The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1866, Page 4

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Al business Jotters for this oflice should be addressed to Tiix Trmuse.” New-York. We osunot undartake 1o return rejected Communications. ©F An article upon the Education of Idiots will be found in the notices of New Publications on the sizth page of to-day's paper. The Court Reports and Calendars, the Monsy Article and the Markets, and a Communication from the Board of Heulth upon the Street-Cleaning Ques- tion, appear on the sccond page. —_— Wo present our readers this morning with tho first letter of our regular Madrid correspondent, 8o little is known of Spain, that e regular correspondence from the capital of that jterestiug country cannot fail to deeply intorest many thousands of babituel newspaper readers, especially at a time when every- thing indicatos the imminence of a sweeping and suc- cossful revolution. Our first lotter gives a graphic description of the political situation of the kingdom in goneral. The mortality roport submitted yesterday to the Board of Health shows that our wockly slaughter of innocents footed up forty-one, of whom eleven wor burned to death. This is not quite up to the standard of last week, whon wo roasted thirteen persons; but it fs sufficiently startling. Dr. Harris well says that ++ had the Atlantic cable announced to us that twenty- « four Hindoo widows perished by voluntary burning ““Jast weok, the people of this city would have sent “ protosts against such wanton destruction of lifo. « But New-York has destroyed, not twenty-four fa- « natical and uscless persons, but twonty-four’ indus- “ trious, usoful fathors, mothers, and childron." The Corporation Attorney states in bis aynual re- port that he has brought actions, in all amounting to nearly a dozen, against the city railway companies; and we trust that, for the sake of an ill-used com- munity of passengers, he will soon be able to under- take as many more. The causes of action were the uon-payment of licenso fees, the removal of pavements, and encumbering of atreets, in all of which trespasses it is the illusion of rich and inade- quately taxed companies that they ¢ an enjoy & porpet- ual immunity. They will, undoubtedly, unless the vigilance of the public holds them to frequent ac- wung; ———————— The advantagos of a news association controlled by private aud irresponsiblo persous are illnstrated i the lotter of our Constantinople correspondent. ‘Fhe com- panies of Renter and Havas have a news monopoly in Furope. They aro corrupt, ineflicient and untrust- worthy, and in this Cretan matter appear to be simply in the pay of the Turkish Government. Renterinvents victorios for the Turks, and seems to have s much greater talent for such successes than any of the Tarkish generals. As thereis a private partnership {n Ameriza, under the lead of a dismissed agent of the Assooiatod Press, which avowodly aspires to rival the exploits of Reuter in Europe, the American public bas some interest in knowing what sort of a model it is proposed to fmitate. A fow dags ago we noticed the important step taken by the Emperor of Brazil in liberating the national ‘slaves; aud now we see Spain making s move in the right direction. ~ Our Madrid ietter, published this morning, informs us that the Government re- solved to support the Captain-General of Cuba in his efforts to put down slave-trading. Estates in that island are to Do visited by officers appointed for the purpose, and all newly introdnoed Africans are to be summarily set fres. More than this—aa another proof that 8pain is at length sbout to do justioe te the colored race—we find, from our Ha- vana correspondence, that an official order has just been issued by the parent Government placing the youth of African blood, studying at the colleges, on an equal footing wigh the white students, and opening tothem avenues of professionsl distinction. These are cheering signs of the tim Unsound Flour, which is the name and title of another, of the catalogued discomforts of a crowded population, baving fow laws of an economic character to guard them, becomes the subject of & report to the Farmers' Club. A comumittoe of this influential Club recommond that an Tnspector of Flour for the City and County of New- York bo appointed by the Governor in the mauner prescribed by the Revised Statutes, maintaining that the laws respecting Flour and the appointment of Inspectors have not hoen abolished. The sentence ,.flm:“ which is supposed to contain thé abolition provides that it chall pot sbrogate pn{) office created