The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1842, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1842. —_—_ Vol. VLLL.——No. 289 --- Whole No. 3140, Price Two Cents Mxerinc or Democratic Mecnanics.—The large room of Old Tammany was crowded at an early hour last evening, with a strong representation from the body of mechanics and workingmen of the De- mocratic party, convened for the purpose of expres- sing their opinions of the principles of government that should actuate that party at the present crisis. The meeting was organized by Major James Con- ner, upon whose motion Exssau F. Purpy was elect- ed President. On motion of Joseph Hopkins, Esq., the following gentlemen were selected Vice Presidents :— # John 8. Gilbert, James Ramsa: ndrew H. Mickle, Conrad Swac! . eyiliam ‘A. Watson, Charles Hunter, Lamont Williams, Bryan McCahill, John Windt, John H. Broad, MJohn Targee, E. D. Comstock, 4 Joseph Rose, jr., Severn D. Moulton, Edward M. Hoffmire, John G. Kipp. wid Gray, Stephen H. Feeks, ‘Charles Del Vechio, Frederick E. Miller, :Joseph Keeler, Wm.F. Prout, ‘Aaron V. Hendricks, Alexander Ming, jr., Peter Smith, Elnathan Thorne, Gerardus Boyce, William E. Denn’ we Tabelle, Abraham McBrige, @Williom H. Cornell, » Asahel Reede, Inaao H. Knowlton. On motion of John H. Bowie, Esq., the following persons were chosen Secretaries JeviD. Slamm, James B. Nicholson, John H. Hunt, John G. Tait, dames M. Crocheron, Sohn G. Sperling, Charles Webb, James Peach. Sailor, Josephus N. Crain, Daruis Darling, Peter Burroughs. “tro, Inng report, accompanied by the following reso- Yutious¥were then read by Levi D. Slamm, Eeq. and unanimously adopted i— cae : Resolved, That the best rs e laboring class- esarothe laborers themselves, and Past fo he Wale fark talist who volunteers in our behalf, we reply in the lan guage of Colonel Barre, in the British Parliament, to the Siiclala who claimed to have acted upon.a simslar’ disin. terested principle of ‘ion tows the early settlers of America.—'' No! They grew by your neglect—the mo ment you began to care for them, that care was manifest ed in sending over swarmsof officers, to eat out their sub- stancg, to misrepresent their liberties, and to prey upon them.” Resolved, That we recommend to these labor, the old Democratic creed, so clear! r fessor Holland, in order that their principles and practice may hereafter more agree. ect equali ty of political rights ; the sovereij of State Gov- ernments ; a strict construction of the Constitution ; no privileges to particular sections of the country ,or to parti- cular classes of the community ; no monopolies, trading companies or vorrupt governmental banks ; frequent ro- tation, strict responsibility and small parade.n effice ; mo derate legislation ; a ‘revenue meeting the wants of the people and no more ; simplicity in the laws ; and the least possible restraint upon the mind, person, energy and in- justry of every man, consistent with the rights of his fel- low-men. Resolved, That while we hear of alarge profit already secured by the manufacturing capitalist in the rise of his ds; andof an advance in the common necessaries of ife, consumed by the laborer, we have yet to hear of the first dollar added to his wages. Resolved, That the instincts of wealth are the same ev. ery where—that the affection of capitalists for the laboring classes is no more disintered in Great Britain than inthe United States—that in monopolizing the earnings of la- bor in the former, they march more ver days their object, while here they seek to ebtain it by tricks in Tariff Cur- rency and Debt. Resolved, That the Democracy of this country are fast learning to interpret the catchwords of Federalism. Log cabins and hard cider mean extreme friendship for the laboring classes every where but in Rhode Island—there it means disfranchisement; protection to labor means the socuring to the laborer ample opportuuity to work, and to ae capitalist the profits of labor, in the shape of fut th duties. Resolved, That the selection of William C. Bouck and Daniel 8. Dickinson as candidates for the two highest offices under our State government, meets our hearty and el approval—that the farther selection of candidates to advocate and represent the cardinal doctrines of demo- cracy mede in accordance with long cherished demo- ol usage, will doubtless be such as to claim our undi- vided suy at the success of our measures is so much more important than the mere temporary elevation ——- of any set of men—that sinking every minor consideration, we will carry the men for the sake ofthe meagures. The resolutions having been read, cries of “Walsh,” “‘ Walsh,” “Mike Walsh,” resounded from every part of the room, until the very walls re- echoed with the sound. Mremaxc Watsn then rose and said :—¥ellow citizens, rarely thet I attempt to address an assembly in ‘About this time lost year, I opened one ere of the am now (Loud cheers and cries of “ Go it, am opposed to any distinctions in the demo- party as classes. The best distinction is— I care not whether a man is a lawyer—I care not whether he is a professional men—I care not whether he is a trader —but what Icare for is this—does he belong to the true democracy otthe country, “ * * * * ¢ (Loud cheers and a few hisses.) We have the fact of a man serving three, four, | ang heateee! theo “pha Ayer chanical d for irpose yr enabling them to arte the-taet cent rom the working classes. (Cheers.) But does that make a man a mechanic? (Cries of “no.”) If 0, then Peter the Great was a me- chanic! for he assisted in building a ship. Upon that principle, a butterfly is a ci jillar, protectors of stated by Pro- because he was once acaterpillar. (Cheers and laughter.) No. A mechanic isa man who ‘Helene i honest labor for his support (Tremendows cheers.) There aremany men in ge tig who fawn upon us and call us the bone and sinew of the country upon this platform, and who would use us until there is not! but bone and si- news left of us, (tremendous cheers and roars of laughter) and then go to their palaces in the 15th ward, where they’d throw a pail of water upon one of the bone and si- new if he came to sit down and rest himself upon their stoop. (Lond cheers and laughter.) If the mechanics are the bone and sinew of the country, why have they not a portion of its honors, and a fair share of its advantages? [Cheers.] Why is the fact of aman really being a me- chanic a disqualification to him ? And yet it is se. (Cheers) There are men who have used us for years—not in refe- rence to their endeavors to benefit the mechanic interests, but in reference to their attempts to elevate themselves b: our means, and to getrich by our hardlabor. [Cheers. But whatis democracy ? Is it in reference to this man, or that, or er particular man 7? No! ‘True democra- cy is thé raising of the degraded classes of the human race to the station which intended they should occu- yy. [Tremendous cheers.) The Jew-Christians, when jing with the Japanese, were ready to tread upon the cross to enrich themselves. And so it is with men who come into the party professing friendship for mechanics, in order to eat up its substance and pollute the stream of democracy unt ii unfit for the use of the democrats themselves. [Loud cheers, and cries of “true, true.”] I t flatter you to-night in my remarks, as others are in the habit of ‘doin * say that you werethe most high- minded and noble set of men that ever God