping apart- ments, which’ are situate on either side of the saloon, the inner bulkheads of the cabins, hitherto devoted to the officers of the ship, having been displaced in order to provide the necessary accommodation. The suite of His Royal Highness will have the whole of the aft part of the inain deck appropriated to their use, and the ser- vants of the Prince and suite will find sleeping accom- modation on the lower deck, A JAPANESE EXPEDITION. The following is in a report from the British Consul at Tamsuy, issued with a volume of Consular reports to the Foreign Office:—*'The invasion of South Formosa by an armed Japanese force in the spring is the chief political event of the year, A few years ago some Lin- chiuan sailors, over whom the Japanese claim jurisdi tion, had been murdered by the aborigines at the south- ern end of this island, and China having, as alleged, disclaimed all responsibility as regards the control of the savage tribes in the island, an expedition to punish them was set on foot by Japan, and troops were landed at Langkiao, a small bay on the southwest coast, and at Pelam, on the southeast of Formosa, The Chinese offered no opposition, and, indeed, saluted the Japanese on their arrival at Langkiao, Tho latter pitched their camp and came into conflict on two or three occasions with the Bootan tribe of savages, with whom they finally came to terms as regards the hu- mane treatment of shipwreckéd crews, The Chinese, then, getting uneasy at the prolonged stay of the Japanese, and suspecting that the movements of some travellers who were exploring the cast coast was a pre- Jude to future occupation, required them to withdraw. Japan protested against any interference with her a tion, A war was only averted at the last_ moment Mr. Wade, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister, who was sked to arbitrate between the two nations, and it was eventually agreed that Japan should withdraw her | forces on certain conditions, the chief of which was the payment to her by China of a small indemnity for her expenses in making roads, &e., in South Formosa, ‘The States Consul issued a notification on the 6th of ing some American citizens who wero rving in the Japanese army to give up their commands, While negotiations at Pekin were going on the Chinese made some efforts to, put their defences into order in the north of the iskund, Earthworks were thrown up at pwn the east const was col menced; a few guns were also added to the old worn- out pieces of ordnance in the forts at the entrance of ‘Tamsny Harbor, including the battery at the foot of the Dateh fort hill, and, more sinic4, the forts themselves were whitewashed. A few Japanese travellers and a Mexican went down the east coast in a large cargo boat «i were wrecked at Kilai (known on the chart as | Chockeday), a village forty miles south of Suao, on the east coast. They distributed prizes among the Chineso adventurers or half savages whom they found there, and even arranged to purehage land; but, after staying for about a month, were prostrated with malarious fever and obliged to leave. This little excursion was jdered so important by the Chinese that Hsia, recover the articles left by the party, which included a Japanese flag, with a view to thelr being re: the original owners, Presents of red cloth, were made by the Chineso authorities to various savage tribes on the cast and southwest coa ts of the islands to induce them to recognize but it fs questionable whether these overtu successful. A telegraph, it was resolved last y to be erected between Taiwanfoo and the northet of the island overland, and a notification wi issued by the sub-prefoct of the district direc people hot to interfere with the posts. line was also to connect Tamsuy with Foochow, These ‘ajects have, since the settlement ot the Japancse liffienity, been abandoned. The road ou the east const is, however, to be completed, Chinese settlers are to bo bribed to colonize along the’ line of the road, the re- sources of the island are to bo fully developed, ant numerous officials are to be sent to toc wild districts of the interior; and all these proposed reforms are to be under the immediate supervision of the Governor of Fukein, who is to reside at Taiwantoo,”’ tored hinese rule, ee beoh was end | A submarine | od under Louis Philippe, with a few of the ex-min- FRANCE. The Silent and Shackled Press of Paris. NEWS ONLY IN FOREIGN PAPERS. Wonderful Resources of the New Nation of Shopkeepers, THE HOPES OF PARTIES. Panis, August 14, 1875. Another Parliamentary session has closed at Versailles, without any notable results. The dissolution of the Chamber 1s apparently much further off than it was three months ago, for then it was expected from day to day, and now it is not expected at all. It is perhaps, ‘on tho whole, quite as good a Chamber as any one likely to be re-elected, and its members may be excused for hesitating to commit political suicide when their dis- appearance from public life would present no prospect of benefit either to their country or to their con- nections, Meantime the state of parties during recess may be thus summed up. The liberals are profoundly dissatis- fied with the government; they can obtain no share in the administration and have no influence; they com- plain that under the name of republic all the good things which it is in the power of Ministers to bestow invariably find their way to secret or avowed royalists, Party chiefs, differing as widely as to the true principles on which States should be ruled, such as M. Gambetta and M, Louis Blane, unite in a feeling of almost pas- sionate