The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1852, Page 4

Important from Cab-—Recall of General Concha, and Arrival of his Sacecsser. ‘We received yesterday, and give elsewhere in ovr columns, some rather important information of tho | passing history of the island of Cuba, which may yet have # most remarkable bearing on its future @pvICE H.W CORNER OF FULTON AND WASBAU BTS. | peace and prosperity. We refer to the account giv- to kanal i ing the particulars of the recall of Gen. Concha, and NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. én adwance. ; s | aT OO Pred rer, ner Sonu. | the arrival of his successor, with the views bearing ory alten annem; orepe ‘$4 per an- | on this sudden movement in the government of the fo any part of Great Brttagn and $8 te amy partefthe | istand-—views which, from the information that we OLUNTARY CORRE Se eae it | publish from Cuba, and some extracts from recent Dari cr ily paid for. Own Fonuion ComnmrowDenre are? Larri London journals, are well understood in London, pane 4 RBQUEETED TO ORAL ALL =nS wap L TERS Madrid, and Havana. The island of Cuba is very rapidly reaching an important crisis in ite destiny. For many years the Creole populatien of that beautiful island have been full of discontent, and occasionally exhibited irregular attempts at revohation in their system of government, or amelioration in their condition. The division in sentiment between the Creole popu- lation and the Catalan, or governing coteries, has been widening every year, in spite of all attempts by military power or ceercion to put them down. But the recent doings of the government ofthat island, or with Adver- deducted from money ted. one NOTICE taken of anonymous communications. We net return JOB PR "ING executed with nectaces, sheapness, ond VER TISEMENTS renewed every day. Wedume XVI... 2... ...- cee cree ceee cere NO. Ute AMUSEKENTS THIS BYENING. s10an Baorners— BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Oo: Bannien Raxe. “4 Recent Amendments to the New Code. lettings, canal frauds, and other matters which en- the new Code of Practice, which are of vast import- ance to the public. These amendments are the work of Mr. Dudley Field, who, ofall the codificrs, has shown the strongest disposition to rush inf new and untried experiments. He appears to have | learned nothing by experience. After the courts have been laboring, for tho last three years, to get the crude and undigested mode of pleading, created by the code, into rome system and order, he has, by the amendments adopted, set the whole subject afloat again, and opened a truitful field for discus- | sion, in gettling the multitude of questions that will | arise, before it is determined and known what course is to be pursued hereafter. If Mr. Field was | the only party to be affected, the indulgence in such experiments might be a matter of personal recrea- tion, which, being a wealthy lawyer, he might be willing to pay for; but, unfortunately, the cost comes out of the pockets of the people of this State; BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Jacu Cans—Ben e@ar Ticker. HIBLO'S GARDEN—My Neronvon's Wirr—CaTrarisa. BURTON'S THEATRE. Buses Assocratien —OUR both at Havana and Medrid, are beginning to deve- lope the true difficulty--the secret principle of vorrup- tion which bas been at the bottom of all these attempts at revolution, and im: fostering the alienation be- tween the-Creole and Spanish population, and be- tween the island ite@f and the home government in Spain. The sudden and unexpected removal of the able, distinguished, and honest General Concha, through the influence of the combined intrigues originating in Madrid and Havana, has thrown UBIAL. Chambers street—Oo: Overxs—Seriovs Famiry. NATIONAL THEATRE—Buavxen. ree Ovrcast— Buscxemitn oF Anrwexr—Hvuaiev any Buarey. LYCEUM THEATRE—"xr1 Baxer—Farr One with vur Gotoen Locxs—Wrr Coven ann Gampie. AMERICAN MUSEU®. VeING Puhroamanems mm ‘was Arrennoon amv Eve: andere a year rolls round, thousands ef dollars will change hands, in the shape of costs upon: special motions, from which nobody wili derive:any benefit but the lawyers. One good thing, however, may possibly result from this last attempt. It will make tho people heartily sick of the code, if they are not eo already, or at least disposed to put a final etop-to this ham- mering, and tinkering, and constant ehange. The people have already learned the enormous expense BOWERY AMPHITNEATRE, Bowery—Equasraran Prnvonuaxcss. CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE—Nrono Muiveramsy sv Cuniert's Company. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Mesical Hall, 444 Broad- way—Erurian MivnsTReisy. ASTOR PLACE—Sanprorn's Orena Taowrs, _DOUBLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, April 24, 165%. SSE The News, Our Special Washington correspondent writes that, in consequence of his being unwilling to hold any personal intercourse with Secretary Webster, the Austrian charge,Chevalier Hulsemann, has obtained leave of absence from bis government, and will shortly sail for Durope. He contemplates returning about the fourth of next March, provided the at- mosphere of our national capital is not infected by the present Secretary of State. Our cerrespondent ebeerves that Gen. Flores the chief of the expedi- tion against Ecuador, belengs to the “law and order party.” Of course he does. So did Lopez, and Cara- vajal, and every other General who ever attempted to revolutionize a country south of the boundary of the United States. Should Floros succeed, he will, no doubt, endeavor to maintain “Jaw and order”— etherwise, he will himeelf be upset by some othe aspiring chieftain. The peculiar proceedings in the whig caucus the etherevening continue the all-engressing topic of discussion in the political circles, not only in Wash- ington, but threugbout the country. Senator Mangum having made a speech on Thursday, in which he bore very strongly upon the character and veracity of Mr. Brooks, it became necessary fer the latter to make an explanation. His speech wiil be found in the House proceedings of yesterday. The old fogy and young America, the freesoilers and the Southern rights factions, belonging te the democratic party, have had innumerable flare-ups among themselves during this session of Congrees— but they were small affairs, and could not be classed as anything moe than mere ripples upon the sea of politics. But this rupture among the whige is more.than a rebellion. It has turned the whole whig fabric into complete chaos. ‘The entire party is in a far worse state of confusion than the French people were during Robespiere’s reign of terror. | The whig hive hus been turned topsy-turvy by the freesoil drones, and the working becs—-those who gather the honey, but are not permitted to taste much of it—are ata loss what to do, or where to ga. Where will all this end? Who will collect the seattered fragments and rebuild the temple ? tumble down before they are half through. Some other men must do the work. The foundation must | | much light on the subject of the evils under which | to which they have been subjected by the experi- Cuba has been laboring