The New York herald., 1868-03-23

together with summary of army affairs and
political tendencies In the Papal States.
Our Berlin correspondent prefaees his budget
OF Prussian news by alluding to the wonder
and amazement with which the Berlin papers
copied the kilograms in the HERALD ofthe 18th.
ult relating to China and Japan.
One of the Frankfort letters gives credit TO
General Schurtz for having allayed the panic
which the first news of the impeachment of the
President of the United States occasioned at
the Frankfort Bourse. This letter is dated
February 81, memorable and sad day for
the old Free City; for ''to-day," says our
correspondent, ''the existence of our Senate
and our burgher representation, which has
lasted for six centuries, win be definitely
brought to an end. They will be replaced by
magistrate and another representation, ac-
cording to the Prussian law. 1t is sad day
for this town, which has prospered under the
old institutions to an extent which would have
been impossible even under the very best mon
archical government. Whatever Prussian vic
tories may have done for the rest Of Germany,
to us they have brought the loss of our inde-
pendence, of our republican institutions and OF
our self elf-government. This town, whose citi-
zens were, by their wealth and independence,
on level with princes, has now sunk to the
position of Prussian provincial town, and
will never recover its former importance"
g.. 49,
caustic verses of Heinrich Heine against the
late ex-King of Bavaria, whose love of art
enriched Munich with splendid treasures at the
expense of starving schoolmasters, ill-paid
officials, and, what is still more strange for .
European monarch, by diverting even the army
appropriations to architectural purposes. Our
correspondent says that the sequestration Of
the property of ex-King George of Hanover ID
universally approved, and ridicules the PAM
phlet protest of the ex-Elector Of Hesse against
manifest destiny" adding, "whatever short
comings Prussia may have, her rule is by far
preferable to the whims of o couple of obstinate
FOOLS"
The item of the most Importance on this side
of the Atlantic in our letter from Cork is the
announcement that emigration appears to be on
the increase, upwards of one thousand persons
having left Queenstown for America during the
last week of February.
Our London letters are full of political, the
atrical and social gossip. One of them, in
alluding to the rapid drift of the British gov
ernment towards republicanism, says that the
HERALDs editorials upon the future of England
have attracted great attention, as representing
much better than the London press the real
sentiments of the masses of the English people,
''The elevation of Disraeli to the Premiership
is hailed by everybody as step towards
democracy" Our correspondent adverts to
England, which ssis fast becoming a monarchy
only in name and republic in reality" An
other London letter compares the meagre
despatch published by the London Times
relative to the impeachment of President
Johnson-"Trial goes on next week;
party united"-with the. cable kilograms
in the NEW YORK HERALD Chose about
the succession of Dsraeli to the Premiership,
for instance) as exemplifying the contrast
between the English and the American news
papers. He adds that Gin Abyssinian and
other news the London journals are equally
behindhand." Fresh letters, by the by, from
our correspondent who is accompanying the
Abyssinian expedition may soon be expected.
Our Paris fashions letter gives sprightly
description of the Princess Metternich's recent
German charity fair and Of the elegant toilets
displayed on that occasion.
The kilograms of the 21st inst which we
published yesterday gave the market quotations
at Havana, at Liverpool, London, Frankfort and
Antwerp. The telegram from Cork announced
that the Fenian Captain Mackay has been
sentenced to Imprisonment at hard labor for
twelve years; the telegram from Berlin that
has approved the American Naturalization
treaty; the telegram from Vienna that the
clerical party has suffered q legislative defeat
on the Civil Marriage bill by the action of the
Upper House of the Reichsrath. The telegram
from Constantinople has already been men
announced that Garibaldi has wisely declined
to be an agent OF the American government;
and, finally, our special telegram from Rome
described the arrival of Admiral Farragut and
the gracious reception accorded to him and his
suite by the Holy Father.
This brief recapitulation of few salient
points in the foreign correspondence published
in a single number of the HERALD may serve to
show how rapidly New York is becoming the
central point for the reception and the distribu-
ton of the news of the whole world.
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO the HERALD.