The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1853, Page 4

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Eriorian Minernecey. DOUBLE SHEET. Rew ‘York, Tuesday, January 4, 1853: Mails for Europe: THE NEW YORK WEFKLY HERALD ‘The Cunard steamship Oanada, Captain Lang, will Geave Boston, st neon to morrow, for Halifax and Liver- poo. Bodreriptions and advertisements for any edition of @he Kew Yous Henaco, will be recived st the follewing placer In Burepe B. Sandford & Co., Londen William Thomas & Co., 19 and 21 Catherine street. Mivingeton, Wells & Co.. Paris. B.H Revoil, 17 Rue de ia Banque. Me Buropean mails will close, in this city, at one and ‘Mises o'clock this aflernoon. The Wexxiy Hearn will de published at bulf past nine o’cloek thie morning. ingle copier, in wrappers, sixpence. The News. Our special Albany corresponden! writes, caucu> | ses were last night held by the democratic and whig members of the Assembly, for the parpoze of | aelocting candidates to be supported for the different offices of that body on the assembling of the Legis- | Istare to day. Thedemocrats decided upon William B. Ludlow, of Suffolk, for Speaker, and John S Nafew, of Albany, for Clerk. As their party is greatly in the ascendancy, these gentlemen will, of ‘ours, beclected. The Governor's mersago, which | their seats for another year; and of the Assistants | 1850-'l as the standard, we find that our export of | p19 may do the eame thing by rejecting all of them. | many were re-elected. The change isa gain for | cotton con immediately after the organization of the Senate | the democratic party of three, viz. in the Fifth, | domestic exportto I'sance, the quantity sentover ia | gtatc—in fact the only free State, except New is reported to be very lengthy, will be delivered and Assembly. As cverybody in this vicinity je looking for this document with considerable aaz- Sety, wasball endeavor to publish it in our afternoon edition that is, if it eal! have been delivered. In addition to the message, we will to-morrow present our readers with the annual report of the Comp troller, exhibiting the nancial condition of the Beate at the close ofthe last fiscal year From Washington, we learn that Hon. W ft. King has resigned his seat in tho Senate, aud to- morrow expects to leave in « steamer for Norfolix, where he will take the U.8. steamer Fulton for Havana. Though but little actual business was transacted a Congress yesterday, the debates which occurred — dm both branches are fraught with the greateat inver- wt. In the Senate, a memorial was prosented from Dr. Wells, asking for compensation for iis fa- ther’s discovery of chloroform. After a short dis @ussion, relative to the long ponding controversy on this subject between Drs. Wells and Morton,{the memorial was tabled. A petition was received from the New York and Havre Mail Steamship Com- pany, asking for additional compensation, or a ro- Ieaze from their contract. Gen. Cass presented a memorial from the Baltimore Baptist [‘nion, pray- | img this govermmext to cndearvor to secure tho freedom of religious worship to Americana | the sbroad. The (ieneral supported the objects of th petitioners in a long and interesting speech, and, after some flippant remarks from Mr. Hale, the matter was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, On motion of Mr. Mason, the resolution Making for informs ion relative to our relations with Bpain, concerning recent transactions in Cuba, &c, was taken up end adopted. that at the time this resolution was offered, Mosera Mazon aud Cass made able speeches with regard to the present aud what should be the future police ef the country, which ether members of th moved the postponem 7 ise 7 & th till to dey, when we may look for a very excffing discussion After the disporal of the morning business, the House of Representatives went into Committee of the Whole on the general Appropriation bile Two or three of the measures were read, snd ordered to be reported to the House, and then Mr. Venable, | Borth Carolina dewocrat, took the floor, aad made along speech upon the subject of intervention in Soreign a! the mission of Kossuth, the aeqni- gition ofterritory, ke. Mr. V. took high oonserva- tive ground, and was wholly opposed to interven tien principles, as advocated by the friends of the Hungarian exile. As to Kossuth himself, be handled him without gloves, and showed his character to be anything else than that of « high minded, honorsble patriot. Mr. V. ap proved of the manner in which we acquired Louisiana and Texas, but disapproved of everything appertaining to fillibusterism, and was unwilling that any attempt should be made to wrest Cuba frem Spain by foroe. He was in favor of enforsing the Monroe doctrine with regard to the encroach- ments of foreign powers on this continent; and if it should hoppen that Spain found it necessary to re- Hinquish pessession of the island of Cuba, then and not till then, the United Btates musi by all means take charge of i Considerable debate ensned be- tween Moesre. Stephens, Brown, Wiloox, and othera, which iv worthy of the Scutherners generally on the matter in dispute Seo the report under the proper head. By the arrival of the screw steamer (ilaegow we have received one day's later advices from ail parts of the Old World, full details of whieh be found fm another page © far as regar fairs, we find bat little news of politionl importanne The announcement had been made in the British House of Commons that the war in India wasnt an end; the natives who were opposed to the enlarge mext of tho terri probably beon cither expelled from their own laad or buried beneath ite surfs And yet some of the philentbropic women of Great Brilain, like the | to the peaceable d States, under government, are bitterly opy ion of territory by the | re, that negro Th the p ; possibly be thereby ext ° kad better brush the cobw nging household before attempting to write in any dust they may be a of their neighbors. Betwoon earthquakes and re lations, the inhsbitants of China sre suff woful extent. Ore thonsand howges and three dred people were recently destroyed b. earthqnakes, which of late appoar to frequent im tha! country as they have been in the southern portion of the American continent. The Cdineso invurgente are progressing with vome jon, AMON © d od old ladies