The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1852, Page 4

SWehacne omeews seve NEW YORK HERALD. 4AMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRISTOB AND EDITOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU grg | remewed every day. Volumte SVM. secre ces ee — — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWWRY THEATRE, Bowory.—Ravrarcie—Wairine on emer War. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tee Ox1v Scnoou axp cHE New—Youne Covrte—Tne Woman I Avoae NIBLO'S- Love Cuase—Use Fete a Consrantino- rue. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chamber street.—Davin Cor- TER FIELD—ORE THove: MuiKERS Wanrep, NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham etreot,—Burewer's Doecr Guent Eva, Tux Inish Paincsss—Monxey ov Prrearmn's Iscann. WAEBLACK’S THEARTE Broadway.—Two Caw Pray ar Tear Geme -Sonwienk s Davonter—Hien Lire Bee how Sains. WHITE'S THEATRE OF VARIETIES, 17 and 19 Bowe- ty.—Tux Toopies—Jack Surranp -Somenopy Exse, -Afternoon—Very Svspicrove— AMERICAN #US8U! . Evening—Tae Ore Thovsann Minuiners WAnTEp, Dase Naw. TABERNACLE.—Mn. Demrsren's Batrap Enrer- ‘warmment. CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brondway—Ernrorsan Mrnsixeisy wy Cunisry’s Minstaers. WOOD'S MINSTREL! way.—Emmcorian M Musical Hall, 444 Broad- OTROS, 87 Bowery.—Equesraran Exres taurMenss, DOUBLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, November 23, 1852, Malis for Europe. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. ‘The Cunard steamship Canada, Captain 8hannon, will leave Boston at noon to-morrow, for Halifax and Liver- pool ‘The Buropean mails will close im this city at one form or Treasurer, persisted in retaining possession of the office and papers. Mr. W. thereapon applied . ‘@ Judge Watson for a judgment of ouster; but the latter funotionary, afver calmly deliberaring for many weeks, bus arrived at the consiusion thet ho has no right to interfere in the matter, and thus | Mr Cook manages to hold on to the treasuryship, | despitoa majority of voiers, judges, &o. The case will now be carried to the Court of Appeals next? The boilers of the steamer Princeton, it is re ported, have been condemned. consequently she oan- not proceed on the Japan expedition. By telegraph we have the melancholy information that six pervons bave lost their lives by fre within the last three days.) A Mr Dougherty and his mo- ther were burned te deach in their own dwelliog, at Waymart, Pa , last Saturday night. Early yes- terday morning, the jaiyat Worcester, Mass , took fire, ard before the prisoners could be all got oat, four insane persons were smothered to death The public mind is frequently shocked by the announce- ment that some poor maniac’s life has been deatroy- ed by fire Is there no way of eflectaally guarding against there lamentable casualtios—especially in prrolic institutions ? Accounts of several destructive fires in different cities will be found wader the telegraphic head Awong them is a report that seventy five thousand do!lars worth of property was consumed at Cincin- nati, on Sunday. The bark E A. Chapin, which arrived at Balti- more yesterday, reports that the American whaling brig Gem was lately chased for eix hours, in the vicinity of lat 19, lon. 62, by a Spanish voseel, soppored to be a pirate Would it not be as well region? five or six of the party wero severely injured. Catholic grave yard, near Troy, on Sunday night. They had already dug up ono body, and were endea- voring to seoure another. They were lodged in pri- son. Joseph Shuster and J. H. Viner have been arrost- ed at Philadelvhia on a charge of having, in ¢»nnec- tion with o hers, commited forgéries on different banks to somewhere near the amount of twelve thousand dollars, with'n the last two and a half years. Judging from the large number of arrosts | recently made, Philadelphia mus! be swarming with | forgers and counterfeiters. Let our citizens be on and three o'clock this afternoon, The New York | | Warxiy Henarp will be published at balfpast nine | o’cleck this morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six- | pence. The News irom Cuba—The Reception of the Crescent City—The Siave Trade, We are still at peace with Spain. Parser Smith | continues to bean “obnoxious individual.” Tho | Oreecent City is safe in New York harbor. These | three facts are perbaps as farcical az they are impor- | tent. They are farcical, because of the repsated | threats of the Cuban authorities not to allow the | Crescent City to land her mails; andimportant, be- | cause the same authoritica did not fire into and sink that steamer, which many thought they would | do. We are to have another scene, however, and | then we suppose the affair will be settled. The Crescent City is to return to Havana, and if Mr. Smith is on board she is not to be allowed to enter that port. After that, nil. But, in connection with the news from Cuba by the Crescent City, there is an interesting piece of | intelligence that may be worth mentioning, and which may turn out to bé important. It is stated | «that there were three English war steamers at | Havana, “‘awsiting the result of the Crescent City affair;” but we are informed that they were there for an entirely different purpose. We learn that orders heve lately been received in this country for Admiral Seymour, commending the British North American fleet, directing him to encirsle Cuba with men-of war, to put a stop to the slave trade; and the threo war steamers were at Havana on that miz- sion We give a clue to this movement in another | the look out for those among them who may have found our sister city too hot for them The ixhabitants of Holmes county, Miss., have almost unanimously decided to subscribe two hua- dred thousand dollars to the Missiesippi Central Rail- | road This exhibition of enterprise and prosperity iga good omen for the holders of the repudiated bonds of that State. It will be perceived from our City Trade Report that from the scarcity of vessels, freights were agaia higher for Liverpoo!, yesterday. 