The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1852, Page 5

ame Hixpenses of the American Legations ta lvl disaord | Baveral TRTENS FROM Rog, 620808 F yanan sin diffrent pleees, Legation or Tas Unrrap Stares large part of the Staves of Constantinoris, Dee 17, 1851: i aud Michowcna have with. | Sim—I have the honor to sokno the reovipt sae bh — Qa jpavnraneln gap of your letter of Nov. 4, 1561 (No. 17), commani- to this list neseral cckor Sta ee as San | cOting a resolution adopted by the Sons:0 on tho Sonora, Tamaulipas, &., but wo | Sle+ of January last, and asking specific aad socu- the expenees incident te tele ted chereon rate information respeotiv, i the « | ial character at Constanti- steikes us is the epathy with which the | my residence in my offic pone view this alteration ia the padlio } nople ‘we may exept the French movemoat tn 1a replying to this communication, I may be p2r- which ail seem excised. beosase forsign. | srravinie pening roca atta te ronest | mute, 6 mine geval: Sat foe fom fag events iaquired ley SNe prpocorng | the entre diplomatic corps st Constantinople, ity than from any vivid interest in woat is passiag | believe the necessary expenses of living sre consi- | derabi: ter at this vicy than at eny Earopsan fe eee tb | at eee pe gre Pott | sonal fone fad Pascenen | capital, ith the possibie exception of Sv. Peters Yerpient, of, re‘her. we might say, in goverumvnt for | burg, respecting which I have no detailed informe: private ends. ‘the public gcod evema never co ba con. | tiom The reason of this is to be found partly in sulted. Evem General Arista, who, on his acovssion to | the low state af agriculture and msnufastures in the Providuney inspired rueh great hopes that a national | Turkey, and partly 10 the established modes of lif . sige polloy pe be eiaptes, Hise. | at the osgiees tu ae ry person ia e sensei w experiemoing i | ble tical or soci ition, and especially ev ¢f the pabiia feeling, whilie the impersonators of this fect Sacslan resident, is chiiged, in » greater or pe er gree, to conform thet hed Sa To conrequesce of the almost total want of faoili- Gvacalajura plamthe revulsion would have been | ties of communication between Consvantinople and tupid and violent. We do aot thiak ha is | the interior, nearly every artisle of domestic ure or jered the saviour of Mexico by say very large | contumption, exvepting the burcet neeevsdries of of the population. avimal lire, but inciuding many of the commonest Gem Urage is a new manin the higher paths though | vegetables, (I may ins:abce the potatoe and as; he bas long been known iutbe cenk of the army ani it | ou) ) upd ‘ail the products of the dairy, as wi docs not svem improble to ue . vt his personal qualities | menehotd furniture of every description, and y material for clothing, is brought from distant caua- tries, end of .course suld at tar bigher rates than at ‘man. Whether he bas there qualities in snficient | the pisce of i's production, and I uun safely vatimate strength toxecist the prriooal influence of the horde | the expense of supplying a table and providing for of place holders and coptract hunters, that surround the | the other ordinary wauts ofa family av Constanti- Presidential chair im Mexico, eau only be devermined by | nople, at twice or thrice tho cost of maintaining a sete country labors under the onerous evlis of exclu. | Nke establishment at Washington It is trae, the sive tariffs which are laid on at the urgent solieitacton | O'dinary market price of tue -neoessaries of 1ife -of individuals, to proseot private monopolies. under the | Would perbaps not indicate a difference #0 conside- fallacy thet they are meovsaary to ¢the | rable ss havé stated; but no article ef sale nas di hore a fixed and regular value, and everytaing pur- country; and the revenue tent is th vored . to be made up by capitation and direct taxes. woich bur- | chased om account of a furcign minister, or ovher tnetr favor @ Aue been le! It is not the jo and drive tay m pair. Other mares, | pereon Bf distinction, mast be paid for at rates emi fo. make rich im contraband trade. | somewhat proportioned to the seller's estimate of Overpment officers fimd private advautage in the vale ‘of import permits for certaim classes of goods | threugh certain ports 4 few Liverpool houses mane | thus;howing the ofisisls of the with the officials of the sow perts | the rapk and means of the purchaser Talluded above to the established modes of life at Constaniinople, as involving extraordinary expense It is Gifficult to enter into expisnation on this snb- in this fancy trad | ject, wthout going, much into wearisome and pasty It is there causes that produce the present stale of | de! ® much larger aumber of servants than are else: things, and that gives the Siglo Diez y Nueve room to ex- claim: — y _ | where required as an important item Servants iihe gomians t Allat once? Part of the Republic | here are trained to @ narrow range of dativs, be- Fully; in Gnadaiajses end o nee varie OfJnlsoo Yanor'ts | Youd Which they canuot be provailed upon to go, preme; ia Miohcacan, Bahamonde; and in part of avd, even in their own departments, they: in gene- ‘Vera Ores, Rebolledo holds sway. What aro we oom. | ral, perform much less than persons of their class ia Wo have said it . to & destructive | the United States. The nomival wages ef servants br epen tics hy nd powerful effort is pot made tosave . are quite ashigh here as at Washivgton, but the e couB’ A 7 rn wate ta eon coming to nnerchy for slong time bat saa tecaiie: ar eaclaateitit Gpon sil’ptrseasel vende Foo ne ee att arte acapied to in by them for their employers, and I tind the exponse hh t e Ag ployers, P Fan cca est than anes will a Peasy’ rm Tas leat | Of this part of my household to be at least four, probable chenge of governmeut may result in tae love to |= 84d I think five, times as great as is was with a the central power of rome of the moi distant portions family of the same average number (exolusive of servants) at Washipgton. but the coatendimg partice evem co have @ horcor of #hedding blood that will keev them ouc of that state of | I deom it duc to myeelf to say, thatin firing the pupber of my servants, 1 have not exceeded the positive anarchy so much to be dreaded ‘while it will Berpetuate the negative ararohy which hav ro loug exist limits of strict necessity, and have waived all at tempt at complying with that custom of the country ed there. which makee a Jarge retinue, as well as many osher ‘Theatrical avd W | i ‘ Bevery Tact tbe enatioaroMbeHesiia, ana | forme of display, evsential to the respectability ia his atte stage tanuger, Mr Stevens, are very surcovstul. | the eyes of the as yet but half civilized inbabicaats ‘The house. whioh is «no of the lergest im the city. isevery | of tho Vurkish capital ‘i z night woll filied To-night the beautifm play of the The largest sivgle item in the sxneraes of Jivirg © Btranger,” with the new and succeastul worled the | at Coustantinopls is house rent. Wish the exrep “ Hebrew Sen. No dsubt every department, boxes | tion of ube representatives of two or threo of tae pit, galleries, &o , will be crowded, as usual. | lees important European powers, all the torsien Buoapway Toxatre —The new operatic fairy specte | winistera are provided by vneir resoective govern ele produc-d at this estubii:bment in ruch splendid | ments with winter palaves at P. ‘ manner, end at am enormous exp-rse owlicd the * Peri.” Will again bo presented to nigh: with Mize Richivgs, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Ricbings Mudume Poui-t and other eminaat artists, ip tue principsl characters, The whole will com- clude with * Married and Settled.” Nino's Ganpew —This evening Mr, Hudson takes his benefit. oo) ke offers an cuterteinmen’ of great variety of hie fends and pa- weace with the comic ‘opere Sultana” ip which the rovomplished actress and swect vocalist, Anua “hillon. will appear, The beautifal drama of the * Knight of Arva,” with Mr. Hudson in the leadlog charseter, tolloms and all closes with “Katharine and Petrucvio? Bountor’s Tnratne.