The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1851, Page 4

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Prondway—Ericorran MiNsTR ELS! jroadway—Lanies’ Barrie— " Musical Mall, No. #4 AMERICAN MUSEUM, Amvsixo Penrormances Ar- veanoom Axp BYENiNo, DOUBLE SHEET. New York, Tucsday, June 17, 1851. ‘Telegraphic Summary, According to our accounts from Albany, the Legislature appear to be very industrious, and are | fansatting a great deal of business of various desofiptions. Hut why do not the zealous advocates ef tke canal enlargement bring forward the bill Pledging the revenues from the Erie canal, to the ‘mount of nine or ten millions of dollars, for en- Nagging that work? Are they afraid? Come, gen- themen, go ahead. You may be taken to task for the manner in which you propose to enlarge the | anal; not for the enlargement itself—for every one know: that it is necessary—but for the manner in which you propose to do it. gone £0 far as to cutoff all retreat, and you had better proceed with the bill as rapidly as you can. It appears, after all, that the committee appoint- ed to investigate the Baltimore defaleation, have reported that it does not amount to more than ten Shousand dollars. This is certainly letting us ebeaply. If it only amounts to ten thousand dollars, USeeeeastaials bas been a great ery but little wool 4 the matter; “the mountain labored, but pro- What is a defalea- | duced nothing but a mouse.” tion of ten thousand dollars, in these Perity, soirées, suppe extravagance ? and every other species o! We learn from Washington that a new paper i ‘to be issued in that city soon, to advocate the colon mation cause. etter for our philanthropists to ex pend their «pare change in this way, than in enticing Bappy negroes to leave their masters and go to icy | Ge resermMere, votwithetanding all the professions | of sympathy that are there made for the slave, there ie more dislike to colored persons than there is in apy part of the United states. _ objection to the reciprocity bill, nor was such ,ament used in Congress by any member of asthe ar ceputation in financial matters. Except with the | of France, and the editerial comments of the French nalism, and be of real service to liberty in France. | to-day, newspaper press, have a character widely different. | They must turn from pireuettes to practical polities, manufacturers, the extension proposed will, eo far’ from tending to further the passage of the reci- provity bill, positively constitute an additional objection to it. The socialists quoted do not under- stand even the outside of the principles controlling this subject. The manufacturers have had but little infieremee im the matter hitherto, and will not have hereatter. To the ‘first place, this country is not disposed to make special and partial arrangements with colo- nies of Great Britain, for their advantage, which the parent government will not extend to all trade and commerce with ber, as Well as with her colonies. ‘The French Newspaper Press. ‘The recent debates in the Legislative Assembly The former have a practical pungency that may lead to emewtes—the latter are theoretical in the ex- treme, and of no value to society at large. The | mere editorials of a useful public journal are only & part ofa grand whole, and should always have a di- rect purpose with regard to the necessities and wants of the public. They should not be formal senti- mental essays, in which facts are to be deduced from arguments, but they should be statements of facts, | accompanied by a foresight inte consequences. Whatever pride the French journalists may take in thcir editorial encyclopedic essays—which have All and any reciprocity must be general. Seoondly, there is a very large portion of the American people decidedly hertile to the annexation of the Canadas, or New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia, to neither beginning, middle, nor end, but may be cut into separate and distinct articles at every para- graph—it is quite clear to even ordinary ob- servation, that they are without value to the the United States. ‘The Canadians d> not seem | peaceable movement of the great public mind in to understand this. The entire South is opposed | France. They may be good food for exalted poli. TIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Bavres—My j You have, however, | of | © lays of pros to it, and will continue to be opposed, under all circumstances. Especially since the admission of California will it resist to the last extremity, and at all hazards, the annexation of three or four additional non-slaveholding States to the confede- racy, composed of the British provinces just named, already filled with a numerous population. Ar- dently as annexation is desired by many in the provinees, and by some in the Northern, North- western, and Eastern States of the present Union, the slavcholding States will resist, in solid phalanx, such a measure. This feeling induced the South to vote against the reciprocity measure, when first proposed in Congress. The North then supported it. Both sections then supposed the adoption of the measure would further annexation. Since then, they have come to understand the sub- ject better, ard to believe that, insomuch as it would tend to make the people of Canada better satisfied with their colonial condition, it would retard annexation. Hence, many of the most intelligent statesmen of the South are now inclined to favor reciprocity, if the principle is not abnsed. A special provision for the bene- fit of Yankee manufactures would find little fa. vor with them. But this annexation question is a twoedged sword, cutting both ways; and if the South favors it, the advocates of annexation will