9d. per bushel was paid for wheat, 3s. 6d. for rosin, and 3-8 a 7-16d for cotton. At the close, 10d. was demanded for wheat, and 38. a 33s Gd. for flour. These rates caused breadstuffs to rule rather heavier than at tho close of last week, and that in the face of the exvected interruption to canal navigation. They, also, check- ed transactions in naval stores. Mess pork expe- rienced an advance of 50 to 75c. per burrel yester- dsy. Beef and lard were likewiee active. Coffee was firmer, and sugars co-nparatively quiet. Among our lecture reports this morning, we give a brief sketch of that delivered by Mr. Thackeray, being the eecond of his course, on the “ Humorous Writers of Queen Anne’s Reign.” Some of our oo- temporaries seem to think thet the publication of there, or any other lectures. egainst the consent of the person delivering them, is an illegal interference with his rights of property; but such is not the law in this country. The question has been tried and | decided against that view, the courrs holding that | apy such discourse, afier haviag been spoke, ceases | to be exclusive property, and may be published without the consent of tho lecturer. We do not, however, see avy great temptation to lead us to dis- art of this morning’s paper, where the report of a | meeting, held in Glasgow, relative to the slave | trade treatics, will be feund, together with au ar- ticle from an English paper intimating the deter mination of that government to insist upon the ful- film:nt of those treaties with Spain. The meeting | was held two months ago, but we did not then con- sider the proceedings of so much importance as they have since assumed by these movements. The slave trade, so far as Brazil is eoncerned, is repidly dying out, by the exertions of that govern- ment; but with Cuba it is as rapidly increasing. We should not therefore be surprised to have the above statement fully confirmed. What will be the pelicy of our government in this event? Will the people of this country belicve that the movement of | England is wholly to suppress the traffic in slaves? | What will the jfillibusteros do? | The ews. | The Board of Aldermen, last evening, after a | funny debate, awarded the contract for the Ninth avenue railroad to Messrs. Kipp & Brown; they also | adopted the ordinance agreeing to pay Russ & | Read, for the Russ pavement, one-third on the cost | of laying it down, providing the third to be paid by the city does not exceed two dollars and seventeen | eents per square yard. Well, we shall have good pavement and plenty of railroads by amd bye. | There are laid down in our streets, under contract, and partially acted upon in the Common Council, the Harlem Railroad, to Twenty-seventh street. fixth Avenue Railroad, to Forty-fourth street. Fighth Avenue Railroad, to Forty-eighth etreet. Second Avenue Railroad, to Harlem. Broadway Railroad, to Harlem Ninth Avenue Railroad to Harlem, Hudson River Railroad to Albany. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen, the Broad- way railroad question is saspended until the first session of next month. Assistant Alderman Barker, in that Board, last evening, whén and whore the reporte were expected to be taken up, made an ob- jection to the legality of the meeting, as they had, on the previous occasion, adjourned for a longer period than they were legally authorized to do. Coneequently, after the reference of a few petitions, they rose for the term. But little information can be derived from the éledtion returns from Massachusetts, excopt that here has again been no choice for Representatives to the State Legislature in at loast one-ha’f the dis- tricts. Thus far, the whigs have a majority of about twelve on joint ballot—two in the House and ten in the Senate—but should the districts to be heord from return coalitionists, as anticipated, the latter faction will have the ascendancy, and be en- abled to elect their Governor. As the hunker demo- crats will hold the balance of power, of course Horace Mann’s chances of becoming Governor are knocked in the head From Washington we learn, among other inter- esting items, that the Senate committee on revenue frauds have been busily engaged, during the recess, in prosecuting their investigations in different At- Jantic cities, and that in consequence of the volu- mixous amount of information obtained, they will only be able to make a temporary rogert at the coming session, and ask for permission to sit again It is hoped that they find their labor and its equiva Jent agreeable. The majority of Mr. Maxwell, the demooratic oan- didate for Congrees in Florida, is twenty-two over Mr Cabell, the present whig incumbent The contest for the office of State Treasurer is still upon the tapis, and the people of Now York continue without a proper officer to take charge of thelr fands. It will be recollected that the Su- preme Court some months ago decided tha! Mr. | Welch was the duly elected Treasurer of this S thetanding which declaration Mr. Qook, the | | | meet upot | week ended last Satu®day. regard Mr Thackeray's request that a literal re port should not be given irs. Oakes Sufith delivered a lecture yesterday evening, in Hope Chapel, the title of which was “* Woman Considered as Inferior to Man.” The Bourd of Supervisors adjourned last night to the first Monday in December. An ap- propriatio® of fifty thousand dollars for the endow- | ment of an asylum for juvenile delinquents was voted. Asimilar amount has been raised by pri- vate evbscription for the same purpose. Tho corner stone of the asylum will be laid on Randall’s Island to-day. The steamboat Ravenswood leaves from Peck slip. In another column our readers will find a full re- port of the New York Bible Society, which held its apniversary meeting last night. The report of the City Inspector shows that two hundred and eighty two persons died within the This makes a reduction of twenty deaths, when we compare the gross amount withthe aggregate number for the week ended upon the 13th instant. During last week fourteen per- sops died of apoplexy, forty-two of consumption, and twenty-six from fevers of various clases. The cold weather, which seems to have been very fa‘al to patients laboriog under consumption and inflam- mation of the lungs. has acted beneficially in check- ing the progress of cholera infantum, as there are only four cases of death from that disease reported. One hundred and sixty children under ten years of age died in the week, and fourteen persons were be- tween seventy and one hundred years. The health of the city is very good. The steemsbip Hermann, with four days’ later European news is about due at this port. The Cunard steamer America may also be expected to arrive at Hoelifax to-day, with one week’s later advices. See the inside pages for the late news brough from Havana by the stcamsbip Crescent City, to gether with an account of her reception at tha port ; slco, some very interesting intelligence rela tive to the Slave Trade of Cuba; Translations from the Havana papers, couceruing the Critical Condi tion of Mexico; Affaire ia South America; Genera Shields’ Address to the Irish Delegation at Provi dence ; Description of the Amazon and the Atlantis Slopes of South America ; Dedication of the Albany Cathedral ; Incidents connected with the late Mr Webster ; Report of the Almshouse Governors ; Pro cocdings in various Courts; Commercial Review, &e. A New Series or Lecrures.