The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1852, Page 4

Governor Mant and hie associates to create an ex- citement, proved « failure—the church was not JP MES GORDON BENNETT. | PROPRIETOR AND #D(TOR puneeevene senna es rh in atpance. Bait RALD, 2eente Tie KUY MeRALD 7 annum ; the per copy—$) per annum goers Suburday. ar 6 BRuropean Bhitoa, th to inet le the postage INTARY CORRES®ONORNCK, sonvaaning im- raised—and Kossuth, heart sick at his ill euccess, WHFICR B. W. CORNER OF FULTO® 2ND PATSAU STS. | will depart for Niagara to-day, in order to recruit | his shattered spirits. 4 Britrin and $5 te any part ef | rious parties throughout the country. land Whig Convention, which assembled yesterday, = a . ef value. How cam those banking associations | available fands-to meet rush upon them, the brokers make. the attempt? Besides, recurities having been declared worthless, those bankers in a dilemma fiom which they bo speedily extrieated. They now come under the | ver two-thirds full—very litule material aid was | We are still enabled to keep the politicians ad- | subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars ; besides, «mit | vised of all movements of interest made by the va- | it renders void all such sccurities, and also vitiates The Mary- the currency thus in circulation. At any moment, each of the persons engaged in iesuing bille based | fetta from omy quart of Bho wort: Pwers | passed strong compromise resolutions, and, at the upon the revenue certificates, is Tiable to bave im- aTICUL AALY axquaeteg To #eaL su Lerrens | game tine. did pot forget the venerable Heary Clay, yorcd upon him the fine mentioned inthe general TLL LETTERS by mil. for Bubrery er with 4d-.| to whore services a most attoring and well morited | backing law. It eannot be expected that the peopto gets mente to be poviy, £1, or the paatage wilt be ded? | Cinuie was paid. Only one county sent Scott dele- | will cufier thie unlawful species of banking to pro- OR) NUTICE Chen f vaonymous communications We | gatos Te was resolved that, while Mr. Fillmore | ceed felf-protcction will justify the retarn of UR PRINTING ccated with neatners, cheapsees, and | was tho ebolee of the whigs of the State for the | thore bills to the counters whence they emanate. oe VERTISEME! Piesidency, they oft sopport any nominee who | Berides, a strong rumor exists that the Commis- AMUSEMENTS TilIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tre DRunwARD—Consi- ean BROTHERS BROADWAY Gourey Pauw THEATRE, Sroadway-VALLET pe Suam— apines Bewann, FIBLO'S GARDEN—Canio BURTON'S THEATRE Chambers stroet—Dayip Cor. Per riety—Goon vor Normixe, 3 tham street—VinGinrus— Coakse Hap Buorises, LYORUM THEATRE, Brondway—Fourigs or a Nieur— Devi in Panis, ASTOR PLACE OPERA HOUSE-—-Consioan Brornens. mf | AMERICAN MUSEUM—Anusixe PeRsoRMancms IN ‘Wee APrER WOON AND Byexire. CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE—Neoxo Mrverauisy ny Cunury's Comparr. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Broad- way —Brmiorian MinsTRELAY. DOUBLE T. -==ese | New York, Friday, May 21, 1852, LE SHEE The News, ‘The European news by the Africa—a complete di- | gest of which we publish to-day—though unimpor- tant, is still ppssessed of some degree of interest, even in a political point of view. The gencral stupor and stagnation of Continental polities—the | universal prevalence of quict submission to the powers that be, are scarcely less entitled to serious reflection than was the fierce popular tornado of | 1848,-or the terrible reaction of *49. The pre- j sent unusual quiet of the Continent, is either signi- | ficant of the complete prostration of revolutionary conspiracies, and of a general entente cordial among the ruling powers, or else it signifies a general dread of some impending collision, offensive or defensive with Louis Napoléon. Everything depends upon the cool discretion of that single man; but ashe | has shown himself equal, thus far, to every emor- gency, there is just ground for the confidence of France in his ability to maintain his position and the general peace together. His cautious approaches to the empire are suficient evidence that bis prudence is equal to his courage, and that while he does not recede, he will take no step forward without fall deliberation. The upward condition of the Liverpool cotton muket will be good news to our Southorn planters and dealers, who may have yet any considerable amovnt of crop on hand. Henceforth there need be no apprehension of glutting the cotton auket. Before another year is over, porhaps, n, China, Australia, and all the southeastern sia, will need a large supply of cotton st year goods, : The trial of Col. Vremoat in London, sued for eertain debt iin California, in behalf of the United States, during the war with Mexico, is yet w a edings in the United Bu of the defendant, will laintiff’s to pret seme compromi sjeet, however, we apprehend th culations will be utterly ¢ allude to his expected profitah worinte in California. Noi satisfied v n the very ntageous sale of thi estate, made some time ago, in his behalf, } father-in-law, Col. Benton, for a round million, Fremont thought it prudent to repudiate it; and went over to London to sell out the same property Yor several. millions. “But a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Australia io the London market, and Aus is a dormin ations, while ( rnia iat shimmed over, so that, if Fremont disposes of his hiariposa diggi a any terms in England, he may thar! da mil- Kon, the eontract all cl: with a hundred thous i down. he ean. afterall Themighty exodus from Ireland and Germany continues. ‘The cry is still they come;” to which nee, “Ho! come all yo waters; and the spirit ne; and Jet him that will, come ters of life ly,” and goto good citizen. We have “enough ough for cach, 3 Moet of yesterde Let him now realize a half million, Bonton has an older head than Fromont, and partake of tho w worl and becom: enough for evermore.’ the U; was consumed he extra compensation of tioners ef the Canal Fund will sbortly issue instrac- ticns to collectors of tolls, to reject all bills offered ivdicate that it will be neoessary for Geu. | in payment at their offices, of those banks standing Scott to come out aud make public bis views oa this | upon the sandy foundation of revenue eertifieates; subject, before he exmeecure the vote of Maryland. | and ifthe State officers shall refuse this species of Drief reports of the proceedings of several religious | paper, will not the people be amply justified in re- | conventions will be found under the telegraphic | pudiating it also? | head. The Catholic Council closed its session at Again—the lastLegislature, in anticipation that | was known to be sound on the adjactmont measures | last Congress. The general tove of the reso- | i 7 i 4 i § i F é bead of uneuthorized banks, and are, therefore, | readers, | which we certainly have a right to expect. gonorally, make it a part of their | routine to borrow the greater portion of the newa, reports, and ideas which they spread before thoir from the columns of the New York Henraxp, and apprepriate the sume to their own tion, or the assimilating process, ised, and loee their German identity. Thoy do not change our institutions, but they are changed them- selves. They annually swell our population, but they ¢o not alter its character. Thousands of fresh water rivers run into the ocean, tarned to Europe, and the possession of the field was left. to Max Maretsek, who, by a very profitable tour, which ho has been makivg through the Southern cities: is retrieving the losses which he had sustained bere during: the winter. ‘This, we believe, isa comprehensive resumé of the his. but they do not tory of Italian opera in this city, It has been—as we use, without any acknowledgment of the soureo change its original ealtness; and filthy sewers dis- | have chown—a repetition of disasters and failures, bo- from whence they were derived. We have- occasionally alluded to this systematic pilfering, without, however, producing any good effect. Those who are guilty of it, aware of the impunity with which they can commit larceny of this sort, continue in their evil ways, and give no sign whatever of amendment. We do not, by any, means, desire to deprive those journals of the bonetit avd advantages which onr columns prosent to them, since we know that, without plagiarism from tho HeRaLp, the contents of most: of them would bo yazid, stale, and unprofitable ; but we think they might at least have the courtesy to acknowledge the source from which they gained their informa- tion, It is the only amende wo seck, and one One of the principal causes why contributions are his | ted 'g an amoncdment to the | Bultimore yesterday. Last evening a magnificent banqnet was given to George Law, Esq., at the Astor House. It passed of with great éelat. Our substitute, Horace cold water. So we could not teport or make a | described as having been very busy at the | meeting of the People’s College Association is desirous of establishing a cheap manual labor | school. He is, no doubt, in constant communica- tion with the knocking spirits there. vege An Extra Session of the Legislatare—0 ught | Governor Hunt to Authorize it It is a fact undeniable, that legislation in this | State is overdone. The people are disgusted with the manner, character and results of our legisla- | tion, and would heartily rejoice if our organic law | permitted only biennial sessions, and those of only | fifty days each. The members who occupied the Capitol daring the years 1851 and 1852, have en- tailed more disrepute upon the character of the State than a penance during their whole natural lives could fully atone. The iniquities practised arc beginning to be realized by the people. The enormities which they committed are now being felt. The State is in a disgraceful, deplorable con- dition; and how svon and in what manner, legitimate- ly, can the relief be afforded ? Will it be prudent to convene the notoriously incompetent persons who compose the present members of the Legislature, in an extra session? Is it safe to place power again in their hands? Theso questions Governor Hunt has undoubtedly revolved in his mind while con- sidering the propriety of calling an extra session. Notwithstending the cupc.abundance of stupidity, ignorance and recklessness of which nino-tenths of the presen’ Legislature is notoriously composed, nevertheless a small moiety of the members are qualified fer mecting an emergency which now ex- ists, and possess suflicfent honesty to apply aremedy. Although nearly every man of them is under politi- cal slavery and surveillance, still, we think the urgency of the case will justify an attempt to cal them together. The press having control of the Governor, has declared that no extra session will be ealled—that there exists no necessity for tho ex- pense—that the only way which now remains for completing the eavals, is by an amendment of the constitution. Anextra session, itis urged, ean provide no means to facilitate those public works. Itisurged that a law under the constitution, borrowing money to finish the canals—imposiag a tax necessarily upon the whole people—will not be sustained, but be re- pudiated at the polls. Such an assertion docs not mect the question. The constitution provides the je and manner in which money may | and it is a far-fetched conclusion to determine, in ad- | vance, that the people will not sustain such a luv, if found to be necessary. There can be no harm ia } giving them the opportunity of saying whether they desire a ‘more speedy completion” of the eanals, under the constitution as it now stands. We are decidedly opposed to amending our f | mental law to meet the views of political dema | mo the completion of the canals would proceed under thus systematically levied on the columns of tho the law of 1851, made no provision for the use of the HxraLD—aside from the energy and talent dis- remainder of the surplus revenues towards keeping | layed in it—is its perfect freedom from all political the canals in repair for the coming fiscal year. A’ and party bias. It is conducted on such thoroughly | that political capital will be made out of a refusal. accrued in 185], can be appropriated, unless | Grecley, was not there te do the humbug and driok | matters now stand, not a dollar of that fund which | independent principles, and is so far removed from all outside influence, that it can, aud #!ways docs, speceh for him. His absence is accounted for by | provision is made by law before tho end of tho fiscal | frecly and unprejifdicedly analyze the conduct, mo- | though very legraphic despatch from Rochester, wherein | year—the £0th of September—because the constitu- | tives, and