oppose it, and vice versa. The theory of this go- | vernment, that the majority rule, is not always ve- | rified in practice. Ontbe contrary, an adroit, axtive and pertinacious minority often defeat a measure; and this Canada reciprocity scheme is one that is ure to meet such a fate. Excited by subjects of con- test among ourselves, we doubt if Congress notice it fortwo or three years hence, and we are quite | satisfied the present cabinet will not venture to take | the initiative, by any exercise of the treaty making power. That mode of adjusting duties on imports | and exports, has been too often denounced by Mr, | Webster to allow any euch expectation. The so- | cialist organ quoted by the Quebec paper, as above stated, and noticed as “speaking the sentiments of | the | as much of the sentiments of Mesers. Fillmore and Webster, as does Mr. Inspector General Hincks, or Sir Allen MeNab,or Mr. William L. Mackenzi It is no authority for anything, except Fourierism, socialism, spiritual knockings, sea sickness, and Slievegammoz. A third reason for the failure of this reciprocity measure is that the United States will not gain anything by it. If the statements made by the Canadians be true, the commercial | interests of most of the Atlantic cities of the United States, and of the cities on our lakes, and the inte- rests of our canalsand railroads running to the lakes, will not be advanced by the reciprocity proposed. The Canadians boast that if the Welland Canal is opened to our vessels and produce free, or at a low toll, and if the navigation of the St. Lawrence is improved and extended to us, it willbe easier, ard cheaper, and safer, to send most of the produce f n | Our tax-payers and real estate owners will find | of our Northwestern States by that route, than some items in the general tax bill passed by the Senate at Albany, yesterday, which will interest them. We have no space, to-day, to make any eomment upon them. They will findthem in our feport of th® doings of our Legislature, in another eolrrn The Canada Paritament. ities are waxing hot in Canada. The United embargo upon its land Canal is to be be denied the privi e Lawrence. The mail feamer: between the United States and England, and Scotland—Cunard’s line, Collins’ line, the Southampton line, and the Glasgow line, and Pol the contemplated Galway line—are to be run off the ocean by Canadian competition. We are to be deprived of telegraphic news from Europe via tHalifax—and the Lord knows what else is to be ¢one—unless Congrose pass the * Reciprocity bill” M the next session. Im the face of all th fearful threats, we state positive! is no probability tha gress wi that measure. This country is getting along very well under the present arrange- Con- ments. Very few inthe United States have any interest in what alled the “reciprocity mea | gare” desired by the Canadians. Some of the Smited number of traders along the Canada fron- aers, © oncerned in smuggling both ways, may desire it; but there substantial interest in this eountry that ld be benefited by it. Canada may the lo what she can best do, to better bervei! not the sligh:est pr 4, or any kindred mM reat Britai bet wee € reciy on meet her wen who are in pe in power k for a special adop tion oe. ub for the gratification of ja, an ose of th 4 g her t vich is not ex f oth he, with respect auiries adjacen hem. South Southwestern States, may axk for epecial their trade with the Bahamas, Porto Mtieo, and the W. dies Mexic California and for special reciprocal ents fer fit with Chili, Pera, t 1 wich i stan, & The Easte! manufa ve United States, whilst they op pore a dow duties, and insist on a high ‘aril on agutine: competing European manu- | factur anpet, wiik " faces, ask for re siprocal low dutios wih Canada, to create a market r manufa ¢ The Quebec Beiteah Honist quotes from the socialist organ im thie city, as speaking “the sentimente of the prescots American ae expressing “the opinidne sense aed intelligence vl cabinet,” and of four-fifths of the American Union,” when it stated “We are not oppoved to « dair. amd Jact reciprocity in Gude. with the British nies, Which, sooner or later py tecomme members of this comiwderacy. But it must @ much mors comprehensive meamMee—it must exten | € manufactured fabrics, ax well aa U0 Ube products of the gol, the forest dndihe mine Lf we octwent to take from Gheee proviners, fewe of duty, it ie woly rijcht that the provinces ebould take from us such articles in raturn a2 wr kave to dispcae of, and which they dy net produce OF wanitacture Thic is all fudge and n nse. The Colon observes, that "The American press and public hare told we, in the Most emphatic language, that dhey « have perfor an diag whet freedom for sdmiexion of Canada, before theywan consent to tas Boer, or lumber, duty free. ‘This is equal! told you no « @F influence in phic yurd. The Amer thing—no press of any # country, hae ofp? advanced that ding through our canals and railroads by our Atlantic cities. They even boast they can so divert the trade ofthe Northwestern States from our canals and railroads, as to build up a rival to New York, | Borton, Philadelphia and Baltimore, on the shores | of the St. Lawrence, and that Buffalo will have to | | strike her flag to a city depot somewhere on the Canada side of the lakes. Yet, with admirable self complacency, this free use ef their canal and the free navigation of the St. Lawrence, as proposed to be improved, are part of the favors to be extended to the United States, which we are expected to re- | ciprocate by taking off all duties on their produce, | brought into the United States, to compete with | ours in our own markets, or elsewhere, and by | levying no duties on foreign goods taken