for many years past. From | ment of codification, the delay, doubt, and uncer- thence it seems that for several years back the go- | tainty that has attended it. The eonfusion into verning coterie of Havana, consisting of Catalans | which it has thrown the whole systom of practice, and slave traders, have been the agents, and under | completely outstrips any roal er fancied :improve- the influence, of Queen Christina of Spain; and have | ments it may have imtroduced. The mero form of maintained themselves by that influence, not only | legal procecdings is, after all, of very little conse- against the honest intentions and patriotic endea- | quence, provided it is known, fixed, and understood. Ir | the freesoilers attempt it, the whole concern will | vors of General Concha, but against all others who wish to reconcile the differences between the Creole inhabitants.and the Spanish government. Such, therefore, seems to be the true explanation ef the difficulties hitherto felt for years past in the government-of Cuba. Queen Christina has a large family by her second husband, and Cuba has been used -entiréky for the purpose of enabling that family to maintain theaselves in reyal state in Europe, and to keep up that dignity which is necessary for them to preserve in Spain. Not only have the population of Cuba been bur- dened with cxcessive taxation, but the slave trade, contrary to law, and contrary to the treaties between Spain and other countries, has been encouraged by these agents in Cuba, and under this influence.of Queen Christina, in opposition to the late responsible and noble governor of Cuba, who is just now superseded in his command, in consequence of the influence brought against him on that very ac- count. A purer and nobler man never set his foot in autherity on the island of Cuba than the late governor. He has been sacrificed to svarice—to bar- barity—to corruption, and to the intrigues between the slave-traders of Cuba and the agents of Queen Christina in Madrid. The history of Cuba is now beginning to be under- stood in itssecret springs. Itisalso beginning rapidly to roach its crisis before the world, through the opi- nions.of.a free press, among a free people, by which it is surrounded at ill points. The character of the new governor of Cuba is little known at present; but there can be no question that he has been selected with a due regard to the interests of the slave agents which the Christina party in Madrid have connected with themselves in the government of that unhappy island. From this day forward the movements in Cuba will be watched from this great continent, from all South America, and from the British islands, with a degree of intensity far be- yond avything which has yet attracted attention from these quarters to that beautiful island. We believe that the deleterious influences which have ef | fected this change in the government of Cuba, will | not rest until they produce a state of things that will explode, in spite of all the power which Spain | can bring to prevent that catastrophe, or to preserve | that connection any longer. Tue Crownep State or Our Prusric ScHooLs. --Sinceghe late terrible catastrophe at the ward school No. 26, in Greenwich avenue, where so many innocent children lost their lives, the crowded state of our public schools has attracted a great deal of be the constitution—the compromise must form the walls, and equal justice the cupola, But no black | paint must be used in adorning it. Remember that. | But little business of general importance was con- | summated in either branch of Congress yesterday. | The Seuate passed twenty private bills among | them ona ‘or the relief of Lieut. Hunter. The House | passed bil’s for the relicf of the Monroe Railroad | Compeny,, ond for changing the time of holding | eourts in ;/labama. Bills were reported making | appropriations for the departments, and the balance | ef the day was spent in making Buncombe speeches. | Rumors axe afloat in Washington that Postmaster | Hall intends to resign. Rather improbable. A good situation és not to be procured every day. A full account of the doings in New Haven, on the reception of Kossuth yesterday, will be found in the letter of our special reporter. The people there | appear to haveybeen anxious to see him, but his speech to them indicates that he was une: Something apparcntly annoyed him. Perhaps his | Southern tour was running in his mind. He reached | Springfield in the e>ening, and will make a speech | * there this morning. Ite npears that the Mexican government has been eompe!led to set asige the new and restore the ol tariff ic Matamoras. ,‘'ad this been done before would} ave saved bloogehed and disgrace. The un- | successfs) Rio Grande revolution was mainly owing | to the mew, ill-advised, and unequal tariff whick | Gen. Avalos undertook ¢¢ impose on the merehante of Matamoras. It he same tariff against | which the foreign minigicrs protested in terms not to be gtisunderstoed. And it was this pro- test which, alarmed the Mcxican Congress, and caused them,<o ignobly backwut from their position They will beve still more beckward work to pe form, unless ey are very ereful—for we observe thet their Min ster of Foreign Relations has pub- | lisbed a Jengtiy document in, cppo the | Garay Grant. Hb Mr. Fillmore qx? his cabinet are | not tay busy with ‘he next Pres probable that thes: Mexicuns will goon perceive the expedigney of udyting a different policy. It is | essential that their chuantopee stipwiations should be fultiles!. | Snow fell on the sifeidelberg mouctains, near | Albany, yaterduy moraing. Nice Apsiwenther. | Mather an interesting piece of information, if true, iscontaiwed in a Boston despatch. A letter has been received from Bucnos Ayres, dated the | 28th of Februaxy, which evers that the schooner Draco had gone to Vatagavia for the purpose of | raising a crew t under the plea of a letter © words, she had turned pirate Buenos Ayres ar lat but they make no mention of any 0] was tion to Y, it is not im- | operate against Brazilian vee marque. Our ¢ than the above, ig of the kind. Several villagesin Virginia, are reporied to have been entirely destroyed by the recent floods. See the telegraphic despatches f The highly interesting In other advices from seven day the partieulars ceedings on the occasion of the anniversary of St. Goorge’s Day, are reported at length in another « In addition to a great quantity of advertisements, as well as highly entertuining Treading matter, our inside pages contain a large batch of curious infur- mation from Great Salt Lake City. The Mor- mone sre a wonderful people, and they have an ex- fraordinary way of letting the world know it, as will be seen by the singular extracts from their Rewspapere. This is decidedly a stupendous coun- try, «specially when Utah is taken into eoneidera tien oluman i c | incontestible, but, at the same time, melancholy ; More depl | h | Staten Island, Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Astor | we und. rstand, a young yirl from onc of the interior | Where she had an opportuaity of learning French, | the proper authosities will at onee give to the sub- ject | croachnents on the