The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1851, Page 3

ye of each other. melancholy resume of deaths in the year 1 By ordes of the King, the {tali Kortgatads theatre ry to srform Hosa of * f) Barbiere di ich, in a few hee, is the of the . c ‘form Koseini’s opera Siviglia,” ut the Court theatre, ‘at Potsdam. Madame Castellan will fill the part ‘of Rosina. M. Neidhart bas returned from his journey, to London, with the chorus of the Dome. in passing through Cologne, he gave a concert pt aid of the funds for the completion of the cathe- Atthe Teatro Real, Madrid, Madame Alboni has obtained a complete t iumph in ‘* La Sonnam- bula.” In the firet act the cantatrice was loudly applauded; and was encored in the couplet of the final duet; her success hae been such as to induce the management to continue “La Sonnambula” in the bills; there has just taken place the fifth per- formance of this opera She is afterwards to ap- ar in ** The Barber of Seville ,” and ia ‘‘Ceneren- lola.” In the interval, * Beatrice di Tenda,” with Frezzolini and Barroilhet, continue to delight the public Gardoni is to appear as the Count to Albi- ni’s Rosina, and Ronconi as Figaro. At the Theatre San Ferdinando, Seville, a new opera has been produced, entitled ‘* Malek Adel,” the composition of Don Ventura Sanchez. It was well received by a crowded house. Atthe same theatre * ja di Chamouni,”” by Donizetti, was repregented with the most brilliant success, for the benefit of Madame Rossi Caccia. Madame Anna Thillon and Mr, Hudson have “been in Edinburgh. The great Music Hall was crowded; and the critics of that critical city speak in the highest terms of the pleasure derived from the entertainment. Added to the principals are M. ‘Thillon, a violin player of very considerable ta- lent; and Mr. _ Loder, as conductor and pianist, whose name will be agreeably familiar to Many es the composer of that charming opera, 4* The Night Dancere,”’ and many pleasing ballads. Messrs. Baring’s Cireular. Lonpon, Friday, Jan 31, 1851-5 P.M. Since our last advices of 17th instant, the demand vor almost every description of colonial amd foreign ‘produce has been limited, and, with a few exceptions prices have had a downward tendency. Cotton is gather lower, and more freely offered. Breadstuffs re- mained depressed. Sugar held pretty firmly. Coffee 2s. cheaper, The subdjoined remarks record the prin- cipal traneactions;— American Brocks,—There have been a few buyers ef United States 6’s, of both inscriptions and bonds, but without any general demand, and free sellers at our quotations for these two securitie: In the Btate stocks the business has been trifling. Canad 6’a in demand. United States 6's, 1862, 1020 103; ditto, 1867-8 104 9 105; ditto Bonds, 108 a 109. Illinois Internal Im: Provement, 65; ditto deferred, 84. Indiana Btat 71a 73, ditto deferred 234, 36 » 38. Massachusetts Sterling 6's, 10534 910634. Maryland Sterling 6's, a New York 6's, 93 a 95. Ohio 6's, 108% #105. Pennsylvania 6's, 83 a $5. Virginia 6's, 94 296. Bos- ton City 6's, 923g a 933¢. Canada 6's, 105, ex dividend. Asus are diffoult to quit; there are ‘York pot at 28s, and Montreal pear! at 208. 6d. Cocuineat.—The sales have been confined to 150 bags Of all kinds at the previous reduction; we quote Hon- 8s, bd. @ 38. 11d., and Mexican silver 3s, We notice small of Trinidad at 528 for ry, and G80 bag wiry, an na beve been withdr: 808, Correx has been neglected, and prices have declined 2s percwt. The public euler have offered 1,000 casks, 500 bags plantation, and 600 bags native Ceylon, 1,750 begs Babia, 800 bales, 600 half bales Mochs. and 1,200 ‘bags Kart Indie, nearly the wnole of whioh have been withdrawn. Of native Ceygon the sales privately oon- Gist of 4.500 bags from 478 a 50s., the last price having Deen 47s. 6d for good ordinary. 'A cargo of 2,800 bags St. Domingo has been sold, floating for the Mediterra- wean, atdis. The advices trom the near continental orts, thou, mewhat firmer, a1 noouraging; be Netherlands Trading Society ‘announced for their spring tales all sheir present atock —%70.001 bags, 164 804 begs of which are to be offered at Amsterdam on 10th March, and the remainder on the 13th of March, at Rotterdam; but notwithstanding the small- ntity, good ordi Co.'s Javea ruled goes of Black dea, ‘¢ now more trmly heid, sud at may be quoted 343 6d freight, and insurance. The arrii keep that article depressed, and American barrels are ‘Very dificult of sale; the best brands ai over 23s. 0224.64. We have nothing doi: in Indian Corton rules very dull, and sales of only 820 bales been reported by the brokers during the past two At Liverpool, with very slight fluctuations, erket bas been heavy. and priovs are rather low- er; they now 1 and up’ 64. tor inferior to very geod, being tully yance. Oil of Cassia 10s # 10s 64 Vil held for Sr. 94, with buyers at 5* 64. We not Of 160 bales Bengal naffiower from £6 2 B00 jac of various Kinds at Red sanders wood Gum olibanum very readily bri £12100, Campher bas recovered from its lal Pp! sion, Japan having been re rold at 408 Turkey opium dull at 12s. for the best. Quickeilver 3s. 9d ‘hiae vermillion has been sold at 4s 3d a 4s 44. ( 78112 Kast India in sale yesterday, 1d; prices for the better classes averaged but on the commoner sore, suitable for export, * e ot \d was obtained. Calcutta buffaloes cold at extreme prices Ixvico --About 600 chests Bengal, of fine marks, hands at fully Vctober rates For the nce Lith proximo 14,026 chests are now fron market within « few days has been leas firm; but though the makers continue generally to aek £6 for bars, and £628 64.0 £554 for rails, free i Tresv ~-Public sales of 42 tons Kast India, tons Kgyptian. have gone off with epirit at fully pre. ‘vious rater; the former from £26 © £33 168, for teeth 1g 4044 to 184 ibs, with emall from £16 los @ £80 16s; the latter from £21 1s. @ £27, Lanp steady at 808. a 408 for Westorn, up to 42s, for best in kegs. Linseep Canes, cing to the continued mildness of the season. are dificult of rale and Tj ‘we quote tine American in package; thick round £668 at £6; London made £7 6: ood, £39. Olive also quiet nshert supply, and firm at xe Cocoa nut 26 Linseed bas receded to Sé#., on the apot wit Of 4.150 bags Bengal, at auction. about one-half has been disposed of at ir. Od. n 20n. for 19% to 3 Ibe. refraction. being 64. cheaper for the lower descriptions ; 200 bags Madr ‘Nitrate soda, 380 tons. sold at Ids. 3d. aticat Brevren is in limited request: holders sek £1620 64 Bheet zinc— £21 for ordinary spectiicatiens Brices —At the oti rales ot 2 864 bales Ceylon Offered 1 540 bales fo yers; prices ruled 3d. a 64. Jower on all the nd fine qualities of lvt and 9d wer deecriptions of 24 and & obtained — ticles we notica rales ot Bijd.a8 500 bays 3 sold at 27a. a 274. 6d 92+. 