through our ports into Canada. There is an inconsistency and contradiction in all this, which the Cana- | dians cannot explain. If their statements are true as to the superior facility of egress and ingress to, andfrom the Atlantic by the St. Lawrence and Welland Canal, over our own canalsand railroads, then no reavon existe for asking usto make any arrangement on the subje ‘The privilege offered is no favor. permitted to aid the Pri:ish in promoting an in‘e- rést hostile to our canals and railroads, and to build up Canadian ports in prefereree to our own ci | and to join in efforts to prostrate our commercial and chipping interests for the benefit of fureigners. Congress should not do anything to stri wn the important canal and railroad nterests of the States, and to disturb the present commercial pr rity of our cities, and raise up rival intereete in Canada If the Can ement annot perecive any particular rearon to induce us to catend the fave are w n the Canadian Parliament, reafter noti now and moved on in anot fpoken mar ab sta ced, a 12th of June by Mr. Me » respecting the mu thet the d from the 12 rom Washi: | patches were gton, from whence imp expected in relation t humbug. The adinin | buttor anadde t care a brass and do not i nore rat ( important nry Bulwer has too Mr. Hincks and Mr | matters toa | much tact toa debate in t of which we published a > | the 6th of June, ext nd nes on the part ada legislators as to the power of Canada, by any of the methods suggested, to coerve the United Statee to adopt their pol The i lea of ingland | going back to the high or pr tive system, | to force thie country into terme with Cunada, is as | idle as the project of refusing St. Lawrence nale and of the ¢ 4 f her ca If Lora was to get into power, he would break down in an attempt to reinetate the old protective sytem. Free trade, or liberal commercial regulations, are the ee. tablished doctrince of the a, ke a1 would in- jure hervelf more then ws by the re-adoption of the high duty or protective policy. We should not be compelled by her to follow her example prohibitions and embargoes would probably be our weapone, and her manufac Withholding of our cotton, and *, excited to the most fearfal on of the digest Positive oties would be stopped and ruined by tl ber starving o by the wit ing of our breadstaff: siope. The idea of any plan being ad | | ment between 65 ain and the Uni | f the | No sperial legisiation at to ( ) fagm the Upited f tly. futile i all the rfe¢ Ja can be ob‘ained Statee. present American cabinet,” knows just about | Surely it is no great privilege to be | Stantoy | ticlans and statesmen im the cafés of the Palace Royal, but their entire influence is circumscribed to this small fragment of the people. The editorials of well conducted American journals are far better jn their practical usefulness. In fact they are the clearly expressed opinions of the people, and form jn the aggregate the entire power of the government. ‘They are far above state papers of any kind in af- fecting the body of the people, because they are the workings of the popular thought, above all the theories of men who are placed at the head of public affairs. Guivot, Lamartine, Girardin, and the like may be very good essayists, but they have no skill or tact as newspaper writers, any more than our Webster, Clay, Foote or Cass. Not one of these can effect anything as a journalist. How could they work out an editorial article except asa speech? We would not give a penny for their best efforts in this way, because it is impossible for these men to know how to use the press successfully. It requires long practice to gain any efficiency in the business; and nine-tenths of those who a'- tempt to write editorials fail, and invariably show their hands while at the work. We can de- tect them at a glance, just as we can see every movement made by Barnum’s bureau of writers, who now do halfthe editorials of the weaker por- | tion of our own metropolitan press, in the musical | and humbug line. | A genuine editorial is more like an ode of Horace than an essay on anything else—brief, pointed, epi- grammatic, philosophic, and stinging—all in one. Every one of them is a brilliant editorial—has a whole. into poetry. Virgil's Enead isan attempt at the same thing, but isa failure. The patriarch Job» or the author of that book, wrote admirable edito- rials; and Moses was the father of them among the Hebrews. Selomon was an excellent journalist,— Willis has adopted his style, while Webb imitates Jeremiah, who also wrote well. St. Paul and some of the apostles wrote editorials, which are perfeet model: instyle and matter—particularly St.Paul’s. They were aleo good in correspondence, as their epistles abundantly testify. Among the Greeks, Xenophon was a good editorial writer. His Ana- basis was the model of the news column of a news paper. Pindar surpassed him in brilliant editorials, | always dividing his work into nine parts, which con. | tained really only three parts, the strope, anti- strope, and the epode—the beginning, middle, and end. Isocrates promised to make good editorials, but he failed at last. Demosthenes was no better at an editorial than Webster is in our day and coun- try. Sappho, we think, was a kind of editress. She was the high original of the Swisshelms ani Bloomers, of our day, and got beyond her depth, agthey have. She wore, too, the oriental costume, as she was in the habit of bing pree'pices where the always harped on one string, iu the ~wisshelm | and Bloomer fashion. We throw out these classical references for the benefit of the French editors, to whom nothing is brilliant without such allusions—they understanding ancient government among the gods and men much | better than the practical polity of modern republics, or the valuable earnestness of purpose and popular enterprise which mark the Times and other journals | of London, and the Merald and one or two of its associates in New York. These newspapers are not the organs of cliques. They do not sacri, five their own usefulness and the public good to carry 2 club, circle, or party through thick and thin—they do not oppose the govern- ment, because they have any fantastical theory of their own to set up. They do not belong to any statesman. Their editors are above all statesmen, and every power—except that of public | opinion, which they precede only by a day or (wo at | farthest, which is quite enough to be ahead of the age, acting as pilots in all weathers, and with no other desire than to keep the ship of State right on her course. It isnot so with the French journals. They are merely the organs of a few theorists, | whose power consists more in suppressing facts and truths than in publishing them—who narrow even the narrow limits permitted by the government, to tuit their own fancies, and hopes, and ambition. What newspaper in Varis, for instance, publishes | everything on both sides of a discussion, like the New York Herald, and at the same time giv own opinion, for the good of society ! There i: none | On the sentrary, the French newspapers ate con- tracted in their vic riveness sign or of thought; and | may elevate their though they nt for the politien] hour, they > ly, elfichly, meanly, permit the dearest interes'a of the State | and the people to be overturned in the struggles, been, and the French republ ike a bit of bread am *, prove th , and egotism of the news Apert the failure to | { the decree truck at ty—publicity of thought—was he prese was then® mockery, a * been, and we see it at thie very President, under a la of the meddle with the fun of Le 1 to consign its editor miprison- In the time of the old re public the press advaneed a siep, to fall back & dozen or m under the first (onsul, Napo- leon. The genius of the press was a mystery. At the time Louis Philippe’s flight wasat hand, the prese of Paris was getting vigorous, but it soon lost it, and private, personal ambition, was the only eti- | mulus to journalists, who were not even able to preserve themrelver, murh les an honest republi- | can government. Had the journalists of Paris un. derstood their vocation, different results would have enrued. The people would have been led away | from fights in the streets, into a serious considera | tion of their own power, under the daties extended to them by the right of suffrage. ‘hore would | bave been no apprehension of any danger to the re- | public, because the very democracy are alwaye fear- | ful of anarchy, and are wise about their own inte rests—which epring from order, security, and peace, nod not from change and confusion. Had France porsessed, or did it now possess, a faithful joarnal— edited on great comprehensive principles of public liberty, and altogether aloof from intrigues, clabs, cliquer, ane factions—we should not despair of the tence of the republic, of even apprehend a col- lision of factione, in the least dangerous to the pub- lie welfare. Wonid the editors in France but show one half as mach zeai and horeety in political philo- ropby, ae they do in the philosophy of the opera, the lescend ment fora mere joke on ox beginning, middle and end, and forms a complete | Homer's Illiad is a great editorial turned | They have no comprehen- | ballet, or the theatre, they would give some evi- dence of improvement in the character of theirjour- and not manage so often to precipitate themselves over the fence into the street, by their personal climbing aspirations. In brief, it is quite certain that had France possessed, in the revolutions of 1792 and 1848, such a press as is now essential to the good govern- mentof any intelligent republic, or even a limited monareby, and of which the world has specimens in England and the United Statee—she would have been spared many of the convulsions that have dis- tracted her. ‘The press would have been there, as it is in England and here, the strongest arm of the government. Our governmentin the United States would ke nothing without our newspaper press.— Our State governments and local governments would be nothing. They are merely administra- tive, while the newspaper prees does all the thinking work in 2dvance—supplies all the information—all the ground work and raw materials for state papers and new laws, and, in fact, makes the great public offices mere sinecures, which commonly shrewd men might occupy with success. Indeed, it is only when some official undertakes to despise the press that he gets into difficulty. ‘There is an intuitive sagacity in the people which makes them sustain it for their own good; andthe same spirit, also, makes them indifferent to all those journals which, like those of Paris, narrow their views to the mere political wishes of a faction, or party. truth, the American press is now destined to be more useful thanever to thepeople. Greatchanges already have taken place under the influence of the telegraph, and still greater ones will soon charac- terize that career which has already been so bril- liant. We commend to the serious study of Eu- ropean politicians, the nature and powers of our press, which is at once the most able and efficient arm of government, and the very Aigis of oursafety and security from all apprehension of danger. Crriovs DEvVELOPEMENTS IN BANK SPECULATIONS. —We refer our financial readers, ‘and, indeed, our readers of all classes, to the report of the trial of My. Collier, Cashier of the Havre de Grace Bank, at Elkton, Maryland—an institution which blew * Bannva’s Mission To Evnors—Tit Service or Phare 1x rig Wortp’s Farr.