rights and privilegos of children collected and tranenitted through the mediume | called Rochester Knoekore scem to be a sort of cclestiad reportere by telegr: are also given. visible and the invisible world, and Greeley has been intelligence during the past year. public attention, and elicited considerable discussion aml investigation. Upon examination, it has been discovered that from r to fifteen hundred chil- dren, and in come instances even more, are jammed into one building, which, for greater capacity, is often run up to the height of four and five stories, Of the utter impropriety of crowding our publ school-houses to such an extent, the ill-fated Ninth ward school-ho' which contained some fifteen hundred children at the time of the calamity, affords evidence. This lamentable state of things is rendered still ‘able, from the circumstance that the incredible number of children attending our public schools is further augmented by the addition of reds of others who do not belong to the city, nut come fyom the neighboring villages and sur- y, from Hoboken, I rounding counties—froin Jers from Westchester county, Orange county, and from Long Irland. These children are in the habit of coming to New York on Monday, and leaving again on Saturday, on which days all the trains leading to andfrom the city are more or less filled with these little children. Since the number is by no means sinall, it will be at once evident that they only contribute | tothe monstrous grievance under which our public schools have been laboring for some years past, and as they are not actual residents of the city, it is -eloar that they re eive their education at the ex- qente of our citizens, who must pay a heavy tax for the support of these schools. They not only visit our public schools, but they also compete for admis- jon into the Free Academy, where the higher ruta hes of education are taught, and thereby di- injnishing the chances for the city children enjoying the hanofits of these institutions. Some time ago, coun 6 was admitted into the Free Academy, musi anc the other branekes pppertaining to the education.o” a fashionable Mies. It is then no smnall matter to the upper-tendom of some country village, tobe able 4 t that ther have their children at one of the fashionable boarding schools in New York. Such being the actual state of things, we hope their serious ajtention, and adopt such measures as will effectually gut a stop in future to such en- y; belongicg to the eity, whose parents are! lightly taxed for thgireducation. yno means | trinity se, JOURNALISC.—A number of new jour- nals are starting in various parts of the country, and | one or two in tis neighborieod, professedly for the | ing te this nether world im- orld of spirits, to be purpose of comma. portant intelligence from the Severs] editors of theve | announced, and the asedinms, which One of our learned judges is said to ex believer, and an eminent medium between the ommunicating a great deal of exciusive beevenly Thus wego! We wonder how far humbug, credulity, and folly, wil Go in this intelligent and intellectual age? Anovor Berstine Ur.—The South Caroli | lature. Mr. Field—in conjunction with Mr. Hawley, It és only the principles of the law, by which the rights of parties are to be ubtimately determined, that it is necessary to settle with exactness and pro- cision. The form of proceeding, in civil cases, dif- fers in every country; and yet:one gets along about as wellasthe-other. There is nothimg more hazard- ous than to recast the whole form of preceeding to which a peaple have been accustomed. . It is pro- ductive of nothing but .umcertainty and expense. ‘Changes should be gradually made, and only as the necessity arises. To show what the public have gained, it is but necessary to state one fact. ‘Quite a nuamber of the amendmonts just adopted are repeals of amend- ments adopted last year, as will-be found. by a refe- rence to sections. Let us take ono illustration. Appeals from orders granting new’ triuls have been bandiod ebout since the adoption of the oode— stricken-outone yearand re-enacted:another. It is again stricken out, and next year may be restored. The value of the amendments may be judged by the following gpccimen. Sec. 167 now reads :—‘* The plaintiff may unite, in the same complaint, several causes of-action.” It read last year :—‘‘ The plain- tiff may unite several causes of action in the same complaint.” This transposition of the words ‘in the same complaint” may have a marvellous: effect upon the meaning of this passage; but, if there is a difference, it is not quite so plain to us as the old fashioned distinction between tweedledum and tweedledee. The reformers felicitated themselves on the great improvement they had made by mak- ing all pleadings special, and doing away with the old general issue; but it appears they have disco- vered their mistake, and all pleadings.may now be general, and the much abused general issuc is back inits old place. Another great improvement, and one that the courts were disposed to think well of, and labored te carry into effect, was, that any fact not denied by a pleading was to be considered as proved. This was even lauded by the codifiers as a prodigious ad vance. But, how unstable is haman wisdom upon the subject of codifieation! All replies to new mat ter, set up inan answer by way of defence, are now cut off. The plaintiff is not required to deny it and the defendant, who sets it ap in his answer as a defence to the action, must now prove it. Thus is the former state of things again restored, and we have come back to the old form of the gencral issue, with a notice of special matter as it existed under the revised statutes twenty years ago. But asa recompense for this backward tendency, Mr. Field hag gone forward in other matters with prodi- gious velocity. The old forms of pleading were abolished by the code only so far as they were incon- sistent with it; and where there was nothing in the code to guide a party, he might follow the old form. This was wise, sensible, and necessary. But now the old forms are abolished absolutely, and the poor pleader is launched upon a sea of uncertainty, and many a bill of costs will have to be paid by his unfortunate client before he is furnished, in the shape of judicial decisions, with the ne- cessary chart and compass. Then, a fine field is } opened for inextricable confusion, in the provision | authorizing legal and equitable defences to be set up together. Several large fortunes would not fur- | nish the means of getting that into system and or- | dur. Then, again, injuries to person and property | are to be tried together. Assault and battery, and fraud in the sale of goods, are to be homogeneously united in the same action. And lastly, prima fucie —a phrase, from its constant use, as well understood as any in the language—a compound word, that will be found sct down in its regular place, as an Eng- lish word in Webster’s Dictionary—is stricken out, because, like nearly one-fifth of the words in our language, it is of Latin origin, and the word ‘ap. | parent,” a word of far less definite signification, and which is but an adverbial form from the La- tin word appareo, ig put in its place. If our old friend prima facie had to go—in consequence of his former connection with the Latin tongue—as fasti- dious 4 reformor as Mr. Field, should at least, have furnished us with an Anglo Saxon guceessor. We suppose poor, old habeas covpus will be the next vieti His Jong association and connection with the progress of constitutional liberty, will not save | him, as Mr. Field will not rest in his bed watil he is expunged from the constitution of the United States, and the next legislature must prepare to ewallow a full bottle cf amendments to the New Code. One of the most curious pointe in this business, has been the cerecy aud rapidity with which these amendments were hurried through the last Logis- | > of Buffalo, who has recently been laying down a new code for the distribution of canal tolle—was once acting ns codifier under the authority of the State. That office has ceesed—but Mr. Field seems to con- sider himeelf still a codifier, on the voluntary prin- | J ‘Tne Hesvrn op vas Ciry.