for tho purbose of proteéting (h public health, otc. A mani- fest and fatal njury fo pubiic bealth is unsound Flour; an inourable one, if tho visible means pre- soribed fby the State Paws are not taken hold of, and o daily poison, called unsound Flour, and some- times mishamed bread, is not kept ont of the market. Sy The fact has come to light, that during the Cholera visitation a vessel had to Lo moored to one of our piers, and there guarded by the police till its pas- sengers and crew had recovered from the epidemic. The circumstances under which the city was thus ‘of ncoessity imperiled do no discredit to of Hoalth, but the peril itself is but specimen of the evils resultant from s defectivé quarantine, or the practical want of one altogether. - The roport of the Board of Health will show that it has not been idle in the face of alimost hopeless difficulties, such a8 the question of & site for & Quarantine Hospital appeared to present six months ago. The State and the General Gov- ernment have 80 far como to agreement as to guarantee that we shall not be exposed to the same maes of unquarantined evils as hitherto. The Quarsntine Commissioners sre about to lay bulkhead foundations preparatory to fitting ‘Weat Bank for & Quarantine Depot and Hospital ground; and the Board of Health will recommend the seizure by right of éminent domain of some suitable #pot on the Bay whereon to keep convalesoent and woll passengens from infected ships. The suggestions of Mr. Jackson 8. Schults, Presi- dent of the Health Board, to the street-cleaning con- tractor, Judge Whiting, relate to o matter very monplace, but (a4 New-York has learnsd to its cost. one or more occasions of epidemic) vory important. Though the details of Mr. Sehults's lotter will seem barren to pady Who are made suffspers, more or less, by unswept streots, ‘get they are trged (n ap intelli- gent and éarnost spirit,and are worth reading by others beside Judge Whiting. What Mr. Sohultz bas to say turns on the interesting fact that the new broom bas not yot begun to sweep any cloaner, and that the machiery and forces employed by Mr. Whiting are, in most respeots, the same as those with which Mossrs. Brown, Dovos, and Knapp contrived te keop us in @ consertative state of uncleanlingss, We bo- liovo that Judgs Whiting intends to swosp, as ho cer- tainly ought, with a wore ekillfal adaptation of his broom; and, in doing this, he will, for his own profit’s sake, tako a fow hints from the Boston method. Thore is no reason why garbage and rubbish, for which farmers and otl®es will pay a fair price, should be wasted, or why machinery should not speodily be put in operation, by which every merohantablo constitu- ent of the city's refuse may be utilized, to the benefit of its hoalth and the contractor's pocket. p—_—— THE EXCISE LAV, *ho bistory of the Excise Law of the Metropolitan District since it went into operation, May 6, affords irresistiblo proof of its value to the publio. Yet it bas not had a fair trial. It was met at the ontset by the bittorest opposition from the rum-sellers, and they have never relaxed their efforts to nullify its best provisions. These men, well doscribed by Mr. Schults, the President of the Excise Board, as ‘‘a great trade, long acoustomed ‘g0 disrogard and defy the laws," as early ashay “organized a Liquor-Dealors’ Association, rich and influential enough to make a diroot issue with tho Legislaturep and defy the indignationof the public. The law was enforced but a fow woeks in this city before it was made inoperativo by the decisions of Judge Cardozo, whose mill, in thowords of the District Attorney, before the Brooklyn Supremo Court, ground out injunctions at the rate of twenty a minute, re- straining the Polico forco from interfering with liguor- gellers. In Brooklyn, however, whero Judgos Gilbert and Lott, of the Supremo Court, of Kings County, decided in favor of the constitutionality of the law, tho violations of those sections probibiting the selling of liquor after midnight, and on Sundays, bave been within the powor of the polico to report. But in Now-York, where tho law most needs to bo rigidly onforced, it has been practically nullified. Yet with this viotory which rum and beer won over law and morality, the statistics show that, so far as the Exciso act is a source of just revenue, much bas been gained by its passago. In 1860, in New-York and Brooklyn, there were 9,270 places whore liquors were sold, of which but 754 woro licensed, and the excise fees for the ycar were but $34,580. This pitiful revenue bore an utterly insignificaut proportion to the Thirty Millious