The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES 'll l PEINC.FIESTOWN NAM. :t MC' The incidents of the royal visit to the races at Punches town are vividly described by Dr. Russell in his letter to the Times. The enthusiastic reception which characterised the entry into the city was dwarfed into nothingness by the reception at the races. On the previous day the ter rible Lord Strathnairn had been whirled about in the surging crowd, and Lord Henry Lennox might have sighed 'for a quiet board-day at Whitehall. But on the day of the races the scene was amplified, and the play was in many acts. Here is Dr. Russell's description of it : • • THE ROAD TO THE RACES. " From an early hour,"—No, there is not the least use in trying to describe it. The people were simply determined to have their own way as regarded railway accommoda tion. They took possession of the carriages, and as the trains came up they filled them. Then, when the autho rities bethought them of the device of sending up no more carriages, the people marched down the line. and by a stroke of genius compelled surrender. AS a good way of securing a passage to Sallins they lay down on the rails crossways, so that no train could pass up to take the Prince except over their bodies. Some frightened officials thought there was a riot, and talked of calling out the military ; but the settled purpose of the Lord-Lieutenant and Lord Mayo, and, we may be sure, the desire of the Prince, was, that not a soldier should be seen under arms on the day of Punchestown, and Colonel Boyle, of the 89th, a gallant and experienced officer— senior on duty—placed a proper value on the representations addressed to him. True, the Prince was detained for some time at the Castle. !But what of that? He got off at last, and came in—take racecourse proceedings generally—good time to the course. Every road in Ireland does not lead to Punchestown, perhaps, but there must be many which do, and one of them, at any rate, is not a gooel one. Let me not dwell at such a time on the sorrows and anxiety of a breakfastless pedestrian, who found himself landed on the side of a black mountain road in Wicklow, nine miles from the course, by the sudden collapse of the horse which the driver assured him was "turned out of a mail coach because they never could stop 'im from galloping," but rather hasten on to that distant scene, though it be quite hopeless to give an idea of what hap pened there. The Prince and Princess, the Lord- Lieutenant and Lady Abercorn, the royal and viceregal suites, and a vast number of distinguished personages came by train to Sallins, and then drove through the town of Naas to Punchestown ; but although monster trains were started as fast as they could be torn from the grasp of the people, the railway contributed but a small proportion to the great gathering on the course, and it is not at all clear that the estimate given above of the num ber present is not consid6rably under the mark, as the masses were spread over an immense distance, and were hid now and then in hollows, out of which they rushed, as if thrown from a crater, wken the horses passed. The roads which intersect or climb the Wicklow hills, creeping through valleys or skirting ridges, were black with vehicles, the occupants of which were white with dust. The day was not quite what it ought to be at the beginning for pleasure-seekers, though it was capital for race horses. There was a cloudy sky, a strong cold breeze, with easterly in it, and the higher of the hill ranges were capped with drifting vapour. But as noontide came the sun shone out, lighting up the fresh foliage of the hedges and sparse plantations on the undulating, smoothly-rounded folds of land which rise from the Dublin basin over the course of the Liffey, and justifying the claim of Ireland to the title of the Green Isle, which is, perhaps, purchased a little dearly, because, though the fields and hedges were surpassingly verdant in their emerald hued honours, and the work of spring appeared to be nearly over, in reality the work of the harvest is far more ad vanced in England, which seems at present comparatively so backward in vegetation. Through their lane-like roads, not so often skirted by hedgerows as by banks of stone or turf, trailed long processions of vehicles, of which the " low-backed car " was the most frequent, though the proprietors of those places where London cabs must be put when they are worn out seemed to have sent a large accumulation of their stock to join the revelry. There were of course private vehicles, and there were open sparse drags and wheeled eccentricities " of sorts ; " but the most characteristic of all were the farmers' carts, laden with country girls, and rustics who ought to be friezecoated, but who prefer inferior broadcloth. They were not so numerous as one could wish ; but the country here is not populous, and most of the farmers and small gentry were apparently on horseback, for the show of equestrians galloping about the course was one of the special features of the occasion. One route from Dublin lies through a place which has recently gained what is called an " unenviable notoriety," even among people who could not easily or properly pronounce the name— " Tallaght." Formerly it gave a title to a sort of conversation not yet disused in Ireland, and not un known in other countries. A native, who was desirous of impressing his friends with an idea of his courage, told them how "he bad up and said to the master that he was a black-hearted tyrant, and that for a trifle he'd leave him a pair of black eyes." "Did you, in truth, Pat ?" "To be sure I did." "And when did you say it to his honour ?" " Oh, begorra, I waited till I got to the other side of Tallaght-bill." He waited a long time, for Tallaght-hill, though not high or steep, is very long and wide. Near the few houses which stand on both sides of the road, and by so doing constitute a town, lies the police-station of Tallaght, which was attack4l last year. And who that saw the iron shields pierced for musketry covering the windows would not feel sad that such a spectacle should be witnessed within a few miles of the capital, and deem it worth while to make any sacrifice not inconsistent with principle or honour to remove the painful memorial ? THE SCENE ON THE COURSE. But all this time the Prince and Princess, the Lord- Lieutenant and Lady Abercorn, are speeding on their way to Punchestown. The arrival of the royal party was delayed, as we have seen, but at two o'clock there drove up to the entrance of the Grand Stand a line of carriages, which were hailed by such a shouting and rejoicing as were never heard even on an Ascot Cup day. The Prince and the Princess had come at last. And they had had such a time of it. All the way from Sallins, where they left the special train, to the moment of their arrival, they were escorted by a running, shouting, buzzing crowd, and Lord knows how many hands the good Princess shook or had her hand shaken by ! " Harro for the Countess of Dublin !" " Shure, won't you stay with us, or promise you'll soon come back and stop for ever ?" " God bless the Earl of Dublin !" Such cries and ejaculations, and such greetings and gesticulations ! And now the gentle Princess seems quite used to them, and the Prince, always gay and kindly, understands the feelings of the crowd around him. They ru ih among the horses, dive under the chargers of the police, who are intended to clear the way, and not as an armed guard. They hang on by the sides of the open carriage ; in fact, two or three poor fellows who held on behind yesterday as the carriage entered the Castle lost their coat tails, which were grasped by the indignant