KEW YORK IIERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STHEET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROl'RIETOn. All business or news letter and telejraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herald. Volume XWTl No. 334 AMUSEMENTS THIS AfTERNDJ* ANO EVENING. ST. JAM KS ThEATRK, Tweni?-?tfhth etreet and Broad W.tr.? i'Ai Maimer at 1 WALLACE'S THEATRE BroaJway and 18t!i ?tre?L JtoftfOAlK. WOOD'S MUSfcUM. BriKiwur, corner SHh it.? Perform ance* aiieriiouu ?cu c?eu:ut? i'laiuvoya-ncb. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23.1 ?L, between 5th an 1 6th avt. Tut VlOTlMH? Soi.om SniNULK. Matinee at 1 STADT THEATRE, Noe. 45 and 47 Bowery.?' Tkagedy or Hamlet. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. SbabchinQ tub Skitiib. Matiuee at 2. NIBLO'8 GARDEN, Broalway, between Prinee and Bouatun street! Oik Amkuicam Cousin. Matiuee at 3. ORAND OPERA HOOSR. corner or Wh ar and 13d lit? Fabib; OB. tub Days or thiCoiiiium. Matinee at iL UNA EDWIN'S THEATRK, No. 72V Broadway OrBBA Bouffb Li j'ojnt ucu aorrtKi*. PTFTH AVENUE TOKATRE, Twenty fourth atreet Tin Mw Drama or DnroBui. Matiuee at 1)$. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.? The Hai.lbt Pan tomime or Homftx Dumpty. Matinee at 2. RTEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth etreet.? Obatobio or TUB Meshiah. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third are oue.? Neobo Kocbntbioitieb, Voo alums, An. Manure BROOKLYN ACADEMY OP MUSIC, Montague etreet Masks ani> Faceb. PARE THEATRE, oppoelte City Hall, Brooklyn Bebta, tub Mioubt. Matinee. MRP. r. B. CONWAY'8 BROOKLYN THEATRE.? t-BBiocs Family, Ao. Matinee? Oubs. UNION SQUARE THEATRK. Fourteenth it. and Broad fray Neubo Aot#-Bubi.kb? Pr?wi4cat'a ProrU. ?union and "l>?jr We Celrbnir." With the tlrciing seasons the good time draws near Of litfcnfcs for all the blessings of the year. Ita trurnfred fruits behold on every han l; Jru s 'tis Hull I Columbia, happy laud." our industry rewardeu-East and West. And North and South, on every hand conress'd, mi ample stores? we are supremely oiest. e are in peace, thank Uod, with all the nations, we enjoy at home the same relations, Save here and there some fighting Indian bucks. And, "way down South," the horrible Ku Mux. 8ome of 119 hare suirered there should be From all the rest an active sympathy, And resignation to the win of Heaven, And gratitude for all Its mercies given. Therefore, good people of the United States, V hue i'eace and I'lenty reign within your gates, I do proclaim, and you will p!ease remember, That on the thirtieth day of this November, *our thanks, with hearts uplifted to the sky, You numbly offer up lo the Most High. And then, be the day dry, or wet, or murky, You all sit down to your Thanksgiving turkey. rresiatnt Grant's Proclamation. Second Edition. The day has come, and, with a sharp touch of Jack Frost, It comes in the good old Pu. ritan style, including a whiff of snow upon the hills from Cape Cod to San Francisco and from the New to the "Old Dominion." And it will or ought to be, a happy day throughout the country. Aud we like the enlargement of the institution to a national holiday. It cornea down to us from Moses and the children of Israel in the Wilderness. It was brought over to America by the Pilgrim Fathers-those hard-headed old biblical expounders of the law, whose highest embodiments of piety and Pluck were "Old Noll" and "Praise-God Barebones. la the proclamation of Wash ington, in 1789, of a day of national thanks, giving for the happy establishment of the constitution of the United States, we have the inauguration of this institution as a national affair with the inauguration of our national government. But Washington's example was not followed np, and from the beginning of the slavery agitation down to our Southern re bellion Thanksgiving Day was tabooed south of the Susquehanna as "a hypocritical laukee invention;" and so wide was the dis agreement between the two sections concern ing it that the peril of combining the South with the North in a Yankee thanksgiving was carefully avoided by our Presidents. But the Christmas and New Year's social pastimes of the English Cavaliers, established in Virginia by her first settlers and thence hroughout the South, wero a thousand times better lor purposes of honest piety or social enjoyments than your old cold Puritan Thanks giving. Now, however, Thanksgiving Day with "all the modern improvements," warmed' softened and refined as a day of social re! unions, is as well adapted to the fighting General Quattlebaum of South Carolina as lo the psalm-singing Aminadab Sleek of old witch I burning Salem. But we apprehend that the dead issues or dead ashes of the war are still too full of burning coals in the South to jus tify the hope that our brethren in that section will this day be very thankful for all their mercies, or very