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

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NAT ONAL TABATER, Chatham street—Wiiwow Goree—Tirrunany Luacy. ember street—-Donartr's AMERICAN MYSEUM-Axvera Perroamancas in FER AFTER NOOR AKD EVENING. ARISTY'S OPERA Tr eTKELSY BY ONLISTY WOOD'S M NSTPRELS, Wood's Mosical Mall, 444 Broad- way—Sruopian Minarueusy. 472 Brondway—Brmoriax IneTAELA, DOUBLE SHEET. Jaly 13, 1852. New York, Tuaesda The News. The particulars, which we pablish this morning, relating wo the personal iisunderstanding between Prince Jobn Van Buren and N. P. Willis, growing ou! of the trial of the Forrest divorce case, are very eurions andamuring. They arerich. Mr. Willis, it seems, bas demanded either a written apology or a friendly meeting somewhere out of New York, with “coffee and pistols for two,” andthe Prince declines to give him either the apology orthe fight. It seems @ bard case that Willis cannot get somebody to shoot at bim in tho settlement of this business. Perhaps Bdwin Forrest might accommodate him. Who knows? Let him lvok sharp, howevor, on returning to New York, that he does not fall a victim to the Reviecd Statutes Notwithstanding the excessive warm weather, the members of the Honse of Representatives suc- ceeded in getting through with a great deal of heavy work, yesterday. Tho morning hour was eonromed in disenssing the amondments to the Pe By referring to the alterations alrendy eed to, it will be seen that it is proposed to materially simplify the system of Rewspaper postage. According to tho present scale there sre about seventy different prices—but by the proposed scale there will be a graduating pri everybody can easily understsnd. For in- stance, the price to be prepaid on a sheey weigbieg one ounce, for any distance uader three thousand miles, will be half a cent, aud on a she ighing over one ounce and under two, or, in otber words, asingle sheet Heratp will be rated at half a cent, aud a double sheet ove cent postage. There are various otborimprove- ments upon the present law, to which we have not room to particularly refer. To be sure, there are many imperfections in this new bill; but if no better * ean be had, it is hoped that it will be passed before the close of the cession, for it is at all events a do- eided inmprovement upon the system by which our | postal arrangements are now governed. Everybody will be glad to hear that all the Bevate’s amendments to the Deficiency bill were approved of by the Committee of the Whole House, yesterday. The appropriation granting additional eompensation to the Collins line of steamers was carried by a majority of eleven—the vote being eighty-four to seventy-three. This unusual exhibi- tion of industry on the part of the House shows qbat a majority of the members are busily preparing to wind up the national businoss, with the intention of returning home and taking the stump in behalf of ove or the other of the Presidential candidates. , Well, the sooner they vacate the capitol the better it will be for the public treasury. Nearly all of them are so deeply interested in the coming cam- paign that they are unfit to legislate for the people. The members of the United States Sonate appear to have been quite onervated by the recent heat, and, asa consequence, have ceased making long Buncombe speeches. The Senate yesterday mide several xmendments to the bill for the botter pro- | tection of the lives of passengers on board of steam vessel+, and afterwards ordered its engrossment. It is sincerely to be devived that this measure will effec. tually reach the object contemplated, for really tho whelesule destruction of life by steam, particularly ov the Western and Southern waters, calls aloud for remedy. By the way, a despatch, in another co- jumw gives the particulars of the explosion of the Bt. Jumes, by which sixteen persons we rried into ctern and nineteen horribly scalded. Much other business, of no special importance, was traneacted by the Senate, among which was the passage of threo relief b More petitions were sent in asking for the cnactmont of the froe | rm bill. Tho few around the couatry who are de sirous for the passage of this measure, seem to bo getting quite nervous, and evidently fear that the bil) of Mr. Bennett, giving « certain quantity of land | to all the States, will sapersed: peculiar pet. Of the two, Mr. B.’s moasure is by far the most popular, and if put to the vote of the whole people it would no doebdt be carried ovor the pther, by at least five to one. By way of Baltimore wo have numerous highly interesiing items from Mexico, Texas, &e. It appears that the United States Consal at Matanzas recently undertook to prevent the execution of two Americans, and averred that if they wero ehot it would be through the American flag. Howe the prico wero shot at five o'clock, in en, the time fixed, in order, as Gon. Avalos © avoid the necessity of shooting our C Chie contemptible evasion of the humane intentions four representative should be promptly inquired nto. It is high time that somo of theso Moxican ficers should be made to respect our agent and our lag, even though their government repudiate tho reaties they enter into with our citizens. Threo more persons have lately beon arrested et ‘incinnati, for manufacturing bogus money. Many ounterfeiters have, within a few monthe, boen con- Soted and sentenced to the penitentiary in that ity; but if wo are to judge from the immense mount of epurious coin said to be in circulation all ver the Wost, there must be o groat number of the pgues still at large. ‘The full particulars of the terriblo conflagration Montreal, as well ac the details of the dostructi re at Boston, will bo found in our columns thi jorning. The telegraph also furnishes accounts of ne or two serious fires in Philadelphia : The Board of Alde last night, passed a ro. lution inviting the Pross, &e., tomake public any ise they might be aware of, in which any of tho ommon Council had been guilty of bribery or cor- aption, with the names of the individaals. The mination by the Mayor, of A. B. Whiting, M ., a8 Health Commiasionor, was rejected, being \o sixth or seventh time that tho nominations for