of dollars aunually spont for rum. In 1864, neither tho drinking nor the number of taverns had beon ro- duced, yet the revouno was but $12,450. As soon as the law went into operation this was all changed; from May 6 to Juno 9, $785,000 wero roceived for liconses, and in tho anunal report of the Police Commissioners the total mumber of licenses issued bas boen 5,607, for which §1,103,924 haye Leon ro- ceived. In this reapect, thy' trial of the law has been sufficiontly satisfactory. Of the total amonnt paid for licenses, Now-York contributed §246,274; how much more should have beenr for trom the fact that not one Police Courts bas fived a single dealor for selling without & liconse, and that Judgo Cardozo alone has granted 704 ivjunctions. For tho first few wocks in which the law was en- forced on Sundays its lonefits wore unquestionable. The strests were quiot, the taverns almost deserted, and it can be justly said that the arrests for k- cnness and disorder were diminished ove-Lalf. But Judge Ca o, Judge MoCuup, and Re- corder Hackett spocdily restored to intoxioation its license, and to the rumsellers their privileges. As a result, the total number of arrests in the yosr was most of them for drunkeriness, or crimes hav- ing their oceasion iu rum, while Lad the law been en- forced by the Courts the number would probably have been loss than 50,000, The Polico Com missionors offirm that @ the "as it was “ passod, omn have & fair and impartial trial for A ‘‘year or two, it is Dbelioved that (he resnlt ill justify the exporiment, and prove to tha publio o (heyalue of the system.” But, it does uot need ad- Qditional trial to prove tho law ane of immeasurable beuefit; tho Tiglres we have cited are sufficiont ovi dence; evon the tremendons opposition it has mot i further proof, for if the law, crippled, fottored, distorted, could do #o much for the city, what may we not expect from its unrestrained operation 1 The Board ‘of Exciss now rests almost inactive, awaiting the decision of the Court of Appeals. Itis needless to reopen now the question of the constitu- tionality of the law or the right of our rum-pratecting Judges to forbid the police to oxecuts its mandates. Whatever may be wanting, we trust the Legislature will speedily supply, aud especially urge that it will defeat the combination of lager-beer sollers to escape from the control of the Board. From tha day in which we succeed in o ing the Board of Excise to carry out the plan they matured last May, s reform in New-York [ s will begin. Thon they resolved to execnto the laws forbidding th selling of lquor on Sunday, retailing it by grocers or druggists, or the employing women iu drinking saloons, they resolved to shut up every Dar at midnight, to provent cpimiuals from ol-luiuiu}; licenses, qnd to sooure the punishment of every person guilty of solling without a license. These reforma are destined to by established, and the time is spoedily coming when wo sball look baok upon the present condition of the liquor trade, and wonder how it could have Leon permitted to disgraco and dograde (o metropolis. We ssk tho Legislature to stand firm, and to Aofend it own law frow the seliemos o dofeat is. At loast lob tho systet havo a fair trial. A poworful Lobhy will go to Albany next wook; detormiped to obtain the repeal of tbe jmportaut sectiens :,: the Exclso law, aud armed, 5 doubt, with moro potgut wespons thay argument. No Leglsiator can voto for opeal on the groind that the act s not & beugft, ‘after tho oxbibition of its otk ings in the report of the Police Commissioners; nopo can fntelligently quastion its constitutionality after the decisions of Judgos Gilboert, Lott, and Bar- nard. There is absolutely no protext for any intor- forence with the law, and the people demand that it shall stand. It can only be improved by making it moére stripgont. P M. Meufloch 5o We can o Iaw, {:nm hig roport: ‘It is this nooRss ““ sity foj paying balances in coin whioh rogulatos the “ trade of nations. It is this great comumsrcial and « financial law which makes the nation that sells moro “ than it buys ithe creditor nation, and tho mation * that buys mere than it sclls; thy ?emor nation, an * recognizes mo modium but coin in @o paymant of * balances, that determines the question of the ability ¢ of the United States to rosumd and maintaln dpecio “ payments, If the balance is in our favor, or, m “ in our favor, if the balauce against us igeo * that it can be paid without an exhausting drafn upon * our precious metals, 8pocie payments oan at 0noo be “resumed. Such, unfortunatoly, ia mot the fact, “ Notwithsthuding our heavy exports during tho past *¢ yoar (that of cotton having been 650,672,820 pounds, ““ or nearly 1,600,000 bales, s quantity grostor than “ our entire crop of the present year), the United i Btates are largely a dobtor to Europe.” Borrowful and disgraceful truth, that of our foreign indebtednoss, which the Shoriff will tosch with sharp conviotion to thoussnds now @aunting and laughing on the thin-orusted and short-lived prosperity of oredit sodl inflatjon, Look at thres items of the Luge debt Americe owes to Europe: st bty aud otber stocks Total. 