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NOTICES. were in Paterson visiting some friends, aadj Stated.that1 Grant's FJan ol Relief to Commerce the people of the City of Brooklyn, the'EAGLE, OUR ALBANY CORRESPONDENCE xmp.ii ingle aqfafpetai the quality and management of tho. Emotion. The latter's artioles year and' tliM are as like aa. two Indeed P.

P. directs and tones the newspaper now as then. The tedious twaddloof the dead and gone Abolition agitation is by P. P. The droary deliverances on the amendment" are by P.

P. The general as well as tho special artioles are by P. while Mrs. Stanton, the nominal editor, enjoys herself on lecturing toure, and Miss Anthony, the proprietor, busies herself with the solemn re. niiniacenees of half a century, and begins to meditate life in earnest.

Spectators of and aotors intho drama of the trial of Prince Bonaparte are equally emotional and impulsive. The other day the audience wanted to hiss the Prinoe. Yesterday it was ovidently "bo ginning to lean" to his cause, although no reason for the change of opinion is apparont. At tho same time tho publio of the court room was disposed to make much of Roohef ort, who was present as a witness. The evidence as to provocation is conflicting, and persons who were relied on to prove tho face slapping by Noir are contradicted and contradict themselves.

A lively discussion as to whether Nob: was physically weak or strong is going on, and his sister in law has been permitted to Bwear that he could not have slapped the Prince's face because his gloves remained on his hands. Of a trial with like conflict of proof and other vague incidents in this country a diaagroe ment of the jury might be anticipated with almost absolute certainty. Thero are two national Woman Suffrage Associations ono run by Henry Ward Beecher and the other by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The societies do not differ in object or methods. The separate organization grow out of personal disagreement between Susan B.

Anthony and persons who do not understand her, and an old quarrel botweon Mesdomes Pillsbury and Garrison. An attempt to unite the two associations is making, and T. Tilton and other amiable ladies are active in the work. They have issued a circular urging tho meeting of nine commissioners, at the Fifth avenue hotel on the 6th prox. to arrango terms of consolidation.

The Sacred Nino aro strongly recommended to take a hint from Sorosia and lunch before addrossing thomselvos to thoir special business. Nothing is moro harmonizing than a substantial refection, and evon a dolicato cold collation iB a symbol and a bond of union. T. Tilton and tea are tranquillizing as well as alliterative. Perhaps, on this occasion only, a little wine, "for tho sako of his brains," might bo permitted.

Tho host rosults may bo nntieaptcd from thia Fifth avonue fostival of nine. Tho commissioners may not ro solvo that "wo won't go home till morning," but they certainly will not go homo until tho two associations aro officially blended and Beecher and Stanton avo made presidentially duo. But just horo a hitherto overlooked question arises Who shall run the joint society Shall the male man or the femalo man viold "Tho Kale ot JBayoiit. Senator Drake proposes an amendment to the biU for reobnstrttotmg Georgia, whioh ap plies to every State, and enables the Federal Government to substitute its regular soldiery for the State militia as the military arm in reserve of the loool authority for suppressing disorders. The pretence for this amendment is found in the complaints of the Tennessee political negroes of the Ku Klux doings such as that they are not allowed to travel first class in pub lio vohioles' with the with many vague stories of more serious "outrages." The Republican journals teem with letters oomplaining vaguely of in seourity.of life in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.

In one breath, the writers claim to belong to the loyal majority of the people and in the next they allege that the rebel minority oppress and threaten them, so that their lives and property are not safe wherefore they gray for federal interposition. A letter in the New York Times this morning, from North Carolina, gives no one specific faot of alleged outrage, that 'could be inquired into and confuted but asserts generally that the tone of publio feeling is suoh that loyal men cannot live without military protection, and that the militia of the State are so disloyal that it is neoessary the required military protection should be given by the Fed. oral regular army. All these statements are simply intended to give 'a pretext for the passing of Drake's amendment, so that the whole military power of the States may be sapplanfc. ed for local purposes by the Federal troops.

The falsehood of the pretence is obvious. If the self styled loyal men are numerous enough to eleot members of Congress, they are surely enough to form mihtia companies, under a "loyal" State government, for their own protection and the preservation of public order. In Nashville, Tennessee, the people have held meetings denouncing the statements of outrages in their State as being false. They also say, and private letters to New York confirm the statement, that if these efforts of Congress to re establish martial law in the South cannot be stopped, the mere rumors of such intended action will destroy business confidence, and again postpone for months or years the recovery of the South from commercial depression. This matter comes home to us Northern people in two ways.

In the first place, it touohes to the heart our personal and State rights. We cannot in the long ran govern the South one way and the North another. Either military interference must be abandoned in those States, or it must be extended to these also. This Government cannot be half a military despotism and half a free republic. But the more immediate sense in which we are affected by the everlasting reconstruction of the reconstructed States, relates to our business interests.

We pay enormous taxes and endure a most burdensome tariff. We are thus shut off from all foreign markets and tho only chance left to do a paying business, is for tho South to become again a great consumer of Northern goods. But so long as the Republican party insists on keeping the South in commotion by passing new systems of attempted reconstruction of the lately organized State governments, so long the South will not become a prosperous and peaceful community, settling down to order, consume, and pay for, the productions of Northern industry. The Congressional marplots are injuring private business as well as public rights, by their incessant schemes for compelling the South, on penalty of being forever kept in turmoil and chains, to become Ra dical in politics. Shoridan'is now displaying his want of common sense in writing letters to defend or justify the Piegan butchery, in which he succeeds only in showing how utterly unjustifiable aud unwarranted by "theprecedents and usages of war" this massacre was.

The Iribune, which stuck to Sheridan through all his blunders at New Orleans, has demolished all his arguments most effectually, and given up its former pet in disgust. In another column it advocates the reduction of Sheridan's salary, showing the injustice of paying a mere butcher in shoulder straps $14,803 a year, when the Chief Justice of the United States gets only $6,5000 a year. The street numbering job still seems to drag in the Committee. The work ought to bo done before the 1st of May, which is now but five weeks off. It is these interminable delays over everything, that exhaust the public patience, and make the people ready, to weleome Special Commissions or anything that will only do something.

If the public has lost all confidence in the Aldermen, and given up all hopo of ever getting them to do anything for the public good, they have only themselves to blame. The glad alacrity with which tho English LTouso of Commons passed a bill for tho enforcement of tho laws in Ireland, by a voto of 425 to 13, and the slow deliberation with whioh it considers measures for ihat country's relief, offer a significant contrast. calk for a mending manners in' those whono: it may concern, to the extent of dispensing with such displays and suoh words as hare received comment in this artiole. The Bar and the Vreaa, Mr. Grenville T.

Jenks is not only one of the most conspicuous of our citizens, but he is a very considerable lawyer, and an advooate whose assertions oarry great weight along with them before the whole State of York. To him is committed the heaviest portion of the defence of those Inspectors and Canvassers now on trial before the Court of Oyer and Terminer for alleged offences in the conduct and counting of the eleotion last tall. The newspapers very properly give to what the Counsellor says a oiroulation coextensive with the country. How the gentleman regards the press, and appreciates the advantages it affords him when it carries his words beyond the limits of a contracted courtroom and sends them and himself down to history, may be gathered from the following paragraph in his speeoh of yesterday for one of his clients Mr. Jonks tbon rose to sum up for the defense.

Ho had never had any fear of the result of tho trial if the defendants were tried beforo tho regular tribuual of tho State, but during the last fow months another tribunal had. been erected the tribunal of tho public preas beforo which oven ho might shortly be brought to trial, Long prior to tbo trial, the caBes were tried In the newspapers, so that ho had been told that he could not havo a fair trial in tho Court. Boforo the indictments woro found, they hod had tho cry oJ tho hounds of tho prcBB after them. We incline to believe, and not in complacency, that in any contest provoked between theadyocate and the press, odds oan Bafely be offered on editors. Tilts of this sort have been run before, and he is esteemed only a more unfortunate lawyer than one "who quarrels with the Court," who does not succeed in securing the co operation, or at least, the silence of the newspapers.

It has fallen to the lot of journalists to make and unmake so many men, not excluding attorneys at law, that time would fail us to enumerate as much as a moiety of them. It may be accepted as an axiom for advocates "Don't get the papers down pn you!" They are a tribunal whose subpoenas are always served, and whose concurrent jndgments are accepted as conclusive. Moreovor, in the defence of their order they stand by one an other, and on such an issue they never fail to agree upon a verdict. Besides, the execution of their Sentences is swift and sure. The necessity of deserving the good opinion of the press, which is essential to the approval of the people, is felt by the great majority of the bar.

The press itself has often been of in valuablo service to clients, by exposing tho inadequate attention to, or the patent incompetency of stmdry counsel for, their interests. Conversely, by tho publicity which the press has given to the efforts of ablo and devoted counsel, their dockets have been swollen, and their fees and their influence have expanded immensely. The press only asks and demands what is right both of counsel and for itself. There is no'royal road to its favor. It despises toadyism to itself as unitedly as it resents insults upon itsolf.

But it never inaugurates, nor evor declines, an issue involving tho proper discharge of its duties. Mr Jenks has been hardy enough to beg in such an issue. He puts it the form of a declaration, with an invective in the tail of it. The gentleman speaks of the "ribunal of tho public press" as something recently erected. The Eagle is not a young paper, but when the Eagle was in its infancy this "tribunal" was entitled to all the respect which omnipotence conjoined to antiquity could command.

It is as old as the existence of the American bar and judiciary, and is the cause, as it is the bulwark, of both. Mr. Jenks apprehends that he may be brought before this tribunal for trial. The gon tleman'sunconsciousness is remarkable. He has been on trial before this tribunal ever sincB he became a power in this city.