let the sun shine upon. [Cheers.) But I take the world as 1 find it. 1 care nothing for public opinion. I’ve seen public opin- jon elevate a man to rank and honors one day, and with- out that man doing any thing contrary to the true line of his duty, or changing one atom of his opin- ions or his inciples, I’ve seen, him kicked through the stroets, without a friend to help him, by the fame public opinion. (Loud cheers and’ roars of laughter.) ‘There are men who come into the democratic party and subscribe to its creed, for mere self interest, who don’t believe a word of it, or intend to practice its | ir rp (Cries of ‘true.”) So men embrace the jan religion from the most base and corrupt motives. When a student is about to leave college, and about to decide on his future profession, he turns himself in the retirement of hit closet, and says—‘I{ 1 turn lawyer, I shall have to contend hard with others for every $5 that Tearn, and have to meet the repartee, the sarcasm, the quick reply and struggle with the talent and genius of juick-witted and industrious opponents. If I turn phy- jian it will be pretty much the same ; and so with the ional pursuits. But if Itarn @ minister, I can get ,000 just for preaching one sermon a week or so, and ing afew other duties that require neither talent or in- ’ And this is the sort of man, who, witer his ordi- nation, comes in and tells his fellow man that the best passport to heaven is a bare back and a hungry belly! (Loud cheers +) And this is the man who comes into the pulpit to preach a sermon that has neither life nor spirituality about it, and tells you it’ by Divine Providence that he’s sent there, and wears a black wig for the pur) of seduciug other men’s wives, by the race of Divine Providenee! (Cheers and shouts of fighter. At this point the Proteribed watchmen came into theroom, preceded by a band of meme) Ivsacom. mon trick for the nominatingjcommittees, when they are cked for the express purpose of filling all the offices in Government, to come into a and preach jut the interests of the working classes ; and then when the election is over, be the first to turn round and spit yy them. They’ve got to make Mr. Sam. Wendell Water Commissioner or something else; and Mr. $0 and $0, Flour Inspector ; and Mr. Somebody, Tobacco In- spector, not Jonathan D. Stevenson ; and’ Mr. So and So, Boctor’ of ‘Staten Ialand. "(Loud ‘cheers nnd. roars of Laughter.) And when they do select some man from the working classes to represent them, it’s some r, pliant tool, whom they can wind round their finger [ike a' piece of thread, and whe, when he gets to Albany, is so pleased and so tickled, and 0 astonished to think he’s there, and that these other men take notice of him,that Fee willing todo any thing that they tell him. (Great laughter and om and cries Deas true.) The work- ing men expect to be ited, not only as ro many ack plane smovere and quivers of nails, bat they want to avo their intelligence represented. (Loud cheers.) They don’t want Horace Gi even to represent them-— Gacehier) men who are a mere t @ animal and v. "ehh te pon of leaghier), and who are little lows that yn gle ‘a cock: Sak the reat, bee cause strength enon ‘s won’ while we won't go home till mernin ause they haven’t wind enough ; and that are not lascivious, because they have not got stamina enough in their com- position to keep their back bone straight. (‘Tremendous ' seer enehiey ad cheers.) Ke, we want the intelli- ence of the mechanics properly represented. (Lo cheers.) We've given up oveny thii time after time ; andonly to elevate men to office, who, after they got there, have turned reund and frowned upon us as though we wero beneath them. (Cheers, and cries of “ali true, by G—d.") And here’s where 1 difter {rom other reterm- ers. All men are willing to drag down those above ’em, but those above em’ are not willing to come down. (Laugh ter). And before you can get the aristocracy to come down you must elevate those beneath you to the same level, and show/that you have the same flesh and blood. the same in- telligence, the same mind,and as generous irit as those above you. (Loud cheering.) There are many who arrogate to themselves the right to do every thing they like ina ward, because they hold an office of some $5000 a year, and give $10 or $15 to the ex- pensesof a ward committee. Now, I can go round and speak, and spend days in the service of the party—and my time is money, and so is yours. But when you meet these men they say, “I gave $10 for the cause, and you Favenone; as to your time and services, they count noth- ing—that’s no more than what your country requires of you.” (Cheers and laughter.) It’s time these things should be changed! (Cheers, and cries of “Yes, yes—it ist”) Ifyousay yes, I know it will be done. (Cries of “We will do it, Mike”) Icare not what man it is that sub- scribes to the democratic creed; if he’s a spit-licking, cringing, craw ling jo man, an overbearing employ- er, a tyrannic |: rd, a haughty, overbearing acquain- tance, such aman is no democrat. (Cheers.) No man could be a good political democrat without he’s a social democrat. (Loud cheers.) Democracy is truth- ht— justice—humanity—love to our fellow-men, and a desire to sacrifice every thing agg ck ‘upon earth to elevate the down-trodden masses beneath you. (Tremendous phesring.) I find men that are very willing to havetheir nemes tir around the street ‘at the head of a list— very willing to have their names at the head of an edi- torial article. Canghten) We had enough of this in the case of Rhode Island. Laughter.) Whilst the democracy ofthat place were ag fo their rights and liberties— fighting forthe very fundamental principles of democra- cy—numbers ofthese men were very ready and willing to make speeches, draft rosolutions, going on committee, and about laying their bones to bleach on the the soil of Rhode Island, when a shoemaker could strap ’em through the streets without their maxing the slightest show of resistance. (Loud cheers, and roarsof laughter ) But when one of those circumstances that unavoidably happen in the common course of human events, operated aguinstthe destiny of Rhode Island, how many of these men were there willing tojlay their benes to bleach there, or sacrifice their time, money, or shoulder a musket, or risk their lives, or give a dollar, or stir a step to carry out those principles which they had been so vehemently preaching ? (Cheers.) iknow, ifyou don’t. ‘This goes to show that there are a great ‘many in the democratic party that don’t belong to it—they are not sincere—they make a trade of politics—they can’t get a nomination in their own party, and they come into our ranks, finding success hopeless under their own flag, and thus we get the periodical defeats that we have all witnessed. (Loud cheers, and cries of “It’s all true.”) I shan’t trouble you much longer with my remarks. (Cries of “Go on, go ex I can’t speak the stereoty; speeches that men com- monly deliver on this platform, neither can I go round tror one word to another delivering the same catechiem, like the successive tunes that are ground out upon a dutch or- gan—(cheers and laughter.) must speak upon princi- ples. I cannot eulogise men whom I never saw or heard of: 1 can’t praisethis man or that man unless he’s done something that really deserves praise—(cheers.) I may speak too bold—I may betoo plain for a person studying expediency! (Cheers.) But you