their own ele namee 1 0 find in nt f the 6 been It will be recollected | note, ai evineing the feeling of | ory of the Queen of England have | very might | prowpec’s of ‘meccess. Atter a batsle istcly | Our Gemmerecial Intercourse with Prance they pat over “thirteen hundred prisoners to the sword, anong whom were some thirty of the military and {vil officers ef the goverament. In fact, not only China, but nearly the whole of Asia, ism a state of tumult. Zimmy having thrown of its allegianre te Ava, amother bleody end pro- tracted war in that quarter ia likely to oocur. Accounts from Italy state that several more of the followers of Mazzini have been found guilty, aud | condemned to bs executed. Unusual activity pre- vailed in tke manufacturing and commercial marta | | | of France. The manufacturers had beon compelled | to refuse vresh orders, and the tradesmen anti | pated doing an extensive business during the holi- days Wo give an amusing extract from a Dublia magazine, relative to militia training in the United Btates. The writer omits to mention that it is this very syatom, which he endeavors to bring into ridi- cule—thia diverging from the old beaten track ef despotic military diseipline—that bas been found . | competent to meintain our national honor aad prowees, from the days of ’76 to the present moment. With tho exception of the statemoat that the cot- ton market was firm at Liverpool, we find no ehange of importance to notice in commercial affairs. The Cunard steamer Asia will bring ua two days later news. She is now in her seventeenth day. | | | | shortof coal, and with loss of foretopmast. Tho | tonon the 13th ult, yesterday put into Boston, | under the Empire, Waar 19 70 BB Done with Pennsyivansat—It is our happy lot to lay befere our readers every day a Mionarony Movewerrs oy Poxrticrans.—The most learned naturalist, we think, would be whelly Franee, under the Empire, will obviously be 8 | new cabinet, formed somewhere, for the incoming | at fault in assigning cameo for the strange commercial country. The faetorios of Roven and Lyoue will be thronged with busy operatives, caring lesefor politics and more for the loom than their Hevre and Marseilles and the western ports will be “trade will at length epring up. Tho lower classes ‘will consume moro of the nocessarios and luxuries of life, @ large portion of which they will require to purchare from abroad. In return, a new impetus will be given tothe creative industry of the country, and tho usual domestic exports wil! be vastly in- creazed. Silks, ribbons, cloth, hardware, and the thousand and one minor manufactures of luxury, of which Paria is the mart, will be produced in onor- mous quantities; and there will be a fair chanco that we, in New York, shall be enabled to purchase 8 pair of kid gloves for something loss thaa’a dollar. Every encouragement will be held out under tho new régime to mon of wealth to engage in <rade; and while tho laws which guarantee the liberty of the eubject may be quietly smethered under the cushions of the imperial throne, ull tho power of the | Emperor will be exerted to incorporate those relat- | ing to freedom of trade into the common law of the | Tho cteamrbip Washington, which left Southamp- | land. Trained in the study of political seonomy by one of the first of modern statosmen--the late Sir Robert Veel-—Louis Napoleon is not | mails and several of her passengers reachod this | likely to ahjure, at 9 moment when his private | city last bight by the New Haven train. Among other interesting matter, ther column a letter from Venezuela, in relation to | the political events of that republic, and the con- Heeano. With this letter the public have a full | and complete history of that splendid country. | The captain of a brig which yesterday arrived in | Boston from St. Domingo, declares that he was in | cerning tho reperted seizure of Samana by the | French, and thinks that the statemont is a hoax. | will is law, those principles for which his mas- we give in ano- | ter and model sacrifieed power, fame, and happiness. Some approximation towards free trade may eonfi- | dently be expected. Some alleviation of thoterrible reotion of General Paez with thom. Is is avery | duties by which chort-sighted stateemen strove to | grinding able pepor, and is a reply to two articles on the | hem in Vrance within hersolf, will cortainly be at- | for fayara, “the smallest most thankfully recsived.” same sabject published a few months ago in the | tempted. Louis Napoleon cannot fail to perosive that the surest mode of increasing the foreign ex- | port trade of P'raace is to romove all restrictions on | her import trode, and he will evince leas wisdom | than we give him credit for if he delays an hour the latter port over one month prior to sailing, | longer than is neveasary the removal of imposts, so during which time he did not hear one word con- | eminently prejudicial to the welfare of hia people. To the United States, the commorcial policy which | he wilf feel called upon to pursue isa matter of grave | He reports that the vomito waa still éarrying of | moment. Though our commercial intercourse wilh | great numbers of foreigners in Hayti. The Freneb ' France has been hithorto subject to constant fluctu- | ! consul had-died, and the Amorican consul bad been H ations—now prosperous, and giving employment to | thousands of individuals, and again reduced toa | atteoked by the disease. tain, stating that he had been requested by Minis- | | ter. It being understood that Secretary Everett | | | and the B: Minister had the aflair w con: | sideration, the Court postponed the ease till this | morning. The now city government commenced their opera | tions yesterday, and a fall report of the Mayor's | Messege, the organization of the Board of Assiat- ; ante, ke , will be fonnd elsewhere. The nomina- tions to the various civie offices were announced at | on Salaries and Officcs The Aldermen all retain | Thirteenth, and Eighteenth wards. The Mayor’s Meesege ie aa able doeument, and will be road with | interest. In the Bosrd ef Aldermen, Isst even’ ; thoce disgraceful perzonal altercations, w become common, arose. We need scaracly add that | the Alderman of the Third was a prominent party. } I , and other matters of interest connected with our muuicips! government, seo our offict | special