The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1851, Page 2

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It is EUROPEAN NEWS, tiation As they pass by tbe French oldies Ba no Ortinal Code that his sister, the Empress, wished to soe him, but, anannannannennneaall Beep. end ‘aah oe State of Affairs im Germanys sferences—Visit of | 3, ‘ast the him to bg Our London Correspondence. 80 for obliged to take part in | “7 oe Tax—The Dresden Cor. , So of Austria, ib Triumph of American Ge | puch ‘humbug. an soldiers are . * Frederick the and German p Me Great Exhibition— of An ‘ religious, mocuse the French of | the King to Wursaw—Statwe « evident that there ‘another congress snins and Encerprise—A Railroad im the air— | fretted and indignant, and. scowe the ene | Oren deome ana | £etfimilacte those held at the court of the Crar, Municipal Order—A Lesson for New York O°* | g@air ends in » bloody strect-encounter between the | Ta Prussian Chambers, after & weat. 9 og ng IG A, --A Great Historical Event—A Funny Farce with | soldiers. So they carry on ome! Soave: dish session of five months, were pr. Great ii 5 kK carne cob etn and if s led to see the eartening session of five months, xt of | Great is to be placed on its pedestal « Bloody Termination—A Warning for Engines: | Wi ike pated the proprcey of letting kings and prietts | on the @th inst. M. de Manteulfel, Preside. ofthe Linden Twalk, where the Cause of Danger in Massive ron afts have i all their rown wey, boise converted person, | the cabinet, read an address, on closing them, past » and se Seandeiion Crat Pree een peed May 27, 1861. ang baleeee a per'y engineers, archite sts, onl the ee the Steer Set es pa ea ne as iy the roef of nt eins = f long iron shafts, occurred | sembled at the palace in 5 8 Palace, abou Prince The New York Herald continues, as usual, to pi ge beg ey ites aay in immense iron shaft, | which he eulogized the Chambers for the seal and .. ‘ag Charles rakes able s gf create an excitement on this side of the Atlantic. | Toi Fine several tons, which traversed the whole of jotiam they had displayed in discussing the | princes, 424 other seini-terious semi-comic remarks on the gigam'i® | 4 building in progress, resting at both ends on the | Patriotism they fe hi ting in all | pected to Sasist at tie inaugura bembeg ofthe day have thrown the leading jour- | walls, (which were eighteen inches thick,) enapped | laws that wore pradresre aneietoaen he said, | & grand Of the troops, a. “There will be . Pages 4 % four; » > . : pals, especially the Times, quite into hysterics. ee . ne Mo hung dangling in the vi 8 acquired néw claims to the gratitude of i to be an es vm; ond ‘See ‘The, Herald is, however, right in the main. oon? middle of the vatidin ands ieee ges Apone that country. He alluded to the time when the of it has put the good » Fe on ever, in all the diswppointments and docelts of Salk | Wein ed "Biitwed, killing in the full five | couree of political events made it requisite to call | gu! vive, for comes tape of B ait on the eaeens rele: ee Bored prt palace, | mex, and wounding and maiming as any - San out the whole armed force of the country, who A” | vener Tepe +aey agree wit! im their ” i notice, ti o o va this great Exhibition, aait ia called. Itmakes | Ot8erS., This fact ie wosthy of Sport any large | scmbled in numbers never before equalled, thus} watchword as it was that gf, cremees is thelr a much cies show and produces a better impres- | bo: of wrought or cast iron, It araa.an. nae enhancing ie center of the nation in theie own | cant world; Bay, yer, Pi} masts ae of the <4 sion in the pictorial newspapers, and innumerable leans Liv — Mien so much fear and Praia -vommanding the respect of forciga val at epeeite thew ‘of the more necessary weodcuts and engravings to which it has given | (2 Uitny were excited in New York as to the fate | PO". Among the legal enactments passed by own Sentl to reer, eg birth, than in the reality, and to actual vision. I | of a noble steamer. Iron, cw, ig bn y | the Chambers, he particularly mentioned a new | TBE (rom the Phares Sa heay th a. gered with astonishment when I came in sight of see ae oe esgety : aie of its | criminal code, and the income tax, which, M. de| «Let well dacuphcloee,"e = alendaed the building, not at the erection, but at the failure —for such itis. Of the contents, the rich shawh» silks, and cottons, the costly diamonds, the pr inventions, the diversified machinery, with de- scriptions of which you have been inund: ad auseum, 1 will nothing at present. They are ne humbug; it is pretension of the whole affair. "With the exception of a few individual articles, as fine a show may be seen in the stores, the manufrc. tories, the worksbops of New Y ithout coving to London. I have seen g) conservaturies in ‘New York, which, with the only difference of not being so vast,are as beautiful to look at as the erys- tal palace; and, after all, there is no beauty what- ever in such a huge structure of panes of glass. Besides its intrinsic defects, the palace, a3 it is called—the gingerbread toy, as it is in fact—is badly placed. It stands close upon the roadside, and in front of it there runs a long line of tow stables, in | which the horses belonging to the seldiers of Kuights- | bridge Barracks are lodged, hiding the building from the view. Anything, whatever it may be, which is patronised by royalty, is sure to be ad- mired and extolled in this country; hence there is nothing surprising in all the exaggerations made respecting this affair, because it is the hobby of Prince ‘Albert and the Queen. ‘The English are a | no Cooling. Te is related by the persons PreseO! enat when ths immense fron snapped, ther” ad Wag like that of a large gun, end, in tra secomds after, the whole building fell. "ence it is evident that in the con- struction of, shafts for etoambeats, or for other par- *, «cis met eveagh that skilful workmen have ue thei work well and used the best materials— Nature, also, must be consulted and attended to. There isa lull in English politics ; the Roman Catholic question is gradually dying away. lt is to France, now, that all eyes are turned, waiting to see the course which the chequered polities of | that country will take. The near approach ef the rettling question of 1552, and the various maneeuvres | of all the parties in France, preparing for the yet unknown event, absorbs all ef political interest und speculation. ltussia and Austria, having settled the Germanic question, will exert ali their influence, secretly, to give the turn they wish to the great | Freneb question. Royel balls and parties, private | theatricals at Devonshire House, concerts, here the order of the day at the West End. ‘The money market tseasy. There 3 | amount of unctapleyed capital, which promises to | continue, as the course of exchange in New Yerk | | on Londen, after all eaarges, leaves a good prefit on the importation of gold from the United States. The stock market is lively, owing to_this cause doyal people, and