—This placa of amusemen’ eonti- nves in its prosperons career The house is every night filled, and the eudiences give expression of th eure by enihusastic plaudits Tue first pieoe this even capital how t» compe: Therass‘a, or elsewhere All the officers of the Porte reside in the country | in semmer and at Constantinople in the winter, and health and comfort, requires @ corresponding change of residence on tae part of the foreign mi- nisters: With the exception of the dip'omatic resijense3, the number of houses at Pera, at ail suitable for a foreign minister,? or indeed for & psrsoa of any con | and decencies of European and American Life, is . | thote cceupied by the members of the diplomatic | corps at. Washirgton, or of our on cabinet, could ing is the drama of “Loudon aod Paria” in which alltns | Not be bired at Pera for leas than twenty-five hua talented members of Burton’s company will sppenr Tho dred or three thousand dollarsa year. Reuts in the orchestra will play several mus} gems. Mrs flolman, country, though lower, are still very high For my Will sing, apd the smnsements will terminate with ths own houee, @ plain, sme!) and cheap wuoden struc: ‘smusing plece, “One Thousand Miiliners.” | ture, at Therassia, I paid at firstone hundred dol Natiowas. Turatre —Three very attractive piecon are | lara per month, and it was only by engaging it for » Selected for this evening by Memoger Curdy. who is | torm of a year ands half, including two winters— alwaye on the alert to piease his The first in | @ period whom country Louses usually rewaia un- a me A Me ran £9 | tensnted—zhat { was able to reduce the rent to auccerefu! at this theatre, baring rge houses for ser over amonth The * Old Toil House” #ill follow. aaa SOUS eight bundred dollars por snnam the entertsinments will termicate with the “ Orang Outang,” Cony and Taylor as the principals. Warrack’s Taratne —We know of no place of amuse- ment where an hour or two can be, paved with more pleasure and delight, thar at Wailack’s beautifal amd " well governed establishment The pieces selested are able mansion nearer Constantinople were from always good. and consequently the patromage is exten- | twelve hundred and fifty to seventeen huodred and sive To-night the fine comedy.“ Sms Stoups to Uon- | fifty dollars per annum, and thia payable ia ad- quer.” will i the hese icon and. is : s.nensty a the vance. Serling talent of the theatte wil be tatroduced inthe J ought, perhaps, to add, that I speek throughout various characters. Miss Malvyias will danse, and the of the rent of houses not only unfurnished, but—in entertainments terminate with - Sorm te Good Luck” =| pefttnnicay Morten Tho eomedy of « Ured Up" will sgh a gh casa pi dab yn fh ha performed in t] ernoon. sed im the ing the | od gram called the “ Forty Taleves.” But. im addition to | 14 # evitiecancdesiog, te winiss, mprteac tence hese. col te ‘om uu 1 a will relate his history give representations of Napoleon, unlike that of the city of New York, but the coid and dance ond sing. The Soe Ligress iss great curiosity, | weather, though somewhat less severe, is of longer as alse the Happy Family. * | continuance; coal grates and coal stoves ara not ia Wurre’s Vanier/ea —The came intoresting bill as that | use, except in two or three of the diplomatio resi J of inst night witl be presented again thiserauiag mamoly: | dencos, acd of course wood and charcoal must bo Pion gy ed jp Ole of hie atl with Ckanfeaa as | resorted to win the “Misobievous Niger” with White as the "7 i j panne and all will terminate with the © Ruan | Pa dy Bey pacman itil eas te doe 7 %p ai. | the case—it is found dry, and no difference in price pundreds Phe nny be cece, elate tony 'e {he reste of js made on this xesount,) inolading the expeaso of - {Bas bd cutting and toring, is not less than fifveoa dollars EF CO upon renouncing @ winter residence at Pors, and oocupying, for the entire year, # situation in many respects 80 inconvenient and so remote from town; but the lowest rates at which I could find a habit way to Mechanics’ Gall. “The bill for to-night consist of the usyal entertainments Woon's \inorencs are very well adapted to excite the rridle fequisies of the visi very witty sayiogs and conundtme ean rightly be beatd from ihem. The bill for to-night is very good Baxvany’s exhibition of the Holy Land is drawing lance 200 bighiy respectable sudieaces, is by no means sarprising moy edd that the day wages of common labor- ors, the prico of trifling servises of every deserip tion, the cost of every species of mechanical labor, the expense of boat and ewrriage hire. of medical at- tendsneoe, snd, im short, of all the coatiogens out goer of domestic Jifeyare much bighor here than in any partof Nurope er the United Scares, acd I have accordingly found, as migot be supped fre the statewonut Lhavo given, my salary eaiirely ia- | adequate to defray tho expenses of an establi suited, I will not say to my official position, bus to that of » private gentlomea | The salaries of the high officers of the Turkish | government, and of the Naropren diolomatie corps | at the Porte. are. I believe, considerably highor | than at any European court; aud these fuussion- | arieg all receive, in addition, numerous large allow- ances, cliowhere uvknown, tu covor the extraordi- | pary € sil drawing | and corcitions of publioand private life at Constan- erowded houses and their performances grooved with | tinople expose them Tam far from asking or ad- smarked applause | Yooating # corresponding rate of co xpsnestion for Mice Avnie Lomrdale is playing at the Washington | the representative of the United States as the Porte; theatre, | but at the rome time I must be pardoned for say- Mrs, Fares ovan to bave a complimentary benefit at | ing, that [ believe no person acquainted with tis Pittsburg. Pa., on the 20th inet. actual stato of things here can donbt, that both The Lage street theatre, Buffalo was closed porma- | justice to the incumbent ani the hover a nently on toe 18th inst osts of the Americsn goverement woul Martin B Coombs. Raq. the new Westen actor, is to | Consulted by # considerable iucrease of the salary now allowed to the minister at Coustantianple play an engagement at Vincinoati this week A vew protigy, called the {nfaut violinist. only evan | | have the honor to be, sir, your obedient ser- vant, Guo, P. Mansi Jeers old, is soom to make his appearance in the Western ‘ities. | Hon. Danigt Wenernn, Secretary of State. ‘Tho Albany theatre was to opon on the 20th inst, | LETTER FROM MR SORENCK Mr. Neafle and Miss Julia Turavull ace performing ab | + Lagarion ov rae Untrep Sravaa, Rro pw Jane1no, Maroh 11, 1852 the Albany Nuseum. | Sm: T bad the honor to acknowledge. in my lest Roard of Supervisors. | despatch, the receipt of your cireuler of :he ttn No- Deo, 20.