The fact of his power is due as much to the favor with which that tribunal has treated him, as to any other earthly cause. Thanks to that tribunal, he does not to day speak to merely twelve men, but to the thrice twelve hundred thousand to whom the journals of two cities bear his words. Let not tho gentleman imitate Jeshurun at this late day. To the allegation that the citizens now in course of trial have been condemned in advance by tho press the facts of the fiv months past offer refutation. It has become the duty and the business of the press to report the notable addresses of the prosecutor now opposed to Mr Jenks.

That prosecutor has not decreased his reputation as a manager by shifting the scenes of the prologue to his drama through the columns of the newspapers. He knew that in addressing isolated meetings he was reaching the whole county and the whole country, through tho subsequent days' papers. He knew, too, tbe value of and that by this method he reached every reader on Long Island, and compelled the republication from tho Eagle of his assertions by tho press of the Union. Wo are not speaking to the question of the tone or tho contents, whether of the speeches or tho cards. Both have been the subject of cotemporaneous comment.

But a3 a matter of sensation and of effect, as a method taken to kindle and continue public interest, and to concentrate it upon himself, the District Attorney has been wiser in his generation than his immediate opponent who disparages tho press. As to the conclusions expressed upon these alleged frauds, we recall none levelled at individuals under indictment. We do recall, and we would decline to recant many pertinent comments addressed to the figures and other facts in tho promises. That was the right of the preBS. That is tho habit of tho press.

That is likely to continue its habit. All suggestions that the press is to be tied up from commenting on actions (not actors) until the Courts have passed upon them, is tho height of folly. We do not know of a single newspaper whose rule, has not been a fair and full trial of the accused and no prejudgment of their cases pending, or, until after, legal determination. But to expect that the press will let'pass suoh stubborn facts az the proceedings before the Board of Canvassers developed is asking too much. For so doing journalists are called hounds by Mr.

Jenks. Every advooate has a right to congenial epithets. He will do well to remember that hounds always hunt together, and never lose a scent, and always bringdown their game. Xlie JBlg Mr. Joseph Dixon, Superintendent of the Pneumatic Tunnel, is quite indignant at the objections of tho press to his little bill at Albany.

He says The only difference between our present charter and the proposed amendment is, that we are restricted at present to. operating tubes of fifty four inches interior diametor, for tho carrying of packages and freight; the proposed amendment provides that we may carry passengers, and enlarge our tubes sufficiently for this purpose; tho other provisions of tho bill arc tho usual cluuEes in all railroad bills, the only difference being that the counties of New York, Kings, aud Westchester arc allowed the urivilccc of subscribing to tho canital stock. How different the same thing looks when stated in different words. Mr. Dixon's statement about his bill is quite true, and yet from tho innocent tone of his language the reader would scarcely realize what an outrage his bill is.

Last year they professed to want power only to lay a little tube that might be easily packed away, like a ga'pipe, either side of the street, and be in nobody's way. Now they seek to change this into a groat oxcavation that will monopolize tho whole underground of the streets. Then they proposed to pay for the work themselves now, to make the public pay to them moro than tho whole should cost. Then tho bill was innocent, but impracticable. Now it dcvelopos into a gigantic fraud on the taxpayers, and a monopoly of the city underground for all time.

Of the origin of the bill Mr. Dixon says The rough draft of our bill was drawn Jiy Mr. A. E. Beach and myself it wbb perfected in Albany by a Republican Senator of unimpeachable integrity, no othor person saw it, nor kue.w anything about it, except tha copyist, until it was presented to Mr.

Tweed for intra miction. No promiBO or intimation of any kindluu been mado to him, either directly or. indirectly. A well bred dog will, it is said, walk out of the room when ho sees active preparations on foot for kicking him out. The Hon.

Wm. M. Tweed finding that he was going to bo turned lout of the Now York Street Commissioner's office, yesterday, sent in his' resignation. Tweed has still hall a dozen other fat offices to fall back on, and. with these and seven millions in real estate, accumulated in the public service, he will still be ablo to support his family.

The fire in Grand street, E. yesterday, does not furnish a very gopd record for the new Fire Department, which is now supposed to be in porfect working order. The fire occurred at 8. o'clook in the morning, the alarm was promptly given, find the firemen were soon at work, yet the buildings were destroyed and six or eight' others, damaged before the fire was put out. Thk does not look like efficiency.

the condition 01 mo propouer necessiiwea too running of the machinery one third faster than ordinary, where by the danger or Are was greatljr enhanced. Jay Gould, President of the Erie Road, "made hta nnnonmncn vfitinrHav before tho Assemblv Commit tee on Railroads at jfcbany, and made answer to Mr, Burt's statements. ininKS mat masmuon as tne foreign owners of tho road are interested In the destruction of American manufactures, if allowed to assume the control of the road, they would crush out all the manufactories on tbo lino of the road. He claims also that tho earnings of tbe road under the present management of two years has increased over $3,000,000, and that traveling accommodations aro better than on any Cther road. o.

BASE BILL GOSSIP. Bed Stookinos. Telegrams from Cincinnati say that the Bed Stockings are daily practising at the young men's gymnasium. No ohange will made in the positions of tbe men, and thev win strike fn the eamo order. The season will be opened on the 16th of April by a game with a picked nine.

The Athletio Club will select a nine from McBrido, Beaoh, Badoliff, Fisher, McMulUn, Pratt, Fisler, Malons, Sonsenderter and Berrv. Pratt has removed from Boston to Philadelphia, of which latter place he is a native, and has been a long resident. This explains his connection with the Athletics. The Stars, of Brooklyn, have placed their champion amateur nine. It is as follows: catch, er; Cummings, pitcher: Packer, first base; Bevhw, second baso Mauley, third base Dolktrd.

short stop Rogers, left field; Worth, centre field; and Johnson, right field. The Forest City, ofBockford, III, have announced tho names und positions of the nine for as follows: Oddy, catcher; Spaulding, pitobor; Cone, first base; Hastings, second base; Foley, third base; Barnes, short stop; Barker, left field; Cheney, centre field; and Osborno, right field. Tha Forest OityB will viBit Brooklyn this season to moke 'good their claim of amateur champions. The Philadelphia Sunday Mercury says that Fieher explains his recent' joining of the Chloogo Club, whilo under engagement with tho Atlothica, on the ground that he was intoxicated. But he announces that ho will play with the Haymakers this Beason.

Fisher was married in Troy last week. Tho eamo paper makes tho following very truthful ci mment upon big salaries "Tho fact is these 'big salaries' for professionals are played out. The highest point has been reached, and henceforth there will be a fall in tho market. Thoso players who are now in good places would do well to hold on to them, for the day of high premiums for crack players has passed. Next yeas tbo professional who can get $1,000 a year by way of salary will bo ono out of fifty." White and Fisher have backed out of their engagement with the Chicago Club, and the probability iB that the balanco of tho nine will go to pieces.

Tho players already engaged and tbe managers are utterly disgusted, and heartily wish thoy woro well out of tho Bcrape. 80 says a privato letter from Chicago. OUR CORRESPONDENCE. mow to iapoho oi OltL CSollics. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: We have hundreds of street boys coming into our Lodging houso this winter so thinly clad as to bo neither coraioi table nor healthy.

In many instances wo have to givo a boy a fresh suit complete. Wo can make over old clothing so as to answer as well as new. Will not your readers who havo any old clothiuy that they can spare remember these poor bnys and send their address to CO Poplar street and we will call for tho package. W. A.

Lawkenoe, Gen'L Bupt. Hic Anti Park Sale Bleating To the Editor 0 the Brooklyn Eagle I notice, by an advertisement in the papers, that the parties iu opposition to tho sale of Iho Park lands cast of Flatbush avenuo, intend to hold a public meeting on Friday evening, 23th at tho Academy of Music. As an attempt was made, at tho meeting hold a few evenings ago, over which Hon. Comas Barnes presided, bya singlo mau, to disturb aud interrupt tho proceedings of said meeting, prompted und instigated by certain well known Ninth Warders, whose views in opposition to tho salo were there "spiritually" expressed by this superannuated and retired public unotionary 1 hope to morrow evoning no friend to good order and lover of free speech will, by any similar action, prevent an opeu expression of tho views of tho gentlemon under whoBe auspices tbo meeting will be held, and that no police will be called on to eject auy opponent nf their chejished sentiments, the iucroase of the citv dobt and depreciation of city bonds. Fjiee Speech.

A EEear iu Kcal aistste. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle The Eagle is evidently a "Bull" in real estate, tho leading "Agents" are "Chronic Bulls" perhaps they are "long" and are "hoping against hope." Now Mr. Editor, why not send a reliable reporter to canvass the city and know for yourself, that you may givo tho following facts to tbo public; First, that thcro are about 2,000 bouses for sale in Brooklyn, about 500 unoccupied (seine eay 1000), that property is offered privately ten percent, less thim last year, and is hard to soil, that incomes are aud must bo lower, that rents must consequently bo lower, that real estate in Brooklyn and in New York iB groaning under its load of taxation, that ninny investers, in despair of correcting our city govern cither selling out or aro afraidto buy. That tbo "market" has advanced rapidly to hold and must have a sharp reaction; the New York papers aro advising concessions lo meet the times, and by pursuing this course an active, healthy market may bo seemed, with small profits perhaps to builders, but a panic will be prevented. Thero aro very few oitber able or willing to buy now, while sellers are increasing every day.

Thoso are do idlo falicles, but facts gathered by ono who has been in tho market tho past six mouth as A PononASEit. Orangemen and the American Protestant Aisociation. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: The letter which appealed in your paper of the 2lRt on behalf of tho American Protestant Association, written by Mr. Kalph Walsh being a repetition of his former letter, ueods no contradiction further tharfthat which has appeared on tho 17th instant on bc holf of the Orange Institution of the United States. I may add, however, that tho principles of the Institution have beon already stated in the press, together wilh tho fact of their legality having been indorsed by tho United States Government, whose Constitution every Orangeman in this country is bound to support and de end.