—We are gratified to notice that our lecture season is to be enriched with # briliien! course, under the suspices of the New York Historical Society, to commence at Metropolitan Hall, on Thursday, the 24 of Decom ber, and to be continued weekly until the close. Awong the eminent lecturers who have promised their services to this Soofety, the names of Mr Everett, of Mersachusette, Mr. Bancroft, the his- torian, Rev, Mr. Hawkes, Mr. Charles O’Conor, and Hon. John A. Dix, ef New York, and Hon. Pierre Soulé, of Loulsiana, ere sufficient guarantees of the excellence of the seri Tickets for admission to the couree of ten lectures, and to the forty-eighth anniversary address, to bo delivered by the Hon. Rufus Choate, are fixed at ton dollars, the procesds to be devoted to the fuud of the fire proof building to be crected by the Society. lutineis Detecation 10 O —Returas uff have been received from each Congressional Diatrist of IDipvle, to warrw tn giving the fol ceerful to reprevent the Sta third Congress, Whigs in ftalie :—= Dis 1 EL B. Wo Richard Yi john’ Weutwori ‘James ©, Allen Nol Wiliam H, Biswell, Jamet Knox ¥ i eames Kia WV ilits Allen, The New Admiutls’ eation—Domestic Policy Of gen. Pierce. The general rlicy of the new administration | May be consid ced as protty distinctly foreshadowed | im the resolutions of the Baltimore platform. The moultitud nous details, however, both in regard to our dome’ cic and foreign affuire, for the next four years, | afford a wide and interesting feld for speculation Waat | 4.00 here, in reveralof its more prominent aspects, we propore briefly to consider the probable home policy which will be pursued by Gen. Pierce. The duties of the home administration of the go- vernment consist of two great divisions: first, the distribution of “the loaves and fishes ;” and, se- condly, the system of legigistive measures pursued in Congrees. In both breaches, but especially in regard to the division of the spoils, there is much anxiety and: sowe alarm; and thero will be a vast amount of rivalry, contention, wrangling, vexation, and disappointment. There are from twenty to twenty five thousand offices, of all kinds, under the control of the Presi- dent, ranging from two and three hundred dollars a year to eight or ten thousand, that are considered worth having Applications will doubtless be made as soon as wanted for every one of these; and for those which range from a thousand a-yoar and up- wards, the pressurg may be estimated with cortainty in the exact ratio of the hungriness of the unter- tified democracy. After an absolute fast, or an almost total exclusion even from the droppings of the treasury table, nothing bat a terrifle rush can be expected when the table is replenished aud the half-famished outsiders are invited to walk in and take their seats according to their tickets. Some to have a few more naval vessels stationed im that | | Some fifteen or twenty Germans amused them- 4 | selves by getting up a promiscuous fight in Troy on | which is pretty much at this time, from their hard Sundwy afternoon, and the consequence was that | fast, the physical condition of the invincible demo- bitter enemy of John Randolph, on one ocsasion, summ¢d up his personal appearance in the following pointed and graphic couplet :— “ The fiend is lean. and long, and lenk, And mores upon a spindle shank”’— | eracy, pever te completely invincible as with ompty Two resurrectiovists were caught at work inthe | stomachs and an abundance of provisions in tho enemy’s camp. And this state of things justifies so other presumption than this: that when tho camp is eaptured, the provender will be appropriated with- out remorse, and as fast as possible. There will be a chavge among the office holders, & prompt beginning, and a steady contiauance, until the whigs, particularly those appoinied under the no-party administration of Gen. Taylor, and by his successor, Mr Fillmore, are weeded out, as clean as cockle from a field of barley. Coming in as Gen. Taylor did, under the most solemn and religious pledges agsinst proscription, he stillfound it utterly impossible to resist the sturdy old maxim of rota- tion. He stood against the door in vain; the pres- sure of the outsiders was too strong for him, they overwhelmed him, they cerried him along; aud the dcomed ‘loco focos” then in office, were scented out, and turned adrift, to the extent of whole bat- talions at a single haul Such having been the practice of an administration elected to ‘* proscribe proscription,” what else than a ‘clean swoep” is to be expected of General Pierce, electod with epecial reference to a new division of the public of the port of New York to the Deputy Postmaster sive change is expected by either the insor the outs, and were Gen. Pierce never so well disposed to be lenient and merciful, he would be inevitably over- ruled by the outside pressure of his expectant parti- zans. There must be a very extensive change among the office holders—there is no help for it— none in tho world. From various reliable sources of information, it also appears that the office seekers are taking time by the forelock, and that, day after day, in letters and personal pilgrimages to Concord, they are lay- ing their claims, their cervices, and their necessities, before the President elect, in number and varioty almost incredible But we elso understand that these ungearonable appiications are at least too early by three months, in view of any favorable attention which they may be expected to receive. There is, in act, such a thing as overdoing theold proverb, “that he early bird catches the worm ;” and a mission or a missive in search of an office to Concord now, is less likely to be answered at all, than an application at Washington on the first of April next, or any fine day thereafter. We presume, in a word, that Gen Pierce will have nothing to say, and nothing todo, with his minor appointments, until at least he and his cabinet are each ané al formally estab- lished in their official quarters at the