reports. The Beard of Assistant Aldermen met last even- | ing, and, having trananeted some ordinary routine | ' business, adjourned to next Wednesday afternoon | at five o’clock. This wasthe drst meeting of the new Board, for the transaction of public businesa, | since the election of sho meuerss 4 pusvoa over | | with much harmony and good feeling. i | The great Magon Will Case, which has been in liti- | gation since the year 1839, ic now fairly launched | before Judge Roosevelt anda jury, in the Supreme | Circvit Court of this city, with a formidable host | of lawyers for and against the validity of the dis- | puted testament. There isa vast amount of pro- | perty depending upon the issue, and the result is | looked for with considerable snxiety. The trial, it | ia thought, will occupy zome days, We have given, in our law reporte, a copy of the will, and a brief statement of the case. The evidenco will be eom- | menced today by the counsel for the executors, | who have been declared by the Judge entitled to | the aflirmative, that is, the opening and the closing ofthe case. Chancery suits will sometimes hare an end. A young girl, named MoGerran, was knocked down yesterday forenoon in Weat Broadway, by cars of the Sixth avenue railroad. Both legs and one of ber arma were horribly by the wheele passing over them. She died See report elsewhere. i ft one of ¢! of her ¢ | in the City Hoepital Lest crening Mr. J. A. McMaster, editor of the New York Freeman’s Jcurnal, delivered a leovare, | olitan Hall, on the school question, for | our report. ast evening, Rev. Mr. Starr, of Boston, delivered | a lecture on “Mountains and their meaning,” at 472 | Broadway, to an attentive and crowded audience Tke mortality report of the City Inspector, pub- lished in another column, shows that three hundred and eighty-nine persons died in the city during the week ended last Saturday. Of this number one hundred and eighty-two were adult men and wo- men, one hundred and nine boys, and ninety-cight | girls. Two hundred of the gross number were | children under ten years of age. Of the prevailing diseases, consumption, inflammation of the lungs, | with the rarious fevers, pressed with somewhat of | unusual severity upon our grown up pepulation. | This may be accounted for, ins great degree, by the very variable weather which we have had fer come time pact. Convulsions and croup carried away forty-seven infants. The general health of the city | is very good. The embargo which the rain and ice placed upon all the telegraph lines between this city and Boston, on Fridsy and Saturday, was removed about half | past nine o'clock last evening, thanks to the ener- | getie efforts of the House company. We under- | stand both of the wires, and many of the poste of | this line,were completely prostrated for many miles, | | by the great body of ice which collected upon them | last week, and some scores of mer been astire- | ly engaged for two or three days past in reparing | the damage. The Union (Bain and Moree) wires | were alro broken ro that they have been unable to communicate with Boston since Friday. They wore | reported stilt down at ten o'clock last night, but hopes wore entertained that they would be ropaired | lay or two lon of the resder is directed to inside trers from Ha ard Trinidad de o, brought by the stesmer Lmpire City, a va riety of Foreign and lomestic Intelligence, Com j mercial reporte, Advertisements, &o The aitent | make large shipments. | withou! benefitting either The Kane extradition ase, the first of the kind | mere nominal figure, by the crisis ensuing upon a | under the Ashburton treaty, is aid te be oxciting | Popular movement— there is every roasonto believe | to the uation as to us, and no better. We have | a great deal ofinterestin Washington. On coming | that undera stable government, and more liberal | op in the United States Sapreme Court, yesterday, | commersial lawa, it might assume very rospectadle | far, the thing looks feasible, all right, and ar- | a letter waa read from the counsel tor Great Bri- | Proportions. In the fiscal yoar 1318-49, our do- | ranged. miestio exports to France wero valued at about | ter Crampton not to meddle further with the mat | $12,500,000—the unsettled state of the republic | a1j of these were willing to waive their claims to holding out but little inducement to merchants to The next year, during which the struggle betwoen Louis Napoleon and the republican party rendered the state of France still ports to Havre and the other ports fell to $1,254,- £63. Condidenoe being partiaily reetored during the year 1850-51, they rose to the more respeotable | | figure of 85, and we presume the tablos of ‘on, and roferred to the Committee | the last twelva months will show a considerable ineresse on this amount. Taking the returns of tutes nearly three-fourths of our whole that year being valued at about eighteen iniliions of dollars. Next to eotton, gold and silver coin | rank the highest in the table; we exported nearly | five millions worth during the twelve months. About | half a million dollars worth of tobacco, a quarter ef amillion worth of whalebone, $181,000 worth of boards and staves, $165,000 worth of pearl ash, and $152,000 worth of rive, are the other leading items of the table. duty to the French government. About twenty- nine-thirtieths of the cotton paid a trifle over three | conte a pound: and the remaining one-thirtieth ra- ther more than a cont and a half. The bullion paid $1 86 per3 tb. 21 oz. troy. Twenty-nine thirtieths of the Waco pula ravher more chan aocent @ pound, and the remaining one-thirtieth was admitted free. Twenty nine-thirtieths of the rice paid about one cent per 1} 1b, and the remaining thirtieth paid one cent per 5lbs. So itis with the other imports into France from this country. _ But Franco hag not only attempted to make our exporters bear the chief load of the support of her government, but bas left no means untried to ex- clude our ships from her ports. While the French as any other, our vessels are persecuted with such vexatious oxactions a! Bordeaux and Havre, that nothing but the indomitabie ener- gy of our ship owners and merchants could keep the trade alive. A scale of discriminating duties places our vessels under & most eerious disadvantage in the race of competition with the native