keep your eyes upon me. And notwithstanding the persecution aud misrepre- sentation which may be heaped upon,me,] shall still perse- vere in what I know to be an honest and straight forward course, (Cheers.) And if ever I depart from the goog which you have known me to pursue irom childhood, may the God of Heaven refuse to ever receive me. (Loud ane enthusiastic cheering.) When I look back upon the past history of the world, an see how many of the roreing cles have shed oceans of each other’s blood for the elevation and aggrandisement of tyrants, the reflection causesfeelings of pity and sorrow, to think that these noble classes have suffered themselves to be used solely for the advancement of their oppressors, without ever attempting to redeem themselves. (Loud cheers.) But if a battle is to be fought, who is to do it? Such a man owns three or four houses, and he can’t go, because ifthe rebellion is unsuccessful, his Propert wi be confiscated, and he will be hanged likea fo the first lamp post, and his family turned out to beg. Cough ter and eheers.) But it is the working classes that have to doit. (Cheers.) Men have lit bonfires, illuminated their houses, and sent congratulatory letters to tyrants, who at the same time were rivetting their chains. (Cheers) and political world; yes, in every thing. Life a: death, heat and cold, light and darkvess, sickness and health, liberty and slavery, freedom and despotism! (Tre mendous cheering, which lasted some minutes) "Which ofthese do you choose, slavery |or liberty. (Loud cries of “Liberty! liberty!) Then why not make some exertions to carry out your choice. Den't stand with folded arms, and silently look on while a reck- loss of conspirating traitors (turning round and pointtag tothe men on the stand) are using you and your exertions for their own selfish perpoese. (Loud eg i co ter.) cheers.) Don’t stand by and see them ble for a year afterwards. of age teeta P| — lies in th 9 workings ies e most unqual terms, who, when they ger to Albany, voted for the incorporation of old works, making his shi ers legal tenaer among his workmen.— (Cheers.) I say Foes things shal ack oe, tolerated any longer, (Cries of “ No, no; cheers for Mike Walsh,” nine loud cheers were given, that shook the walls of the building.) You will find such men receive nomina- tions at Tammany Hall, while men who have sac! every thing to elevate the working portion of the commu- nity are rejected. This is not our fault ; and yet it is, be- cause we don% attend primary meetings; or if wa do goto primary meetings we, select men merely on 9c- count of their miscalled respectability, who have succeed- ed in raising a few thousand dollars by robbing the com 3 who afterwards prove recreant to their trust. Go then to your primary meetings, not to act as automatons, and to say “yes or no” as you're told, but act with judgment. (Cheers) You jam Leggett! the immortal Leggett! it whom not one of those:who uted » will now attempt to ackno agency in it, or to utter a breath of reproaoh's (Tremendous cheers, sl not receive {a nomination in Tammany Hal ( “True, true, shame!”) The work has got to be com- menced in Tammany Hall. (Loud and enthuiiastic cheer- ing.”) And it may es well be commenced now as at ony rtime. (Cheers.) There is no time better than the (Tremendous cheering, and cries of “Go it, ‘ou begin it—you do it, and we'll stand by you !” Herc Mike turned round and calmly surveyed the old and young sachams on tho platform, who were utterly as- tounded at the enthusiasm created, and said, with a cava- lier toss of the head, “Oh, I’ll go it, | warrant you,” fol lowed by cheer'upon cheer for two or three minutes.) Men talk to me of political death on account of my asso- ciates, I defy any man to show any disreputable associate of mine. (Loud cheers.) My associates are my fellow mechanics of the workshophwhere I have to cara my bread, and the boys with whom I hav hot marbles through thestreets. (Loud and long continued cheering.) And whenever it becomes necessary for me to desert them, in order to obtain favor among their oppressors, I would prefer remaining] in ny coms obscure, but, thank God, honorable situation. ‘(Enth cheering, and cries of ‘‘ Good.”} The public can never form aright estimation of a man until he is ed in the position that God Almighty intended he Id occupy. (Cheers, resent. ike ; When a man is placed in a false mn, the very traits o: his character that would be in a true one, are looked upon as faults, or denounced as viees by those who attempt to form an estimate of his without instruments to take the of his mind. {Cheors When the temple of Minerva was finished, nt thens, two rival sculpters of that mental city were em- loyed to decorate its summit with a statue of the goddess. Bech lavored in , and followed the conceptions of his own mind, with the view to the production of a mas- ter-piece of art. On the day that the merits of the statues wereto be decided upon, and the hour arrived for so doing, a few ot the self-constituted judges gathered in front, while thousands remained behind, who could see nothing. Those in front passed judgment upon the production, like the leaders of our perryvend the tl ids who could see nothing whorreaed, and res) led to the decision, although they could seenothing. (Threecheers.) One statue was about the size of life, to use a common expression, finely sculptured, and of the most exquisite workmanship— the features beautifully chiselled, until life seemed start- ing from the marble. (Loud cheering.) The other was of colossal size, with huge and apparently un- shapely limbs, and features that looked more like un- meaning protuberances than aught else, to the immedi. ateobserver. When the judges gave a decision in favor of the small but beautiful statue, it was gradually hoisted amid the shouts of the multitude which became dimmer and fainter aa it receded from their view. And when it finally reached the pedestal, it resembled human or divine, and seemed to have dwindled to a mere point. ‘The applause gave way to murmurs and robation, and it was then lowered to give way to its rejected rival, which was very reluctantly hoisted in its stead. As it receled from the earth, its deformities lessened, and gave way to an ance of symmetry and beauty,which inj creased with its distance the from earth; and when it final- lareites the pinnacle which the Lo gt Sl Ww of perspective and proj mn desi i should be viewed from, then it hed as if the Divinity herself, so ‘was its aspect, had descended upon it to receive the homage of her worshippers. (Loud and most enthusiastic cheering from all parts of the room, fol- lowed this piece of eloquence, in which the Sachems joined, without und; ing the classic beauty of the simile.) So it is with mon! God Al- mighty moulded the characters of mon according to the station which he intended they should ultimately fill. (Loud cheers.) And when a man is placed by circumstances in a position lower than he is designed to move in, his virtues beoome vices, his good qualities considered dangerous, his talents are + ee rong denou chievous, his spirit and energy is branded as destru and disorganizing, and he it Boked yy oe chad 8 and frightful character by those the seus of whose men. tal vision is too short to view man as a whole, and who are utterly incapable of balancing his virtues against his vices, and they reject him, as unfit for elevation. (Loud cheers.) But when once he is elevated,andtwhen they they are mistaken in their judgment, they fawn and c: upon the man whom they it they could crush impunity. and lous cheering.) But I am detaining you too long. (Cries of “ no, no, go on, go on, ‘ou can’t be too long. Give us more,” and cheers.) Man. ind have been deluded and oppressed sufficiently long.’ The past. (Great cheering.) It the march of freedom. (Cheers.) Her course is onward. (Cheers. Vacked by [millions of admiring and dev. shippers, “(cheers,) who are ready and ig to sacrifice their lives ere they suffer ner to recede ene step, and her progress cannot certainly be impeded by all the legalized robbers and blackygoant aristocrats in existence. (Tremendous cheering.) The time for sleeping is past. (Cheers) The long, dark, dismal, dreary despairing night of mind is past! (Cheers) Past! never again, hope to resume its former universal sway. (Cheer on cheer.) And the day of reason, of right, of truth, of justice and hu- manity, already dawned upon the world. (Cheers.) Millions of the human race who have been held for ages in mental and physical bondage, have had their icy fetters thawed by her genial rays (cheers)—and have been glad- dened and guided by its light, to see, feel, and enjoy all that’s bright, beautiful, and refreshing in this glorious Universe which God Almighty intended as a ise to man. (Terrific cheering.) ‘Andall that is nec to make it a paradise is, that men should love truth aul, and each other. (Great cheering.) And myri upon myriads who have never seen freedom, but panted, with impatient ardor, in their dungeons, whilst listening to her Yoice, for an opportunity to burst the shackles which they have so long mond rs borne. (Loud cheers.) And if ever they suceeed in breaking the bolts and bars which confine them, and once become accustomed to the light of liberty, my word for it, all the powers of earth combined can never again make them contented slaves. At the close of this brilliant speech there wasa dozen tremendous cheers given for Mike Walsh, and all the old sachems jumped up to shake hands with him; but he jumped off the platform, gave ’em the slip contemptuously, and went out to take a drink with “Tux Boys !”” Major Davizac was then loudly called for, and after complimenting the previous speaker in no measured terms for his eloquence, proceeded to addrcas the assemblage in a short and pertinent s) h, in which he alluded to the recent victories of the emnarecy, and when the name of Ohio was called among others ofthe sober second thought- ed States, Old Tammany rang with shouts and cheers, On concluding, there were loud cries for “ Moore,” “ Moore,” but it was stated that he,was not present. Avexanpex Mina followed, and in alluding to the speech of Walsh, classified it as among the ablest he had ever list- ened to in the Old Wigwam. Mr. Scwacename, one of the present members of the assembly, made a short speech, principally about himself; and a Mr. Pauaexn, w! left the whig ranks, closed the ceremonies of the evening. Fifteenth Annnal Fair of the American In- stitute At Niblo’s Garden—1842. Tuxspay, 18rx Ocroner. Yesterday wasthe day set down by the Institute in the annual programme of arrangements, for the Nautical Exhibition. As they were all appointed to take place at Castle Garden, we proceeded thi- ther at an early hour. Doings ar Castix Garpen.—As the Explosion of the brig Volta, of Eden, together with the incidents attending it, were the leading features of the day, we shall pass over some other matters and first give some account of Tus Granp Exrtosion.—The brig was anchored, not directly between Castle Garden and the North Carolina, where, in justice to the American Insti- tute, and to Messrs. French & Heiser, who bore the expense, she ought to have been anchored, but con- siderably down the harbor towards Governor's Island, in order, as we suppose, to give the people on the Battery a gratuitous view of the explosion.— ‘We regret that Mr. Coltshould have obstinately per sisted in thus anchoring the brig against the urgent solicitations of the American Institute. Even the U.S. brig Washington, on board which Mr. Colt had his galvanic battery (and not on board the North Carolina, as he expressly told us ne should have it,) was obliged to shift her moorings and elip furtherdown the bay, to getout of the way of the explosion. , ere it is proper to say in behalf of the officersof the navy, Com. Perry, Capt. Sands, and others, that they extended every courtesy and attention during the whole day to the committee ot the Institute. They kept four of the North Carolina’s boats in at- tendance upon them at the Gardenallday long. In one of these boats, at about half past $P. M., in company with the Nautical Committee and Mr. Colt, we proceeded to visit the doomed Volta. She was stript of every thing valuable, as we found, on clambering on her deck. Her masts, however, were left standing, upon the top of one of which was the effigy of aman. After taking a last tread n_ her decks, we left her and went on board the orth Carolina, by invitation of Capt. Sands, to witness the explosion. cf While there the ship was visited by the Secretary of War, Mr. meer, who arrived at the Astor House night before last; Gen. Almontez, Mexican Minister, who has just arrived in town; General ‘Wool, Gen. Worth, Com. Ridgely, Col. Bankhead, Adjutant Gen. Jones, Gen. Imadge, of the Ame- rican Institute, Com. De Kay, ir. Navy Agent Wetmore, and also any number of other military and naval officers, high and low, whose names we really have not room to mention. hey were all received with the usual courtesies by Commodore Perry 5 and on the arrival of Mr. Sec-etary Spencer, the old North boomed off the usual salute of seventeen guns. After the sa- tute, these officers took their position upon the quarter deck to view the explosion, the time for which was rapidly approaching. Presently a gun from the North Carolina announced that it was now just fifteen minutes to the explosion, which would e at four precisely. ,This interval we spent in taking a look at some of the handsomest ladies, married and unmarried, whom we have seen for a long time. They did take the arms of the delight- ed officers, and march the quarter deck with such a bewitching grace that seyeral old bachelors pre- sent nearly went into conniption fits. We particu- larly noticed some southern ladies, and a celebrated Countess, whose name we could not get with sul- ficient accuracy to venture oa lling it. We never saw people look so happy and feel so delight- ed with one another. | Mr. Secretary Spencer seemed very anxious to learn whether the powder magazine, in the case of Mr. Colt’s submarine battery, were anchored be- neath the Volta, or was attached to hcr bottom, remarking that at Washington it was anchored, and he seemed to think it an improvement to at- tach the powder to the vessel’a, bottom. Commo- dore Perry stated it as his opinion that, in regard to the mode of expending the Congressional appropria- tion of $15,000, one thousand dollars of it should be taken to purchase a vessel, and the balance be di- vided between one party who should volunteer to go aboard the vessel and sail her, and another part who should try to blow her up, say in an hour's time, with Mr. Colt’s submarine battery. If the vessel escapes in safety, the volunteers are to have the money ; but if the banery blows her up, why then the battery must pocket the