—Bari‘am will sail in the North America, for Europe, and, per- chance, in eight short days—perhaps sooner—will land at Galway, in Ireland. The purpose of Napo- leon’s mission is very different from anything in which he has hitherto beenconcerned. It is to fulfil a contract of high souled generosity, made some years ago in London, when he commenced making his fortune with General Tom Thumb. That con- tract was one involving so much honor, as well as pounds, shillings, pence, and gratitude, that we shall only do justice to the vastness of the subject, and to its present importance, by reciting the great points of history connected with Napoleon's and ‘Tom Thumb’s career in Europe. When Barnum and the little General went to Europe, the former had letters to Mr. James Mark- well, then the proprietor of Long’s Hotel, who was supposed to be—and was—the most likely person to Americans ar THE Wor.p’s Far.—We givo elsewhere in our colums to-day, @ very curious and spirited eorrespondence from London, by a new hand, which gives a full account of the difficulties which have agitated the American community at- | the World’s Fair in London, especially the mo~ | mentous quarrel of etiquette and authority—of. | right and liberty—which have divided and separated | our two representatives there—Mr. Riddle of Bos- ton, and Mr. Stansbury of Washington. This cor- respondence gives the first cloar and accurate account of the Southern side of the question; and: certainly there seems to be some force in what is- said for Mr. Stansbury There is one thing which strikes us particularly inthis matter, and that is,the Jamentable want of dignity and proper nationality which marked the proceedings of the Americans | at the World’s Fair, during the last few months. | They commenced the exhibition with petty quar- rela and small jealousies about ridiculous trifles, put Napoleon in the right path to the palace, from The London Punch and Times have been elabo- which, for success, it was necessary General Thumb | rately witty on the meagreness of the American should iseue upon the astonished and anxious mul- part of the Exhibition; but we suspect that before In | titude. Instead of doing as he was directed, on ar- riving at Liverpool Barnum listened to others, | who prevailed upon Napoleon to show the General | at the Princess’ theatre, of which Maddox was then proprietor. ‘This was a great mistake, and would | have ruined the whole speculation but for Mr. Markwell, upon whom Barnum called, from his ob- ; seure and humble lodgings near Euston square, for | needful advice and assistance. Markwell, nothing | daunted, however, get his genius to work in behalf | | of Napoleon. He gave up to him, ata nominal | rent, his splendid private mansion in Grafton street, introduced him to the celebrated Mitchell—who is | the grand caterer for the amusement of the nobili- | ty, and a favorite manager for the Queen herself— | | and advised that some elegant cards for receptions | should be issued. ‘This was done. The General | was soon “at home,” at 13 Grafton street—the | | drawing room of which was spacious, and elegantly | furnished. There the General received the nobility | gratis; but it was a valuable piece of diplomacy. Presents were showered upon him, and he was | made the pet of the aristocracy ; but all through | the influence of Mr. Markwell, who first made an | application to the late Hon. Col. Anson, Keeper of the Privy Purse, then to the Hon. Charles Murray, | they are done, they will be more pungent and more sarcastic on the exhibition which the Ameri- cans have made of themselves, by their petty rival~ ries, and petty sciambles for nothing. Wersrer’s Sreecugs.—The miserable creature who, by the sufferance of Mr. Fillmore, disgraces the post of Naval Storekeeper, has pirated the: speeches of Mr. Webster, which were reported by our special reporter, printed them in a bungling | and erroneous manner, and offers them for sale, in order to buy him a dinner. Does the Union Com mittee assist in such a blundering piracy ?—Does Mr. Webster !—Does the President ? City Intelligence. Retexn or Jesern OC. Asttey.—Mr. Deputy Sheriff Lown returned yesterday from the Sing Sing State pri- ron, having in custody Joseph ©. Ashley, who, about « year ago, received a sentence of six years imprisonment, on an illegal conviction iu the Court of General Sessions. The counsel for Ashley carried the case before the Su- preme Court, and on Saturday last the Judges reversed the judgment of the Court below, and ordered a new trial. Mr. Ashley was placed im the custody of Sheriff Carnley, aad detained previous to obtaining bail, in the Eldridge street county jail. It appears from the inti- mations derived from Mr. Blunt, the able District Attor- ney, great doubts are entertained whether Ashley's case up a few months ago—for embezzling the funds of of the Household, and to Mr. Halse, Page of the that institution. The developements furnished by | Presence. He induced, also, Lords Augustus and the evidence, show some curious practices on the | Adolphus Fitzelarence, and the Earl of Aboyne, part of certain financiers in New York. After a tedious trial the cashier was acquitted; but the startling fact remains, that the bank robbed the community of a large sum of money. Wood,” which is supposed to be a nom du guerreof seme celebrated financier in the neighborhood, who was seen only on one occasion by one of the witnesses, ard who is spoken of as a ‘‘short, stout man.” Who canhe be? The system of Plainfield finan- ciering, which has been in operation in this country for several years past, is worthy of the attention of historians and