seat of govern- ment, and that then the claims of every applicant wilt be canvassed with scratiny, eo as to guard, as far as possible, in the outset, against the appoint ment of unworthy men. The appointment policy of Gen. Pierce will un. the selection of competent and honest men; secondly, to the strengthening of the democratic party, aud the restoration of harmony among tho various sections and factions of the party through: out the Union; and, thirdly, to the selection of in- dividusls according to their political claims ani capabilities. But, whatever may be the system of appointment, the democrats are hungry, and the whigs, who have been filling themselves upon the fat thinge of the treasury for four years, moro or less, must walk the plank, and the fatter and sleeker they #re the sooner they will be compelled to abdicate Thus much for the office- holders, and office seekors, and the division of the spoils. They must be divided, anc all that the public can ask is that they shall be disbursed with at least one eye to the security of the treasury, while the other is kept wide awake for the good of the party. In regard to the democratic legislative measures of the pew administration, the democratic platform is far more explicit than in respect to the highly important matter of the spoils of fifty millions a year. We have cvery reagon to believe that Gen Pierce, from every consideration of inclination, pria- ciple and duty, willadhere to the party platform. We may then very safely predict that the tariff of 1846, which has worked so well, will be per- mitted to remain substantially as it is, uo- lees the progressive doctrines of fres trade thoee duties which operate more to the protsction of few monopolies than the replonishment of tho tieatury. We may take it for granted that there will be n> extravagant appropriations made for rivers aud harbors, as the antecedents of Gon. Pierce ail have a decided leading to a rigid oon- siruction of the constitution upon those things. The cub treasary will of course remain un- touched, the living law of the land. The Coapro- mise measures will be enforced, including particu- larly the Fugitive Slave law. This was the most prominent issue, and the most important, of the late election. We may expeet, too, the adoption of some general system of reduction and graduation of the prices of the public lands, unless the Senate this winter eheuld pass the bills already passed by the House, one for the grant of some 65,000,000 of acres, and their distribution among the several States, and one for the grant of tho entire public domain to actual settlers in small farms. In the event of the pareage of this last bill Gen. Pierce will be saved ail further trouble in regard to the public lands ; and they will also cease to be an ob- ject for railroad, cenal, plank road, and other stock. jobbing operations in the valley of the Mississippi We wust wait, upon the land question, the action of the Benate upon the aforesaid important billa, and especially the Free Farm bill, before anything can be even corjectured in relation to the policy of the new administration upon the land question. To eum up—we apprehond that the appointment po'iey of Gen. Pierce will be the polioy of providing for bis own party household 0 the exclusion of the whigs. ‘ The man that does not provide for his owa household is worse than an infidel” But wo con- clude that the work will not begin, beyond the cabi- net ard the diplomatic corps, till after the fourth of March next. We suppor, that in reference to the meagures of the domestic policy of Gen Pierce, hey wil) be plain and simple as the Baltimoro plate form, which simply covers tho great principles of re- trenchment, reduction and free trade. We also ven- ture the prediction, that a paramount object ot Gen. Pierce, in all the measures of his administration, in all the means, and in all the men, he will provide, or faithfully endeavor to provide, against Galphinism or Gardineriem. The foreign policy of the new administration covers ® broader, more complex and comprehensive field of inquiry, and is of tho very highest import- ence, in relation not only.to the progress and pros- perity of our own country, but to the peace of the whole civilized world In this view, on an early oo- casion we shall take it up for @ brief but delzberate examination. Mr TnackeRay ano Daan Swirr.—Mr. Thack- eray, of London Punch, and author of ‘A Book on Srobs,” and some other works, in his first leo ture in this country bas proved himself as groat a literary snob as any dorcribed io his book. This writer has been vastly overrated on bo:h sides of the Atlantic. Here, since his advent, ho has been outrageously puffed by the press, and like Dickens he will probably be courted and fawned upon by all the snobs of every circle. Inreturn, when he ar- rives in his own country, he will, we suppose, as the author of “* American Nc tes” did before him, lam- poon the character and institutions of the Ameriean people, who afforded him their hospitality. He is now ‘‘a chiel amang them takin’ notes, an’ faith he'll prent “em” That his descriptions of ths men and manners and polities of our country are not likely to be of afriendly or kindly nature, seems evident enough from the fact of his virulent whole- sale aiteck on the character of the illustrious Doan Swift, which reminds ove of a living donkey kicking at a dead lion, or a dwarf making an onslaught upon a sleeping giant. We are not of those who hold that the dead aro exempt from criticiem. Swift himself rspudiated the Latin maxim: de mortuis nil nisi bonum—*“ of the dead let nothing be said but what is good”— which the witty Dean rendered, ‘* When ecoundrels dio let all bemoan ‘em’? But we hold that “ the departed spiri's of the mighty dead,” who cannot defend themeelves, are entitled to fair play, if not to the mostcharitable construction that can bo put upon their acts. If the dark side of the picture is resented, the bright side ought also to be put for- ward as prominently. If cMeure is dealt out with an unsparing had, credit ought to be given for what is good, and noble, and brave. Mr. ‘Thackeray seems to possess the faculty of discovering and exeggerating faults and small vices only, and obe blind tothe great virtues of humanity. In Dean Swift’s life and character he can discern nothing good. If this be Englith prejudice, because Dean Swift was born and educsted in Ireland, and recom- at Kalamazoo. In fast, nothing but a very exten- | questionably, we should