springsof action, of politicians and states- charge their contents into the same great reservoir, but do not affect its purity. The food taken iato the human body assimilates with it, and increases cause its estublii hment was based on improper principles. No one ean doubt thet New York—the great central com- meicial city of this republic, with its unexampled pro- its size and strength. The fat ox becomes bone of | Fes in material weal’h, and with » population now verg_ our bone and flesh of our flesh, and bread supplies fuel to the flame of human life; but no number of cattle or loaves can make the machinery . and organization of a living man. Just so the Germans constitute a supply of fuel to the great fire of liberty that burns in this republic ; but they cannot become a republic themselves. If it were possible to remove the whole German population by miracle, and place them in this land for a few years, and then send them back again, they might, perhaps, establish republican institu- | tions in Germany after the model of the United States. But to expect them to do it now is unphilo- sopbical, irrfional, and absurd. Tho nations of Germany and France, and all the European conti- nent, are in a transition state. By increased com munication with this country they are gradually Jearning more and more of American freedom. They are every year making some progress, ‘owly ; and the time may yet come | when the people of the United States shall hail sis- tion declares that such surplus shall be appropriated | men of all parties, ‘as well ag of tho officers of tho | ter republics all over the Old World; but that this it will be perceived that the noxt Legislature will | have no control over it. | Governor Hunt will be perfeotly justifiable in calling | an extra session. His party friends have, no doubt, | advised him to pursue a different course, believing The great mass ef the peoplo, who are not political | demagogues, and have the welfare of the Stato at | heait, are not willing that the affairs of the State shall be thus blocked, to gratify the aspirants of any political clique whatever. INGENvITY OF THE MopERN PHILOsoriEers.— There is a great variety of phases and shifting of scenes in the blackguard socialism, blackguard mo- rality, and blackguard philosophy of some of our city journals, which profess to be the very > and medel of sanctimony, and the leaders of the refor- matory movements, including abolitionism, gold mining, and the explorations of the spirit world. Some short time ago, the public was pretty frequent- ly introduced, in the polite columns of the T'ribune, tosuch epithetsas*‘liar,” **scoundrel,” “hypocrite,” “wretch,” ‘‘calumniator,” ‘‘villain,” &c., applied unceremoniously to cotemporaries who ventured to maintain and express opinions heterodox to those held by this candidate for Billingsgate honors. Now, however, we are glad to find that the gentle correc- tions and rebukes administered to this erring brother by other portions of the press, have had some bene- ficial effect, and that public decorum is not so often ect at nought by him. Our senses are by no means so frequently regaled by these posies of editorial culling, though they sometimes will peep out from their forced concealment. Now and again, however, they will grace the columns of the Tribune, though in a sort of disguise, and as if ashamed to display themsclves. They do not appear so immodestly as they used to do, but are somewhat concealed under a hypothetical form. One of the most perfect in- etances of this new shape which they have assumed, is to be found in yesterday’s T'zdunc, in which the editor of the Lvening Post is thus ingoniously branded as a “liar and a villain”:— If we were to repel these enlumnies in the torms they deserve and demand—if we wore to say to their author, “Sir you are a liur and a villain!” that would be termed scurrility and abuse, and be quoted ail over the land as proof of our bad temper, or bad manners, This is the latest subterfuge to which the 7’ d recourse for the purpose of indulging alittle vorite propensity. It isthe most novel and as method of giving and avoiding the “lie that has yet been invented by author, ves to bo patented for his oxclusive use. Where did ho get the bright idea? Was it in his recent studies of the manners and customs of ‘the | gogues, whenever they imagine an emergency therefor. The pr | ence come five years. There has not yet sufti- cient time been given to test one-tenth pari of its provisions. Besides, every person at all cognizant | of public expression, very well knows that the | only reason of any importance which calling 2 convention for amending the constitution of 1821, was to take from the Legislature the power which it then possessed of borrowing unlimited sums of m@ney, nnd leaning it to rotten railroad com- panies and other worthless speculating and soulless corporations. The improvidence and recklessness with which the State credit had been used—-the inil- liohs which the poople had to contribute to liquidate | the debts thus lavishly imposed—was the paramount | ng the constitution, so ag to tako | from the Legislature the power to place the yon the verge of bankruptey and rep And now, when a seoming emergency ariggs to. pro ceed 1 raising money under the financial article of the constitution, are the people to be told that there \ | cause for remodel te in subm aseed granting land for the censtruction of a San Francisco to San Jose, in Califor While lands for railroads wer i ff eo rapidly, it was about as well for Cal » get her chare in time—for, aceor- ding to the pouring | nto the Senate farm dill, that and thon lable soil left for rai ‘ihe inhabi- bated to the public domain, of which thoy aro about ved, ehowld instantly “is to run in every re them or not, Congress for | ud to asviet in construeting the sa ted would be tho ea ep of territorial matters i rt projects for , Whether they | jon | | tho House of Repro- | ; the com eeniatives, yerterday, p wed a great deal of | eensation with regusd to the judicial stam- pede from Mormondom. he Senate bill, which | authorizes the forfeiture of o yoara salary | of any territorial officer for an absence of sixty days from hie post, brought out Mesors. Richardson and Cartter—both democrats—agninet Gov. Brigham ‘Young and President Fillmore, und iu defence of the Judges who considered it expedient to abdicate tke | uions of the great spiritual, social oat ebief of Uuuk. Mr. Giddings, the p pul froe | oil mou vieoe from Obio, undertook to defend the @ourse pursued by his friend Brigham. Provable that the practical socialism of the Mermon Governor—cepe gard to a plurality of wives—exactly coincides with some of the peculiar | It ismot im- | | ially with notions of the Ohio freesviler. One th how- ever, i¢ quite evident Brighean’e chances with th mi mbors of the House would hawo stood much better vy other then # rank abolitioniat expoused | pellich he mosenge of Coverner | money, issued by some twenty or thirty bankiog as- hie opportunity presents itself. either hy the action of Boutw och , vetoing the ciations. United States and State stocks, bear- | “Stet, ore Rational Convention, = teyrethor Usequent aetion ef ihe Legis- | ing a premium «f fiom feven to ten per cent, have Vf the Whig Netfonal Convention eall furmy views on the Jawere, by which it oppear t both branches are | been withdrawn, and certificates, now nominally | Hiding quertions of the day. they will rnomerey awn Getsepined to pers ; in passing this | without value, have beon substituted. Is thisthe | a 0 yy MECN WHerinG, «| odious aretsure. This tine is eotirely sheen of | kind of basis which js contemplated as security " WINFIELD SCOTT, the claues submitting the peoy doubt | for a cireulating modinm? How long will it “If" the National Convention cail—if--ay, Gov Bey : be beforo brokers gd money jobbers will | there’s the rab—ns Touchstono says, “thore’s much ni pou fart ratheradole- | commence erying down .the papor issued upon | virtue in if.” Butif the National Convention do fu’ forte of k ath to y me a pledge of thous certificates? How long will is | Dot call apon the General, then thero’s no letter-— the fn that eis. er @ deal of tr take to ercute a panic, which will frighten the | #td we cannot have a recond hasty plate of soup. “ vo having the ma = in charge sue people and arrost the eireulation of ati this kind of | There's the calamity. in procuring one of tha guallest churches in tho | paper? Suppose a run for epecic ehould Qommence, |, og Bint me é plece, whotein the Magyar wae yesterday expected wher is it fo ba obtained? The soourity—thie cer Tar: Feven a1 Bio —Capt. Pickett, of the ehip Groy- to astovish the natives of (ho roras districts, at rates of from one to five dellare, But the patives were | annual revenues prov | be convened, pasy a law as | ing the million and a half to be refunded to tho | is danger ting the question directly to them? Such is the irresistible inference which every canaid mind must draw from the arguments of those | arch politicians who are now urging an alteration of | the constitution, to meet their own peculiar notions. | No; let that fandemental law stand. Let it not be tinkered and mended, as our bank laws, school, there, are, until at last | 1 than mere reso- ma has never 1 19 the whole people; and now, h the canals sooner than the | e means, let the Logislature constiiution provides, | and the people will soon determine whether the ur- gency of the caso demands throwing the credit of the State in Wall strect. Jn declining te convene the Legislature, we foc] | persuaded that Gov. Hunt has not fully convassed | the whole ground, or taken such an extended view as his comprehensive mind should naturally suggest. Now, by the decision of the Court of Appeals, there lies in the treasury the sum of one million five hua- drod thousand dollars, borrowed from capitalists. It cannot be used for any purpose whatever. Some ninety thousand dollars of interest annually accrues; but from thie time forth, not a dollar of interest can be paid until some further provision shall be made therefor. Now, will not the State be the gainer by immodiately—-under a legislative enactment—caus- insurance, militia, and if it is necessary to lenders, rather than euffer the interest to accrue un- til January next? Six months interest can thus be saved, which is more than double the expense of an extra seseion. Will his Excellency bestow a thought upon this consideration? There is still anothor very important feature in this matter. Nearly the whole amount of the canal coetificates have been deposited in the Bauk Degartment, as scenrity for paper purporting to be tifleates pledged—is in the Bank Department, aud thie security has beon propow nt constitution has only been in | , Tace Preston was sent ba graphe:— Dut one cet of opinions on th 6f the North, South, East, or West; and these opinions T hound, arrived yesterday morning from Rio Janeiro, ro- | Ports that he fever was ratsiding when be left, on the 4 yoid and of nd | yon wit, happy lond, fer, far away?” If this is an intro- duction of a spiritual custom, now first brought into | use hy the editorial explorer of that region, we | may shortly expect to see great innovations made | in vestigations of the same genius in the spirit world. Tne Waire-LiversD AnoLitiontsTs—ALL Liven not No Heart—Great Ory anp Lirriz W oon — It will be recollected that at the time of the re- clamation of the lust fugitive slave, Horace Preston, the abolitionists mustered in strong force, bearded the Commissioner, bullied the claimant, and defied the law. The North, however, was faithful to its compact with the South—the identity of Horace y proved, and the presiding functiouary, Mi. Commissioner Morton, act sion, sent the slave back te the service by jaws of the State it was decreed he owed. Mr. Richard Busteed, the agent and lawyer of the cluimant, though adverse, it is said, to the sys- tem of slavery, performed his duty to his clier unswervingly, and sneceoded in his Ho- 1 to his own The abo- litionists raved and stamped, and deprecated the law and the legislators; they denounced the proceedings as unjust, illegal, and unconstitutional; bat Mr. Bueteed, having performed his sworn daty, proceed- ed to show himself the black man’s friend. He said | he would do all in his power to obtain his freedem-— he would give $50 himself t rds his redemption; and he did so, and commenced a subseription for that prrpoce. The volunteer counsel for the slave— Messrs Culver & Jay—ngreed to make up a portion of the purchase money, and insisted on the proud privilege of subscribing one-third of the $1,100 re- quired for that purp At the eleventh hour, when Mr. Buetoed was about to proceed to Maryland | on his mission of