64. a OTe. €d. being Bourbon clover at O44 retty steady, with a within the pest few days fortnight have taken 2700 hhde, M 8 8s. lower; light im other ki @ 58s. 6d ; 2.200 boxes Havann din a 4e., Drown Paraiba at 858 « 860 6d, with a cargo of 5.00) j.® cargo ot 2000 hage brown one of 600 tons Maniela at S78 6d. and 200 baskets 1.200 bage J 87s 87s 6d. with 100 Dhde 500 begs Cuba trom 6d 0420 64 Onr Conti tal advices do not report activity but holders are firmer, and loek for rly renewal of demand. as the trade are barely At St. Petersburg thing doing by last dates 49d on t id 488 Od @ 8 three months 1144. te now the q aotetion for com 11,000 packages have been broug? 8.000 only found hayers withou e. except Oolong. which sold A lower Pername 20s. t and for Feb- * for new tallow, ‘Tra fe dull. Ion Vongou jon of bay i twken place ia bar 89%. refined mn dealt in to some reapectively coke and dus. for 1. 0 e now wor! 28 for I Prices are firmly supported by holders Tonacco Dut the trode and exporters now little dieporition to operate. No adjudication was made in Paris on the ‘Doth inet . os the prices tender: et ‘were above the limits of the Nevie b Tonrenrine —We quote rouce Ta, Od. at which the Jest sele wns mode. Spirits have leclined, American ‘Ds | Bnicish 628 a Sis. 64 Markets exvoot, Corton Manner, Friday wick in prices, tearcely anouating te oo Turaday the demand hae again f youl ‘The § aa rices, teosived om Tuesday, were act calou The | the government | y | vie a, Merante and Quenan, died within a few | lated toimfluence prices materisdly. The state of the rivers had occasioned receipts: but the estimates genorally formed of the were ehanged. As the week has sdvanced the been very limited, and the fotal yg ty j pri 324.to Xd. per iby the authorised quotations of fair qualities being reduced +d. per lb. On the lowerand middling qualities some greater concession has been made. Brazils and Egyptians are in very limited de- they, too. hive partially declined 4d. pei are freely offered. and & décline of 34d. per rally been submitted to. 2130 bales of been taken on spe- 40 Maceios, 30 Egyp- mand, and ib. Surat culation. tian, and 440 Surat for export. Sales this week d. ad. Sales the H 40 Cart 3,170 Surat 20 Bahia boa 3 140 Boo Tmports—To this date, 1851, 89,426 bag 1860, 169,624 bege. Btooke—On this date, 1851, 451,830 bags; same time, ‘18£0, 4 Sales—Total sales to the 3ist Jan . 1860, 262,690 bags; total sales tothe 3let Jan., 1861, 100,080 bags Giascow Corton Manan, Patpay, Jan, 31,—In the early part of the week, our market showed some symptoms of improvement. and rather more business was done, at o slight advance; but within the last oy or two, the demand has been limited, and the prices at par with those ef last Friday. Livexroot Prices Current -For the week ending Friday, January 31.—Sugar.—There has been only a very |imited demand for all descriptions. and the for- mer prices have been barely supported this week; the rates do not exoeed 200 bhde. of B.P., with 4,000 bi Bengal. and 2,000 bage of Madras,the latter being chief. 960 bags ly 81s 6d per owt. Foreign: Brown Pernambuco 10s 3d in bon 1d Porto Rico Molaese: 188 6d Limite. and Brazil, at about former rat andjBabia Cocoa 30s perowt. Rice rather lower terms. Rum goes off readily at previous Tea: A good businecs has been done in congou to 1s 4d, and scented orange pekoes from is 54 ought long prices Shell lac 41s er cwt for fine orange. ac dye 10d to 18d ood Ib.; tinoal 568, turmeric 13s, seed lao (48 9d per owt : castor of! 43d’ per 1b. mother-o- pearl shells £14 108 | rd ton: saltpetre 26s for Madras, and ordinary Ben 6, up to 266 6d for fine: nitrate of soda 13s 6d to 13s 94 per cwt Dyewoods:— Campeachy igi aber £5 178 6d to £6, 8t Domingo £3 12s 6d to £3 168, Jamaica £3 11s 3d to £3 12s 64, Ba- vanilla fustio £4 108, Maracaibo £4 7s 6d common ga- boen barwood £358, and green ebony £6 5s per ton; turpentine 7s percwt. Seeds: American clover 40s to 52s, and oldjGerman white 30s per cwt.: Culoutta linseed, to farrive, 468 (Per quarter. St Domingo bees. wax £6 10s per owt. ket for hides continues firm. There bas been a p: Sumac, Palermo,13s 6d to 14s per ow! £6 158 per cwt. Olive of] has been pale seal oil £36 108 to £37, and cod oil £37 per spirits ot turpentine 31s 6d to 32s per owt. has been in better demand for seme time past, at £28 6s to £28 108 per ton. and, for arrival about August, £20 per ton. Y. C. tallow 386, North Amer- ican 376 to 388 Jute £11 10s to £14 5s per ton for common to very good middling. Livearoor Provision Manxer, Friday, Jan. 31.—Dur- ing the k there has been a steady demand for beet, without variation in price; but, as usual. the best brands meet a readi’reale than secondary descriptions. In perk an advance of 2s. to 3s. per barrel has been freely made, in some measure owing tothe goverament having advertised for tenders to contract for 6.000 tieroes (along with 2000 tierces beef) for the navy, but more to the reduced etook, and to the short clesrances from America. The high price at which bacon is held has the effect of limiting the demand; however, unless suppliee increase materially, we see nothing to cause a ‘No new bams have yet ar- 30 shoulders. With an in- it 1s to 2s. bas been realised. and holders now asx 44s. for barrels Fine peed continues to meet a ready sale, yut of sorts go off very slowly oO Try main without m rally well supplied with orders. Preset Liverpool:—Merchant bar £6 10*; nail £7; sheets £7 158; Scotch pig £2 11s. reds Livexroot Woon Maaxet, Farpay, Jan. 81 Pp the ns | £6; hoops the past month, we have experienced a good de for all deecriptions of wool, There have been oaly few wi being very bar bas been expected; b: were in most oases at an imprev. In the manufacturi loyed, but the en rather ki dere being ticle, and prio witbout change. Peruvian wools are in great re- quest at 11d. to 13d per lb Mediterranean. 477 bales, which are in fair demand; for the first kind 8%, Pet, 1. has been paid. and some part 4 to 94 per Ib 1,600 bales fine col: fo reign are advertised for publicaale Feb. 6t abou: 1,000 bales of the seme kinds for the 7th of February, in addition to which there will be about 1.000 hales 0 low wools for the latter day, ebiefly Kgyptian, Turkey, and Portugal. Havre Manxer, Jan. 29 -Cottop—Since our report, per Canada, of the 15th instant, we have had no stexmer tes. but by the Africa Baltic we received succeasively from thence dates to the let and 8th trom New York. and 26th Dec. and 6th inst. irom N. 01 per telegr 8 war generally expecte 4 prices up tn all th demand; bu lation of stock bere. our market bas und gradual decline of 4. to 5f; last w such that quotations were ¢ difficulty om account of the diffe the desire which tr ne an ng to their aid, the rales on Monday reached 1,000 bales, with a little more regularity in prices. particularly for Louisiana tres ordinotre, which is becoming scarce; and yenterday abeut 1.000 bales changed bands at the same rates. The decline appears for the present at an end without the political difficulties, ich arealways detrimental to business, sbould agai position Tosum up, the sales during t night reach 7.400 5 and we look tor twenty-ei; cleared @t our latert dates pte and exports from th those of last year, at the expect almost as many ehi jonn. added to the political state of thi father to pi it then otherwise, wf some tim: * refer to our ’ lola Fld . ote Le lola 116 Upland. 