constabulary, and con tinued their career—non tali auxilio—in high glee, laugh ing and rejoicing till they were brought up by detainers on more substantial attachments. At this time the scene from the Grand Stand was, even to a native of Punches town—there is no such town, but there are natives for all that—most strange, and to all most curious and interesting. Beside the Grand Stand was the Stewards' Star d; next to it, and part of the same structure, was the Royal Stand, which was fitted up with taste and perfect comfort for the royal visitors and the viceregal party. A scarlet carpet was laid on the sward, from the gateway to the flight of rather steep steps to the estrade, on which were placed the chairs of the illustrious party. Whatever may be said of the non-appearance of the Irish peers and gentry in the pro cession yesterday— and it would seem as if there were reasons for it which go far to render censure not alto gether so justifiable as it appeared to be—there is not a word to be uttered against them in that respect as regards Punchestown. There has never been so great a gathering of the peers and gentry of Ireland since George IV. came over as there is in Dublin at present, and most of them were on the course. Behind the Grand Standwere booths and large tents, at which refreshments could doubtless be obained on reasonable terms, and, strange to say, though the sale of liquor was forbidden, no one was drunk, at least visibly so, up to a late hour. And be it added, that at night, after all the excitement of the day and the fatigue of the excitement, and then the illumina tions of the evening, there was scarcely a drunken man in the streets. When the Prussians close up all the temples of fortune and misfortune in Germany there will be a refuge left for the spirited proprietors at Punchestown, for there no police vex those who love the hazard of the die, nor check the roll of the roulette ball, or arrest the course of the nimble pea. In front of the Grand Stand, of course, the great throng of people was collected. These received the royal visitors with cheers repeated again and again and once more, and it was a tribute to the popularity of the Lord-Lieutenant and of Lady Abercorn that in the midst of the enthusiasm the people did not forget to pay their Excellencies special honour. The Duke of Cambridge was greeted, too, most heartily ; and those who recognised Prince Teck gave him a round for himself. As the Princess, who looked exceed ingly beautiful, ascended the estrade, the cheers never ceased. The Prince, who led Lady Abercorn, was, of course, included, and when the Prince and Princess presented themselve s i n th e i r p l aces t o t h e mult i tude, a waving of hats and handkerchiefs and a roar of many voices expressed the delight and loyalty . of the mass which thron ge d t h e course. Again a. 141 again the cheers burst forth. There was no mistake about the success of the test now. A change of attitude, a glance—the slightest movement of the royal pair, seemed to produce a fresh outburst, in which, indeed, all did not always take part, though they were never tired of gazing. " Isn't it grand, my boy? Isn't the Prince illigant ? And was there ever such a princess out of a fairy tale ?" One bitter thing, for there are bitters now and then—good for the constitution, perhaps, overhere—surgit amari aliquid— was said by one man to whom his neighbour was debating the good results of the Prince's presence. " Yes, indeed ! But wasn't it a pity it took well-nigh a rebellion to bring him over to us?" And there in the midst of all the gaiety there ran in whispers, with looks of anger and sorrowful indignation, the news that another victim had fallen, that another blot had been fixed by the murderous 'land on the scutcheon of Ireland in the face of civilised Europe. The bell rings to clear the course. Can it ever be , lone ? There are but a few mounted police, some score or two of constabulary on foot, to force back the mass which blocks up the course and pin it within the ropes. These lawless people yield at once, and, cheering and laughing good humouredly, give way. One peculiarity in this crowd; it is not noisy. It is not what one expects an Irish crowd to be. The same of the road—much quieter than the people on the road to Epsom or Ascot. The first race is at hand. And what happened in it, as in all others, must be left to the chronicler of the races to tell. The Prince took the :iveliest interest in the sport. His Royal Highness, nis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Teck, and Prince Edward of Saxe - Weimar came to the top of the Royal Stand whenever any race was going on, and it is a matter on which the Prince congratulates himself for the sake of his wife and of himself, that for once Punchestown was distinguished by a series of hard races in which there were, it is said, no bones broken, no horse killed—nobody hurt, in fact, although there were divorces between the upper and lower parts of several centaurs. The Prince was delighted with the view, with the scene, with the sports. His Royal Highness has, lam told, expressed the greatest possible gratification at his reception by the people, and the Princess of Wales shares the feelings of her illustrious consort to the fullest extent. TRADE DISPUTES IN THE IRON DISTRICTS. The following letter from Mr. Samuelson, M.P., appears n the Times : " Sir,—Your columns are again being filled with reports of trade disputes in the iron districts, as usual, but now also among the colliers. In the present depressed state )f trade the men will probably be compelled to give way, just as the masters were obliged in the greater number of cases, after a struggle, to submit to an ad vance of wages when coal and iron were in greater demand. If these disputes were confined to the im mediate locality in which an advance of wages is de manded, or a reduction enforced, the ill-blood created, the capital destroyed, the hunger endured by women and children and subsidiary labourers would be sad enough. But the evil does not end here. The men seek and obtain sympathy from their fellows throughout Great Britain, and the masters unite for defence, if not for aggression, until every local contest becomes a war of capital against labour, not only in Lancashire or in Staffordshire, but over the length and breadth of the land. Thus the country suffers equally whenever the demand for labour increases and when it slackens. When strikes or lock-outs have lasted for months it is usual for some gentleman of great benevolence, but gene rally possessing little knowledge of the relative strength of the contending parties, to offer his mediation,•which is thankfully accepted by those who feel themselves worsted, and contemptuously declined as an improper in terference by the winners. Such mediation is rarely of more use than would have resulted if some philanthropist had interfered (luring the cotton famine between the merchants of Liverpool and the spinners of Preston to arrange that cotton ought not to be sold for more than 17id., and had declared 18d. to be an extor tionate price, and that public sympathy would be with the manufacturers unless the importers abated their demands of the extra farthing. And yet fluctuations in the price of merchandise occur from day to day. They are settled by the higgling of the market '—in other words, by compromise and conciliation ; and what is done in the market for commodities can be done in the market for labour. I say it can be done, because I know that it is being done. For the last nine years the hosiers of Notting ham have settled wages by the mutual consent of masters and workmen. I believe the carpet-makers—all ex cept those of Kidderminster, who still prefer strikes and lock-outs—have done so for nearly twenty years. The lace makers of Nottingham refused to follow the example of the hosiers till last autumn. When I visited Nottingham in the summer, lace frames were standing idle in nearly every factory, mainly because every change of fabric pro duced a dispute as to wages. At length a Board of Conci liation—a labour exchange, for it is nothing else—was esta blished. The result is, that, as your trade correspondent tells you, `the lace trade is brisk,' and, as lam informe3 by one of the principal manufacturers of Nottingham, ' not a machine is idle, and all is at peace for the first time within the memory of man.' The masters and work men of other trades will deserve their inevitable fate if they refuse to lay aside their feuds and follow the example of Nottingham." LAW AND POLICE. ACTION FOR ASSAULT.