cordial in the endorsement of General Grant's proclamation. Their late system of African slavery, with their social castes and institutions and their political ideas and power resting upon slavery-institu tions aud dogmas of two hundred years of cultivation? have been too suddenly torn out by the roots for the deep wounds made quickly to heal. The living generation, at least, must pass away before the white race of South Carolina can heartily join with Massa chusetts in a thanksgiving on the new order of things. Years must yet elapse before even the Southern blacks can be acclimated to this Yankee innovation. And yet, as now i established, it is a most excellent national in stitution for reconciling and harmonizing all sections, races and creeds of the American people and your turkey lo a genuine Ameri can bird. We bear, in the next place, that the Saints and Gen tiles at Great Salt Lake will be ?cry enthusiastic in this Thanksgiving. Their High Priest, President and Propbet, loaving behind him twenty-nine wives and seventy-six children, is on his travels, and the minions of the law are after him for "lewd and lascivi ous conduct," and even upon charges of murder; and so bis return to bis beloved disciples is almost as uncertain as the return of bailey, Garvey or Ingrreoli. Then, again, with the snow six feet deep upon a level and from twenty to forty feet deep in their moun tain defiies, the S lints of Utah and the Gou tiles will, doubtless, Ibis day be as short of I visitors as they are of turkeys. And so it may be said of all those new mining States and Territories from the eastern flunk of the Rocky I Mountains to the plains of California. But still at Salt Like they are in for a good time; and we "reckon" that our Western miners, adventurers and trapperB, in many a cosey shanty and uproarious saloon, with their wild game and wilder modes o! thanksgiving, will inake a jolly day of It in their variations /rom the old Salem ritual. Meantime, we are glad to learn that General Grant's Quaker Peace Commissioners may be relied upon to provide their Indians with a good thanksgiv ing dinner, barring the whiskey. The unfortunate people of Chicago aud of those Western forests and prairie settlements laid waste by fire will, we venture the opinion, of all our people most devoutly thank a mer cit ul Providence this day for the blessings they enjoy in the generous outpourings of i e!ief upon tbem from au area extending from the Sacramento River to the Hudson, from the Hudson across the ocean to tbe Thames, from the Thames to the Rhine and the Elbe, and from these to the Danube. It is in these widely extended manifestations of fraternal charity, resulting from these disastrous fires, that the whole Civilized world might properly join in this day of thanksgiving, as marking the latest and tbe brightest development of the onward and upward progress of the age we live in the age of tbe newspaper press, the steam engine and tbe telegraph, and the age of our imperial Tbankgiving turkey. And yet tt?e people of New York, city and State, will this day enjoy their Thanksgiving turkeys with a satisfaction unparalleled since i that memorable April day when, with the news I ol the fall of Richmond, our "bulls," "bears," "spread-eagles," "lame docks" and money cbiin^ers a mighty throng? joined in singing "Old Hut.drcd" in Wall street. Have we not occasion to be devoutly thankful, and to eat aud give a double allowance of toast turkey, with all the trimmings, this blessed day t Is not that lato terrible, despotic and ravenous Tammany Ring broken up (hat awful Ring, with its cave of tha "forty thieves," lined with sacks of gold and bales of greenbacks and boxes of diamonds that imperial Ring, which could bny Legislatures when it failed to elect them, which distributed its charities by thousands of dollars, including turkeys *>y the cartload, while stealing the public money by millions? Have we not occasion to be thankful that the Ring thieves hare been expelled from their cave that the door of the cave is locked against them, and that Mr. Green has the key? Are we not justified in an extra turkey, with something extra to wash it down, wfth the prospect of the good time coming under a new city charter, which will enable us to live at a reduction of ten per cent on the costs of the Tammany rfgime, witb its diamond weddings and Americus Clubs? Oh, there is nothing to compare with the delicious unction of this New York Thanksgiving, un less it is the swelling satisfaction of King Vic tor Emmanuel over his Italian Parliament, at last established in Rome. Fiually, while New York may rejoice ex ceedingly in the downfall of the Tammany Ring, may not the whole country be thankful for the glorious prospect before us of still an other new departure by the democracy, on the Presidential platform of Horace Greeley and free trade Well, wo live in an ago of