instinctive philanthro hy no popular clamor, but desirons of deing a be nevolent act, he received a notice from Mr. Culvor, the abolitionist, that it was impossible for him to send the sum agreed upon Mr. Busteod was not daunted, and ultimately cuceseded in | raising the eleven hundred dollars. ie wentio Ma- ryland and purchased the man who, by his logal interposition, had been previously returned to hi master. He brought back Horace Preston to New York, who is now emancipated, not by the sinister ery of white livered philosophers and empty handed ubelitioniets, but by the truest upholders of the laws | —those who will see them administered while they remninon the statute books of the States. A Smann Prater ov Sour rom Greerat Scorn. The editor of the Serald, published. at George- town, Kentucky, has read an important letter, nd- | dreseed by General Scott to a leading whig politician of that county, which has the following para- # * © Thave mo pubite opintons to eanceal—T “have subjects, for the ponple am prepared to submit to general consideration, as soon asa | These are among the reasons why Wwe beliove that | ety, resulting from the prosecution of the in- | a a hl Hy prepublie; but there are no se manufacture the article. They havo no patterna to guide them; and, if they had, they have ne prac cal ekWl to twitate the patterns. United Suates, they see the whole machinory of our republican inetitutions at full work, and whoela He | during the fiseal year in which it was created. So, | government, and all others in authority, and con demn or approve the same as they appear to de- serve. This the Heranp does with that ability fearlessness, and candor, which the public welfare demands, and which is the greatest and most impe- rative duty an independent public journal owes to its cohstituency. The press of this country is, with the minutest exception, based on principles directly op- posite. They are partisan papers, bound in interest to some or other of the great political bodies which exist here. Out of some three thousand journals es- tablished throughout the Union, probably not a dozen are free from this subserviency to party. Tho consequence of this dependent connection is, that theso journals cannot discuss public mea- sures or public men with that boldness and disregard of consequences which a healthy existence requires, and which only be evinced by such journals as are perfectly free from tho shackles of politics, party, and prejudice. It is such an utter independence as this which has given its tone to the New York Hgnatp, and has elevated it to the lofty position in public estimation which it now enjoys. It is this character which—in com- bination with the talent it employs, regardless of expense—has rendered it so popular, and given to it its extensive circulation. Perhaps one of the strongest proofs of its reputation ia this country is to be found in the fact that more copies of the HeERaup are circulated in the city of Washington than of all the daily prints of that capital. Its cir- culation in the principal cities and towns of the Union is of the same extonded character; and throughout the States generally, it may be said to enjoy 2 monopoly of patronage. It is confessedly the only American paper that is ever sought after and appreciated in Europe. This widespread re- putation attained by tho Hrnaxp, and the enter- prise and talent by which it is enabled to present ex- clusivo intelligence, are the causes of its being so generally pirated from by journals of all parties, of inferior talent and position. The European prpers, likewise, borrow very exten- sively from our columns. The New York Heranp is regarded in Europe as the only reliable exponent of American affairs, and, consequently, the French, English, Italian, and other journals, extract largely from it, but ‘invariably do us the grace of acknow ledgment. It is the neglect of acting thas can- didly—not the mere act of pilfering, which, in this ease, we might think justifiable—that we complain of in the conduet of tho American press. It is somewhat remarkablo that the London Times is treated by its cotemporarics of that continent in precisely the same manner as the New York Herap ic in this hemisphere. <Ite position, too, is almost analogous. The Times maintains similar indepon- dent relations to the different parties in England as we do here, and by this position, and the great talent and energy which it displays, it stands with- out a rival, at the bead of the Buropean pross. The inferior classes of journals, of all parties and yolitics, pilfer from its columns without measnre and without acknowledgment, in the same manner as those this side of the Atlantic do from the Hrranp. We, however, treat these petty annoyances some- times with indifference, and always with generous forbearance, merely alluding to them sometimes— as in the prosent instance—to show that we are not unaware of their existence. Of course we do not expect any reform in the treatment we have been so long accustomed to receive, and are coutent to submit with the best grace to a continuance of this piratical system. ‘ Kossutn on Revtpuicanism my RerupiycantsM iN THE UNITED Sratus.—In one of his recent speeches, Kossuth observes that there are two classes of Germans in this country—one of thera exiles, who chiefly reside in the cities, and the other emigrants of the agricultural class, who Bottle down in the country and mako good citizens and good republicans. This is true; but the inference drawn from it by Kossuth is not logical, nor borne out by facts. He argues that, because Germans become, in process of time, good citizens and good republicans in the United States, therefore, the Germans in Germany would make equally goad ro- publicane, and are fit for American institutions at once. This reasoning is #0 execedingly shallow, that it is surprising that even so flimsy a reasoner as Koss would resort to it. MANY AND ‘There is a wonderful difference between raw ma- terials and those materials transformed into mana- factured articles, There isa vast difference botwoen Germans in Germany and Germans in America. In their fatherland there ave no free instituttons at work to exhibit the practical operations of liberty. If a fow philesophors dream of the theory of free- dom, their philosophy doos not teach hy example, aud the great nase of the people are perfectly igno- rant of