—A short time ago Among the multitudinous maas of business con- | wo averted to the disgraceful state of the city, | ected with banks, black mail, canal tolls, canal |-d.ngcrous to Lealth, offensive to the senses, ob- structing the free passage of the stroots, and in- gaged the attention of the last Legislature, that | jaring the interests of our merchants, storekeepers, | body found time to pass a batch of amendments to and hcte’s, by criving or keeping away customers and vi itcrs who would otherwise spend their money in this great heart of the republic, to be circulated shenee back again to the remotest ex- | tremities. We said we hoped the present Common Counci! v ould not follow the example of the late “dirty” Corporation, who opposed the City Inspec- tor in every sanatory measure he proposed for the city. We are sineerely glad to find that both boards have since done their duty in the premises, to a very great extont, and particularly the Board of Assis- | tants, who originated the resolutions for the re- { moval of all dead animals, horses, cattlo, dogs, | cats, and other deleterious substances, both animal and vegetable, to a distance of twenty-two miles from this city--an islet on the east side of Long Island having been proeured for the purpose. In the Board of Assistants, the measure was | adopted unanimously—in the Board of Aldermen, | by sixteen votes, only two voting against it. | This is the very thing that our excellent City In- | spector wanted to have carried out two years ago; _ but he was not sustained by the ‘“City Fathers” of | that time, who preferred to apply the public money | to fat little jobs of their own. Any sum of money | expended for sanatory purposes, in such a city as this, is well laid out, and will repay a hundred-fold. | Hitherto, New York, in point of cleanliness, has been the disgrace of civilization, and New Yorkers who have visited Paris and London—with immensely greater populations, and fewer natural facilities for purification—have blushed, on returning to their own city, to see how filthy it was, compared with those European eities, notwithstanding that nature had done so much for the American capital, in tho formation of the island, with a high ridge running through the centre, and a declivity on either side, sloping into the East and North rivers—those two great scavengers, which, by a proper system of drainage, would sweep away the filth of the entire city, with the exception of dead animals, &c., for which the Corporation has now provided. We are glad to see any degree of progress in this respect, and'shall always be ready to give the autho- rities credit for it. They have begun well—let them fFersevere totheend. The next thing that claims their care is the muddy condition of the-streets, which, though not injurious to health, except so far as it gives wet feet to wayfarors, is a souree of great an- noyance and offence to both citizens and strangers, making them feel uncomfortable as they walk out, and destroying the dresses of ladies. This requires immediate attention. The next thing to be attended to aftor that, is the horrible piggeries up town, and those abominations,'the cowpens, where, from dis- eased animals, who never get any exercisc—some of them never permitted to lie down, and none of thom ever breathing the free airof heaven—‘pure Orango county milk” is drawn in any quantity, and, after the application of a little Croton, sold to our citi- zens for their wives and little ones. We constantly hear complaints of the difficulty of “raising” chil- dren in New York, and of the dreadful infantile mortality. Can it be wondered at, with these atro- cious nuisances spreading premature disease and (ee allover our population? City fathers, look to it. Crisis OF THE Two OLD PARTIES—WHAT WILL THE SOUTHERN Wui@s Do 1—Will they break down or go ahead? that is the great question of tho day, and every politician and statesman in this quarter is watching the movements of the Southern whigs in Washington. A large majority of the intelligent people of the North are in favor of the compromise, conciliation, and the Fugitive Slave law itself, if the old party trammels could only be broken up and destroyed, and the parties recast in new forms and new shapes. We are perfectly satisfied that tho Northern States, divested of party shackles, are all right, and if the Southern whigs go ahead, they can organize a new national party on homogeneous ma- terials. If they back out from their position, they will deserve the execration and contempt of the whole world. Honors To » OF TENNESSEE.— The late brilliant speeches in this city of John Jones, ef Tennessee, have created a prodigious sen- sation for him throughout the country. Many of his admirers demand that Governor Foote, of Mis- sissippi, Le requested to resign in favor of Jones, the important functions with which he was once in- vested by the whigs—viz., the official hangman of the abolitionists—Greeley to be the first vietim by the new office holder. Awful. Kossutn 1x Coney Istanp.—What has been done by the sublime authorities of Coney [siand in the way of giving Kossuth a splendid recoption in the placed’armes of that magnificent. territory 1 We have heard that Kossnth has been already on the | island and made a grand speech there; but no re- port has appeared in any of the journals—not even in those entirely devoted to his interests. Is it true that the influence of Austria, and the rascality of the Jesuits, have prevented Coney Island from paying honor to the Hungarian patriot? A Qvestion Pur AnD a Rerty Wanvtep.—A correspondent begs us to ask of Horace Greeley, secretary and treasurer of the Manhattan Quarts Mining Company, organized last December, how much gold has been picked up and manufactured, and how the stock of this company is sold? A full statement is requested from the treasurer. If this statement be satisfactory, large subscriptions may be expected to be made to the model company, to be paid for in very beautiful end well-executed Hun- garian dollar bonds. Musrcan.—Max Manetzex ix tg Soutn.