suppose,be directed—first, to | should imperiously demand some mitigation of | plunder, from Alpha to Omega—from the Collector | | ry complimentary to Mr. Thackeray’s own country, mended the Irish people to burn everything that came from England except the coal, it is unworthy of the enlightened liberality of the present day, and far from creditable in a man who comes forward to administer instruction to the public in a course of lectures in thie great and free country. Hw would have acted a wiser part if he had altcred a lecture originally composed for English audiences, and adapted it to the large and comprehensive spirit of the people of the United States, who entertain no prejudice against ® man in consequence of the place of his birth, and who cherish a more friendly feeling to the Irish than to any other people in the world. To guard against the imputation of national preju- dice, Mr. Thackeray pretends that Dean Swift was not an Irishman, but an Englishman all through— that his eharacter was too bad for an Irishman. The inference involved in this blunder is certainly not ve- the argument being that Dean Swift was a great seoundrel, and therefere could not be a Celt, bat must be a Saxon. Itis true that Dean Swift was the con of English parents; but then he was born and brought up in Ireland, and, like the Geraldines, he became ‘moro Irish than tho Irish themselves.” As well might Mr. Thackeray say that Andrew Jackson was not an American. The lecturer has assailed the public, private, and literary character of Swift, and he has taken all his materials from the enemies of the Dean of St Patrick’s, whose overshadowing genius created envy | in contemporary writers, and whose stioging satire | and fearless exposure of political corruption stirred | up swarms @f hornets on every side. Mr. Thackeray has shown himself to be éfther ex- ceedingly superficial or very uncandid, in this lec- | ture. He describes outrageous acts of Dean Swift, but he forgets to tell the audience tuat they | are the result of insanity—the mighty intellect | of that master-spirit having given way in con- | sequence of the loss of his Stella. In relation to | Swift’s connection with that lady, Mr. Thackeray is equally at fault. He says that the Dean treated | her and Vanogea as no women in the eame relation had been ever treated before. Hither Mr. Thacke- ray did not take the necessary pains to inform him- self, or being informed he suppresaed the fact, that Swift, after bis private marriage with Stella, (Miss Jobnson,) had discovered that she was his half sis. ter, both being the natural childron of Sir Wilham Temple. Ho was carefal that in all his inter- views with Stella a third party should be pro- sent. He was deeply devoted to her, but he would not cohabit with her on account of thoir con- sanguinity, and the discovery of this relationship and her subsequent death drove him mad. As for Vanersa, (Mies Van Homrigh,) he never sustained any other relation to her than that of a warm and attached friend, though she had cherished a passion of the strongest kind for him, which, because not gratified, resulted in her premature death, which was lees his fault than his misfortune. Mr. Thackeray hardJy concedes that Swift was a wit or a humorist at all. The reason probably is, that the gentleman himeclf wants to build up his own fame for wit upon the ruins of the reputation of the author of the Drapier’s Letters. But swift’s re- nown will endure, and his writings will be read, both in Great Britain and inthiscountry, while such ephemeral writers as this oritic shall be consigned to eternal oblivion. It is rather too late in the day, and especially for such a shallow litteratewr as | Thackeray, to disturb the ashes of Jonathan Swift, or to throw filth upon the monument of his famo. Mr, Thackeray will not admit that Swift was a patriot; and he says the propositions in the Drapier's Letters were absurd. Since the days of Domosthenes, never was any man £0 successful as a political writer, and never did any political writings produce such effects as his. His ‘Conduct of the Allios,” publiched in 1712, ten days before tho Parliament assembled, is a remarkable example. ‘The pur pose,” eays Dr. Jobnson, “was to persuade the nation to peace, and never had any writer more success. The people who had been amused with bonfires and triumphal processions, and looked with idolatry on tho General and his friends, who, as they thought, had made Hogland the arbiter of nations, were confounded between shame and rage, when they found thét mines had been exhausted, and millions destroyed to secure the Dutch, or ag- grandize the emperor, without any advantage to our- selves; that we had been bribing our neighbors to fight their own quarrel; and that amongst our enemies we might number our allies. That is now no longer doubted, of which the nation was then first informed that the war .was unnecessarily pro- tracted to fill the pockets of Marlborough.” Bleven thousond copies of this ‘wonder: working pamphlot” were sold from November to January, at a time when tho English were not a nation of readers. Tho effect was decisive and complete. Equally potent wore his Drepter’s Letters. One Wood, of Wolvor- hampton, had, by a bribe to the Dutchess of Kendal, | obtained a patent authorizing him to coln £180,000, | in balfpence and farthings, in the kingdom of | Ireland, in which there was at tho time an em- barassing scarcity of copper coin, which Wood maic still ecaxcer by purchasing up all he could got hold of The new coin was dobased to an enormous do- gree, and Swilt wrote lettors agrins; it, under tho signature of “ Drapier’ The nation was alarmed, | and the coin was universally refused. Ths govein- ment prosecuted the printer, and vhe Lord Lieute- | powered, and fell to the first floor. | recovered. and became sensible. pant issued a offering £300 for the discovery of the author of the fourth letter. But hie fecret was known only to his own butler, who faithfully Kept it Bus the pablic well knew who their benefactor was ‘He was honored,” says his biographer, Dr. Johnson, “ he was honored by tho populsce a8 the champion, patron, and instructor of Trelond, end gained such power as, considored both in its extent and doration, scarcely any man has ever enjoyed without greater wealth or highor sta- tion The Drapier was a sign, the Drapter was a health, and which way ecever the eye or the ear was turned, some tokens were found of the na‘ion’s gratitude to the Drapior. The benefit was