1862 bales period amount te 11,471 bales bas been in good request, but at prises, principally for stook to The tales consist of 60. barrel rt, at 43 to 43 76 per 60 kil d American pearis, are n nd the t the former at r 60 kil, duty w York, by #e- ing whatever, . a e mown Coffee —Our transactions have been ind consumption has only taken 160 bags St. Domingo, at f 87 60, and 287 bags Rio from f. 47 60 to 64; but towarda the clone of the week 90 bags Rio were taken for export, at t, 62 to 62 per 50 kil. in bond. The late imports of 10,668 bags from Rio have rendered the market heavy for rorts. We have received 2.254 b rH yy Mathurin Cor, Lard continues 0 mention, prices remaining uty 3 3 32 ry 2% caske New York by ival. Oil. Whale oil is aid. Ne 1 ‘lote have found bay: at languid rates ‘The sales ‘at £26 6) per 60 kil N India, whivh con timuer quite tf. 12.0 15, ae- cording to quality. Imperte: 7) tie: rolina, from New York, by Samuel M Fox, and 229 tierces from Charleston by Volant, besides i604 bags East [odia vie Rotterdam. Suger.— Our transactions are almost at a compiote stand, bring confined to email lote for our refl- pers, who have purchased about 250 hhds. Frenoh Weet at f 65 60 per 50 kil, duty paid. We notice. also, ® pudire enle of 3:0 bays damaged Reunion at f 60508 | uty paid; avd8: bhde, Porto Rico att 2 ¥ Oki in bond Imports 2 cases from Cuba. by | at Thin week w part for expert art on epeca 0 negleete could be ob: rates THE SCHOOL QUESTION. i eee Address of the Atate Central Committee. To rae Town SuPeRiNTENDENTS AND FKIKNDS or Free Epucation or Tax Statk or Naw ‘ORK :— Frttow Crrizens :—At a meeting recently held by the Town Superintendents of Oneida county, the following reselutions, among others, were unanimously adopted :— P ‘ Resolved, That we regard it highly important to the safety and well-being of the community, and the stability of government, thet the free school principle be fully and permanently sustained. Reeolved, That we deem it both just and neees- sary that our laws be go revised as to make it obli- gatory on aseessors to fix their estimate of property, real and personal, at its cash value, and that such penalties as would be reasonable should be imposed by law on all pereons concealing their property from assessors, and thereby defrauding the State of its sources of revenue. Resolved, That for school purposes, there should be raised, by statute, an amount of money equal to the sum annually a; ned from the income of the State School Fu that a county tax should be levied in each c: uaty, equal to twice the amouat which the county receives Irom the State School Fund—the town tax being no longer obligatory—- and that an annual poll tax of fifty cents should be levied on each adult male person in the State, ex- cept that aliens should not be so taxed tll they shall have been six months in the State. Resolved, That we believe it to be equitable and expedient that one-half of all the public money re- ceived by each town, should be divided equally among the several school districts, and the other half as now, according to the number of children, of school-age, residing in the several districts of the town, due regard being had to the joiat dis tricts, se called, as wellas to those which are en- tire. Resolved, That we deem it essential to the proper working of the free school system, that every district should support a school, by a compe- tent teacher, at least eight months in each year. Resolved, That we are to abolishing 4 office of town superiutendent; but we believe at sent benefit would result from having an as- sembly district, or county superintendent, not for examing teachers and schi but for receiving and condensing town and disirict reports, and for warding them to the Department of State, and for hearing and deciding appeals from local boards, and for calling and visiting county normal schools or teacher’ tutes. Resolved, Finally, That we recommend to th town superintendents and friends of free education in each of the other counties of the State that,a early as practicable, they assemble ia convention to take into consideration the present condition of our schools, and to embody, in resolves, the views of their fellow citizens in relation to the subject. Also, that they appoint delegates, equal in aum- ber to twice the representation of the county in the Aseembly, to atienda State convention, to be held in Utica, on Wednesday, the 26th of February next. Resolved, That a corresponding committee be inted to issue a cali for a State convention, at ¢ time and place mentioned, for the purpose of consolidating and harmonizing the views of the several counties of the State, and petitioning our present Legislature for such alteration of our school Jawa as may then be agreed upon. The subject of common school laws and regula- tions affects and interests the whole State. Our resent school laws are confessedly imperfect. ‘hey demand revision. The people claim revision as aright, as justice, and they will have it. The alterations needed ure radical and thorough. The committee indulge the opimon that no class of our citizens are so well prepared to say what altera- tions our school Jaws need, and what will be satis- factory, as che town superintendents of the State They (the town superintendents) have seen the practical working of our present school system in every city, county, and town inthe State The are prepared to state where it has workea well, whee it bas not, and the reasons for the different results. The committee would respectfully cail the atten- tion of the town superintendents of the several coun- ties to the sentiments involved in the above reso- tutions. They also hope that the town superinten- dent of the shire town of each county will immedi- ately iesue a call for a county convention of town superintendents, and others interested, to take ac- tion on the suggestions of the ubove resolutions, and to appoint delegates to a State convention, to be held at the time and place ahove stated. And in cage the superintendent specified of any couaty thall fail, neglect, or refuse to call such meeting within ten days from the date of this notice, it is recommended that any two superintendents of such county shall issue such call; euch convention to