miracles, and so we drop the subject, wishing to our vast constituency of readers, each and all, a plentiful supply of roast turkey for the family circle and some for the destitute neigh bor or stranger at the gate, that he, too, may join in the general thanksgiving. Valmnst'du'n Barbarity? Tho Mont AtrocloM Crime of the Age. Nothing has occurred in modern times and among what are called civilized people so atrocious as tho shooting of the eight young students at Havana for having violated, or, a9 the telegraphic despatch says, for having de molished the grave of Gonzalo Castafion. Let the volunteers of Cuba call this act of the students a crime if they will, and claim that it had a political significance, which few will be disposed to admit yet no one will pretend to say that the offence was a capital one or called for such an extreme penalty. The execution of these young men was simply murder? murder moat cruel and revolting. There was nothing but savage vengeance in the bloody deed. There was no regard for law, jus tice or the opinion of the civilized world. Such an act committed by a savage or semi-civilized people would be execrated from one end of Christendom to the other, and the perpetrators would, in all probability, be severely punished by one or more of the Chris tian nations. Such brutal inhumanity is not tolerated wherever and by whomsoever com mitted, cxcept in Cuba and by the bloodthirsty volunteers. These wretches and the infamous revolutionary government under their control which has possession of Cuba now are per mitted to do what savages would not without punishment. The government of Spain? yes, the so-called liberal government of King Ama deus is equally guilty in permitting these atrocities. This bloody outrage is, too, but one of many like it that are being per petrated continually in Cuba under the revolutionary government of the volun teers. Neither these volunteers, under the butcher Valmaseda, nor the gov ernment of Spain, care about the tame and formal protests ol the United States. They laugh at them, make some sort of lame ex planation or apology, and then go on to repeat similar atrocities. What is the mysterious in fluence at Washington that makes our govern ment so blind to the horrible state of things in Cuba and so tender towards the cruel and treacherous government of Spain The very tone of the correspondence from Washington to the press on this subject of the brutal murder of the students shows that there is either a bale ful influence at work or that the administra tion is disgracefully timid. Such a crime against humauity and tho civilization of the age, right on our border and among an American population, ought to arouse the in dignation of the people and government of this republic. The Spaoish government in Madrid received the news of the executions yesterday. The capital was profoundly moved by the intelligence. A Cabinet Council was convened immediately and the Ministers engaged in the preparation of despatches for Havana. The Mene steamship, which was to have sailed from Cadiz for the Antilles, was detained for twenty-four hours by executive order. Amadeus is called to treat a matter of the most sad interest. The Prince of Wales' Illsews.? The phy sicians in attendance on the Prince of Wales issufd a bulletin at six o'clock yesterday even ing, which stated that His Royal Highness "passed a quiet day." This news was partic ularly satisfactory at. the moment, owing to the fact that the mind of the people was not assured agreeably by the morning report of the doctors as to the progress and phases of the fever during the night, from Tuesday even ing to daybreak. The first statement said there was no change in th? condition of the patient, but that the fever was not so severe, and the Prince had gained strength by sleep. The words no change left the public uneasy, until they were re lieved by the publication of the later and more decisive words from Sandringhara. The Prince may tide over the crisis of the disease to-day. A cable telegram dated in London at midnight informs us that there was "no change to note in the condition of the Prince" at the early moment of this morning. This is not exactly encouraging. He holds his own but the disease has been active and is still malignant la its attack. The PorE Submits, bdt Still Protests.? On Tuesday an address was presented to tho Holy Father. The address necessitating a reply gave the Pope an opportunity to touch upon the situation. The Pop.) stands firm on the rock. Why should lie not The rock can not be removed. Why should he? The good old man, bewildered somewhat by this a^e of telegraphs and railroads and nationalities and races, is perplexed; but his faith in the ulti mate triumph of the Church is unwavering. The Church in the end, he says, must tri umph and he protests against yll ideas of compromise with the rulers ol Italy. It is well, we think, that while the Podo molests tin ftiibmits. 