it, and cannot appreciate it. Thoro is no free pross to teach the Germans the rights of man, orthe theory of republican liberty aa we under- stand it in the United States. How, then, ean they, by any sudden revolutionary convulsion, be made familiar, all at once, with that of which they were before profoundly ignorant? Education is a slow process, and it requires years to complete it. See how diffienlt it is to aequire a mastery of foreign slill more’ difficult iv it to aeqnire a thorough and practical knowledge of foreiga institu tions, except by actual contact with thom. A | child, notwithstanding the wealnoss of its intel- leet, acquires more knowledge, and more of human language, in the fret two or three years of its existence, by practical touching and the principle of imitation, thon it could lear in a lifetime, ehut up from the world with books in a envo or a prison. A young man learns more of a wechanical trade, by netual observation and practice, in six montha, than he ever coukl learn by any other means without it. Ivis, therefore, the height of absurdity to say that, because the Germans make good ropublicans here, they aro fit for repubt native land. They are v n institutions in their good raw materials for putific workmen to Here, in the harmoniously moving within wheols, like the mocha- | formance here, and proceeded to Boston, in which move- | nis of a clock. They egon become familiar with | ment thelrexomple was alvo followed by Max Marotack ” happy period is near, we do not believe, nor can any sensible man believe it, who has any knowledge of tho present political condition of Europe. It ought alco to be recollected that it is the most enterprising spirits—the most energetic, the bravest, and the most free—that scek a home in this land of liberty, and that the mass who remain contented behind, or are too poor, too demoralized, or too timid to cross the Atlantic, are inferior to them in all those qua- lities which go to make up the success, the happi- ness, the freedom and prospefity of this great coun- try ;—s0 that even in this point of view tho argu- ment of Kossuth is worse than assumption—not only is it uneupported by facts, but tho facts aro all against him. % Tue Ticker Srrcunation on Jenny Lixp’s Con- cerTs.—We are informed by the agent of the Messrs. Chickerings, that the story told in the Evening Post, which imputed to them any participation in the ticket speculation on Jenny Lind’s concerts, is an unmitigated falsehood from beginning to end. We might have suspected as much in that mean con- cern. There is a shocking speculation got up in the sale of these tickets, principally caused by the silly puffing of the oyster‘cellar critics, but the Chicker- ings have noconcernin it. If any of the public are foolish enough to give these speculators more than the regular prices, itis their own fault, and they dezervo to be humbugged. There is no unusual de- mand, beyond the desire of the outside speculators to cheat the public out of their coin and common sense, . Italian Opera In New York—Madame Son- tag Coming. We have seen private letters from the celebrated Madame Henriette Sontag, written in Germany, of a tate date, in which ehe states that she intends to sail for New York and the New World about the middle of August, This announcement brings up in the mind the history of the Italian opera in this city and this country—a history which has been one of disaster and fuilure, from the period of Its first experiment, in 1825, down to the recent the Borio and Bettini trovpe from Niblo’s saloon, The former, with Steffanone, Signora Costini. Salvi, Beneven- teno, gnd other eminent artiste, are now making a pro- fitable tour in Mexico, after passing through the Southern cities cf this republic, and are reimbursing themselves for the losses sustained in this metropolis during the winter reason. The company of Posio and Bettini is disbanded, been picked up by Jenny Lind to avsist at her farewell concerts. peared from a city where they were unable to procure a competent remuneration for their telents, It may be somewhat instructive and interesting to trace the causes of the ill sucecss which the Italian opera has uniformly experienced here, and inquire what aro the proper moans to be adopted for ostablishing it on a permanent basis, For this purpose, we will glance at its past history. the Park theatre, with Malibran, Garcia, and an excel- lentgompany. Molibran was a singer of the highest or- der, end a consummate actress—Indeed, sho has never artist, vanced; but yet the success of this troupe was but partial. Their talents were apprecinted and rewarded up toa cer- lation, The next experiment to estublich the Italien opera here was made shortly after, by the erection of an Opera Horse (burned down about 1540,) at the corner of Chureb and Leonari streets, ‘The Italian opera was sung here for a short time, but proved a failare ; and the Hng- lish opera was soon after introduced by Jane Sheriil, the Seguins, &c., with elmilar recults: and in 1834, Mr. and Mrs, Wood sung in sh opera, atthe Park with but partial succes Still, uot discouraged by these tepented instances of failure, Fignor Palino, an Italian, who had amassed some sixty or seventy thousand dollars frem the profits of a splendid enloon in Broadway. invest. ed his capital in erceting the Chambers Street Op: Houso, and producing the Ttalian opera there. The le of two renvons, however, were quite sufficient dissipate his capital, when he retired from the profession of impresario, and re-ertablished himself in another mac. nificent saloon which he ealled the “Cafe dos Mille Co- Jonnes ** Bat the lavt and best organized attempt o! the d wes that made by the aristocratic residents New York, When they combiued and ente subeortp House. of d into liberal The plan, however, wasan aristocratic Baro one, and utterly at variance with the plain democrati mapuers of this community, The mbseribers were en- tlited to monopolize the best boy. to the exclusion of nm —hnd not purenased any of the stock, Thia oxelusiy Policy dperated most disastrously against the interests of the concern, Reepeetable people, with tute for the opera, would not patronize an establishment where ail the best seats were cepectally reserved for the accommo- dation of a certain class dencininated the codfish arisio- evacy; and thus, through the silly attempt on the port of ite