dislike for M. Buffet and his tolleagues. They are under considerable aiMculty, however, In express- ing this dislike either in words or in action. The press is controlled with a sternness quite new to French journalists, and General Ladmirault will not permit any literature of an exciting character to find its way into the newspapers. The age of pamphietecring is passed, Caricatures even cannot be engraved without the written permission of the persons whom the caricature desires to offer up to ridicule, The magazines in France are very few, there is no Blackwood, no Cornhill, no Fraser or Contem- porary Review, no Atlantic Monthly, Lippincott or Scrib- ner wherein a bold essay would be certain to attract at- tention. The Revue de France and the Revue des Deux Mondes are conducted with extreme cantion and are not 80 receptive as they were in the time of the Empire, when opposition to the government was a very profit- able business, The only trustworthy news on French affairs is printed in America, England and Germany. THE AMERICAN AND GERMAN PAPERS are particularly well informed, The English papers are nearly all party organs which play but one tune, The people of France, however, have become quite indiffer- ent to politics, The most fiery harangues of the oppo- sition seldom arouse even @ momentary atten- tion and tho government of Marshal Mac- Mahon can safely afford to despise them. M. Buffet and his colleagues, therefore, do practically as they please, and go on never minding, They have got a fair working majority upon all ques- tions of vital importance, and, therefore, they can dis- tribute the sweets of office among their friends without much molestation, The Marshal himself is disposed to be good natured in the way of granting small favors, especially to his old comrades in arms, and he gives a few red ribbons to artists and others who are not noisy, But it is not prudent to bother him. He likes his caso; he is fond of hors: exercise; the shooting season is Just going to commence and he is busy preparing for it, He does not mind bemg bored by a few official dinners, and yesterday ho even consented to go through the fatigue of an evening party with the Grand Duke Con- stantino of Russia; but there the business of the gov- ernment ends, as far asthe Marshal is concerned, and he will not meddle with it any further, Hoe prefers slipping away to a tavern dinner with ono of his aides- do-camp as often as possible, M. Buffet, who is at present THE WORKING HEAD OF THE SRPTENNATE, has contrived to make himself as unpopular as he could, But the detestation in which ho is held does not extend beyond Pagliamentary circles, and even there he is not more hated than the Duke de Broglic, whom Mac- Mahon would probably call to his aid if M. Buffet were turned out, so that there is no reason why the opposi tion should endeavor to turn out M. Buffet, wero they able to do so, and they are not able to do it. The Duc Decazes and the other members of the Ministry aro very little talked about. The Duke himself went to Vichy in the midst of the Parliamentary sesston, in con- sequence, it is whispered, of a family fight. He now only comes to Paris occasionally, and then sees as fow of the foreign diplomatists as possible. Prince Hohenlohe, the German Ambassador, is civil and conciliatory, and the other representatives of the great Powers have lite or nothing to do, The internal condition of France is more satisfactory than perhaps it has ever been before. Her finances are in an excellent state, hor five-per-cents are a long way above par and all her public securities are rising in value, Money can be had on mortgage at little moro than four per cent, and gold has come back so generally ito circulation that‘all the bank notes for twenty-five francs have disappeared and it is diMoult even to get a fifty-franc note as a special favor from a friendly money changer. This astounding change in French aflairs is due entirely to the real wealth of the country and the elasticity of its resources, for nothing can be worse than its whole system of taxes and financial administration. Thus, it actually costs more to send a letter across the French fronticr as far asa child can throw a stone than’ it does to send one from New York or London to the antipodes. Indeod, notwithstanding the recent reduction of postage rates, it will be found, on calculation, that the average cost of transmitting French letters across the ocean is no less than $280,000 a ton, and this BXORITANT FINE UPON PRENCH TRADE will continuo to be levied till January next, Then the French monopolies are bad; and the city dues, patent and license laws are, if possible, worse. But nothing can beat down the indomitable character of French commercial energy, enterprise and economy. The truth is that the French, for the first time in their his tory, have become a great mercantile people. They have thrown away many of thoge sublime dreams about glory and honor which once distinguished them as a ‘nation, and they havo got into a habit of looking stoadily at trade profits, Thus the real question of the day in Paris is not whether there is to be a new Empire ora new monarchy, but whether Peru ts bankrupt or not, and how much gain can be got out of exporting cargoes of dolls’ heads and legs to Australia, THE CONTENDING PARTIRS, Tho Bonapartists, the Orleanists and tha legitimists, who are now quite out of the running, scem to havo grown gradually aware of the apathy of the French people to their claims, Each of the pretenders to tho throne js surrounded by a small company of expectant placemon or their belongings. The