The Amoricau Orange Institution is organized solely upon purely Amorican principles, and its members are legal citizens, whoso rights cannot be infringed upon. I most emphatically dony tho assertion of Mr. Walsh "that I would fain marry myself and the Orange Institution to the A. P. or, iu moro grammatical terni3, I do not wiBh for any such union at prcsont.

Not being a man of tulent or even a pretender thorc to, I shall refrain from entering any further upon tho subject until our illosality has beon proven iu a freo country by your talented correspondent, Mr. Walsh. Very respectfully, Jons J. Boko. This coulroversy can occupy no more of our correspondence column.

An EOoncsi Car Conductor. To tic Editor of the Brooklyn Edqle It will undoubtedly interest you and your readers to learn that tho much abused fcrrants of tbo public, tho Street Car Conductors, sometiraos manifest an honesty and a thougbtfulncss that it would be well for those in higher circles to copy, and which should earn for them a consideration and respect, which unfortunately they don't often experience from thehauds of the public at lurgc. Let mo stato a case much iu their favor, which happened as recently as Thursday, the 17th instant I possessed nothing less than a bill, for which tho conductor had uot yot sufficient change, so he took tho bill until he could got more. Unfortunately I got out without receiving my ebaupe, aud s'ill more uniortunatoty 1 neitner knew tuo nuniocr 01 tho car nor the conductor. Last Friday while about getting into the car, tbe conductor, Mr.

Isaac Walton, (truly a notable name and person), politely without reminder, handed me the change that I bad not rcoeived on tho 17th instant. This is probably only ono of a great many instances of tho kind, where one person troubles himself to restore to apothor "lost property" that in most cases would become forfeited to the carelessness manifested. Yours truly. Grateful. ParK Sal Meeting To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Mr.

Barnes may have thought that ho was presiding over a free speech meeting at the Academy of Music on tho 9th but every ono else knew tho opposite. The Chairman of the. Park Board spoke of getting it np, just after tho Prospect Hull meeting bad taken place; tho list of parties to the call was a selection of names from bis petition to improve tho Eastern section, and tbe speakers were Bolootod by him, forthe chief one told mo so, as early as the 23d of February. Tho notices for platform seats wero issued from tho Park office, and the whole movement was undeniably originated there. The principal advocato of tho Chairman's policy bought 0 largo interest in land adjoining the Park two years ago, and no one opposed to this policy was allowed to say word.

There woro fifty persous on tho platform, and perhaps two hundred and fifty in tbe audience, 0110 hundred of whom loft in disgust whon thoy fouud 1'rea speech was not the order of tho day. Thero was no enthusiasm shown, and tho whole affair was weU understood to be a packed meeting. Now as to tho great profit from tho Bale of tho Eastern section. If from the 107 acres it contains, you deduct 40 for tho reservoir site and 17 for tho boulevards and entrances, there will be 80 acres left, which will cut ap eleven lots to tho aero, say 8S0 lots. Theco will hardly average over $1,000 a lot, for thero is a front of 2,800 feet on stable alleys, and feet against tho Park reservoir banks, thirty to twenty feet high.

Call tho proceeds ono million of dollars. Deduct tho cost of grading eighty acres, say 500,000 cubic yards at twenty livo cents, $125,000, and 8,000 foot of Btroet to bo paved and curbed at per foot, wttli entrances, eay $50, 000, making 5175,000 to bo taken romSthemillion, and the small amount of $87,5,000 will bo loft as net proceeds of tbo operation; Where aro tbe $2,500,000 promised ue. Tho lots must sell at $3,000 each, to produce it, but no ouo bolievcs thoy will bring one third of this. For this paltry advantqgo therefore, tho bast Park land will havo been sacrificed to tho Third street liolicy. i Millions have been wasted already iu work on tho Park, and it will take at least fivo millions more to com pleto it ou tho scale contemplated.

I speak as a lax payer, although it has served Mr. Strauahan'a puruoso to represent m'e as a land speculator, when time but very low lots that tiro at all affected by tho vioinity of tbo Park. I have watoaod tho whole Park job from the beginning, knowing from an ex Commissioner that tho Chairmau had ouco stated in opeu Board that he intended to mako tho Park benofit tue poor ifiigutu wura. uas it not niuveu BU J. C.

B. Misplaced Charity Wsea JLibrarios, To the. Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Mr. Peabody rests in his grave at lewt it is to bo hoped eo after his nearly threo months' pout mortem jourueyiug above ground. Far bo it from us to fling a Btone upon that Bleeping place lo which he has been so long ai riving, or to cast a single aEpersiou upon the memory of one whom the world soeuis inclined to worship.

Yet it may not be amiss to suggest, for the benefit of any future humanitarian seeking an outlet for his beneficence, Ihat tboro are more jndisiou's ways of spending wealth than building fanciful hoiBcs for the poor, or even iu providing cheap rents for those known as tho working olaosos. Even in England thore ia an inveterate prejudice against tho inevitable teudouey of all this to that separation into castes whioh is growing more and more distasteful to tbe people. Much of tho vast expenditure of Mr. Peabody is likely to come to naught in a way that would havo grieved his heart had be foreseen it. Yol, vory soon after their erection, it well known that many of the model houses fell into tho hands of tb.033 for whom thoy wore not intended, psoplo tolerably well to do, who would have scorned to rank theunelvos among tho poor, yet coveted tbo advantages offered by ihi new tenement, and crowded in, to iho crowding out of worthier and poorer men.

If this could happon before Mr. Peubody'a death, what may be inferred for the future, when these buildings, falling into the hands of rapacious agtuts, cease to bo remembered as bequosts to the poor, and their founder (may ho reat in poaco) ia fovgotton Now, if Mr. Peabody had oxpondod ono half the sums, one half the care, one half the intelligent designing and perhaps, wasto had ho made use of tho vast meanB at bis command for tho establishment of froe libraries for tho people, there is very little doubt that these would have proved of jro permanent benefit to tho very class whom he do3ired to servo. Tho real elevation and practical botteriug tho condition of tho working class can only bo attainod by placing tho meanB of education within their roach, not with a Brabmin liko, off" charity, but with tho frank and hearty generosity which characterizes all true philanthropy. Let Brooklyn tako tho load and inaugurate a grand freo library.

Sho has a fair field bofore hor. New York, with all its entcrpris'o and intelligence, has not much toboast of in the way of bbraries. That elegant mausoleum, tbe Astof, cortainly does not attract to its luxurious gloom tho poor roan or tho working man. Other libraries aro moro or less expensive, or, on account of thoir hours, totally out of reach. Let Brooklyu set tho example to her sister city.

Half tho money expended on the erection of one of her magnificent churches would form the nucleus of an institution that, as a means of instruction and onlighton ment, might well ohallengo comparison with tho pulpit. Sho has at least churches onough for the proiont. Lot her turn her attention to somo new method of civilizing andimproving tbo race. And, uot to shock tho public, for tbo reverend gentlemen who havo so long had her morals in chargo, lot us quietly suggest that the new institution bo open on Sundays, for tho praotical benefit of the working people, Shall it' bo dono A.M.H, President Grant has Bent a special message to CoDgross on the decline of American commerce and tho necessity of legislation to revive it. Ho estimates the direot annual payments made exclusive of passage money by Americans to foreign shipping owners, whioh sum formerly was earned by our own ship owners from their fellow oitizenB.

He refers also to tho vast business of building ships, and the large amount of employment affordod to our people in navigating them, all of whioh have been of late transferred to the foreigner. He shows that we are now deprived not only of the direot profits of this business, but of the domestio market whioh our shipping business afforded for the products of our other industries. Passing from these money considerations, the President shows what a national loss of power wo sustain in the annihilation of our merchant marine. Our ships of trade were taken by the Government for naval purposes during tho war, to the number of six hundred. Whore would the government have been as to its naval arm, but for the aid thus obtained from the commercial marine Having thus clearly set forth the nature of the evil to which ho calls the attention of Congress, the President concludos without attempting to explain how under his Administration and that of his party in Congress before him wo got into so bad a state by suggesting a remedy.

A direct money subsidy to enable persons to build and run mail steamship fleets without pecuniary loss, the President considers tho least objoctionable mode of reviving the prostrate mercantile marine. He is not, however, averse to indirect aid also, by remission ot tariff on articles imported for building and fitting out of ships. Tho suggestions of the President are doubtless well intended, but they will fail of a permanent good result. Tho policy he suggests consists simply in violating the laws of political economy in one direction, to make amends for their having been already set aside in another direction. If we find, as is undoubtedly the case, the mercantile marine and hope to benefit its condition by changes in legislation, our business is to discover what in tho existing legislation has caused it to be depressed.

Unless commerce and shipping were loadeddown with legislative burdens, they would not npw need legislative aid. The remedy therefore is to rectify the tariff and reduce the taxes, which have made it so costly to build, repair, or cany on trade in American ships. By removing these burdens our own people will be again able to compete with foreigners. Failing to remove these burdens, no money subsidy will benefit the trade at large, but only the few individual companies that receive its payments. And moanwhile the amount of the subsidies will be ah addition to the burdens borne by other classes, and will send a fresh swarm of applicants to Washington for relief to their trade.

It seems folly to collect extravagant imports from tax payers, in order to expend them in subsidizing a certain portion of tho parties from whom the money bad been collected. The further we go into that kind of business, attempting to rebeve commercial distress by making charity donations instead of by remitting intolerable impositions, the moro impracticable we shall find it. For when the principle has ouee been established that the Government is to be the national almoner, and to sustain depressed business interests out of the taxation which has caused the depression, every business in turn will be at Washington lobbying for relief, and Government will become a mere agent for collecting rjeople's money from them wilh one hand, and distributing it back among the various classes with the other a process which, in each stage, will involve a large percentage of official waste, and which, even if honestly intended at the start, will degenerate into a vast organized system of pauperising our business niterests, and transferring the earnings of the people into the hands of the capitalists and favorites of the lobby. Deportment iiUIic Board ot Education. The Board of Education stands to the community of Brooklyn, so far as concern position and behavior, in the same relation Mr.