money. ‘The fa- cetious Commodore thinks there will be no diffi- culty in finding plenty of volunteers. ._ The time for the explosion had now atrived, with- in one minute, aud every eye was strained to gaze at the bets olta. It was arranged that the signal for exploding her should be three guns in rapid suc- cession, from the North Carolina; and before you could say Jack Robinson, bang! bang! bang! com- busti-blowup.eruption! and the Volta is all gone to the devil. ow, if you please, you can just breathe easily for'a moment, while we remark, that, ac- cording to our statement yesterday, she was to be blown into 1,766,901 pieces ; for the sake of accu- racy, however, we now add that Capt. Barnard, one of the Nautical Committee, counted the pieces, and toynd there were just 1,756,901}, being one half a piece more than our calculation. Our calculation was near enough, however. i Such was the voracity of the wreckers who in- stantly clustered about the above named pieces, that, numerous as they were, there was not a solitary piece to be seen upon the water in twenty minutes ume. It is said, in the matter of spectators, that there has never been so great a multitude of people upon the battery within the memory of that oracle, the oldest inhabitant of the city. Those who were there, it was actually crowded to suffocation, And such was the eagerness. of the people to catch a sight of this imposing spectacle, that there were not gate-keepers enough at Castle Garden to take the money as fast as they wanted to crowd in, and the people actually leaped over the four foot pickets to getinto the Garden. There were certainly not less than 50,000 people on the Battery alone, besides some 4500 or 2,000 in the Garden ; so that we are glad to know that the American Institute will, at worst, suffer no loss for the expense they have gone to in this aflair. And here we cannot but call attention to the re- markable hold, which the American Institue has got upon the people of this country, when it is ena- bled to enlist the interest and kindly feelings ef all classes of society in its behalf, not only civilians, but even our Navy and our Army, and the general officers of the United States government. After the explosion, the wires were taken up and carried into the garden, where we saw them. They are wound around with tarred thread, and look cisely like those used by Professor Morse. Mr. Colt’s Galvanic Battery, or Voltaic (not the brig Volta) pile, after the explosion, was taken into the stall where Professor Morse was operating with his FIVE DAYS LATER Electro Magnetic Telegraph, where we also saw the Battery. So that on the whole, Mr. Colt’s Sub- marine Battery, for which he “ claims” so much, is now pretty essentially divested of all its mystery, although not of its grandeur and magnificence. How about those “ claims ?” Pror. Morse’s Te.ecraru.—This would not per- form according to the programme, in consequence of the weakness of the Protessor’s battery. But after the explosion, when it received the accession of Mr. Colt’s large battery, it worked very well; although no communications were interchanged from Governor’s Island, for want of a similar acces sion to the battery there. So that it wasneither en- ARRIVAL OF THE PACKET SHIP INDEPENDENCE. By the packet ship Independence, Capt. Nye, which arrived yesterday afternoon, we have re- ceived five days later. The papers do not contain very important news ; tire failure, nor ‘entire success. This experiment | but the most exciting subject seems to be a violent was announced to come off at 12 M., when there | gj i the Ashburton Treaty. was to have been agun fired from Governor's Island. dineeia going om ‘about: the “ gee. Now, it so happened, there were seventeen guns Nearly all the papers come out and denounce it as fired at that time, and some persons took it to be on | the Ashburton capitulation ; and the London Times pve seta ~ atte 3 but ty mat he. ery is the pnncipal one that supports him. ynnocen! informed, it was a salute to the cre~ i il tn tary of War, who was then inspecting the Fort, | There seems to be very little change in the mar that being his business in the city. kets, but they rather seem to be looking up. 5 Tur Boar Races.—We now come to the earlier ‘The Queen was in fine health and spirits, and gi- transactions of the day—the boat races. These were ving grand parties at Windscr Castle. to have come off at the signal of guns from the s f the West Ind it North Carolina; but on account of the visit of the The failure of the West India steamers excites Secretary of War, it was deemed a matter of cour- | great attention ameng the mercantile classes. The fence mage a her pepe ae had heen, visitas) grant of £240,000 is to be continued, and the service ne cretary. ieutenant Morris, therefore, o! ° ; Cr pf. the North Carolina, was despatched fo the garden | & 684000 miles per year is reduced one half. to inform the committee that the guns of the United | Lord Ashburton isto be made an Earl as soon as States Brig Washington were at the service of the | possible; and the London papers say his title ought committee, and that she would fire one gun as @ | to be + Eyrl Surrender.” The Paris papers continue to discuss the Ashbur- signal'for onghene a ie! nies yipere: f he ane mittee at the garden should haw! down their . , ; . "y 3 We ton treaty,and are violent against the United States, and England also. This, therefore, was done during the day. We Some of the London papers are paying great at- shall now very briefly notice the boat races. 1.—Sculls. Two boats, the Crolius, by John tention to the internal policy of the State of New Conner, and the Rainbow, by William Moore. Started 25 minutes to IL. Bulled round a_ brig, 3 miles. Both boats built bey, Williaa Crolius, 400 | York. They seem to think it is in many respects as eer street. Won by the Crolius, two lengths | important as the policy of many independent States, ahead. andin a commercial point of view, a gredt deal more so. They republish the last Governor’s mes- sage. Four hundred and four spinners have turned out. The following is from the “ London Morning Chronicle” :— A Svep iv THe Pegxage.—We understand that, to ark their sense of Lord Ashburton’s services in having betrayed and sacrificed the interests of his country by kis treaty at Washington, and having insulted, by bis ec at Boston, the Crown by which he was employed, her Majesty’s Ministers in- tend, immediately upon the noble negotiator’s re- turn, to recommend that he be made an Earl. May we suggest that he be created by the style and ttle of Earl Surrender; his crest a captive, 2.—Four-oared boats, thirty feet loa Two boats, the Geame Washington, built by J. Litts, and the Geo. : Chapman, built by C. L. Ingersoll, life boat builder. Started at seven and a half mi- nutes past eleven. Pulled round a stake boat, three miles off Bedlow’s Island. Sharply contested. The two brothers Roberts, Henry and Stephen, were in the Chapman, and J.’L. Sevins, John Ludlow, and Bill Gibson, in the Washington. Bets, 20 to 10 on | yy the Washington, They had some difficulty in rounding the stake boat, and a little bit of a fight after to get ashore. The Chapman came in some 160 yards ahead in 27 minutes. ¥ 3.