The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-24 00:00:00

THE NAVAL RETIREMENT.

Mr. HANBURY-TRACEY asked the First Lord of the
Admiralty whether in framing his scheme of retirement
he had taken into consideration the case of the reserved
commanders M N, who appear to have been reserved
under the same conditions and by the same Order in
Council as the reserved captains F G ; and if he would
state what difference existed between the two classes.
Mr. CHILDERS said that consideration had been given
to the claims of all officers before the scheme of retire-
ment was decided on.

ALLEGED RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES IN
NEW ZEALAND.

Mr. MAGNIAC inquired whether the statement were
true that hostilities had been i-enewed in New Zealand.
Mr. MOIibELL
_replied that the_ Goyernipent had

received no such'information, grid that thO latest dispatches
were favourable.
THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE COLONIES.
Mr. MACFIE inquired whether when the subject of the
relations between the United Kingdom and the Colonies
came on for discussion there would be a full discussion.

Mr. GLADSTONE said it would entirely depend upon the
discretion of the hon. member who had made the motion.
He should be sorry if anything on the part of the Govern-
ment happened to induce them to place any impediment
in the way of a free discussion.

PEACE PRESERVATION (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Colonel S. REED intimated that he should support the
measure as one rendered necessary by the" felonious conduct"
of the Government with regard to the Irish Church.
The House then went iuto committee on the bill.
Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to without discussion.
Clauses up to 7 were agreed to, with a few verbal amend-
ments.

On clause 7 an amendment was moved to limit the punish-
ment for carrying arms in a proclaimed district to one
year with hard labour, instead of two years, as set out in tho
bill.

The committee divided, but the amendment was rejected
by a large majority.

(LEFT SITTING•)

SPORTING IN TELLIGENOE-7 HIS DAY.

WARWICK SPRING MEETING.—THIS DAT.
(BY YLECTREC TELEGRIPI.)
STAND HANDICAP.
Chan3paga• Charlie.. 1
Brambridge
•• 2
Veda . 3

Five ran.
CLAIMING STAKES.

Void.
HANDICAP PLATE OF 50 SOVS.

1

Parma..
Grasshopper f
Zerlina

HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.
Marshal Ney 1
Pompeii 2
Bombastes
THE GRAND ANNUAL.

Tuscalanum •
Hippoly to
Knockany

Seven ram.
HUNT RACE.

Daylight
Frolicsome
Susanne
Eight ran.
HUNT CUP STEEPLECHASE.

Shropshire 1
Ada Penelope
Caprice

Four ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.
Veda .
Bismarck 2
MATCH.

Rosa
Horrors
LATEST BETTING.
CITY ♦ND SUBURBAN.
5 to 1 agst Sabinus (offered)
100 to 15 agst Miss Dayrell (offered)
100 to 8 agst Benbow (offered)
100 to 8 agst Gertrude (offered)
1000 to 70 aget Claudius (taken)
20 to 1 agst Blue Bell c (taken)
20 to 1 agst Oxonian (taken)
25 to 1 agst Simplon (taken)
25 to 1 agst Geant des Batailles (taken)
25 to 1 agst Douglas (offered)
25 to 1 agst Myosotis (offered)
40 to 1 agst Chamade c (taken)
50 to 1 agst Syrian (taken)
66 to 1 aget Cbawbacon (take*)

CITY BETTING.—'Tits DAT.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
9to 2 agat Sabinus (offered—take sto 1)
7 to 1 agst Miss Dsyrell (taken)
12 to 1 agst Claudius (taken freely)
12 to 1 agst Gertrude (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agat Benbow (taken and offered)
22 to 1 agst Simplon (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Douglas (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agat Myosotie (taken and offered)
33 to 1 *get Asbfield (offered)
33 to 1 agst Lelia colt (offered)
33 to 1 eget Syrian (taken and offered)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to Bon the field (offered)
33 to 1 agst Siderolite (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
7 to 1 agat Sunlight (taken)
40 to 1 agat Bridgwater (offered)
40 to 1 agst Claudius (taken)
DERBY.
500 to 15 agst Bridgwater (taken)
25 to 1 agst Macgregor (taken to £100)
1000 to 10 aget Claudius (taken three times)