shipping. One hundred per cent additional i: levied on cotton imported into France in foreign vessels. One cent a pound is exacted on tobacco under the like circum stances, while Freneb veseels are allowed to Jand it free of duty. Four hundred per cent additional is ebarged on rice imported from countries out of Europe, in foreign vessels. Besides thees, the I’rench port and tonnage duties are obviously aimed at excluding the foreignor altogether from Frenob ports less strictly true, tbat Am rican vessels trading to much for port, tonnage, and other duties, as French vessels do here. That these absurd laws do not at- tain their object, is perfectly clear from the pub- fished trade and navigation tables. Notwithstand ing the mapy imposts levied, and the exactions practised, on our vessels, they earry twenty-nine- thirtieths of the produce exported from this country to Franee. Aceording to another official return, our import trade from France, during the same year (1830-51), employed 224 American vessels, measuring 112,842 tons, and only 138 French res sels, measuring 41,155 tone; and our export trade to I'ranoe, during the seme period, employed 271 American vessels, measuring 163,707 tons, and only 79 Freneh vessels, measuring 23,160 tons. The du- ties of which we complain are, therefore, a gratui- tous injury, inflicted primarily on our own ship owners and ultimately on the French consumer, without possessing any claim to cousideration a» benefit to the French ship owners. These matters will doubtless engage the early at- tention of the new antherities of France, and the new sdministration of the United States. [t will be for the Emperor to inquire what solid reason o20 be urged in favor of @ system of commercial regu- lations equally injorious to the foreign prodwoer and the domestic consumer, and which burthen boa Alive, ss we bel eve Louis Napoleon to be, to the fallacice of extoncing a fictitious support to any partioular branch of tras or industry, by meanz of protective d not be likely to maintain the narrow m' of his aneestore, io those cases, at all events, where k tion bas been tried and has failed. Wh . terations his enlightened viewer snay induce hin ‘o make in those portione of the French tariff whioh exclude foreign mamul*ctures of iron and cotton, he cannot consistently continue to protect Freach sip ping, when past experience proves thet each eaoves- sive tax on fereigm vessels has rather incressed than diminished thelr numbers, end bas only served to raire the price of foreign imports in Franca. That the result of a modification of the dueriminacing duties in the earif ana the tonnage dues would bs to expand port trade of Franoe, to place many of the nee ee of life within the reach of the inevee, and thus to confer a vast benefit on t large, no same porson cen doubt; and Wako ln our escimate of the widow ot the Pmperer, and the character of bis future ApvantTacrs OF GorInG oct oF Orica —We | have resd several ters whieh hare passed be- | tweeen ex Mayor grlend and the omnibue owners, relative to a beantifal clock which the | latter presented to the former on New Yene’s dey They are a port of the h of the day, snd is | dicate a dosire, 0 6 part of the omnibus pro prictors, to keop better time in fatnre. If irivers take the hint, what @ happy set of pe th y stage passengers will be. The eaptains he potice have also made Mr. Kingsland » pre ent maseive silver pitehe s| ana.—We wm for th | widows and orphane of th ott whe lost the r ener. To whem thie be not ove of the first fruits ef bo i rts to fureiga ves a4 of twpeding e f reign import trode, & measure fraught with incaloulab @ bro people over whom be hae been called to d destined te reflect » Lovire on his meme far A loating than the tineal elittora® » more uncertain and problematical, our domestic ex- | # Most of these articles paid an extravagantly bigh flag is as welcome to New York and Boston ! Is ia almost incredible, but neverthe- | France, pay in French ports ecactly nine times as | administration of seneral Pierce. We aball osn- tinue,to turn the wheel of fortune until all the po- litieal names in tho country, both great and sinall, shall have the prizes. Hero, in this State, several honorable post; and we have, on several oocasions, vondeavored to explain their relative chances of suc- cess. It docs not appear that any one of them has, as yot, declined the honor proposed for him by his friends. But in the adjoining State of Pennsylva- nis o diflerens aspeet of ailairs is presented. Pennsylvania is aa democratic as it iaDuteb, aod no doubt, has claims upon the Prosident for one of the cabinet appointments. But Pennsylvania, at this time, has no prominent aspirant in the deld. Mr. Buchanan was favorably mentioned soon after the elestion—biy friends epoke confidently of his being selected, und the unanimity of the State in bis favor seemed to encourage their hopes. This gentleman, howover, intimated that he did not de- sire any oflice in the new administration; and when it became known that this intimation meant more than a modest diflidence, forthwith almost a legion of great men, whose names, unfortunately, wore written in small lotiers on the tablets of fame, sprung forth to claim an honor which he did not really aspire to. Tho same scenes are now likely to be re-enacted that were performed at } i} | | t { \ the last election for United States Senator, | when Mr. Buchanan declined to bo a can- | didate. it is the same tune played over | again, with the appropriate variations—each one own organ, and handing round hia hat | | Ponnsylvania must have a cabinet appointment; | and if Buchanan is out of the way, some other man | to take it can surely be found who is loss diffident and alittle more anxious. Thore is Campbell, from } the Jaish of Moyamensing and Southwark, of Phila- | delphia ; Jones, from too rural Dutch district of | Berks; Hughes, from the coal region; Biglor, | from the lambering Yankees of the Susquehanna. | Woodward, from the atone district; and Black, from the Scotch-Irish of the West. There are all good men ; and we could mgmtion as many more of tho | same sort, who are oaitlly willing to serve their | country at the shortest notice. We need not men- tion their *‘ antecedents,” as they aro as well known | | | | | never heard an objection to any one of them. So | | | | | But there is another side to the picture. While | | | Buchenan, they are lesa polite tocach other; and | hence has sprung up a provincial war in that State, | where xo lately reigned peace and harmony. The | democracy are in a quandary—who to recommend, | and who to offend are tho questions. Aliare friends of Buchanan, and all are tugging for a piece of his falling mantle. Others, who want oflice, dislike making enemies of any aspirant. And now, iu all | probability, General Pierce will, by any selection, | “cut that State up into factions, which may throw | the next popular vote into the hands of the enemy. | Pennsylvania is a large, powerful, and democratic | Hampéhire, where Genoral Pierce received a majori- | | ty over both the free eoil and whig candidates. It | isthe most reliable State which the new Prosident has to fajl back upon in fighting any new oombina- | tion of defeated parties. The whig party is doad, ; and so is Daniel Webster. While he lived, tho whigs and free soilers wore kept distinct. That is | Dow changed, and a united free soil party will be formed, which will swallow anything not forbidden in the Maine Liquor law, and stand on any plat- form which promises to carry them into power This position of things, therefore, in Peunsylvanie, is unfortunate for the incoming administration No doubt tzere are hundreds in that State, willing, Curtias-like, to leap into any gep, if it be a soft, downy office, to heal the breach in the party. But this kind of patriotiem is not what General Piorce will want. He would rather prevent any breach taking place. How is this to be avoided if these gentlemen all insist on coming into the cabinet? The President will require seme one to counsel him against those who wish to be his constitutional advisers, as well a3 to fight the free soilers and pacify the disappointed aspirants for office. Tne Lecture SEason.—The practise of lectar- ing, which has so long prevailed in this city, and | has been increasing and extending every year, till, | in 1851, it became almost a nuisance, hae received in the present winter an extraordinary impulse. The proof may be found in the files of the | HERALD, from which it will he seen that frequently there were two or three lectures on the same oven- | ing. There never was a geason in which eo many | leetures have been delivered—lectures on all sorta of subjects, and by all kinde of individuals; leoturee | from the clergy and loetures from the laity; lectures from the better balfof the human creation and lec. | tures from the worte; lectures from Americans lectures from Europeans; lectures from Todians | ia | lectures from exiles; lectures in pootry and lectur: proce; lectures on heaven and leztures on earth; | lectures on man and lectures on woman: lestures on | scae and lectures on mountains; lectures on steam and lectures on government; ures on democracy and lectures oa expires; lectures on Milton, Mary Stuart, Ignatius Loyola, Cleopatra, Queen of Pgypt, John Falstaff and bis companions; lectures on Polaud, and Greece, and Australia: lootiures on the Arctic regions; lectures on humoririe and wite; lectures on imagination and bistory; lectares on the | lost arte; on mira on the dignity of labor; on vegetarianiam ; om spiritual manifestations; on women’s rights; on educetion and scboolr; on mer- tyrtand heroes; and eren on the habess corpus ect. Some of these lectures were bed, some good, and some indifferent. A few were amusing and inter- | esting—a great number were dull as diteh water. | Boarcely one of them evinced any origiuality, | though some showed # great deal of patien: lator, industry, and research. Several of them wero more compilations from other writers, whose rery words, in some instanc were adopted wishout al- teration, A | Proportion wore trashy, | rs) flimsy, and superfeisl; some were solid, sub- is stantial, and highly tr enough that smong the lectures the latter clase We allade to the ‘‘Leescns on History, con, & Woman who bas displayed such ability, so | thorough a mastery of her aubject, and 20 much originelity in tho mode of treating It, as might well be envied by ths grest majority of those who un- dertake to tnetruct the public in the lecture room. The amount @ money expended on iectures in New York te very great, and the rewarkebly good atten- | dance of the poople demonsirates their thirst for knowledge, though we cannot say that thio thirst has been always satisied a the contrary, the andience hes been ofton dosme to disappoimement. Our professionel leoturore have made large sume of money by their discourses, but the general rule is, that some eociety, institution or corporation gets the lion’s ehare of the proseeds, and tho lec- turer i 2 sieall portion indeed. No levturer ever received so mach for @ single lecture in this $1,650 for bis the ke whole receipts curious | wu | ft is scpposed he Fil make about $30,000 by lee tres hefore the ono. the prasent pear, SLecturing hee become almost a) good & aa thet of | & great Voos)iat, and fa he Orena —A Tie boni spp Bivadway, in Jniid of the R | the 10th Sontag appears at Niblo’s in tt The nt The a bere b t ha seme pert, adie noor he Broadway are brilliant. | which its sesions will be hell biennlally. On the ith, | tej ing that she arrived “ yoaterday,” insteed of on Sat- | Dec., at 2 P.M, and arrived at the light ship, below this | niog the Aibany exo | at Millerton at @ quarter to two o'clock last | mo a” \ * migratory movements which have been lately taking place between Washington and Concord, unless he knew somewhat of tho science of politics— predecessors of these jatter days. The quays at | have come out, and until the General decides who | and even with that knowledge he might sometimes be confounded. Extraordinary flights of politicians crowded with shipping, and a respectable foreign | prominent democrats are contending for the same | between these latitudes—singly and in flocks—have been observed and commented upon for the last fow months. The phenomenon still continues. We learn that Cyrus L. Dunham, member of Congress from Indiana, passed through this city yesterday, en route to Concord, and we have reason to beliove that the object of his miesion was (o support the in- terest of Jesse D. Bright, Senator from the same State, in procuring him a place in the next cabinot. Colone! George