it is leyalty amd royalty elone whisk have given so much extra importance to this ‘The Herald has come very close to the amount of the revei uch as they undoubted- ly will be before it is over. Tie nobility end aris- tocracy, as yet, have been the ouly visiters paying a large sum for entry, and they have focked in crowds at the hee!s of their royal m: To-m row the people will be admi:ted at commen affair. and no doubt the shillings of the m yring more revenue than the twenty-five was of the nobility, so that the ulation of the Herald will very probably be realized in the end. It is a singu- at this exhibition is productive of injury keepers of Lendon, especially those at the west end of the town. ae they have been doing scar nobility, in stead of going shoppit y all goi and the absence of safe investments. The electric | telegraph has led to a sort of revolution in guota- | tions. “Le:ters and newspapers are not now relied upes, as, in a few minutes, the reports by telegraph ¢ the whoky aspect of a@uirs and thwart all ulations. Whea from Fra ,and the Black to pour in— | ) that at present it is certain that it does | 2 impo rter. Ww. net pay : Benefit of tie Poor Authors—T! \ ed to reoord the glorious fuct that two measures | Imust therefore give you some account of the Mauteuffel assured them, would throw the weight on the war establishment, and offered his ac! mow Jedgments to the Chambers for the readinyss thoy had shown in sanctioning the disbwrsemevat of ‘this rum. By the way, it waa rather ungracous ef the Miuister not to mention that, besides the eleven and a half millions, the obsequious fastest had allowed eighteen millions, granted last yearfor the defence of the Union, to be diverted to quite a dif- ferent object, not to speak of ten millions of Prus- sian dollars ia government paper which ougbt to have been vedeemed, but, there "being no funds available for the purpose, were obliged to be left in circulation. : ; ‘This was met the only omission in Baron Man- teuftel’s retrospective view of the patriotic labors of the Prussian Parliament; whether from exces- sive modesty, or for some other reason, he neglect- of paramount importance, proposed by government a disciplinary law, ard a new Bagging law against the press—were eventually carried, though only by small majorities, and after a desperate re- sistance on the part of the constitutional opposi- tion. Fortunately for the citizens of your repub- lic, they can form no idea of the bills of pains and penalties digniied in the despotic monarchies of the European continent with the name of laws; and above enactments. The Diomonds— Receipts, §c. Oa Friday night last, the { the benefit of the Literary Guild, up for the benefit of poor authors, took pla the exhibition, and o day there of the drawing rooms of the Duke of Devonshire's See on ; 3 temporarily fitted up as a are now comparativel3 to the The proscenium and airangements Park. The talk of the aud ery were complete ; the most brilliant au visiters in England turns out to pus @X- aggeration. he travel on the rai London has ni d th reat as it undoub’ felt in London, a full of emigrants So much, at present, for the /xhbibition. More The condition of the people of England is mani- festly much better now than it was when your cor- respondent was here a few years ago. At that time the protective duty on food, which enabled the aris- tocracy to exact higber rents from the furmers, was not removed. bread is now a3 cheap as itis ia New York, and the people are more contented. The triumph of Colli , effected by the Pacific, has filled al! Americ here and all the overs « erica, who are not few, with exultation and delight. New York now, with her Atlantic steamers and her splendid line beats the world. From no other port in the world sail such steamers, Bor such splen packet «hips. Inone of the latter your correspon sailed, the Sir Robert Peel, owned by Messrs. Grinnet) and Mintarn; and it would be positive injustice not to mention the beauty, elegance, and excellent accommodation of these fine liners ; the skill, enterprise, and polite- mess of the captains who command them, espe- cially our captain, Chadwick. These American ships surpass «il others to be seen in the London docks. No nation sends the like to England, and the English packets are nothing tothem. Horor to whom honor is due, and it is emphatically due the enterprise, liberality, aud skill of the mighty merchants of New York, and the captains in com- mand of their floating palaces. ‘The railroad conveniences in England are very great, especially in london. On landing from the steamer (which we took at Gravesend) at Black- well, in tbe remote suburbs of Loadon, we entered the cars, which carried us above the houses through the heart of a densely —— town, into the centre of London city. Nothing can be better conceived than those city railroads. Imagine a gallery a at the Battery and running round and through the city of New York, on which the cars trave. out interfering with the streets or people below. This serial road, as it may be calle , is bere on a level with the tops of the houses, which in New York would be about as high as the top of the second floor of the houses. The differ- ence in building will account for this. For miles and miles round theeity proper, London is composed of streets of small how ‘0 stories high, Lae jaid out in #mall stree remarkably clean, af- fording comfortable r » for people of small means, the average rent being about $40 or $30 f annum. ‘To each of these small houses there i# @ small yard or garden in the rear; i one of thei, in a corner at the extrem’ bin, as it led, which is a receptacle for ashes, garbage, cabbage leaves, &e., &c. Once or twice a week, the dustman comes round with his bell, his spade acd basket, and empties the receptacle, egr- ing each load on his shoulder to his cart at r, till the place is thoroughly cleaned out. This is surely abetter method of municipal management than what ix seenin New York, where the varie- gated specimens of boxes, buckets, &c. standing de at the street s overflowing with ashes are offence to the sight and to the feet. Not a partie! of dirt, slops, or ashes are thrown,in‘o the streets in Lendow, by which means they present the appear- by ance of pleading cleanliness and neatness. the tops of these houses, such as 1 have described them, the locomotives rush along without danger to life or limb, for it is their own peculiar road. At suitable distances there are stopping places where passengers if they please ascend or descend, going down a flight of stairs which conduct them iato the streets Salew, where as soon as they come they see the smoking train steaming and whistling bi S cbeve their heads. It appeared to me an ex- plan and excited my admiration. Over | gathered in London were present. Her Ha; ev took the direction of the details of the affair into y ber owa hands, and the receipts were very large— enough to establish a respectable nusleus for the future fund. The play was written by