+Iis Honor the Recorder, im the ohsir, | Yember inst, communicating the resolution prsced ‘The minutes of the last procecalugs were read and ap- | by the Senate on tho 3s; January, 1851, and re- proved, eeene, me to hes tne a statement of the expenses PAPEMS REFERRED, t Boe en i ane’ Sook, for correction of esx; bilLof Jour. | this poked scrap itates (cain Bupeciaachas Tominerce for $34, for report of conaty ewnvasa; been bil Of Geo W. Rublett, for postoges ‘aod. over muster: | pirtionel Uiteletlr ee auhaeiinr iene sees disburved by-bim, to the amount of $45 89; petition o ire a 7, ‘Benjamin Galbraith, attorney for James Gordon Beanctt, | Ciely between all the items of the cort of living n for correction of erronsous taxation om parrunal eMate, | Ceevarily and regularly to be iacurred, and. thoes ox- Various other petitions for correstion of taxes, were also | penses incident to ebtaining experience in tho first referred The sppiication of K B. Conacliy, County Clerk | year. I heave made, however, a close and accurate eleot, for Sdditional clerk and messonger—retsired to | calculation, and J find that, after exhausting « mam ‘ ittee om County Offces. equal to the outtt, in the purchase of farniture, ADOPTED. | carriage, horses, and whatever is necessary fer living ‘The report of the Committee om Annus! Taxes, in favor | comfortably and respootab!y, and im a fair dogree in Of correcting various erroneous astosamments, conformity with my position and rank aa the a FRIDTING INDEXES sentative ef the United Statos. I have thus f. it Resolved Thit the sum of $2.000 be appropriated to- | beyond that in the cost of living merely, and oa ‘wards poying for the printing of the iudexes in tho Suz- | porting my housebeld, at tho rate of about six thoa- rogate’s ama Vounty Ulerk’s offices Adoptwd "| sand five hundred dollars per joar ‘Adjourned to Monday next, at foar o'elook. me samen wae That, I think, may be fairly taken as the average anpual sam it will oos: me to continue my rosi Gonce hero; it certainly cannot be jess it will probably be more when I ceme te add something for oceasiona! hospitalities and entertafumente to bo ox- tended to my diplomatic collengnos, aad other por beeiges my countrymon, to whom the litt! et beon able to do in that way has thus far been confined. For your better understanding of this estimate, it Will be necessary to state Ud what it is based; [ am bere without any family. [ am howtekooping for myself, with no more than the usual aod neces: eary nun ber of servants. The Searotary of tho Legation lives with mo, but does not aid materially to xpenses. [have no other quss iomates in my house. I keop s osrriags and « pair of horece, and one saddle horso § Altogsther my establishment is modest and moderes, and on & emalier scale than that of any other mivis‘or of m: grade. Loccupy at presont @ house targor than require, or cam afford, I reat of eleven hundred dollar: abou’ to remove, however, into a smalier ove. whioh C mast moke answer my purpose, and for whion | will pay | onty seven hundred and fifty dollars; that will bs rom two bandred to oleven hundred and ffey dol ter of his amusing aoirees to night A complimentary bexedt was given. last evening, to Mr. 7. J. Hemphill the jesvee of the Arch atreot theatre, Philadelpoiw, The Nourset sisters are engaged to appear at tho Dowaré A\henwam, Boston : " The trove of dancers iz Washingt i i ' ' } United States Commissioner's Court. Betore J. W. Nelron, Beq. EXTRAPATION CAs®. Dec, 20.—In the matter of Avgustas Barr, charged 4 -with stabbing. with intent to Kill s fellow passenger, ~ emamed Dresaper, Mr F. He Talimsége prodaced wit 4 snesses to show that the act was done 10 repelling the av gault of Drewner. The Oommiseioner did not consider that the evidence was sufflolent to show that the avcared Lotended to kill at the time he inflicting the blow; and as ho was claimed under the extradition treaty for thst of- fevoe, be covid not doliver bim ap to the claimant, and Mthesefcre ordered the discharge of the prisoues, Common Picas —Part UL Before Bon Judge Daly. Deo 20.—eAetion for Divorce, Pugh ve Pugh —tn this reported im yesterday's Haracp ) the testimony for “the ‘asetannt War cemmene d and clo-ed — ke tisiu, O00 $ of the parties charged with orimipaity with Mrs Pagh, v4 tively denitd the not sworm to hy the witnesses for tne Plaiatif The keepor of the livase to Mulberry airoet commitiod here by Mrs. Push on the oooeton referred to by the servant girl and tno nicer of the gistutf TT - ; “ ‘waa called to the stand by defoodaat's oevarel sad port and bis wife" a} od that there wan Wo oriminnl ast . @rideege inal tm bud the coon wil sam up to C4y. 3 but I may mention the necessity of keepmg | YY | pay given by our (in graat part | | furnished.) and summer residenses at Buyuludere, | | every renson of official conven'enoe, as weil as of | y nt | dition, accurtomed to the comforts, oonvenioxoys | vory small; ard @ house us good as the average of H It was with :wuch reluctanoe that 1 dolermined | ishmen’ | enses to which the peculiar viroumstanses | lore less por annum than is any other minister et this this; from which you Naat pergeinn thet the price of everything is very rably pvc en er perheps in apy part, of I cou'd certainly live much oheapor at a hotel or in 8 bourding house, or if | would seolude myself to 8 great extent from social intercourse with my col- Jeagues and others. Bat the estimate and statement Ifarnich are mado with o view to kesping a com: fortable and respectable home, proper fur the resi- dence of a gentleman oceupyiog such official posi tion, becom’ he digcity of the goverament I represent, spd where Wy countrymen uad u!! others may be received and treated wich the respect aad attention to whioh, wheo visiting mo, they will by entitled. Lees than this I thiok my gozernment sbould potexpect. Anything short of this would cercainly pot eatisfy my own sense ef propriety If I aimed at more, and took for my standard the style of living which other govornments enable their representatives to adopt, | saoald make my expenses considerably exceed the salary allowed jut of my bine thousand dollars salary you will rceive that. upon tbe estimate I have given yoa, ay teve from two thousand to twenty five