The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1852, Page 4

ET year, whieh authorised ‘gre setting apt of a. the contrary, has much in common with Bngland. ‘ies to be pakd semi-annually, in cash instalmants, Cvniovs Missions IN Inrrgp Srarus.—The will abandon them. What ean be done better, thene NEW YORK HERA | Portion of Randall's J sand fur the ute ‘of the | children under the protection of the sosiety.— | The cause assign- 4 for this recommendation is, that the inst'ation is entirely independent of the city g° ernment; its managers are elected | present may not be inaptly described as the mission- than to make a compromise with these hostile fac- ary age. Those who imagine that the world needs | tions, by giving the compromise acts the go-by— revolution and changes in religion, morality, social | the dodge—the cold shoulder—tho cut direct? Woe law, and politica economy, gird up their loins | suspect that something of that sort will be done. and proceed on a mission to promote their ends. On the side of the whigs we have had lately @ ‘And atrangely enough, this country is selected asthe | good supply of letters. The last is from Mr. The progress of political ideas in both countries is | for a series of years. Doubtless a treaty upon those opposed to the hereditary rights blasphemously | terms would be satisfactory to Mexico; and it is | called “divine” by the Russian autocrat. In | highly probable that the instructions to her new | England, hereditary monarchy was annulled de minister cover some such comprehensive arrange- facto by the Commonwealth; but by the revolution ment. The administration journals speak in a of 1688, its political power was de gure and com- | threatening tone upon this subject, as if the iatea- JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIBTOR AND EDITOR —eee OPFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASSA STE by subser’ gers, and not by the people, who haye no Voice mM its proceedings whatever. Another con- cash in advance, FRE ie dee ALD, 2 cone f sid-eation is, that it is literally a combination of WREKLY HERALD, bd 8 per ancum copy—$7 - coery Saturday, ox © atopean Elitien, 9 | pletely annihilated, when the last of the Stuarts was * dvi tion were to bully Mexico into the Tehuantepec en from the throne, and the Parliament declared treaty; but we apprehended that it would be , j the er anypitel Great ‘Hein find $5 toanyport ef be snelu te tage. ‘shat ought to be two separately inct institu- | its right to change the succession, ani did change tions—one for the reformation of youths who have been convicted for crime and sentenced to the peni- | Sentincid, bx VOLUNTARY CORKESPONDENC. “dl from writer of ry Requeeren To bEAL azt. Liters | tentiary; and the other providing the children of amp PACKAGeS SENT US 7 t * : ALL LETTERS by mail. for Sabscriptions, or with 44- | poverty with a home. The report very wisely wartiscments, to be pert-paid, oF th postage will be ceducted utterly improper to place the poer argues that iti From the movey remitted, bite : : I ~ NU NOTICE taken of ane=ymous communications. We | bat guiltless children upon Randall's Island, who de nat return thoae rejected, : . ; JOB PRINTING crecuted with acainess, cheapsess, aad | must come in contact with the young convicts; and TER TIGEMENTS renewed cvery dav. that if the city realy had control over the institution, it would be far better for their morals to purchase some other island for their benefit. We publish, elsewhere, a condensed report of the obsequies in Broadway Tabernacle, of the | late Isaac T. Hopper, very generally known in this , city for his peculiar dress, primitive habits, and | philanthropic labors. Orations, suitable to the oc- | casion, were delivered by R.N. Havens, Lucretia | Mott, a Quaker lady, and Hon. Judge Edmonds. | Volume XVII... AMUSEMENTS THIS SVENING. BOWERY THXATRE Bowery—Devin anv un eux—Conerean BROTHERS. rue Dr BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadwar—Lonpow Asis amer—ALL SHAT GLITTERS 13 NOT GoLD. NIBLO'S GARDEN—La Svuri BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street— Wives as it by appointizg William, Prineo of Orange, the ebief magistrate of the nation. Since that time the monarchy of England is a mere cypher, and the real ruler is the minister, who is eau ei uy the will of the Parliament, just as the ri cr of Pvence ischanged. In Russia, on the contrar;, hereditary deepotism prevails in its highest type, und it > ut- terly opposed to the new ideas of the eletive vernment, of power, intellect or taleat. Erg? is, therefore, more naturally the ally of @ranes than of Russia; and if she is not neutral in the struggle, certainly will not lend her aid to the Czar agai: st Louis Napoleon. Again: England and France are the hig ws +: pee of modern civilization in the Old World, an! ic is but rational that both should stem the torront .f Cossack barbarism, which would otherwise overrun cheaper to buy her off, if she is willing to sell out, than to coerce her into submission. Coupled with her just claims for Indian indemnities, we can afford to pay something for the Tehuantepec route Mr. Webster, we presume, will take this view of the ease. The United States and British Press. ‘A long and somewhat interesting debate has just taken place in the Br tish House of Commons, upon the subject of the odious taxes which are inflicted by the British government upon the British press+ and it appears that there is no chance of getting them repealed until the aristocratical system of government is overthrown, and the people take the reins of government into their own hands. It is not our province to descend into the vast injury which is done to the industry and capital of the United Kingdom, by oppressive taxation on field for the most extensive operations in this new | Clingman, of North Carolina, a sort of free trade movement. Southern rights whig—a black swan in the whig Formerly, when artists, or exiles, or unfortunate | party—a very rare specimen from Buncombe, and no Trey Wee, Mains as TUEY AReE~MARRIED BacneLon, BATIONAL THEATEE, Maw- 2Lackomrn or Ay BYCFUM THEATRE. {Broadway—Wno Speaxs Finer Pam One with THe GoupEN —Tememacnys tham etreet—MILLER's ASTOR PLACE OPERA HOUSE---Ornri10. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Amvsine Perronwaxces 16 me ArTeRNOON £VD EVENING. CURISTY'’S OPERA ROUSE-—Nucno Minerkuter wv Cnawry's Company, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Muries) Hall, 444 Brosd- way—Ermorian MinsTReLsy, DOUBLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, May 13, 1832. | The News. faineten | An intevesting political eparring match came off | im the United States Senate, yesterday, on Mr. | Bell's resolution calling for copies of Lieutenant | Temple's Memoirs of the landing of the American | troops at Vera Cruz. As this was evidently de. | signed by the whigs to manufacture political capital | for General Scott, of course several of the leading | democrats opposed it. It will be observed that | this resolution only asks for information relative to | the landing of troops in Mexico—it does not eall fer anything about the operations in the in- terior. Tho democrats ought to amend it so as to | require General Pillow’s report of the campaign, after the army marched from Vera Cruz, to be fur- nished as an appendix. The two documents would, doubtless, form a connected, but very curious, his- tory, not only of the military, but the diplomatic | achievements of General Scott. | California is wide awake on the subject of rail- | roads. Among the numerous bills reported in the Senate yesterday, was one granting land for a road from San Francisco to San Jose. After Mr. Borland had given partial vent to his | opposition to the appropriation for the Collins steam- | ‘enate passed the bill to prevent the heads | tments, Cengressmen, &c., from advocating | against the government in the United States courts. If this measure accomplishes the object in- tended, it will put an end to the various species of Galphinism through which the public treasury has | “The address of the latter was not remarkable for | the whole of western Europe. France, from hor : | later news from California, are due. the inspiration of its language, or a prophetic tone; | geographical position, and from her militar, s, irit it seemed, indeed, as ifthe spirits he had relied on | and organization, will undoubtedly take the lead had abandoned him, and had gone over to the | of the advancing movement in Europe against the | assistance of the Quakeress. The preceedings were | hereditary despotism of Russia; and England, we | very interesting. venture ‘to say, will not stand by looking on | In addition to full reports of many of the reli- | in cold indifference whilo the throat of her | gious anniversary meetings, our columns this | Neighbor is being cut, and it may £0 soon j morning abound with political intelligence from , come to her own turn. This hostility does not | various quarters, local reports, and financial, ship- ‘epend on the life ef Louis Napoleon. If he were | ping, judicial, and miscellaneous matter—the whole | dead to-morrow, the elective principle would live in | forming as complete a newspaper as was ever issued , France, and some other leader would be chosen—de- | from the American press, and by far superior to | *Potic, no doubt, but still a despot adopted by the | anything of the kind ever attempted in Europe. rm 3 These two ideas, therefore—one fo nied on the | The Daniel Webster, Si Ni - heer ’ ie Dae WW abeians | trommianl dnaaiida Nioare | superstition of “ divine right,” and the other on in- | gua; and E] Dorado, from Aspinwall, with ten days | f i ee a Tito Washing- | telleet—will have a terrible struggle for the mastery: | ton may be expected at any moment, from South- | one represented by the leading power of Europe in | ; : | ampton. The Canada, from Liverpool, will reach , the east, and the other by the leading power in the | Boston this forenoon. The Great Britain, if her | west, of the continent; an the time may not be far ; -s | distant when the prediction of Napoleon will trom- | Foee ane ce reseed ts de to-day also from | ein the balance, and two worlds will ook with the | Fpool; Pr 'Y Arrive on | wnost intense interest and anxiety to the result of | Sunday. The latter will bring four days 1 i . ; ‘ = ere pie Europe. Te ence ae, | the conflict which will decide whether Europe is to | people, and still hostile to Russian principles. i | be Cossack or republican, in the sense intended by | paper and advertisements ; but, asthe United States occupies the most prominent and influential position in newspaper literature—the life of political and social progress—we view, with no small sympathy, the fetters which encumber any foreign press; and | more especially when we consider that we have had | sueh recent strong proofs that the newspaper press | is the great barometer of politicalfreedom. France, Spain, Russia, Italy, and England, furnish glaring | and convincing evidence that in almost exact pro- portion as the freedom of the press is destroyed, so are the liberties of a nation; taxation and censorship, | and the infliction of heavy imprisonment and fines, are the methods employed. The press of Great Britain, like her government, is the freest in Eu- | rope, and like that government has been in a state of progression in its developement, and in disen- tangling itself from the chains of monarchical and aristocratical despotism. The term “press,” in this instance, means the free discussion of, and tho ex- pression of pure opinion upon political and social topics which concern the community, tho result of which must of necessity be of great benefit to, and | enlightenment of, that community—in» fact, thg | of reason that ‘* the Little-Corporal” never meant to Is Europe to be Cossack or Republican! | The celebrated prediction ef Napoleon at St. | | Helena, that Europe would become either republican | bids. That she will be republican, according to the | or Cossack, has not received its fulfilment, and | there is ne probability that, in the generally re- ceived sense, it will be an accomplished fact in the present generation. Europe cannot become Cossack, and there is just as little prospect of its becoming | republican, according to the idea which Americans attach to that word. Perhaps, however, Napoleon's idea of a republic was very different from ours, and that, instead of the American model, he had the old Roman military republicin hiseye, withan elective head, whether called a eonsul, a prwtor, a decemvir, a tribune, a dictator or an emperor. Certain it is that this was the kind of republic over which he presided himself as First Consul, and afterwards as Emperor; and as the French people never had any | other description of republic, it is a clear deduction convey the idea that Europe would become Ameri- canized, or adopt the republicanism of the United States. Yet we find many flimsy writers for news- | press is a republican institution, and both these | is there any chance of the red republicanism of the | been plundered for several years past. _.