Turvey drop bears to the other characters in Dickens' longest novel. We might, indeed, extend the comparison. In view of the efforts made in various directions to secure better and larger quarters for this ancient and honorable body, in view of the discomfort which obssuro accessibility and the letters of Corry O'Lanus have brought upon Red Hook Lane, wo might be justified in submitting that our popular gentlemen who aro the Bored of Education do now actually occupy a Bloak House. This much conceded, the propriety of preaching deportment to thorn will not be disputed. After a perusal of their proceedings, reported in last night's Eagle, the absolute necessity of preaching it to some of them, or at least to one of them, is painfully evident.

That duty, more in sorrow than in anger, wo proceed to perform. Tho 'gentlemen wore treated to the report of a Special Committee to whom had been committed an inquiry into the busiuess of the Bache property. Now for the immediate purpose of this lecture, the business and the being of the Bache property are foreign to the Besides, to tho facts and equities of that dispute the Eagle and the Courts, and the Committees of the Board have given attention more than once. We apprehend that more interest can be enlisted upon a calm consideration of one or two scenes which grew out of, and which should not havo grown out of a dire, and a not wholly decorous, debate upon this subject, which seems like the tale of lovo to be always new and alWys old. Upon a proposition to got tho Boaid out of a tangle, the ninety ninth tangle, about this property, we find on the sixth column of the second pape of Wednesday's Eagle the following belligerent and excited language Mr.

Gill hero roso in an oxcited manner and wanted to lmow if it was possible to get a good crack at Mr. Norlhup. He was willing to tako all Mr. Northup could give him If he could only get a good crack back at him, but bo knew that would be impossible. If the Chairman would only give him a chance ho would take it.

Mr. Northup I was opposed to tho purehaso of tho property, and refused to sign tho petition which Mr. Gill and others circulated here with a view of having tbe property purchased. Mr. Gill The gentleman states what is false.

Our reporter has left to the imagination, the elements and incidents of the 'excited manner, which wc have no doubt he correctly attributes to tho honorable member. That manner can only bo "judged from the expressions accompanying it. Mr. Gill wanted to get a crack at Mr. Norlhup.

Mr. Gill solicited the Chair to allow him to get a crack at Mr. Northup. Mr. Gill averred that if the Chair would allow him a chance to got a crack at Mr.

Northup that he would unhesitatingly take it. Crack in the vernacular means lick. Lick in tho vernacular means attack. Of attack, that is a feeble conception which does not comprise tho iacidonts of physical force, Such an attack, comprehending such incidents and emanating from the honorable gentleman, would be an event as perilous as unprecedented. Wo are heartily glad that the Chair refused to entortain the muscular mo lion of tho member Miio longed tor a chance to got a crack at Mr.

Northup. We aro glad that the latter did not put a pino wood uoncil on his shoulder in liou of a chip, plaut himself, and enact tho role of Rob Roy, in Red Hook Lane. By his failure to do so, the Eagle has lost an item but the community has been saved the utter annihilation of at least one, if not both, of tho contestants. Further down, whore Mr. Gill, abandoning his design to get a crack at Mr.

Northup, proceeds to chargo him with stating what is false, the surprise and regret of the reader will bo still greater thau woro oxcited on tho perusal of tho preceding elegant extract. Thore arc zones in which such a statement would not havo been treated with tho forbearance it received. But we live in tho Temperate zone, and so doo3Mr. Northup, and the Torrid assertion of the gon tleman, was allowed to pass, by tho gen. tleman at whom it was hurled, as tho idle wind which he regards not.

This was really the wisest and tho most courageous course. The Board did not behove that Mr. Northup was uttering a falsehood. Mr. Gill himself, we are pleased to believe, does not, now that he apprehends tho full force of Iris words, stand by them.

But uttered in a public body, they have become public projeedings, and. they abide in solid nonpareil against the gentleman pntting them forth. They do not comprise the language of sooiety. They do not agree with the conventions. They are principally confined to Congresses and othor such places.

Thiey cannot in fact be too soon retracted, or too carefully avoided for tho future. The public have aright to expect different language from those who instruct thoso, who instiuct the youth of this city. The people and the Board of Education will not visit these strictures upon any persons to whom they aro not applicable. But as the organ of SEA MOSS FABINE. This is a now article of food.

whioB we tako pltfiBftiro in pmending toonr TeadelK, Wo hVnTnsed it in oitffam Uies, and have found it tho most mrtrfolous, delioatcatad palatable artiole for table me e.have sees. si weeaue anao, very Bleasant to Wg uiua among MM 1, 1 1 Imnrfldient, has many ourativo prosettios; antf Js hiahlvre. oommsaaeaior ana norormlous affection!) and is perfcotly harmloaa. Here, then, we have an entirely noWartlolo of food of tho most delicate and inviting eharacter, adapted tO'fhoMnof tho table for Blano Mange. PuddingkHotto' do RulS! and almort invaluablo for uspby the invalid.

It li simple, delicate, nntricions, harmless, remedial aud doo nomlcal, as it can be fnrnisuod for one thbato one thn cost of Com Btarch, Malzona, Farina, fotaU'of whioh It Is more than substitute 7 It is made up without troublo, and trill always ba good llj II auu ulu rrijuiv ni vvuwuuu ju'ihi USO fin dependent. A LARGE AND VARIED STOCK GAS FIXTURES of NEW DESIGNS, EXCEEDINGLY LOW PBIOKB. ABMSTBONO BLACKIJN, 213 Fulton st, near Concord, and oor. Court and Utwtfttfl: niblO Th.S&Tolra H. MDMFOBD, 218 and 220 Fulton st, near Clark.

IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF UPHOLSTBRY GOODS, FURNITURE COVERINGS, LACE CURTAINS, WINDOW. SHADES, CORNICES, MATTRESSES. PAPER HANGINGS, 4o 4c. Wo aro daily adding to our large stock ot bow and desirable goods, in the above lino, which wo offor aft prices corresponding to the deolino in gold. Orders for furnishing roildencos, hotels, etsamers, 4c, executed with promptness, and in the best style; Agenta for tho L.

Laco Cortain Bloaohing; Establish "ent. mbl9 2mSfTn4Th CONFECTIONER, 260 and 262 FULTON ST. Special attontion paid to tho furnishing of WEDDING PARTIES. DINNERS AND EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS. NATURAL FLOWERS.

BRIDE'S CAKE HANDSOMELY ORNAMENTED. AIeo, all kinds of Plain and Fancy Cakes. ICE CREAM AND ICES, In fancy or plain forms, with the different flavors. mb22 2m ROBERT n. AuriHTianv' ENOCH MORGAN' SONS' SAPOLIO Will removo stains from marble, and for ho cleaning and general uses', is incispausahlo Try it and you will like it, DEPOT 211 WASHINGTON ST, N.

Y. EVERYBODY USES IT. BOLD EVERYWHERE mil 1 tit YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED To see what a fino ass irtment of GAS FIXTURES, Of ell the newest stylos, are tn be found at THOMAS READ'S, ,1,029 Fulton avo, opposite Gates. mhU 20teod PARK'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY AND Fon COUGHS AND COLDS. Unequalled as a remedy for all diseases of tho throat and lungs.

Singers and speakers use it to clear tho throat and givo tono to the vocal organs. Prico $1, sold by all dru" gista. JOHN F. HENRY, Solo Proprietor, 8 Collozt place. N.

Y. iy AMUSEmEXTS. JDROOKLYN ACADEMY OP MUSIC! SPE0IAi7NOT0E PA REP A ROSAlwGLISH OPERA. Tho public are rospoctfuliy informod that owr.ins to Sndden illness of Mr. A.

LAURENUE, instead of liLACiC DOMINO, Auber's charminc romantic opera, FRA DIAVOLO, will bo substituted for TO NIGHT, with the following powerful cast Miss ROSE HERSEE, Mrs. K. SEGUCN. CASTLE, CAMPBELL, HALL, DKiSOLLA, HOWARD, and others. Conductor, MR.

REIFF. KROOKLYN ART ASSOCIATION TENTH SEASON. 'Tho Spring Exhibition of Picturmof this Association, will bo opened to tho puhlio On TUESDAY, March 29th. And continuo open during tho week, from 8 A. M.

to 10 P. at Iho GALLERY OF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Admission free. C.italojruo 2.5 mh24 7t BRYAN H. (SMITH, Secretary.

OPENINGS. ME. P. WAGENPUEHR, 200 PULTON at. will onon with a enlandid nssiirfcrnent of Prm ilillincry on neat Thursday nnd 1'riday.

ibii2 RS. M. A. TREMAIN Will ho ready to receive hor friends and customers on and after tho FIRST OF APRIL, But ill havo her SPRING AND SUMMER Opening on the 6th inst. mh22 st special TOY JAMES COLE'S SON.

WEDNESDAY, March 30ih, At 12 o'clock, at tho Commercial Eicnuugo, 363 Fulton opposito tho City Hall, Brooklyn. ELEGANT RESIDENCE AND TtVO LOTS ON LEF FERTS STREET. Tho 2 story attic and basoment brick house on tho northerly side of Lotforts at, hetwoou Ulassori and Franklin aves, ft, 1rom tha latter. Homo 32x13, contains 11 rooms, replcto with nil the modern iinurovo ments, and in fine order: lot, 20x12j foot. NO.