nua | drea dollars per appum But my little family of children, whom I had to leave bebiad me in the United States, aro to oe supported ane educated out of this, The residue, of course, camnos be very large. It is obviously proper, though, trat the fixed allowance to a dip'omaiic representative should be made wita a view to bis family acoompaoying and residing with bim abroad There are some incidents peculiar to » residences here which tend to increase the necessary expenses ofa minietor Among these I may nore toat he cam not live within the limits of a city proper, and tbe only market there, bat must take his boase healthier and more airy euburban q! together with the frequent oovasious be eer of attending court at the palace, and the foreign office, makes the keoping of a carriage and horses of his o#m, or otherwiss a large ex- peeiere for Eitag them at # livery stable, mot a oxury but absolutely indispensable The accuwulation of boows avd archives at this Jegation, the amount and obaraeter of its businvss, accommodation of the secretary of tho le- ation, mske it unavoidably necessary to havea spacious spartment to be exclusively used and ovou- pied ass publio office This your miotws'er is ro- quired to provide and pay for, for the publiv beasfis, at his own cost. I be teve no other governmens ta | the world, represented at this court, thus taxes its mivister A liberal allowance, oa the contcary, te made by cach of them to meet this among the oom tingent items, notwithstanding there ix, not ove of their minister’, as fares [am informed, who hav not a calary and other sliowauers, much exoceding who overoment ; nor is there one of the legations whioh, from the nature of its bud- begs, Its eupoiios of books avd pudlio documents, and the extent of it# comme rolal relations and ia- terests, has us much need of a puolic office as chis, exceptic may be that of Groat aritain I bave entered into these details sad explanations the more fully, because, in cammalcasing mace the rerolution of the Senate, you remark that "ie 18 de- evable tha; the information suouid be spasitic ani acourate ” I do not kno that my own sonolucion as towhet would be the proper com pensstion is deatred ; bat [ will venture to sda it ly Opinion, Lia earvoy of the whole grounj, is tha’ the ow fib td 06 in- creas @ to ten thousend doJars, and thaselary raised | to trelve thousend avesr. This opinion is founded vpon tke «up postion that while. the ronment of uited Sates ht not to exceed, Bt tha pro- e unde for the support of itt aalatetors at v other court, & just and whites sine eov- it 14 wor expedient on tre rhast to e@ the incumbent in a vosition less flvaniage vus voud Grd sny of the ordinery prof se.ons s+ home, or to keep bite, bye close sad ation, reduced toa standard cf com: oo must prevent bim from eupporcing | thas speearsnce ynieh adds not a liethy to nis in | Heerce ip the counwry tn which be resides while is is | Levoming to the d gnity aud liberality uf tae great | uation whieh he raorseents Law, most respectfully, your obediont fervant, Robe © SUuneCK Hon Danizu Weasres, Secretary of Stas, Washington, D O, [Extract J LETTER FROM KICHaRD H BAYARD Ligation oF 16 Urired Srares, Bruwols, Deo. 2, 1s51 * * * So far as this particular legation ie eoncerned, I would remark, 8 u generai fact, waich wt! derive its value in the estumate whisa may ba made from the experience of tne department, that Bracsela ia mre eXpousive than Philadelphia, and muob more so than Washingtom It is mush chedpor thau Lon- don, snd touch more so thau Paris ip compliance with your reqaons, T the honor totranemit @ statowent, marked A, of the probable eapenees of my family, consisting of wight persoud, exclusive of servants, for one year, based upoa the actoal oxpenses for six months The item for rent of furnished house is what I should bave been obliged to psy for « furnished house ; bus finding that in the eud it would amount to the seme thing. I preferred renting ahouw sod furnishing it myself. ibe actual rea: paid i hundred dollars per anpum. and the furnitu eight thousand dollars, which, allowing for the in terest, wear and tear, and ultima'e loss on sale, will give an average equal in the end to tao rent, ae stated, of @ furni hed house. The same remark may be made in reference to the item of hire of carriage, horses and corchinan. [ne amount .tated is whut [ should have been obliged | to pay per month for « o 2teur de remise, but I pre- | ferred to purchase a carringo aud horses, which cost me thirteen hundred and fitcy do!lars, the loss upoa the sale of which, atéed to the current expenses of coachman, hersés and repairs, will, if no ace dent ure, cmMOUDt to nearly the sams average exp*nes ® thet stated for their nice [ neod soarcely say, thas ® carrisgo is indispensable in a city where there are fow tide pavemeots, and where it rainy wore or Jess every day fortwo hundred wud forty days out of three bundsed and eixiy-Bve You will perceive from the statement which I have the boner to transmit, that tos exponses of @ fomily of the same womber of persons a3 wy own, living in an unorentetious manner, acd barely re ciprevativng the civilities which may be received, wll avount pearly to the eum of ten thous nd dol Jars per appom, exclusive of the ordivary contiogeats expenres of Biationory, papers, postage, &s. We csnuot alter ho usages of Ear pean courts, nor :emove the prejucices of Eucopean sosiety; aud, therefore, if we continue to keep ap aa i with them, we must, toe certain exten form to both, or, as the conrequense of disregarding them, experience the loss of that consideratian aud mors infinevce hick a great oation like the United States should enjoy. At this particular oourt, leaving out the great powers, oven Spain, Portugal, and Sardinia, are represented by ministers plenipo- tentisry, und Denmark by & minister resicent, alt of whom, a4 a mattor of course, take precedsnce of an | American charge d'affaires The affair of the ravk of a mioseter is a question of national amd personal dignity, which, ander tha constitution of the United States, wore particularly to the oopsiderstion of the ex- ecative department, and, with » graduated soals of salaries for the differeut legations, presents merely the naked question of the rack atd title of the repreren‘ative, since the compensation would be tee same lor the head of the parcica'ar legation, let thisrank and title be whas it might With reference to the matter of compenesti may be further remarked that, if is be upon a fair and liberal scale the aggregute expense of the diplomatic intercourse of the United States would be but little incrensed beyond whatis now ir owrred from the frequent changes whiok aa isude- quate compensation renders neorssary. Lhe result of the whole is, tbat, io my judement, the United States should be represented in Karope plenipotentiary with salaries gradu- reasonable 6) of a family, incident to a residence at the soat of the particular logation, er, at all events, by mixisters «cred ted to the severcign. Wi.b your eminent ability and knowlodge