—Two fourteen-foot sail boats, the Fashion, built by Crolius, and the Fish, built by L. Fish, round Redlow’s Island. The Fish lost her it soon after she started, and returned. The other bout sailed the round. This caused much dispute, | with a rope round his neck, giving upthe keys; his as the Fashion declined making another race. The | supporters an American fox rampant on one side, z oneee festa must be a new race. We know | ang ee British sierg cancnant oe Be ey ha eget -, | emblazoning will, of course, be chiefly in gulls. 4.—Two sail-boats; the Aylemere, 16 feet, built 7 . by Shamburg, and the Troubler, 15 feet, by lnger- Ree iy weal aed hedge tenes soll. The Fashion could not enter, but sailed the | Manchester within the hh Mey naked round. Started at 1 o'clock and 94 min. ‘The | ‘hem, ol some importance, that of Mr. Morris Ja- Troubler came in first, (the Fashion next,) beating | CD 5 his engagements are said to be £22,000. the Aylemere. The three beats got in one onthe | Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with their illus- heels of the other. trious family, intend to honor Brighton with a visit 5.—Two double sculls, Whitehall boats, the Rain- | about the end of October, und to remain at the Roy- bow, and the Henry Stork. In the first, W. Moore, | al Pavilion about a month or six weeks. — and Edw. Cuddy ; in the latter, W. Harrington and | Lord Hill is improving in health, and it is thought Pat.C Corey, ‘The Rainbow won by one minute. | the retirement of his lordship at Hardwicke Grange 6.—Sailboat race. Two boats. The Wm. H. | will prove highly beneficial to the noble lord’s gene- Merritt and the Three Sisters. Won by the Merritt | ral health. Marquis or WELLESLEY.—We regret to learn bi rat ape ahead: oi 89 fal a is was the last of the boat races. The Judges} that this distinguished nobieman is suflering from Rhodes: Bands, fi ye Beasamin Page, and Foster | severe indispo: Wa Fee Kingeton-house. ‘ In the ay of the day there were sundry exhi- f dN ary have pete aa caren jail, i perim: fy fi workhouse, fo using to ea! Peter Von Sch ‘Floating Bi ee se the porridge teantied them for’ breakfast, on a plea that it is not thick enough. Peter Von Schmidt’s Floating Pneumatic D -~highly spoken of. Various other exhibitions and not th 5 x i Mehemit Ali has presented to his Majesty Louis Philippe,a male girale. The Chamelion steamer is about to proceed to Alexandria to receive this curi- ous present. Tax Asusurton CariruLation.—The Morning Chronicle says, as the Times is the only journal that attempts to set up any defence tor the Ashburton surrender, 1t may be useful to direct attention to the course which that journal has adopted upon the boundary question when the whigs were in office. ‘We would earnestly ask those who may be disposed experiments of Horace H. Day’s India Rubber Life Preservers, Army Boats, &c., especially worthy the attention of those who go down to do business either upon Sie great or the little waters. All the experi: ments with them were highly satisfactory. Tue CenrrirveaL Rainway anp Car.—We must not forget to notice this phenomenon now ex: hibiting at Castle Garden, and which deservedly at- tracted much attention during the day. This won- derful piece of art has been exhibited in London re- peatedly, to large audiences of sciextifie persons, and to the surprise and satisfaction of all. Jt is made of cast iron, and is about 200feet long. It cen- are its present with ita former opinions. e sists of twe incJined planes, and a perpendicular cir- met th ti irit of cle forty two feet in circumference. Tear contain- coecurely ex lab awasins ts nat Saree newspaper recrimination, but because we ing one passenger, is started from the top of the highest part of the inclined plane, and by means of 3 ir jt iD) the momentum gained in the 4 “sg ed preciso fae Bo value, the opinions of Lord round the interior of the circle, e Tr an car at one time being upside down. rom thé to Gaxat Fine in Livenpoot —There was a great of the circle, the car descends to the ground and | fire at Liverpool on the 2éd ult. All the buildings then shoots upwards to the first promenade of the | 0n Great Howard street, from Compton to Neptune arden. The spectacle is novel and has a most | streets; on Compton, from Waterloo Road to Great thrilling effect upon the spectators. Howard street ; on Neptune, from the same to the A smasuep Lire Boat or Francts’.—We noticed | same; and on both sides of Formby street, from one of Francis’ Life Boats inthe Garden, broken | 8@me to same, and alo: ‘aterloo Road, embracing in. We now are able to say that it was broken at | anarea 624 yards, were lestroyed. Insurance on these the sides and bow, as she now appears, before put agate ro afvane ate paetes Rese Daria into the water, and in that state was rowed round | Denea ws sen gl tn the North Carolina 74. After that was taken to the | Cotton were burnt, valued at £354,000. bring Volta, and attached strongly to her. When} Starx or tax Manvracturine Disrricts.—The the explosion took place she was thrown over fifty | turn out may now be considered as entirely at an feet in the air, towering above the broken frag- | end—the resumption of labor at Ashton-under-Lyne, ments. She came down “right side up and in good Piseey aeey iyde, and Stockport being complete; order,” not having received a particle of injury, ex- | and the weavers in Manchester, who have shown cept the simple logs of a thoul pin. As soon as she eat obstinacy in their adherence to the strike, fell she wes boarded, and again rowed around the ESviow on Tuesday returned to their work, in such 74, with the bottom and sides open. This boat has } numbers as showe that the general combination been in service four years. The inventor must have | amongst them was entirely broken op Some few had great confidence, to submit to such a test; and | establishments, both in the town and in the coun- Jet a the world in future hold their Vpn and | try districts, are still at a stand; but we believe write their orders that every vessel may be supplied. | that, in all such cases, the absence of the workmen Every method has been adopted by the Institute and | from their employment arises from some accidental the government to test the boat, and she was finally | causes, unconnected either with the original ground sent on a visit to the upper regions. This is the last | ef the turn-out, or the demands which subsequent! of all ways to try a*Life Boat, and something more | sprang out of it. There is, however, a new turo- severe than storms and gunpowder must be resorted | out at Bolton, which ought not to be confounded to to distroy a Francis’ Life Boat. with the movement which has just subsided. The To-day (Wednesday) Col. Bankhead, from Fort | Bolton spinners, afier having been partially turned Columbus, (Governor's Island) with the school of | out by a body of strangers, resumed their work 3 seventy scholars, will the Institute at 2 P.M, | but, thinking that they were entitled to an advance a, of wages, gave regular notice to their employers that ‘Sveam Sup Cotumsia, Captain Miller, left Boston | such advance was required ; and, the demand not on Sunday afternoon, with twenty-nine passengers, | being complied with, the greater part of them left and a large mail. their work last Friday night. ean gomenyarenne: Tx Wearuegr anv THe Crors.—The weather has Superior Court. been fine throughout the week, and rapid progress Before Chief Justice Jones. has been made with harvest work in the more Oct. 18.—Fould, Strobo $ Co. vs. John W. Lyon.