1 The Prlnrr'n Bull nt The Academy* The upp?r-tendom of Now York society has not had so delicious an occasion of expanding its beautiful butterfly wings as it had at the Academy last night since the Prince of Wales tripped the light fantastic in its honor. Princes are very rare and precious in this country, and among even our first society a prince is a prize, though he may have no throne or reigning family to set off bis bright prospective. The Princes Albert and Arthur of Great Britain were highly valued as society blossoms on their visits here, although the dazzling mag nificence of their reigning house was inefface ably stained by the sooty trade marks of an on-marching republicanism, which had long ago commenced stripping all there was of tinsel and grandeur from these make-believe prinoes. But when a true Prince of Russia, a son of the despotic Czar one of the real genuine monarchs before whom subjects pros trate themselves when such a Prince as this comes among our society people what enter tainment too gorgeous can we get up for him He is none of your republican princes, hedged in and hampered by constitutions or councils. He is a genuine prince of the fairy tale kind, beautiful as Amabel, brave as Richard, gen erous as the good King Arthur, and with that unlimited power and perfectly irresponsible rule of action which only princes in fairy tales or princes in Russia possess. He is a prince not only in family, in rank, ia tho greatness of his suite and in his decorations as any royal born scion might be, but he is also a prince in stature, a kingly young fel low among his fellow men a combination and a form, indeed, which have been exceedingly rare in our experience of princes. With this unusual combination of good qualities blended in the prince it is not to be wondered at that our society people have stretched every point to make tho grand ball to the Grand Duke such an affair as Cinde rella's ball could not have equalled and let us pardon the ladies, too, if they have enter tained a vague, fleeting notion that they might losejust such a magical slipper ther^ and have just such a match-making adventure as the little ash girl had in the famous fairy story. The magnificence of the ball is more fully described in our columns elsewhere than we need to describe it here. It was a grand display of jewelry and diamonds, a stately movement of handsome necks and shoulders, a charming jumble of handsome faces, bright eyes and pearly teeth. Rich silks and satins rustled in the promenade, while gorgeous diplomatic costumes and army and navy uni forms moved in grand state alongside. Trains that had cost modistes tears of agony to com plete in time were recklessly flung by their fair owners during the danoe under the rend ing heels of uniformed cavaliers. Diamonds that bad never sparkled in company before that might, indeed, have been dug out of Golconda especially for this occasion were torn ruthlessly from their places among the costly laces in the whirl of the waltz. Among those untitled citizens who hare no claim to gold lace or bullion the tailor's art in the per fection of full dress had been driven to its ut most, while gold, silver, medals, stars, deco rations and swords were as thick as leaves in V allainbrosa. The young Prince moved about, observed and admired, not by fair eyes alone, but by manly ones, too. 11c opened the bail with Mrs. Governor HoifmaD a piece of good taste, and, possibly, of winning diplomacy for which this sensible young Russian deserves ad ditional commendation. Iu the midst of all the gayety which encounters him, as a duti ful son he has not forgotten the injunctions of his father, the Czar, relative to the mission which the Herald recently made public, and while pleasing himself personally in the choice of so fair a partner he made a neat diplo matic point by recognizing in his choice the supremacy of the State, which we hold greater than Czar or Kaiser. Especially is this true in view of the fact that no city government was there officially represented that the great magnates of the municipality who toasted Albert of Wales and Tommy of Japan in years gone by were conspicuously ab sent another happy result of the late crushing war upon Tammany, and that Governor Hoffman and his lady were alone present to represent the executive branch of our State government. With the early hours of morning the dancing ended, the Prince departed, and every lovely belle who bad been preparing months before for the occasion retired, hopeful even after the bril liant scene had disappeared like a dream that her own little gla-s slipper might even yet be in the possession of the Prince, and that the crier would soon come, calling for her to try it on. News from China and Japan. -By tele graph from San Francisco we have a news report from Cliina and Japan, duted at Hong