of the subject, you bave it in your power to piace the mt- ter, in both its relations, upon a proper footing, and, is so doing, to render an imporiaut service to the country T have the honor te be, with the grostest respoot, your obedient servast, Ricn'p @. Bayann To the Hon Dantiet Wanaran, Seoretary of Siate. LETTER FROM D. D BARNARD Legation or TH Unita Starns, Brauin, Desember 9 1551 Sin—I have the honor to avckoo wled ze the receipt of your letter (cirow!ar) of the 4:8 Novewbor, 185) requesting me to transmit to the department ment of | ponses jnoident to my residence, official chataorer, at Berlin Io my reply I would state that it would bs quite imporsibie for me to undertake to render am exaot sooount ip detail of the oxpases of my residease ia Berlin whioh, perhaps, may anesor the objoots of sho de- partment qui’e ve well Up to the f the present month of Dose mbor, just one year from my arrival in Berlia, [ ficd that wy expenditures, sirwily incidewtal to my residenoe bee for ‘od, iv my offigiat character. hed a, it exceeded y W abhont two thourand five buvdred dollars «Cf this excess it i# possible [ may get back, on an eventanl silo of my household effrets, one thow I may state fe with @ perfrotly simple and unontentatious 6 living, with po expensive hal @vory meagre show of hoapicality. were liberal borpitality which would he fitting and deetrable. whether in referenda te my perssal rele tions to the society in whisk my official oharnoter pizovs mo, or for advantage of the padlio inser esta with whiok Toms: Gj With all this, onosgh J dollars or, that with @ emall fam'ly. jo of Toun, however, make » general state nent, | will found @oa- wee, at torvice of ds or three years. La ap to be ebiiged to draw to & corsidsrable extent on my private means. A minister at this court, and a stranger, is prot of course, under every pos ible disadvantage regard to coonomy ip hie expenditares Some of the Europesa governments have shown what they think of the importance of the mi they maintain at Berlin, and of wba is duo to who seprpens (hea as chia court, by the salaries w er all ‘or example: Foglavd pays her minister four thowasd poucds surling, wiih a very large aliew- BLO besides, ier bis house How much Rusia pays her minister, 1 do not know; but the emperor owns aad eupplios hia with a ce for bis residences ‘ine salary of the Carkish minister, [ undorstand, is ove bunéred thousand franca; that of the and French miaisters, seronty thousand fr: 5 even the Surdivian minister has fifty thousand fravos. In some of these ouses, if notin sil, oxtra allowances are made to muct ex:raordiasry ox penses. © I have the honor to bo, with the highest respect, your obecicnt fervant, Barwa Hon. Danikn Wensree, Secretary of State ee SEW YOKK CUMMUN CUUNCIL, (OF FICIAL] Stated Session. Boakv ov ALpERMBN, Dee 20, 1852. Present—Aidermen Moore, Haley, Scursevant, Oakley, Bo co, Barr, Tweed, Brisley, Frauois, Smith, Peareail, Bard, Ware, Deoman, Cornell, Alvord, Doboriy aud Peck Oo motion, Alderman Sturtevant was eppointed Prevident pro tem Tho minutes of the last meeting wore read and ap- proved. PETITIONS By Alderman Sroxvuv ant—Petitionof T.B Cod du gion, to have fine remited. To Committeo on 4 DCo By Alderaan Moogs— Petition of Clafic, Mullen & Co forr: mission of fae and costs. Lo Commits cn Finance By Alderman Denman— Petition of John P Cau ming, to be paid moneys due ow con'ract, or to re- scind reselavion remivting asseesment ou C. F. Lind. fey To Committes on Finance By Alderman Donuxty—Peiition of P.O Maile end ovners, to bave Broudway, from F':fey-tirst to Fit ¥ Dypth street, flogged, ourd wad gutter set, &) 'o Committee on ltuads. By the sawe— Petition of Willixm 3. Vaa Zandt ud others, to have gas mais Jaid throagh sixth avenue to Forty-fitth street. To Committee on Lawps and Gas By Atacrman Oakiky—Remonastronce of James w WiLick abo others, agaist widening Caibe- rine sireot. To Committee ou Strects By the same— Remonstrance of W. M. Seymour and others, sgainet the widening of Catbarius wires. To Committee on Srreeia By Alderman Suita—Bill of Hook and Ladder Compary, No 13, for repairing their nowss To Committee on Fire Dopartwmeat. INVITATION Anipvilation wae received to attend the anoual ball of Eogine Company. No 3, on evening of Da cember 31, 1852, #2 tae Chinese Agsombly Rooms Accepted RESOLUTIONS. By Aldenman Donensy- Revoived, That permis. sion be, wed coe same 8 ucreby, graniod to Jeecps Paimer to jay a orosrwalk, four teot 6, in Centro ttreet, opposite No 6, at igo vo expense, wader the direotion ud superintendence of tae Commissioner ot Repairs avd Supplies Adoviet By the vue ~ Resolved, Coat permission he, and the same is hereby, granted to Henry{Labineau to lny @ rom walk, four feet wide, ) bts ow exponde, in Chambers street, oppo No 36, uuder the di Totion and superiatendes Repairs ano Supplies Adop By the teme- Resolved, Tnat an atditional gas Jewp be placed infront of St Peter's Vaurch, ta Borclay street, between Broadway eid Cbareb threet. urder the Fion Bod superiutordoace of the Ccomiss'onero! Lepairsnnd Supplices Adopted. By Adeirman ALvoun—R. malved That tae sida- wakp freotof «Jot ou Seventeenth street, north tide 125 feet east of Sixchavenue be flagged, wuder the Sire doo of the Stress Vommissioner. Referred to Committce on Streets By aloerman ALyord— Resolved, Thet the side Walks ov north ad souta sides of Tnicéy-fourth street be fagged with fleggiwg five feat wide bo- tween Fourth aod Fifth avesues, auder tke dircotion of the Sireet Commissioner Tu Comittee on Brreeta hy Alderman Wanp—Reeolved, That the Com miter per ot Re ‘Reiks op the conhery side of Blecoker wad Worster streets, to be repaired as once. Adop ed BY Aldermen SxtTH—R-solved Tha: the Com troljer be, and be ts hereby, direated to pay all wills ineursed by the epeciul Committes of the Common Coureil, for the reception of Louis Kossuth and his seociates, snd which have been approved by said ccumittee, and are now unpaid; aud that the sum ot three thousacd eigot buadred cutiurs be, and the Fame is beredy, appropriated therefor To Commit- tee on Finsnoe. FROM LOARD OF ASSISTANTS, Rerolution—Tnat tae carcisgeway of Cbrystio street, beiweep Broome aud Rivington strovss, be repaited. Covcurred in tesolution— (bu! the crosswalk corner of Orchard aid Delancy streets, be repaired = Uonourred in. Reesolatior—Thet tho carriagomay of Norfolk street, between Delancy aud Rivington steoets, be repaired Ccnourred tp Resolation— That Vbirty third atrest, botweon Third svenue urd East river, be lighted wita oil. Concurred in Resolutioc—That the Committes of Repsirs and Supplies be directed to repsir Anthooy s reet ba- tween Em street aod Broadway = Conourrsii in Petition— Of Wardens andVestrym: a of St Luke's Church, 10 bave cwo gas lamps placed iu froot of same, granted by card board —Joveurred iu Perition—Of tre American Binlo Socie y, fi Mision to cennec! with sewer io Ninth sor charge, granted by sais board Referrot to Com- Wittes on Bewerg Revolusiin—That the crosswalk, ooruer of Delan- oy and Allen