lis office have been so treated. Tho diffloulty mply ix, that the nomineoe are whigs. In the rd of Avaistante nothing worthy of Poth stand adjourned till this « Lawson, ch lwith th and obliterate their bail by Justice complaint. The written decisioa of the magistrate will be found undor the ‘The complaint against Baraabus W. Haight, one of the firm termed Palmer & Co , is undergoing a0 examination, Hualght stands charged with obtain ing money by false representations. Mr. Corwin, | the American Consul at Panama, has mado a Jengthy afdavit in the matter, against also presents several letters, which we will endeavor | te publieh to-morrow or next day. = hee Vnformontely the great influx of intelligence from ali quarters Fof0n® "* 9 omit a large amount | of rather interesting information, including a \ jengiby report of the Standing Committee on Pub- lie Health in the New York Academy of Medioing, Among the most important features of this report is the recommendation of the appointment of one or more physicians and apothecaries in each ward, to | attend to the necessities of the poor, at salaries ade~ quate to remunerate them for their services; also, the establishment of a sanitary police, whose duty it shall be not only to see that the streets, alleys, sewers, houses, &e , in the city, are kept properly clean, but likewise to teach the poor the inestie mable value of freeh air, ventilation, diet, temper- ance, &e. It is hoped that either the Common Common Council or Board of Health will imme- diately take these recommendations into considera tion, and endeavor, if possible, to thwart the sickly seourge which threatens to fasten itself upon our | city during the very warm weather which ie but just commencing. Among a variety of other reading crowded ont this morning, we will mention tho following :— Report of the proceedings of the New York His torical Society ; the details of the awfal execution of Jean Adam and Antonio Delisle at New Orleans; several interesting letters from the Mormon region; numerous political items, &e.; all of which will be published at the earliest convenience. The Australian Movement. In the hieroglyphic lavguage of tho ancient Egyptians, the idea of eternity was expressed by the symbol of a serpent with his tail in his mouth. TLe end was absorbed in the beginning, and the circle was unbroken. The history ef man, up to its latest developements, affords a grand confirmation of the truth and beauty of this allegory. Asia was the cradle of the human race, and the scene of its etrly greatness. Hore grew the arts and sciences, and here existed the greatest kingdoms of the earth; but its eyele came round, and its glories faded and waned. Africa beeame the next great link in the circle of mankind’s developement; and after countless ages had rolled away, it, too, obeyed the inevitable law, and the grandeur ef the mighty empire of the Pharaobs and the Ptolemies vanished, Jike a dream in the night The third scene of human greatness was enacted in Europe ; but ite star has passed its zenith, and is waning under the baleful influence of derpotiem and superstition. Three and a half cen- turies ago, tho fourth act in the world’s drama wus introduced, by the discoveries of the inspired Genoese pavigator, and the continent of America commenced the fulfilment of the glorious deetiny which was reserved for her. The fifth and last link jn that alm'ghty circle seems to be thet more re- cently produced continent in the Pacific Ocean, which has within the present year disclosed the golden treasures of her bovom. The inexhaustible mineral wealth of Australia is now attracting the thoughts und wooing the eteps of men in every quartey of the civilized world, and thet continent is giving, at this early day, promiee of rivalling or transcending the greatners of its predecessors. Australia will, in turn, become blended with Asia. The tail of the serpent, an emblem of Vitality, will be inserted into its mouth, and the circle will be complete and unbroken. Let ua, however, drop the metaphor, and discuss the subject in its plain realities. After the marvel- lous discoveries of gold in California, the fame of its inexhaustible treasure causod the intensest ex- citement throughout the world that modern timos has seen, and attracted hosts of adventurers from all quarters of the globe. Australia, which has been the penal colony for British malefaetors, fur- nished its quota of emigrants, who were, for tho most part, pardoned or escaped convicts, and pos- sessed all the vices and depravities of which the human mind is capable. Their conduct in Cali- fornia was all that could be expected from such characters. Murders and robberies wore at once their pastime and employment, «4 their atrocities grew to such a magnitude that ordinary law was powerless to put them down. In this extremity, | vigilance committees were formed by the citizens, and under the promptness and severity of their operations, those depredators who essaped the gal- | lows, were deterred from their practices, and being unable to carry on their old course of life, gradually withdrew from the country and ro- turned to Australia. Some of them, with iv- telligence and shrewdness highly developed, in consequence of their very lawless habits, wore | etruck, on their return, with the similarity iu the geological features of Australia to those of the an, | riferous regions of California, and goon disvoverod | that their own colony produced the precious metal | with less labor, and even in greater profuseness, | than the gold diggings of Calfornia. Subsoquont explorations have verified, to a wonderful degree, the truth and reality of thee earlier discoveries, and proved, besides, that the golden regions of Ause tralia are li d only by the shores of the ocoan— | extending over the entiro continent, with its area of four millions of square acres, and evon including the island of Van Dieman’s Land, lying at its south- | ern extremity. The sensation which these discoveries have ei in Great Britain is beyond the power of dese | tion, and can hardly be realized by a sober imagina- tion. Tho excitement which provailed in thego | States during the first epoch of the Culifornia