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-
MENTS.
March 17, at noon., Duke 11., out of Grand Prix, Paris.
March 18, at 9 a.m., All Prince Soltykoff's horses, out of
Warwick engagements.
March 18, at 11.10 a.m., New Zealander, out of Warwick
engagements.
March 19, after 2 p.m., Oporto and all Mr C. Head's horses,
out of Warwick engagements.
March 21, at 9 a.m., Ampleforth, out of Hurdle Race at
Croxton Park.
March 21, at 0.10 p.m., Summertime, out of Warwick
engagements.
March 21, at 1.25 p.m., 6implon and Cruiskeen, out of
Warwick engagements.
March 21, after 6 p.m., Limerick, out of Warwick engage-
ments.

March 21, after 6 p.m., Billy redder, out of engagements
in Mr. Beadman's name.
March 21, after 6 p.m., Maiden's Blush, out of all engage-
ments.
March 22, at 9 a.m., Elaine, out of Union Hunt Cup, War-
wick.

March 22, at 1.20 p.m., Warlike, out of both Hurdle Races
at Warwick.
March 23, at 9 a.m., all Mr. E. Green's horses out of St.
Albans engagements.
March 23, at 9 a.m., Lady Superior, out of City and Su-
burban Handicap.

The following name has been given :—Mr. Coham's b. f.
Crater, out of Wild Rose, 2 yrs-.-Fleur delis.
The following assumed name has been registered.—Mr.
Musafir.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.

THIS DAY.

The Oxford crew arrived at Putney shortly before
four this afternoon. They were in fine health, and
were accompanied by Mr. Willan, the distinguished
oarsman, who is training them. They soon donned
their flannels, and went down to their boat-
house, rowing up to Chiswick, Mr. Wil-
iam riding on the towing path. The style
of the crew was great—it is what may be called
thorough Oxford, and gave, as far as we could see it,
great satisfaction. The other crew at the time of
their taking the water were also going for another
pull. The Oxford crew rowed in the last year's
boat.

ITALY.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
ROME, March 23.

The reply of the Vatican to the note of the French
Government is now on the way to Paris. Since the
Congregations have resumed their sittings the
(Ecumenical Council have been discussing the sche-
mata upon modern philosophy. The third public
session for the promulgation of the result of the
discussion of the Council will not take place before
Easter Monday.

WURTEMBURG.

STUTTGART, March 24.

A Royal decree has been issued to-day proroguing
the Chambers without fixing the day for their re-
assembling. The chief estimates on the budget are
not to be brought forward at present.

CAPE MAILS.

PLYMOUTH, March 24.

The Union Company's mail steamer Roman, with
the homeward Cape mails, arrived here at 1.30 p.m.
to-day.

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, March 5.