etreets, be repaired. was coceurred ia Retolusioa—Thas tbe ourringe wey of Porayth ttreet, between Broowe sud itivington streets, bo repaired = Conourred in Resolution—That George J mirsion to ley & crosswalk opposite store 392 Water street, at bis own expoces Cencurret in Rescla ion—Vhas the Street Oomm ssioser have the sidewalk in froat of vhe wab.ic sonool in Jemes Breet. between Madison ard Chatham stresis, re peired. Coveurred in Resoluiion—VUbat aveoge B, betweea Chirteenth and Sixteenth streets, be repaired Concurred i Report of the Committee on Fire Department— In tovor of certaim tmprovems1 0 tbe house of Hose Company 42 To Gommittee on Fire Depars- ment. Report of the Commit'ee om Finance—{n favor of retuoding the awount of judgment owid by Cua Binghem, Betkaap & Co. fo Committes on Fi parce Petition of the trastees of the Sixth Usivorsaliat cbureb, to have two gas lamps placed ia froat of their church edifice, granted vy said Biard Ova cusred ij Communica' from the Sirset Commiss'oner, with estimas for regulating, paving &), Souk street, between Roosevelt and Over sirceta, #on- firmed by ssid buard, was refscred to the Commit- tee ov Bireeis Report of Committee on Sewers—In favor of granting petition of D OC Wesks, relative to sewar in Fourteenth street, between First and Sesond avenues. To Committee on Severe Apportionment of assessment ia the matier of paving Fifth avenue, betwveo Thirtict! d Forty- pe , copirmod by said Board, was cofor- ted to Committee om Assess cents Resolution—That tae Now York sad Asrlem Raalroad Company be required to take up the pre- vent rails from the City Hail through Jentre,Grand and Broome streets, tas Bowery and Foursn ave bue, to Twenty-soveuth sireet, and put down a igi? rail siw'lar to the ono in Park row, befure i of Jaly, 1853 To Committee on Sircets Reso}utiod—That the Clere of tap Common © oli be aurborieed and cireored to furnish the move bere cleo: of the Board of Assistaat Aidormen, from the Fifth, Temta, Thirtceath, Eightee Nineteenth wards,’ with the stare amd oaton fice, together with euch books aed stationery as is usual and customary. Conourred in 4 Report of Com nittes on Streots—Tn faver of paving Rath ford p'ace, botwoun Sixtecath and Sev- entecnth streete, To Committee on Sireote. Report of Committee on Roads—Io favor of raga- lating, geading. &c., Fifty third stroot, detweea Jastriver. Conourred im by tho Hunter bava per. following vote Affirmative— Aldermea Moore, Haley, Sturtevant, Oukley, Bojos, Bere, Brisley, swith. Poarsatl, Berd. Ward. Denman, Cornell, Alvord, Doherty wud Peck —17. Negstive—Alderman Tweed—1 Report ef Cowmitace ou Piro Dopartmont—lo favor of donating B Hoary tor loos of tine auatained. Conourred in 09 Affirmative—Aldermen Moora, re Stoute- vant, Oukiey, Reyoo, Barr, Cweed, Brisley, Snion, tg Ma Dewmaa, Corneti, Alvord, Doherty, Report of Committee oo Fionnce— Io favor of ro mitirg 861 on the Courch of ihe Moss Holy Recoewmer To Commitee on Fivance Report of Committee on Finsooe—lo fivor of ra- se tax of Andrew Carey To Committee on ‘imance. Begocs of Comupttes op Pinssee—o favor of ro mitting personal ‘tax ef James Quigley. To Com- Report of Commies ou. Tire Dentmeat mont—Ia faver of peying Mil for reat of house for Hase Oo. No 33. Qonourred in Beport of Committee oa Pablie Health—In favor of filling up certain lew and sackes lets, aud re- moving vuisances. To Committes en Publi 3 Report of Committee om Wharves, me and Slipe—-In fevor of re-nuilding inner of pier Ne 29. ER. To Committee on Wharves, Piors apd blips Report of Committee on Law Department—Non- covourring to grapt the petition ef the Ladies’ Home Mirsionsry Society to use the pablie square ia trout of the Old Brewsry Ou moriom, the tormer aorion of this bourd was adhered to Reyors of the Committee on Finance—Ia favor of dinativg $100 to Mathew Farley. for loss of horse while in the employment of the Curporetion, Lo Committee on Finenve Report of Finance Committeo—[e faver of re mittivg asseenwont on proporty of Mranvis Gouldy. To Commit'ee va Finance REPORTS Of Cowmittes on Pablic Health—Recommoending the building of a wall around the old Potter's Field. Adop'ed on a division: Affi:mative— Aldermen Mvore, Halsy, S'urtevant, Onktey, Boyce, Barr, Pweed. Smith, Pearsall, Bard, Devman, Corze!l, Alvord, Doherty, Peo 5 Of Commiitee on Fire De psrimout— Ce favor of repairing bouae of Hook and Ladder Company No. 4. Adopred O° Committee on Public Health—With ordinancos for the filling tow and sunkea lot, corner of For:y. seventh otreet gd Eloveath wvenue. Adopted on a division: Affi wative—Aitermen Moore, Haley, Sturtevant, Oskiey, Boyoe, Barr, Taved, Bristey, Smith. Poar- 4, ee Denman, Cornell, Alvord, Do- ‘e@ on Financs—In favor of & leme 0! soutd balfof pier No 33, aod North river, % George C. Byrne adopted, ona division, via Affirwxtive— Aldermen Moore. Haley, Sturtevant, Ovk ey. Boyce, Barr, Tweed, Brisley, Smith, Pear eall, Berd. Ward, Denman, Coroell, Alvord, Doner- ty. Peok —!7 Of Committees on Wharves, &>.—Ia favor of per- mitting C Vacderbilt «o widen small pier souta vide of pier No 1, North river Laid on the table, and directed to be printed Of Committee on Fire Department —Ta favor of yeipetating George Carr, Jaoub Reiss, Edward B. Palmer are Edger Brush in the Fire Dopariment. Advpted Ole committee—In favor of repairing house of Hote Compary No. 20 Adopted Of seme comum't'ee—In favor of appropriating (he further sum of $493 tor building evugime No 10 Adopted on & division, viz Affirmntyy:-—Aldermou Moore, Raley, Sturtevant, Gatiey, Boyoe, Barr. Terved. Brisley, Smith, Pee Bard, Dooman, Alvord, Doherty, Pook Of Committee on Salazics sad OM :es—To oouour to appropriate $350 to Charica Burdett, for extra eervioes 1h paymens of wonoys te New York Voiua- teers Adopted on a division, viz :— Affirmecive—- Aldermen Moore, elaley, Oakley, Boyce, Uweed. Brintey, Sinith, Pearsall, Bard, Alvord, Peck—IL getive—Aldermen Sturtevant, Denman, De- hervy—3 granting ik bead, FROM DEPARTMENTS Communication from the street Commissioner, wilh report acd plans of Commissioners of Grades, for the seciien of the oily betwoan Kighty second and Ninety-seoond streets. sud Bast aud Hu iaon rivers nn Rosda ‘journed till Wed- PM On metion, the then a needay tho 224, at five o’otook D YT Vansnrine, Clerk. Boarp or Asaisvayt ALDERMEN Monvay, Das 20, i352 Prosent-—Assistact Aldocmen Riog (a che chaic— Brown, Tait, Mebbett, O'G iea, Rotmay, Breadon, Weadwerd. Wels, Aaderton, Bouwtar, MeGowa, Wrebt Wheelun, Barter, Rogers, Valentine, Mo- Oovkey. PRIITIONS By Assiatant Alderman danpire -Of citizens of the Bievenih, Sevecteonth aod Bightecoth wards, Yo favor ef @ratirond ia avonaes A and B. to tha Fulton ferry, ested for hy W. Geiteonhoingr, Jr Referred to Commitiee on Streets By tho Presinent—Of JN Phelps aad othara, to pave, cuch and fleg Thirty ath street, frou Fourta to Madison syeuus Ke lerred to Jommitivs en Sireets By eawe—Of same, to light Thirty sevonth a'reat with ges, from Fourta te litch avevus. Refsreed to Commictce on Lamps, &o By «ame—OF swe, for