__| papers and flash orators ignorantly quoting the pro- Senator Rusk yesterday gave notice of a vill to | pheey in this sense, and making it a text for much reduce the postage on newspapers and other printed | | idle, frothy declamation about the revolutionizing matter. There can be no doubt of the expediency of such a measure ;—the necessities of the people require it. The rapid etrides of this country to greatness are sufficient proofs that the American poople are intellectually pre-eminent. They read, reflect, and yinvent. They have received the prin- cipal portion.of their education through a free press; and hence it is essential to their welfare that there should either bs no postage on printed matter, or else it should be reduced to the lowest possible rate. That which enlightens, refines, and gives tone to the mind of every ifeebitant, should never be taxed. | Some singular eaeurrences took place in the House of Representativee yesterday. In the first place, there was a spirited debate on the printing question, which resulted in the matter being left just where | only they have the satisfaction of appointing or ap- of the nations of the old country into so many groups of United States—a thought that never en- tered the brain of the eagle, chained upon his lonely rock. The government that seems suited to the genius, and wishes, and ideas of the people of France, is neither a republic nor a despotism, but a mixture of both—not an hereditary, but an elective ruler— no matter how arbitrary, extensive and com- plete his dominion may be, for the time, provided | proving of him, by vote, themselves, or rather of sanctioning his appointment after it is made in Paris, or by the army. This mode flatters the vanity of | the Freuch people, while, at the same time, it saves it stood efore---that is, the contractor will do what | work he can, and the Republic and Union will take | what he cannot accomplish, and make all the money | it they can. More money has been paid to | members of Gongeess forthe time wasted ty ther | during this session, in endeavoring to regulate their | printing, than would have paid for a complete go- | vernment printing office. A Yunny discussion was ine | dulged in conceming house cleaning; afier which it was agreed that the membersehould meetateight | o'clock this morniug, and immediately adjourn till | Monday. Notwithstanding several efforts to amend the Free | Farm bill, the House passed it in ite original shape, | by a vote of 107 to 56. It now remains to be seen what the Senate will do with t socialist affair, | which proposes to take frem the people thei perty, 2 it among partic this should ever become a law, it would soon put an end to all y concerning the government | lands, for there would none be left in a short time. Ace t news from France, Lonie Napolcon had removed the matter of the confisea- tion of the Orleans property from the Judicial Tri- out ¢ cular individ: controver bunale to the Council of State, over which body he That he is determined exereiees supreme control. to have this property confiscated there is no doubt, and this last step evinces that he is osed to be the law, in addition to President. The intelligence from Buenos Ayres is not of a | very favorable ch r. Although the intentions | of the new leaders in that section of the cor | merican and republican, yet the cc and the character of the p pozed reform one of great difculty. if “enggol Urqniza abolishes centralization, so | cloeely followed by General Rosas, and succeeds in | introducing municipal government throughout the provinces, he will accomplish much for his country. Bat it ccems dowbtful if Urguiza will continue Si- fluential enough to enable him to attain this de- sirable result. According to the advices his large army remained unpaid, and it wae thought that the | government would have to resort to a new issue of paper money to meet the emergency. A failure are clearly ad n of thing Will make the pro) ople, | \ 1 to pay the troops at this juneture would be a de- plorabl »t to the friends of law and order every- | wher Prior to his coronation as Emperor, it is said that Faustin, of Hayti, distributed crosses of honor to various distinguished persons, in imitation of Na- poleon and other monarchs. The French and Eng- lish Consuls were recipients of his favors, but the | American Consul was not. Faustin is exerting him- | self to the utmost to place his name upon a par with that of Hannibal, Caar, or any other great ruler and, if high-sounding words will accomplish the pur- pose, he will succeed. He is a pretty smart negro, | and no doubt would make shine as well now as he formerly did. Amoug the passengers who left Bostoi Niagara, yecterdsy, was Dr. Plumer and his tims— Mis whom he ran awny with Col. Howard, whove money he aleo carried of oot vic- and with him It ir said that the frigate Cumberiand at an- ehor, yesterday, in Nantasket Roads, ing | to suil for the Mediterranean. She is supposed to be under orders to demand an explanation of the King ef Greece for the harsh treatment of Rev King The edings in the Board of Supervisere 3 terday of a very interesting charact report of the eommitres on the petition of the Se ciety