00,909, Our ability to resumo specie paymentsis by the Seorotary of the Troasury te §epend om our putting # 8top to the exportation of our to pay trade bal- ancos. What will stop thet! Nothing save o tariff that will shut our markets to the floods of surplus for- Kt 100,000,000 MMP‘F',-‘*NI—H-W. horrors, press sud poople,” implores and invokes the judgment of the world on the fearful character given by the English to the initiatory steps in tho armed struggle— in 0ase such should ensue. onoo, has s roply to the English obarge of the pro- oltvity of the (elts to oonspiracy aud the abhorrence of the S¢xop sdd Norman for the sam, whioh is out- aide of the ghbjeot matter, as the rule more than the 809 of ing, howoryr, wons (o Ireland and beosme ‘‘more Irish than the I wiraolon sad rebsilions fn Isolend o4 by Colts. 3. L NEW-YORK DA(LY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1866. e A Staphons, who is called ‘ the maglcisuby ';'om these abroad for what we can buy 6t bome. Kcop up the present flow of gold out of the country, and specio payments can't be resumed till doomsday. In order to resnme, and to maiutain resumption, the goll of the country mi® bo kept within the country. Congrossmon, look at that formidable foreign debt up there. It is growing hourly. 1f its growth be not checked, the nation will be bronght to tho gravest trials and porils—financial, industrial, and political Wo conjure you, immediately on your retarn to your duties at Washington, to sot up a tariff barrier to the importation of foreign goods, high enough and tight enough to give us a chance to return to specie pay- ments. B PROSPECTS OF THE POPE. The Pope mado a speoch tho other day to somo Fronch officers who bad called to bid him good-bye. His Holiness was, as usual, despondent and unhappy. Ho felt assured that as soon as his temporal throno toppled over, revolutions would shake Italy to its cen- ter; and that his temporal throne was going to topplo protty soon, he seemed to entertain no manner of doubt. In this latter particular we entirely agree with the Holy Father, though we ace no reason to appre- hend the droad results which ho predicts when tho poatifioal kingship shall have passed away. The bad and blundering system of converting bishops into civil magistrates, and priests into politicians and police officers—bad for the State, and still worse for the Church—has come to an end, we hope, and all the Christian world seems in & fair- way of attaining the same blossing which we enjoy, a free Church ia a free Stato. Many good peoplo are needlessly bothering their heads with the question, where will the Pope go when this ecclesiastical millennium arrivea? Some propose that he shonld set up & new ostablishment at Jeru- salom, and there does soem & certain congruity in fixing the headquarters of a Cbristian Church in the vory birthplace of the Christian religion. Others would have him go to Malta, where the British Governmont has offered him an & 1m. But wo seo no reason why tho Popo should leave Rome, and we do not believe that he will, Archbishop Manning aid, in his unfortunate address in London & fow days ugo, that no Christian prince has over troated the Popos a3 subjects, and he led his hearors to tho infor- ouce that the Pope wpuid ceaso to bo popo as s00n a3 ho ceased to be a king. It is e rash and impious thing, we know, to differ from an archbishop; but Dr. Manning ought to remember that it was not until tho latter part of the eighth century that the Statos of the Church became evos nominally inde- pendent; that for long years during the middle ages the Roman pontiffs were little batter than vassals of France or Germany; and that during the present and the last contury thoy have never been really freo from fureign dictation. So far as religion is concerned we have little doubt that Pins IX. will enjoy more complete frepdom and independenco after the last of Lis territorios Lias beon addod to the Kinglom of Italy than he ever enjoyed before. The danger that the faithful will ever be donied freo access to