fovor, | is far outstripped by that which now exiats through. | out the Brit ands. Australia is the absorbing | idea, and threa nish all other causes of | popular commotion. and religious animosi- | ties, and grinding despotism, and pauperism, pre- | sent as strong features for agitation as they have ree at always done; but yet they obtain only a pnising r | gard. Tho sole, strong, universal, and controlling f | iden is that of cmigration to the A 2 land of | gold r 1 priests 8 to gain a foothold in the opular sontinent, ithout avail. The capitalists and mercantile classes of London and Liverpool, the manufacturer and mechanics of Manchoster and Birmingham, the farmore and sgricultural laborers of the rural dise tricts, and the simple shepherds of the Highlands an jands of Scotland, contribute their numbers to swell the mighty masa of omigration which is being conveyed by a fieet of ships across the two ocoans, to their destination in Australia. No less than eight distinct lines of emigrant ships have been organ- izod, oomprizing a fleet of some eixty ships, for the convoyance of passengors. These immonse transit accommodations aro independent of the govern- mont arrangements, by which cizht vossels loave monthly, with such emigrants as cannot dofray their own oxpenses. (Ono ploasing and singular feature in the latter schomo, which we may remark en passant, ia, that no unmarried man is entitled to | ite bones nd to rendor himself oligiblo, he must | 0 and take to himsclf a wife. This ie a godsond to many © poor spinster who might have droadod being doomo: da life of single wretched noes, and for it the commissioners of emigration | are entitled to the thanks of suffering old-maiden- | hood.) But in addi » this fleot of sailing ves- y ore arranging for tho | | sels, the Cunard Cx ertablishment of @ steam tine from New York to Aspinwall, in conjunction with thoir mail | steamers ol aid: Se Soke | ® din this line, the Aus | best cy yropiny has been | y to Pa head of Police Intelligence. | Brite‘n and Serah Bands, serow propellers, have Stuart, in 93,000, to answer the to traverte thie whole route between Liverpool and Mn. Weosrer’s Posrrion—Iurortant Coraec- Australizg, via Nicaragua; and we see that the Great | rion —One day last week, one of the Seward organg _ of this city stated in very positive termsthatMr. Web- been engaged in this service of carrying emigrants ster, in a conversation with Mr. F. A. Tallmadge, i | proudest developement. i i} | { | the diversities of the Caucasian race, and from from England. These arrangements convey an in- telligible idea of the extent and magnitude of this movement, which seems destined to depopulate the British Islands, and tranefer an active, intelligent, nature has bestowed her benefits with the most liberal hand, and where man only is wanting to do- | velope its vast resources. | The depletion of popudation fa ihe Oid World will | not be reabrieted ssi ‘Great Britain, but the oxcite- ‘ment and mania of emigration will also extond to | France, Germany, Italy, and other continon- | tal countries. The malecentents and revolution- | ists ail over Europe, will avail thomeclves of this | opportunity to benefit their condition. They will bow to the manifest will of an overraling destiny, which pointe out an unbounded field for their la- bors, and a land of refuge from the evils of deapot- ism, aristocracy, and oppression, against which they were vainly warring in the lands given over | to pauperism and tyranny. The emigration of | these classes will be a relief to their own land, and the best guaranty of its peace and prosperity. Their energy of character, and those sentiments of | freedom which have led them to etand up against | their rulers, will have a corresponding effect for | good on their adopted country. Ii, as we cannot | doubt, this emigration should long continue in the | same ratio as it has opened, and extend, as we cal- | culate, to continental Europe, Australia will be- come the alembie in which will be amalgamated | which will spring the essential element of a great and mighty nation. It cannot remain much longer a dependent colony of Great Britain, but will as- sume the attitude of a free and independent repub- jic, destined, perbaps, to be the basis of a super- structure of freedom, greatness, and prosperity, equal to our own glorious union of States. Inthe meantime, however, the influence which the Australian movement has already produced on the commercial interests of Great Britain is inoal- culubly great. The employment of such an im- mense number of ships in the emigration trade—in- cluding several American vessels, chartered on account of theircapacity and sailing qualities—end the activity in the seaports and throughout the pro- ‘vinoes, consequent on the rush of emigrants to Lon- don and Liverpool, have produced a degree of com- mercial prosperity unattainable in long years of ordinary operations. The exodus of tradesmen and | laborers, and the large demand for products for importation, have caused « corresponding increase and briskness in the business of manufactories, and more extensive employment and larger wages are given. The strongest presumption exists,from the pro- sent aspects of affairs, that the trade of England with Australia will, within a few years, attain a higher degree of prosperity than it could under ordinary circumstances haye reached ina century. Reyul- sions in trade may, to be sure, follow from this un- | expected direction of affairs: but the benefits will | Jargely countervail the evils. Nor are the effects ef this movement canfined to the Oid World alone. America participates in them, though to a less extent, and may ultimately be as deeply concerned in the affairs of Australia aa oven Great Britain itself is. Am exporting trade has already commonced from this city, and one ship, which left horo last week, takes a cargo of manu- factured goods to Australia, valued at $35,900 These goods comprise boots, clothing, saddlery, picks and handles, shovels, an iron safe, pianos, fruit, medicine, and eighty thousand pounds weight of tobacco. This ie but the introduction to the trade which will exist between the countries, and is only