—The highly effective Italian opera troupe, which we had singing here in the Astor Place Opera Houre during the winter, is making a very profitable professional tour in the South, under the management of Max Marctack. The troupe consists of Signora Steffanone as prima donna, Bertucea, Costini, Salvi, Reneventano, Belletti, &c. In New Orleans, the operas of “ Maria di Rohan” and “ Lucia di Lammer- moor" were presented twice ; and, on other nighte, Lu- crezia Borgia,” “ Norma,’ &e. The hit. there has boon very succes*ful, and the journals speak of the performances in high terms of commendation. Max Blaretzek left the Crescent City on the 19th instant. for the City of Mexieo, where he proposed to remain for six weeks, anf then make a tour round the other cities of that republic, re- visiting the capital, and returning herv via New Orleans, It Is gratifying to learn that this highly deserving impres- savioand his excellent company are retrieving the ill for- tune they met with here during the opera season, and are receiving the most substantial proofs of the public eppreciation of their talents, Tur ADVANTAGES oF THE New York Marner FOR SOUTHWESTERN TRaDE.—The Red Land Herald, published at San Augustine, Texas, in an article alluding to the prosperity and rapid growth of our city. says :—It is indeed with pleasure that we behold the increasing greatness of New York, the mighty eraporium of the ‘Western world. She is fast embracing with her gigantic ciple, while Mr. Hawley has turned his attention | merce, fappity her white winger freeh fron every notion to benks, black msil, and newspapers. Mr. Field | of the earth, over her beautifal bay. This re introduced these amendments to the code through some ove of the members—nnd they were hurried | The first broad in- | timation gel had of them was that they had assed both houses, and formed part of the wl) ode. Verily, it appears that we are to have a sort of a New Code every new year. | A Worn ix Season.—Under this head our eo- | temporary, the Tribune, advises the Whig General Commitiéwe, which will soon meet to regulate the time and manner of choosing delogates for the Whig National Ce | ention, te give their constituency a registry of whig electors and the vete by ballot. | We agree perfectly in yevornmending this move- ment to the Whig Committee. Let them pluck up courage to carry out this project, an of grog shops and the grog shop bullies in the pri- mary elections will soon be put down. It is a geod plan that is recommended, and should be adopted, also, by the Democratic Committee at their first | meotings. We agree totally and completely with the Tribune jnvecommending the adoption of this t ® d the influence | ¢ sion-Nullification-Separation Convention. movement. | through without debate, without knowledge, and | @¥t | taken almost entirely on trust. Badedt | planters, and t at a ruinous advance can rolve the mystery. controls the of every desert and we hope Foon to Kee the | dircet fo New York. our merchants, who baye made late purchases in New York, that they saved at least twenty per sent upon turn the whole of it into their own hands, bj they would reap a golden haryest, pnd the citizens of | ‘Texas would be vastly benefitted, } tion should be « « of pride to every American, Fu. Aria her Canton, and Atwerica Ler forbid that our New York should and misery, the squalid ¢, of either Canton oF London, Our th of our merchants, de of New York. A # io have taken possession of cy blindly trade and trafic with other points, on what the same articles | purchared for in the New York market, this? Can any one toll? Yes! we can | Habit, habit is the monster whieh de of Eastern fe xas. ‘To break this habit nid require but # knowlec the fet that goods can not only be purchased in New y twenty to fifty ‘per cent, than they ean nm markets, but alvo that the cost of | reight and insuraice from New York to the Sabine, ix ie Why is actually ere than from New Orleans to the samo poiat, New York. by her many advan ia fast atiracting he mereontile trade of Texos—« trade which must oon excel, in value, that ofany other State in the South; y that the cotton crop of d from our own ports n assured by several of he Lone Btar State will be shi We have be heir stock, It needs but a word of eneow his time, from the businces men of the Empl fleet a radical ehange in the course ofour trad ment at Oity, to and 0 which | than bygone ages. Men think more rapidly now-a days, | United States, the affairs of the former being in the hands GEORGE'S DA Religious Exercises. Yesterday being the anniversary of Bt. George, the patron raint of England, divine service was held in Triv nity Church, about three o’cloek in the afternoon. A con- siderable number of ladies and gentlemen, principally Britich residents of this eity, attended church on this occasion. After the usual serviee, and the singing of several hymns tya full choir, which were performed in amarterly manner, the Rev. Dr. Vinton, from Brooklyn, then delivered an address, and ehose for his theme the “age we live in.” He etarted with the idea of the rapi- dity of movement, alluding to the power of steam | and elcetricity, and the rapid sucecsion of events in this age, Commerce and wealth are the two great motive powers which have bronght about this rapid revolu- tion of the great wheel of time. This age is either an age of progrers or retrogresssion, there being no medium or stationary point. It is further characterised by greater activity Of intelleet and more energy of will ST. and act with more resolution, than formerly. He then referred to the state of government in England and in the of young, vigorous men, and those of the latter in the hands of old and wite men, showing, at the same time, that thir peculiar relation, equally beneficial to both countries, was merely the result of the different forms of goverrment, He then came to speak of the ccascless tide of emigration toour rhores, as a further characteristic of the age," This extraordinary emigration is caused by the crow‘ed population of the old country. and principally by the late unsuccessful revolutions, originating from and instigated by the socialists, communists, red-republicans, and a hosts of other theorists, who want liberty, but it is liberty without luw. There are even those who ‘advocate here intervention. and who wish to embroil this peaceful and happy country ina war with foreign nations. Let us rather beckon the oppressed to this free land. ‘This will effect more than actual intervention; it will be moral in- tervention, The speaker concluded his address by ad- monirhing the Englishmen to love their adopted country. stating as nother characteristic of the age, that the flag of St, George was united to the stars and stripes, After the recital of a prayer, the assembly dispersed. Sixty-Sixth Anniversary of the St. George's ui Society. ‘The Sixty-sixth anniversary of the St. George's Society, was celebrated last evening, by their annual dinner, at ‘Niblo’s spacious saloon, Broudway. The dining-room was tastefully decorated, At the south side, over the Presi- dent's chair, was suspended a magnificently executed full length portraitof Queen Victoria, painted by Mr. Corden, from the original of \interholter, in her Majesty's