be beld in the usual place of such meetings. . The welfare of the young, and the prosperity ot our State and nation demand the action we request at your hands. Our legislators are now considermg the eubject of amendments to the schoo! laws They want light on the subject, that they may not commit as great an error im legislation, 09 the one under which we now labor. [t is the most important question that will come up for the con sideration of our present Legislature. [t should be fully diseuseed and judiciously settled. And the committee fluiter themselves that the action of a State conveation of those who are acquainted with the wants of the people would be heard and heeded by our law-makeos. a We are happy to state, that in the opinions ex- pressed by us, of the utility and importance of such county and State gatherings of the superintendents, we have the private approbation of such of our senators 6nd members cf Assembly as we have had the privilege of conversing with, Now is the nme for action, before the frae schoo! law has been unconditionally repealed or injudiciously emended. It is hoped that every county in the State will be fully represented. ‘The papers of the State are requested to publish this call Utiea, February 3, 1551. D. S Herrron, Josern McKers, A. G. Savisaury, RK. D. Jones, H. R. Vere, O. B. Pierce, M. Correrno.t. State Central Committce. The Free School Law of New York. ABSTRACT OF THR RKPORT OF THE MAJORITY OF THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON COMMON ®CHOOLS, ON THE PRTITIONS FOR THE AMENDMENT AND REPEAL OF THR PREE SCHOOL LAW. r. I. H. Benedict, from the majority of the Committee en Colleges, Academies, and Common Schools, to which was referred the petitions for the repeal and amendment of the Free School Law, reporte:—That, deeply impressed with the importance of the subject committed to their charge, they have given to it a3 full and imparti-l a consideration as circumstances would permit They have been actuated im their deliberations solely by a desire to present some plan by which the educational system of the State might be establiched upon a basis sound and enduring; know ing that a system that will not meet the views of a mujority of the people of the State is liable to be aliered and amended at each successive seesion of the Legistature; and this vaseilating policy can not but prove extremely prejudicial to the cause et education. In view of this, your committee have endeavored to act in a spirit of justice to the 800,000 children of the State, who are pleading, with the natural eloquence of youth, for their un- doubted right to taste some of the fruits of learn. ing; and in justice, also, to the great body of tax peyers, who are affected, or seemingly so, by con- ceding this right. The large number of petitions that have been re- ferred to your committee, coming from diflerent sections of the State, prove conclusively that there is existing among the people adeep feeling of dis- content with the provisions of the present law. Many of your petitioners demand its unconditional repeal. Yet many of them, your committee are happy to observe, while expressing a dissatisfac- tion with the law, simply ask that such modifiea- tions may be made therein as will make it more acceptable to the taxable portion of the commu- nity, and, in consequence, more efficient in its operation A . . * Im our State, as early as 1795, an act was parsed, by which the sum of $50,000 was appropri- d ennually, for five years, among the several towne of the State, and the towne were required to rave an equal amount forthe suppert of com- mon schools. fn 1805 a permanent tund for the same purpose Was esinblished, by the passage of an act appropriating 500,000 acres of land, ‘to raise a fund for the encouragement of common schools.” The Surveyor General was authorized to sell the land, and the prineipal derived from such sale, with the iuterest aceruing thereon, was to be loaned, until the whole interest should amount to $50,000 agnually- which inserest was to be distributed among the common schools as the Legislature should direct ‘This fuad has, by various legislative enactments, been increased, until now the capitel of our common echoo! Fund is $2,290,000—which fund is being annually in- according: to quality Noa Sinoe the beginning of the yen= the nguld. an} we have no tra port, prio ing nominal at f 255 a 265 p I, daty paid Importe 44 bundles from New York, by Satauci M. Fox. Stock: 80.000 kil. Woods —No' inc avy note. Drewoods are \angaid: Oampencliy, » in Im orte: 28 tons by Klien; 9000 Kil, #apan £ 3; legwood. at f. 60660 fastic freta sarta Mar nl 10.000 kil. Nicaragua wood from Ostend. | ure ee re renere a at x Ouro. —The report of the Secres ary ot State, of Ohio that the whole tount of money app oy d by the State, for ‘veational purposes in } was $682,119 78. Chere are in the § 274 common schools, ttended by The report si ¢ retarne are #. complete, in #0 far as the num | +f scholars ia concerned, several of the cou | baving made no returns crevsed by the addition of $25,000 from the inter- est of the U S Deposit Fund. By an act of the Legistatnre in S11, a cc mmirsion w ppointed to “report a system for the organization, regulation, and establiehment” of Common Schoois. This cotomission presented aa elaborate report to the Legislature of 1812. Aecoroimgly, a law was pase ed, which wes, substantially, the basis of our very useful ard efficient system of common seclwols motil the year 184%. Under this syetem, the pro- cevds of the Common School Fund of the > ate M appertioned among the different towns of t'¢ according to the popota‘ion therein; and the engervieorsel cach county were directed av spally to levy by tex upon each town,a em correr ponding with the pmoeunt received from the tute Theae euma meade the public me aeys of the town, and were to be distributed ainung the several eebool districts of the town, +, proportion to the number ot children thereim, octween the ages of 80, h longer as the trustees should direct. Whattvesiease werere, quuee for the payment of the teacher’s wages, after ducting the public money of the district, were to be Tased by raie bill, from thoee sendi 4 dren to the school, in proportion to the number of days such children had been in attendance. Suctr were, substantially, the main features of our com- mon school systerr up to the year 1819. To say that it had accomplished much good tothe cause of education, and had realized the hopes of its origina- tors and supporters, would be awarding it buta faint meed of approbation. It had surpassed the most sanguine expectations of its friends. Under its influence, as appears from reports furnished to the superintendent of common schools, for the year 1849, there bad been organize d 11,897 school dis- tricts, und the number of children that had