an carneat of the benefits we are destined to receive therefrom. Thero is at present in operation a line of American steamships between San Francisco and Shanghai, and it is contemplated either to con- nect a line of propellers between the latter port in Chira, and Australia, or to establish one direct be- vveen San Franeisce and Sydney. Thue we will havo the benefit of an extensive trade along the islands and coasts of the Pacific; and, in fact, the day seems not remote when the great highway of commerce will be transferred from the Atlantic to the Pacifie Ocean. What a remarkable developement of the ways of Providence is seen in these movements of our days! The apparently fortuitous discovery of particles of gold dust in an American State on the Pacific coast, followed in a few brief years by like discoveries on the Australian continent, have been, and are, pro- lific of consequences of the most momentous impor- tance to humanity. Europe, America, and Austra- lia, have already derived immense benefits thereby. | But who can form any cetimate of those which they aro destined to receive? If we could cast our vision | into futurity we would see the continent of Asia | also made a participant in the happy results of this universal benefaction. The position of affairs on thal continent, with great Britain extending her dominions on the south, Russia on the north, and Awerica threatening an ineursionon the east, is ominous of the destruction of its ancient and bar- baxous policy, and tho establishment of a new order | of things at no very distant day. Asia, which has | been the birth place and cradle of the race, may | yet be destined to witness ‘its fullest glory and | This is the Egyptian sym- | bol of eternity verified. The end returns into the | beginning. The tail of the serpent is in his head, | and the circle is unbroken. Australia is the most | modern and Jateat scone of mankind’s history, and | will blend again into that of its first and greatest. | Tux recAl Pine—Tuk Sorree We | publis morning, the full particulars of the ter. rible calamity which, in 2 few hours, comparatively, | has destroyed the labors of half a century in the | city of Montreal, and left the homes desolate, and consumed the property and the hopes of thousands of | the hard working classe: of the population. Thelist | of the sufferers is appalling in its exteat; and when it is remembered that the mass of them are not only without shelter, but, to a great extent, without subsistenco from day to day, their condition | appeals to the generosity and liberality of New York, with the urgency of that 3 requizes immediate reliof. We doubt not thet our city and citizens will do thoir | duty, and their whole duty, in the promisoe In the meantime, contributions of clothing, food, | and monoy, will be received at Pullen, Virgil | & Go.’s Express office, 16 Wall street, and | forwarded to Montreal free of charge. Master | Jullion has offered his professional sorvices for « bonefit; and wo are also authorised to state that Madame Maberlini is prepared to voluntecr in the | eame good work. Doubtless the mu and theat- | vical profession generally would cheerfully unite in it. Why cannot the idea be followed up, and car. | ried out upon a scale commensurate with the mag- | nitude of this appeal for help from the desolated | city? e Grasp Franeor at Lowpy’s Laxe.—A grand celebration ie proposed to be held on the field of Lundy’s Sano. in Canada, on the 25th of July—tho anniversary of the battle—and in commemoration of the gallant conduct of General Scott on that occa. | sion. Now, by some it may be supposed that this | brilliant idea originates from wv intense patriotism | ond admiration ofthe bravery of Goneral Seott, and | na burning desire to do justice to Lundy’s Lane ia | those latter days. But this is not exactly the ease: This grand celebration is a grand speculation, Railroad companics, hotel keepers, grocers, liquor- dealers, and all those interested in the ferrios, sus- pension bridges, stoamboats, musoums, pagodas, gambling-ehops, and all the various catch peany contrivances within the sound of Niagra alls, have | | a direct business intercet in this grand tura out; got it up, and they will reap the solid | In any othor view, thie pro- | jolification in Canads ie feather: ihey have hard cash rand rofita jo 1 whig mere * fy ane had distinetly commit himself in favor of rally- ing upon Geu. Scott as the regulaxly nominated whig candidate for the. Presidency, and that Mr. T. had communicated this valuable information to a meet- Haight; he | and energetic people into » new continent, where ing of the Ninth Ward Lundy’s Lane Club. The Boston Journal pats an extinguisher to this state- | ment, in the following correction of the record: — | We are authorized to state, direetly and authorita- ively. tbat there le wo truth whatever in the above re- port- sonvereation between Mr. Webster and Calimadge. o e that if Mr. Webster deeires to oo! ugjepte Fr eran ee eit dOed dlwelly. abd rv tutes the medium fancther party, The whieh are in | efteuiation with regard to his future course, are entitled to no eredit. . But the Boston Courier, Mr Webster’s special | organ, is still more emphatic in this unatter. It in. dignatly repudiates the report that Mr. Websterhad — given in his adhesion to Seott’s nomination, and | eaysi— an are authorized to state that the story id aii | invention, Not ® word of what is ascribed to Mr. Web- ster on the au hority of Mr. Tallmadge. is true; nor, as | we have god reaice 40" boliive, bas Mii: Wataler made any declaration: of 2 nature similar to the above, to any person whatever, } Ip addition to all this, a personal friend of Mr. Webster, of this city, advises ue that Mr. Webster | has said, in regard to the statement attributed to | Mr. Tallmadge, by little Raymond, “that there is | not ono word of truth in it.” Our informant also says, that “ Daniel Webster will not discourage any efforts of his friends to bring him before the Ameri- can people as a candidate.” Here, then, is achance for the Webster whige of this city, and of Boston, and the Union. Let them co-operate in the Phila- delphia movement, at once. Why not? That’sthe