indeed great; bo bad resened Ireland from a very oppres- five avd predatory invasion.” Yet Mr Thackeray teiis us he had no patriotism, and that his Drapier’s Letters were absura. The immortal Grattan, on tho day of Iri-h indepsadence, paid him a tri- bute in a beauiifal apostrophe, in which he exclaimed—‘Oh, spirit of Swift, thou hast pre- vailed ? / Denn ‘Swift had some faults, and bis lito was merked by singular cccentricities; but he was a great epirit, and his virtves, by their sur fasting brightness, cast his failings into the shade The author of the “ Swiftiana,” who writes by no means as favorably of Swift as some other biogra- pbers eays of him—*In short, he lived an honor to the humen bind, and died, as he had lived in his latter years, a sad wonument of the infirities inci- »ly, mortifying memento jo of parts. THis death eclipsed tho gaye- is native country, and impoverished the scan- ty stock of public virtue’ Dr. Delaay, who is quoted by Dr. Johnson a3 one who knew him long and well, after describing his ‘invincible patriotism,’ his charities, and bis ** singular, pecaliar, and most variegated vein of wit,” winds up in the following appropriate terme—“ All this considered, the cha- racter of his life will appoar like that of his writ- ings; they will both bear to bo considered as the eu, in which the brightness will hide the blemishes; and whenever petulan: iguorance, pride, malignity, or envy interposes to c'cud or sully his fame, I tate upon me to pronouxee that the eclipse will not last Jorg. To conclude, no man over deserved betterof any country than Seift did of his—a steady, perse- vering, inflexible friend; a wise, a avatchful, and a faithtul counsellor, under many severe trials and bitter persecutions, to the manifest hazard both of his liberty and fortune. He lived a blessing, ho died # benefactor, and his name will ever live an honor to Ireland ” Thackeray’s lecture has not tho merit of being even a decent carricature of Dean Swift. But enough of Thackeray City Intelligence. Tur Weatnen —We bad a continvance of keen frest at daybreak yesterday morning ‘The fivids in the rural Uisiricts were sllvered over, and the morning was very ccld. There was a beavy. lowering sky, threatening exow storm. The thermometer at the ifraavo buliding, ranged. at noon, at 41 degress; at 8 o'clock P.M, at 4146, and at 6 o'clock P M , at 42 degrees. A heavy mist retitled down upon the rivers, and over the greater part of the city. as the evening closed in. ‘This doseended in a thick. fogey rain, at six o’elock, and the atmosphere con- tinued comp to late hour.’ ‘The night was disagreea- ble and rainy Tar Cnescsnt City axp Purser Ssvi.—A ramor was prevalent yesterday afiernoon, to the effect that a num. ber of gentlemen were exerting themselves to convene a meeting cf merchanta at the Exchange, in order to consi- der the affeir of the Crescent City, and endeavor to per- suade Mr Law to remove Mr. Smith from that vessel” Upon inquiry we found that no uch meeting was held, nor any specific sotion taken to call it, We believe the subject was mentioned upon Change a one worthy of contideration. Br. Tammany Soctety —At a meeting of the society, held at the Wigwam on Saturday night last, a committee, consisting of Sachem Purdy, Sachem Dunlap, and Brother John Wheeler, were appointed to wait upon Gen. Pierce. on bis arrival in thiv city, and invite hia to visit the Wigwam “partake of the 1efrerhing waters, smoke the ealmut of peace, and sit aroand the council fires.”? Drow: Bop Fouxp —The Coroner held an inquest yesterday ufternocn, at Washington Point, foot of 180th street, upon the body of an unknown man, which was found in the water last Friday. John Dalton sworn— Rerides ut Fort Washington Station; between one and two o'clock Friday last saw something floating in the water; got s boat and went towards it; found the de- ceared man; I donot know him; I think’ he answers the description of a man who was lost off the steamer Mohe- ga, two weeks since. This testimony was corroborated by that of J.A. Harrington. Verdict: drowning under circumstances unknown. The deceased appeared shout twenty-five years of age five feet eight inches high had black hair and a goattee. He was dressed with a red fismnel undershirt, and a blue cotton one over it, a mixed projacket, figured vest, eatinet pan's, and heavy boots, with nails in tbe soles, Inqurst vox Janes Bnowx.—Coroner Ives held an inquest yesterday, at Believue Ho:pital. upon the body of James Brown, who was killed, Saturday last, by fall- ing throngh the hatchway of a workshop, at No. 121 Twenty-first street. as reported in our paper of yerterday morning. It appeared, from the evidence of Charles Brown, that deceased was a coach trimmer, and worked in the wsgon-building chop at the above number. Sat- urday the men were engaged in hauling up a wagon body, Aeceaced aetisting. and it was considered he got over- In a short time he He was put to bed. and every care taken of him Witness found bim dead in his bed at six o'clock in the evening Verdict: death frcm injuries received by failing throngh the hatchway. ‘Mr. Brown was a native of England, and sixty years old. ‘Tre Case or Ma. Brown—Accipext ix James Sraxer. —At a late hour last night, Mr, Brown, who jumped from his bedroom window, Sunday morning, under an appre- Lension of robbers, lay ina hopeless state in the Cit Hespital in convequence of the injarie: he then recelved, William Blair, one of the men placed under arrest as iplicated in’ the matter, was discharged from custody yesterday. Finemen.—Engine company No 18 mustered in full force yesterday. and accompanied by a brass band, marched to Sickles’ menofactery No 8 Lafayette place, where they received the new fire engine ordered for them by the Corporation. Scppex DeatH.—A man, named James Ryder, wis found dead on Sunday at No. 166 Sheriff street, by the Police of the Eleventh ward. The Coroner was notified. Personal Inte! NCee Arrivals at the Mctropolitan—Judge Ames, San Die. go. California ; Don Pellegrini, Mexico; Hon B. E Green, Washington ; Hon. W. 0. Dawson, Georgia ; Hon. Hi. ©. Stoughton, Vermor Dr_ Beersford, Hartford ; Chas.M. Bancker. Phila ; W. Wooleott, Utica ; James %, Evans, Pennsylvania ; Gilbert Kennedy, Ohio; Chas, Cooper. Maine ; D. Woodruff, New Jersey: Captain E. Mars bem. British army ; Dr, A. Chestant. New Orleans ; Jno T. Dispy. Richmond, Va ; H Beymonr, vonnecti: cut; J. A. Machado, Havana} R, E. Edwards, Cincin. tattl Obfa; Dantel B. Cook, liitnois At the Howard—Allston Wilson, 'T. C. ill, Philadel. phia ; O N. Ruevell, Pottsville; L Johnson, Baltimore ; Chas, E. Perry, Newport ; 1. Brackett, Boston; Lemuel Pomeroy, Copake, New York; Thos, Adama, Ifonnells- ville ; J. E, Dunbar, Bridgeport ; Edwia Stearns, Halifax, At the American—D, Burgess. 