—This ward ‘districts. action shows the fdpeonto of care on the of clerks nag in Lorrowing money for their employers. It was brought to recover of defendant sum of $200 bor it personally, the rowed money, paid tohim on acheck to bearer. Thede fendant had ‘s Indeed, so anxious have farmers become to get in thk remainder of their crops, that .in some instances scarcely sufficient time has been allowed for |the mois ture which was imparted to the sheaves by the rains of the preceding week to evaporate, and we fear that some of the grain lately carted has been carried in too damp and hurried a manner. With this slight drawback, the operations of harvest have proceeded tavorably, and we believe that very little corn now remains abroad in any part of England clerk to Caswell & Co. who ment soon after the money was obtained. The that the $200 were received on account of C,&Co. On behalf of plaintiff, a witness stated that he met Mr. Lyon at the corner of Nassau and William streets, asked him for the amount, and he promised to pay it. It'was shown, Caswell for the emount, thus sipuityig that they did not pict whee gc mgpenyarmpeds aon Hf Vaedist for | The rise which prices of wh u ar} prices of wheat have lately under- pres “a aia igias: ane be! gone, has tempted the growers to thrash out rather oi ot plaintit Mr. E. Townsenu—Zsr defendant, Mr.E, | more preety a wip yas a oe far Lp ° ester a mueTSt, a further rise has en piace in the Maria M.Gowan vs. Jacob B. Kremer.—The plaintiff was | Vatu =f the article at mont cf the leading provincial sister to\the late Ald. Felix O’Neil, who bequeathed toher | markets. The contidued improvement has, how e+ the house and lot 184 Mulberry street, and she let it to de- | er, had the effect, of checking the demand, and pur- fendant at annum. Ald. 0. also left to his widow ‘bi one thict of higedtate, vaiuing this house at $3,000. chasers have exhibited a greater degree of caution to adopt the Times as a guide upon this subject, to kit really important that the public should be able to . | rable hire. —_——eoeeeE———E (one a bay, and the other a brown) are both aged, and of the same height—about 15 hands, These have enormously large tails, Geomented with the great majority of horses of the English breed) bat they are not nearly of the size of the other two. The manes of the four are very full and long, flow- ing to the length df upwards of 14 inches over either side of their necks. Their heads and necks are particularly large and full, very mueh resembling the horses of Flanders, and those bred in the Low Countries. ANEcDoTE oF THE QuxEN’s VisiT To SCOTLAND.— Among the gossip floating at Kenmore, is the fol- lowing :—Struck with the fine scenery and splendid entertainment at Taymouth Castle, the Queen is said to have sent for Sir Robert Peel on the night previous to her departure, and petitioned for an ex- tension of the visit for two days longer. The minis ter was inexorable ; the arrangements were all made at Drummond Castle, and on to Dalkeith, and could not be altered. Fully an hour was spent in this consultation, and another was held next morni with the like effect. The Queen was a little nettle > and when the Premier, shortly afterwards, went to enter the royal barge, on Loch Tay, her Majesty said, “ We are all full here, Sir Robert; there is no room ;” and the solemn Sir Robert had to step out and proceed in another barge to Killin. —Jnver- ness Courier. Frenou Loan ro Eayrr.—We have just learned, from undoubted authority, that Artim Bey, the ocn- fidential secretary of Mehemet Ali, is on tte way to Paris, for the purpose of negociating there a loan of between £2,000,000 and 000,000, for which it is confidently stated 6 per cent per annum will be of- fered, Jt is also stated that the Pasha will give asa guarantee,the export duties on his cotton. On these terms there is little doubt that the loan will be rea- dily taken ; our surprise, however, was not slight when we learned that it was about to be negociated at Paris. In England we have reason to believe that, with the offered security, the loan could be had on much more advantageous terms than those which are offered to French capitalists. The plenty of money in London, at present, would procure them ‘or the Pasha, even it our reliance on the credit of Egypt, and on the security offered, were more limi- ted than it is. French diplomacy has, we doubt not, been busily employed to procure this position of af- faire, and we shall certainly have, in a few days, our Gallic contemporaries canvassing the deteriora- ted financial state of Great Britain, which compelled the Pasha to have recourse to Franee in his diffi- broth and dwelling on the pbitices due by him to the French nation, ‘ which will be ever ready to aid him with its resources.” We shall see !—Shipping Gazette. a Witson’s Scortisn Exrertainment.—Mr. Wil- son’s second entertainment, or lecture on Scottish song, at the Reyal Assembly Rooms, on Thursday evening, September 22, was well attended, a great number being obliged to leave who could not gain admittance. This lecture went off as happily as the first. It comprised the “Adventures of Prince Charles, and a review of the rebellion of 1745,” in- troducing the Jacobite songs, including those he was speceially requested to sing before her Majesty on her late visit to Scotland. They were given in first rate style, whilst the literary and historical ex- planations excited the greatest interest concerning them, and enabled the auditory the better to under- stand them. Mr. Wilson, we find, remains in Liver- pool some time longer. Scorrish Dancers ror Winpsor Castix.—We understand that directions have been given to en- gage sixteen men and sixteen women of the most skilful and graceful dancers at Taymouth Castle and neighborhood, to proceed to Windsor Castle, where her Majesty will entertain a select party, and exhibit to them the ekill, agility, und grace of our Scottish dancers with which, we believe, our beloved Queen was highly delighted.—Scotch paper. Quick TraveLtine.—The Panther, locomotive engine, Thompson, engineer, Ashton, guard, left Manchester on Thursday at 22 minutes to one o’- clock, and arrived in Liverpool at 18 minutes one, completing the journey in 40 minutes! e believe the distance has never before been done in so short a time since the opening of the railway. It was a special train, engaged by Lord Eglinton’s trainer, who, we understand, was on the race-course within an hour and ten minutes from the time he lett Manchester—a distance of forty miles. German RaiLroaps.—A letter from Vienna, Se tember 5, eays :—‘* As soon as the contracts for the railroad works in the north and south were taken, workmen were at once set on. Not less than 6008 men are employed near Olmutz, and the number will be increased to 10,000 towards the end of au- tumn. On the Trieste line, the works are also urged forward, and 30,000 men willbe employedon both lines in the spring.” Fatat Prize-rigut.