Kong on the 20th of October and Yokohama on the 3d of November. The intelligence is not of an important character. The Japanese and foreigners in Japan commented with some surprise on the withdrawal of the United States expedition to Corea. It is evident that much hope was entertained by the foreign population in both the Asiatic empires that their interests were about to be benefited by a vigorous display of the American banners, sustained by a vigorous eastern policy directed from Wash ington. It was reported that the Coreans bad attacked the Japanese settlement on the island of Tausinia. The Japanese Ambassa dors to China returned home dissatisfied. The members of the aristocracy of Japan were disposed to be exceedingly troublesome to the government, even in their humiliation of rank and class privileges. Rice was un usually plentiful. The railroad and telegraph works were still in progress, but not by any means completed, in Japan. The Alabama State Journal (republican; adopts a novel method to get the ear or eye of General Grant. It publishes a three column editorial addressed "to the President," and advising him of the condition of the Union republican party of Alibama. The writer conclud's by stating, "We shall await pa tiently for the President to give us advice." If the President has the patiencn to peruse the homily it will be about as much as could be reasonably expected of him. To ^ive advice thoreupou is asking rather too uuoh* The Famine and Atmroliy In Perala. To tho terrible calamity which has fallen on the inhabitants of Persia must be added the misfortunes of revolution. Discontent pre vails generally throughout the country, the Shah personally is unpopular and his govern ment reviled. lie is incompetent as a ruler and unequal to the heavy responsibility which rests upon him. A short time since be left bis palace in the capital to go on a hunting ex cursion, utterly oblirious to the fact that his people were suffering and that his presence was needed at the seat of government. The desire for psrsonal indulgence, however, was more potent than the appeals of suffering humanity, and he departed on an expedition of pleasure, leaving the management of State affairs to an unpopular regent and the people at the mercy of a mutinous army. The people were maddened almost to despair, and revolu tionary displays ensued, so much so that on his return he, in fear of personal violence, repaired to a summer palace, instead of taking up his residence in the capital. The peoplo gathered in thousands round the palace in the capital, uttering seditious cries and making rebellious demonstrations. These may bo but the precursors of other outbreaks, which will result more disastrously in tho near future. Winter is approaching and the grain supplies are almost exhausted. Bad as have beon the scenes recently witnessed, when in and about the city and country of Meschid, for example, over eighty thousand persons perished from famine and disease, worse will in all probability ensue during the winter months. Tho cholera, also, as if to add to the calamity of the Persians, prevails throughout the land, and in almost every instauco with fatal results. Southern Papers on ttao Presidential Situ ation. Our Southern democratic and conservative contemporaries appear to be generally in favor of fusion on the subject of the next Presi dency. The Richmond Whig is quite positive in i s declarations. It says II there ever wns a time when all minor consider, fctlous, all questions 01 mere policy, should oe dropped or postponed, in order id inu lonuation of ft great patriotic combination to elect au able, hon est, law-abiding President to expel the thieves who are plundering the people aud roobing the Treasury; to put an end to the war; to give peace auu tran quillity to the coantry; to restore habeas corpus; 10 allay sectional jealousy aud striie, aud to restore tue government to the constitut.oual track, that time is now. We cannot couceivo that meu wno have such groat aud benellcent objects tu view can per mit difference* iu regard to tne tariff or to any other question ol mere policy to separate theui. Let all such questions be sunk out oi siuht while we are lighting the great battle ol' the coustliutiou against usurpation, of honesty against corruption, ol liberty against despotism. To deieat Uraut and radicalism is Hie great aim, and in order to secure thai well may we waive ail other questions. The Mobile llegister is not hotly pressing for a straight out democrat as the standard bearer, as it was some time since. It now says There is little doubt of the earnestness ol the wish 01 the Scliurz, Uratz Urowu aim lireeiey republicans to deieat drant's nomination llrst, aud next ills election. It is plain that they canuot do it by them selves canuot do it at all? without the corllal co operation 01 the democracy. There is a line held here lor diplomacy