question. Tas Law o¥ Lisen—Jupoxs Epwarps AND CamrneLt —The Jaw of libel isan enigma which seems to puzzle the bench and the bar of our city, and we therefore seldom see two concurrent opinions on the same point. One Judge—we refer to Judge Campbell—decides that it is libellous for a news- paper to publish the proceedings of a police court ; whilst another decides—as did Judge Edwards, yes- terday, in the case of Stanly against James Watson Webb—that a report was libellous because more was stuted in it than was in the original complaint. The decision of Judge Edwards is probably nearly right. A newspaper report on an ex parte statement, and before the accused has had time or opportunity to defend himself, or explain the accusation, should not contain any comments or remarks aggravating the case. In this instance, the article was headed «Extorting money to hush up a complaint,” which was an aggravation of the sixaple complaint. A fall, fair, and correct report of a trial in a court, high or low, is admittedly a privileged publication. But Judge Campbell, of the Superior Court, held, in this same case, that the simple re- port of a proceeding in a Police Court was libellous. This opinion was based on English decisions, where the law with regard to Police Magistrates’ Courts is quite different in this respect from ours. In Eng- land the magistrate is merely a committing func- tionary. Here, by the laws of our State, an accused party can demand a hearing before the magistrate, who is empowered to dismiss the complaint or com- mit the party; and the report of such proceedings is as justifiable and ag “‘ privileged” as if it werea trial in the Superior Court, even before his honor Judge Campbell, himself. Judge Campbell is wrong is his construction of the law of libel, and we would seriously recommend this branch of jurisprudence to the etudy of many of our expounders of the law, A newspsper editor, in the faithful discharge of hie duties, does not desire, in reports, to give anything more than the fucts as they trans pire in court; and for this, no law, nor no contor- tion or construction of the law, should hold him responsible. When a case has been adjudicated, and his opinion cannot influence for or against the liti. gants, a newspaper editor has a right to comment fairly upon the facts as they have appeared, and, in due bounds, to approve or disapprove of the reault. But Justice Campbell, forgetting the laws of his own State, or the State in which he sits as a Judgos cites Englieh authoritios to guide and govern him in hie decisions here, where the laws are based upon totally different constitutional principles. Tue TenTH AVENUE SewER —The testimony in this long protracted enquiry closed on Friday last, and the facts and merits of this particular charge against a portion of the city government aro fully before the public. There can be but one opinion— that the evidences not only fails to support the ao cusations of partiality, injustive, aud corruption, 20 unequivocally imputed by Mr. Craven’s published letter, but establishes the fact that the committee acted in good faith, and with a judicious regard to the interest and convenience of their constituents Those who, actuated solely by political or party | bins, looked forward with glee to the awfal de- velopements of corruption about to be made, are now constrained to admit that Mr. Craven has cor- tainly failed to make out as strong a cage as was an- ticipated. Charges of gross venality and corruption against the Common Council are, it eannot be denied, THearni0aL GENERALSHIP—BARNUM VS. ™MAN.—Barnum is a great tactician. He has been styled the Napoleon of managers, and his general- ship entitles him to the appellation. By his ma- neeuvres and his certificates he pawned successively en the pubiic @ woolly horse, a Feejee mermaid, and a Joyce Heth. He trumpeted up the philan- thropy: and angele character of Jenny Liud, and managed io get her qqveert# crowded, by a judi- cious admixture of humbug and sontimest. Va- | rious and novel have been the ruses whieh Barnum has practised to wheedle the public and drew dole lars into his parse, asd wo have now another evi- dence of bis genius, with respect to the Bateman children, About the time when the brilliant Jenny Lind campaign against the purses and gullibility of the community was suddenly brought to a full stop by the revolt of the angel herself, and her rupture of the connections binding herto Mr. Barnum, that gentleman entered into a contract with Mr. Charles H. Bateman, father of the talented Bateman chil- dren, under the terms of which they proceeded to England, and made a most profitable and flattering professional tour through the British islands. They are now about returning to this country, and their arrival is heralded by the interchange of threatening and defiant letters, and menaces of suits at law, and applications for injuuctions, and other equally formidable proceedings. These communications, &e., we present to our readers in another portion of our columns. Now, we presume that all this is but the deve- lopement of one of those great ideas emanating io the inventive cranium of Barnum. He knows that a suit at law would be a very successful mode of attracting public attention to tho name and per- formances of the Bateman precocities in this coun- try, and that the lawyere’ bills of costs in the cause would be amply repaid by the gratuitous advertisiag given through the newspapers, in their reports the progress of the cause. The same dodge has been lately put in practice by the inde rubber men— Day and Goodyear—and by the talested troupe of monkeys at the Astor Place Opere feweo. Barnum is going to try it on now—the papess will be taken up with reports of the great controversy between Barnum and Bateman—public interest will be awakened—the performances of the children will be largely attended, and tho profit will be quietly divided between tho quasi belligerants. Viva humbug! Tur Eigntn AVENUE Ratproap—THe Arrair BETWEEN Mayor KINGSLAND AND ALDERMAN Courron.