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VOL. VI. SEPTEMBER 177TH, 1885. NO. 142. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, ro cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 50 cents per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number; Vols. III., IV. ‘and V. at regular rates, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HERE was a great deal more of the ancient Puritan than the modern Bostonian, we are happy to state, in Mr. J. Archibald Forbes's kind offer to sail over the course and take the trial, after he had fouled his adversary on Tuesday last. Sir Richard Sutton likewise showed himself more of a gentleman than a sportsman in declining to follow the example of Mr. J. Archibald Forbes, even though he had a perfect right to do so, according to the Referee’s decision. Unsatisfactory as the week's results have been, in a nautical way, they have accomplished much in one respect. They have taught us that yacht-racing and yacht-racers have not yet reached the level of a six days’ go-as-you-please match, and that Sir Richard Sutton is as generous an adversary as he is a thorough gentleman. . . . F the Genesta carries off the cup, our regret for its loss will be largely compensated for by the fact that this par- ticular plucky little Englishman has won it. . . . ING ALFONSO should thank his stars that Prince Bismarck allowed himself to be “overruled.” The prospect of an alternative between a thrashing from Germany, or an “eviction,” with all the glories of anarchy from his own subjects, must have made Alfonso’s little gilt throne a bed of thorns until he learned that his naive letter to Bismarck, through the Emperor of Austria, had borne its desired fruit. And such a letter! The idea of asking a man to back down from his position, because if he didn’t his antagonist would come in for a sound thrashing somewhere, is worthy of an Impotentate of Spain and a man who would so humiliate himself as to get up a quarrel over an island that would consent to be known as Yap! . . . E cannot but feel that Alfonso has some ulterior motive in all this, and the announcement that he in- tends writing a book is significant. No advertising scheme is impracticable in these degenerate days, when the most picturesque vales and sublime hills are used to further the interests of enterprising patent medicine quacks. . . * [* discussing royalty, we firmly but respectfully call Mr. Bayard’s attention to the terrorizing of Prince Beatrice Battenberg, Esq., of Queenville, England. It has been proven beyond a doubt that this unfortunate Dutch Prince is kept in continual subjection by His Imperial mother-in-law, and if every Irish conspirator against English happiness is by divine right a free born American citizen and needs the protection of our Government in order that a solidity may be imparted to the Government, we see no just reason why this little Dutch nincompop should not be accorded the same privilege. We submit that here is a chance to rap royalty on the knuckles and give the American eagle a chance to screech in case the Queen's Cup should n’t stay in the country. . . . T is to be hoped that the Democratic State convention will nominate that grand old man, Roswell Peanuts Flower, for Governor. He is beyond all doubt most emi- nently fitted to lead his party to defeat in November, and if the genial orator can only get a chance to show people what a splendid majority he could draw out against him, it is probable he would withdraw to the congenial attfésphere of an unpolitical hothouse forever after. * * . HE World makes entirely too much out of its editor's refusal of the Congressional perquisite of thirty-two quarts of wheat and several volumes of reports. It is evident that our esteemed contemporary has got an idea into its sanctum that it is a member of Congress, while it is in reality only a little sideshow Congressional Record, to be re- garded simply as a luxury of Congressman Pulitzer’s, to whom we would state that running the Wor/d is not quite synonymous with managing the earth. Mr. Pulitzer’s influence with the administration is on the wane, and the President is accelerating the wane to the best of his ability, if the presentation of “ five copies of European Cholera" to Mr. Pulitzer means anything. . . . T gives us pleasure to correct an erroneous statement in our last issue to the effect that the Chicago Current had suspended publication. That most interesting and able publication has risen above the troubles which it was supposed had ruined it, and con- tinues its career as one of the most successful literary weeklies in the country.