for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, | which you adeptel by the Board, recommends tho rege) of the reeolution of the Commen Council Jase | forms, still the elective system obtained, and in- | succeeding change. | in three days, or a coup d’éat in one day, and the | act | sia, under the rule of Louis Napoleon, as it was un- | to the existence of the autocracy of the Cvar, and ' cant fact, considering how rouch the press of Russia is | leon, who is never mentioned at all, any more than them the trouble of deliberation, and leaves the thinking to be done by the intellect of the capital. Hereditary monarchy was cut off with the head of Louis XVI.; and every form of government that has | since prevailed in France has been elective, with | the exception of the Bourbons, who were twice | forced upon the people by the allied powers of | Hurope. In the ease of the Council of Five Hun- | dred, the Girondist, the Consular, and the Imperial | telleet or popularity of some kind—not birth-right or superstition about the divine right of kings and he- reditary suceession—dictated who should be the ruler of the hour, and planned and executed each | | The present dictatorship of Louis Napoleon is not an exception to the rule, It is, in fact, a more | complete developement of the principle than under | any previous régime. The central power in Paris— either the army or the mob—achieves a revolution after it is done—is submitted to the people, | of the prisofer of St. Helena. That Europe will be | Cossack, the progress of political ideas utterly for- American model, is equally remote from probability. | At present, neither France nor any of civ nations of the continent of Europe, are fit for American insti- tutions. They are not accustomed to them—do not understand, and cannot appreciate them. Still less | socialists prevailing in Europe. They and their lead- erg are a set of madmen or political knaves—mono- | maniacs or demagogues—includiog Kinkel, and Kos- | suth, and Mazzini, and Ledru Rollin, and Louis | Blanc—all of whom have proved themselves inferior | toLouis Napoleon in their knowledge of the people, and their capacity for government. They have | failed from the want of these qualities—he has suc- ceeded because he possesses them. Socialism and | red republicanism are, therefore, impossibilities in | Europe. But that, ere long, she will be republican, in the military, Roman, and Napoleon sense, is very likely, and ‘‘a consummation devoutly to be wish- ed.” It would be an improvement upon hereditary | despotism—a step in advance in the march of pro- gressive liberty—and might possibly prepare them for the enjoyment of American freedom at some future day. But Europe must first pass through the fire, before she comes like gold out of the fur- nace, asthe butterfly must first pass through the transition state of a chrysalis, before it attains its perfect, winged, and beautiful form, in which it disports itself in the sun, and sips the sweets of free- dom from every opening flower. Tne New Mexican MINISTER AND THE TEHUAN- verec Dirricutty.—The new Minister from Mexi- co, Senor Labrainzars has arrived at Washington, and only waits the return of Mr. Webster from Marshfield, to proceed to business. It is under- stood that this new Minister comes charged with the important powers of negotiating a settlement of | the Tehuantepec difliculty, notwithstanding the recent unanimous rejection of the treaty by the Mexican Congress. Of course, his probable over- tures to the administration have not yet trans- | pired ; but the fact that he is charged with tho set- tlement of the Tehuantepec controversy indicates | a disposition on the part of Mexico (o surzender the | route to the United States for a sufficient conside- | ration. | The whole matter, we apprehend, lies in a nut- | shell. Mexico is broken down, impoverished, bank- rupt. She is overhead and ears in debt, has no | money, and no resources. She has been subsisting, since the war, upon our indemnities of three mil- lions a year for her current necessities of cash | payments. In another year the last instalment will | | be paid, after w ich she will be left entirely holp- | some new expedient for a farther indemnities is successful in raising And the thing may be done. The | nment has discovered something intrinsic value of the Tchuantepee the United States, in connection less, unless supply of the wind. the route to and they declare it * all right.” Thus, in point of fact, the French people act first, and deliberate and vote afterwards. This is the very reverse cf the | with the vast and increasing travel and trafic between the Atlantic and Pacifie sic mighty country. Mr. Webster's 7 les of this in behalf of | pre institutions are naturally allied, and in propor- tion as they are severed, so are they dispar- aged. England, with her comparatively free go- vernment, was the eountry where the press first took its stand as a power in society—as the fourth estate, as it has been aptly termed; the United States, possessing absolute freedom of government, is the only country in which that influence has been consummated and ac! nowledged. It is not difficult, therefore, to understand the meaning of the present restrictions upon the English and the cause of its decline; the press isa | political institution, and is kept under political sur- veillance, and independently of its taxation, each pa- per is under heavy bonds to the government for its particular conduct in regard to what may be deemed libel,” &e. But the great object of these restric- tionsis not only the confinement of the press to the | use of a select aristocratic and wealthy few, and which may be ready at all times to express their sentiments and develope their feelings, but also to prevent the enlightenment of the masses of the poo- ple, who, if properly instructed in their rights and dutics, and their morals refined, would no longer submit to the present tyrannical and nefarioussystem of government ef which they are the dupes. restrictions, therefore, have a double object, and well do they answer their purpose ; hence, also, the injustice of taxing th: lengthy