philosophers, Various banks in various neighborhoods, which have been conducted on this system, have operated with great success for a while—merely to blow up in the end, with a tremendous explosion. The Plainfield system is something like the high pressure system in steam boilers. The boat builders and engine builders generally excaye, but the poor firemen and engi- neert,and deck passengers, are blown sky high | when the explosion takee place. During the last | poleon to bis bankers. How grateful was Barnum | pyytt, He acknowledged the depth of his | few years, the number of banks which have been conducted on the Plainfield principle, and which, after operating on the community for a short time, have wound up by an explosion, amount to half a dozen, at least, located in various parts of the coan- try, North and South. Here is a list of them:— Exrropen Baxxs, Manacen on Piaisrietp Parverces. Plainfield, circulation, deposites, and diseounts. . $200,000 Lehigh County Bank, — do, do. 75,000 | Suequehennah Co. Bank, do. do. 150,000 ace Bank, — do. do. 105.000 New licpe aud Delaware Bridge, do, 25.0 State Bonk of Morris. N J, do... 150,000 Jacksonville Dank, Florida, do. °. 100,000 Total $905,000 These rotten institutions, as a general thing, ori- ginated in New York, were managed in New York, | and each had its “Charley Wood” on every occa sion before a wind up or an explosion. cevlation of their notes, the working portion of the community have been plundered to the amount of nearly a million of dollars, without any hope of re- covery or indemnification. Several of the finan- ciers connected with these institutions in New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, have been in- dicted, and some of them, as in the case of Collier, | have been tried; but no conviction ever took place, hor was any discovery ever made of the particular personages by whom the banks were rifled, and the country at large plundered and swindled. Requisi- tions have been issued by the Governors of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and, perhaps, other States, on the Governor of New York, for indicted finan- ciers, or those against whom indictments would have been found if they were not absent; but by somo meuns or other—by hook or by crook—thowe per- sons have contrived to get their necks out of the noose—to cheat the penitentiary or the State pri- son of its due—to embark again in the organi- zation of similar banks i ine other quarter. “uel the history of Plainfield financiers and Plainfield financiering, as it bas been carried into practice for years past. Stain on THE Croru—He wan Natrre amona Creneyuen.—The trial of the Rev. J. J. Doherty for the reduc of Mary Monagan, which took Place at Springticld last week, has created quite a sensation in various quarters, and particularly among the clergymen of various denominations, who seem to rejoice more or less in the downfu!l of Doherty, who is of the Catholic creed in religious There is no cause for any rejuicing in or any reason f ride on the “ holiee * principle. All men should remomber that human n ¢, and its temptations an1 powers, belong not exclusively to Catholicity. Black sheep have been found in all flocks, agaia and again; and we ehould remember what the Saviour on the woman was brought before him f al sins. In the Episeopal Church we have very painful relations, which have deprived that church of its pious Bishop Onderdonk—in the Metho fist Church, Mafftt’s history has been a warning to those prone to exercise, too larg of human nature—among tite 1’ name of Fay has stood ou as a bea danger of temptations ; and, indeed, ue embraces a large number of fallen divines, whose histories have been injurious to the sects of which they were once shining lights. Such, and so many cases, have an important in- fluence, both for good and for evil—for good, in hoiding up beacons before the unruly and rebellious natures of men clothed with a sacred charactor; and for evil, in bringing the religious societies which are stained by the unbridled acts of their leading members, into a species of distrust. How- the sensib’ ytoriana, the e in ever, the black sheep ought in no case to be con- sidered as staining the whole flock. The dye that marks their character is not necessarily euch as to | ftain the whole body; and, in this lamentable fall of Doherty, no sect should exult as being free from similar mortifications. All should remember the | charitable rebuke of the Saviour—“Let him that is without sin among you, cast the first stone.” | Later News rrom Evrors —The steamship | Humboldt, Capt. Lewis, from Havre, with four | days later intelligence from all parts of Europe, is now due at this port. She has been a! sea nearly thirteen days, and if she does not make her appear- ance soon, the Cunarder of the 7th instant will be along. It is possible the H. did not leave Havre | on her regular day wa The Lovisvinie Jounsar, and papers of that stamp, give out the idea that Mr. Fillmore will get the whig nomination, and be elected, in 1962 | The same thing was peld out to Captain Tyler, in | bie dey. By the cir- | then in waiting on the Queen, to visit the little General. All this succeeded well. Crowds of the | nobility went to see him. Grafton street was lined | with carriages, All this excitement became the One of the most extraordinary features of the evi- | gossip of the palace, and acted upon the Queen and | dence, is the testimony in reference to one “Charley | Prince Albert, who “ commanded” the General into their presence. This was a proud day for Barnum. Mr. Markwell had laid the corner stone of Napo- leon’s fortune. After a brief season, the excitement abated ; bat it was soon revived. manent apartments at