in tne construction or a treaty ol alliance, offensive aud dctensive, between tue two. Wnere the des're is so strong on one side, and the interest equally strong on the other, aud the public weal so deeply involved, a satisiactory coalition is a possible ir not a probable achieve ment. The Knoxville Whig (more or less under the inspiration of Senator Brownluw) gives publicity to the following The elements of opposition to Grant, in the repub lican ranks, continue to grow more active daily. Tne near approach or conKress? irom whicn time the pot will begin to boil in earnest? quickens pubi c anxiety tlirougliout tne country, an I gn?s zest to every outglvmg iroui Wasuiugtou on the subject. The fight against Grant seems up-hill work. But there is no disguising the wishes of the Southern papers in the premises. I Tiik Speakership of the Assembly. This subject is being widely discussed by our inte rior exchanges. The Buffalo Express favors Mr. Alberger, of that city. The Mohawk Val ley Register would have Henry Smith, of Albany, or Thomas G. Alvord, of Onondaga. The Montgomery Republican also favors Henry Smith. The Troy Times Bays "no man about whom there is the slightest suspi cion in respect to his legislative integrity aud his constant fidelity to his party in the trying times of the last two sessions of the Legisla ture ought to be Speaker." This may hit hard some aspirants already spoken of. The Malone Palladium says the Speaker should represent no clique or faction, but is favorable to the election of Henry Smith. We are in clined to think that our country contempora ries need not trouble themselves much about the Speakership. Tbut matter is very likely to be settled in caucus, uuder compromises calculated to heal, as far as possible, the dis sensions among the republicans in the Stat<\ The Mayor of Devil's Bluff, Ark., has invited Duke Alexis to enjoy the freedom of tliat frontier city. Alexis is probably not de sirous of going in that direction just at pre sent at least not until the present, round of festivities in his honor is over. When Shall We Three Meet Again?? The Boston Advertiser states that W. B. Wnshburn, Governor elect, Horace Greeley and G< orge B. Loring were ai the State House in that city on the 28th instant. Something of a Controversy is going on in certain newspapers as to who was the first to nominate Tom Scott for the Presidency. It appears to havo been first made in one of Scott's railroad workshops at Altoona, Pa. It was, therefore, evidently made in the house of his friends, and the support of the Cin cinnati Enquirer w as really not intended as a joke. Tiie Providence Journal of yesterday con tains a voluminous report of the Committee of Investigation appointed by the Senate on mo tion of Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, to inquire into certain charges preferred against him and others by the Judge Advocate Gen eral of the United States Army in 1805 rela tive to alleged intercourse with the enemy during the war of the rebellion. The investi gation is to bo resumed. The New Government Buildings ani> Im provements. The supervising architect to the government has just made a lengthy and exhaustive report upon the uumerous public buildings now in course of construction in various parts of the United States. From the manner in which he writes on these matters it is evident he has made tho most minute cal culations, and practically studied tho ques tions of cost of material and labor. Hence the subject matter published in another column will prove more than ordinarily inter esting. Ttie City Complication!*? Comixrollcr Cti' uolly la Ludlow Street Jill. Rumor was busy and excitement was at fevar heat yesterday on the subject of our city complications, but when tbo few fa?ts had been extracted from the liberal supply of fic tion by our vigilant and active reporters it. was found that no material change had taken place in any of the main features, except that ex-Comptroller Connolly, after vigorous efforts had been made to secure the necessary amount of bail, and had all proved futile, was trans ferred to the common County Jail and tjbere incarcerated. The injunction obtained from Judge Brady to prohibit Tweed from disposing of his property until after tho decision of tha pending suit brought by the Attorney General of the State through Charles O'Conor waa generally discussed and approved; but as Tweed is kuown to have been turuing all hia real estate, railroad shares and other securi ties into cash for several weeks past, the chances are that the movement on the part of the people comes too lata. Tbe Committee of Seventy appear to have got into a muddle, and are endeavoring to break up their sub-committee on legislation and to take the drafting of a charter into their own hands. In the meantime the work before the Grand Jury goes steadily on, Jud;e Bedford having extended the term of