Martin, ono of the eloctors of Penn- sylvania, and Colonel Forney, Clerk of the House of Representatives, also passed through, on the re- turn trip to Washington, having been to Concord, with the design of preventing any nomination to the cabinet from Pennsylvania, unless it should be that of Mr. Buchanan, tamiliarly known as * Old Buck,”’ who has, however, declined suchan honor, and will probably stick to hia declination if he be not ewerved from it by getting tho offer of the first post. Transitory flights of smaller birds have also taken place, but we do not think it worth while to obronole them. Burr?sH INTSRYERENCE WITH THE CuRAN SLAVE Traps —It will be geen, by our private correspond- ence from the ieland of Ouba, that the slave traflic hav evflered no diminution, but is at present in the inost active and prosperous condition that it had ever before attained. It will also be seen, however, | that pari passu with the increase of .the trade has been the active resolution of the British fleet to put it down completely, and no less than four vessels engaged in the traflic had been brought into the port of Havana by H. B. M frigate Vestal We have previously stated the fact of theze cap tures; but the particulars, furnished by our corres- pondents, throwing light upon the connivance of the Spanish authorities, will be read with mush interest. Tho mixed eourt for the trial of these cases waa in | session when our despatches left; but ne conviction was anticipated from it, on account of the open as | well as covert support and countenance given to tho offenders by the Oeptain General and the inferior officers of his government. However, the determined obstinacy evinced by the British government to eradioate the slave trado in the Antilles must necessarily result in its utter extinction, as it has done in the Brazils. But it would not be a matter of surprise if this interference by England with the revenues of the high person- ages who are interested in the slave trade, a: well in Cuba as in Old Spain, should involve some unpleas- ant disturbanees between the two governments One thing, however, is certain: that if the Noglish persist in this determination to extinguish the slave trade in Cuba their action will utterly ruin that island, in an official point of view, and despoil it of its greatest charm—that of affording to Spanish pensionnaives an easy and quick mode ef replenish. ing their exhausted coffers. Over New Strate Governwant.—The now de- mocratic regime, to which the destinies of this State have been confided for the next two yoare, has now assumed the responsibilities of its atation, and will initiate ite legislative career this morning, at Albany. It supplants the whig government, which has held the reinsfor the last term, and 9 great im- provement is with some reason anticipsted from thechenge. A democratic Governor and House of Assembly is substituted, by popular vote, in liou of the whigs who ruled the roost in part for the past year. And it now remains to be seen whether the present regime will ehow itself more deserving of popular favor than its predecessor. For ourselves, we will not venture on any prediction, but only promise to watch and pray. Mretine or Srate Leoistatunes in Jancany.--The Legislature of thin Btate will assemble to-day at Alimny. The Legislatures of Delaware aud Wisconsin will ako meet to day—tke former at Dover, and the la:ter at Madison. On Wednesday, the Sih, the Legislature of Maryland will meet at Annapolis, and that of Maasschu- setts, im Bostom, om the seme day. On the 6th, the Legisiatare of Indiana will assemble at Indianapolis, sfter en extra rereion of the Texas Legislature will eonvene at Austin. The New Jersey Legislature will ineet ai ‘Tren- ton on the Ith; ond the Legislature of Maine, at Au- gusts, on the 12th. Marine Affairs, Tre Passaor oF tHe Paciric.—The introduction tothe foreign news, im yesterday's paper, inadvertently msde the arrival of the steamship Pacific a @ay too long, by urday, She left the rock light, at Liverpool, on the 15th port, at 8 P.M. on the Sist Deo , where she was detained by the fog until 8 A.M. mext day (Jam. 1), when the weather still continuing thick, she steamed slowly up to her do:k, where she arrived at 1 P. M. Annivat oF Gana Oniveeas.—The clipper sbhipe Mou qua, Capt. M'Kenzie, from Shanghai, Sept. 17, and the Seq derpent, Capt. Howland from Centon, Oct. 4, arrived yesterday morning, the former in 107 days, and the latuer in 96 days, The Bea Serpent reports ber own day of railirg haying satielpated the usaat mail by way of Bag. jand = She bss been absent from New York under four raoathe, dniing which she made the passage honce to San Francisco, thince to China, and home, Both vessels lave made remarkably geod pacanges Tue Passsene or THe Cunann Steamers —In the list of pescaged. of the steamers. published in the Herald on let inat , two errors oceurred in the trips ofthe Asia. Her leet weatward trip was stated to have boen made in 17 days 10); houre, instead of 12 days 10}; hours, making the average for the eleven months 12 days 11 hours 48 minutes, instead of 12.16: 40, as printed. Her enst- ward pacesge, terminating on the 6th April, was done in 12 (not 11) days 22 hours, and making those average | 1:7: 38, City Intelligence. THE LATE COLLISION UPON THE HARLEM RAILROAD INQUEST UPON THE BODY OF JAMES HEABNE Coroner Hilton held an inquest, yesterday afternoon, at the City Hospital, upon the body of James Hearne, breakman of the Albany express train, who died im that natitution from the severe injuries which he rocetved by the unfortunate collision which took place near Moriis- ania, New Year's morning, as reported in our paper of yesterday. The following gentlemen were sworn upon the Jury — George F, John, W. R. Tilley, Perry Bradley, Joan W, Cornell Isare P. Fort, GD. Bmith, Mr, Bloat, superintendent of the Harlom Maliroad, st- tended on bebalf of the company, whilst the interests of the other line were watohed over by Mr. Burroughs John J. Campbell, the wounded engineer of the Port Ohester train, was present, and bis testinoay wos aluost the only new feature introduced into the case to alter ite complexion from that presented befure Coroner Jobn ston, in Westchester county, The body of the deceased was identified by his wife, Mary Hearne My. Barton, Mr. Drake, Thomas