sir Edward B. Lytton for the occas ad-was entitled *: Not so Bad as we Seem, or Many Sides to a Character.” the | time of the plot being the date of the reign of George 1., and the action connected with history by a Jacob- ite plot. Mr. Frank Stone, Mr. Dadley Costello, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Mr. John Forster, Mr. Charles Lemon, Mr. F. W. Topham, Mrs. Henry Compton, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Coe, and other literary amateur: were among the actors. The scenery, painted by Pitt, Absolon, Grieves and others, was admirable, and all the de- | corations, at the expense of the Duke of Devon- shire, were in fine taste and keeping. The drama is sald by competent critics to be Lytton’s best, though it is imposeible to say what will be its suc- cess when it shall be banded down to the stage. Her Majesty and all the members of the royal family evidently enjoyed the entertainment, though how much its novelty, or how much its remiuiscene: of days when theatres were fitted up and sustained purposely for royalty, had to do with it, it would be difficul: to say. The curtain rose at nine o'clock, as | the Duke conducted the Queen to her box, and she | performances closed at a little past twelve. 1 gave you some account of the jewels contributed | by the East India Company to the Great Exhibi- tion in my last letter. Since thatdate, as if to as- | tonish the world, the process of unpacking all these Eastern goods re A+ other wonders equally at- ractive. Among the articles are an Indian state bedstead, intended usa present to the Queen, and some rich shawls forwarded by Runject Singh, | which he has directed to be placed at the disposal | of her Majesty. ‘The collection of jewels is also re- | | markably fine; and the model of ‘the | diamond, rivalling the Koh-i-Noor, is regarded | with great interest. The Wucca muslins are of | @ most extraordinary degree of fineness; and a | dress for one of the cing girls of India will, [ | apprehend, excite mugh attention among the fair | portion of the visiters, on account of the extraor- dirary dimensions of its skirt and tlounces. The silver filagree work sent over is of the most extraur- dinary character, and ix caleulated to excite as- | tonishment, not merely at the patient labor but | the exquisite ingenuity of the Indian workers in | metal. The coat of Kunject Singh is a marvel of splendid decoration; and the collection of fire-arms and native weape ill be of the most complete | and comprehensive character, illustratiag every mode of Hastern warfare. There are three seals, engraved by Budzooden Alee Khan, a celebrated artist of Delhi, in which the workman- ship is of tho mos exquisite character. The English translation of the inscription. in Persian characters, upon the correlian seal, intended fur her Majesty, is:—‘Victoria, first monarch of the } World—as Solomon in magnificence, with a court | like Saturn; empress of the age, sovercign of the | seas, the source of beneficence; by the grace of (rod Queen of Englazd and Ireland, ruler of the kingdom of Hindost: der of the faith of Christ, the great (Jueen Victoria.” The second feal, which is a blood stone, intended for Prince Albert, also contains a Persian inscription, of which | the follewing is @ literal translatim:—‘ The dis | tinguished by the aid of God, the noblest of the | family of Brunswick, the honored companion of the great Queen; Prince, highest in rack, great | in dignity chief in excellence of the English court, | Albert Francis Augustus Charles Emanuel.” A great Nizam « [ dwell : - on 2 . | third emerald signet seal contains a lersian in- carlin Sen ou wvdenen a st imuch-te | Sctiption of the “Sovereign of the sea and land, just lente Gnd Gunes te lereve, end bas aves re. | bY the favor of God, governor of the world (or the ceived many a useful leewon from the New York | ‘seven climates.')” “There ia algo « beautiful eet of Herald. As regards the dustmen who carry away | Cbes*men, of ivory, : igns by the the refuso ashes and dirt from the yards of the | 18s hom fay erd'rdice oes sae eae p charac. , ; . = i. | ters from Layard’s discoveries in Nineveh. [ehall, at Scuaen, Holt seaeensene Sever Stertore With Dent | seuss tuters Uses, refer mere partiogtarty to the ness, as they only go round in the morning, before eight o'clock, end all is done quietly and with the regularity of clock work. They are employed and paid by contractors who make a great deal of mo | ™ out ofthe ashes, &e which they thus collect. @ most memorable historical event which has Juat_ocourred in l-urope, is the triumph of the policy of Russia and Austri: « consummated by the restoration of the old Lliet of Frankfort. By this act all the states and kingdoms of Germany are made virtually subject to the domination of Aus- tria, which, it need not be said, is, in effect, that of Russia. This is the end of the so called (serman juestion, and of the Dresden conferences, in which russia affected to resist the claime of Austrian and the re-establishment of the old order of things Gormany is now, by this act, as effectually of republican and revolutionary leave has been by the return of the Pope, and and Sicily bay en by the t inary king over the popula triumphed, and, to use an ex; em, will now * put on t " nt of Jesuit and prep curious farce the | Yaluable and interesting collection of (lian pro | ductiors, which alone form a most extensive collec- tion and museam Too much praise anot be | Swarded to the | ast India Company by Royal Commission Vy ul ant princely manner in wh ithe produc | tions of their vas y mate value of this ix a | aca told that upwards of £100,000 ily the urchase from lacers the articles wi hey ex- al amount received day for five shil- that of an: this sum, vu sale ot» \ the day over £4: the price for be Te. on I Pp , it, whe , yme, is still farther from — Ce i + of inflammatory ap = seep of Rome for the crowd to read, who daily an of coals burnir e around the gates—appeal ly from ec vere the Royal Commi ii upon the people to the. cireulars of i stilottoes. After a vehement ova licaniem, Massini, and carrying arms Papat government, @ number of mer ft the parpors, one raaee om affect to b rey the on ic and pious appeals to weg he J some of then ring Marzioi’s cir lars, which they have been guilty of readin the pious orator solemnly burns them in the b at his side. Others bs Bp their woay long daggers from under their cloaks, and these ho lays upon the anvil, and with the hammer breaks | off the pointe and blunts the edger. The faree enda by » procession 49 some neighboring church yx | passes, to the passions and I assure you, that it ix with nse days of cheap admiss nticipated be amount of propert ected, which will be within the reach ectnally from depredation, is @ thing m possible Tie Import Manne larch, had not bee mueh reduced lieitude t ns v Cora at the close n active, but the stocks In exports there had been co derable activity, and a good inquiry had existed for teas, both for England and the United