220 ADAMS STREET, wost side, 160 foot north of Johnson et. 3 stcry bascmoat and sub collar frama, 23x10 feat, 13 roams; all tha modern improvements; lot 25x111 feet, 6 inches. NO. 82 LAWRENCE on tho west side, 100 foot north of Jobnson st, 2 stoiy attic and baranoat frama 22x30 foot, 9 rooms, Iot2nil07.6. STORE PROPERTY, 191 HOYT ST, on tin west side, between Douglass and Tleeraw sis, 3 story collir, brick, SUx IC; 11 rooms, besides store, yas, water, Ecwcr, connection, 4c.

TWO DESIRABLE RESIDENCES, IDS and 110 RYER SON ST, on tho east ri lo, between Myrtle nnd Willoaehby arcs, tbrre stories and basement; 20x19, with oxtc.ision, 13 ft, framo; 13 rooms, 8 marblo niantrfs, gas, water, piazzas froutand rear: well located. VALUABLE VACANT LOTS ON FLATBUSH AYR, on 1 he oaatorly side, 97 foot northerly oi Cnrlton avo, desirably located near tho Pnrk. FIVE VACANT LOT. corner of Pal hnn nve, and Mac donough st, rn the southeasterly corner, CUilOO net. 1 'or mors, terms, and full particulars, to thoauc tiiinoers, 369 Fulton st.

niliSae1 rfIGARS AND A Of! THE trade cnpplied nt very low prices, hy SANTIAGO O. CUDLIPP, 79 Fulton avo, lirooklyn. Offica 11 South street, NY. JON'T DRINK FUSIL OIL, OLD, PURE, FULL PROO'i? MARYLAND RYE WHISKY. TRADE MARK.

Tho Coat of Arms of tho Stato of Maryhud, and this ccrtiiicato cn each bottle Untvehbiti of Mabvlakd, January, 1370. I have snalyzod a sample, drawn in my ol the M'hiFky designated by tho Coat of Arms uf tbo State of Maryland, as trado mark, and certify tha1; it 13 it Pare Ry3 Whisky, fren from nil injurious compounds, und tharolora an unobicctionaMo aud simple stimulant. WILLIAM E. A. A1K1N, M.

Prof, of Chomistry, Arc Whon ordered, a samplo oaso, at wholosnlo prico, sent by1 express, O. O. D. MCKEE 4 Proprietors. 63 South Guy st, Baltbuoro.

Agent in Now York, A.J. MAGUIHE, 123 Front st. FIFTY DOZEN LINEN HANDLER chiefs for 6 cents each 100 dozen Napkins for $1 per dozen; 300 dozen Towels for 8 conts an 3 12 cents oach; nau lot cf Gros Gram Black Silk for $9, worth $2.75. Sprin" DrffoG'oods now open at JOHN H. HOLMES.

mhIM 2tj 101 Fulton avo, opposite Hoyt st. OANDSOME PARLOR SUITES OF all the newest styles, in hair or reps, to bo found at FULLERTON'S SALESROOMS, cornar of Myrtlo avo, and Jayet, ns well as every other description of furniture. All pcoplo dosirinx to ro furnish in May should call.horo boforo goinR olsowhoro, and by doing so savo considerable monoy r.tid Ret good furniture. 66TT IS A BOON TO WOMANKIND." JL Hall's Journal of Hoalth.l FIFTH EDITION EIGHTH THOUSAND, CONJUGAL SINS AGAINST 1UF. LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALLH, And thoir effects upon tho Fathor, Mother and Call J.

by a. k. Gardner, a. m. d.

Chapter. Contents: I. The Modern Woman's Physical Deterioration. II. Local Disease in Children, and its Causes.

III. At What Aro Should One Marry? IV. Ia Continence Physically Injurious? V. Personal PoUution. VI.

The Injurious Results of Physical Excess. VII. Motnoas Usod to Prevent Ooncsption, and thsir Consoqnoncos. Vm. Infontioido.

IX. Conjugal Eolations During tho Period of Menstrua tion. X. Conjugal Relations Botwoon tho Old. XI Marriage Botweon Old Mon and Youn Girls.

XII. What Mny bo Dono with Health Viow, and tho Fear of God Beforo Us. In ono vol. 12mo. paper cover.

Price $1 Sold at tho Wall st, fern Now York sido.or sontbyinail prepaid on receipt of price. J. 8. REDJIELD, 140 Fulton st, N. Y.

TfcXOTTINGHAM LACES FOR OUR tains. Ono lot for 25 oonta por yard ono lot for 30 cents peryard ono lot for 37JS cents. Tbo best bargains over seen in meso coono. ror saio Dy inhg lSt JOHN H. HOLMES, 101 Fulton avo.

VfOTICK OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE JLN isherobyglvonthatthe balance of tho proceeds of tho salo of tho real ostato of CAROLINE VEIT, la to of tho City of Brooklyn, deceased, lately made undor the order of tho Supreme Court of thoStatoof New York, and that tho surplus arising upon said sale bolonjrinc to tho estate of tho said deceased, will bo divided by tbo said Surrogato, among tho creditors of the said deccosod, in proportion to thoir re snootiva debts, according to law. at tho Surrogate's offloo. in tlio City of Brooklyn, on tho 11th day of May next, at ten o'clock in tho foionoon of that day. Datod this 22d day of March, A.D. 1870.

JACOB LUTZ, tho AdmiBtrator of Caroline Voit, docoasod. WM. D. VERDER, Bnrrogate. 6w1h PIANOS BARGAINS BARGAINS IN ORGANS I Fiftnon pianos and cabinet organs, new.

and secondhand, will bo Bold very low. for cash, or on installments; 875 to SS00. MATHEWS 4 SLADE, 296 Knltoa Btreot. mh31 3t' Q.TATEN ISLAND FANCY DYEING IO ESTABLISHMENT. BARRETT, NEPHEWS CO.

Principal office at Nos. 6 and 7 John st, N. Y. Branch ofilce, 269 Fulton st, corner of Tillary, Brooklyn. All styles of lidics' and Bontlemou'sRirmonls Dyot nn Cleaned.

Ladies' dresses, cloaks, ic, of all. fciirics, cleaned; and gentlemen's coats, overcoats, vests. dyod or "cleaned, without ripping. Kid and foathors dyod or cleaned linen ana muslin windowdgados, chintz, Ac, cleaned and clazod. BARRETT, NEPHEWS' Jtr CO.

N. B. 269 Fulton st. is our only offlco in Brooklyn, mh2136t mHE COPARTNERSHIP HE JL fore existing batweon COSS A KIRBY, Worcestershire Sauco and Vinegar manufacturers, No. 22Jurniuu st, Brooklyn, ia this day mutually dissolved.

p. j. coss, P. J. KUtfer.

N. B. Tho businoas hereafter vlbe oontlajtod by P. J. COSS.

Brooklyn, 1870. nib21 3f S. POMEROY'S FINGER Fifih. Attention is called to tho fact that in.Sclobor last at tho groat Fair in Now York City, "Tho FirettoUal and Diolo mu" of tho Amorican Institute, woro awarded to W. POM KROY for thoir Patont Adjustiole Truss and Pingar Pad, in direot competition wth MARSHA Dr.

A SHERMAN and THE ELASTIO TKtfaS, COMPANY, who', havo lately advortisod nnd boon advertised, so extensivo)y Shotnian ospocially. Tho following haa oxtraot from Report of LEWIS A. SAYRE, M. Committee xxv of JAMES R. MAO GREGORi Judg appointtd to examino nnd dsciv'pupoa tho relative mi'rit's of articles exhibited in that Do'paitmont: No.

620. Patent AdjuntabJe Trusses, W. Pomorop ifc Co D63 Broadway, N. BEST. Tbo Committee arT wnni' luoua in reporting in favre tho superior merits; of thii truss bn account of the variabla adjusting force producod bymeunsof thoserratod eocenttio wheoi; aud (uo.Iiugjr Pad, which admits of aoourate adjustment tv.lho point whero pressure is A tmo copy from the report on file.

"JOHN CHAMBER 3, Sec, Msnanors." This Report was wadont a public cxhibitiiiii, in fair aai hpooriibln oonineMtan with othormanufociurersot Truss after duaexamttion aud comparison. Tho ju lncs woro competent men, being well known nhyafela'u and suron unbinsod nnd afipve reproach. Suon a retort, uixjor tho circumst.moas, is, "autharita than pages oi trumpod.up affidavits and coctiuoatos. It should induce any ono aflliotod with least to oxamino PftMEltOY'S Truss bofora consenting to uso any othott Au illustrated, pamphlet, ttyy. tjopof Hernia Jn connection with this Truss and Pad, in ttuded oepBolaby for phjsicknB, will ho sont iroo to any address.

W.fOMERyVAOD,. rnhftjn SWlwadBray, New York, ProffrcsM of liocal Bills E. Streets IVipiit Ferry Boats, etc. Albany, March 23, 18T0. "tast evening in the Senate the following bills were considered by the Committee of the Whole.

Senator Murphy's, authorizing the dissolution of benevolent, oharitable, scientific, and missionary societies and tho payment of their dobts. Passed this morning, Also, amendatory of Aot providing for tho widening bdO improvement of Union street in the City of Brooklyn, passed April 27th, 1869, Also, amendatory of Act providing for the completion of tho Oowanus Canal in tho City of Brooklyn, and for. the collection of the expenses theroof. Passed Mav These all were ordered to be engrossed for third reading. Mr.

Jacobs' bill relative to tho real cstato of Morgaret Evans passed tho Senate thia morning. EASTERN DIBTBIOT STREETS. Senator Murphy introduced a bill to day amendatory of an act poaBcd April 12tn, 1802, entitled "An Act to an thorlzetho extending of certain streets in the City of Brooklyn to the EaBt Blycr and to tho permanent bulkhead lino passed May 10, 1807." Sec. 1. Tho concluding sontence of Sootion 3 of Chapter 184 of the Laws of 1862, as enacted by Chapter 925 of the Laws of 1807, Is horcby amended so ob to read as follows: "The expenso of proceedings to open BtreotB commenced, or which Bhall bo horeafter taken undor thia act, shall bo provided for in liko manner." Sec 2.