Kelly, switeh man at Morrisapia, and Jomes MoKay, awitohiaan at Wiliiamabricge, ail gave testimony exactly similar to that recorded Iu Mr. Ming's eave, The last named wit- wesece were positive that the danger signals (red lights) were duly dieplayed to warn the approachng train of another being ahead Jevemish Rlolly being duly sworn, deposed’-—T reside at Thirty econd street and Fourth avenue in New York, Lam an engineer upon the Harlem Iallrond, Twas run. train of last Friday, I t Millerton; the train arrived tock ebarge of the tal jog, We should have arrived at reventeen mioutes past eleven on Friday might; the rer viation it to run tho tretp at arate of Atteen miler an hou: speed 10 mek twenty miles rate of he train the ce of th it war two heurs anda cusrter behind time; this time was loat upon the Wertern Railroad, before | took obarge; the Wre'ern Railroad Company 1s eeparat lem Company; L arrived at Morricania minn’er yest #ix o’elrok last Saturday morn part of my duty to havea time table to kuow olur trains mey pars or arrive at cortai { bad & thine tnble of the Harlem road, by i have one of the New Maven road; [ ought to have is bot I do pot comider it my duty to for one; it is the daty of that compouy to furnich of the Harlem fNaliroad with one: Lhe oficorr line do not give a table lo thors om the he waa on had just started T hed ot 1 (o have the che asl signal to the ant awit "$3 there were ten cars inthe train; the care average twenty-five fect in lengih each; a nD sig~ that a train bes passed that pol about, fifteen minutes. John J. Campbell, engineer of the Port Ohesier, wat called, he appeared very weak and ill Beings duly sworn, he deposed—I ‘am & machinist in tho of the New Haven Company as an engineers a the Port Ohester train of last Saturday; I left clock in the morning; the last ptioe T stopped at was Will where the cara of the New Haven Gompany take the Hariom track; the cars of the New Haven Company stop at Willlamsbridge whom they have parerngers, which was the case this ine stance; I should have arrived there at seven minutes past six o'clock; Ido not exactly know at what time I ar- rived; the train should arrive at Morrieanis at about tera or eleven minutes part «ix; I do not know the exact time T airived there; I saw o red light there, and immediately reversed the engine; I think the red light was in tha centre of the road; the light suon'd bave been further back to allow me to stop my train; I did not see a green light at Williamebridge; if it had been there F should) bave scen it; I was kno-ked senseless by the collision, aad remained so until the afternoca of Saturday; i was at & ball upon the night before, and did no’ go to sleep, but £ was not under the influence of liquor. Edwin L. Drake and Hiram FB. Peck gave the sama testimony regarding the occurrence as that tuken iz Weatchester. Madfron Sloat. sworn,—TI am superintendent of the Hare lem Railroad; the New Haven tratus, whilst ranniog upor the Harlem road, run under the rules and regalations of the Harlem Company; frem fifty to sixty trains pass dally over that vere of the road where this accident took places owing to this, additional roles and regulations were h recourse to; we have pluc d men there by dey ond by night; if one train be coming too close upom another. or if train be delayed a greeu fing fs clsplayed by day. and @ green lamp bung out by night, asa siganl te slackit speed; a red light indicates danger and to stop the trains Ro per'on bas a right to pass or disregard it. Mr, Slag here read the rules of the company, as primted und fur~ nithed to their employes Doctor Cooper testified to the state of the patient upor his admission to the bospital ; he was collapsed and ne- ver rallied; both of bis legs avd ono of his arms wero crushed. T was told by a railroad car; his other arm wag badly injured; be dir d from the injuries, Coroner Hilton recapitulated the testimony to the jucy; commenting clearly upon each polnt The jury ooasul!. ed for about three quarters of an bour, and then reniersi) the following verdict:— We, the jury. find that the deceased, James Hearne, came to his death by @ collision upon the Harlem Ruil~ road, at Mortirania by being run into by @ train froan Port Chester. The Jory find that the engineer, John JI , Campbell, is guilty of a culpable negligence in not ob- servicg the proper signals of the Harlem Railroad Com~ ee After the recording of the verdict, the court repa~ rated. AnotneR Fatar Rarroan Accipest—Tur Brixtit Avenue Cans—A vory serous ceoident, resulting by death, occurred at twenty minutes to twelve o’elock, yes terday, in West Broatway It appears that at that hoar car No. i9 of the Sixth Avenue Kailroad was approsohing: the terminus im Obem wrs etreet, at a pretty rapid puce, A gitt nemed Ann MeG@erraw of about nineteen years of oe, residing at the corner of Duane street and Vest Broadway. was just then goimg across the track, whem she was knocked down oy the horses, amd the wheels of the car ing over her sno had her two logy and one of her arms broken, and was otherwise se~ Tees bruised She war twXem up insensible, and con- ed to the City Hospital, where rhe died from her in- juries in a few hours, We have not heard that biame (: attached to the driver ef the car, but Coromer Gambia investigate all the clrcumetarere connected with the accident this morning Tne Stanmixc Case 1x Rose Strentr.