States, butbigh prices had in some measure tended to chev large operations. | are.now entirely in the hands of the police. All | not likely to stick at trifles. | when there was for once a majority against govern- | stoppage of newspapers at the post oles, t, order A disciplinary law (Disciplinar-Gesetz,) ia an in- strument employed by the government to remove ny judge, or judicial functionary, who may be ob- to the powers that be, or not sufficiently in forwarding their views by convicting political opponents. in such cases, an investiga- tion is carried on by officials named by the minis- try, who of course have no difliculty in finding the accused guilty of all sorts of crimes and misde- meanors, and the unhappy culprit is then either sus- pended, that is to say, laid on the shelf till he pro- mises to behave better in future, and in the mean time muleted of half his pay, or else dismissed the service, and perhaps imprisoned for insurbordina- tion. This may seem strange, but it is in fact a part of the system, that the principle of strict divci- pline, which forms the essence of the military or- ganization, should be extended to the civil. ‘The next measure, and one of still greater im- port to the public in general, is the new press law. it contains even more stringent regulations than the ministerial ordinances of 1849 and 1350, which were already severe enough in all conscience, as you may recollect, from tue details | communicated in former letters. Editors, publishers, and printers, offences of the press, that involve a penalty of less than three years’ imprisonment, are withdrawn from the cognizance of a jury, and submitted to a tribunal of judges appointed by government, and removable at pleasure, who of course will not often have the courage to rik their own places by ac- quitting any one whom their superiors wish to con- demn. “it is true that this is Aagrant breach of the constitution, which prescribes trial by jury for all offences of the press whatsoever, but you’ may easily imagine that an administration which has so often evinced its contempt for public opinion, and its determination to suppress all free diseussion, is Asa proof how little disposed ministere are to give up an iota of their ar- bitrary power, and with what disdain they treat the sot disaut representatives of the nation, whose ab- ject humility on most occasions must certainly give reat encouragement to future aggressions, I will just mention what passed in the first Chamber, ment, on that section of the law reterring to the of the President of police. Count Westp! the Minister of the Interior, told the honorable mem- bers it mattered very little what vote they came to, as government would continue to enforce this regulation whether agreed to or not, considering it to be an administrative measure with which the Chambers had no right to interfere. In conse- quence of the press ordinances of 1549 and 185), the political journals appearing in Prussia ha n reduced to about two-thirds of their former num- ber, andare likely to suffer a further decrease through the vexatious measures of the police, who frequently confiscate @ newspaper in the morning, as soon as it has left the press, and take the whole of the impression to the police office, along with the type. This plan scems to have been resorted to for the purpose of deterring printers from publishing apy opposition journals. You will say that the shy acer of euch journals have an easy remedy, y setting up printing offices themselves, but I beg to remark, tbat to do so they must ha sion, or license, from the police: id this again af- fords a fine handle for all sorts of manwuvros against the press. A democratic paper called the Uruthler, which had an immense circulation, particalarly among the lower orders, has been almost ruined in this manner; the printer having been threatened with the loss of hiv license, refused yO it any longer, and the acting editor (the Redacteur en chef is in durance vile for writing against the ministry,) has experienced great difficulty in finding any one ing to enter into ardous a connection. In short, the retrograde mareh of half a century, which is daily recommended to this government by one of the leading organs of the reactionary party, appears to be nearly accomplished. Most people, indeed, are beginning to look upon thie as a consumme tion devoutly t> be wished, as the restoration of a pure absolutism would be preferable to the present state of things, where the ghost of constitutional forme only renders the hideous reality of despotism | the more conspicuous. The conferences at Dresden, another egregious failure of German polities and pol were closed by Schwarvenberg and Manteuffel in person, on the i6th inst. There has been a great deal of negotiating and intriguing, but 1 ug of impor. tanee has Coss conse apens The sinaller ‘Gere man princes and free cities are not inclined to di- Vert themselves of any part of their sovereignty, which was guaranteed them by the treaty of Vien- na, in 1815, and they insist particularly upon re- taining that paragraph which requires every vote to be unanimous, and eschews the rule of majorities. At first blush, nothing can be more absurd than such a regulation, but im the prevent etate of affairs it forme the chief barrier against the undisputed preponderance of Austria, and it is natural tha ‘rince Schwarzenberg should be moving heaven | and earth to get it reseind ‘The stand made by | the smaller princes has roused the courage of Pras sia, or at least’ prevented her from yielding still inore to Austria than she did at Warsaw and Ol mutz, and the upshot is thatthe conferences, which were ushered in with such @ flourish of trumpota, have proved abortive, and the entente cordiale be- tween the two powers remains on « somewhat pre- curious footing: & The Congress of Dresden has he final r citation t hat body, after being d dead and bu Prussia, who professe jer the del ewbied at l'rankfort as a mere deb. di by hor as th . tists gent te the I burgh, who, on retw will be eded by p the ultra-abeolutiet party in the ‘There will be plenty of manau- been the : Diet of Frankf. ete far more PF -efitale in the observance than in the ‘ i ach. _A morning contemporary, whose flank, we of taxation more especially upon those classes P| are bow FP paces ne iene aps} wee eign sessed of the most ample means, and relieve such have’ ,ceser consulted bis own reputation for saga- ‘as were least able to bear it. Referring to the bud- ra ud'he bore in mind that salatary doctrine oa get, he stated that the expenditure had been in-] as mi gna 2 . creased by au amount of eleven and a half millions | <é&k’s, veered Abe rah ene be owe of Prussian dollars, incurred in consequence of th’, ‘Were among the many who perused with a smile of necessity he had been under of placing the army if surprise, an article which served to fill the colamus ‘of the journal alluded to not long before the open- ing of the Great Exhibition. On conning it over, a shrewd suspicion pervaded