You are aware that we have a regular legislature
of the Irish in sea-ion here, with its Senate and its
party wings. There has always been strong par-
tisan feeling between the two, which is called forth
when any important business has to be transacted.
A naisuuderstandiog had arisen between O'Neill
and the majority of the Senate, and at a stormy
ineet.ng Mr. P. T. Meehan, editor of the Irish ;tine.
rican, took a prominent part on the side of the
Senate, of which he was president. Among the
supporters of O'Neill (who awai•ed the result of
the deliberation in an adjoining room) was J.
Keenan, the secretary, who ma le himself obnoxi-
ous to the Senate by Ifs advocacy, and a resolu-
tion was passed dismissing him from his post.
Shortly afterwards the meeting broke up, ha. ing
increased instead of allaying the animos ty, ar.d
Meehan with a few friends had got to the corner
cf Broadway when Keenan came up, and, drawing
a rivoiver, shot him in the neck. Mr. Meehan fell ;
and was carried to the house of one of the gentlemen
who was with him. The assassin, who has not
long resided in America, endeavoured to escape,
but the cry of " Murder !" being raised he was
captured, and awaits the result in prison. Mr.
Meehan continues in a very critical state, suf-
fering great pain, though some of his friends are
sanguine that he will recover, and the Feuisn
brethren are greatly excited by the circumstance.
Mr. Meehan has a wife and family in Hudson City.
He took a leading part in the late troubles in Ire-
land, and was always a staunch and able adherent
of the Fenian cause. A raid has lately been gotten
up against the vicious and sensational weeklies,
which do so much to corrupt our youth. In a
Roman Catholic Church an appeal was made by
the priest to his congregation to give him their
assurance that they would carefully exclude such
papers ft out Their households, and frown down this
the most pernicious literature of the period. In
response, • his congregation, amounting to 2,000
persons, rose from their seats, to signify their
approval of what was said. Efforts are being made
by the high Churchmen for the e-ection of a
grand cathedral here. Those who have la ely re-
turned from your side feel bow far behind the
Mother Church we are in architectime and they
point even to what the Roman Catholics have
ach.eved on the Fifth Avenue. A proposition was
shortly aso sent by the trustees of the common
schools in the Seventh Ward to the Board of Edu-
cation to provide them with the necessary faci-
lities for studying the Irish language and literature.
The effort on the part of the G. rmans to have their
language t eight, is rational, though dangerous to
our progre s. We must assimilate the foreigners
who seek a home in our land, but we must let all
foreigners know that they shall not come here to
maintain or asset a separate nationality, but to
become American citizens, in language, tone of
thought and aspiration, and that Awericarr s will not
submit to be taxed for the instruction of children
in a language which will tend to defeat the object
they have closest at heart. Of course the stiles- of
foreign languages as a point of scholarship is a
very different matter, but these people seek, and in
the case of the Germans jujus iously, to preserve
a nationality which must conflict with American
citizeustrip. Mr. Henry Bergh has been acting
with great vigour against offenders who cruelly
treat animals. The Grand Jury of King's county
have presented their report. Instructed by the
Judge, they visited the Raymond-street Gaol, and
found it to justify the severe reprehension he deli-
vered. The t xcessive death rate of the children in
Brooklyn is ascribed to the milk. Around the city
is a cordon of pest-houses, where the poison is
produced which unsuspecting mothers administer
to their pale and dying infants. In proof, the Grand
Jury annex to their report a letter from Mr. Bergh
to the foreman, setting forth the horrors of a Brook-
lyn cow stable, and the jury urgently draw atten-
tion to this invasion of households by a poison as
dangerous in its character as it is inhuman in its
origin, The letter also at the same time gave a
very forcible description of a cow stable at the,
corner of First and North Fifth street, wherein
from 200 to 300 cows were crowded iu en atmo-
sphere too dreadful to breathe. Some lay dead
outside ; others were emaciated to a degree ; while
a few were bloated on the unwholesome distillery
slush whereon they are fed ; the suffering of the
poor brutes beings() apparent as to melt any bu t their
mere leas owners' hearts. Mr. Bergh attended on
Monday at Justice Riley's Court-room to prosecute