—Yeoterday wa Visited the boarding boase of the two unfortunate Ger- mans who were rtavbed on Friday night at No. 36 Row street. Sieinlan was tbe most serivusly wounded, but we are glad to eay that his fate Is not totally hopeless, His physican nouri+h +s strong expectations to aave his life, Tn the mean time the two sarnssin: re still at large and pei baps at this tome tere resch:d Canada. The uf- fray yrew out of jeaioury ax one of the Italian aggres~ ore was the lover ofa semanip the taverm where tho crime was perpatrated, Tho Italians belong to a gang of vogabonds lately arrived from Italy, where they have pasted their novitiate tn otison or in the galleys. We shall give more particulars about the individuals as sow an they shall be in the hands of jnstise, Fatau Fait. A wan named Carl Wiihelm T° Aeber, ace cidentaliy sell Cown the siairs ot ths house 89 Washingtor street, on Sunday ni-h* nud was instantly killed. the ver~ lebrim of his neck being briken Coroner O’Donneli pro- ceeded to the house tu the afternoon of yesterdsy, an2 beld an inquest upon the body. Henry Kinaek, owner of: the house, deposed that o¢ceased cams home about four o'clock Sunday aftervoon ; hed bis supper, drank some, ard wanted co have more; witness bad put to ted, and raw bim lying qutetly thers, im a short time a wo~ men, lodging in the house came fiom ber room aod said that deceascd had fullen down stuirs; witnesa weat aud found him dead. Doctor M.A Venter deposed that ha ‘was called to see the deoessed ; found him dead, witiz fracture of his neck; the bones were prot 3 deatie resulted fiom injury of the medulle spinalis. Verdict-— Death by acoldentaily ful.ing down stairs and fracturing bis neck Deccased wes e uutive of Germany, and twen- ty five years of age. Supprx Deatn —Coronsr Wilhelm held an inquest yes~ verday afternoon at the house No. 44 King street, upor the body of av aged woman named Fliza W. Woodward, who was found there dead, Sunday pight. John D Wood- werd. son of deceased. depowd that his mother had bee complaining for rome yesrs past, but was not confined to her bed; about three o’olook Sunday sfiernoon, she raid’ the would go to bed; in the evening. the wife of witne:s went to call her to tee the found the bed empty. and saw deceased lying deans neerto the washstend. Doctor L,B Wright depored that from his previous professionag knowledge of the constitation of the deceased, amd an ex- terral examination of her body now made. he was of cpimicn she died from congestion of the braim. Verdict: accordingly. Deccaed was sixty years of age, and a na. tive of Connecticut. Tne Weatnen.- Yesterday morning was frosty ani cold after daybreak, with a heavy, lowering eky. At a more advanced period the wir became moist, and the frovt, commenced to dinappear. At noon the weather remained calm, but the clouds were leaden colored and threaten- ing. Ata quarter tothree o'clock, in the afternoon. « ok weed rain commenoed to descend, and continue? to fall dur! ne the evening and up to # late hour of the night. During the pertod cf {ts continuance the atmos. phere was dense, fogey, and warm The thermometer at: the Hraaip builaing rarged~At noon, 43; at threa P.M..44%;; at five P. M.,423; The night continued damp, withada:k sky. At eleven o’clook, night, the thermometer stood a: 42. Cavrton to Travettems Anaivina ms tHe Orry—& good deal of imposition bes been lately prastived upow strangers arriving in New York, by men who represent: thomeeives ae being pubite licensed porters, when they are really not euon Offiver Masterson, of the Ubier# office. arrested 9 man. pemed James Clancy, for this ofienee, op Beturdvy Inst, et the depot of the Harleax railroad, and Justice Osborne commicted him to prison Many travelers lore their bagva.re by taeansof the trick? of these fellows. end as they hee uo ivense the police cannot detect them Some few days since, gentiemag lost bis vatize, containing $300, ia this way. Cnartes Gavax Durry.—Atamecting of the friends of the above memed gentleman, heli at Odd Fellows Hall, corver of Grand snd Centre streets, om Thursday evening last. to collect funds for the grrpote of, defray fag the expensce attending the F sec ion now before » select committee of the British House of Commons, it was rerolved to held another meeting at the same place, on Wednesday evening rext, the Oth ist, for a simile: fat purpore. Mitrrany -—The Lewis Light Guard, numbering twen< ty five muskets, and commanded by Captain Benjamirt C, Bykex, went to Hoboken for target practive, yerterday, They contended for nineteen prizes, and upon their re- turn, made a first rate appearance, and showed « well- riddled target The Stevens Guard, Captain Wm Sweeney, went to Hoboken yesterday, end made excellent target Pig They bed a very fine dinner in the evening. The suc. cessful competitors were—A Bertholf, G W. Minomy, Captain Sweeny Jamos Bizland,C Myers, J. Hurd, R” Anderson, F. Baker, 0, Cordts, J. Nichols, Mr. T. W. Wurrsey pi s holding an inquest on the body of the American ye Union at the clore of thig week in come one of ths lecture rooms of the city. Svsrreiors Cincumatance.—The body of an infant child was token, yesterday, up from the sewer rannimg under a house in the rear of No. 40 Thoma: street. The Joro~ nersare notified to attend. Coroner Wilhelm fs of opinion that due inquiry should be made ia the district, ae he thinks tho eb:ld was born alive, The body ie s good dead deccmpored. Serious inant.—A Frepchines named Bdward Du- pot accidentally fell into # collar at the corner of Brosd- wey ond Franklia street last Sunday might. He was ae verely injured 1m the epine. and medically attended to at the Sixth werd station house. Rowny Assavit.—At about seven o'clock on Sunday crening @ men named Patatok MoGoverm was walking, elorg Hester street, and when near Elizabeth, he was ret: upou and assaulted by ® wang of rowdien, who inttioted some evta upon his herd, and then ran away. OMeer *, of the Ten\h ward, took the wounded maw to the station house, where he was attended te by a sur. geon, Brvexe Drury rrom 4 Pare Last Sunday evening man nawed Jemes Kiddie. & printer, fell down the statrw of the houre No 87 Ann street, and received & bad frax- lie was conveyed to the City ture of one of his legs. Hospital, or their felenda to be cured of all kinds of 4 fering, without modiesl applisn sos, ioteraal shia effec eMering with (namo of disesae) u've (nmonnt) to be onrod, but net ing if not (sig and address),” it is unimportint how nevere oF the care may be, the weiter being in p 4 co the wort droadtul ia e fow a fad treuble, oaly # fow pationts ox be at ir residences daily. Address “ Natunes Agont,’* a wledz hour. te letter from one Physin ing WATTS’ Norvous A : Koy al College of Sur Extract ofa cian te snother, “Boicg a momb or An knowl nut ayerston to using patent medicines, but Twas ne trop gly reoommon ded) from rollable auth tity to try WATTS’ Nervous Ansidoto for nearalgis, that T dic fo, aed, found it mos eucoes:fal in ath resiaiod evory other treatment, What oa» pihia 'Netvous anthd te’ in my oat mia, Toors aro jwmedieteond permanent.” J. )., 164 Seventh avenue. I Took Ore Uoitle of Watts’ Nervous Anti- dote for nerves and eneral debility, Iwas terribly afllict- ’ atrelief. 1 Tost gratoful, ie, $9 yor doa.