our mind that the Times was,asthe saying is, “regularly sold” b; the New York Herald, and that suspicion ripene into certainty on reading, in the next place, the original document which our contemporary thought fit to transfer to his broad sheet inextenso. It is true that productions of an extraordinary nature appear not rarely in the American newspapers; but our friend of the New York is by no means such an ignoramus as to put forth seriously a tirade such as that which galled the Times into an affright- ed belief in its sober import. The whole affair would, however, have passed away like every other nine days’ wonder; but the lnglish journal seems resolved to try and have the last word, and thereby, with all respect be it spoken, to write itself down a kindred animal to honest Pagberiy. The Herald, in the last impression which has reached Europe, announces that the effusion to which so much im- portance was given in Printing House-square, was —as it needed no ghost from the grave to tell us— ‘a slight missile sent from a playful hand,” but, with an admirable gravity, baits its hook again for another bite inthe same quarter where it had in the first instance been so succetsful. And our con- temporary, with some degree Spanier jocularity, labors to prove himself a little less frightened than before, when (as the Herald remarks in a paragraph which our contemporary did not include in his nu- merous quotations therefrom on Wednesday morn- ing) “he treatad the menacing intelligence with a terrible anxiety to be cool, and devoted his serried columns, day after day, to explanat‘ons, affecting to laugh, and appearing very much like a traveller in some great, dark forest, whistling to keep his courage up, while looking backward and forward to see some frightful spectre at every turn.” It is really “milking a ram,” for a print profess- ing to be “the leading journal of Europe,” to ad- dress itself to refute sucha bouncing hoax as the as- sertion that, when the aforesaid ‘* playful missile” reached London, “the Prime Minister sent off a note motanter for the Duke of Wellington—the Ministers tendered their resignations—Lord Stan- ley tried to form anew cabinet in vain, and the politicians, so conservative, so grave, so self confi- dent inthe yeomanry and in the business popula- tion, did not even dare to venture oaa general elec- tion, to form @ new and reliable government. England trembles from top to toe, and even the (Queen, who has considerable nerve, was so much frightened that Prince Albert regretted that an American ee containing such alarming suggestions should have reached the shores of hap- y Albion! Apprehensions of this character soon egat worse fears, and with the speed which an emergency only can create, thirty thousand bril- liaut bayonets bristled in the neighborhood of Hyde Park, besides we know not how mam ‘ks of ar- tillery were ne ata moment’s call.” Our con- temporary has given the benefit of the immense circulation which he enjoys to a full elucidation of the marvellous treasures which are piled within the crystal walls of the matchless palace of industry, and that in a free and cordial spirit. It is, moreover, mainly, if not altogether, owing to his power{ul pen that a check has been applied by the Commissioners of Police to that excessive nuisance, the cab extor- tion vie. which, if permitted to riot unchecked, would be found materially to interfere with the comfort and accommodation of a = number of visiters to the metropolis during the present memo- rable season. But we must be an to say that a worthier occupation might be found than giving currency to br oe which may leave an ineffaceable and alarming impression on the minds of many respectable aged females, besides affordin, a hearty laugh in New York at the capacity ot ullet which exists in this instance, on the part of the foremos: journal of“ the Britishers.”” We shall not enter now into a censideration of an article entitled “The Word’e Fair in London—Its Objects and Effects,” published also in the New York Herald, of the 6th of May. We regret and pity the uncandid tone in which a s' of fallacies, which may go down with the unthinking or preju- diced among our transatlantic kinsmen, are couched. It is much to be apprehended that there is just a lectle spice of envy or disappointment lurking at the bottom. It is notorious to the world that the dis- lay of contributions in the American bed hog ae n the edifice at Ilyde Park, is far be&ind that fur- nithed by any other country ; in fact, to speak the word plainly, it is unanimously voted ‘' shabby.” Whose fault is this! The great republic is ampl: supplied with sources, natural ani artificial, sui sient to have rendered her proud competitor with the states of the old world at the “Fair of the Universe.” And we bee ng | believe that it would have diffused a sincere and wide spread plea- sure among our own ple had our Columbian kinsmen for, as we may justly term them, our Anglo- Saxon brethren, come out with « little more strength and effect on such a great occasion. But there is no use in assuming the airs of a discon- tented child, and scolding us in such terms as tho following, which we extract without a further word of comment, trusting that we shall hear no more of ae. warfare which reflects no credit on either the parties concerned, both of whom, and one in | gaye ny ought to know better than to make suc ado about nothing :—* The British see that their supremacy is gone—that the glory of Ichabod is departed, and the cowed bully becomes the abject sycophant. England sees that her destiny is under our control.” ('!) * * * “Our nope then, of this great show is, that it originated in selfishness; that it will not tend to advance peace throughout the world, as it was intended it should 5 that it isa Yankee trick to make the rest of the world contri- bute to England's wealth; that, as far as arts and manufactures are concerned, it will be a failure; ee t on the whole, it looks like a gigantic hum- 1 Paid (3) (From the Brighton (England) Merald, May 24) ENGLAND IN TROUBLE. Our readers will recollect being amused by an extravagant article copied into the London papers afew weeks ago from the The New York Herald, in whieh the editor of that per, looking at the Great Exhibition through the medium of some three or four thousand of miles of seafog, and catching up some of the fears of our old-lady poli- ticians, vaticin, at an awful rate as to the dread- fal calamities which such a “ world’s show,” and the assemblage of all the vagabonds in the world in Hyde Park, might bring down upon poor Old Eng- land. The sensible portion of the Lnglich community laughed at the New York forebodings, and ited in patience for the opening of the Exhibition. This is now among the things of the past, and, perhaps, our readers will like to rec how our Yankee contemporary gets out of the mess into which ite fears (perhaps its hopes) caused it to plunge. It is certainly rather cleverly done; but for the 30,000 bayonets, parke of artillery, &.. we