—In the Bail Court, the case of Bryant v. Popham was heard before Mr. Justice Mellor and a common jury. The plaintiff was a surgeon residing at Holloway, and the defendant an accoucheur living at the same place. The plaintiff, on the 13th of December, was walking along the Tottenham-road, when -the de fendant, a powerfully-built man, crossed the road and asked him if his name was not Bryant, and upon receiving a reply in the affirmative, asked the plaintiff if he had not told a Mrs. Burge that he (defendant) was not a qualified surgeon ; but added, " Whether you did or not, from all I hear you are a perfect black guard." The plaintiff replied, "So are you." Mr. Pop ham then struck him a tremendous blow on the eye, which produced such appearances on the plaintiff that he could not transact his business for a month. In cross•examina ;ion the plaintiff admitted telling Mrs. Burge that the defendant was not a qualified man, but only a licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall. Several witnesses were called, who swore that the defendant was the aggressor in the first instance. The defence was that the plaintiff had injured the defendant's reputation, and had struck the first blow.—The learned judge said that the real question was who struck the first blow.—The jury were locked up for a considerable time, and when the court rose had not decided, the foreman stating that there was little chance of their doing so. VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A SOLDIER.—At the Worship street Police-court, John Leary and Dennis Desmond were charged with violently assaulting Edward Doughty, a soldier in the 38th Regiment of Foot, and also with stealing ss. 4d., a handkerchief, and other articles. The prosecutor was in a house at Spitalfield, , , , vhere Desmond robbed him. He at once seized hold of the thief, but was struck a violent blow in the mouth by the prisoner, and Leary, who came up at the time of the assault, :ticked the soldier in the ribs. Both the miscreants then ran off, but the prosecutor succeeded in overtaking Leary, who threatened to stab him with a clasp-knife. The prisoners were committed for trial. FURIOUS RIDING. - At the Marlborough -street Police court Joseph Price, a clown engaged at the New Holborn Amphitheatre, was charged with furious riding in Rotten Row. A constable proved seeing the defendant riding in the Row and thrashing his horse as hard as he could. The defendant said that he was never on a horse before, and the animal ran away with him. Mr. Knox said the law only allowed him to inflict a penalty of 405., but £lO would not be too much for such an offence. He fined the defendant the first-named sum. THE KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY OUTRAGE. - Samuel Jenkins, an ex-railway guard, has been charged before the Kidderminster borough magistrates with having placed obstructions on the Great Western Railway with intent to upset a passenger train. The facts of the case, as they have been already detailed, were proved, and the prisoner was committed for trial. HEAVY TAXATION. —An agitation is being com• menced by the Financial Reform Association against the present heavy taxation. At a meeting of the society held on Thursday, at Lambeth, Mr. Hughes, M.P., presided, :tnd set forth at some length his views about the matter. ,N.lluding to the increase of nearly a million and a half in :lie military expenditure of the country, the hon. member said he thought the time was come when the people should come forward and say " This must be stopped ; we are already taxed as much as we can properly bear." The learned gentleman also denounced in lireet taxation. The only argument in favour of it vas that people did not know when they were drinking tea and coffee that they were paying taxes. Direct taxa tion he considered to be the proper way of charging the country, and of all other taxes he considered the income tax was the most admirable, excellent, and fair. The only points about it that were not satisfactory were that it pressed equally on thosewho earned their livelihood by indus try and those who possessed property. As to whether there should be other taxes as well, Mr. Hughes did not express a decided opinion. A resolution was passed to the effect that taxation was most excessive, and that public moneys were extravagantly expended. A pe t ition was ;dopted setting forth this view. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1868. MISLEADING INFLUENCES OF PARTY POLITICS. By the great discussion and collision of prin ciples which the proposed disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland is provok ing, the people of England are being led to consider the momentous consequences involved in the connection between Church and State. The risk they incur by such a discussion, which, however, could not anyhow have been long averted, is that they should be educated awry—that the nation should be brought to sacrifice its religious character, as Mr. Bright suggests, to the spirit of the times—to forego, that is to say, the religious principle in politics, to foreswear the most characteristic feature of our constitution, to become a nation of secular ists. In spite of the rapid growth of intellec tual scepticism and irreligious Liberalism in the country, the nation, we trust, is not yet ripe for such an apostacy. It is one of the re tributive consequences of injustice that repa ration in many instances presses heavily on the wrong-doer. Not only are his motives mis construed, but his acts are in danger of being perverted. And so it is with the abolition of the Irish Church Establishment. The desire for its abolition is interpreted, by those who wish to uphold it in its injustice, as an avowal of hostility against the principle of State Churches ; and its actual abolition will, doubt less, be made use of by the enemies of the re ligious principle in politics as a lever to abolish everywhere and under the most opposite cir cumstances the salutary union between Church and State. The abolition of so long-standing an abuse ought to be carried out with extremest caution, and in such manner as not in any way to give countenance to the false idea—so readily propagated under the misleading influ ences of party politicians—that the disestab lishment of the Irish Church is a renunciation of the principle of union between Church and State. Mr. Bright, the extreme Liberal party, and the Liberation Society, may endeavour to make political capital out of an act of national justice, and may hope, by the agitation caused by such a conflict of opinion as is now going on, to give an impetus to the movement for completely secularising the State. At any rate, Catholics can take no part in such a movement. To uphold a Christian State is a primary duty. The part which Catholics, with