bim, when thoy come on religions businoss, or that when he tries to speak to thom an enviois monarch w ill stifle bis voice, i8 too trivisl to bo worth considering; is vastly Joss than the danger that so long as b clings to his double soversignty an undue rogard for the exigoncies of State may make him timid and inofficient in the disobarge of his duty toward the Charch, Tho Italians have no desire to got rid of him; they would be sorry 10 Jose the grandeur and luster which the Popes oon- for upon Rome; and when the Holy Father no longer stands in the way of thoir material progress, we whall 500 them bowing down Dbefore his spiritual throne with more reverence and docility, and contributing to his exchequor with more lavishuess tlran they bave displayed for many a generation. THE IRISH PRESS ON THE IRISH CRISIS. The excitement in England, at the prospeot of an Irish revolution and the ferocity of the press, have produced s result in Treland of o differont charactor from what, doubtless, was expected. Trish Journals which Lave reviled and persistently asouted Fonianism and ignored its leadeis, aro ompelled to look for & cause cqual to the production of such an uproar. Tho profossedly nntional pross of course bebolds in the situation u vindication of its preaching and proph- ecies, while even the pro-Evglish Irish papers are shocked into protestations against the savage, unthink- ing wildnoss that possesses their brothor loyalists in London. The leading Irish journals are all forcible in (hoir troatment of the topic, however various the grada- tions of atyle. It may be taken for granted, however, that the boldest ia less bold than it would be, and that the fatos of The United Irishman, Nation, Irish Tribune, and other outspoken journals, in 1845, and the more recent Lomily preached by the seizare and extinction of The Irish fiupl:. Y rrfi a8 tho sovere treatment of the oonductors of the latter, now imprisoned in Eng- land, combine in restraining & complete expression of (he popular side, and a modification of the remon- strancea emanating from other quarters. Still, & brief rofgrenoo to thom is inlispensable as illustrating cer- tain phasos of the TIrizh crisis, The Dublin Nation does not sympathize with the Fenian movement. Fearing to contemplate the chanoes of a struggle as against its countrymen, it still thinks the Central Organizer desporate enough to faco tho risks coolly *with a subtle “ lnlgneui and undsunted heart.” It deploros what scews to it & Fenjan fatuity in Qoponding on resources known oply to themselves, but comes 08 Sponls aud qdmita that, whatever fato may befal) t?, rojoct, the Fepiaus Love %mdy oxhibitod ip stfong folief cortain faots which bavs won the atten- tion of the world, and * from which England would de woll to take & lesson.” ‘ Thoy bave proved,” iaPs Thi Neiize, “to & domonstration that the “old spitiy of the frish people, their hatred of “foreign ruld, their love of freedom, thelr de: “yotion to the idea of national indepandence, exist “in unimpaired vigor, and that England is to-day «ag far froh holding sway over their hearts asshe was “ hundreds of years ago. Upon the gnduring basis of the * detestation of British rule by the Irish face the Finian “leadors built up their orgamization.” is anti-Fenian journal also admits that tho 1il6id ure of support given to the loaders in Irelsud is ““oaraest, unsworving, and almost unquestioning.” In a spbsoquont article the same Jjournal is strongly in. ?‘:w? at tho idea of being *‘stamped out,” and pples yith The London Times in o stylo which, if gt offectivé, fs suggestive of a means which might be. It reminds (he Thunderor that, as the British army {s pot wholly gomposed of Englisbmen, thers might be dome danger it gvon attempting tho stamp- fug out process, ** Irish suMiors might not see any in the hanging of their fathors, or brothors, or follow townsmen, and might not % al} relish the work of flogging their sis@rs with piano-whre.” Rogarding tho lauguage of The Times o o fonrful orime agalnst God man—ns working in two ovil ways, by the passions of two parties into rival forocity om ome side and rotalistion ou the other, The Netion, while yet its voice *'can reach the The Cork Ezaminer, & journal of ability and influ- conspirsoy, Historioally spoak- descondants of the Normans who havy had quite as muok to do with the con- marvels hawo boen worked," is doulstioss of Norman oxtraction himself. The Ezaminer suggosts that if tho Irish! inbabited the larger isle they would bess waelf gatisied, a3 dominooring, and s regasdless **of the foelings of others as the public for whom *'The “ Times writes; * while, if the latter yvere in Ircland, with poverty added to oppression, there would be no laok of conapiracies, The Ezaminer doed not attempt up to vindicate the Fonian conspiracy, but, on the eon- trary, rogards it as & misfortune. Still, it stands as & count in the bill of indictment against the mode of gov- erning the country. *‘For," it adds, “‘not only bas “it sprung out of the feelings of the people, naturally “but not wise, but even moderato men cannot helpsoe- “ing that this med Fenian organization has really «produced from* the rulers of Ireland an atten- “tion to tho grievances of tho country that was “not given thom before.” Tho styls of some of that attention, however, did not suit this paper any more than it did The Nation, and we aco this anti-Fonian journal also driven back upon its nationality. It regards the stamping out process as a threat, to uso its own words, that *the Irish plant- “ ers would be lot 1ooso upon the Irish negroes,” but rather defiantly declares that *“the Fenian organiza- “tion, however else it is to be disposqd of, ia not to be « dispersed by big bullying talk.” Noither can it see that the reawakoning of hostile elements—the Orange for instance—within the country is a means to secure its peace. - Tho strongost robuko the proposed arming of the Orangemen has met bas wisely emanatod from & thoroughly **loyal” Journal, and in the North, too, where the Orango interest has its home, It comes frow The Northern Whig, & leading paper of Ulster. Remembering and condemning as disgraceful the oir- cumstance of Lord Clarondon's intimated willingness to haye recourse to the aid of the Orangemen during his vice-royalty in 1343, The Whig belioves that to seck such measures now —to arm one section of the people against another in a country 8o divided a8 Ire- land—would bo to ** deliberately dissolve socioty and « gstablish anarchy.” The impolicy of the mode is shigmeful to tho Northeru loyalist. What a stravge way of rewarding tho priests who bave opposed Feniapism—to arm and lot loose their fierco and in- tolorant cnomies! If the authoritios,” says The Whig, *“ wish to ren- « der civil war inovitable, thoy have only to take this “step. Wo are cortain that to put arms into tho hands “of the Orangemen would of necessity compel the « Catholics to arm in their own defense, and then we « ghould have the people, by tho deliberate act of the « Government, divided into two hostile scctions, ready “(in Ulster, here, where thero is not now the loast «danger of an insurrection, to fly at oach other's “throats,” The attontion of Mr. Gladstono and the majority in the Commons is called to the rescue, with this mixtare of advico and warning: ‘‘A Gov- “ erntiiont thus openly acting on the old tyrannical “maxim of dividing in ‘order to command, might “bo eummarily dismissed from office for what « would bo not more injurious to this country tusn an “open acknowledgment, in the faco of the world, « that the Ministers of Quoan Victoria were quite una- “blo to govern it.” Divide and conquer! it is an old panacen for Irish patriotism Divide et impera was the advico of Bacon, during the great wars betweon the O'Neills and Elizaboth. Perhaps Lord Derby would like to reinstato it asa part of the “‘stamping-out” process * of the great and civilized nation whioh knows ““how to put down & rebellion in the reign of Vie- “ toria." “The viows of the leading Irish papers we have givon neod no comment. Coming from Journals which have had no sympathy whatever with Fonian pur- poses, they are entitled to attention. P ——— THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. Thoro hardly passes & week in whiok wo are not in- formed, by adispatch emanating from the Turkish Gov- ernment, that the Cretan insurrection is at an end, aud that the authority of the Governmont has beon fully restored upon the iusurgont island. But goner- ally wo have to wait only a few days for a contradiction of those reports, and, as s rule, it is oasy to seo that the Turkish dispatches canuot bo relied upon. Thus, after having again and again been assured during the past four woeks of the submission of most or of all the insurgents, a later tologram, dated London, Deo. 23, informed us a few days ago that fighting in Crete still continued. Our readers will do woll to rocoive with distrust the oable dispatchos that may gpeak of an entire suppression of the rebollion, especially as both the two great tele- graph agencios in Europe, Reutor and Havas, seom to be deoply Interested in giving to the Turkish dis- patchos the greatest possible weight and the widest possible