advertisement for the sale of valuable property of a wealthy peer in the same sum as the servant girl’s advertisement. The bulk of the English press is, therefore, not free from corruption, dependence, and subserviency; and a great portion are favorable to this state of things, in consequence of the monopoly they enjoy, and the suppression of talent which would over- whelm their own, and lead to their destruction; this interested feeling is, of course, natural in any sys- tem of business, and, therefore, accounts for their opposition. Independently, also, if these taxes were repealed, instead of there being no daily papers out of the English, Scotch and Irish metropolizes, they would spring up in the provinces, owing to the diminution in the cost of their production, and thus destroy the weekly papers, (the only ones published out of the metropolises, with the exception of two or three semi-weeklies,) which derive their news, except what is merely local, by the aid of the scissors and paste-pet, from the London dailies, and which piracy custom has sanctioned. These, then, are the corrupt grounds upon which rest the restrictions upon the British press, and which wait to be removed by the hands of the peo- ple, forthe reason that they are to be benefitted, and no one else will do their work for them. They must do their own work through such means as are open to them, and second the able and patriotic efforts of their champion, Milner Gibson. The chief origin of these restrictions commenced in the reign of Queen Anne, who requested the Par- liament to fetter and gag the press, because it ex- posed the follies and vices of her court and her cor- rupt inconsistencies, and they were followed up by the despotic Georges, for obvious motives; and it is only during the last twenty years, and since Theso American system. In the United States we deli- | the treaty, betrayed, of itself, the importance which | parliamentary reform, that some of the more odious berate fir , after long deliberation, we act; and, | in of a fow leading men in the capital think- ing for the nation, and the nation adopting their | decisions, the nation at large thinks for itself, and dictates its will to the leading men, ag well ag all others; and it is only left to the chief men to exe- | euteand carry out the will of the whole people. | Intelligence, like wealth, in the United States, is | diffused all over the country and among the entire | population. In France, the learning, the genius, the jnteilect, and the power, if not the wealth, are concentrated in Parie; and henee, whatever may bo le change or modification of government, it i# originated, carried out, and centralized in the capi. tal. In other Fords, Paris rule: Mrance, and France | yields @ willing obedienege Now, we see from recent Furopean news that this | system is just as obnoxious to the Emperor of Rus- der the government of Louis Philippe, or any other form whose executive is elected by the people. France ie equally hostile to the hereditary princi} ple of Russian government, for ite darling idea is to change ite rulers, like old garments, whonover it becomes tired of them. This idea is dangerous he accordingly hates and fears France. These two great leading powers of the continent of Europe are, therefore, antagonistic in their ideas, and can- not have any cordial alliance or mutual understand- ing. As soon might water and oil unite, notwith- standing all that Koseuth has talked about the league of despots. Europe is, therefore, now pre- sented to us in a new ph nd it isa very signifi- | under the control of the government, that the Rus- | Almanac of this year says “the heir apparent of France is Henry V.,” thue ignoring Louis Nape- if he did not exist. nd to the [rene this must be deeply mortifying, and will tend, wi other causes, to stir up the latent embers of hos- | To him tility between France and Ruseia, Tire fire was not dead—it only slept beneath the ashes til some ¢€xX- citing cause should awake it into netivily | It ie with Russia, therefore, and not with Eng. | land, that there is a probability of mortal col- | | lision. England need not be alarmed about France, | for France has nothing to from Bogland; Russia is (he proper antagonetof France, and Prance, on | of this Tehuantepec right of way. Tho conclusion | route, England, probably, will take it in part ac- | tional debt. We may, therefore, zonchide that the of very great importance to bot countries, our government attaches to the practical occupation followed very naturally, that in rescinding tho Ga- | ray contract of Santa Annaand Salas, and the treaty | based upon it, and in resuming the sovereign po: session of the route and its advantages, a much bet- ter bargain might be made with our government than the bargain with Garay; beeauso, if we donot agree to pay around sum for the privileges of the quittance of her sixty millions of the Mexican na- luission of Senor Labrainzar involves the negotiation of a new treaty, from which the sinews of peace will be supplied to Mexico, in another bill of indemnities, payable semi-annually, for a eerics of years. | Upon another difficult piece of business Moxico ; haga most decided advantage over Mr. Webster. By the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, our govern- i ment pledged itself to protect the Mexican frontiers | against the Indians. We have failed to do it, and the Mexican frontier population, by hundreds, and their property, to the extent of millions in value, have been desiroyed by the Apaches and Caman- ; ches from our side of the line. We aro responsible | for these lorses, and for such indemnities as justice may demand. The late Mexican Minister, Senor Rosa, repeatedly pressed this subject upon our government, but without avail. On our part, we must fulfil the treaty, or pay the forfeils of onr | neglect. But such will be the military force re~ | quired to protect our Mexican boundary—from the | Gulf of Mexico along the Rio Grande, for a thousand | miles, and thene some twelve or fifteen hundred | miles aevoss to the Pacifie—and such must be tho expense of subsisting an active