8. K. Spaulding, Boston; J.M. Tyson Alabama ; Dr. Alcock, Washington ; A.B: ‘Vsylor, Beltimore ; D. J. Bowman, Toronto; I Kal on, U, 8. Kary j N. 1 Chadwick, Philadelphia; J, W. Byant, oriéa, At the Astor—D, Barclay, @. A. Mundroff, Pittsford ; 8. R. Bpuulding, A. J. Roberta, Aug. Flagg, Boston; 7. Sharpe, Richmond; Hon. A. Brady, Rochester ; J. Jef frey, Cincinnati; W. Herper, Washington ; A. §. Inger- nell Boflulo ; Dr. Crary, Kentucky ; B. I Baker, Bos- His Excellency, Thomas M. Seymour, Governor of Connecticut, arrived in town yesterday, and ‘occupies apartments at the Union Place Hovel, Gen. Shield of Iinots, and Governor Bright of Indi- ana, left the Union Vlace Hotel yesterday for Washing- 1D ‘Lhe Goveror elect will oocupy the mansion now occu- pied by Gov. Hunt, at Albany, from the first of January next, until some time in the ensuing summer. ‘The following gentlemen have arrived at Washington :— Hon D. A, Booker, of York ; Captain Du Pont, U. 8.N ; Major Merchant, U.S. A. ; Captain Merchant, U, 8. A.; Com. Perry, commancing’ Kast India Squadron ; Coptain Sands, U8 N.; Hicn Kdward Stantey, of NC | Col De Rusty, U.8 A; Hon Reverdy Johnson, of Md; Hon. Jchn A, Rockwell, of Conn. ; Phillip Greely, Esq. of Boston ; A. 8.De Peyster, Keq| of New York; Hoa. Richard Broad: a family, of Pennsylvania, 0) telligence. Stotbing With «@ Knife—The poll of the Seven. teenth ward arrested on Suncay night, a man named Thomas Oakwell. ona charge of gy | lames Dagan, Teriding at No, 190 Eleventh street, in the body with a case kuife, inicting a dangerous wound under the right thoulder. ‘The wife of Dugan came to her husband's atd, and was also severely wounded by the arsailant, who in- flicted @ deep cut on her arm. It seems t the secured was a boarder in the house of Dugan, and coming hcme in « state of intoxication, @ quarrel enrued, and Dugan endeavored to turn it out of the house, and in th bbe Sd fight ensued, and Dugan wae stabbed as abovi |. Officers White and Bysbee arrested Oakwell, and conveyed bim before Justice Wood, who commilted him to prison to answer the charge of an aseault with intent to At Riotous Conduct Yesterday afternoon the Figh- teenth ward police were called to quell s riot at the corner ot Twenty-first street, and First avenus, between some firemen a3 Tge number of boys and mn, who were throwing brick aad stones in all directions. It seems that the origin of the tumult was at an alarm of fire. As fire ecmpany No, 30} were on their way to the fire, they were areaulied by a number of boys, and on their return, the bogs were joined by a number of men, and a fight ensued betweom them, The police hurried to the spot. and took into custody two men, named Patrick eCue and Jobn Riley, who were both conveyed before Justice Stuart, the evidence taken against them and the court held them each to bailin the sum of $1,000, to ancwer the charge. Stealing Moncy.—A black follow named Thomas Moore, we crrectsa om Aaturdsy night, by officer Bigley of the Filth ward charged with stealing bank bills and gold coin, valued im all at $90, from another colored man mamed Sidney McFarland, On wae nk the prisoner, the cefficer could not find any of the stolen ufbney, bu; a $5 bill was produced by Josephine Givins, who said she it ficm Mcore, ‘This bill was Sdentitied by McFarland potticn of the storen mony The accured was com. mitted ty Jurtiow Orberne tor trial ening. the suniversary of the New York. Bible Scotety was held im he Broadway Tabarnsele. Previous to the opening of the proceedings. "lam obit; whieh were {p attendance. rnog en anthem yp Chairs mon, Thomes Bond, Feq . (hem announ’ 9g $47 the mest ing war cuted to ovleoraie ho te ty ninth anmlversary: of the scciely, apa that Lw/Ore the reguler proceedings would be opeued, the Tey, Mr, Waseon would read Prop ere, The prayers having been concluded. the Chairman caikd upon W. 8, Sinith to read the Treasurer's reports, Of which the following is a copy = TREASURERS REPORT, 1852 By Carh—Collection at anviversary, end after uppiversary cerm + $162 Individual dorations + 705 Apvual suboribers.. + 1,801 Balve Looke by ageats.. Boles ut deporitory From F Bible Society in Asoesste rosy torian Uburob, corner of Grand and Mercer sureets, Mercer strvet.. Univerrity place. Bleveuch street, Spring street. allen ptreet...., Seven'h street, BR 8 aseesde 416 Bleecker 283 Fourteenth is 223 Rcotch Grand str 550 00 Pearl street 106 erin 100 990. 130 2t Brick... 425 Thisteonth street.. Rurgers street... From F Church of the Avern ar i Individual donations... From Congye Church of the Puritans... Broudway Tabernacte.. From Du North Dutch Broome stree Washington eq! Market strevt . Ninth street... Lafayette place...» Fifch avenve.. Fittieth street, Second s*reet.. Eighteenth «treet Duane acreet,, 85 sS28eb82 sf 88 8 Orchard street, ares n Greene street... se 150 Mulperry etreet, vee 176 x treet... . 50 101 Willett street. . a7 Seventh street, 50 Meci-on street ‘Twenty seventh sh Forty third street Fiftieth. Totel. BSa BESSSESSSSSHSH SSESSHS BS SH BESUSS ORSESRSSENSSES BESSY - $30,685 66. 1852, Da. ‘To carb, for use of tabernacle for anniversary end snniversary on. with . dental expenres Do, Expenres at De. Do Sa'aries of agen pemses.... ‘a 874 83 Do. American Bible Society, for Bibles and ‘Testaments... ,403 38. Do Same—Donations TOU) .secececeerererecsesececereees cece oe $39,635 65 After the report had been read, the Chairman oalle2. on Mr. H G. De Forrest, the Foreign Corresponding \Se- cretary, to read the report showing the general opera- tions of the society for the past year, Mr Dx Forrest prefaced the report, by expressing hie Pleasure and regret—plessure Mt seeing how much had been dove. and regret that to much yet remained to be done, and that the society could mot proseed ina mora rapid ratio than it had bitherto done, The society was emulating the spirit of the good Samaritan, in pouring the batsam of truth into jgnorance, The benette that. had accrued displayed ip a strong light how much might be done by # more general distribution of the Scriptures. The rociety had been parenting in ite exertions, for many, many wards of this cicy had been tended by the agents; and Mr. Watron extended bis successful work nearly up tothe Haarlem river. and circulated the book of bocks, 6,715 only applied for the books. half refused: to receive it, and many have not been left a Bible, for the very excellent that they could not read; 16,414 bibles altogether have been distributed. at s cost of $2249. Of families visited in the Sixteeuth ward, thers. ‘Were 10.