receiv- ed instruction during the year, was 794,500, being en excess of 59.312 over the number between the ages of 6 and 16 years, and 16,191 over the whole uomber Ssvghe during the preceding year, while the schools had been kept open during an average period of eight months. ell might the philan- thropist point with admiration to a system produc- tive of suoh results, and the skeptic in the science of free government banish his doubts, in view of such universal diffusion of knowledge. * * * * * ° * It has been urged with much pertinacity, by some of your petitioners, that the ate of New York had @ preponderating influence upon the question ; that her maierity of more than 37,000 votes in vor of the act fastened the system upon the State ; and that, as she had an educational system of her own, separate and distinct from the State at large, she was not equitably entitled to vote upon the question. The plausibility of this objection is conceded; but, in the opinion of @ majority of ed committee, its ground is wholly untenable. if at can be shown that the city of New York is separate in interest and policy, and is in Ro way dependent on or advantageous to the other sections of the State, then might some weight be attached to the objection. But such is not the case. New York is the heart of the State, receiving and giving back wealth to every portion thereof Her oo as the commercial emporium of the inion, is reflected upon every part of the State. But forher agency the abundant harvests of the farmer might rot in his fields ;—but for the indus try and thrift of the farmer, the city might fall from its greatness. The interests of both ure ho- mo weed Rad chad conduces to the prosperity and glory of the @ne, a ins in a proportionate degree to the other. if t is admitted (and whe in this State will deny the assertion ?) that a republi- can form of government is the best adapted to the happinees ot the people, and most conducive to their prosperity, the question then recurs as to the beet method to continue that government. {t will be conceded by every one that the perpetuity of free institutions is based upon the intelligence and virtue of the people; and the chiet cy of dif- fusing these is the common school. The educated in the State. (It is proper to re- mark Get thie tare is uned to te those pum. some six or in gum- adjacent to the borders of the States of Penn- yl and Massachusetts.) The provisions of is section were made with partic! reference to the ‘sely populated districts of the State, which, without, such equal distribution, would be unable to sustain a and tpublie school. Your committee could not reconeile ft with a sense of justice to the larger distri, foaming a majority in the State, to recommend the equa! di ribution of any greater sum. __ as By the fifth seotion of the the remaining one-fourth of the amount raised by a State tax, together with three-fourchs of all moneys appro- priated by the State for the support of common schools, is apportioned according to the number of ebildren ween the ages of four and twenty-one yeurs of age, residing in said district. It is also enjoined that the schools shall be kept open during eight months of the year, by a uly qualified teacher. It is expected by ccna Gapped be jour, consmittes that the oun! e raise the State tax, to wit: | $800,000, in addition to the appropriation from the income of the Common School Fund, may be in- creased $300,000, thus making the total sum of $1,100,000 tor the pay ment of teachers’ wages, will be sufficient to support the common schools for a poriet of eight months. Put in case thers should e a deficiency—or if it were deemed advisable by the trustees to continue the schools f jonger period, then itis required by the sixth section of the bill that “the balance to be raised in any schoo) district for the payment of teachers’ wages, beyond the amount provided by the previous sec- tion of the bill, shall be raised by a poll tax, to be levied by the trustees upon each resident of the district entitled to vote at the school district meet- ings, Of such an amount as will make up the ba lance”? * * * * During the year 1849, ppears by the last an- Dual report of the Superintendent of Common Schools, there was expended for teachers’ a4 the eum of $1,322,696 24. Of this amount§7 67,: 20 was public money, $502,724 56 raised on rate bille from those sending to school, $31,934 27 raised in by district taxation, to supply deficiency in oe collection of such rate bille, and $14,748 21 like manner, to defray the rate bills of indigent pergons—the number of children placed in the list of indigent exempts having been 18,686. The sum of $22,226 26, included in the above amount of public money, and appropriated for the payment of teachers’ wages, was raised from local funds be- longing to several of the counties and towns of the State. Taking, therefore, these statistics as a basis, we can calculate with some degree of certainty the amount of poll tax to be paid by each person upon whom the trustees are authorized to levy it. Tothe $800,000 propored to be by a State tax, there may be added the sum of ), to be appropriated from the income of the Common School Fund and of the U. S. Deposit Fund, and also the sum of Court of Genera! Sessions. Betere the Keo end Ald. Franklin and Dooley. Few 12.4 Young Housebreaker.—Patrick Caan: mere boy, butone whe hesbefore been sentenced by Court for his misdeeds, was placed at the baer, charged with burg! in the thira degree, ind petit larceny, in breaking into the store of Jobu Ii. udke, of Ne. 11 Centre market place. om the night of ihe 234 December, and meking an attack upon the money drawer. It peared from the testimony adduced on the part of proseewtion, that on the night of 224 December, the meee was entered, and some small change stolen. Mr, ) om consultation with his brother, deter wed not te sey any thing about the circumstance bat to keep # geod look out erefore, closed hie store at about 11 o’cloek, and concealing a lamp be- meath a barrel took a position inside, trom which be could observe all that was goingon. About midnight, some one havi ed access to the yard. in the ear bot fastened without rei thus gained admittance tothe store Mr B quiet until the rogt end was about to rifl his light and seized the villain by the col stout able map, Mr Budke was enable grasp on the prisoner, and take him in where be gave him in custody of a police: These facts were not denied by the defence, but as the win- dow was not fastened down, there was no burglary, and Mr. Budke seized the prisoner before he had ac- semppiehes alarceny. The jury could therefore con- viet him only ofan attempt to commit a potit larceny. ‘The court sentenced the prisoner to the Penitentiary for three months, telling him that that was all the pun- isbment the law would warrant. Stealing froma Drinking Companion.