must apres they are concealed in the same chest with the 50,00 dollars of the “Irieh Dire 3.” But to ov go we published ons on the char gamblers, red repub- who have been shores to visit London during the ir. Looking the very motley cha rtion of those who were hurry. y of many of them vring and squabbling again, b eon the different powers, although on some questions they are all sure to agr viz., in doing away with the few popular rights and institutic il remaining, in reducing the press throughs at rmaoy to the same dieary level of servitude, (it used to enjoy a little more liberty in the emaller States, even betore the revolution of March, 1444,) and in keeping up large standing armies to enforce these de The reign of publicity being over, the Diet resumes its old system of seerot deliberations The King loft for Warsaw on the 15th inst., to ya visit tothe Emperor of Kussia, who arrived re on the Lith, with the Empre This meeting isa | pare that Prussia is at length restored to the O- We stated also that . who have in their hat to t held by them forno known purpose, might be in- volved in some in revolutionary proevedings, by fevers! members of it. who were then on their way to London There very natural specalations, arising wy the view which the motley emigration afforded, it now appears, have er i quite a sensation Logland ; aod even in Parlia eral disti guished members have | arising from peouniary interest, - | testable traffic, | Sse ett King on the Zia. than the de tu of Lith of » vd of er, Vicom hharnais, von Fosephing * -aander, ite de Beaul % woo vounaerable nerve, was $0 much Hrightore”, orgicher de In Pagerie, wards the Emipreas: that Prince Albert regretted that an A” aerican | Josephine. At the commencement of the revo ne’ , containing such alarmiD? suggestions, | General uharnais joined the popular party, Invuld Rave rosched he shores 0° « sguntStibion’® | voted for the nbelition of privileges, and equality ‘Avprebensions of this chs?cter goon begat worse | before the law. In the reign of error, he mas ao. Pog Mgt = Aa ee et revi Fr arae IF se ence arrestee, to can Ns Lv" i a Pristied inthe ‘acjghbockeod of Hyde Park’; bo- | Paris, and guillotined in 1794. Of Nino - sides wo know not how many parks of artillery were | the hter, Hortense, was marri “a ae Bona- ready at 4 moment's call. the meantime, to | press ing of " ie wale sa fill up the space between the hour of alarm and the | resident ic 5 on, probable waste of @ good deal of ‘villanous salt- | was made Vi of mole by apelecs, a tre,’ the English press brought its batteries to , ried the Princess Augusta of Bavaria, whose “on the ‘ork Herald, abusing it in the | has just been announced. After the fall of Napo- most magnificent The Times, the thun- | leon, Beauharnais took in ,the ongress. derer among the sm: lery, treated the mena- , Vienna, w! awarded > dotetion of 2,068; cing intelligence with a terrible anxiety to be cool, | francs, paid Him ha ihe Bing of I pts, Ife made and. devoted its serried columns, day after day, to over the sum to Bavaria, exchange for the pro~ explanstions, affecting to laugh, and appearing vince of A aig BBR im the O} + he very ae e iphone some — room is Paka. Bed oid td ter of the deceased t, whistling to ke ‘ig courage wy) le look- cl 4 Sweden ; Beco! uchess. jig annette ae to ot ph frightful of H<nenzollern-Hechin, is the widow: spectre at every turn. These things are yay amusing, in one point of | view—but trifles, in such cases, have a more im- portant si than even great action or great | events. eI something weak and feeble in the government of England, or never could such alarm be can new! or some missile, sent r. ‘There must be something rotten, round for ay poe when a slight om a nlayha hand, can so shake and terrify a whole people, and cause thirty thousand full armed soldiers to be hurried up to London from Chatham and other rural barracks—when, in the cabinet and horse guards, in the palac Frinhlbg House square, such awful conster: n can make the whole of London vibrate, as old St. ; Paul’s did, when the ruins of the edifice were blown up with the gunpowder of Sir Christopher Wren, to obtain a foundation for the present structure. by carrying the comparison further. We can as- sure our contemporaries across the water, that, euye we guve them the information that has | acted like yeast in setting the population and go- vernment into a ferment; and though we threw out the suggestion that the red republicans and white livered republicans Boing from here might be troublesome, we ourself had no real fears on the subject. We know very well that they will never be caught in anything where it would be possible to question their courage—for we cannot callin question that which does not exist—and these de- Glaisiers about liberty are perfectly harmless. direction of Colonel Mayne, will only catch some not forgetting to apply a little water to their faces, yery anxious always to make speeimens of ‘ human- ity’ from this side of the water as respectable in appearance as possible.” ‘his Day. [From the British Army Despatch, May 23] During the early years of this century the United States were rioting in the first delicious intoxica- tion of national vanity, and revelling in extrava- gant peteeeriste of future greatness. The late war of 1812-14, lasted just long enough to give her an appetite for the pomps and vanities of mili- | tary glory, and not long enough to make her fvel this appetite should grow into a confirmed taste. Since this peried, her aggressive policy has been carried out to an extent that makes us wonder how Europe could have remained a passive witness of her tyranny ; and ‘Texas, and more latterly Mexico, are hourly experiencing the injustice of her aggres- sive spirit. The creation of a navy has been, and is still, the darling objest of her care; and the spirit which displays itself onthe launch of every hip, gives a sufficient indication of the confidence with which she looks forward to the realization of her ambitious day-dreams. Time and the hour may, perhaps, sober this calenture of the national br and when she shall have bought wisdom at jal price of experience, the ordinary career of hope she will perhaps subsicle into a state of mind more propitious to the growth of good taste, and the ad- vancement of civilization. For ourselves, we wish well, and have always wished well, to America, though we have never condescended to flatter her national vanities. We sincerely hope she may become wiser as she grows older ; but, as a first step towards improvement, it is indispensable that she should learn to divest her- self of that overweening self-conceit, which, in the words of the song, makes her believe that. “ The French and English may be done, But not a Yankee Doodle" ~and which has filled her with such exaggerated ideas of her own importance in the scale of uations, by seducing her into the belief that she is the rival of England. What may happen many centuries hence, ix not for us to divine. The page of history _— teach us that nations, like individuals, are sul je by passing through aud Tile pointment, t to disease and decay; but we leave the 8 of the United States in the maturity of her ¢, pla i in the days of her decrepitude, if such day—which Heaven avert—must ever come, tothe arbitration of posterity, while we content ourselves with asserting the present superiority of our couutry, and rejoice, not only in its undimi- in nished vigor, but in its growing strength and great- ness, ‘The goodwill which we bear towards Americans is felt, and must ever continue to be felt, by Eng- land, unless the feelings of nature are stifled and destroyed. In the case of nations, the relatioushi of parent and child may be called metaphorica only ; yet there is a epice of nature in the sensa- tion, which makes it more than nominal or figuras tive. We believe that England is still inclined to bury in oblivion all rancor preceeding from events that have occasionally happened to disturb the har- mony which ought to subsist between America and herself, and has ever been ready to cultivate and improve those kindly ee which would redound equally to the credit and advantages of both countries. It was surely not too muc to suppose tained by the descendent State; but whatev the cause—whether she was weaned too soon,whethor from her earlier connection with France, when “the weaned child put its hand in the cockatrice’s den,” or from the natural forwardness belonging to her relationsh' 0 America has constantly evinced in her conduct towards England a spiteful and insulting spirit. Whatever she does do in rivalry to England, is not done ina generous = of emulation. There is an ill-natured di: tion animating all her efforts to equal us, which seems ess less for the sake of the object, than for the gratification to be derived from the boast of surpassing E) It is in this temper that the Americans are for ever obtrudin upon us the pretended excellence of their const{tutlon. The spirit of liberty, which is the soul and substance of it, they derived from us; the form, which is less important, is their own. If a republican form of patent or be MPs yor ro habits of their country, em enjoy it peaceably and quietly; but they render thotaseived sitieulses when they impertinently decline to award to other nations the same amount of intelligence that dictates their — of a constitution, as they arrogate to them- selves. But liberty is a word of universal import, which ie made to mean anything and everything, according to the different tastes of ita ditlerent commentators. There is no doctrine in whieh, unless the zonl of its les be guided by knowledge, excess is more We have often been favored with the United States interpretation of the word, and we may judge of its begged from the sanction given by their legislature to the abominable traffic inhuman flesh, which affords those liberty-loving republicans the edifying spectacle of some thousands of their fellow creatures doomed, like the Helots cf Sparta, to hopeless slavery, and subjected, like brute b #, to the lash of their driver; and tnis, too, in a Chris. tian country! and this, too, under the daily view of ® people who yet presume to insult the common setivo of mankind, by boasting of the super-eminent excellence of their free constitution. Let the United States, aud, moreover, Pravil, learn from ue, that we shook off the chains of slavery With the other relies of barbariem ; that the very respiration of the air of England ie sufficient to loosen these degrading bonds ; aud that, even with reepect to her colonies, in epite of every temptation England took the lead ainong nations in abolishing thi ; and, not content with setting the example, has sw cessfully exerted all the energies of hor purse and her power to persuade the old world to concur with her in condemning and renouncing for ever that de- which had been so long a disgra ful blot in the history of humanity, and [moos upon the character of Christendom. We eave to the United States the task of reconciling this contradiction between ber practice and her noe ples ; and conclude thi icle with observing, hat the world will never admit the United States into the pale of civilized nations till this disgraceful system is put an end to—till they abandon the lash, and only keep the stripes for their flag! a foul re- On Wednesday morning, the 19th uit., Captain Paulet Somerset, having completed the term of imprisonment, was discharged from the llouso of Correction, Colebathfields. A great number of good graces of the Czar, asthe great potentate of the North refused to see his brother-in-law last year, | upon the subject. Such an extraordinary excite- when he proposed to pay his respects to him. | ment on the part of the sober, quiet, and brave Haying tines then putdywa every yommant oftherg- ' people who bayy existed in astave of comparative | { discharged aby persons had assembled to witness his departure at the usual hour, but the gallant prisoner had been Wi aw hous before the tune. a few paragraphs in an Ameri- | We do not, however, mean to alarm the English | However, if the London police, under the sagacious | of them, brush their white hats and dust their coats, | we shall be much obliged for the favor, for we are | Modern America, or ‘the United States of the inevitable consequences which must ensue, if that reciprocal feeling would naturally be enter- | be same year; the second son, Max Eugene, is married toa = ran of the Emporor Nicholas, and . at St. Petersburg. The state funeral of the late Duchess took place at Murich on the 17thinst. The London Globe of Saturday, the 24th ult.,. states that Major-General Pitt, who hade the troops in New Zealand since 1847, died in Ja- nuary last. The late General Pitt entered the | service in 1805; in 1807 he served in the West In- | dies, and was present at the capture of the Danish | islands in that year. He served at the capture of Martinique in 1809. From 1811 to 1814 he served in the Peninsular war, and was present at Albuhera, in the actions of Usarge and Almarez, the siege of Badajoz, the battles of Vittoria, Pampeluna, and the Pyrenees, for which he had received the war medal and four clasps. In 1836 he was nominated a Knight of Hanover, and in 1850 was placed on | the list of officers receiving rewards for distin- guished services. é Major-General Sir William Morison, K.C.B.; who has sat as a member for Clackmannan and Kinross, since 1842, as a liberal, died in London on | the 15th ult. Sir William served many years in the Madras artillery, and had held several high offices in India ; was commissioner for the Mysore government, member of the Supreme Council, pre- sident of that body, and likewise had been deputy- governor of Bengal. In 1841 he obtained the local rank of major-general in the East ladies, and im 1848 was nominated K.C. The death of Viscount Strathallan took place at his seat of Castle Strathallan, in Perthshire, on the afternoon of Wednesday last, the 2lst ult. His | lordship, who had reached the ripe age of