Duc de la Roche- foucauld-Bisnecia and halfadozen other gentlemen with comfortable incomes, think it would be becoming enough to strut before or behind a Bourbon King in silk stockings and with rosettes in their shoes ona coronation day, They would bave their costumes drawn by Gille or Grévin, and buy a sword at a curi- osity shop, warranted to have served at Ivry or Fontenoy. The Duke himself would —con- sent, under propor conditions compatible with his dignity, to put the broad ribbon of the Saint-Esprit around his neck, and represent the Eldest Son of the Church at the Court of St. James | | | | : friends would hay | Taotal of Formosa, was sent on a special mission. to | M 4¢ Belerstel and that teint Net | i places or sinecures; and the court Jeweller, whoever he might be, would put together a new crown for the usual consideration, But none of these good people would risk their lives or fortunes for Henry of Bordeaux, In like manner the Count de Paris has a following of half. hearted, middle-aged gentlemen who would like to be the irresponsible ministers under a constitutional mon- archy with. convenient parliamentary institutions, Thoy are tho sons and nephews of ox-ministers who themselves, who are still that they are past work. aged gentlemen are proverbially cautious, and the Count de Paris has too mach to lose to give any government a fair pretext for confiscating his fortune. He ts heir to the childless Count de Cham. vord, and, what is still better for him, he ts heir to the reluctant to But middle. isters confess Se RS RE i a Ae car A Sse a SS SS 2 A a ee ee oe 2 RSS AT EE ES SRE eee OE EE ee Duke d’Aumale, who is immensely rich; and, under these ciroumstances, he is {ar more wealthy and more powerful as Count of Paris than he weuld be as consti- tutional King of France, and it would be a very hazard- ous speculation for him to surrender, as he would have to do, a large and secure private property for a tenure | of royalty which might not last three months, and which might reduce him to comparative poverty, Thera is this difference in the position of the Count de Cham- bord and that of the Count de Paris—that their wives have opposite modes of thinking. The Countess do Chambord has a morbid fear that her husband would lose his head or be assassinated if he ascended the French throne; whereas the Countess of Paris is vory XIOUS TO BK QUEEN OF FRANCE, but the whims or wishes of either lady have but small influence on events anywhere out of their drawing rooms. There remain the imperialists, and from them must come the only danger which really threatens ree publican institutions in France, They are well led and well disciplined. Many of their chiefs are persons still in the prime of life, who are very remarkable for bold- ness and decision. They are also consummate plotters. It is true that their number is daily diminishing, and that they are only occasionally recruited by persons of desperate fortunes and doubtful character. But still it is not going too far to say that some of the strongest heads in France have centred all their hopes on the restoration of the Em- pire. The army numbers many Bonapartists, because military honors are scarce under a republic, and there are no marshals’ batons or dukedoms likely to be had from it, Artists, actors, dramatists, jewellers, tailors, milliners and all those numerous classes who thrive un- der a splendid court are likewise imperialist at heart, but the great mass of the people continues inert and indiffer- ent. It is doubtful, even if a general election, whenever it takes place, will rouse their attention to politics again. The real opinion of the country is that one sys- tem of government is as good as another, but that a re- public is tho least expensive, and that any chango im existing things would be productive of considerable dis- turbance to trade, for which reason it should be poste poned as long as possible. NEW YORK CITY. At quarter of two o’clock P. M. yesterday George W. Cottrell, aged six years, residing at No. 688 Ninth ave nue, accidentally fell from the third story of the house to the ground and was instantly killed. Two hundred and twenty-two car loads of peaches ar- rived in Jersey City yesterday morning (in all 111,000 baskets) for the New York market. In addition fortys five car loads were shipped direct to Boston, NEW JERSEY. John Steuben, of North Bergen, was thrown from his wagon on the Hackensack plank road and sustained dangerous injuries on Thursday evening. The Guttenberg officials caused the commencement yesterday of the work of repairing the streets which Were so cut up by the recent heavy rains. Philip Koch, of Union Hill, who was so brutally clubbed by Officer Lundy, is almost recovered, and announces his determination to bring the policeman to justice. The oil works at Bull’s Ferry are now almost de- serted owing to the decline in the trade, Operations im the tar factory there will be suspended to-day and the workmen discharged for the same cause, Some conception of the rapid growth of Northern Hudson county, which but a few years ago was a wilder- ness, may be found from the census of North Bergen township, which shows a population of 3,629, of which 1,697 are of foreign birth. The dangerous character of the charges used in blast- ing by the quarry laborers in Weehawken manifested itself yesterday, whon a huge boulder was hurled into tho air and thrown on the horse car track, impeding travel for a considerable time. The City Clerk of Hoboken, who was reported by the investigating experts as deficient in his accounts to the extent of $194, steted last evening that he