the proprietors. Two flues of $5O each had been
inflicted for cruelty to animals, and for the infringe-
ment of the milk laws. Mr. Bergh spoke very
severely against the difficulties thrown in his way
in his prosecution of this case. He had been treated
more like a criminal than a servant of thepeople ; and
every ruling was against him, even when directly
in opposition to the law. Judge Riley naturally
got excited and said he was talking for the news-
papers. In reviewing the testimony, Mr. Hughes,
in answer to Mr. Bergh, attacked the Act and the
" diabolical Legislature which passed it ; and
as: erted that the citizens did not support the
Society. A strange term that to use in connection
-with the passage of a measure to shield defenceless
animals from (let me use it) diabolical cruelty. Mr.
Bergh is engaged in a noble cause, and however
little his work may now be appreciated, one day it
will be manifest to all. I thought that James Fisk,
jun., had, if anything, a more impenetrable hide
than General Butler ; but this may be doubted, as
Horace Greeley and the Tribune seem to have
roused him into fury, and he openly threatens Mr.
Greeley with violence. His grievance is not bad
in its way, being no less than that it is probable he
may be shut out of respectable houses. If' he is
admitted into such houses lie must bring the taint of
his notorious Opera; the sooner the doors are closed
against him the better, and Mr. Greeley is not the
man to be deterred from doing what he thinks to be
right by any threat of a cowhiding from Fisk. That
worthy well knows that he could not take a surer
method of having the thickness of his skull tested
than by raising his hand against Mr. Greeley, and
he is much too 'cute to try the experiment Tuat
Fisk has been admitted into good society is evident
from the gold panic investigation report, as in it
he is represented as entertaining the President,
hospitality for which General Grant has paid dearly.
No instance could be better calculated to warn off
decent folk, for the only connection the President
- had with the conspiracy was the unfortunate inters
views Fisk and Gould managed to secure, and which
it would have been difficult for the President to
have avoided, as the steamers and railroad cars in
which he travelled were under the managen:ent of
these persons ; though sooner than permit such cons
tact our President should have remained for the
rest of his term in the executive mansion ; but
Grant will riot be again thus caught. Still such
officials as the collector of this city ace pts a seat at
supser table ; and if tnen in his official pos..
tion, and the snpror er of the ma.iialeci execu-
tive do so, and if ladies receive him we ought
not to be surprised at proceedings so damaging to
the interests and credit of this city, for they can
be perpetrated with absolute impunity. It is said
that 400 men left New York last Saturday, to join
another Cuban expedition to start from the United
States, but this the c.l. S. Marshal denies. There
was a prize fight on Wednesday at Mystic Island,
in Long Island Sound, wherein Collier was de-
feated by Edwards who fail to come up to time, in-
deed for a considerable period he remained insensible.
A bill is to be passed to put a final stop to these
disgraceful encounters, otherwise our country will
be male their theatre, as pugilists are not toles
rated elsewhere. The Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday received from the Committee, in
whose charge it is, a report about the Alabama
claims,twhich it ordered to be submitted to a Spe-
-cial Committee. Capiain John Codman ad-
dressed the Chamber in able advocacy of free trade
in ships. He laid most stress on the fact that
American masters were driven out of the service of
their country, American laws forcing them to the
alteina. ive either to give the country upor their pro -
fession. There are more American captains in the
foreign trade soiling under the British flag than
tinder their own. Suspicion attaches to the death
of hornas s. Flynn, brother of Alderman Flynn,
whose body was found in the river on Thursday.
Ile was bookkeeper t f Mr. Herbert Beech, 60,
Barclay- s r et, and left for his home, where was his
eewly-married w fe, in g ,od. spirits the previous
evrning. A hitch has arise:, about the iccep'ion
of. the Hoe. Wiliam 11. Seward, which would
have placed the Alderman who waited on that
gentleman in a very awkward poAtion but for
the good manners and diplomatic skill of Mr.
Seward himself. The Mayor returned the re-
solution tendering the reception, calling the at-
tentou of the aldermen to a section of the City