Assessments heretofore laid lor any improvement commenced undor tho authority of Bald Chapter 184, of tho Laws of 1862 (except for opening streets) are hereby annulled, bo far as requires the actual laying, by tho Board of Assessors and confirmation by tho Common Council of the assessment, but, are confirmed In all other particulars, and it shall be lawful for the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, to re assess the expense of 'said improvement upon tho property within tho district of assessment heretofore designated by tbo Common Council, and said assessments, hen laid, shall bo liens on the lands assessed and the same proceedings shall be had in relation thereto, as is provided for assessments for local improvements by tho charter of tho City of Brooklyn. This bill relates to thoso streets in tho Eastern District between Division avonue and Flushing avenue. Senator Murphy's bill', to fix the compensation of the Stenographer of the Supreme Court, Circuit Court, and Court of Oyer and and for tho County of KingB, was favorably reported this morning, that tho salary is in addition to the fees which he jdow for transcribing bis notes to parties. Senator Murphy introduced a bill, in relation to certain lands dovised by Garrett Furman, deceased. It rofers to real ostato in tho Town of Newtown, Queens County.

BILLS PASSED SENATE. Benolor Murphy's bill, amendatory of tho Act providing for tho completion of tbo Gowanus Canal, in the City of Brooklsu, and for tho collection of the expanses thereof, passed May 10th, 1809. Also amendatory of the Act Droviding for the widening and improvement of Umon street, in the city of Brooklyn, passed April 27th, 18C0. Also amondatory of Act providing for the laying out and opening of a highwaw, in the town of Flatbush, in continuation of East New Yorkavenue, passed May Gth, 1809. NIGHT BOATS.

The Committee on Commerce and Navigation reported favorably iu Senate Mr. Clark's bill requiring tho Brooklyn and Union Ferry to run cortain boats in the night time Senator Piorce introduced an Act to onable corporations created by the laws of this State, lo avail themselves of privileges granted to them by the laws of other ates. It shall bo lawful for any corporation or joint stock association, created by or organized under the la of this State, to avail itself of any privileges which have beon or may be granted to such corporation or joint stock association by tho laws of any other State in which such corporation or joint stock association transacts any portion of itB business, or exorcises any of its corporate franchises, without prejudice to any existing rights iu this State, and anything in the act of incorporation or articles of association of such corporation or joint stock association to the contrary notwithstanding." FLATBUSH ITBE COMPANY. Senator Murphy's bill, providing funds for maintaining the Flatbush Firo Company, was favorably reported from the Senate Committee. Mr.

Jacobs dissented from tho report of Committee on Ways and Means, allowing appropriations for railroads. Mr. Maddox presented the petition of a largo number of Eastern District property owners iu favor of his bill opening North Thirteenth street, aud the repealof Pratt street Act of 1809. Mr. Droll presented another remonstrance against tho passago of tho act providing for the completion of tho Eighteenth Ward sower.

On motion of Mr. Jacobs, Senator Murphy's bill, providing for a new school house in Distriot No. 3. in New Lots was ordered to third reading ou boing favorably reported from Assembly Committee onPublia Education. FAVORABLE REPORTS.

In Assembly to day the following Coaitnittoa reports woro made Mr. Clark's bill, relative to indictments. Mr. Cullcn's, authorizing corporations to incrcaso or diminish the number of trustees. Also, amendatory of Act providing for the'liquidation of claims against the Evergreen Corporation.

Mr. JacobB', to exempt money loaned upon bond and mortgage In the State of Now York from taxation. This was largely petitioned for. Senator Murphy's bill, amendatory of tbo Act for tho benefit of married womon in insuring the Uvea of their husbands, passed April 14th, 1830. Senator Pierce's, changing the name of Hope Union Mission School, of Brooklyn, and to oxompt tho samo from taxation.

Mr. Cullcn's, conferring jurisdiction upon the District Courts of the City of Now York in actions against foreign corporatious. Also, authorizing tho appointment of a person to be public administrator for tne County of Kings, arid to determine the powers and duties of Buch office. Mr. Maddox, authorizing tbo Common Council of tho City of Brooklyn to rogulato tho omploymeut of conductors and drivers, on horae railroads in said city.

Mr. Cullcn's, authorizing Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association of Kings County to sell certain lauds in tho City of Brooklyn, heretofore used for a cemotery, and to perfect title in (he purchasers thereof. Also, for consideration of tho House, Brooklyn Security Bank. In tbe Assembly to day tbo following BILLS TASSEI) Mr. Jones', relative to the Sheridan Clump Company.

Mr. Muddcx's, incorporating the Brooklyn Eastern District Ilotpitul. AFTER A PARDON. A gentleman, resident of Greenpoiut, is hero endeavoring to get a pardon for young Laferty, who was arrested last September for grand larceny by Officer StillwaJleu, of tho Forty seventh Precinct, and found guilty, and sentenced to ono year's imprisonment. The Governor has tho case under consideration.

PROSPECT. PARK. This evening about twenty five citizens of Brooklyn assembled in Senator Tweed's parlors at the Delevan HouBe, ond were heard by tho Senate Committee on Municipal Affairs, relative to Senator Murphy's bills, applicable to the sale of the eastern portion of Prospect Park, and a further issuing of bonds lor tho improvement of the Park. Among tho gent! men present we recognized Hon. W.

Goodrich, counsel for tho opponents io tho sale of the eastern portion. J. S. T. Stran ahan, John II.

Taylor, Stephen Haines audothorsof tho Park Commissioners. Messrs. Thomas Kiu sella, J. B. Craig, Edmund Driggs, P.

Heady, A. B. Hodges, W. A. Koche, George Wood, Munsoll, Gould, Carter and.

others. Messrs. Goodrich, Driggs, Munsoll and Gould advocated, in terms and ideas already familiar to tho Eagle readers, tho defeat of tho objects' intended by the bills, while MeBsrs. Stranaham Taylor and Kinsolla advocated the passago of the bills, claiming it aB a financial necessity, when considering tbe indebtedness and taxation of Brooklyn. The question of title, policy and management of tho Park Commissioners was freely and personally discussed.

There iBan impression that tho Committee willmeot again next week to hear more argument upon tho subject. NIGHT BOATS. Sonutor Pierce this morning; in reporting Mr. Clark's bill relative to running night boats on certain Brooklyn ferries, met with opposition from a ''member of tho Committee," Senator Thayer, who entered his dissent; and a New York Senator Btated that ho had recoivod lot tors in relation to it, and that parties desired to bo heard, and introduced a resolution asking that it bo referred back to the Committee. Senator Piorco opposed this recommitment, saying that tho matter was iii bis district and his constituents were principally interested, and had passed tho Assembly, aud the measure waB meritorious and approved of by the people.

A sharp discussion followed, but the Senator thinking that parlies desired to bo heard aud injustice mighf bo done, referred the bill back for further hoaring. Seawakhacka, THE KEWS. That unsightly pile known as Castle Garden came near being destroyed by fire last evening. It broko out in that part of the building occupied by tbo Commissioners of Emigration, and did damage to tho amount of about $0,600 before the flames woro subdued. Early this morning John Kelly, with his brother Patrick, attempted (0 re eutor tho Bailors' boarding house at Watt and Washington streets, and both wero knocked down and Btuuned.

Tho officers of Capt. Potty's command' bore them to the Leonard street Po lico Station, where Patrick lay until 1 o'clock in auin Bcnsiblo condition. In tho British House of Commons yosterday Mr. Gladstone denied, amid much merriment, that Mr. Blight had offered to retrocedo tho Eock of Gibraltar to Spain.

Tho bill for the enforcement of the laws iu Ireland was taken np. Lord Claude Hamilton charged that the thoir accession to office, uniformly promoted the agitation of tho Irish question in order to prescribe coercive measures. Mr. Wualley held, in a short epeech, that Popery was the author of all Irish sonowB. Mr.

Bryau, member from Kilkouuy, objected to tho powers intrusted to tho local magistracy as lyran ukul aud dangerous. At a recent meeting of the directors of tbo Chesapeake and Ohio Euilroad Company tho aocrotsiry reported tho following chaugos iu regard to tho fluau oiul condition of tbo Company: First, tho floating debt of tho Company, nearly $1,000,000, has beon paid off. Second, tho interest of tuo Stato in tho Bluo ltidge, fixed at $1,600,000, has beon provided for by purchases of Virginia bondB. Third, tho final estimatea of the engineers had been mado, by which tho amount required extension of the road to tho Ohio river was much less than first roported. Tho proposals, for construction were thereupon opened, and contracts made with tbe lowest responsible bidders for the greatest portion of grading, masonry, etc, on tho unfinished portion of the road.

The secretary also roports that the new loan of tho Compaiiy in tho hands of Messrs. Fisk and Hatch, is being taken in satisfactory amounts, and that the treasury of tho Company will justify thorn in pushing tho road to completion with all possible dispatch, as there is known to be a largo amount of through as woll as local busiuoss already roqulriug its set vices. Not a great while ago somebody stole Judge Barnurd's overcoat from the bonoh in the Bight of lawyers, witnesses, etc. On Tuesday his hat disappeared alter the samo fashion. The Judge soys ho will put an "injunction" on this sort of thing.