paid on be- half of the city $388 for which the examiners did not credit him and for which he can produce vouchers. The station on the Norther Railroad close to North Bergen, which has been robbed several times, was again “burglarized” on Thursday night, but before the robber could secure his booty he was sent off in retreat ‘on the arrival of the station master, who was roused by the noise. The committee of the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City are unable to obtain an interview with the Pennsyl- vania Railroad officials on the question of raising the tracks, although more than two months have elapsed since the appointment of the committee. The Penns: vania Company has shown no disposition to favor the project. Afiro broke out yesterday morning in the grocery store of Henry Mahnken, No, 193 Pavonia avenue, Jer- sey City. The floor was saturated with kerosene oil sa that the flames would have enveloped the entire build- ing but for the prompt arrival of the fire department, The damage is estimated at $1,500, on which there is no insurance, ey Peter Miller, a Hoboken juvenile, flung a playmate, named Starkridge, only five years old, into a stagnant pool on the Hoboken swamps on Thursday evening, ‘The child would have perished but for the timely arrival ofthe mother. Miller abuse: her soundly for in} his companion. Justice Strong had the fellow and held him to bail to answer. Tho tramps have robbed Hermann Duke’s house in Guttenberg of a large quantity of wearing apparel. Three of them were also discovered in the act of forcing the basement window of J. B. Underhill’s residence in West Hoboken. The inmates rose from their beds and raised a stentorian alarm. The tramps ran away. police saw nothing of them in the district, Jerry Gilliland, who escaped from the Somerset County Jail, was recaptured at Washington, N. J., by Constables Ward and Coy, of New Brunswick, and lodged in the jail yesterday, He was committed for biting the nose off a man in Somerville a year anda half ago, and he remained at large till the Board of Freehold- ers offered a reward of $500 for his capture. A mad dog created a big scare in Union Hill on Thurs. day evening. A boy, named Frederick Liedecker, wag playing near his residence m Blum strzet, when the dog suddenly came upon him, and seizing him by the log, tore the flesh, inflicting a deep wound. Strange to relate the dog then ran away and was not seen after- ward in the town. The ordinance against the canines has not been enforced in any of the towns in that locality. The body of the boy which was found floating in the Hackensack River last Saturday and which was buried at Snake Hill Potter's Field by Coroner Reinhardt, was disinterred yesterday and identified by Andrew Dum- branus, of Newark, as that of his son Thomas, who was missing from his home fora week. The boy, it ap- pears, went out sailing with a DF ees when he fell overboard and was drowned. His companion kept the affair secret. The outrages which are becoming common in Union Hill throw an unenviable responsibility on the polica, On Thursday night a horse car, bound for Hoboken, was entered by a gang of roughs who set the passen- gers in a fright and robbed a lady of her watch and chain. After a scrimmage they wero ejected, but they followed the car and pelted stones at it for some time, ‘The rowdies had emerged from the Schuctzen Park, and none of them were arrested. A laborer, named Alexander McDonald, had a narrow escape from death yesterday afternoon while helping ta move piles at the Henderson street crossing of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad in Jersey City. A horse attached to awagon became frightened at the whistle of a locomotive and ran away, McDonald tried to stop him, but was knocked down, run over and received serious injuries, One leg was broken and the other badly crushed, Should he recover he will be cripple for life. The General Democratic Committee of Hudson county held a meeting last evening in Franklin Hall, Jersey City, and heard another address of Senator Abbott on the constitutional amendments. Mr. Leon merged yee strenuously the amendment which would repeal the “Five County Act’? in relation to the taxing of mort. gages. He says that this amendment should be defeated and ail the others adopted, The Republican Executive Committee also held a meeting, and appointed a com. mittee to confer with the Democratic Committee, so that a united opposition may be made to said amend- ment, RAILROAD COLLISION, Between three and four o'clock yesterday morning @ collision occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad at Elizabeth, resulting in heavy damages to a locomotive and the telescoping of three cars and a caboose, It appears that train No. 630 loft Philadelphia about hour before an extra peach train, No. 751, but, in cone sequence of frequent stoppages for water, arrived at Elizabeth but a few minutes earlier. On nearing the Broad street crossing the switch tender signalled “all clear,”’ and a second afterwards displayed the signal t« “stop.”’ Both these signals having been obeyed, it was the duty of the conductor to send back a man with « lamp to warn any approaching trains, but this he neglected to do. A few minutes after No. 751 came ound w sharp curve, but in consequence of the grade being very steep the’ engineer found it impossible te stop his train before a collision would occur. In com pany with the fireman he leaped from the car, both being oninjured, The conductor and brakeman of Na 630 heard the whistle of the approaching train and ales | saved themselves by jumping from tho caboose