£42. and 603 in the First ward, and two-t! of there have been supplied The most miserable have not. been overlooked. and the most Icathsome tenements ha: been visited, in order that the blessed volume might im— et consolation and knowledge, The precious boox 8 even been distributed in bar rooms, bling- houses, and the volume bas been presented to the mo:t abandoncd. Mr Watson's report contained many char- acteristic and pleesing sketches of the manner in which-. the Ilcly Heok bas deen received by different people. Bi- bles, circulated years ago. are preserved rellgin by their porsersors. snd bear marke of having been uy perused. In April last, = Bible, which was printed as Jong ego as 1755, was found ina German family. Amongst. mapy Roman Catholics there is still a strong imdiaposi- tion Lo recet the Bible; but prejudice has in many in- to the. exhortations of the distributors. mireonception are the principal obstacles tothe circulation of the Kook. The hotels have been. well supplied, and the volumes baye remained in good condition 1 206 Bibles have been thus distributed. Va- rious engine, hose, and ladder companies have also been supplied, and few have rejected the offers of the distri- butors, The schools have received 2,644 volumes, and the teachers, 1n many instances, have zealously co rated, M. Godda, too, amiorg the French residents, been active in the work of dissemination, Among emi- grants. also, the work of distribution has been compara- tively euccessful. In order to show the benefits that are rendered to foreigners by the society, he might state that every foreign family, and Roman Gatholte in particular, has been visited and numbers of Bibles ha’ in distri- buted, among crews of veevcls even as well as émigrants, thus dizectly reaching a most needy class, and sending the holy work to all parts of the world, which it might not orberwise reach. (he marine agent declared tl instead of meeting with ridicule, as formerly, there is quite an opporite feeling manifested amongst sailors, Even. in Portuguese yessels, the sailors have eagerly purchased Bibles by the dozen, in order to them to their friends. Amongst the emigrants that bave deoarted hence for Australia, 400 volumes bave been distributed, and of the vessels going to San Juan, the captains have mani- fested an eagernies to purchase volumes for distribution there ‘Thus numbers of the bible have found theimway to the remotest parts; and in South American vessels, ies volumes have been stelen by the passengers, thus manifesting the ansicty of mamy to possess the ‘work of God The Jepin ex;edition, about to sail on amision of peace, has not been neglected; nor has the Swedish brig of war that lately visited our port. In the various hospitals and asylums, the poor invalids buve received the volume as a source of consolation, umber of volumes throughout the past assed through the society's hands has he gratuitous circulation of the note 9 Been 182.339. year exceeds any previous one by 10000 volumes. finances of the society, therefore, demand attentive and eornest consideration, and especially when it is considered that the Bibles are sold at 25 centsa copy, and 614 cents for the Testament. The finances must be fas in order that the operations may be inoreased. Let the finances correspond with the efforts proposed, and then those ef- forts can be successfully carried on. In conclusion, the ecmmittee invoked the blessing of dod on all to the bean 8 After the choir had sung another anthem, the ehalr- man called on The Rey. Dr. Tyna, who eaid he felt exceedingly pleased at the hate afforded him of taking part ia the Proceedings of the evening. and ke then went on to show the necessity that the Protestant community Isy under Of disseminating by every means, the Word of God, and,. like Isaac, dig the wells of Abram which the Philistines had filled up. after giving @ very lucid description of the benighted condition of the he wound up @ fine peroration by giving practical illustra- tions of the benetits would aecrue to the rie of the mt e He a ise Piessing bis regret at being obli depart, and pel handsome compliment to he ne De. Murray, whom ho was sorry ho could not hear that —. ‘The Chatrman next introouced the Rev. Mr. Haven, who went into the whole question of Science vs. Seripture, and argued at great h to prove that science was daily corroborating instead of contradicting Holy Writ. He contended, then, that with the knowledge of the Bible being the book of God every Christian was beholden to spread it as far as possible. and he ho} the mecting would practically display the interest they took im rell- inp tubeoribig liberally to the funds of the present coc! The Crarmman thon intimated that the collection would be made, and enter: d into details to show the = Sates each individual to subscribe in order to be- come life members of the New York and the’ Americaa Bible Bocteties. While the collection was being made, the choir sung another anthem. ‘The Rev. Dr Murray, who entered into a great many rticulara to show the various errors on which the burch of Rome was founded. and the degradation under which «ll of thet persuasion labored, Ce America, where the rplrit of Protestantiem had @ bensfiolal influ- ence. In connection with the sul he mentioned & geet many incidents he had witnessed in. urope, and from that picture he contend- ed that the circulation of the Bible was a positive neces tity. aud would impart a biessing. ‘he Cnarnman rose to announce that the public pro ceedings wokld terminate after the singing ite the olegy and the benediction © society then resolved iteelf into a committee, and> elected (he following offioers for the ensuigy year i— Preti¢ent— Henry K. Ball Vice: Proeidente—Henry Ide, BE. M. Kingstey; JW. Rumeey, D. J Steward, J. W. Underhill, ana J. ¥, Wily Tae, Cor nding Secretary—William Allen Butler, Re ing be meh E Butler. ‘Treaswrer—James M Fuller. Tals eetemcony wil take place to day, at Suury. om, oft iy ke plage at ary, where the remaina of Copter Samuel Wadeworth ‘and his penne n seg Indien Nor gay ce pan meneem. 's War, are said a state ‘of preservaticn, “Governor Boutwell will deliver the address