Ill natured posplo Eay they are not surprised to hear of thieving withiu the precincts of tbo New York CourlB, but that the taking of property of so littlo valuo is tho strange feat aro of tho caBOi It having been suggested that the City of Boston may havo taken firo at sea; tho Palerson Press states that on the night before the vessel's departure a party of hex engineers, including the chief engineer, TfBUKSDAY EVENING, MARCHD 24. Tills Paper lias the Largest Circulation of any livening published in the United States. Its value as an Advertising; medium is therefore apparent. The New Tork Political Troubles. The leaders of the Young Democracy, haying settled to their own satisfaction that the defeat of their charter bills was engineered by the semi Republican Supervisors' Ring, proceeded yesterday to wreak vengeance on its leaders.

Consequently Senator Tweed, was dismissed from one of his numerous offices that of Deputy Street Commissioner his Republican otherself, Police Commissioner Henry Smith, was dismissed from the office of Colloctor of Assessments, and A. D.Barbor,the Utica Republican lobbyman, who, strange to say, turns out to have been holding all along a lucrative position in the New York City Government, was also dismissed. It is also said that at the next meeting of the Tammany Society it will be proposed to expel Tweed from the Grand Sachem ship and compel him to go openly over to the camp of the Republicans whom ho has so long affiliated with. The punished men all talk boldly Tweed says he will fight the Genot and Norton faction to the end, Henry Smith vows he will bo Police Commissioner seven years longer in spite of the Democratic party, and Barber says the petty a yenr office he held in New York scarcely paid him for the trouble of coming down from Utica to the city occasionally to draw his salary. The facts bearing on the matter are too numerous to be specified but if tuvy honest man or consistent politician of either party will reflect on the disclosure that so notorious a lobby man and Republican as Barbor could have been safely ensconced all along in a New York Democratic city department, while living two or throe hundred miles away from the city, and openly opposing the political party responsible for his appointment under Tweed, it will be possible to realize, better than by columns of description, how low and falso, how mean and perfidious a coalition it is that has been robbing Now York for the benefit of Republicans and to the disgrace of Democrats.

Ilie question Is stili agitated, what led four of the Kings County Asseinblynion to vote against bills which at least would have ejected every such Republican as Barber and Smith from office in New York city? and enabled the Democracy, who bear the responsibility, alone to correct the evils now rife? The Sun this morn mg prints the list of dissentient members within a black border, charging that thoso who voted against the new charter rocoived 10,000 cash, and thoso who stayed away half that amount. The former list includes lour of the Kings County delegation and the latter has more leaving only two Democrats of the eight, Jacobs and Gallon, untarnished by this grave imputation. The Jivniiuff Post makes a similar charge, saying that the threatened semi Republican Commissions raised a hngo bribery fund to defeat the reform bills: Yesterday's work cost Iho Street, Police and Firo Departments two hundred thousand dollars. Tweed was at the bottom of the whole manoeuvre, which was arranged late on Monday uiyht." Thus write3 a correspondent of ours in Albany a person who is usually well informed, and whose name is at the service of the Legislature, or of any ouo whohas a right to demand it. The Commercial Advertiser, which knows the details of bad doings of bad men at Albany better than most papers, boasts that no reform bill can pass this Legislature Thcro was a terrific slaughter of the innocents at Albany yesterday, and it looks very much as if our prediction two weeks ayo, that no charter would pass the Legislature, would prove true.

The merciless nature of (lie attack yesterday almost forbids Democratic haraiouy, whilo it excites bitter feelings. The city bills woro taken in turu, and one by one led to the guillotine and decapitated. There wna moro stir in Albany than at auy timo during these last twenty years. Pi? conira, the Express, while fearing tha1, the abuses of New York city and county government will stand nnreformed, refuses to credit the imputation on the motives of the malcontents The eily members were not united, and hence the rc suit. Moreover, the country members complain of the exactions of the city members, while the ill blood stiirtd up ou Saturday contributed largely to the result.

What next is now the general inquiry. To all Luuian appearances, nothing. The Charter will stand as it in, the Board of Supervisors as thov are, aud the Tolicc aud other Commissions remain unchanged. Albany is represented ns quite a bedlam to day and List night, over tho legislation of. Tuesday.

We give no credence to the charges money produced tho results of killing oil' tho city bills. Their fate was inevitable, in view of the divided counsels aud parties in the The New York 'Times, which comes nearest to being the organ of Henry Smith and the other Republican corruptionists who were supposed to serve Tammany but who now appear rather to lie its masters, rejoices over tho defeat of the bills on Tuesday, while it pretends not to desire the certain alternative of the continued dominance of the present Ring It is fair to interpret the result as an overwhelming" defeat of the so 'Tonus; Democracy," aud. it is clear that they feel it to tie so. S'e are not surprise! at the reitill, nor are we sorry. We desire to see the odious King of corrupt politicians, who have so long usurped the control of our municipal affairs, and who have maintained themselves by the most shatneful frauds at the ballot box, overthrown but tho of the past few weeka at Albany have convinced 113 that as between the two factions of the Democracy there is but little to cheese.

The Herald and the Slav also rpjoice in tho result, saying in almost so many words that Mr. Sweeny will not suffer Democracy to win under any leadership but his. It is not easy yet to determine how to account for tho voto of Tuesday. Not one of the six Democrats of Kings whose act laid them open to such grave suspicion, has yet thought fit to justify himself beforo his constituents, either by a speech at the time or a note to them through tbe Eagle. But until further developments indicate tho contrary, wo adhere to tho interpretation we have already ventured on, that in voting against the bills of Tuesday they had reasonable ground for expecting by their defeat to pave the way for bettor.

There ought not to be money enough in New York city to buy a Democratic vote for the continuance of the odious Metropolitan Police Commission and the semi Republican Board of Supervisors. The current theory among Brooklyn Democrats is this that the Assemblymen are anrious to get through their local and personal bills safely, and then to make a sweepiug measure of city reform the last business of the session. If a charter reform bill were passed now, they think all manner of special bills incidentally favoring individual interests would be crowded through and etnbarra33 tho working of the general enactment. But after tho routine business is over, it is bolieved that Mr. Sweeney will at least appear at Albany in person, with a scheme so plain, fair, Democratic and sweeping in its character, that np Democrat can object to it without confessing himself a purchased traitor and that if between now and then Henry Smith and Barber have any money to spare, there may be plenty to take it, but that such payments cannot avert a decision in favorof Democracy on the vital question of the session, whether to sparo the leolings and save the plundor of Smith, Barbor and Mr.

Tweed's other Republican friends and partners in New York City Government, the groat Democratic party shall disgrace itself and ruin its prospects of future victory. That question was not finally settled on Tuesday, but the certainty that itwill be finally settled eventually on the right basis is increased in tho public attention having boon by tho events of Xuosday more keenly than ever fixed upon the votos and probable motives of each and every man in tho Legislature claiming to represent a Democratic constituency. E'ourlli Avenue. The bill which directs Iho issue of seventy fivo thousand dollars more of city bonds, in addition to the six hundred and fifty thousand already expended upon that ono thoroughfare, also prolongs the term, of tho Special Commission in charge of the avenuo, and postpones the time at which they agreed, when last year they drew an additional 150,000 from the city treasury, to turn over the avenue, completed, to the city authorities. In justice to tho Commission, however, it should be stated, that tho extra $75,000 now asked for 13 proposed to be made a charge upon tho property along the street, and not, as most of the previous iJiGoO, 000 has been made, upon tho first twclvo wards of the city.

The object for which tho money is called for, is to lay gravel or concrete upon the sidewalks of tho avenue. Thus, after the avenue has cost a total of $725,000, it will be the least paved in the whole city while others have Belgian or patent pavoment, this is but macadamized and while all other streets have stone flagging, this will have gravel or Hoyt concrete sidewalks. This, costing by for the most of any street in the city, and getting the most inferior land of pavement and of flagging, will be appropriate, as tho concrete exhibition of what a street gets by being given over to a Special Commission's tender oare. Probably no mild specialty humor has been worked eo thoroughly threadbare as the vonerablo collection of jokes based on the adultoration of milk. From the historical "cow with tho iron tail," a jocose gem from tho antiquo which in tho present period of hydrants and water pipes cannot be understood without the aid of foot notes, down to tho latest satirical item touching tho discovery of a fish in the lacteal jug, tho subject is exhausted.

But, while the repetition o'f thin milk and water jokes should bo ground for the action of tho Grand Jury, the purity of an article of common use must emain a matter of grave concorn. Tho proceedings of the Milk Producers' Convention in Westchester County will therefore not fail, of pub he attontion. It appears that along the line of the Harlem Railroad 18,000 cows Bond 40,000,000 quarts annually to New York. Yet that is only about one third of the whole amount consumed by the two metropolitan cities. How much of this milk finds its way in a puro condition to tho mouths of citizens Of course tho producers do not undertake to say, and they do not assume responsibility in the promises, as they only supply dealers in large quantities.

Long Island was represented at tho Convention, and it spems our farmers have mado arrangements for sale and do livery similar to those agreed on by tho Westchester dairymen. That is all very well so far as tho wholesale men are concerned, but what tho people are chiofly interested in is the milk process as perfected by tho retailers. OPENING DAY. 4'Iic Spring: Styles on Exhibition. To day is opening day among tho milliners or rather tho first of the openiug days, for there is no longer unanimity among them.

Perhaps the display would be too dazzling, too much of a good thing all at once, and it is better lo mako two days of it and givo the ladies moro leisure to visit tho show rooms and study tho Btyles. In former years tho Brooklyn millinerB used to open uniformly ono week lator than tho now Vork houses. Tho reason given for this was, that New York supplied the country trado, and to givo tho country dealers a cuanco to lay in stock they had to open earlier than the local trado required. At tho eamo timo it might have been an advantage to Brooklyn milliuors to wait till tho NewYork exhibitions had' taken place, so they might get up an idea or two to bo usod to advantage. But Brooklyn grew bigger and the local trade grew likewise, and wo had milliners like Madame Boutley who imported their goods directly from Paris, and ware nowiso dependent on Now York, and they led off tho independent movement of opening on tho same day as in New York.