sewer ia Thirty aoventh street, from Madieou to Fourth avenue. Referred to Comanitves on Severs By Assistant Aidermao VALENTINE —Sevoral pe- tition: tor a market on the west side of avenus A, betweep Fifteenth and Sixteenth etreots. Rvforred to Commitee ov Markers INVITATION. Of Atlantic Engine Uswpany, No 18, to attend a bell at the City Aesombly Rooms, Vosember 31 Accepted, RESOLUTIONS By Assistant Aiderman Woopwaro—Rovolved, That the Comptroller draw bis warrant io favor of Richara T Compton, President of the Board ot Al dermen, end Jouns Troster, Previdess of the Board of Aesistant Aiderwea, for $250 each, a1 compensa- tiop for (heir servions as Commissioners of Aosith | for the pxst svesom. Adopted, by ths following | vo! Aflirmat've—Mersre. Brown, Tait, Mabbatt, O'Bren, Redman, Brendon, Woodward, Wels, Aa Corson, Bouton, Gorn, Wrighs, Wheolaa, Bar- ker, Rogers, Rig. Valentine, McConkey ~ 18 By tae sawe~ Whereas, it is usual to preserve the portraits of our chiet magistrates; therofe Reeorved, Tuas ic be referred to the Committee ou Ariwand Solences to ingaire aad report the ap propriation neeesrary to have the porcrait of nis | honor Mayor Kingaland painted, thay the samemay | be piaced tn ibe Governer’s Room Adopted By Avstetent Alderman VALentin Comptroller draw hia warrant in favor of C Cletnhan, for $150, vue same oving for services ren- Mo. dered os offictal reperter to she Soard of Acwiatans Aleerwen Adopted by the following vote :— | Affirm stive—Mesers Brown, Tait, Mobbact, | O'4rten, Rotman Bresaen, Woodward, Wells, Auderron, Boutoo, MeGown, W . Wheelse, | Barker, Regas, Ring, Vatenviae, MeJoakey 15 By Avrizian! Alderman bbeown— diving the coo- sent of the ou hentiis of New York te tha S York and Now Rocvelle Reilrosd Company to siruot & draw oiidgs os the Harlom rire ond of Geroud ay Lo Coma! tee on ’ By Asvistant Alcorman Mc ‘okay —Taat threo bucdreo and fifty feet oo sourh side of Cuirsy-fourca strect he flagged, 90 85 to eonneet wich the fisgetag ou the east eide of Tenth avenss. Lo Comanttoe on Sucots. INVITATION Of Broderick Hvgine Uoaeny No. 3, to attend ® bali at Chinese Avsemuly Rooms, on the eveuing of Deo Sl. Adopted ERPORTS Of Committee on Polwe—Referring petition of J.N Smith. policemen, for psy of modwal diil, to Commitiowon Finssce Adop od | Ot Special Commit eo~Reqatring the Harlem | Railroad Company to construct new bridgow over | # the deep cut at Kighty-sx b street, 105m street, 106 b to 168cb errcete; Leh aad Lilch asroot. Adop'ed by the following wore: ~ Affirmative —- Messrs Browa, Tait, Mabbatt, O'Brien, Rodman, Breaden, Voedward, Wells, An- derson, Bonton, MoGoen, Vngat, Wheolon, Sbar- kor, Rogers, King, Vale . McConkey —18 COMMUNICATION | From the Street Commivsiouer—Waolosing the | estimetes for lay mg oross walks of Grand and Lewis streets Confi REMONSTRANCR | Of Samuel W Judson—Ageinss tho exsovrmont for pavivg Thirty-ninta atresc, between Fitch sud Sixth avenues, veing confirmed. To Commitiee on Streets Uh oad corer cmed FROM BOARD OF ALDERMEN Resolution— Ubat $125 de appropriated for the repsir of the clock in the Gity Hall. Coacurrod iu by the fol'owing votre: — Afi mative — Mosers Brown, Tait, Mabbatt, O'Brien, Rodman Broaden, Woodward, Wells, Aa- derton Bouton, MoGown, Wright, Wheelsa, Bar- ker, Rogers, King, Valentias, MeVonkey— 15 COMMUNICATIONS, From Bureau of Assessmencs— With tho follows srresament lists, askivg thet they he oovfiraod, Abner Sanford appointed co'loctor thorefor, vi For sowors in Uotrty: first stroot, from tao sewer west of Seventh avenge, to @ point about lifty fect west of Stach avenne: do Thompson atrost, from ® point op- porite No 219¢o Blecoker street; inf .fteonsh strest, from Seventh avenus to @ point at or near the inter- seotion of Sixth aveoue. im Charles a'rect, from to Nerth river to point at or near the iaterseotton of Greenwich avenue; for regula’ wk grediog, aad setting curo und gutter stonas ta I ifiy- ssoomd street, from Brosdqay to Tooth avenas ; for flogging cae mdewaik on north side of Dolanoy street, botrsen Mangin ood tees atreota; for aoteing curb and gn tor stores in Thirty ninth etreet, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, and paving the said streot, from Madisoa to Sach avenue; for poving oarciage say ot Thirty sixi street, eo0 and Sixth avenues, end flogging @ space four fos wide, through the sidewall for regulssing, grading, ond massdamisicg Fiftyfonrth trees, betreon Broadway and Ki,hth avenue; for ve versia Thirty oigh: b streot; for re cor im Bight) avenue, tea point at or Gone the joterseetion of Sixsh aveaue ant Thirty-cighth treet; im Thirty ninth atrect, from the termination of ‘or EB. of Bighth avaous, to & po'nt shout eighty toe of Sixth avo’ | regulating and grading EF ghth svenvs from towih to 108h streot; for paving Forticth ocroot, between Fitth und Niath evonaos, ond flagging the | for years b | etege proprietors in | for the grant, are as worthy | mere novking, B. sidewalks thereef; for ry Afth ‘Thirt; pues, and the wide. To Conatttee on Assessments. REPORTS. Of Special Committee on Ninth Avenue Tn favor of pues James Mi , Wa. ford, and Minor C. Story, and their associates, wii to construct a railroad on Ninth aveaue, end other streets, from Fif:y-Grst street to vig — Double track through Niath avense, Fitty first: to Gansevoort street, thence, by = traom. through Greenwich street to the ee aud through Washiogton street to the Caan eopnect through Battery placa, te bs dirceved by boree power, aud the charge per passenger not over five cents; to be coutinusd y ol Fifty first street, when the Common Council shall direot. along Ninth avenue to Bloomingdale roxd and Teath a anc slong latter to Hariem river, as fast ag avepucs are graded. Adopted by the fullowing Affirmative—Mersra. Brown, Tait, Mabbatt, O’Brien, Rodman, Broaden, Woodward, Boutea, MoGown, Wright, Rogers Valeaina—14 Negative—Mecers Wella, een, Wheelaa, Barker, MoConkey—5 COMMUNICATION. From His Honor the Mayor returning the rosola- piers wnd bulkheads be withdrawa—with bis reason therefor Laid onthe table, to be primted ia the ususl course FEOM BOARD OF ALDSRMAN Re port—In the communicstion ofthe Comptroller, tion which direots that the advertiroment for the sale of submitting. the annual appropriations and estima ed tax levy for 1853, with an ordinance. i LJ Report—In favor ofleasing premisesin Ann street, to Harcey f. Aubury. Goneur.os in port—[b re'biton te locating engine Co. 41 and bose Co. No 4 Conourred ia Reselutions—Staying Sixth and Eight Avenuse Railroad Cos from preceeding with. doubie track through College place & 2 Concourred in. The Board them adjourned to Wednesday after- noon, at 5 o'clock rom the minates, Epwarp Sanvosp, Clerk. Orricn Boap oF A&SSIstANTS, Doo 20, 1852 The fo'lowing communication wse received from Hie bopor the Mayer, iid on the table, ordered to be entered at length on the minutes, and pudlished in one er more of the public papers Epwarp Sanrorp, Olerk. Mayon’s Orricn, Deo. 1352. To Tae Bon. THe Boakw'or Assist ANT ALDER MEN OF HK City or New