oirculation. The most trustworthy information of the actual condition of affairs in Crete our readers will find in our Spooial Correspoudence from Turkey sud Greece. Our Constantinoplo correspondont has long lived in the East and enjoya the very best opportunity for loarning the whole truth; our Syra correspondent livos in the immadiate neighborhood of the seat of the conflict, for the Greek island of Syra is only & fow hours by steam ffom tho Cretan coast, aud is doing for Croto what Nassau, during our late war, did for the foderates. Both aro of opiuion that the Cretand o fiavo & good peose peot of final sucoess. Whatevor way bo the tempo- rary success of the overwheling Turkish force which has boon sout 10 LU0 island +ha fosling of the enuie i nation has been elevated to thoe highest euthy- siasm. Tho Crotans fight with s heroism that con- quors all hearts. In Greeco the sympathy with the Cretans is 8o feverish, and a0 universal, that it is com- monly thought that, if the Crotans will only hold out a littlo longer, the Groeks will next Spring risk an opon war with Tur{qi theirsupport. In the mean timo, voluntecrs afe flocking to Crete from many sides. From Constantinople, the sons of many of the wealthiest Christian families have gono; Garibaldians are arriving in large numbers in Athens; Garibaldi himself Was oxprossed a desire to fight for the cause of the Crotans, and it was expected thatsoon the moans would bo d to put from Byra 400 to 500 on & woek upon o . From Constautinople wo leara that a Joint com- mitteo of Cregks and Sclaves bas been formed in that city, to cenialize and dfect next yoar rovolu- tionsary movoments by yhu’l‘;“l:nk of concorg of action on the Ly hitherto bosh the gheatest obstadla to the auceeis of all tho late.insurf#dtions; and if the gy t- nople committee aboild suoceed in e —— e eyt s, N reabidw GealepYbOY ; s ¥, scbiiock. The debut of Misé E. 3éColldek in the obaractor of Amclia, in Votdi's opers, ' Un Ballo ia Wasghots,” at- traoted o fair, but by no meass crowdé audiedcs, Amelia is aa erduous charsctor for a dobutaute to por- sonate, It is difficult vocally and dramastically, for it on tails tho necossity of dramatic power, which novices very rarely possess. Miss McColloek's debnt gave evidence of great promiso, She has & good persou and an expressive face; her action, though timid and pervons, is by no means awkward; on the contrary, il betrays s positive oarnestnoss waich redeems 1t from the appearance of crudeuess. Sho has & volco of groal capmcity, which, with eareful practico and experience, msy bo mido capable.. of thie bi ical ¢ Shb Bes . ooa ".:'p ml:m:. -“lw"l- ilhous digiating it tho ead o te roducing _emotions_that | seem to #prin ..’n- sly from nat®! iwpuiso, Thers are q-’fl-u hor voice which are really beantiful, and its geners? tone is very thetic. She sings with much expression, snd unnfl in carnest that we cannot buf have ”lnl"x‘lflmzr"&:“ 'N!l was ‘m-,' L5 5 ‘:k. 'E X L - wxlnndoflnritho :&mh';n Yo n«;ulhud, = iss Hauck as tho was cha t and offective, and Mllo. Rosa Boubour .cqmu.fi' :;! - with more dramatio power tikn we " :a“ 'nfi‘“n" clevor; mr{otlpn'c».] Maau ul.“' i 8| ention to the artistic coloring of the ..f.;&:"“fi.d:‘.‘fl vns 130 gxeelient, a‘J-""v ovening the Barbor of Sevillo will be performed. Tius will be the closing pight oltlh_flmt POZSANSKI'S QUARTETTE BOIBRES. Tho Poznanski Quartette party will give tbeir third soiree this evening, st Stock’s concert-room, in Eightb-st., noar Broadway. The programme cousists of works by by Schumann, Mondelssohn and Hammol, beside sowme vocal assistance. The Quartette party play admirably, and their soiregs aro bocoming fashionably populaz. MR, JBROME HOPKINS'S CONOBRT. Mr. Joromo Hopkins will give his regular concert this ovening, ot Steinway Hall. He will bo assisted by Miss Fenriquoz end Mr. Mattison, ve CONCERT OF THE NEW-YORK HARMONIC SOOI¥TY. Tho fifteonth annuel performanco of Handel’s Messiah by the Now-York Harmonie Socicty, at Steinway Hall, on Christmas night, was 8 very good success. We bhave had the nnpleasant duty of commenting voryseverel; the \wr!onrnnee of thily Societ dnfln“ t:’pn l’;:%u, Wa spoke freoly because tho acts of a Bacml{ should be soverely scrutinized, for tho reason that its infugnce for good or ovil is so widely extended, aud it gives us profound pleasuro to be ~able to so- cord warm epprobation to its most receut publio offorts, The Tnd but tryiug chorusses of the Messiah were givon with & om’ and positiveness of utte which wos effoctive in the extremo. All mu were taken up pmm{tl{ and finnly, and the of the voices