—Salisbury was on Monday last disgraced by a prize fight, in which a young man, eighteen years of age, named James Lenton, fella victim to his adversary, a person about his own age, named Joseph Coombs. It appears that a spirit of rivalry has for some time been manifested in both the combat: who were first cousins, and both of them by le !cordwainers, and Monday was fixed upon for a trial of prowess. Accordingly, 4 weger was laid, and the parties, having calmly selected their seconds and bottle-holders, proceeded ta field near Lobcome-gate, about a ai on the London road, where they were prohibited by the owner of the field from exhibiting their brutedlike passions. Nothing disconcerted, however, they re- paired to 2 meadow some quarter of a mile nearer the city, but also within the precincts of the borough, and commenced fighting. The combat lasted nearly an hour, with half-minute intervals between the rounds ; but before many had been fought the de- ce was beaten “stone b'in.” In order, how- ever, that this mischance should not interrupt the exhibition, his eyes were lanced, and he continued to fight until nature became entirely exhausted, a he was heard to say that he would give in. At this time he was ghustly pale, and trembled from head to foot, but being over-persuaded to have one round more, he stood up for that purpose, and while Coombs was again pittee. himself in fighting atti- tude, the deceased fell to rise no more. At this pe- riod, although life was evidently all but extinet, the conquering party drew the stakes and almost imme- diately repaired to their rendezvous, leaving the deceased upon the field. There he was allowed to remain al a quarter of an hour, and was then removed on a hurdle to the Salisbury Infirmary, but betore the poor fellow reached the mstitution, death put an end to his sufferings. The magistrates im- mediately ordered the police to apprehend the par- ties concerned, and one of the seconds, named Read, is already in custody, and, as the others are known, we trust that every one will be punished. ‘We regret to add that upwards of two hundred per- sons witnessed this revolting transaction.—London paper, Sept. 24. Great Fire tn Liverpool, (From the Liverpool Mail, Sept. 24. Yesterday morning witnessed the most awfully destructive fire, whether as regards life or property, that has ever taken place in this locality—more des- tructive, indeed, than the memorable fire in 1802, which destroved the Goree warehouses. On that Oceamon, Lhe emummAaced W'R—WATENUUDee,, £44,500 ; grain, £120,000 Tr, 000 ; conee, £8,500 ; cotton, £30,000; sundries, ! total, £323,000 ; whereas, on the present occasion, one article alone—cotton, has been destroyed to an ex- +. + aareeding the whole of the loss by that memo- All the buildings on Great toward sizect, &> i in their operations. The recent rise in prices has | Compton to Neptune street; on Compton, from unpaid) the defendant refused to rete with plainti aver, | Been nearly as rapid as the depression which proce: | Waterloo Road to Great Howard street, on Nep- ing that the executor of Ald. O’N. had forbidden himto do | ded it ; these sudden fluctuations usually work their | tune, from the same to the same ; and on both sides so, and the rent continued to accumulate. It was shown | own cure. When the panic was at its height, we | of Formby street, from same to same, and along hat the eatate was worth about $18,000, but that it was | predicted that a reaction would occur, and we are | Waterloo road, embracing an area of @B4 equare mot for more than that amount. Verdict for plain- tiff, sue sj 33. For plaintiff, Messrs. Mason & May bury—For defendant Mr, Mulock. now disposed to think that the latter has reached its maximum point. Without feeling at all disposed to alter the — vere st Magister given with ‘ __ | regard to the yie! wheat, we do not anticipate boial was cuncanions unier seoian led scheweshe eka any further enhancement in its value, and should not sought to recover from the owners of property on which | feel surprised it, for some weeks to come, business he had been engaged. Verdict for pinintift $190 84, remained in a quiet state. At most of the markets For plaintiff, Messrs. G. §. Still and W. Mulock—For | held in the early part of the week, betore the wea- fendant, Mr. Leveridge. ther had again assumed a settled appearance, the reported rise of 3s. per quarter at Mark Lane was sufficient to give a further impetus.—Mark Lane Express. PRESENTS TO THE QUEEN FROM THE QUREN oF Srary.—Four beautiful Spanish entire horses arrived # Si adeor op reaneraay iy , a8 presents was received from him, stating that he would be unable | {rom Teal » OF Epain, 10 her Majesty, . These to leave Ppiladelphia till 5 o'clock in the afternoon. ‘The | horses reached this country shortly after her Ma- counsel for defence refused to bring on their witnesses till | jesty had left for Scotland. They were taken by the prosecution had got through, and the Court adjourned | the Spanish grooms to the new riding-house, where to this forenoon at half.past ca ae seen by ~~ mend and Prince Albert. ray NE ang je hoi ‘were te: bape List rses were afterwards ridden by the royal equerries, and subsequently by Mr. Myers, Pri SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Albert’s riding-master, ty whom they were put Court of Oyer and Terminer, Before Judge Kent and Ald. Underwood and Kelly. Oct. 18.—Trial of Monroe Edwards.—The trial was continued till near 3 o’clock. Nothing material was eli- ited beyond what is already known. Recorder Vaux, of Philadelphia, had been summoned asa witness, but a letter Benjamin Sherwood, N. Y., November 17. through their various paces. Her Majesty havin George Coleman, i ze made a selection of two for her own use, eecsed = fg bs the others to her illustrious consort. One of those Richard Westlake,“ retained by the Queen is a beautifully marked . (late M. B. & W. Savage,) NAY. sekwball, standing 14 hands high, and 6 years old. Francis Haves, (late Harris & Brewsier, Hyde Park) | The other isa well-f yrmed cream-colored horse of now of Rye. the same height, and rising 7 years old. The tails Ambrose Baker, (late A. & J. Baker, Coxackie,) Nov. 19. | of these two animals reach to within an inch of the Joson Baker, id “| ground, and ase perfect curiosities from, their ex- Harvey Petit’ Poughkeopeie, “| traordinary size and extreme fallness. The horses Moses B. Dupuy, N. ¥., N.v. 16 presented by the Queen to his Royal Highness ne yards, were destroyed. Insurance on these amount- ed to £370,000. Forty-eight thousand bales of cot- ton were burnt, valued at £884,000. Total loss in merchandize and building reached the enormous i Ena . The distressing calamity has been far more tra- gical in its results than ihe caly event in the history of the town with which it can be compared. The loss of life can never be satisfactorily ascertained, but we should not be surprised if, including the un- fortunate persons at nt in the Northern Hospi- tal, and those buried Feneath the ruins, all traces of whom will be forever swept away before the re- moval of the burning materials—the number ex. (eeded thirty. Under the rains pets ni dh ” be- ieved, eighteen to twenty men, jan. roa cet as ete howpital ball thas war: | at it is feared, will not survive. In theghospital thete are now seventeen dreadfully mutilated, ex- clusive of three who died there yesterday. % lt is estimated that about 15,000 bbls. turpentine have been consumed, besides a large quaatity of luce of other descriptions. ‘The fire originated in Crompton street, formerly Wood street, at the north end of the town, near the decks. The three principal stfeets affected— namely, Crompton street, Formby street, and Nep- tune street, all nearly opposite the Borough Gaol, run east and west between Great Howard street (in yg es \spiaon stands) and Waterloo road, close tot! 5 Two of the engines were also |, and we fear a consid: number of the firemen were i Great exertions were made to save the