York. GrxtiL¥mmn—I returo herewith a resolation di- reotipg the Commissioners of the Sinking Mand to postpone, until further dicected by the Common Council, the sale of the wharvea aad piers which have beon advertised to take place on the 21st inst Withous entering at all upom the question ag to the right of the Connee Vounvil to interfere with tue acta ef the Commis- siovers of the Sinking Fund, whose powers aud da- tics are defined by laws of the Siate, I woald briefly submit the ressons which impel me to withhold my arecotfrom the resolution [6nd. by referoace to the Comptroller's report for 1851, that the valuation of the wharves and piore, exciusive of thove used for ferry purposes, is set down at $3 268 (00; the revecue derived from them is stated at $97,706 01, which, at best, is a very small interest on the smount of ospital invested. Further examination, however, disclovesthat,during + the same yesr, there was expouded on thom for repairs, $74 960 49; for cleaning $9,290; and for. ralurics $1,000, muking a total of $59,220 19,whish, deduoted from the seenmed amonnt of revenge, Jeaves the euin of $12,455 52, aa the interest om & capital of $3,268,000 Witt guch # etate of facts before mo, T felt it my duty, in yy lant unnusl mosesge, to urge the im- mediate sale of the wharves anv plers, uaives coma means could be devited to make tiem yield & rova- nue commensurate with their velue; and as sash wens bave not beea devired, tho Commissionars of the Sinking Fund have, in my ja’gmons, coasalied the best intorests of the oity by directing their sale. while the amount thus derived will add largely to the sivkirg fund pledged for the city devi. The wharves avd piers, being verted in private parties, will be added to tho taxable proporty of the ott, and thus ligbten the enormous barthea of taxation so loudly and justly compiaiaed of, Under theee circumstances, Lreture the rosolution for reconsideration, sud truyt that more mature re- flection will cenvince your honorable body of she propriety, expedicacy and policy of the aouree adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fuad. A OC. Kinasuanp, Mayor. Debstes In the Common Council, [From our Special Reporter. ] BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN, Moxpay Evening, Doe 20, 1852. THE NINTH AVLNUM RAILROAD The report of the committee to whom thie quae tion was referred, was read, and the following de bate evened: — Areistant Aldormam Barkers roro, and said shat he did not expect to have occasion to speak upon the subject that evening. The mujorisy of the Board not ovly wanted to briog up the quee tien, but wanted ita adoption. He w. 1 Opposed: to a railrosd that would nos interfere with tae public at large, but was, on the contrary, in favor of euca railroads, whero they would be a benefit te svciety, aud would not interfere with tho public. If there were any parties who were entitled to toe grant of thie railroad, it wai Messrs. Kipp & Brown, who were, in fact, the pionevrs of the ompibua business They have bren for yours in thas business, and have always. attondod to tho regais- tiors, &o, of the Common Gouncil They bh been great sufferers by the Common Council allo ing railroads to run #0 near their stage bres, and will be utterly rained if sae report of the committes be adopted. At present | their butivevs ir so dull that they are compelled +o draw off sarge number of their stegos. It they geve tho grant to the psrtics mestioged in the re- pat, it would be the means of raining two mon whe have boon in the habi: of azoommodating If they were determined upon havior lway, why notgive the grant to Kipp & Brown, whe were more wortby of 16 than aay oloor men tn the city? Avictant Alderman Ro: N thon reso and seid thar be did not intend to # hing agsiost Krop & Brown, but there wees a ho city who, wea ities, made larger forsaae id hell the meang apd thanever Kipp & & tent Alderman Bb preat extent. It is true tha y uTsrod by fire, you they always reveived tex timet mors aseite tence when pny such event Leppened than any othere shin cicy = Lae pot toners nea asover Kipo & They bave made furtuces from @& by tasir industry and talenta. ing them this prant, they mould be sitiam ~ Our young men te Tt the ker, ¥ Brown ter fame and fortace xo paople had many each men at those 9 the report, they need nor fear che oom- 2 batteries of the clritived world. Tesy might eny—* Come on, and wo are ready for yea.” Thee mcs ars most deserving of the grant, and to them | ié should be awarded Areistant Alderman McCoycry said thet if the grant was given to She partion meutioned ia the re t, it would be eve of the mos: fisgrant acts of Vilapy that war ovor commicted in those balla Assivtant Aldermap Ropman did not see any ree | con why they should give the grant to K pp & Brown, as tisrew their offer of (he Sixth avenae reload a If they were eo ungracious as to do thir, he did mos 4.6 why they should do offered the grant ofthe Ninth avenue ove Avaistant Aldermen Baxxen moved that the names of Kipp & Brown he inrertod as the petition- ers, instead of Murphy, Badford & Story. Tais mo- slovs He then moved that Minor Scory’s be struck ont o list of the petitioners. is mo ion was also loat Tro question on the adoption of the report of the Gorm mittee won then taken up, and adopted by a mejerity of 13 10 6 Assiatont Alderman Ronan thea moved thet the emestion be reconsidered, whish was lost by a ma- jority of Mito 4 THE RIXTH AND KIGHTI AVENU® RAILROADS The resolution which parsed the Board of Alden men on Saturday Inst, directing the grantees of ibese lires to take wp the double track now being aid ip Barclay street, was then brought up Assistant Aldormaa Barksa moved for its oor ourrence Arsis‘ant Alderman RopMan was in favor of Ing. ing chat tack, ae on Suadays a single treok throng’ Vesey street wou'd disturb the congregation of ar. Peul’soburch very much That was his ohief reason for opposing ® Concurrence of the resolation fie then moveo thet it be referred to the special com- mittee on the Sixth and Lighth avenue railroads Arelstant Alderman McUonkey objsoted to Sa heing cferred If i was referred, the track would be laid and locomotives runping on it befvre any ae tion would be taken om the matter. ‘Lhe motion on reference was then put and lost. Tox Minwetan te Cina —ioa Hanphrey Mer hall. our commissioner to Chiua, had resshed Bowe at lent advices, (leh November) amd would ea froct Neples cn the 34 of Nuvember for Alaxandda, via Malta, 20 ns (0 embark at Buen om the sth of December. te tne eeener of the bayprecter oe svn on “§ ir Mareheli wil) pro eae! on earty peed 3 tes as the en Hace to Ceylon is eas a8 jays. and from (Ceylon te Hong. ida sixteew days, mak ng o teeplos ef thirty four days at soa the etonmore for Hong Kong each mouth, and Sonch»mpton ow Ging Mec Mexeball soiled fro SE of Oorober and reached Pars on ttle too Jate to etritn the over'sod matt for Detod-e Te wl be even that be does jola thas of Novomber, and svelte bimself of the iaterva to virdt the alesse groumis pon bis codte.—Weshington Uraen Des. 18,