body of troops along | | this d¥sert line, that our government are no doubt | 4 anxious to get the eleventh article of the treaty off their hande, upon almost any terms. Here, then, we have the elements of a new treaty, Mexico , will, we suspect, clove the bargain without difficulty, for a good round svm in cash. Tho plan is very | | simple. Sho will grant the United States the neces | enry privileges of the right of way vin Coatzacoalcos and Tehuantepec, and ase our government from the cbligation of protecting her northern frontiers, | for co many millions for the right of way, and so many millions as indemaities for our Indian depro- dations, and the relinquishment of the eleventh fetters had been struck off, and the amount of stamp duty :educed, since which poriod a people's press bas, to some extent, sprung into existence, which, it is to be hoped, has enlightened the mass of the people on the importance of this subject. As we previously intimated, it is not our province to point out the unjust and scandalous manner in which these English imposts are levied, and the great burdens they entail upon commerce and indifs- try, but to View the matted in political and social figpect, and in relation to ourown country, and this brings us to the slanderous and interested imputa- tions of which the American press is made the sub- ject by some of the English journals, who view with horror the innovations which a free and enlighten- ed press would make upon their rotten and proppod up prosperity. One paper in particular—the London Times—is deriving immense benefit from the present system, which favors its monopoly, whilst all the other daily papers, with the solitary exception of one, which is supported by a commercial class, are sickly and in @ dying state; and, therefore, we can well understtid the bitter- ness of that paper towards the Aricrican pres? and its literature, which it has recently exhibited in connection with the late debate in the British Parliament, when it says that our newsparer lit- erature “is so cheap as to swamp real merit and vulgarize the taste of the public.” Every reader ofthe Heraxp will be able to give an unqualified contradiction to this sweeping and unserupulous statement, however applicable it may be to a large portion of the penny press; and to this gra- tuitous ard malicious insult to us, on the part of the Eurepean leading journal, we think we have sufficiently retorted by showing its corruption and isipgenuity, and by the wliole tenor of our re- marks; beyond that, it is worthy only of con- tempt So far asregards “vulgarizing the taste of the public,” we may say, in further proof of its wtter falsehood, that we have always observed that in proportion as an American newspaper as exhibit- ed political and literary talent, so has been its success. ey fore the world the grounds upon whie! We place befor orl ra gute stand the structures of tho United States a u press, and we | avo litt’ hesitvsion in asking which is the most independent, free, influential, and | article of the treaty of peace of 1848—tho indomni | eniversally ueefa ? individuals of any European country, came to the | mistake. United States, they represented themselves as com- ing hore for an asylum, or for the exercise of their profession, or for their own advantage, or to make a living by theirown industry. Of late years this has been changed. Persons of any notoriety coming here, of late, repudiate the idea of being actuated by selfish motives, or the dosire of their mere individual advancement. Every one of them now represents himself as baving some very important mission on hand. Ifa Kinkel reaches our shores, he has a mission to fulfil in the country, the aim of which isto estab- lish a republic in Germany on his return there. Of course, to facilitate the accomplishment of his apostlerhip, he requires and demands immense con tributions in money from bis countrymen here, and from all Americans. This part of his mission ful- filled to the extent of hiv desives, he returns as quietly as he came, and the first thing we hear of him is that his collections are invested in a brewery for the manufacture of healthy beverages. So he fulfils his mission, and he returns to enjoy the reward of his labors. Even artists cannot come here now and exercise their profession without having recourse to tho same dodge. They t represent themselves as having a mission to fulfil, in morals, religion, politics, or social laws. Barnum, one of the greatest geniuses of his profession in the present age—himeelf a mis- sionary of teetotalism—gave out, on the arrival of ) Jenny Lind in this city, that she came here ona quission of philanthropy—that the object of her pro- fessional tour in America was to increase the facili- ties of education among the poor of Sweden, snd that all which she should receive from the proceeds of ber concerts in this country was to be appropriated to the establishment of free schools in her native hind. On the strength of this great moral educational mis- sion, the excitement was got up to the highest pitch, and she was received with ovations all over the country. She will close her mission in a few days, and purposes giving a series of concerts in this city —some of her admirers saying even to the number of thirty—at three dollars a ticket. Immediately on the heels of this angel of goodacss and song, came in the same vessel two renowned missionaries—Korsuth and Lola Montes. It is need- less to state what the mission of Kossuth was, for ho himself has endeavored to make it known, in five hundred speeches, throughout thecountry. His rival and competitor in the same missionary line—Lola Montes—also endeavored to satisfy the American people, through pronunciamentos and manifestoos, expressed with equal eloquence, and published in the journals, that her mission here wasalso one of the greatest importance—namely, to revolutionize and republicanize Bavaria, redeem her confiscated estates, and expel the Jesuits from that unhappy land. Not long ago, too, Ole Bull, with whom we were formerly acquainted in this country, returned on his second tour, and on reaching