few exceptions, are taking in the question of the Irish disestablishment is one in strict confor mity to Catholic principles, as we have endea voured to show in our recent articles on this sub ject. We are glad to find that so uncompro mising and staunch an upholder of Catholic principles as the Univers manifests its cordial concurrence, in an article quoted in another column, in the views on the Irish Establish ment advanced in the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE. Nothing is more important than that, in a mat ter of Catholic ethics, there should be no dis agreement in principle among Catholic writers. It is natural, perhaps, for Protestants to be at sea in such a question, but it is lamentable to see Catholics uncertain and shifty where they ought to display clearness and fixedness of principle. Of course, in some instances, such shiftiness can only be ascribed to political bias —to the necessity of opposing Mr. Gladstone and of supporting Mr. Disraeli. No unbiassed writer at all familiar with the state of public opinion in Ireland in regard to the Established Church, would deliberately and publicly state, as the Tablet did last week, that the grievance and the wrong which the people of Ireland suffered under, was the undue depression and non-recognition of the Catholic Church. The undue depression and non-recognition of the Catholic Church, as every one in Ireland, bishop, priest, or layman knows, are not the wrong and the grievance which the people take to heart. The wrong is an alien Church founded in violence, and forced for three centuries on an unwilling people. The maintenance under any form of this Church, originally established by a guilty act, is the flagrant injustice com plained of, the removal of which will alone satisfy the bishops, priests, and people of Ire land. Anything short of this act of national justice on the part of England would be re garded as an insult, and rejected by Catholic I Ireland with one voice. Any attempt at traffick in..'' with a people's sense of justice is the worst of policies. The Tablet, by shifting the ground and assuming that Ireland's grievance was not the existence of an alien Establishment, but the undue depression of the Catholic Church, was able to construct an argument in favour of Mr. Disraeli's plan of partially endowing and recognizing the Catholic Ch urc h so as to preserve the Irish Establishment and keep up Protestant ascendancy in Catholic Ireland. But, since the Tablet's assumption is in direct con tradiction with the facts of the case, as vouched for by the bishops of Ireland, and by a con currence of impartial testimony, its argument in favour of the Disraeli compromise falls to the ground. • Party politics are, indeed, great soporifics. How otherwise can we account for our contem porary's view that the most strenuous oppo sition to Mr. Disraeli's measure of relief, and the most earnest expression of opinion in favour of a policy which aims at removing altogether a flagrant injustice, springs from a desire, not of " reparation " but of " revenge"—that the motive which actuates this opposition is not a love of justice, but " the satisfaction of seeing how the Irish Protestants like it when the State robs their Church." Not to put too fine a point on our contemporary's vagaries, we simply ascribe them to the misleading in fluences of party politics. When the effect of the recent party defeat has somewhat subsided we make no doubt but that these vagaries will be recanted or written over with some newer and less unwise reasons for rejecting Mr. Gladstone's resolutions. In the meantime, however, it is but right that our Protestant fellow-countrymem, who are closely scrutinizing our public conduct at the present crisis, should be informed that a Catholic—be he bishop, priest, or layman—in rejectin g Mr. Disraeli's plan for propping up the Establishment in favour of Mr. Gladstone's for its abolition, does not on that account, as implied by the Tablet, necessarily " adopt the creed of English Dis senters, and become a Cromwellian, an Inde pendent, a Voluntaryist, and a Secularizer of Church property;" nor, what is still worse, in violation of the infallible authority of the Church, " affirm a condemned proposition." —Westminster Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From , the Anglo-American Times) Among the questions that have caused much argument, arising out of the Impeachment Trial, are the status of the Chief Justice and the position of the Hon. Ben. Wade. Both are more intimately associated than is apparent at first glance. As Pre sident of the Senate, that is as successor to a va cancy in the Presidential Chair, Mr. Wade is not permitted by the Constitution to preside at the trial. It would be manifestly unjust that the pre siding Judge of the Court should be the successor to the impeached officer, and as this would have been the case had the Vice-President been permit ted to preside, the Chief Justice was selected under the Constitution to take the Chair when the Senate becomes the Court of Trial. So also in the Constitutions of New York and other States the Lieutenant-Governor is not permitted to sit or vote as a member of the Impeachment Court, which tries the Governor. But though the Con stitution provided for the President vacating the Chair and the officer who was to fill it, it neither stated whether the President of the Senate was to vote nor whether the Chief Justice was to vote. The Chief Justice is not a member of the Senate, yet, as presiding officer of the High Court, he claims to vote, and that claim has been allowed. The question whether Mr. Wade should vote has also been di,cussed and decided in the affirmative, although clearly against all legal procedure. There is no precedent to help in the case, and con sequently the United States goes back as usual to English history. The Senate, al though in some degree resembling, yet is not by any means a House of Lords. Mr. Chase has carried his point, and rules on matters of evidence, of form, or of law, subject, of course, to the deci sion of the Senate ; but Senators have not now the right to scream—" We object !" a cry by which, before this rule was adopted, the proceedings were so frequently interrupted. Governor Burnside and his associates have been re-elected by Rhode Island by an increased majo rity over last year, the returns for Burnside giving 9,769 votes against 5,458 for the Democratic can didate. Last year the votes stood 7,372 to 3,178. Senator Sprague is certain to be re-elected as the Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. The subordinate State officers for the ensuing year arc : —Lieutenant-Governor, Pardon W. Stevens ; Sec retary of State, John R. Bartlett; Attorney-Gene ral, Willard Sayles ; Treasurer, Samuel A. Parker —all being re-elections except Treasurer Parker, who succeeds George R. Tew, of Newport, the de faulter. The only telegrams not alluded to elsewhere are the following:—New York, April 15.—The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out $250,000 in specie. New York, April 11.