—We learn that some very funny deve- lopements, explaining the recent flare-up between the Mayor and Alderman Compton, have been re- cently brought out, under oath, by order of Judge Oakley. By this curious evidence it appears that Mr. Kingsland, in company with the ex-Recorder and Chief of Police, was dewn on Long Island, enjoying themselves gloriously, on the very day and hour on which Alderman Compton acted for him on the sab- ject of the Eighth Avenue Railroad. This singular fact, which upsets all the Mayor’s recent grandilo- quent message, is proved by the Mayor's own afii- davit, supported by those of his secretary or clerk, and the Chief of Police. The Mayor's message could not, therefore, have been written, or under. stood, by the Mayor himself, or he must havo been at the time studying Judgo Edmonds’ new revela- tions on the spirit world. = * Alderman Compton, though he does not weigh so many pounds avoirdupoise as the Mayor, will co.ao out of this business heavier in intellect and right than his Honor. 8o we suspect—but time will soon tell. Tae New Secretary or tae Navy.—Hon, J. P. Kennody, the new Scerctary of the Navy, is a good hit. Ho is not only known in the literary world, as the popular author of Swallow Barn, the Hawke of Hawk Hollow, Horse Shoo Robiason, and othor novels, but in the more practical character in which he creditably maintained himself some yeare ago, as Chairman of the Committee of Com- merce ot the House of Representatives. He is a man of very decided abilities as a speaker, lawyer, and legislator; and will doubtiess give us a brilliant and daehing, and, withal, a practical administration of the Navy Department till the Fourth of March next, very likely. Then—what then? We must wait and sce. Ir Kners Coor—Not the weather, but tho Bal- timore whig nomination. Oh! for a change. Late and Impertant Masical Intelligence. We have reevived by the last steamer from Europe, ta- teresting musical inteliigence, describing the movements and intentions of rome of the great artists of the day. in reference to this continent. Our accounts of Madame Sontag are that she will jeavo Europe atout the middle of Augast, with the Intention of commencing a gecies of concerts in Now York and throughout the country, and will bo, pso- bubly. fully occupied during the winter and pact of next spring. By the last accounts Madame Sontag was at Ems, near Colbents, She bad been tormented to death by applications from ag: nts and speculators, of all Forts and kinds, Mr. S¢yton. the former agent of Jenny Lind, inthe latter part of her career, and also Le Grand ringing from every quarter of the city, and fow could be induced to believe they are all groundless Every member of the Corporation is mach indebted to Alderman Denman for the very proper course he took in this instance to vindicate his own honor and theirs, by seizing the earliest opportunity of joining issue, and demanding afull and searching euquiry. Were the same line of conduet adopted in all cases where charges reflecting on them, in their official capacity, aro made, it is to be hoped, and we are willing to believe, that similar results would follow, and that rumor’s thousand tongues would cease to give utterance to the scendalous reporte that aro daily and hourly bruited abroad; bat while they are suffored to cirenlate in ailence on the part of the subjects of them, and remain unrepolled and uninvestigated, the public will not fail to draw their own conclusions. The Common Council, we perceive with some sa- tiefaction, are not insensible of this stato of public feeling. Last evening the Board of Aldermen, | emboldened by the result of tho firet attempt at justification, threw down the gauntlet, and passed @ resolution, which will be found cleowhero, culliog vpon editors of papers ‘and others to publ ony facts or circumstances that they may know of, im- plicating any member of their body ina charge of bribery, fraud, or corruption, together with tho namee of the individuals concerned. 1t remains to be seen whether the challenge will be taken up. If it be not, the mombers generally would appoar fuirly entitled ton more favorable estimation by their constituents and follow-citizens, than they have hitherto enjoyed; and, if it be, thoy are all too deeply pledged to admit of anything but a most satisthetory investigation Pouitieas, Eerocares—Couxtixe CrroKens, &e.—Several of our would-be sagacious political onrnals are making their estimates of tho result of the Presidential election—some one way, and sowe another: but thoy are alleounting their chisk- ens toosoon, We must wait the action of tho proposed Vhiladelphia Webetor convention, and the groat Pittsburgh Convontion, and the Georgia Convention, and some other Conventions; and wo murt also wait for the State gloctions, which come off in August, in Indiana, Kovtucky, North Carolina and olse- where, before any fair idea of the great rosult in November can be formed. About tho firet of Sep- tember wo shall begin to see which way the land lies, Short of come reliable cotemporancous data, al] estimates on either side are moro clap-trap and bravado. Lave rom Kapton, Js.—Wo have datge from Kings. ton, via Peneacola, to the 19th ult. The followtag are the letest market pricon:—Flear, 328 ; moa! The ine b c ows will be found onder the » a N al powe Smith, Barnum's man, were both after her, Madame Fontag is coming out to this country entirely on her own account, attended by her husband. Count Rossi jormerly Sardinian Minister at St. Petersburg. Some in- telligent Individnal has been engaged, who will dot w do- tails of her business and make preparations for her concerts, Madame Sontag will be her own manager; und she intends to confine herself to concerts until the grand opora bouresin Poston and Philadelphia shail have beon con- structed and under way. She made more moucy by gtv. ipg concerts. in Germany, on her own account, than by singing in grand opera. Lumley, the grand managor of the Queen's Opera Howre. in London, is nearly at the end of his career, fa order to sustain this Opere House against Covent Gar din, he has beon compelled to adopt all sorts of expedio and to make ail rorts of offers to the avtistes of the Conti- pent, He applied to Jonny Lind, but sho refused to per- form for lees than $5,000 a night, or £12,000 for twalvo oighte—thus showing