Tho lateness of Lent this year and the backwardness of thOBcason has been bad for tho Spring trado, and caused many moro houses than usual to defer thoir opening day us long as possible, and ouly a few of tho more enterprising and advonturous open to day. MADAME BENTLEY. leads off as usual and makes a grand display to day at her show rcoms, No. 14 Fulton avonue. Like tho coh uniDB of tb Eagle, Mudamo show rooms though aiiplo, still are in want of space to spread out her cntlro stock and mako one grand eottp d'esil, but bIio Bees that her visiters miss nothing, and the treasures of Parisian att elected with raro taste are freely shown to all.

The geniral styles of tbo bonnots and bats to bo worn this season have'beon described in the Eagi.e, with the materials, colors, moBt in vogue, aud our readers we tako it for granted are thus far posted. Wo need only describe a few of the bonnets and hats that attracted our attention in Madame Bentley's show rooms, premising that we do not protend to dcacribo all that is rich und rare in a stock so extensive as hers. The "Vaudoboute." which is tho latest Parisian achievement, is a round bat of rather modest appearanco of white French chip, in auapo llko a high crowned turban. It is trimmed with a border of black crape with jet ornaments, two small white feathers aud tea roses, with a fall of black lace, Tho effoct is neat and elegant. The same Bhape is made up in black chip with trimmings to match.

Tho "Ollivier" ia a moro showy hat, somewhat larger in style, and the BpecimouB wo saw were mado up in. brown and drab. Tho "Fouviello" is the most imposing of tho group of round hats, the crown rising very high, and is set with waving ostrich feathers, making a very imposing appearance. "ltochofort" and "GrousBet" also figure among tho names given diff orent Btyles. Eochofort was represented by rather a modest article black crape net, point laco with jet trimmings, relieved by three full roses across the front.

The "Larocco" Is a new Bhape of round hat, with turned np rim, oval crown dented. It iB of white chip trimmed in blue, with white feather, the mignon ribbon, (a new article) and tea roses. One of the richest and most striking of tho round hats was a London novolty called the Saulsbury." It is of tho turban pattern, with high" square crown the color of material and trimming is of a rich brown, and tho sole ornament is an ibex feather of golden bronze, which gives to tbe hat a rich and dressy appearance. Tho bonnetB were in bucu inconceivable variety that we can give only a general idea of them. Tho shapes havo already beon described.

They aro larger than in previous seasons, covering tho top of the head, and in Borne styles there is a raised front, or crown. Thero is a wide range of colors but strange contrasts and variegated effects are avoided. In many instances bonnet trimmings are all ono color; moro than two aro raroly used. Flowers are tho only ornaments, generally roaos, and they are used sparingly. Tbe novelty of tho soason in trimmings is the crepe ie cluine, usod sometimes for tho ribbons, occasionally with a white laco border.

One of tbo neatest and most elegant bonnets was a crepe and crepe de chenc d'ete, in brown and steel color with deep colored tea roses. Wo might continue tbeso descriptions to a great length, but wo think wo hove given sufficient for our readers to form an idea of the new styles, ffo get a moro complete idea of thorn tho ladies should drop in at Mudamo Bentloy'B and seo for themBolvos, her opening will bo continued over to morrow. MME. P. WAGENPUEHB, of No.

200 Fulton street, opens for inspection to day a choice selection of bonnets and round hats. Among a handsome array moy be notod the following as being striking in stylo and finish: A fine black and white straw, shape fitting oloso to tho face, a slight puffing or crown of maize colored silk overlapped at intervals with self straw braids; a band over tho chignon headed with small wheats on tho right Bide is a group of field flowers, in the midst area poppy; wide maizo colored BtringB edged with black lace. A largo, high round hat, shape "Tyroles'e," with wide rolling brim, of black Neapolitan straw, bound with Bcorlot crepe de chem on the top of the crown is a cluster of soarlet and black feathers, whioh heads a heavy fold of crepe de chene, edged with black lace, which extends in a long end oyer the buck in front is a largo jet ornament. A bonnet of white crepe, bound with white satin, white blonde lace in profusion; abridlo of blondo laco, headed with piping of satin; on right side a heavy knot of satin ribbon a base of satin and crepe for a diadem of white illusion a cluster of flowers with moss and trailing ribbon gra3s, lilly of tho valloy and scarlet geraniums. AT NOBTH'S, 190 Fulton street, will bo found tho usual varioty of Spring and Summer bonnetB and hats, as well as materials lor making tbo same.

MES. POPHAM, No. 915 Myrtlo avonue, has hor opening of millinery today, and offers to the rosidonts of Eaot Drooklyn au Assortment of goods, which will save thorn tho troublo of coming down town. A number of our Brooklyn milliners remain over till next week, when they havo their special opouings. MKS.

M. A. TItEMAIN, of 275 Fulton stroot, will receive tho publio on and after tho 1st of GENTLEMEN'S STYLES. The Spring sty lea of men's and boys' hats avo out, and are entitled to mention in this opening article Attlx of 334 Fulton street, opened the soason a couplo of weeks ago. Attix goes according to tho almanac, find if Spring is not hero on timo, it is not his fault, ho has tho 8pring styles ready.

Tho Spring style of silk dress hat Is but a slight modification of theprevious patterns. Tho rim iB wido and straight, tho crown high and but slightly belled. There aro some modifications, both 'as to size and shape, to suit peouliar tastes. In felt bats there Is a handsome sbapo, with straight rim of modest width, a crown of modest height, with rounded top. It is the most graceful and dreBBy looking felt hat wo havo seen iu many yearB.

In boys' bats Attix Co. have a varied assortment in shapes, material aud color, to suit youths of all ages. Balch, Prico have thoir boyB' and men's department ready with the Spring stylos. They got up a vory superior artiole ol Bilk dress hat. The opening of their ladies''denartmeDt and disp'ay of tho Spring stylos 'of round bats will take place moxt week.

A Paris writer, who reoalls the wittioism of Mazarin "The people fling, they will pay" avers that the no longer sing. They read tho. political journals, and think. This writer would evidently make, na bellevo that when Frenchmen think, something aerl oub is going to happen. Opinion as to tho fate of tho City of Boston grows to a conviction of her loss.

The semi idiotic and semi malignant honx malcors havo relinquished hopo of further success in imposing upon tho public, and even tho insurance men, who will speculato on shipwreck and safety, life and (loath, ho. long as there is any margin for making a good thing, decline further risks. The Houso of Commons in gaining a wide reputation as a body of morry inakors as well as lawmakers. Yesterday it was again convulsed with laughter, which it must have enjoyed all tho moro hecauso outsiders were onable to share it. Tho mirth provoking incident was Mr.

Gladstone's denial of the roport that Mr. Bright dosirod to re convey Gibraltar to Spain. Like tho local "hits" of a burlesque this joke is only funny to those who understand it. Tho English Parliament, now passing through the throes of reform, has agreed by a large majority to permit the burial of dissonters with thoir own ceremonial in the graveyards of the Established Church. This in spite of the undisguised anguish of tho conservative British mind.

The chief argument against the measure was that the presence of the corpse and tho performance of an irregular ritual would give a violent shock to churchmen." Thore ought to be no practical trouble about this. A dissenter possessing proper self respect would positively refuse to be interred in a cemetory the owners or managers of which withheld the courtesy of sepulture or offered a churlish mortuary hospitality. The late field day in the Assembly, whatever grief it may have brought, was an undisguised blessing to the newspapers. The Bupply of topics had for a long time been meagre and dry, and leador writers were confronting tho desperate necessity of falling back on Gladstone's policy, the future of Franco, tho secret ideas of Napoleon, and the Ecumenical Council. To them came the Btirring events at Albany like the refreshing drops of copious showers after a protracted drouth, or the bubbling of unexpected springs in parohod doBerts.

Columns which a week ago were dull with vague and labored essays are now vital with trenchant articles and sparkling with pungont paragraphs. The evidence in the Bombay Onoida case has been received in London and is as unsatisfactory as anything connoctod with tho affair. A telegram states that it was shown that "no one on tho Bombay was aware of tho condition of the Oneida." It was the buainosB of somebody to know. The disgraceful fact is that Eyre, after running down tho American stoamer, took no trouble to ascertain what damago ho had done or to mitigate tho consequences of the act. It iBfurthor Baid that there was much alarm for the condition of tho Bombay aud it "was deemed necessary to make for shoal water vutk all epoed." This proves too much.

If the Bombay was so badly injured what bocomos of Eyre's excueo that the collision was hardly foH and it was not believed much harm could havo been dono? And if it was necessary that ho should run or tho shoalB why was ho suspended at all Tho testimony, or at loast tho telegraphed abstract of it, is cleirlygarblod. Tho versatile directors of Erie dovelop as much ability in tho capacity of witnesses as in anything eleo. Of all (he comprehensive details of thoir affairs notbiig is moro carofnlly perfocted and managed than the giving of testimony. In tho or arco, of making up a case, whether in court or before a legislative committee, Gould does tho heavy business as leading man, whilo Fiek is tho very low comedian. Fisk has nevor teemed for tbo stage of his opora house theatre an actor who apppoachos him in the broad and coarse grained humor which catchos tho ear of the groundlings.

Fisk ought to dismiss the professional funny men who put his audiencos to sleep and tako tho boards himself. A flip flap from the Supremo Courtroom to tho footlights of Twon ty third street, with tho traditional "horo we are again," could not miss success. Gould's gravity is oppressive iu contrast. His severe earnestness of purpose Buiis only tho drama of roal Jifo'. He is altogether loo sorious for tho stago.

If the now Woman's Journal has precipitated a phenomenal conflagration of the waters of Bos tou bay, as it was oxpoctod to do, the fact is concealed with remarkable sucoobb. It has not oven done a minor thing prodicted: it has not compelled.