Charter requiring a three-fourths' majority to vote
any outlay on processions or entertainments. Mr.
Seward instantly wrote to the Committee of the
Common Council, stating that when he accepted
the tender of the city hospitalities he had ins'sted
on their being free from extravagance or ost -nta-
tion, under which he,id the proposed dinner at the
Astor House came. He therefore begged to decl ne
the highly valued compliment, and to r,c his
previous assent to the pullic reception iu the City
Hall. This not very creditable arrangement of our
municipal authorities was due to the active exer-
tions of a body of Democrats, who called on
the Mayor, and in strong terms pointed out to
him that their party owed nothing to Mr. Seward,
and d d not feel like paying anything, and that their
constituents would naturally and very properly
object; but the Common Council has decided pub
licly to welcome ex-Secretary Seward next Mon
day. Quesada has arrived from Cuba, and the
Junta talk of a public reception for him. Ile goes
immediately to IVashingion to plead with the
Government the cause of Cuba, and another power-
ful pressure will be brought to bear on the Execu-
tive, which has hitherto blocked the way. Secretary
Fish has pressed an inquiry on the Spanish Minister
into the execution of American citizens in Cuba ;
and although the intelligence is contradictory,
inclining to the impression that the insurrection is
waning, still the interest in it in America is main-
tained, and may any day be kindled into a blaze.
Judge Blatchford had the case before him of the
owners of the American ship Sonora against the
younger Laird, alleged to be part proprietor of the
Confederate cruizer Alabama, which burnt the
Sonora. The question had reference to the Juris-
diction of the Court, which his Honour does not
doubt, though he considers it ought to be formally
pleaded. A curious will case is before the Supreme
Court. Dr. Abrahams died, leaving no wife or
children, bequeathing to his brother the interest
of $50,000 for life, and of $30,000 to his &ster,
with $128,000 of gifts to various religious and
charitable institutions. The whole property turns
out to be only $102,000, and the Court has to
settle how this amount is to be apportioned, and it
appears probable that the lawyers will settle that
question by appropriating the whole ; the usual
result of such appeals.