that her succers in tho United Fiates has spoiled her for future uses, on reasonable terms, in Europe Lunnloy also applied to Mada tog; but rhe declined, in conseynence of her proposed viet to the United States--be boing in her debt $25,000 for former engagements, The Queen's Opera Houre is now in tho hands of a committeo of the aristo- cracy, andit issaid Lumloy will appeor in the bankrupt department of tho London Gazette, In the eourve of this month, The truth is that the Covent Gardon Opera specu lation fn London, has kilied both operas in thet metropolis, Fven tho wealth of tho British aristocracy socms to be incompetent and uneble to eupport the Queen's Opera House, Son. Jenny Lind te In a very interesting situation, It ts tiated that eho wos staying with Benedict in London, and would not appear in any pwhlte capacity for come time to come, Jenny has beon furious against come of the Frglish jeornaly, for copying the observations apow her carcor in the Uniled Sintes from the New York pa- pors; and sho ialke generally of the United States nows- popors with great bitternoss, alway# excepting the anti- slavery, abolition olique, She hates America and the Americans, notwitheinnding all the money sho has re~ ceived in this country, This is to Le accounted for by her violent temper, whieh ie not always of the sweetest kind, Alfred Bunun propores coming ont to the United States ina few wooks, for the purpose of giving his celebrated spectacles, We shail haye all London and Burope hero next year. Marine Affairs. ‘Tim Cronens on Boao tim Sreasanie Pereaprurnra, av Key West. We learn from our correspondent at Key Wort, wnder date of the Sd inst., that the cholera Yue rapidly abating amongst the Philadelphia passengers at Land Ke ‘No doatha or now casos have occurred { since June 60, The steamer hod beon fumigated, and was undergoing thorough cleaning and painting. Con- stont eommunteation was being kept up with the town, aud every convenience and necessary furnished whon do- | yanded, | | some tdea of pr The stonmship Kmpire elty sailed yortorday for Ha- yana,&e INTERESTING DEVELOPEMENTS. Affair of Honor bewween Mr. Joha Var Buren and Mr. N. P. Willas, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Dear Sin— A recent number of the Louisville Journal states, om information alleged to have been received from Mr, N. P. Willis, (now iu thia city,) by its editor, in a personal’ interview. that Mr. Willis bad challeaged mo to fight @ due} with him in Bermuda, and also in Baltimore; and that Thad declined, This statement is copied into the New York Timed. aad several of our city papers, and ac- companied wiih ruch suggestions a8 t@ Mx, Willis’s Courage, and my want of it. and thé morality or immo Tulity of the practice of duciling, as seom to these presses: to lp called for ty the occasion, The subjoinod etter* contain ali the information I have upon thesvbjeet; andt if you will do me the fuvor to publish them. I think they will prove that no such occurrences as the Loaisville Journal describes, ever took place I have asortof elainr ‘upon you in this matter, because Mr, Willis’s alleged belief thet I was about going ts the South, is founded on an editorial article in the Heravn, which stated that I was about quitting my profession, and remeving to tha South. If you will republish chat article, with these letters. it will put the public in posession of ail the in- formation I have in regard to changing my residence or fighting Mr Willis. ‘The prospevt of doing either never prerented itself to me. To make Mr. W.a first. letter intelligible. I ought to state that Mr. Forrest flog- ged him in June. 1850; that he brought an action of as- fault and battery for this, and [ acted aa counsel in the defence ufthe suit, The cause was brought to trial in. May, 1861; and, after the plaivtiff had gone through with. his testimony sud I had opened the defence, the case stood over for a few duys, when one of the plaintiff's coun-- rel desired to goto Europe, and thé others were unwil~ Ing to try the cause without him, and Judge Valley, against the remonstrance of the defendant, discharged the jury, aud the cause went off, The Forzest divorce case iv which [ was coun-el fur defendant, was tried in December and January last. Mr. Wiilis was a witness for plaintiff; and his own arsault and battery case was tried again ip March lust, and he recovered a verdiet of $2.560, the judgment ou which has been appealed, A BILL of exceptions bas also heen made by mo inthe For. rest divorce case. During all this time Mr, Willis and myself lived in the ssme town, and frequent- 1y met? He was alvo in this city four days af- ter the date of bis Jetter to me; and the remark of which he especially complains. wax made on the first trial of his ease, about vigbt or nine months before, I have numbered these letters in the order of their dates Nos,1 2,3and4. The manner and circumatances undo which I received No, 1. are described by me in the note returning it. No 3 reached me by duecourse of mai, from New Orleans; it was probably written to pre_ vent my noticing No, 4, which was handed to my law partner in my absence from this city, by a con- stuble, whore nome is suid tu be Willis, No, 1, it will be observed, demands a written apology, which ean hardty~ be said to be contained in No. 2. These were handed to Geveral Moirts on the 13th of March, Although Ne, 1 reemed to raise barners evough aguinst. a demand of sa- tidacticn, it ibe wr ter should atte: wards make one, yot No. o follows Wwo mouths after to make it eatirely sat, and to do so contradicts the larger partof No. 1 Then follows No 4 with the inzenuous proposition to meet at Lajtimore. “and taik o ar affairw’—as if the eoaver- ration of Mr Willix which £ never admired, had beoa made ro attractive by the previous lettors, that I would travel out degrees South, in July, to ene joy it! But a truce to folly! An examieation ‘of this correspondence (f a teries of Metsers all with one ption, written by the eamo pemoa, cup be enlled a coriespondeace) will show that Mr, Wile lis, instead of secking the suti-faction which is the right of @ geptlewan. has becu evdeavormg to secure the forleature ot this right by