tbe General Sessnms to tbe 18th December. The otbor startling ru mors of arrests and resignations with which the air was filled yesterday afternoon were simply tho productions of imaginative minds and bad no foundation in fact. Tiib Ministerial Crisis in Brussels.? Little people as well as big people get into trouble. It is not otherwise with little States and big States. We have bad of late Cabinet crises in London, in Vienna, in Madrid. Now we have one in Brussels. It is gratifying to know that the Cabinet crisis in Brussels is but little likely to lead to a European -^ftr or universal conflagration. Still this little trouble in Brussels Snows tliat Mm Bohr lan people are lively and wide awake as to their interests and tbeir power. The healthful effect of this popular vigilance is shown in the fact that the Ministry tendered its resig nation to the King of the Belgians yesterday and that His Majesty accepted. His Majesty draws closer to the liberals. The citizens of Ghent have undertaken to deliver a hint to the Crown in the shape of an indirect nomi nation of Jules Btira, the reformer, for a lead ing position in the national Council. The European democracy bccomes more animated daily. Philadelphia is Beoominq Quite Sensa tional. Yesterday the case of ex-City Treas urer Marcer was betore the Court of Common Pleas, and Judge Paxson, true to the cause of reform, rendered a judgment against the pecu lating official for the full amount of the defal cations discovered by the Auditors, This judgment covers the trifling amount of four hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, which, it appears, Marcer has not promised to pay. Late in the evening, and while the aforesaid suit was being discussed by the citizens, a report was circulated that a culvert on Tenth street had sunk and again, scarcely was this piece of information swallowed when another report came to hand that a large hole ten feet in diameter, and apparently without a bottom, was discovered in the same neighborhood. lu the latter place it was stated that the rushing of water or something lika it could be dis tinctly heard, but how far it was off or what liquid it was could not be discovered. Verily, strange things happen nowadays, but it would be scarcely consistent to believe that the city of saints was built over some important oil springs, or that, like the report recently of Scranton, it was about to seek other quarters. The Republican National Convention. The editor or the Baltimore American whe is a member of the Republican National Com mittee, issues a proclamation on his own account, through the columns of his paper, that he will introduce in that committee at its meeting in Washington in January next a resolution recommending republicans in all the States to refrain from sending federal office-holders as delegates to the Repub lican National Convention. This is evi dently a movement intended to head tho great national and general reform agitation of the day, and make it take shape for the benefit Of the republicans in the next Presidential campaign. But the spectacle of a national po litical convention of either of the great parties being held without the attendance of federal ofllcc-bolders would hardly bo considered a count in a reform indictment, drawn by even so virtuous a body as our own Committee of Seventy. It is Usual in Massachusetts on Thanks* giving Day to pardon the most meritorious convicts in the Stato Prison. Singularly enough, this practice has been the means this year of creating a row ueiween the Warden of the prison and the Governor, who, of course, possesses the pardoning power. The Warden recommended some prisoner for the exercise of executive clcmency which the Oovemor did not see fit to grant, Hence the Warden threatens to resign, and the usual Thanksgiv ing festivities in the State Prison of Massachu setts this year are, unfortunately, likely to be a little marred. North Carolina Srnatoksiiip. The Rich* mond Enquirer has seen a letter from ex-Gov ernor Z. B. Vance, United States Senator elect from North Carolina, in which he states that it is simply bis intention to hold the position of Senator until he can get a vote on his pe tition for relief from his disabilities, and if that vote is against him he will promptly re sign. General J. C. Abbott, from New Hamp shire, is working strenuously to retain his seat against the positive wish of a majority of the people of the State of his adoption. An noNEST 44Cain." The Cbarlostoa News states that ex-Senator Cain decline! to be a candidate for the Legislature of South Carolina, upon tho ground that he will not aid the Ring iu any plans for plundering the people of the State. This is highly honorable on the part of Mr. Cain. Would there were many other Cains of this kind in the political arena. Tho sinister mark on tho forohead of tho "oiiifiual Cain" w.ulit not then bo ao toe? rible*