projectors to assimilate American and European manners, the whole turned out @ magnificent fatlury Had they been possesred of an ordingry amoeut of intelligence, they might lave foresen this 1 solt; and if they bad bad any share of repubii ean modesty and plainness, they would not have been copuble of evtablishing regulations only to bo found in erivioeratle communities, They were, however pro: J’ perly punished for thelr eontemptibie isuovations, Att the inresarios who have conducted that establishment | havo been successively reduced to bankruptey, Hirst. Sanqurico ond Patil, then Fry, aad last of all, poor Max Marotzck, ‘This disastrous result to their efforts fs to bo attributed not to the absence of capability In themselro or of talent in thelr operatic corps, or of musical taste in | the community, but to the existenco of this ridleulous rule for dgaviing a line of demarkntion between the code fish aristocracy and the rest of the attondanee. ‘This was tho prime enuse of the fallure of the Astor Place Opera | Houve; and the attempt to establish such « regulation ia | any of ovr theatros or opera house, will always be at- | tended with the like consequences, Tho upper ton could not support such an extablishment without the co oper | tion of the masses, And the people will never submit to the imposition of cueh an aristocratic rule as that which | caused the downfall of the Astor Pince Opera House, Dure ing the last winter, too, # rival opera troupe was formed by succesfol struggle In Nibto’s theatre. having adopted a uniform charge of Mfty cents to all parts of the house, The Propriety of adopting this plon wna well demonstrated by the patronage they received, in proference to the othee | establishment, which found ilvelf forced to imitate thete example, by reducing the prioce of adintevton to fifty conte, The equality ot charge put an end to the contest, and the | Bosio troupe, though well patronized, closed thetr pers | retreat of Max Maretzek from the Astor House, and of Some of them have returned to Lurope, and others have | All the great artistes who were in New York | some three or four months ago, have completely disap- | p, The frst attempt to introduce Italian opera in this | “‘metropclis, wae made in 1825, when il was produced at | tince been equalled here ; Garcia was also an eminent | ‘The public taste for Italion opera was far ad- | 3 to | ns for thoerection of the Astor Place Opera | %, those who—though perhaps more wealthy and fashionable | , | twelve different 7 ~ | treatment towards tw Losio and Lettini, who, for come months, maintained a)‘ ing to that of Paris—is able to maintain the Italian opera as well ux mort of the Lurupenn cities, ‘There is no want of taste or wurical susceptibility in this community. Nor would pairousgo be wanting to support the opera; but it must be established on pr neiples essentially differ. ent from thoee on which it was heretofore attempted, in ‘mitation 6f London. Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg ‘That is, there must be no distinction marked out between, the people and the codfich aristoeracy—there must be no mouopoly of the best boxes; but a uniform price for ad- mitrion, which must not exceed one dolar to any part of the houre; und let the first arrivals choose the best seats. if a spacious opera house, capable of accommodating, ray, five thousavd persons, were built on sueh prin- ciples, there would be no reason whatever te ant.- cipate failure, The great European impresario, Mr, Lum- ley. who caters for the Queen's Opera House in London, and for the Itelion Opera in Paris, might alao provide for that of New York sendivg alternately to cach of thoze cities the most eminent ariistes Whom he ean procure. By there means New York could have the presences, every reason. of the best European opera singers, who could not. perbaps, be induced to form engagements here for the advantages we could promise them. We know of no- thing to prevent the adoption of such a system, which would be alike beneficial to the three cities, since Now York is nowas near to London as'St. Petersburg is; and there fs no doubt that the operation of this alternating: system between Paris, London and New York, would, have the effect of establishing the opera here on as por- manent and reepectable # footing as itis in either of. thore European cities. There is another reason beeides the gratification of our musical tastes, why © magnificent opera house, on the plan we have eketched. should be erected in New York, and that reason is, that the establishment of Italian opera here would form a strong attraction for wealthy persons to make this city thir permanent or temporary residence, and consequently give an additional impetus to the wonderful progress which we are now making in weolth and greatness. Boston has already her eye open tothe advantages which must result in whatever ctty this refined amusement is tetabliched, and is taking measures for the erection of a grand opera house, New York chould not be bchindhand in this matter, but should take come immediate steps toward building an epera house here, which would be at the same time a great point of attraction to wealthy strangers, and ereditable tothe taste and munificence of the great commercial city. ofthe Union. We hope soon to sce the suggostion act~ ed on. . City Intelligence. Hupsow Riven Raixoan —From the fifth annual rev port of the directors of this road, which has ust been publiched, we observe that the financial affairs of the company are ina perous condition, and that, since the opening of the road through to Albany, there has been agreat increase of travel and freight. The report states that the aggregate amount of earnings. prior to its opening through. was $701,660; and the aggregate ex- penses of transportation. $5: . The earnings from firrt of October to ihe first of Apy Were $584. 14272; and the expenres of running (or fransportation aecount), $811,127 92. or 691{ per cent, and this includes the gene- ral expenses of the company for that period, which had Leen previously charged to’ construction account. The carnivgs from ficight. in the month of February, were ---by the aid of some additional motive power-—-raixed to $60,011, while in January. they were about $36,707, and $24,000 in December. The board are also raking arrange. mets for the construction of a recend track throughout the line. The cost of a double track from Peekskill to AlLany, is estimated. by the chief engiuecr, Mr. Gardi- ner. at $987 000--of #hich $285,600 will he expended for grading and bridginy $00 for 1070 tana ot rails, [0 Iba, to the yard. at $40; $66,000 for 240,000 sleepers or crossties; aud $77.600 for chains or bolts, spikor, &o. Tt is, however. propoved to Limit. the operations of the pre- sent yeur to fifty follows:---l’rom East Albany to Stuyverant. 