su indulgeuee in sear. rility, which Is the priviicge of @ Watts} do not need to be told that Tonght to ehattise bim for tbis persevering but it eosts ‘wenty five hundred dolars to flog Mr. Willis, Mis bealth, be clsims, bas b fevblo for yeura, and his body weak, himself to be th bis physical d civil uit, 0: nder stel umstunces, he procured gged by Mr Formet apd thea based op v ity a claim for enormous damages in a the tiiutot thai cause our eourt held that no provocation woula justify or mitikaie au easault, unless 60 fr Uist the ascailant’s blovd had aot time to coo) before the assuult. This decision is now View. While it sranda for low. Me. Willis ewn, for aught Tree, write me insolent lester, with impunity, from the high seas. trom New Grleaus. and from Harvodabacg Springs; and the luxury cf punishing bim for them when we met is placed simost beyond the reach of ono of my limited means Respectfully yours, , New York, July 12uh, i362. 3. VAN BUREN, N. P. WILLI8 TO JOHN VAN BUREN. New Youn, March 4, To Joux Vax Buren, Feq.— Pras sae te Sir—The termination of the suit In which you have so long acted as counsel relieves mo fem lao silence T bave feltit necemury to maintain as to the peraomali- ties trom yourreif to me which I bave listened to am ite progress. As the limits you have overstepped are of some importance to the community, I aball be excusable, perbups. for recording in this letter. with some dstinite- ne ground upon which I xddress you ‘The suit (which in your first opening argument you sneer at me for resurling to. ineteao of other moans of Tetuliation,) was instituted for tho necessary purpose of examining. by process of bur. Mr Forcest’s diieged oauses ofprovocution. It was for this reason alono taat f firet comented to substituiea suit at law fur » reckoning prowpterand easter, In his pauphtet adareesed to the Pemneyivania be geluture. an repubtixbed in New York, he had chayed my with steatthily ming- ling in fecnes of debavchery at his” Bouse, dunng bis absence; and had charged) my brother wih adultery ued ue feof and me with suspicious vite, Lue t ie ip reed) choiges reduction Abatin a elvil suit for asawult wna batery Use several matters would. be bi forward as p ous. aod K fitted ‘here reemed no 0} oF siftiog oc neta: imy them, sutt fr divers 1 hn winve vimdtent- fuby. aming vbxt her ha Ovteining hiv diveres im Ponmeysv Breuer of marlins adetevce My revered in. though tls original ( tuinnble—frst. be place when only the eti eres ag been heard, he eas emit aud record, becuuse, whik hostile he bad rant, by Of the reneh uf a geile asst be en a fair for suy ures. out om bed hic ple Culy Wa tine Lave, "bo the erdim be bP eov- ch sn ever thet me | communiy ¥ Med def brave. ane pure and to try to prove him what he for ateo but there we tumiie ¢ der iter to be thought, @ by tho gem lemon of your p foo iu speak burly of the opposi f 0 te sim suite ana tt ‘ONT BOSS ad MO Nevuloss overs epping of the %. that T now cad your at- tepton Tn aefein thero was ueither insulting me on se the subject. im anse aceond lol ths might yale money theough not make by Ierature It has probably been Ss not generally svppoe t d bund bovght of men emiyent at the bar) that y to me Was prompied by sume proviows carice on your port. aud was more an © feelings towards me, thna ot me Lwoust,in justice to myeit, point. "Welw rem college toge never been a dispute or bo: tlie ¢ twenty-five yenix we have inet ¢: ny of mutual friends. aud with v friencliness. At bridal part Mr. Forrest’s conusel, you tut! / between himself axd ‘his wife, and [ oxproae vietion of what has since been confirmud by © ovurt of jaw. On the morning of your ineult, at the first trial of this suit, 1 exchanged © bow with you as venal, end with DO apprehersion thet in your argument thet dey you would say a word at which ‘un old friend contd justly be offended. At whut amount of Inauoement you went out of your way for insults, as unfounded in inet as they wero irrelevant in argument. 1 cannot oven conjecture. ‘That you are responsible for them, ir all T ean koow. The difference betweon the resonting of insults else Where. and resenting them under the lags and usages of the community wo live im. I that [eannot for ob- vious reasons éxplain my views upon in this letter, But the matter between yourself and mo lias bearings beyond this Immediate community, We havo mutual ts in other countrios, and charactors to sustain in circlea where Insults from equals aro not thought triflos to bo forgotten. It is not from deference to others’ opiniones merely that [ address you, however, My own opinion has been lovg made up that the veave of fontleracn is & far lose evil than the cowardly outrages which take the place of it, Without forther bs papa Toome to the a of LJ Totter, and hanes you o written apology ir the insults to mo contained in your speoche: a» conn- wel for Mr. Forrest. Your obedient ; N. P. Wins, P. B.—The Henan of one day Lost weok, in a circumstantial editorial. that you were bouts maak 4 political tour to the South, Tam orderd thither myreit by my physicians; and 9 one of my relatives waited only the tormination of tho late trie’ tw acoom, , me, I leave immediately. 1 go to the Woat Indies, it hope to arrive in Chariostoa, 8, ©.. in two or three Weeks, and will await thore your repiy to thie eter, The bearer will receive and forward it to Ie; or if you shonld find it more convenient to meet mo at Charloston, or at any other port of the South. ana persoaally to ropty, [ will suit my motions entirely to your convenience. Allow me to nda, that tlds lotter is a secret at present, between ore be go a Poeloly be mado pudiic except by your will and agen ‘ rh ment of our diicultes, slgaichesrraneessah manic uperreribed Jobn Van Buren, Be te of Ge BP. Egmen, Astor House. ] init iiaet |... THE HERALD ARTICLE [From the New York Horwid, Bob. 9° Towa Van Burnes Goinc Sovrn = Wo hav fotiy Mhirpercd t st our bevtiant pre Tew the bright nd baratng Forrest for an assanl’ om me, ‘wfosslvaal Gsage in ni by the pi near 1 very exe. Joho Van Baie 1 0f Gindenwand, bie on or roe plantaton ta of rotir wi teety feon South Cereting the northern regionn, to the moro congealul, intellootu