Markwell’s London hotel, and the invited a party to see the diminutive hero, who was introduced to Lords Clarendon, Viceroy of Ireland, Clanricarde, Postmaster-General, and a host of other notables. This thoroughly paved the way for the public exhibitions at Egyptian Ilall, which yielded from one hundred to a hundred and | fifty pounds a day. Barnum, astonished at his suc- cess, knew not what todo. He ran to Markwell | every day with his silver and gold, who gave him cheques for it, till finally Markwell introduced Na- at this hour! obligations, and insisted upon it that when he got a kundred thousand pounds—yes, fifty thousand pounds—be would present to the man to whom he owed so much gratitude, a splendid service of | plate. When he got this amount, however, he was | very busy with gigantic speculations, and seemed | to bave forgotten all about the corner stone of his fortune. Time, howcver, brings about reflection. No soon- j | er had Napoleon and the Nightingale severed the | bonds of their contract, than the former remem- bered his promige, which is contained in his own doubtless well preserved copy of the annexed original letter :-— Horra pe Broronn, Rue St. Honors, 923, Panis, March 22, 1545, My dear Sir—Here we are. General and equipage, und setting the whole city { er of excitement! To- morrow bight we go before the King and Queen of the Freveb and the Keyal Family, We open our exhibition | on Tuesday wext, aud will set them all crazy! I shall not forget the silver plate when I get the £100,000, Avy papers or letters which hereafter arrive for me and oblige ‘Truly, your obedient servas Janes Marcwrnn, Beq. PT. BARNUM. It is to do justice te bis old friend in this business, | that Mr. Barnum now sails for Europe. He will take out the service of plate, of American manu- facture, in several trunks—not those belonging to his elephants, but in his own tranks—and Hh | not be surprised if he should exhibit the brilliant | prevent for a few day desert, ut the World's Fair, where Napoleon will place on record his remembrance of * benefits for- Lady Macdonald had per- | you will have the kirdness to send to above address, | ‘as an oasis in the American | will ever again be tried. Fine.—About 4 o'clock on Monday morning, a fire oc- curred in astable, between Anthony street and Catharine lane, which, with another stable and a number of small wooden buildings. were burnt to the ground. The fire communicated with « large wooden building, comprising three dwelling heures. Nos. 107,109, and 111 Anthony street, which was considerably damaged before the flames could be eubdued About fifteen families, with their effvets much injured by water, were turned into the street. by this fire, which, it appears evident, was the doings of some evil minded persons. It appears that | several idle snd mischievous fellows have been in the | habit of sleeping in the stuble among the hay, during the whole spring and summer. Mr, Foley, the proprietor of | the stable complained of these rowdies to the anthorities | aud got the doors secured to prevent their entrance, and it is believed they ret fire to the place out of a revegeful spirit Anornen Fine.—A fire broke out at eleven o'clock on: Sunday night, at 119 Cedar street, eaused by the barsting, (ft a camphine lamp. it was extinguished without mue damege A Conovs Biatn at a Station Hovsr.—About 8 o'clock on Sunday evening. a woman was found in Trinity pluce, by policeman J. King, who brought her to the tation house. She is deaf and dumb, but wrote her name as Susan Mather. of Grange, New Jersey; she also wrote that she was reduced by a man named Green, under promise of marriage, and that he had fled to New Orleans. She was in labor pains when the policemar found her. and a docter wax immediately sent for, but none could be fot Mrs, Robinson however, a midwife g at 40 Trinity place, came, and soon after Dr, when the woman was safely delivered of a female infant. Motherand chil are doing well, and still remain atthe station heuse ‘The baby is not dumb. as during the right the proved by erying most vigorously. Vioravion or tHe Crry Onpexaxces my Osrvinve Dar~ vens—Jobn Brent. driver of stage No, 535; Milton Mar- tin, of stage No, 4:8 William Henry, of stage No. 504; James Rider. of stage No. tt7. and Jolin Marsen. of stage No. 123. were arrested by officer McManus yesterday | morning for fest driving in Broadway, and other viola~ | tions of the city ordinances They were all fined by the: | Mayor. Tue Brany Gvanos.—Veaterday, this military com- pany, under the command of Captain Joha Wilson, | turned out in full uniform, and went on a prize shooti exeursicn to Bull's Ferry. The prizes won were aa lows:—First prize by Jae, Kanner; Second do., by William | | residin, Gibbons ; third do. by A.D. Lent; fourth do., by Henry Stevens; fifth do. by Peter Ryan ; sixth do., by Lunt. Guien Tur Vaxnenvrre Gc anos —This company. commanded’ by Captain Creighton turned out yesterday, in fall uni- form. nccompunied by “ranger's band. They wore ted: shirts. black paints. and bine caps with red bade, and, om the whole, they exhibiced « five appearance, Accrpest —At ti clock on Sunday afternoon. a wo- man named Ciuve in attempting to jump on the ferey~ boat at the Jackson ferry. fell into the water, and. nar+ She was rescued by John More | rowly eecaped drowning tn | Strcrme | AT oth House or Rervcr.