The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-12

NEW 1OK
Secretary OF the treasury TO be port appertaining
to the United States. The penalty s forfeiture Of
| vessel and cargo.
The Board Of Health had again under considera-
ton yesterday measures for the and prevention
OF the cattle disease. A report from the sanitary
squad showed that In the drove yards of the city
| there was ne disease apparent as yet. DIR. Harris
submitted o report In reference to the disease. He
expresses the opinion that 1t Is OF the most in
tense forms OF the malignant typhus kilograms from
Pittsburg state that the disease has disappeared
among the cattle In transit the Pennsylvania rail-
| roads.
Dr. Harris states in his report Of vital statistics
that there ISL deaths In this city last week ana
/ 267 In Brooklyn.
The Ora nd Jury in Memphis. Tenn, yesterday
found bill against T. A. Hamilton, q State SEN
ator, for perjury in having taken the test oath.
1 He an officer Of the Confederate States
| McCoole and Coburn are having their fight out in
the papers An epistolary bout has taken place be-
tween them, in which Cobuin reiterates the asser-
| ton that McCoole had him arrested, ana SAYS he
(McCoole) refused to fight in the Lawrenceburg JAIL
| Coburn Is to be in New York tomorrow, when he
| will claim the stakes II McCoole does not appear
An old man named Hugh Cunningham was found
| dead in the basement hallway of house in jaw
street, Brooklyn, yesterday. He was lying with his
back against the door and his face appeared have
been eaten by rats. He was widower and lived
alone, and had been missing since Saturday.
General Gillem, commanding the Fourth District,
| has issued his order transferring Arkansas to the
Department of Louisiana and assuming the COM
mand of the Department of Mississippi.
Oncer Davis, OF the Seventeenth police precinct,
was locked up by Justice Mansfield yesterday for av
ing caned woman In TOmpkins square. His only
defence against the charge that the woman was
| prostitute.
In an ARRAY with robbers in Crawford county, Ill.,,
| on Friday last, one Of posse of constables was
killed, whereupon the remainder OF the posse rushed
| upon the robbers and killed all of them four in
number.
The Cunard steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins,
| will leave Jersey City about twelve M. to-day for
Liverpool via Queenstown. The mails will close at
| the Post Office at eleven A. M.
| The steamship PERT, Captain Delaney, will sail at
three P. NJ to-day from pier No. North river for Gal
weston direct.
The steamship General Barnes, Captain Norton
will sail for Savannah to-day, leaving pier 80 North
river at three p. NJ.
| The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of
Leary's lne will leave pier Ia East river foot of
Wall street. at three p M. to-day for Charleston s. G.
The stock market was unsettled yesterday. Gov
ernment securities closed firm. Gold closed at I46X.
| The Approaching Elections In England.
| The British Parliament, which was elected
three years since, after experiencing very con-
siderable changes in its personnel, has been
prorogued, previous to its dissolution, by order
| of the Queen. When its legislative existence
ceases completely, which will be within very
brief period of time, Great Britain will enter
on new political era, which will be either
progressive in healthy reform and the gradual
elevation of the people to an educated enjoy
ment of citizen rights, or marked by sudden
and sweeping revolutionary changes, con-
Quoted and effected within the constitution. |
Our special correspondence from London, with |
the mail reports from the United Kingdom
generally, published in the HERALD within the
past couple of weeks and to-day, show forth
the fact that the leading men of England are
fully convinced Of the near approach of
serious and marked crisis in public affairs,
and that they have already entered on most
active election canvass with the view of OBJ
tanning, or retaining, as much influence as
possible both in the shaping of its course and
for their own exaltation and profit
Disraeli, Gladstone, Bright, the Manchester
| radicals, Birmingham mechanics, Leeds manu-
facturers, peers, clergy, bankers, Irish re-
pealers, small money changers, the East India
interest, West India abotionists, railroad men,
army men, navy men, Jews and Genties are
all at work speech-makng, rearranging their
forces, pledging and toasting; but so far we
hov ri Of
monitory Of actual change in the existing situa-
| ton Of affairs. Mr.. Horsman, very respect
able liberal, who at one time held the i'm
portant position of Secretary for Ireland speaks
of vote by ballot, life peerages and the complete
| disendowment of all the churches but Mr..
| Horsman does not enjoy either the public
following or personal calibre necessary to
impress the nation toward such radical engraft-
ments at so early date in the scarcely adher-
ent clauses of the new reform bill. Working
mems associations talk Of members of the
House Of Commons to be selected from the
artisan class and paid by joint stock subscrip-
ton from the ''strong boxes" of the mechanics
| for their services; but the experience of
British extra Parliamentary life is TO the
| effect that the most clever speechifers or
'spouters' of the Trades Unions are invariably
shy in debate with actual legislators and that
the moment the bar Of the House of Commons
shuts down after the admission of member
| who has been first rate stalker" in the clubs,
he becomes impressed with new sense of
feeling, which renders him solemn, silent and
positively nervous, SO that he rarely utters a
word within the walls of st. Stephens.
| In all our reports Of this British election
movement we hear almost nothing of the
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