—A mw Miles Btanton, who looked as if he had recety many bard knocks at the band of jortune, Seen to have bee degree, small man, wh 5 , in Courtiandt street. The complainant Curley being called to thi stand, swore that he and the prisoner went out together om the morning of the 10th of January, and after viriting several places, they went to the house of Mr. O'Brien, where Faryad acked witness to treat. ‘Opo- sition Curley replied in the Regeiies, and 3) then asked bim for the loan of ashilling. This request Cur- ley also refused, when, as he alleged, the Fegonee seized hold of his person and thrust his hend {nate his outside coat pocket, taking from thence the money alleged in the indietment te have been taken from him. Curley says he called loudly for help, and made ‘all sorts of efforts ot on the track of the prisoner who immediately tied down Washington street. Mr. O’Brien being called to spa gD pros dran that he ordered his people not to give them any drink. He furth that be heara aks, yy Stanton on Curley. Thej ed a verdict of guilty of petit larceny only, Stanton was sent to Blackwell's Island for onths. Charged with Riet, but Henorably Acquitted.—A re- spectable young man named Thomas Anders called upon to avswer a charge of riot and essa and batt in being engaged. on the 12th of Novem- » was alt $22,226, from the loan funds belonging to different counties and towns, making a total sum of $1,122,- There will then be required to make up the child, itis fair to assume, will become a useful citizen ; is equaily fair to agsert, as a generai rule, thet the uneducated child will prove the re- verse. Fects warrant the assertion. From the report of the Inspectors of the State prisone for the year 1860, it sigeers that of 664 males nm the Sing Sing prison, were under 20 vars of age at the time of their coaviction ; 487 ud never been oj t a trade ; 60 could not read, and 149 could read only, and that indifferently. Of 114 convicts at Ciinton, 10 could not read, and 29 could read only. At the female prisons, of the 71 remaining in December last, 25 could neither read por write, 17 could read only, and the balance bed received a very limited instruction in the ele- mentary branches. At the Auburn prisea, 109 convicts were, previous to admission, unacquainted with the alphabet, or could read but lite, and 64 bad no knowledge of arithmetic. The Inspector closes with the remark, ‘that the frequent exami netions into the causes of crime among the cur- viets almost mvariably lead to the same result, asd force upon the mind the startling truth, that a neglected education in youth is the source of all, or nearly all, the crime among us.” These statis- ucs are presented in corroboration of the general statement of your committee, that crime and igno- Tance are generaliy found in un'soa. It can be no mutter of surprise, therefore, that the ciuzers of New York, from a perusal of the daily records of their criminal courte, and their daily observation of the vice and misery that mustever cling to, and flourish in, great cities, should manifest a deep in- terest in the cause of education, and a desire for its universal diffusion. Philanthrepy, at least, would prompt that they should be heard. Agaiv: prudenual considerations demanded that New York should have a voice In the matter. She is a part of the State, subject to the same laws, end should be entitled to equal privileges with other poitions of the State. With an aggregate veluation of reel and personal estate amounting to $286,000,000, or more than one-third of the eatire valuation of the State, and with this property tinble to be aflected by the legislation A > vod, elected by the universal suffrages of the citizens of the State, it would have been manifestly unjust that her vote should have been excluded Your commitiee have been induced to present their views vpon this subject from respect to the large number of your petitioners who have asked for the repeal of the Free Schoo! act, on the ground that such fact would bave been repealed by the pooular vote had the erty of New York been excluded from any action thereupon. Including this vote, therefore, the expression of the popular will of the State is «mphetic in favor of the priuciple of free education; for no one, itis presumed, will hazard the opinion that the vote of New York was cast in favor of the act of 1548. Her citizens were unacquainted with the practical operation of that act, and the infer- ence is natural that it was the principle only that was ratified at the ballot box. * * * The income of the school fund of the State is distnbuted among the diflerent towns in propor- tion te their population. The county and town taxes levied t the Supervisors, are, ia conse- quence, a tax upon the basis ef population; and ita operation ig, therefore, unjust, unequal, and op- pressive. A large and ulous county may, uo- der this system of taxation, be compelled to raise more money than an adjoining county with a less pepulation, though with a larger assessed valua- tion of real and personal property. [tis obvious, therefore, that this inequality is particularly bur- thensome to the agricuftural interests of the State, for in such districts the population is usually larger in proportion to the valuation of its property, than in the cities or lage towns or villages. This inequality will appear, by a glance at the following statement, In 1549, the taxable property and the school moneys (apportioned on the basis of popula- tion) in the following counties, were in this pro- porhon:— Taxable sreperty, School money New York j 143 $40,621 53 Albany . 16,889,570 54 Alleghe: 797 486 3,394 28 Cattaraug 3,824,508 3,394 23 The counties of New York and Albany are de- voted to trade and commerce, while Alleghany and Cattaraugus are purely agricultural counties. The seme inequality will appear from a comparison of different rates of taxation in different tewns. Aa illustration is atforded by some of your petitioners, in the cass of the following towns in the county of Genesee, in 1849; Taxable Property. School Money Batavia ++ $1,285,110 $479 72 Ste flord 451,784 284 03 323,928 221 43 ances of the same kind might be cited, to show the injustice of this mode of taxa- tion, as opplied to counties and towns. In the cities and large towne are accumulated a vast | emount of bank and insurance stocks, and other | descriptiens of personal property, w under this system of taxing the population, avoid their proportionate contribution for schoel | poses, while the poorer agricultural dist are borne down by the weight of feature in the act of 1849 may be accounted one of | the main causes of the heavy vote thrown for the repeal of the net throughout the central and west- ern portions of the state. But the most serious | objections to this act, in the