—According to Messrs. Neill Brothers' report the week's receipts of cotton at all United States' ports have been 48,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 1,990,000 bales. The week's exports to Great Britain are 49,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 1,010,000. The week's exports to France are 2,000 bales ; and since the Ist of September 188,000. The week's exports to other foreign ports are 3,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 212,000. Taken from the ports for American consumption 14,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 381,000 bales. Stock at all the ports 280,000 bales. A large speculative demand set in to-day, forcing prices up tic. Men in New York are asking, did Horace Greeley see the article published in the largest type at the head of the editorial columns of the Ti ibune when in manuscript? stating that " General Grant finds it not inconsistent with his duty as a soldier, to announce it as his opinion, that the only hope for the peace of the country is the success of the pending impeachment trial. lie feels that national secu rity demands the removal of the President. . . . When the General of our armies entertains this conviction there is no room for doubt as to the duty of the Senate. The lbyal nation demands the President's removal." These were the words of the leading organ of the Republican party on the 3d of April, and coming from such a quarter they have not unnaturally excited great attention. The idea of a sol dier commanding the army of the Repub lic expressing his opinion that it would be be neficial from a political point of view to remove the Chief Magistrate of the nation then under trial is too gross almost for belief. Privately he might express such an opinion, although that would be bad in taste and bad as an example, but tha t it should be thus published to the world makes it a n outra g e on Republican institutions, and on justice. If the Tribune considers its party pur p o ses can be for warded by such means, let it have t he decenc y to cloak, not to blazon abroad, the infamy. It is well for the country that General Grant is a man of moderation and sense, or he might lose his head. If Andrew Johnson is about to head a rebellion surely the Managers of Impeachment can show it without the aid of General Grant's opinions. The Tribune will find that such spurring will not quicken the pace. Judge Black has published the promised letter of explanation why in his straits he deserted the Pre sident. It appears the guano island difficulty was not with the Dominican Government, but with Secretary Seward. Had it not been for " Earthquake Billy," it is considered probable that Mr. Black's little game would have been successful, and he and his client enthroned on the guano island under the guns of an American man-of-war. But, unfortunately for the counsel, who desired to kill two birds with one stone and lost both, Mr. Seward also had a client who wanted the guano island, and though the Dominican Go vernment might safely be defied, " Earthquake Billy" might not; so Black was refused his soft seat in the savoury place for which his heart panted, and in high dudgeon he threw up his brief as leading counsel. The President in his usual style retaliated, by accusing him through the papers of attempting to extort black mail, and the lawyer, stung by the reproach and sensible of the awkward appearance of the case, replied by this letter addressed to Gene ral Garfield, dated the 2d inst. It is against Secre tary Seward that the bolts of the writer are directed, and that statesman is accused of criminality and fraud. While pretending to favour the claims of Black's client, Mr. Seward was all the time work ing for a transfer of the island to Spain and its purchase by a New York Company of his own friends. He declares Mr. Seward's proteges to be thieves, and the Secretary himself to be mentally and morally unfit for his place. The President averred that a memorandum of facts made by Mr. Seward was wholly untrue ; and finding himself, continues Black, " unable to impose upon us a fabricated decision, it became necessary that he should give a new phase to his correspondence," and this he did by putting a military gloss upon the vulgar and commonplace thieving of his proteges. Judge Black's extraordinary letter concludes in the following words :-- "I have selected his strongest points, and stated them as fairly as I could in a space so brief. Perhaps diplo macy is a business in which a man is not required to be perfectly honest. It may be that some allowance ought to be made for the tricks of the trade. But surely it is discreditable to the United States that they should have a Secretary whose principles are so loose that he volunteers the influence of his office to defeat justice, and employs his time in making false defences for foreigners who have wronged and dishonoured the nation.—Most respectfully yours, &c., J. S. BLACK. "Hon. J. A. Garfield, House of Representatives." The Baltimore arrived off Cowes at 11.35 p.m. on Tuesday, and went on to B remen . She left Baltimore on the Ist inst. with 38 passengers and a large cargo. The City of Monuments is rejoicing loudly in the establishment of this steam line, and the citizens assert that Baltimore is the proper ter minus to the Western route, being nearer Buffalo than New York by 36 miles, and in a more direct line with San Francisco. A very large emigration is expected this spring from Germany, and we believe that the establishment of the new line will be at tended with all the benefits anticipated to Mary land. We may here mention that European travel and freight are rapidly increasing between America and China, and the Pacific Mail Steamship line running from San Francisco to llong Kong, has proved a great success. It was anticipated that at first there would be a loss on the voyages, as the trade in some measure had to be created, and the distance between Japan and California is 4,700 miles, to be steamed without stopPieg• rado, which made the first trip, The Colo cleared £lO,O OO , and the total profits on the five r ound voyages made during last year was £25,000. At first the trips were made quarterly, then eve r y six weeks, and now they wiil be performed monthly. We are not aware of the reason, but the stock of the Pacific Steamship Company has lately fallen in Wall street, the last quotation being 96 — a consider able reduction. The New Jersey House of Repr esen t a tives passed Resolutions over the Governor's veto , withdrawing the consent of that State to the 14th Amendmentto the Constitution of the United States. these were presented to the Federal Hou se on the 30th March, but that body, without permitting the reso lutions to be read, ordered them to be returned as disrespectful and scandalous. The California As sembly has also rejected the 14th Amendment by a vote of 46 to 24. The bill to restore Alabama to the Union was adopted by the House on the 28th March by 102 votes to 29 after much disputing and many failures. The bill reported by the Reconstruction Committee was defeated, and the measure is a compromise. The Jonstitution lately submitted to the people is made the fundamental and organic law for the pro visional government, and the o fficers the chosen 1 he new Go are to assume office oa the Ist May. vernor is to convene the Legislature and to provide for again submitting the Constitution to the people of the State with amendments for ratification sepa rately. If adopted by a majority vote, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is to be sanctioned by the Legislature, when the State Constitution may be sent to Congress for approval, and, if accepted, the Representatives from Alabama will be admitted to seats. In Alabama the whites predominate, having a hundred thousand out of the 174,631 votes, as lately reported by General Meade. Of this total, 71,817 voted, being 15,500 less than the requisite half of the registry. Of these but 6,702 were whites, the colour of 2,921 were not given, and 105 freedmen voted on the Conservative side. The General considers the proscription of the whites to bc the cause of the failure. He says :-- "I am of opinion that a revised Constitution, more liberal in its terms and confined to the requirements of the Reconstruction Law, would