was certainly imposing in power. There was spirit and character in the umlpal the various chornsses, highly eroditsble to all conosrned, and the result of the porformance on Christnas night will greatly elevate the tone and reputation of the Harmonie Society. The Organ accompaniments wers finely played by Mr. 8. P. Warron, who duxhy ont and tact in the use of -qm to the and place, b4 & the instrument, and g necessary choral :I:rnmnl always in the right tim [aris Miss s Brai sang her part thy out in o chaste and . Her delivery is and her euunciation o;loinl( intell; to all. Her voioe betrayed a shads fatigue, but she overeame it, and rarely sang better or moro effectively in publie. Hutchings has a rich and besutiful and usos it with judgment and skill. Her offorts ou this occasion were” very warmly approciated. Messrs. Simpson and J. R. Thomas have sung this music 500 times, so that we only noed to say that thoy sang it on this oecasion in thei usual excellent style, * Mr. F. L. Ritter, the conductor, had good control over tho body of singers udlmmmhnstmmu thom strong and excollont effacts, beside and dalicate oxecution. Much credit is due te him for this - anoo, for it was good, and haso! the remewbrance of former lamentabls failures. We trust this porformanes on of the future publie etlorts Of the Har- THE DRAMA. i WINTER GARDEN. Another Benefit Matinéo will be given at this theater to-day. The beneficiary on this occasion will bo Mr, Lingard, the manager of tho recontly-destroyed New Bowery Theator. Mr. Lingard's loss by the conflagration was very hoavy; nor was the loss confined to him alone, Many actors and me operatives have been thrown out gmfilmoul. That Mr. ‘should bo soon reinstat I'll o th.m“ dutm' of management is eki;dy & nocessity, for ugwdu many workers the finfil sion. With thig 'view, ywo cordially 'll\ m 4 substantial bonwlt to-day. mnudm\-lc sttraction—operatic and dramatio. Mr, b will play Petruchio, which is well known to b6 Moofhhhulmymg]uldllhm-bcud Me, umluk'-l‘)rnhnup- will sing. For iculars we refer to our advertising columns. ‘To-morrow evening Mr. Booth will play Richeliew, and on Fridu ounh.-na ?}- lun"ulmh Brooklyn in l{' charactor (amlet, BARNUM'S MUSRUM. More than 16,000 visitors sttended Barnum's Museul on Christmas Day. 'X‘I'!'T. CONGRESSS EXCURSION. BT TRLEGRAPE 'le-Oluu:,n Suc. 26,—A special train Joft ths of mosting the Congressional Exew- by Gen. r'-nm,-u will nh:' the party such attentlons as wmay be nccessary or ni e party are ox t0 arrive here to-morrow, RICHMOND, . 26.—The Richmopd Conj rty from Washiugton, arrived to-day on the Revenue Cuttor Vortherner. Senator Poland and others are in the pyrty. el e THR ExrosITION CATALOGUR. —Immediate applicas tion for advertising in the 80 pages of the Paris Exposition Cate. logue, contracted for on behalf of American exhibitors, shouid b4, made to Charles L. Lawronce, care of Messrs. Cbickering & Sons, No. 632 Broadway. We understand that 50,000 in gold have been paid for thisspace of the catalogue, which {s some of its value, as an indispensable advertiser. The notfos of these 0 ly im) t to all who iatend to exhibit their New- ‘World wares to the whole world. e — . CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS—THE HoME ¥OR FALLEX WomeN, IN HOUSTON-ST.—GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCR 1N EIGHTY-SEVENTH-5T,—On Christmas evening the inmates of the Home' on West Houston-st. celebrated this most interesting of all holidays in a manner reflecting much credit on all con- corned, for the tasto, ingenuity and diligence dis~" - 7o T 07 e thelr homo ocoupations and amusemants, ~ ved and execnted tu ploasing and qundhwflu::m et il shous were in o of e Gernan Litheran Churc I Highty: T““d.,-" Drated '..;flnl-m‘vdhg on ening with .u“n' w’f m a Euglish h 0 Secliools, 150 in number. After the exercisos cach SR on by 8 bandsome pnum.“ ‘The ohurch festooued nn-‘-uchh—fi.n condition. ‘ Teland, but vided s gift for eacl Tas Roppeny oral support of all the Christian tribes frem Miz : rule, the days of Mohamimedanism in Eurcpe would soon be numbered, p P E— e~ Law INTBLLIGANOR.~Quite an interesting case oame up in the Suprems Conrt, Brooklyn, Befors Judge Gifbert yostorday, in referouce jfo the new Militls Law. Oue Jemes Ploss some time sinos appliod for admission to the 13th Regi- ‘ment and was slooted. Ho noglasted 1o attend drills, pay fines, arrosted dabt 0 fors .lc.l gh-nl by od his south aido of Jereoy City, was coversd w e et Sxamive’ 19 Jessky Crrr—d. dheps ‘Hundreds of oitl- The (ho flata [n he violaity of the Hrls 5 v, aad g 57 95iagy it aeom