posses- sion, at the solicitation of II. B. M.’S vice-Consul, Robert ‘Bunch, Eeq. This portrait was set in a very costly gilt frame, ‘made by Messrs. Waller and Crisp, of this city, Oneither side of the royal portrait was suspended the British and American flags, intwined in soft and friendly unison, At'the end ofthe room.around the orchestra,where Dodworth’s band played appropriate and delicious airs, was displayed the banner of the Cross of St. Georgo, with a medallion of the Patron Saint and the Dragon, From the head table, on the right and left, extended a row of evergreens. interspersed with geraniums, roses, and various hot house plants, At a little after half- past 6 o'clock, the company, consiating.of about oue hundred and forty gentlemen, sat down to a moxt sumptuous re- pest. efter grace wan said by the Rev. Mr. Flagg. The dinner was delicate and substantial, embracing every va- riety in und out of season. Amongst the delicacies were English turbot and mutton. presented by Capt. Judson, of the Royal mail steamship Asia—and amongst the tubstantiala, were “Aldermen in chains.” ‘The or. dred guincas appearing to be more than the +1 Met would warrent it was resolved to proruis a work of & more moderate eost. Accordingly, the proper s having been taken, the yracious permission of ber Mas jesty wascbtained that Mr, William Cordon her ty’s own copyint painter, should take @ vopy of 9 wells known and favorite portrait by Winterhalter the origi- nal of which is in Windser Castle, This pe ture ct considerable reputation. and is esteemed by her the best likeness ever taken of her; as such it is present ed by her Majesty to foreign sovereigns sod Your committee. therefore, employed Mr. Corden, and ineas for hie have paid to him the sum of seventy work, which they now wubmit to the St. clety—a costly und beautiful frame havi for it by Mesers. Waller and Kreps, of this city, for the sum of two hundred dollars, Your committee beg to add that it appeared proper to them to transmit through ber Majesty's Principal Secretary of Btate for ) Foreign Affairs, an address to her Majesiy. expressing their grateful vente of her Majesty's gracious condeeen- sion in allowing her picture to be copied for the nse of the rociety, and they have much pleasure in -tating thate a communication has been received from Uarl Granville, informing them that her Majesty bad beca pleased to accept the some, A copy of the address and of her Majesty’s gracious answer, is subjoined to thie report, Tuomas Dixox, Antnosy Banciay, W. D. Cvrnimentses, Ronear Burch. New Yonx, St. Georze’s Day, 1852. Hic bad only to add that there were great difficulties in obtaining what is considered a high privilege of this kind; and it was owing to the presence of Mr. and Mr. Bunch, more especially to the lacter. that they were indebted for this portrait of her Majesty, It had become a question of what should be done with it; but they—the committee—had taken the liberty of entrust- ing it to the British Consul, He then gave the second toust— “The Queen—God bless her.”—British National An- them, by Mr. Braham—solo—the choir and company joining in the chor ‘The third regular toast was then given by the Presi- dent; and, charging the company to fill a bumper—a yoiee—Fill-more, **'i he President of the United States.”— Air, by the band, Lail Columbia. ‘The fourth regular toust was then given: “Her Majes- ty’# Ministers and her Representatives on this Conti- nent.”—£ong, by the choir, “The fine old English gen- (leman” 2 Ronert Boncn, ¥rq., H. B. M. Vice Consul respond: ed. He sdid :—In oftring to you, my countrymen, and brother members of St. George, the express the proper and grateful appreciation I entertain of the dis tinguithed honor you have conferred upon Her Majesty's representatives, by the lst toast, and the way in whieh it has been received, I feel that I should but ill the duty which has fallen to me, did I not assure you, om their bebalt. of the high value which they set upon every demonstration they receive of the gcod will of their fellow tubjects. and of the anxiety with which they endeavor, on all occasions, to conciliate the regard and esteem Cy for the protection of whose interests, and the support whore lawful avocations, as well as forthe maintenance of the honor and respectability of the Briti+l name, they are appointed by our gracious Sovereign. Her Maoaty' officers are Well aware that their surest paxeport to real and cordial respect of the foreign governments and authorities with whom they may be brought into official contact, is the knowledge (which foreign governments soon manage to pick up) that they are respected by their own countrymen, and are considered by thom proper representatives of the virtues, as well as of the power of England. Once secure @f the approval of his fellow subjects abroad, at whose head he stands, an Eng- lirh officer can do no wee ; for an English goverament andanEnglith people go hand in hand together—what the one suggests and determines, the other sanctions and obeys, not with the unthi: compliance of the serf, but with the intellizent alzcrity of the freeman—free to think, free to speak, free to act. and thinking, speak- ing and acting, as one not unmindful of the glories of his past history, the blessings of his present civilization, and the responsibilities of his country’s future destiny. | And now, gentlemen, dropping the public servant, permit me to ray a word on my individual account. It i¢ a namental confectionary consisted of St. George and the ‘Dragon. Temple of Liberty, Roman Helmet. Apollo's Lyre, Gothic Pavilion. National Pyramid, Statue of Bri- tannia, and Tower of London. ‘The wines were of.n delicious vintage; and the whole repast, vintage, viands. and edibles. were such a8 to en- sure an enviable name for Mr. Vesey as providor. Amongst those present. we noticed the President, Doc- tor Beales; A. Norice, President of the St. Andrew's; Richard Bell, President of St. David's; Hon, Ogden Hoff man, St. Nicholas; Mr. Curtis. New England: Mr, Zim- merman, German; Mr, Miles, St. David's; R. Bunch. H, B. M. Vice Consul; Capt. Graham. U. 8. A); the Hon. Judge Daly, Rev. Mr. Flagg. Mr. Archbold, Mr. C. Ed- wards, Mr. James Wallack, Mr. Braham, the Treasurer and Secretary, Mr. Stanley, of the British Consul’s office After the dixcussion of the dinner the adjoining rooms were thrown open, and a number of ladies appeared to participate in the festivities. The stewards were polite and attentive to their guests. and thegreatest harmony and kindness prevailed through- out the evening. After dinner was removed. the “Non Nobis Domine’? was sung by a choir of gentlemen. The Caiman then proposed the first regular toast, prefacing it that they had again met to cheer each other in their duties, He would not long trespass on their tention, but would congratulate them on the prosperity oftheir society. and the good which it afforded to their destitute countrymen. ‘the President then read & ree port from the Charitable Committee :— Recipients of the rociety’s Lounty for the past year were 700 persons. Widows, orphans. and distroseed families, have been relieved at an outlay of over $2.000. Of the number assisted, twenty have been sent home to their friends in England. and eighteen to their connections n varions parte of t ited States, From the increases of emigration. tho demands on the seciety increases largely; but by the pradent manage- ment of the Charitable Committee, they have been en- abled to render assistance to all deserving applicants. FALGRANT NoAnD, Situations provided (Engl + 488 Do, ao. - 102 Do. do, (Welsh) . 