in Alabama, as I have reason to expect it will in Georgia and Florida, meet with the ap proval of a majority of the registered voters ; and I beg leave to call your attention to the difficulty of carrying on a Government in a State where so small a proportion of those qualified to take part in the Government aro in fa vour of the organic law, and to secure a larger proportion of what must be the governing class a more acceptable Constitution." It is asserted that the object of the Republicans is to keep out the State till after the Presidential election, and pending the Reconstruction of the State the new Act provides that the Military Go vernment remains supreme. The Virginia Convention has prescribed for office holders the iron-clad oath, and adopted the Article whereby judges are to be chosen by the Legislature, the Attorney-General by the people, and the other State attorneys by the Governor. It has also adopted the report of the Committee on representation, which adds 47 members to the Legislature, and ap pointed a Committee to negociate a loan of $90,000 for its expenses. A resolution was postponed in Judge Underwood's absence to inquire into his con duct as President, as he is alleged to have said that if the Convention favoured Chase for United States' President, Senator Sprague would give $lOO,OOO for the use of the party. Richmond sent a delegation to Washington to work for the removal of General Schofield, charging him with favouring the rebels, but they will work in vain, for the General's charac ter stands too high to be thus affected, although the movement has been strongly pushed lately. As yet the State Constitution of Arkansas has been defeated by a large majority, though the polls are kept open in the hope of a change. The Con servatives believe they also can defeat the Consti tutions proposed for Louisiana, South Carolina, and other States, and are actively at work for this end. General Hancock has addressed a letter to Governor E. M. Pease, of Texas, who declared war and not peace existed in the " Lone Star" State, making other assertions which appeared equally ob jectionable to the General. These he takes up to controvert, alleging that the ill-feeling proceeds from Radical intolerance, that at the worst the crime of the Texans is " unwilling obedience." He accuses Mr. Pease of temper excited by imaginary causes, of overweaning confidence in himself, and intolerance of others ; of a desire to punish those who differ from him ; of magnifying the shortcom ings of officials as competent as himself, and of nn unsoundly concluding that persens wanting in affec tion and respect for Government, or in obedience, from motives not approved by Mr. Pease, are pro per subjects for military penal jurisdiction. In Georgia the Republican candidates are likely to be elected, and if so ; the Governor will be a Northern man Mr. Bullock, the agent of Adams' Express Company, and president of a lately formed railway company. Mr. Irwin is announced as an indepen dent candidate, and he will gain the Conservative vote, as Judge Reese has withdrawn. The railway interest of the State will vote for Bullock. The Supreme Court has at last set the fears of Congress at rest by postponing the further consi deration of the M'Xrdle case until the ensuing term, which begins in November next. The only Justices who opposed delay, voting for an immediate deci sion, were Judge Field and Judge Greer. An im portant decision was delivered on the 24th March, whereby deposits in savings' banks were declared taxable, even when invested in United States secu rities, as taxes accrue on deposits whether invested or not. On the 23d March the Court gave the State of Georgia leave to serve on General Grant, Secretary Stanton, and others, notice of motion for a special injunction on their execution of the Re construction Acts, returnable on or before the fol lowing Friday. Seven brigades of troops are ready in Canada, be sides volunteers and field batteries, to resist an expected Fenian invasion. According to the New York Herald, two days' rations have been served out to the troops in Montreal. In the ,United States it is thought either that the Government of the Dominion has been hoaxed, or that it is raising the cry for a political object. A bill will soon be passed enabling Americans to take out patents in the Dominion on the same terms as Canadians do in the United States. The new postal arrangement has come into operation ; the half-ounce letters being carried throughout the Dominion for three cents, and to the United States for six cents pre. paid, or at the old rate of ten cents unpaid. From the Dominion to England, via New York, fifteen cents :per half-ounce is the charge. From Cana dian ports 121 cents, and on manuscript to pub lishers one cent an ounce. The present system also provides for deposits for savings' banks or money-order offices, from $l. to $l,OOO, on which four per cent interest is payable. Apropos of postal treaties one came into operation between Italy and the United States on the Ist of this month. The cost o f letters, weighing 15 grammes, to all parts of America, is now reduced to 80 centesimi. Letters not prepaid will be charged on delivery lfr. 40c., and those insufficiently prepaid lfr. 20c. Letters containing patterns of merchandise have been fi xe d at 60 centesimi for every 100 grammes. Newspapers, books, &c., will have to pay 12 cen tesimi for 42 grammes. The American cent, it is moreover stated, will be considered as equal to an Italian soldi. • Since the Hon. Ben. Butler's great speech o n e. the case a gainst the President, numerous descriptions ?e umerous descriptions of his person, his manner, his voice, have a ppeared. The Standard's correspondent says • Butler is a man of decidedly unattractive . per sonal appearance. He is of the middle stature, and & awkwardly thrown together;' a face that speaks of physical excesses ; abdominal protruberance that does not dissipate this impression ; a man of the sanguine bilious type. As he talks, or reads, he. fidgets with one foot or the oth er , twiddles his thumbs, or suddenly and unexpectedly carves the a i r with his ungraceful hands, his strange eyes per petually misleading the observer. His voice is harsh and inflexible, and when he attempts pathos the listener feels very ill at ease. Mr. Butler is in his best when wielding the weapon of sarcasm, a sardonic grin sits upon his face, and Lis words are helped by certain not unsuggestive gestures." The correspondent of the New York Herald thus alludes to his voice :—lt is " the strangest ever mortal speaker saluted the public ear with. It resembles in its intonations the combined and varied noises of a cracked barrel organ, and a chorus of bull terriers in a street fight—now sharp and snappish, and again wheezy and rasping." The Tribune man says that " when he began that por tion bearing on the New Orleans riots, he ground it out between his teeth like the screeching of a hundred saws, commingled with rumbling of an artillery carriage across a rugged pavement." His Speech has caused some surprise from the way in which he soared above the small, contracted, and pettifogging law points anticipated. All expected that in his peculiar style his pleading would be ex cellent, but that style was held to be better adapted for the defence of a criminal trying to escape the gallows than impeaching a President, and discuss ing and arguing great constitutional points that re quire a broad political survey. He sho wed a com plete mastery over all the details, subordinating every portion to the ruling charge that Andrew Johnson had conspired against the peace of the country and the legal authority of Congress. Ile is