estimation of your | cemmittee, is the plan of district taxation. By the 3d section of the act, itis made “ the duty of the trustees, within a epecitied time of the agnual district meeting in each year,topreparean eswmate of the smovat of money required for teachers’ wages, (exclusive of the public moneys of the di and the moneys raised by and under the 2d of the ect) and other expenditures for the yes and submit such statement to the ler lly qualified of the district, for their appre’ reje —and ina following section it 1# provided that, “in care the voters of the district refuse to teise the estimate presented to them, it is enjoined vpon the trustees to levy such tax a@ may be needed to keep the school open for the space of four months—and, proceed to collect it in the same Menner es Of her district taxes are collected.” * . ° * ” . * faving pointed ont what they deem the imper- fections Of che ret of 184, it is incumben: upon Jour comm ater, in submitting a bill for the con- dderation, of the House, to explain i's provisions fie yearons that have induced their action Acposed that the common schools of the deficiency for the payment of teachers’ wages, 260,470. There are nearly 12,000 school districts im the State, and it is fair to assume that the num- ber of residents in each district entitled te vote at school meetings, will average 25 voters, thas making an aggregate of 300,000 persons upon whom to levy a poll t The average amount to be as- sessed upon each person, therefore, would not ex- ceed the sum of 67 cents. It is naturally to be expected that unaer the Free School System there would be an increase of scho- lare; though such increase would not necessarily imply a larger expenditure for the payment of teachers’ wages. Yeta liberal allowance may be made therefor, and the result will not vary mate- rially. For, by the gradual increase of the appro- mation from the income of the Common School ‘und, by reason of the annual increase of its capi- tul, an increase of the poll tax to average 75 cents per capita, would be amply sufficient to make up ay defictency i tis deemed advisable, to ensure an economical administration of the schools, that @ portion of the funds for their support should be raised from the districte, and yest committee, upon mature de- liberation, would suggest the plan of a poll tax, as best calculated to accomplish this result, and least lieble to objection. It cannot be said to be a tax upon the basis of population, inasmuch as it is not proposed to tax, indiscriminately, all the inhabi- tonts of a district, but only those qualified to vote at echool meetings. It may be said, therefore, with more propriety, to be a tax upon capital and labor combined. The main support of our free institutions rests upon the virtue and intelligence of the great labor- ing class. lt is desirable, therefore, that labor should be elevated by a spirit of honest indepen- denee. For this reason, among others, the schools are mace free, that the children of labor may, in the publhe scheols of the State, claim a perfect equality with the more favored children of fortune. lv is conceived, therefore, to be a wise and politic meesure to give to labor the opportunity to con- tribute its share towards the support of an im tution designed expreesly for its moral and social elevanion. There are many who are able and willing to contribute the price of a day's labor for the support of a school, who would be unable to raise the amount required to be paid upon a rate bill. A noble, manly pride belongs of right to labor, and when that pride is appealed to in aid of the 50,000 children of want in the State, who will not crave the boon of an exemption from the rate bill, it will not bear the appeal in vain. Again, the repeated demands ot labor have made the common schools of the Sta ity free, yet it is denied the privilege of paying its due propor- tion of the merne required to keep them free. It is not, therefore, morally free; and is but “as a on eating a feast at the expense of its host, and joes not feel at l.berty to question the prudence or | liberality of the giver, or to suggest improvement.” AvBany, Feb. 6, 185) Our Venezuela Correspondenee, Cumana, Jan. 15, 1851. Military Despotem in Venezwela—The Chiefs of | the Republic— Annexatrom to the United States I take occasion te write you from this ancient city of Cumana, the first settled spot on the Ameri- can continent, it having been founded by Gonzalo Ocampo in the year 1520. Although in a state of perfect tranquillity, we are surrounded by curatels, piquet guards and double sentinels, a6 though an enemy was encamped in our midst. It may be asked, why all this military display and precaution ? The answer bviowe: | Ty nts and despots are always trembling—those who are prone to do wrong themselves, imagine others may be actuated by the same evil motives, that they themselves are endowed with. The G lately appoiated by Mona- gas for (his province, is the most despotic, blood- thirety pereonege in Venezuela; and has caused more insurrections and bloodshed thaa any other | twenty-five individuals put together; and as des- | ts are generally,cowards, he has made requisition jor this additional force, under pretence that the province is in great danger. Another object 1s to imumidate the representatives in Congress, to cast their votes for the President's brother—General Jcese Gregorio Monegas--at the meeting of the Na. tional Legislature, on the 20th ant. To avoi apoiner revolution, and the fear o! roy: Regen | by the bayonet, the civil party of the liberals, as they call themselves, will succomb to the military section of their own patty. The democratic re- | publican party keep aloof from all political strife; | they are the wealthy and educated party, and do | not wish to put themselves in combat with the rabble of samboes and vagabond soldiery, which must neturally be the case if they attempted to go to the polis; that is to ray. if they voted for any one of their own party, they would be liable to be arrested as facrtosos, thrust into prison, and banish- ed the country ‘This is the horribl of the country. Turkey could not hold a candle to it. Deepotiem with justice may be endured, beeause all would be protected in their just mghts, and the d have nothing to fear unless they committed | In Venezuela despotiem is of another | rT; he who does right under the constitu tion and laws is sure to be annihilated. The in- ferior judges are so corrupt under the present ad- nvnistretion, that suitors have no chance to re- cover the mest jost and clearly proved demand, | if institwted against a Monagieta ; and the appeal court is equally corrupt, forit Venezuela were to be hunted ali over, another set of men, who pre- tend to be educated, could not be found so cor- | rupt, co degenerate, and devoid of every principle