18 wn! rom Hudson to Tivoli, 16; from Hyde Park to Fir bkiM, 21-- leaving the remaining 46 miles | for the succeeding yrar. The cort of the 05 miles, it is puppcred. will reuek $500,000; and to meet this expense, and extingui-h the floating debt. the board Intend mak- ing an additional loan of $1 000.000 on the bonds of the company. Arrangements have also beet tual sale of through tickets, and the eh th to and from Buialo and ether in an via Troy and ted that the w1 stich connec tion, be conveyed to and from New York and Movtveat | without inteifering with the usual hovrs of rest, as fs | new the ease to and from Buffalo. Stace the opening of ! the road. neerly two millions of engera have beer | conveyed in the c nd but one passenger lost his life. | and be was improperly on the platform. and leaning be- | yond thé cur wken crorring a draw bridge. ‘hose ticte, | then, show conclusively the safety of this line of convey- | ance. ‘The entire cost of (he road to this date, amounts } to $10191,748, ‘This includes $742.130 interest paid to | stockholders, snd on b he coustrnc- tien of the line— 19 2 were paid for land. ‘The | emount of bonds issued by the company is $5 915 689 ; | the acceptances felling die between April and December, | this year, are $454,062, Yoral amount of «tock issued, ate Orerci — or Ih fonerenation Axsayercany or % terday beng the Feast of the A ry ch is tho consecration anniversary of full service, with a sermon, , in that edi- Lord's Supp lazge congregation gious exercises. which | after nine 0 ) tered. in their eu | iu front of the | rian, Rector | Mr. Hobart, Y railing v. ev. Drs, Higbee and Haight. and Rey, istant ministers; Rev, Dr. Morris. Princl- of Trinity School; Key Dr ifale, Beincipal of Geneva College; Rev. T . of Canada; and Rev. Messrs. | Hopkins and Xpoorer. Deacons. Dr. Higbee said morning | prayrr to the lessens, which were vend by Dr. MeMarray, the rest. Drs and Mor- e altar cerviee, ‘Tho cermon was | preached by Rev, Mr. Hobart, from the ninth verse of the | first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, Rey. Dr. Her- ‘on. the Rector svvisted by several of the clergy. ad- iniste red the Holy Communion toa large pumbor of par- rs The cholv way strong powerfal. and imposing. “Te Dewi und the “Renedictus’ were eung in cent styte, rm Isranvicir 1 f d Pr Hate conete 8 Chiclated ay ‘ase at tue Sours F crday’s Hienano, who arrostod fant into the river, at the d before Jus- the name of neknowledged yorterday morni eman, who took her into ene a r did threw the infeat into the water, but it had ly died in her arma, ‘The child she says, was two 1s bn tines been ascertained that Mary is the vot mechanic working im the Navy Yard The ma- gistrate committed ber to privon to avait a further ex- aminstion. The chiid has not yet been recovered. The jody who geve the information to the bridgeman, which cated (he arrest to be made, will please fond her name ond residence to Justice Bogart, at the Polies Court, | Tombs, A Worn Stangep oe nen Ie Viman. of N ation’ etre cot on the AND. — Bis, 1 Ws stabbe it Virginta in Dard. Joho Vilman. nnd ence ther time i fog from the wound. at the New York Hospital, was yore terdny conveyrd catiago hofare Justice Wood, at the Feeex Market 6 Court, where sho prepared a canplaint for hushend, who 1 $500. to anew t to kill, against hor id to bail in the sum of he chazre, Mre. Vilman is far frem cirg well, Lut wor dosttous of leaving the Hospital for + the purpore ef being placed under the charge of her mother, with whom she ix now residing. Norkim.s Arraim—On Thursday, officer Bagley, of the Fifth ward, arneted a colored woman, residing at No. 2 Tuomas sireet, on a charge of brutal aud inhuman colored children, one six, and the elerabout thre ycarsof age. The wretched and ema | cinted appearance of thoes poor children was a terrible | sight. they seemed to be in the lnst stages of famine, thoi limbs Were nothing but bone and muscle, with the skin drown over them. end resreciy hod they eteenpth enough to lift thelr eyelids to soo. “The neighbors made com- | plaint to the police, and the two poor childron wore found astened ina wood: hed in ihe yard. ‘The wom hercelf Mra, Elmira Weiler, who, ft seems, fs a stepmother to the starving ehildren. esme into court with an infant in her arms; but that ob lt. Leing her own oilpring. bore # very different appoaranes to the other ui-erable mother. less chieots of pity. The two pictures of fursine were wont tothe © Colcred fieme.” and Justice Bogurt committed the woman to privon, to answer the charge of iahumen | treatment, Acerpesrars a Rie 1ep.—The Coroner he an inquest at the foot of Troy atreot, N. Rit Ledy of Thomas Stephen. r. mative of fi hats tRiSepE year of, age. whove body was found in the water at that Place, The dercnecd.. about two weeks ines, acclden- telly fll in Uhe dock aud was drowned bofore vasistancs could be rendered him, A yerdict of aegidental deatts wos rendezed by the jur v> ® A About Mt. yestorday, p'clock yesterday morning. Sophin ing fl fem the third ntcry winds of, heace No, illiom street, sou was seriously hurt, She was con- to the City Hospital by officers Street and tVitts, of Fourth ward police, About holf past six o'clock on Wednewlay evening. Kdwin Bray fell from tho third story ef Louvre on the corner of Broadway and Park plice, apon the trea roiling intlicting a dangerous wound. He waa fwmed ately oreughtto the Uity Hospital, About ten “eleek on Weduerday morning. Daniel Ueerley had his log severely infured Hy a pieee of machinery filling npen him on pick No.1 Rastriver, He was removed to the | Coy Bespital by officer Allaron, Rescurp rom Drowsixa.—About ten o'clock, om Wednerday night, John Murphy fell into ino water at the foot of Grand street. but was rescued from hits perilous condition by Williom Gailachan avd policeman Acker, of the Thirteenth ward. who brought him to the station ( beuse, and afverwards had bim conveyed home.