WASHINGTON, March 4.

The British ironclad Monarch co Ainues to be the
attraction, but she is now on the eve of her depar-
ture for England. A special train of Senators and
members left yesterday to visit her. On Tuesday
morning all who chose were invited to inspect her.
Admiral Porter is deeply itnpresse 1 with her
strength as a war ship. He unres rvedly asserts
that there is not a vessel in our Navy which could
hope to cope with her, and if she caught our mo-
nitors at sea she could run over them with ease;
but the fight would be more equally balanced in
any harbour attack. Altogether he regards her as
a grand piece of naval architecture, the finest he
has seen. The Sen tte sill continues its lively de-
b des. The most important measures having been
disposed of, the appointment to the vacancies in
the Supreme Court have been considered in secret
session, the struggle becoming exciting over Mr.
Bradley. Mr. Conkling took strong ground in
Bradley's favour, hitting out right and left till he
worked the Southern Senators into a paroxysm of
fury. Naturally they desire to indicate ',he I erson
to be selected for the Southern Dis.rict, while
they are opposed by the Democrats, who take a
pleasure in doing all they can to thwart them.
Incidentally Attorney-General Hoar's rej .ction was
brought up, when it was soon made clear that it was
not because he resided in Massachusetts, but because
of his personal discourtesy to some Senators that he
had been rejected. This being interpreted into plain
language means that Mr. Hoar curtly declined to
put unfit persons into the offices at his disposal at
the dictation of certain Senators. In a debate in
the House on the recent massacre of the Piegan
Indians, General Sheridan was dealt with without
gloves. Mr. Voorhees, Mr. Eldridge, Mr. Paine,
and others, censured an inhuman proceeding, worse
than the English in blowing the Sepoys from their
guns. Mr. Stevenson manfully took the General's
side, contending that war must be made vigorously,
that in fighting Indians they must be fought to be
killed, and it was mere squeamishness to make
such a fuss over savages, who themselves cared for
neither age nor sex, whose women and children
were demons of torture dancing around the burn-
ing stake, and killing white women and children ;
Sheridan was right, the blow should be struck so
as to hurt, and the most vigorous policy in the end
would prove not only the best, but the most merci-
ful. Mr. Mungen would fight the savages who
killed white women and .children to the last, but
he objected to jump at a little Indian, sick with the
small-pox and kill the small wretch. "For fear of
the small-pox ?" asked Mr. Stevenson. "No, sir,"
said Mr. Mungen angrily; I have had it." Mr.Muna,
gen is the Representative who lately squarely pro-
posed repudiation of the national debt. He also was
amongthose accused of selling cadetships, but on in-
vestigation it appeared that his appointment had
been disposed of by a friend, and the best of the joke
is that it went to a Republican boy, though the do-
nor is a regular Copperhead, the acute Represen-
tative being also unaware that his friend was
pocketing a few hundreds of dollars at the ex-
pense of his character. Verily, if Mr. Mungen's
reputation for honesty remains untarni-hed, it is at
the expense of his sharpness. Mr. J. S. Golloday,
of Kentucky, and John T. Deweese have resigned,
following Mr. Whittemore's example, and thereby
'escaping expulsion, Mr. Deweese is well off, and
how a few hundreds of dollars coul f have tempted
him to plexe himself in such a position is difficult to
guess. It was but a small proportion of the sum he
expended in el 'ctioneering purposes in his district.
He appeared before the Military t 'ommittee on Mon-
day, and would have melted a heart less stern than
that of General Logan by the deluge of tears he
shed. That purger, however, of Congressional cor-
ruption remained unmoved; so the weeping De-
weese retires, with a sad and costly experience, to
return no wore ; but not so ex-Congre•lswan Whit-
temore, who had returned to South Carolina bear-
ing with him numerous marks of sympathy from
his admiring constituency, with the as-urance that
he would be re-elected to Congress. Mr. Butler of
Tennessee fights hard against expulsion, stirring up
the Military Committee, and throwing all manner
of impediments into the course of the inquiry.
Among others he insisted on General Schofield being
exAmined, who being telegraphed for, has left St.
Louis for Washington. Butler asserts that the
General solicited him to make the appointment.
Mr. Chaves, delegate from New Mexico, has also
been charged with selling a cadetship for $l,OOO. It
appears, however, that he gave the nomination to a
Mr. Mc Carthy, who requested it for his nephew,
but, instead, sold it. Mr. Covo le is likewise accused
of having disposed of a cadetship for $l,OOO in 1862,
and a committee is to proceed to Philadelphia to
take evidence. Senator Morton has arrived from
Indianapolis, where he ma le a great speech at the
State Republican: Convention. Several have left
for New Hampshire to take the stump in the coming
election ; among them Mr. Dawes. The Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee set a trap, into
which some Democrats blindly fell. He got Mr.
Spink, of Dacotah, whom the Tribune calls the
Congressional " joker," Mr. Mungen being the
Congressional "butt," to offer the following resolu-
tion :—" That the interests of the country demand
a tariff for revenue upon foreign imports, and such
equal taxation under the internal revenue laws as will
afford incidental protection to domestic manufac-
tures; and as will, without impairing the revenue, im-
pose the least burden upon, and best promote and en-
courage, the great industrial interests of, the coun-
try." Nearly every Democrat, as Mr. Schenck ex.%
petted, voted in the negative, when he had the
pleasure of informing them that it was part of the
Democratic pia,. form of 1868 against which they
had been recording their votes. Two gentlemen,
Messrs. Major and Head, after a long residence in
Utah, gave strong evidence, when examined by
the House Territorial Committee, against General
Cullom's Polygamy Bill. They c)nsider that the
Territory ought to be admitted into the Union as
a State.; but the Committee does not agree with
them, though it advocates very careful legislation
gradually to destroy that institution. An interest-
big case is before the U. S. Supreme Court, as it
affects the pre-emption of land, and is the very point
in di-pate about the most beautiful part of the Yo
Semite Valley, although this case hai referen e to
the Ruscol Ranche, a large Spanish grant in Cali-
fornia, and not the Valley. A quarter section was
,ettle 1 on by Mr. Whitney as a pre-emptor, but the
Attorney-General held,on reference,that a pre-emp-
tor was a tenant-at-will,whereonWhiteny was ousted
by the Land Office, and brought forward the case.
Lite postage between Belgium and this country
via England is to be reduced from the 15th lust.
to ten cents per half ounce, prepayment optional ;