said to be fruitful in resource, quick to detect his opponent's drift, skilful in exposing sophistry, keen in retort, courageous in meeting exigencies, com manding sharp, incisive language in collecting and grouping the points of a case, and vigorously driv ing them home. The quarrel of the Rev. Stephen Tyng, jun., is likely to lead to a split in the Episcopal Church. The friends of his cause have resolved on an appeal to the General Assembly of the Church. Fifty of the most popular ministers passed a resolution of sympathy, and decided on calling a public meeting, at the same time expressing their approbation of Mr. Tyng's conduct and condemnation of his oppo nents. One declared that he would preach the gos pel tinder any and all circumstances ; another that such admonitions as he had listened to will have no effect in making him ashamed to preach the gospel ; and the Rev. Dr. Dyer even went so far as to assert " that they were associated with those who loved false doctrine, and that it would be better far a thousand times that they were driven out than that they should remain yoked with such." These eccle siastical disputes, which injure Protestantism, might easily be avoided. We are ❑ot aware that there is any point of doctrine involved, it being a mere point of church discipline. If the rules of the Episcopal Church are opposed to one of its ministers conduct ing the service of another communion, the Episco pal minister ought not to do it. his course is clear enongh. If he strongly disapproves of the rule, and cannot get it changed, he can secede. If it be not a point of sufficient importance to enforce on him such a course, he ought to observe the law, and if betrayed into infringement, quietly to submit to the admonition ; but it is deplorable to see the Church pursuing such a squabble,-while atheism, infidelity, and immorality stalk through the land, and jeer at the fighting ministers of peace. The action of the Supreme Court in the M'Ardle case has not tended to raise the reputation of that great legal body. Justice Grier seems to have been peculiarly sensitive to the action of his colleagues in shirking the judgment they were in truth bound to deliver. When the case was called upon the 30th March he read the following paper, which has taken the public by surprise, as it did the Court, and has been much commented upon at Wash ington " EX PARTE WARDLE. " This case was fully argued in the beginning of this month. It is a case which involves not only the liberty and rights of the appellant, but of millions of our fellow citizens. The country had a right to expect it would re ceive the immediate and solemn attention of the Court. By the postponement of this case we have subjected our selves, whether justly or unjustly, to the imputation that we have evaded the performance of a duty imposed upon us by the Constitution, and awaited for legislkiva interpo sition to supersede our action and relieve us from our re sponsibility. I have only to say, Pact hoc opprobrio licet non potuisse repelli.' " The Pacific mail steamship China arrived at San Francisco on March 31, from Yokohama, March 8, and Hong Kong, Feb. 25, with Minister Anson Burlingame and his Chinese embassy among her passengers. She brought 900 passengers and 1,200 tons of freight. The civil war in Japan still con tinues. A battle of four hours' duration was lately fought at Osaca, which resulted in driving the Tycoon to his ships, and in his immediate departure for Yeddo. The Foreign Legations have left Osaca and Yokohama, and will concentrate at Hiago for the present, their quarters at the former place having been burned. They recognize two Governments, those at Yokohama and Hakodadi paying customs to the Tycoon, and those at lliago and Nagasaki to the Mikado. The Japanese authorities have forbidden the Ministers to sell arms to either party, and Prince Satsuma and Choisen have been ordered to take charge of the foreign settlements, with instructions to avoid any conflict with the foreigners. A large number of the high native officials have been be headed for treachery, and many have committed hari-kari on account of the Tycoon's misfortunes, who has himself been declared an outlaw. The United States steamer Iroquois lately arrived at Yeddo, many of her crew being sick with smallpox. The supply steamer Nippon was wrecked off the Amoor river, in the month of January, and 12 or 15 lives were lost. The steamer Osaca was lately damaged $BO,OOO worth by collision with the steamer Herman. The bodies of Admiral Bell and Lieutenant Commanders Reed and M'Kenzie, drowned near Osaca, will be sent home in the store ship Supply. One of the Chinese banks at Hong Kong has failed, and many of the foreign merchants are heavy losers. The United States and English Consuls have laid the matter before the Viceroy of the province, but there is no prospect that the loss will be repaired. The Chinese credit among fo reigners, however, is entirely lost. The Chinese Government has consented to allow foreigners to work the coal mines of North China. The Chicago Tribune asserts that the Repudia tion heresy is confined to Indiana and Oh' it is not the universal sentiment of the West, and that it is even declining daily in these two States. It says that Butler and Stevens, the arch repudia tors, are Eastern men. On this subject the Nation writes as follows :—" Gen. Butler has written a let ter to a friend, explaining and defending his course with regard to the national finances. lie says he proposed his plan because he saw that the De mocra tic party was going to propose to issue $2,000,000 in greenbacks to pay offthe and that, therefore, h e advocated a' counter-pro position"to pay them off in the greenbacks already in existence, which should take all seeming or actual wrong' —we u se hi s own words—' from the public debt.' Ile advocates this, he says, in the interest of his constituents and of the Republican party, because nine -tenths of all the bonds were held east of a meridian drawn through Lake Ontario, and three-fourths of all the votes on which the party must rely were west of that meridian, where there were no bonds.' In this last Sentence the cat jumps out of the bag —as the popular saying is. The desire of taking the actual or seem ing wrong' from the public debt has really had no more to do with the Butler-Sherman-Stevens counter proposition' than the desire of christian wtah y toe is takeizing the J ews. G eneral Butler knows perfectly we ll that there no' actual wro ng ' i n th e p u blic debt,and the anything else, is toseeming wrong' from it, or from enlighten those who think they see the wrong where it does not exist, not by falling in with their delusion, as if they were hypochon driacs. The ' counter proposition' is, in fact, as we intimated last week, a base bid on the part of some Republicans for the votes of base or ignorant men, and the special pleading of the Butlers and Sher mans is simply a feeble attempt to disguise its real nature. Some of the leaders act as if they thought that when a good citizen meets a band of rioters on their way to burn a man's house, his duty is, not to remonstrate with th em , or oppose them, or call the police, but to put himself at their head, and superintend the execution of the crime, represent ing it as perfectly justifiable, taking care to deprive it as far as possible of all features of unusual atro city, such as the roasting of the family or the destruc tion of valuable papers." The Washington National Intelltgencer on the 3d instant published an argument against Mr. Wade's right of succession to the Presidential Chair, in the event of Mr. Johnson's removal. It denies that the presiding officer of the Senate is in the Presidential succession, asserting that the Con stitution does not designate the successor, that the Senate does not possess the power to elect a Presi dent, which it would in truth do if it could depose one President by itsdecrees as aCourt of Impeachment, and elect another; and it concludes by arguing that the acting President of the Senate is not an officer in the Constitutional sense. The value of such an argument is best shown by quoting the words of the Constitution, which by the way we have to translate from the French, and may not, therefore, use the exact words :--" Article IL Section I. Para. 6.