of justice, as the ministers who compose the Seperior Court of the first judicial district, and holding their court at this city, lhear the question asked every day, is there no method to induce the United States to take Vene- zuela under ber protection? If this country be- lor ged to the United States, it would rise like Califor- nia—it would flourieh, and becom? a great eource «! wealth, not only to Venezuela, but to the United States. She might have her own separate Coo- grees; otherwise, to be a part and parcel of the ber last, in taking the hes pp ot Engine Company 21, from its house in Anthony sceshenh eal Broadway, without consent of the offlcers of the i y, and at a time when there was no alarm of fire. Mcer M. ky, of the the Sixth ward, testified that he saw the engine in the hands of 18 or 20 end knowing most of the membe: wi of the engin in different directio: “ ward, saw the prisoner ding — Broadway arrested him on the spot. batever going te show that Anderson was connected with the persons who had the to their hands. The Recorder, in his charge said that it, ap; in evidence that the ma was going in asdirection which carried him away from the scene of riot; this his honor thought was far from cemsurable. He also calledthe attention of the jury to the tact, that the prisoner had not been at all com- nested with the transaction by the testimony which had been adduced by the prosecution. The jury, em evidence of the prosecution itself, returned a ver of acquittal without leaving their seats. ‘The court here adjourned till 4 o,elock P. M. EVENING SESSION, Before Judge Bebee and Aldermen Dodge and Morgene, Trial for Grand Larceny —A man named JamesUofee was tried on @ charge of grand larceny, in stealii money and olothi: valued wards of $16. ‘whios u . who boarded in the same house with accused, at 16 Norfolk street, The prisoner wasin the employment ot Mr. Gardner, who koe: ed store at the corner d it appeared. from . Daley was found in the horses were kept, the key Posrestion of the prisoner. jong the articles stolen was @ @ large number of pictures. The & witness who swore t! the prison: yloft in the stable, looking o remises of Mr. Ginrdner was foun bees § Magazine, which is supposed to be the book re- ferred to as containing @ great many pictures The eviderce was altegether circumstantial, The defence produced no evidence to controvert the theory ot the prorecut Bevera) witnesses were called to prove @ good ¢! er for the accused. As the clothing was all old and of uncert value, iry returned a verdict of guilty of petit larceny enly. The Court sentenced him to the penitentiary for four months. Fru, 13 —A block Burglar. —A black man named Jha Sullivan, wast ied onacha:ge of burglery in the 3d degree, in breaking into the store of Messrs. Morgan & c he corner ot Washington and Murray ling therefrom Sas f cham. pagne, and atubof butter The following effect:—On the night p the prisoner, who had been emplo naged to secrete « companion named William: ited to come to the store cates prisoner, and to enjoy a" feast of sweet pota- At a late hour the prisoner, whe had bees retur Williams let bim t of champagi nesr the door. He then took down kof powder from the top of « clock. and began to fill the look of the sate with it. Williams now usked what he was go- ing too; and the prisoner replied that he was go- ing to blow the safeopen and get atthe money The: said Williams “I will be off, dou't waot my hea blowed off, and besides the officers will bea burstin, d take us bothoff.’’ Sullivan culled wii left him to prosecute For #01 Treason other was traced Bul ivi & verdict of guilty, Court sentenced the prisom- er to the State prieon for § years and six months, check on the Mechanic & Lord, for $35, which it ie ® child ‘cumstane morning of the 20 was crossing Priace re m On of May last, Mrs Mary Doyle street at ite intersection with infant in her arms at the thi came up the Bowery on @ apring cart, his bores going at ® rap’ ‘and turned shert around into Prines street There were, at the time. a large number of perrons crossing Prince street. all of whem out of the way exeept M: d mtusion a y survived sbout an ‘The accused was arrested on the pot, and held to er was rounded by a pasreny vomanageable whea imstactly the heree and tursed the corner of h te = The theory was, that the defendant could net. under the olroem stances. avoid the sockdeut. or rather that the kiilia of the obild was purely accidental. The jury reteraed & verdict of not guilt The court here took @ recess till 454 o'clock. EVENING SKSSION ode. kp: the ea © the clroumstances under which the scouse® bi in September tere, worth $hov each, vary 180 Mr Gio. Marchal Tukey, requesting Voston on businers connected with bis He went fo Boston, and there found aos Seno of Walker, and that man who pasted by the m sometimes by the name of bir rty three chr Kir Giover, ‘The man who Pad posession of the prisoner. end Mr Glover koew bim ile retused at first to give the person frevn whom he proeured the jt after be arrived in this city, he toldt Amencan Union,and bearing her flag, with free in- tercourse, Without duties between the two coun- If put to the popular vote in Venezuela, nine jor annexation, and thos put an litical strife. The people would then €. shall be eupported chiefly by a tax upon the Pre ytrty of the Siate, it is required, therefore, by @ second section of the bill herewith aenied, fat the sum of $500,000 shall be raised by a tax on tbe Teal aud personal property of the Stat he bill provides for the arth the amount eT moneys ap: 1a schools, inete of the h The foorth cection of ortionraent end division of one 4 sed by 16x, eed one-fourth ofall ot printed to the support of yelly @rrong the oe ate, and Au appoiti child, bat pot to exceed in th 1 i " ef $24, is dirceted to be pald to each geparaie d into the ploughskare, and the steam engines. The voyage from New York to Venezuela, is shorter than to New Orleans, end moch lesa dangerous navigation. Steamers might make the passage in five or six days. Vene- vucla te healthier than any pottof the United States, with very few exceptions; and agrioulture could be corricd on to great advap tage, and three times the rofit the American far ner derives for his labor.— et the Heald put Uy, egivnted in the L ond thereby br come a happy people. “PY POPS AN Autonee, heane in motion—let it ‘se ued Stateslet Venezuela shel- ter herselt unde’y the wings of the glorious eagle, & petron who le’.¢ the chronometers as P th ared r the defence, it *, Le messes. one of whom wae Prater ‘ot joaned some money te bY te Gavghter, that the accused |) Domentie Miscotiang: John Cline has been convicted. at Free the murder of Jamer Abield hold. N Jt The Kentueky House ot Ke tatives bare appre- printed $000 towards the srection of & i the memory (f the late (ol.