eighty- five, began to show tokens of declining strength | some time ago; but his last illness was only of a few days’ duration. _At Upper Castlehill, in the parish of Troqueer, Kircudbrightshire, May 11, aged $1, James Thom- son, a veteran, who in his youth fought against the | French and Spaniards at Trafalgar ; and during the latter part of his life kept up e coment sirup» gle against poverty as a wandering beggar. He was bornin the East Indies, but his * forbears’? were originally from Carlaverock. After spendin, his youth and manhood at the sea, he took the roa as a gaberlunzie, in company with the wedded partner of his prime. For the last twenty years taey thus trudged together. MADAME HAMELIN. [Paris Correspondence of London Atlas, } | The last of the nee particular stars whieh formed the galaxy of glory round the head of the first consul, hus disappeared by the death of Ma- dame Hamelin. She alone remained to tell the world of what elements were composed that society which succeeded the old illusions of aristocracy, so abruptly dispelled by the great yevolution, Like Josephine Beaubarnais and Madame Grant, sho was a Creole by birth, and to the very last pos sessed that indescribable grace and ease of manner #0 peculiar to the French Creole ladies, and which has sometimes enabled them, in their ignorant sim- plicity, to obtain unbounded influence where the charms and blandishmeats of the more learned and cultivated females, who are ever rtge for the government of this country, have failed. [or many ears did Madame Hamelin share with Madamo ‘Tallien and Madame Beauharnais the entire rule of the directoire, and not a hero of that day but had sighed away his soul at the feet of one or other of the trio. Robespiorre himself was fain to confess, when too late, that he owed his ruin to neglect of their influence, and his destrustion to contempt of their power. His attack upon Madame Tallien was | the first false step of his career, and the signal for his overthrow. Barras, with whom at that time | the fair Josephine all powerful, was in- stantly made to perceive the great talents for vernment Rpeeawe by the young Gen. Bona, 5 Although Madame Hamelin had for many years retired from public life, yet the homage of a certain circle was still extended to her, and her salon was the rendezvous of all the remnant of that society which the restoration had dispersed, and thence have iesued, at various times, those strat id startling opinions which have ended in brin, nation to ite present position. The clique of savans and peetastere who surrounded in latter years Ma- dame Recamicr, had sworn a bitter eninity to the followers of Madame Hamelin, and the war be- tween the two salons continued in full vigor until the death of Count Montrond. He alone of that once numerous court which Madame Hamelin had formerly beheld Vere around her remained with the boldness and wit sufficient to beguile her into forgetfulness of this pigmy time, with its small worthip of puny idols, its weak and sickly homage to its little heroes, and its blind acceptance of every kind of quackery, no matter what its garb, so that it but condescended to flatter the trifling vanities of the multitude. She ld often compare with these puerile aims the bold and vigrons aspira‘iong of her youth, and, sickening at the contemp!ation, had ended by confining her intercourse entirely to thore who could bring to mind the energetic dreams amid which her younger days were — Mont- rond, whore singular destiny had led him to play a conspienees part under every regime which had ruled in France ever since the days of Louis Quin: had, during the latter years of his life, exclade himeelf from the world ioe iy 4 with Madame Hamelin. in the exquisite little hotel in the Rue Blanche, formerly occupied by the great operatie celebrity, Madllc. Guimand, this friendly pair re- tired while yet capable of every enjoyment which the memory of the past can bring, and bere Mon- trond died. It was his delight to ee to the wondering imagination of Hiademe Hamelin the self-confidence which had never deserted through any change of system, and, although possessed of no pecuniary resource, be we sometimes turprise, nay, even terrify her, by certain souvenirs of the regency to which he had been ac- customed in his youth, in the shape of fetes and petite soupers, With which ali Paris would ring for some time, and Fes to shame the paltry attempts at gal- lantry with which the vulgar pdits mmitres of our day now and then seek to bewilder the brains of the peor abortive imitators of the grace and elegance of the fair marquises of the ancient régime. The last fete of this kind given in honor of Madame Haniclin was upon the occasion of her birthday, when the park and grounds belonging to the little hotel were transformed into a mipiature fair, with buyers and sellers, all habited in the costume of the times of Louis Quinze, and where every articl be tr at the booths bore the same . * Who, will pay for all this!” said Royer Collard to Mon- trond, as he gazed around upon the gay scene and caleulated the enormous expense of the outlay. “* My creditors, be sure,” returned Mon:rond,. laughing gail he turned upon his beel. It bag become the fashion for the faubourg St. Germain, under the banner of Madame Kecamier,to brand ag republican and vulgar the society which gathered at Madame Hamelin’s, and which had set itself ene tirely against the sickly pretensions and vapid self complimenting of the disciph the Chateaubriand , school, who assemblod at the Abbaye aux Bois. Am attempt was made, however, under the auspices of P—.. to reconcile the two coteries, but which failed, owing to @ ludicrous accident which befel, and widened the breach to a greater extent than ever. Upon the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Orleans, much anticipation was created concerning the splendor of the fetes to be given, and above all, concerning the fireworks to be vilered by the loyal city of Paris to the sovereign of its choice. ow, it was considered at that time the ry height of breeding for the faubourg St. Germain to aflect a total indifference to the proceedings of the Citiven King, and witht regard to the inei $ popa- lar display was t and great cultiva windows of every hotel works could be obt closed, and no sign of lite wi any one of the gar to the high ar standing the political ¢ ture claimed her right, and tis t hot in reality to feel as much sity ¢ the sight a+ though it bad not been given by a ple- beinn city to pleases citizen king. In the dile Mona. B , who wi Ways apt at conciliation, sug- gested the Belvedere at the top of Madame Hame- lin’s hotel, inthe rue Blanche, as being the moat. favorable point for bebolding the fireworks to the best advantage. The negotiation was successful; = te s onthe r acy of the land y of ind | the Ms was to be considered neutral ground; old, friendships were to be revived; old feuds were to be laid aside; Montrond and Chateaubriand, Hamelin. and Kegamior, wore ip embrage aod jon in abuse