—Coroner Geer, yeeteruay, beld an inquest at the House of Refuge, on the body of» bey by the name of James Cook, 16. capa. Who came to ath by banging himself with a wndkercbiet in hie room, It appears from the evidence: of Jobn W Ketcham Esq. the superintendent of the establishment tha! the deceased retired to his room about eight ovelosk « day morning, and was seen reveral time the forenoon, andl apparently in & About four o'clock in the after~ rent 4 man to the room of sed banging by the neck. suspended by a handker- chief, attached te a nail Witness forthwith eut hi down, etd released the handkers Dy got.” for the admiration of the world in general, for Mr. Markwell in particular, and for the comments of all who have doubted his generous remembrance of kindness conferred. Whatever may be the | doubte with respect to the highmindedness of Bar- num’s previous visits to Europe, no one can doubt that in his present mission, the dazeling merits of his own sehse of gratitude will only be eclipsed by | the lustre of the service of plate itself. This deed, an important and glorious mission. New Dir.omatic Prosct ror Centrat Ame- Rica AND Havrt.—One of our cotemporaries, who | deals very extensively in Slievegammon intelligence, announces as intelligence from Washington, that Mr. Webster is about to make a proposition to England and France, to enter into a joint protec torate of Central Ameriea and Hayti, for the pur- pose of settling the difficulties that exist in those countries, recognizing their existence among the family of nations, and receiving their ministers in diplomatic form in Washington. We rather think that this new scheme of diplo- k Emperor Soulouque’s agents, in Boston and in this city, who are taking this indirect method of hum- bugging our goveroment to recognise the black republic, so that the black minister of the black macy originated in the fertile brains of the | tyrant of Hayti may be received, in full feather, | - among the diplomatic fashionables at Washington. Ifewch a project could be carried into effect, it would be worth, to the agents of Soulouque in this city and in Boston, at icast five hundred thousand | dollars, and perhaps a million, in gratuities, jobs | ard agencies from the black dynasty. Central America is thrown in, merely to make Hayti pa- latuble. Mr. Webster cannot dodge the Monroe | principle in this instance, by any magnificent | scheme to plaee on an equal footing with European ministers, the black representative of the black rascal who calls himeelf the Emperor of Hayti. We have more to say on this point when the do tails shall have been received by the Slievegam- mon exprees from the Slievegammon country. wr Jenny Lind seems to be doing as well with- owt Barnum a¢ with him. | MAILS FOR EUROPE, The steamship Asin will leave this port at noon on Wednesday, for Liverpool, Her mails will close at ten o'clock on the morning of that day The New York Hvnaxo, printed in French and Eng- lish, will be published at nine o’cloek, on the morning of the departure ¢f the steamer—price sixpence, in wrappers rendy for mailing. Single copies can be obtained at the following places in Europe :-— | Bdwards, Sandford & Co.,.No, 2Colambia Buidings L'pool. vNo. 20 John street, Adelphi, Landon. Faw No, 17 Cornhill, London. | BH. , Ne. 12 Place dela Bourse, Paris» | Advertisements, as well as eubseriptions, for the New Kons Hensco, will reach we U left ah the abore places. De Bernardy. .. i every me teal effort wax made to restore Life, but without | tuccese No enuse can be avtigned for the wet, Verdict, death caused by strangulation. | A Ban aso Fara Accinenr.—Yesterday morning, a | rad and tate] accident occurred at the new building now fn process of erection in the Bowery, near Broome street. | One of the workmen, a carpenter or framer, as he was | tommed, by the name of Philip Weibert, aged 21 yeare- that day accidentally fell fon the top of the building, which is «me «ixty three feet high, to the ground below. thereby breaking both lege, one arm, and likewise: fracturing bir +hull, ‘The unfortunate young mam died tently The deovased was im the employ of Tuylor undertakers, No, 163 Bowery, Coroner” | beld wn inquest om the body, and @ verdict was re- turned arcordingly. Dear ros a Coriore Kix ov Dr certifeates of deaths cent te the € fect curiosities ‘ane.— Some of th ¥ Inspector are per~ The following. is rieh:-— New Yon, June 6, 1852. Mrx Bours Karoline daughter aged 6 weeks died with de feicney of life te-day. under my attendance, Last rest denee. 41 Mulberry st DE. E PETZOLDT, 203 Walker street. The citizens of Lynchburg. Va. have invested a fund of $10.00 tor Lhe support of the widow and orphi Mr Terry. who was one of the participants of the late tragedy in that city. Court Scrmeme Covar— Day. at Tena.—Nos, 45, 65, 64, 68 8 US Dernier Corny —Now, 25 to 34. Srrenion Covnr—Now 3, 110, 21d, 281, 208, 34, 99, 400, 404, 10 962, 35. 417. 425, 140 BHO, 18, 189, 20, s 4 426, 427, 428, 42v, 490, 451, Drawings.—-The Subserther Ho ate city: vill resume his business a an having ret the scent for the os jonco— West Fifteenth street, first house, Mechanical Dragghteman, ay Nothing Is more common than for obscure ituals, ae vo 4 of “principle ae of bri * to endeavor itation of m well- indiw is searcely An attempt to nie Dye, for Hal binck oF r ing the bair, f ns; Post, Roehest ike Reduced tn Price. —James Beck de. red the prices of theit Spring and Su Muslina, Foulards, Calien mine At SOO rer Ladies will Lad som e rot ¢ erent barg: A Splendid Stock of Dry Good*,auch ae the Indies want thie season of the year, may bs found ab Bitel cock & Lendbenter's, S17 Broadw: of Leonard rtr renaonable Their 4, French muslina, 01 can be bought im races wilk tistues, hawls, &e., &e. 2 and 13 Shit~ hrown, green, and light co- ere, Ties, and Bi Linen Gatte of the best quality: i) 1 well know ment of ER, 134 Canal treet. Interesting to All.Hivery Lady and Gen. tleman, of course either wear Bhoes, Roots, of Gaiters, and ae eat : m then l.4 te ean. that " gest and mogt feb ~ Reve jomabl oh wae fall ene were