New York, intimated that he had some important mission on hand, with reference, of course, to his own country—the object of which was either to fa- cilitate emigration from Norway to the United States, or for the resuscitation of Norwegian liberty. At all events, he had no idea of giving any more concerts here, which would be derogatory to his position. He was a missionry, and nothing less. However, during his recent visit to Washing- ton he permitted himself to be dissuaded from this notion, and recemmence?d giving concerts. He hag already proceeded as far as Philadelphia, on his way to this city, in the fulfilment of his new mission, giving concerts for the purpose of collecting funds to advance the political interests of his native country, or for the social and religious enlighten- New World. Fanny Elssler, too, in her day, was rep- resented us a missionary of the same stamp. ey also, danced for patriotism, and thus acquired great popularity. Now, all these great orators, great artists, and great geniuses of all kinds, might have very well relied on their individual claims to publie attention, without becoming great humbugs. An Ole Bull, or a Jenny Lind, or a Fanny Elssler, or a Lola Montes, or a Kossuth, or a Kinkel, or cven a Barnum, need not have been under the necessity of travelling out of the record—as the lawyers say their intentions, and purposes, and missions were ble character, in order to receive the attention or dollars of the people of this country. It would have been much more creditable, simple, sensible, and appropriate, for every one of these missionari stated candidly and precisely their object in coming here was to make money, without endeavoring to envelope them in mystery, and to humbug the poo- ple by claiming sympathy upon extraordinary grounds, which probably would never have entered or some such ingenious manager of our time. Real ar- tists never descend to any of these clap-traps for ca’ ing popular applause or doliars.. We have had y lists and artists of all kinds visiting us from Europe, who claim nothing beyond the recognition of th professional talents, and ask no sympathy fur extrin- sic matters. Catherine Hayes is one of this stamp —Sivori was another—Madame Malibran was an- other, and a great one. She wasone of the most finished and exquisite of artists; but nover dabbled in schools, politics, or humbug. and so are Salyi and Steffunone. They, and all the best Italian artists who have y od us, claimed no merit beyond their artistie talents and artistic powers. They profe poses forcign to their profession, or affecting sovial, religious or political movements in Europe or this country. The attempt of artists of real morit— such as Ole Bull, Jenny Lind, and others—to sock consideration beyond that due to their talents, and toendcavor to attract the sympathy, applause and support of the public, by professing to be mis aries, either educational, religions, or political, is a system too much like that which got up attention Parodi is another, mermaid, with all the certificates and affidavits ne- cessary to humbug the people out of their dollars. Real artists should repudiate such schemes, and ceage to personate missionarics. Mors Lerrer Wriring.-We have lately had a fresh batch of letters on the compromise measures. Mr. John Forsyth, @ Southern rights editor, of Georgia, has written a lettcr—which has been pub- lished in the Southern press—deprecating any recog- nition, by the Baltimore democratis convention, of and satisfactory adjustment, on the ground that the ‘They never will consent that the admission of Cali- hence the Baltimore Convention had better say no- Foote, of Mississippi—the most active and trouble- some little man of the wholeSouthern Union party— says that the Baltimore democratic convention must and shall recognise, and positively declare, tho binding finality of the compromise measures, or that the party is doomed to inevitable defeat. Which of these two is right? Between two stools wo | come to fhe ground. What is the democratic cone | yention to do? If it approves the admission of California, the secessionists fly off the handle—if it | endorses the I ive Slave law, as the test of the | true faith, the barnburners go by the board; and | if they fail, or refuse, to recognise the finality of all | the compromise acts, the Southern Union democrat’ | ment of his countrymen, both in Europe and in the | of some prodigiously grand and incomprehensi- | their minds but for the successful tactics of Barnum, | cd no connection with pur- to the Axztee children, Joyce Heth, or the Fejee | ik the finality *of the compromise mensures as afvir | ti Southern rights party will desert the national demo- | cratic party rather than agree to such a declaration. fornia was a fair and satiefactory operation; and | thing about it. On the other hand, Governor |e ti Mr. Clingman, who voted against all the compromise acts, and who lately left the Congreg- sional whig caucus in high dudgeon, because they would not endorse the compremise, says in his let- ter, published in the Washington Republic, that the whig pational convention will prove fulse to its duty, if it does not enforce the finality of the fugitive law. The Republic disowns Mr. Clingmaa, turns him out of the whig tabernacle, and very significantly insin- uates that it may be best to say nothing at all on the negro question. So that all that wo can make out of these letter writers is, that both conventions will give the compromise measures the slip, and that the campaign will be a mere squabble for the plunder. A letter from General Scott—a brief, clear, and em- phatie letter—on the fugitive law, just now, would throw an immense amount of light upon tho subject. But he bas recently become disgusted with letter” writing, and for fear of ‘ disgusting the public,” he can’t be made to write another word on the slavery question. He may possibly write, if anything more is wanted to blarney the Irish or the Dutch, but he is “ done with niggers.” Well, then, everything de- pends upon the democratic convention at Baltimore, on the Ist of June. Let them recognise the fugitive law, and they may win; let them dodgo it, and Scott will walk over the course under the same dodge. That's all. fering Ruxsixe isro Summen.