-1 n the case of the President ceasing to perform his duties, or that he dies, gives in his resignation, or from any cause whatever, is unable to discharge his functions, he shall be replaced by the Vice-Pre law provide for the case sident. Congress can by of a vacancy, decease, resignation, or incapacity alike of President a ndVice-President, by designating the functionary who shall fill the office of President, and he shall act as President till the incapacity is removed, or a new President is elected." It is not contemplated by the Constitution, under any cir cumstances, to elect a President, except at the fixed periods its provides, and whether the Hon. Ben Wade be the person whom Congress has selected to succeed iu case of a vacancy or not, there cannot, we believe, be an election before the expiration of the regular Presidential term. One of the rumours in IN ashington is that the Arkansas Senators will be brought in to vote upon Impeachment. It appears to be held over the Pre sident's party as a threat, that if the trial be delayed to bring General Rousseau from California, that Arkansas being admitted during the postponemen t to representation her Senators will have the pri vilege of voting, which may give to the Republican side two unexpected votes. The efforts to unseat Mr. Hooper as delegate to Congress from Utah will, it is now said, be success ful, the House Committee on elections having decided the case. against the Mormon, though it has not yet been reported. It is probable that Mr. Hooper was selected by the " saints" on account of his being a one-wife Mormon, and therefore more likely to be accepted at Washington. lie has for many years sat in the. House, but unfortunately for himself, as a Democrat, he has fallen upon evil times. The point against him is that the en dowment oath taken by Mormon elders is to " hate and do all in their power to overthrow the United States Government," and to teach this to their children. The man who, after subscribing to such oath, could take a seat in the Legislature shows no small amount of audacity, and can scarcely be acceptable to the Democrats as a type of their party principles. As might have been expected, considering the interests of California in the question, a State Con vention resolved on the 31st March, " Repudiation of the national debt is a crime against the loyal dead, an abandonment of the principles upon which the war of the Union was fought, and a violation of plighted honour." Repudiation means inflation and permanency of paper currency—measures clearly opposed to the interest of the great bullion-exporting State. California has always taken her stand on specie payment, and never permitted the general circulation of greenbacks. Although this is manifestly for her interest, it ought not to lessen the credit she de serves, for it is far from being a common rule that communities act for their true interests. If they did, those who advocated Repudiation and Inflation in the United States would be pilloried instead of cheered. It is also resolved, " That citizens must be protected at home or abroad, and no foreign nation should be permitted to punish an American citizen for an offence committed on our soil ;" and Grant was named for President. Asahel Bush is an instande of the biter bit. He was once editor of a Democratic paper in Westfield, and is now a leader of the Democratic party in Oregon. When editor he used his pen freely in abuse of his opponents, but as a leader in politics he does not fancy being himself abused. Samuel A. Clark, however, perhaps not aware of this peculiarity, or that Mr. Bush claimed a privilege he did not allow to others, did abuse him, whereupon he called on Mr. Clark with a cane which he freely laid over his shoulders, and in the scuffle Bush lost his cane and Clark his hat. Professor Goldwin Smith has sent to Brown University, Rhode Island, an album filled with photogra phic views of the Oxford colleges as a souvenir of his visit to the Rhode Island University three years ago, when ho was made LL.D. The Reverend Dr. Eldridge, of Detroit, minister of the American Church in Paris, has, wo believe, re quested the committee of management who reside in New York to send a successor, as he desires to bo relieved. The Rev. Charles S. Robinson having resigned the post of minister of tho First Presbyterian Church at Brooklyn, New York, has been named as Dr. Eldridge's successor. Mr. Cyrus W. Field has been voted a large gold medal in commemoration of his work in laying the cable by the Wisconsin Legislature. Poor Charles Dickens is to be denied the pleasure of James Gordon Bennett's company at the grand banquet to be given him by the Pless of New York previous to his departure, or of any individual connected with the Herald, whose actions Mr. Bennett can sway. Talk of the des potism of the "bloated aristocrats," what is it compared with that exercised by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, who threatens instant dismissal to any man on the staff of his paper who shall presume thus far to honour the great English novelist. Horace Greeley is to preside at the banquet. A. A. Bradley, the coloured lawyer of Savannah, is circulating through the city and the adjoining country the following circular, which causes considerable excite ment: - " Notice.— To all bad men in the city of Savannah, who now threaten the lives of the leaders and nominees of the Republican party, and of the presidents and members of the Union League of America. if you should strike blow, the man or men will be followed and the house in which he or they take shelter will be burned to the ground. Take heed, mark well. Members of the Union rally ! rally ! ! rally ! !! for God, life, and liberty." Colonel D. E. Burl is expected to arrive in Lon don on Tuesday next, and if he does it will be an instance of wonderful expeditious travel. Ile started from London on the 7th of February last, and will have madetho return trip to the State of Nevada in less than tvfo and a half months if he gets back at the date announced. Messrs. James G. Bennett, jun., Lawrence Je rome, Ike Barker, and Wright Sanford, who cruised off South about a month since on a hunting and fishing cam paign in Florida, are still absent, but expected back dai'y. Their letters report excellent sport. General Canby has ordered that the public charities of North and South Carolina shall be adminis trated irrespective of race or colour. The trial of Mr. Davis has been further post poned till the 2d of May. Colonel Greenfeldt has escaped from Dry Tor tugas. The Senate has confirmed R. M. Sherman as United States Marshal for Rhode Island, Charles Robin son of Vermont as Consul at Quebec. Paul Jones was mangled to death by a circular saw in a steam saw mill at Exeter, on Friday evening. lie was married only the night before. The Kansas Republican Convention favours Gen. Grant for President, and Senator Pomeroy for Vice-Presi dent, and goes in for the removal of President Johnson and the payment of the national debt in coin. 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