18 Do, do, test Indi 7 Do. do. (Irish)... 222 MU sass dese sceen 8 who have applied to the rociety for aid in procuring them situations; and upwards of 7,000 who sought counsel of the society where they would best promote their welfure by locating, and the ‘best mode of travelling to avoid be- ing impored upon, They would thus sce that the assistance rendered wasa great increase to that of any preceding yoar. And he would call attention and thanks of the Society to those forming the Poor Committee. But were there no reasons rave those benevolent ones which should call them to- gether from time totime? Did not England present a prouder position now than she ever did before. She was threatened by an invasion from abroad; but if such did occur, there Wasn't a man there who would fear the re- sult, "England was now the only bulwark of liberty in Europe, che there stands foot to foot with. despotiom, surrounded with bitter foes, only eupported by the pres: tige of her name and the strong arms of her sons, Some few weeks since a demand was made that she would take measures to control the refugees from foreign countries, What Engiithman was there that did not feel proud of the answer returned to that demand? “That the refu- gees were as free as sir, and would be protected while they ‘The President then gave the second toast. prefacing it with some few remarks, He would beg to call atten- tion to the portrait of her gracious Majesty, Queen Vic- toria, now ornamenting their walls, Some five or six years ago it was determined that the society should pro- cure a portrait of Her Majesty, and he would inform them what was done in this matter. He then read the follow- ing communication on the subject. To THe Queen's Most Excruiant Maseaty:— May it please your Majesty—We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, a committee duly appointed by the St, George's Society “f the State of New York, a corporate body formed for the relief and support of our countrymen who may be in distress within this State, humbly beg leave to tender to your Majesty, in the name of our society, our most grateful acknowledgments for the high mark of favor which your Majesty has been 0 graciously pleased to confer upon us, in permitting a copy Of the portrait of your Majesty, by Winterhalter, tobe made for our society. This signal proof of the benevo. lent regard which your Majesty nas condescended to en- tertain tor a body of your Majesty's subjects, who, though removed from the immediate sphere of your Majesty's beneficent rule, and the lustre of your Majes- {y's Uright example, yield to none in devotion to your lajesty. and to your Majesty's illustrious family, will be regarded with the sentiments which so gracious an act must call forth. In venturing, therefore, to intrude upon your Majesty with this expression of their grati- tude. the committee beg to aseure your Majesty that the members of their society, though far from the land of their fathers and of their love, can never cease to think of it with tenderness, and that the prayors which they | offer to Cod from their home in this friend republic, for the long continuance of your Majesty's health and | promerity, flow from hearts as loyal, and are uttered by | ips as true. as can be found in any part ot your Majesty‘s | almost boundless dominions, Given at the city of New York on this thirtieth day of | Tromas Dixox, Chairman. | Axtiony Banciay, your Majesty's Consul. W. D. Curneertson, Rosenr Buxcn, your Majesty's Viee Consul. ¥. F. Sanpenson. Attestéd J. C. Beares, M, D., President. | Kvwann Warken, Secretary, December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, | I source of pure and unalloyed gratification to me to meet you again, ac prosperous and happy, as good and loyal Englishmen deserve to be everywhere, on another anniversary ef St. George's day—ihat white day in our calendar—to the recurrence of which 60 ney faithful Englirh hearts look with longing as the year on, and on which so many true English hands all over the world, be they where floats the red crots, the stars aud. striper, the tri-color, or the castled lion; be they, in short, on British cr on foreign ground, meet in a firmer clauep ofsympathetic brotherhood, as the various pictures pass before the mind’s eye. of “ England, , and beauty.”” Who of us hore does not feel, on St. George’s Day, the same process going on avout his heart as the spring time of the year is working upon the fuce of na- ture?—a vivification, a freshening, a shooting fosth, s de- velopement of the old and hallowed feelings of patriotic uscociation, which, amidst the toils and cares of business, have been concealed and hidden, as the le ld has lately been by the mautle of winter, but which, like the glorious trees, the fragrant flowers, and the springy turf, are still full of vitality, and are ready, ke them, to burst into renewed vigor #0 soon as the proper reason for them may arrive. What Englishman is there asinongst us who has not, en this day, allowed his memory to recall the vae ried scenes amidst which his tranquil boyhood roved, or his daring aspirations of youth, those golden dreams of happy dreamers were nurtured? Which of us does not remember the comfortable home, with its side andits circle of devoted hearts—in, aud round, and in communion with which, those early days were passed’ Wno does not remember the cheering, cordial words of love, which sent the wanderer, when lusty manhood came, and he must go to cast his lot in other climes, forth from bis birth place. or the voice that bade him never oe Bis country, or his English parents? And who ean forget ore “ Grase-grown graves, where slumber The hopes of early year#’— thore quiet nooks and corners of old England. some one of which must have a haliowed niche in the heart of each one | that hears me? Is it not true, brothers of St. that our hearts are full of such thoughts to-day? And are we not allthe better for them? But. perhaps, some ofyou will ray that you have found anoth:r happy home —an adopted one, it is true. but stil: one deserving of Your regard. your graritude, and your love—e land as received you kindly. favored your industry, rewarded. your labors with plenty. and in which, it may be, you ave contracted the nearest and dearest ties—the home of your wives, the birth-place of your children, You will say that the land of your adoption is agrest and glorious land—frce in its institutions. hospitable in its customs, of @ common ttock and descent with your own; and you will nuturally feel that some portion of your affection is due to it—that you can spare to it some of your reve- rence and regard. Ged forbid that I should inculeate a contrary doctrine. I yield to none in my admiration of the giant