—The earth, having in- dulged herself in an extra allowance of sleep. in the icy arms of winter, waked up suddenly a week or two ago; and. asif aehamed of herself for playing the sluggard, she seems determined to set to work cheerily, and atone for lost time. She has already brightened up her face, put on her best smiles, and is now robing herself in her summer drers with great alacrity. Vegetation hag sprung up with extraordinary quickness and luxuriance ; the trees are putting on their gayest foliage; the airy balmy with southern breezes, is deliciously warm; and compliments are paid unsparingly to the good looks and handsome toilet of Mother Nature. The beautiful suburbs of New York have resumed their summer at- tractions, and the over-crowded denizens of the city will not be slowin paying them attention, Young men and maidens, old men and children, all feel the passion for ruralizing. and may be seen rushing out of town every Sabbath morning. directing their faces to Hoboken, Staten Island, Clifton. Coney Island, Glencove, Harlem, High Bridge, and all the other attractive spots within easy dis- tance. Our hard-wrought mechanics, with their wives and families, and the dapper elerks, with their sisters and sweet-hearts, will be hurrying hither aud thither, bent on -nies and files champetres, recruiting their exhausted energies, and acquiring, in the exhilarating atmosphere of the country, new strength for the labors of the week, To them, the relaxation from business, and a country ramble from morn to dewy eve, is at once a luxury and a benefit, and we wish them a full measure of enjoyment. The exodus of the fashionable circles will also soon set im with arush, Upper-tendom will pack up their travelling bags, Iny aside the carpets and furniture, shut up the house, and carry off the parsons with the keys of the churches in their pockets, and pitch themselves down in Saratoga, Cape May, and the select watering places, And New York. deserted of half her children, will be left to the traders, mechanics, journalist , and politicians, ‘The latter class of the community wili no doubt, in the exu- Lerance of their philanthropy. «ndeavor to keep up the spirits of the reet. and divert heir ennui by exhibiting { amusing freaks. holding Pro-idential meetings, aud kuock- ing up some fun and exciteme:t by the contests for their | Terpective favorites, So wag the world, Will Judge Edmonds manage to behold onother vision, and let us | know the thivgs that come after? The late Ianae 'F; Hopper—Hiy Ohsequics In the Tabernacic. The obsequies of Isade T, Hopper, formerly one | ofthe Society of Friends, and well known for his practical, Teal, unostentatious benevolence, and for his simple primi- tive manners and appearance, were solemnized yesterday | afternoon in Broadway Tabernacle, A large congregation | of thore who knew and admired him, assembied to mani- | fert their respect for his memory; and among these whe | attended, there wae a very considerable proportion of Quakers. and a very minute sprinkling of colored people. ‘The body, encased ina plain, modest looking coflin, without | breart plate or shroud, was borne into the ‘Tabernacle and placed om supports in front of the stage, Mr. R. N. Havens, View eeidgnt of the Prison Association, explain= ‘ed the cireumstances why this unusual mode of | honoring deee 1 worth, was had recourse to, He | speke of Isave T, Hopper’s connection with the Prison Association, of which he was the founder seven or eight penne my id continued to be the president untit 2 few months since, He paid a warm tribute to his simple bu fim chorseter-—the pleasure he had always felt in being engeged going about doing good, and of the practical be she hed conferred ow discharged conviets, in thy of (hat duty to whieh he had devoted his Jat- j and he read a series of resolut | February | member; as alee | ARDOUREOMENt of bh eration by eaying dren t. expressive of ¥, nd concluded an eloquent associates, the words ad- Work while i ° . and and! hie af the Highest. that, when the and when the tiue is come thas expcet the frewities bestowed on ws nl, to ae it ts Uhe wet of God's benevvience thas 1. When this event «upon we en we call it a rad occasion if we have lived as dis her. We needs not (hat wo mourn for bin. » Ut the tender ties of nature and cfal It is true ceared as | the ways of love % the heart on an oc rine reemed to nu the dees should feed the twit the present ve uniting fm the one tort e done +0 mneh to Hipersede expression of many words. fw refer to Uhe earky days of his | life, which Iy 4 to God, to goodness.” todo hig duty and to labor in Iie v sly day his | strongest conviction, it of the Highest wastes 1 anoint- ing him © to pree tho prison to th there who ar conviction, dl to eet at liberty. ‘Thet he was faithfal to this good and evil report, of or lind, and many Draieed * throm, poor fugitives | slave, can abundantly testify, and reoolta wany of the iy the Anti-Slavery Society, aleo bear t Mrs Mott's address was plain. and drew tears from the femal Tire, Je ain, eimple, uneeltioh habits, easily fatisfied nature, For the seve him. he had lived conteutedly on audite The siwetling next followed ities whieh the deceased poor aalary ch the y @ conditi« a rted that a nent and appropriate i Greenwood of ot State of He was born in the the grater port f he rerved fis ap taller. From th death, he was ever Assceiation, Ther and defend tho ( iolony; . “t and hom suel yp 1 enable ihe well inclined re this latter branch. rT. er head “ ate tended, With most waiting tesiduity ant te oevnionee, until February leet, when patural debility or! beenking down of bis constitution ce him ty reign, Ute dress and habits w few who have seen his neat (urler dress. with bly bes 1 belewmed beaver. tight knee breeches, and hrijght-bue vie 1 saoc, andl remarked bis sprightly aad youthful manners te to inquire who he was, Buring his long lite, he had ob- served trict babite of temperance, and enjoyed wminter.