tmergy. and. perhaps. unexampled, activity of mind. which have alrendy placed the United States so high in the scale of nations, I ean, although no republi- can, appreciate as I ought the working of that wisel fremed and Liberal constitution, which so amply fultl the prefission of * the greatest good to the greatest num. ber.” Temas fully convinced as any one here ean be, of the propriety, the utility, nay, the necessity, of an inti- mate and close comection between the two countries, and of the dirastrous consequences which must follow upon any interruption of the karmony which now £0 happil: existe; but I to you. as to my countrymen, on thi trusted to English hospitality.” ‘The President then gave | day of Englands pation saint, “ We must not forget old the first :¢gular toast, England!” She must have the first place in our love. “The day, and all who honor it.” Received with loud | Let us, wherever our lot may be cast—and espeeially if 16 cheers, Air by the band, “The fing that waved athou- | bein this highly favored land—seck to coneiliate the sand years. esteem. and win the affectionate regard of those who are our friends and our brothers; but “nm | old England!” nor cease to value the privilege which has given to each of us, saying “I am an English- man! prouder boast than the old conquerers of the world had when they said, Civis Romanus sum! After the very flattering and complimentary mention which has been made by your wortby President, of name. I cannot resume my seat without making sorae al- lusion to the portrait of Her Majesty, which, on this casion, and for the first time. graces our festival. You have heard that the original of this picture ia considered by Her Majesty, the best likencss ever taken of her, and that us euch. it is presented by hor, when copied by the sume artist who has been employed upon ours, to fuch foreign princes and others, as Her Majesty may be desirous of giving a mark of her royal consi to. Iinay add, that I had the honor of being invited to Windsor Castle, in order that I might see the orignal, and Tam thus‘4n a position to arsure you that ours is a most faithful copy. I congratulate the Society upon the ac- quitition it bus made, and I ask you all, if there is one who has not felt the pulse of his loyalty throbbing with « fuller and more bealtly action, as he gazed upon that canvass ; if his heart has not been isladdened by the sight of that gracious lady; who, in her charaeter of queen, wife. and mother, co imperatively demands and cheerfully receives. not only the love and devotion of her own rubjects, but the universal respect nud admiration of foreigners ; of that princess, to whom may be ee well a plied the noble words which the Bard of Avon pute into the mouth of Archbishop Cranmer, as he secs for the first time, one who, in her day and generation, was alsow mighty queen, and the glory of England—you know em we let us forget All princely graces, With all the virtues that attend the good, Shail still be doubled on her: truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counrel her. She shall be lov'd and fear'd—her own shalt biess her : Her foes thake like a tield of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow, Good grows with her; | In her days every man shall eat in rafety Under his own vine which he plante, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbors. The Criainsan then gave the fifth regular toast :— “The Army and Navy of Great Britain and of the 3 Fonriox Orricr, Feb. 6, 1852, | Sin—T have received your dexpatch, No. 46, of the 30th | December last, enclosing an address to the Queen from a committee of the St. George’s Society at New York, | expressive of their gratitude to hor Majesty for permitting acopy of her portrait by Winterhalter to be taken for | the ure of the society. I have not failed to lay the ad- dress Wefore the Queen; and I am commanded by her | Majesty to aseure you that she has received with much gratification this testimony of loyalty and attachment | on the part of her subjects who are members of the St. George’ Society, 1 am, sir, your most obedient hy servant, (Signed) GRANVILLE, Antsiony Ranctay, Eeq. To iy Presivest ano Menmens or tim St, Gronor’s Socmry or New Youn. i} Gentlemen:—Ry a resolution passed at your quarterly | meeting. held on the 10th of January, 1845, you were ple d to appoint Mr. Thomas Dix: Mr, Anthony tarelay. Mr. llcnry Jeseop, Mr. Edward F, Sanderson, and Mr. W. D, Cuthbertson, to be a committee for the purpose of obtaining a portrait of Her Most Gracious Ma- jesty the @ and to empower those gentlemen to Taise the neee funds for that object. A certain sum was accordingly Subreribed without lors of time, but cumstances into which it is not necessary to enter, pre- | vented any poritive action from being taken as regards | the purchase of the picture until the summer of last | ear, A yacaney having occurred in the committee you | appointed, by te Iumented death of Mr. Henry Jessop, | the inirig members selected Mr, Robert Bunch to | rupply his plwe. During last year, Mv, Dixon and Mr, Buneh being in England. overiures were made by them | to Mr, Partridge, gp artint of eminence, to copy a cele- | brated pleture of hey Majesty. the original of whieh he | bad patuted some years vigo; but the price oftwo hun- | 2 | anewer for the kindlinerr | ebild on board that | When he left it he United States.” Airs by the band—* The Star-epangled Banner” and ‘The British Grenadiers.” Mr, Bruham sang “The Death of Nelson,” and was rapturourly applauded “aptain Grariamt, of the United States army, responded, —He found himself in @ very trying position, as having once been an officer of one country, and wow the only res presentative of -he three branches of the other, He sold which the American officors looked on the officers cf the British servies. and he hoped they would one day. if necessary. meet in the field, reuk to rank, and rhoulder to rhonider, fighting for censtitus tional liberty, He alluded to the diccipline exhibited ow the cecasion of the lute cviastrophe to the Birkonhend, and hoped that none would say. when every womare and raved, that the age of ehi- valsy was past the Pass : “His Hone and Municipal Aue thorities of N reste included). Judge Daty responded--Hle said that, having rocently visited England. no one could rexpond with more hearty good will to the tonst than himrelt. ‘There wan something Fo correct and independent in the Engiish character, tht little beyond the acknowledgment of it was wafe, When be hed ‘visited England hie did so with prejudices; but id #0 with a regret which he nover felt before, ‘There ix no stronger fact of tho strong feelings of Frgland’s rons to their native land. than the fict that Amcrica had been less exiccossful in absorbing her nations ality than that of any other people. It was rald that there were ill feelings Btates, (Vole No-sirtve, rivals in arta and in commerce, but th:y had instiations more in unison than any other nations on the globe They had the unison of a common literature, aod still more. of acommon lunguinge, He felt he «poke the Amme- rican sentiment when he raid (hat if any serious attempt ot wee: a lant and the United t was true they were