The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1853, Page 4

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BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—€ivitization Tax Omni NATIONAL THEATRE, Chi im street—MismRims oF brated last evening, at St. George’s Church, Stuy~ yesant square, the Provisional Bishop, Dr. Wain- wright, presiding. The report of the past year stated the amount of receipts for that period at $4,952 47, being an increase of $817 86. An able and elaborate sermen was preached by Rev. Mr. Neville, after which a collection for the benefit of the society was taken up. The report will appear as soon as we can make room for it. The Rev. Dr. Hatfield delivered a lecture on “The Snares of City Life,” last evening, at the Seventh Presbyterian Church, corner of Ridge and Broome streets, to a numerous congregation, comprising & large proportion ef young men, to whom it was es- pecially addressed. The crowded state of our columns compels us to defer our report. : Our columns to-day contain, among 2 great variety of other interesting matter, to which we have no room for particular reference, a full accout of the destruc- tive fire at the Brooklyn navy yard yesterday; re- ports of various meetings of the trades; court pro- ceedings; financial and commercial reviews, &c. The Adjournment of the Legislature—The Questions of the Day—Are the Democracy Harmonious There seems to be a general acquiescence in the Legislature and out, ofthe propriety and necessity of calling an extra session. The im- portant public business, most of which has been under consideration nearly the whole session, Busan Livz—Anmonxe oF WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tims Worxs ‘Worpems—Revixw—Goop vor Noruine. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Lruxnicx Bor— @ousx Brormsns. Egoning—Witiow Corse. ST. CHARLES rron—EVELEEN HEATRE, Bowe nLSON—Bove OF —Mo' ARAT rove QuEs- GHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brosdway—Eriior1an Muvoviss py Cunisry’s Orera Trovurx. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS. Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Broad- way—Ermorian MinstRecsy. GIRCUS, 37 Bowery—EqurstRian ExXTERTAINMENTS. GEQRAMS, J§6 Broadwey—Baxvann’s Paxonawa o gus Hory Bhxv. HOPE CHAPEL—Da. Varentixe's Evenines or Ec- @ERTRICITY, BELLER’S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES, 539 Broadway. @WEN’S ALPINE RAMBLES, 539 Broadway. | New York, Monday, April 18, 15 The News: The arrival ofthe steamship Pacific at this port, yesterday afternoon, put us in possession of fourdays Jater news from England, and the continent of Eu rope. The British Parliament had assembled after the Easter recess. A vast amount of legislative mat- ter—then in prospectu—was likely to be submitted tothe members; and the anxiety displayed by the honorable gentlemen for its immediate consideration, Jeads us to the conclusion that they werea good deal zefreshed by their temporary rustication. The finan- cial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was submitted to the house upon the 5th instant, but our files do not contain a report. It was thought, im political circles, that the revenue accounts in the Excise, Stamps, and Income Tax departments would show an increase, whilst the Customs, and “Land and Assessed Taxes” would exhibit a @eficit of more than half a million of pounds Sterling. It was expected that the Cabinet would submit measures for university reform, and & more populax system of national education. The Spanish volunteer General—Sir De Lacy Evans —had given notice of a motion for the production of any correspondence with our government relative to the affairs of Cuba. Lord Campbell called the at- tention of the peers to the late peace mission of the merchants tothe court of Franee. That eminent jarist inclines to the opinion that the members of it committed a misdemeanor in assuming an unac- eredited representative position at a foreign court. The Great Britain bad arrived from Australia, with ® large quantity of gold. The amount of gold dast received during # week in the English ports was five millions of dollars. Breadstuffs were dull. No material change in cotton since our previous ad- vices. Steamboat, shipping, and railroad calamities were of a lamentably frequent occurrence. France was still tranquil. A speedy adjustment of the per- plexed question of the “holy shrine’ was antici- pated ; still the Czar was rapidly augmenting his immense army by fresh recruits. The government of Spain was maturing the plan of an immense loan, In the Austrian dominions and Italian States the upper classes were in daily alarm, from rumors of existing congpiracies and impending revolutions, whilst the people were harrassed by summary ar- rests, followed, in some cases, by speedy executions. A fall detail of these matters, with the latest mone- tary, maritime and commercial news, will be found im the columns of this paper. The most interesting of our news from Mexico, brought by the steamer Black Warrior, is that re- Jating to the arrival of the newly elected President, Genera] Santa Anna. The rejoicings at Vera Crnz were very great, and all honors were rendered to him by the authorities and citizens generally. The manifesto which he issued to the Mexican nation ‘the day after his arrival is a document breathing the most ardent sentiments of patriotism, and evincing a determined desire of regenerating his country. As St ie a matter of great interest to this republic, we give a full and accurate translation of his manifesto. There is little else of importance in the news brought by the Black Warrior—that from Cuba is interesting. Tn connection with many other interesting items, our special Washington correspondent writes that the foreign policy of the present administration will be put toan immediate test by Col. Sloo’s contract with Mexico, for the right of way acrogs the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. He remarks that this document ie believed to contain several very objectionable featares, which render its sanction by the Pre sident in its present shape extremely doubtful. Itis Teported that the settlement of the Central Americhn issues will most likely be conducted by Mr. Bu- chanan, in London—in which case a charge d’ affairs will be substituted for a full minister to the Central American States. Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, it is said, will succeed Judge Conkling as Minister to Mexico. The President has decided upon appoint- ing George W. Clinton, of Buffalo, as District Attor- ney, and John M. Mott, of Rensselaer, as Marshal, Sor the Northern District of this State. Archbishop Hughes yesterday afternoon performed the ceremony of laying the corner stone of St. Ste- phen’s Church, situate in Twenty-eighth street, be- tween Lexington and Third avenues. Aboat 4,000 persons were present. After this ceremony had been concluded, the Rey. Dr. Cumming, pastor of Bie chureh, delivered a very able sermon, for which, ‘as well as a particular description of the whole mat- Yer, peruse our report in another column. Archbishop Hughes yesterday morning dedicated to divine service the new Church of St. Joseph, be- tween Pacific and Dean streets, near Bedford, Brook- Jyn. On the occasion he delivered an eloquent sermon, the publication of which we ere obliged to postpone until a fature period. Father Gavazzi lectured last night to the Italiens in the Sunday School room of the Tabernacle. The hall was crowded tqexceas, and the lecture was of the greatest interest. We shall give a full report to- morrow. A meeting of the City Bible Society was held last evening at the Sixteenth street Baptist church, for the purpose of presenting the objects and claims of the society to the public. Several persons addreased the congregation in a very eloquent manner, on the subject of “Charity at Home.” One of the reverend gentlemen present said, that $500 would accomplish more in this city than $1,000 could in either China, India or Siam. The services were concluded by tak- ng up a collection for the purpose of defraying the | expenges of the society for the ensuing year. On | account of the crowded state of our columns we are | compelled to defer a full report of the proceedings, ‘The ninth anniversary of the Protestant Episcopal | Missigpary Society tor Seamen was cele remains unfinished. The settlement of the canal question, the consideration of the code, making appropriations for the support of go- vernment, the distribution of the canal sur-~ plusage to the various canals for repairs during the coming season. are among the most indis- pensable measures which the last Legislature neglected to provide for. Although from the condition of legislation it was generally conceded that a special session was necessary, still a large majority of the Legislature was not prepared for a proclama- tion calling the members together on the very next day after the expiration of the hundred days. The members of the House, being thus disap- pointed. immediately upon re-assembling. as soon as action could be had. adopted a resolu- tion for adjourning on Friday over to the 18th of May. There was a great pressure upon the Senate to agree to this resolution. But that body, upon voting at two different periods, de- clared by strong majorities that they would not adjourn. This greatly excited and irritated the members of the House; and from the commence- ment of the extra session down to Tuesday at noon, that body was in no humor to transact public business, At that hour another resolu- tion was adopted, adjourning at five o’clock on that day, to meet again on the 23d day of May. The Senate, after considerable discussion, agreed to the House proposition, and thereupon both branches of the Legislature stand adjourned, for the purpose of giving the members a little re- laxation. That the legislature of 1853 has disappointed public expectation is absolutely certain. On the second day of the session, the 5th of January, a commencement was made to adjust the canal question. The Senate was harmonious and ap- parently anxious to make the experiment, and when the question was taken to the House, the attempt failed by the casting vote of Mr. Speaker Ludlow. As matters turned outst is now very apparent that the failure of that joint reso- lution has produced all the evils, and prevented the Legislature from finishing up all the indis- pensable business within the hundred days. The result has proved that a nearly unani- mous opinion prevailed, before the adjournment, that an amendment of the constitution, in some mode or other, was considered necessary. The only question now seems to be. whether two million five hundred thousand dollars, or one million five hundred thousand dollars, shall be borrowed annually, until the canals shall be finally completed. Not only did the House. through its leaders of the barn burning section, Messrs. West. Champlin Loomis, and others yield their first impressions of a tax and toll bill, but one of them absolute- ly introduced resolutions amending the consti- tution. And Governor Seymour, in his message convening the Legislature, also endorses a pro- position for an amendment. Though he has been known during the winter as having used all his influence in favor of the tax and toll bill, he has now only re-affirmed the identical posi- tion which the Buffalo Courier and other de- mocratic papers allege he advocated in his ad- dresses to the people before his election, during his tour through the canal districts. It cannot truly be said fhat Mr. Loomis in- troduced the proposition to impose tolls on railroads. When his bill for imposing a tax to finish the canals was under discussion, the bill sent into the Senate for tolling the roads by Mr. Pierce. was tacked to Mr. Loomis’s bill, and both were blended together by a large vote, sent to’ the Senate, where it sleeps, and can never be adopted. Had the joint resolution offered on the se- cond day of the session been adopted by the House, a committee of wise and discreet mem- bers, three from the Senate and five from the House, been judiciously selected by the Presi- dent of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. a report, or two reports made, after two weeks conference and consultation, this whole difficulty of providing ways and means for com- pleting the canals would have been adjusted be- fore the session was half ended. And. in taking this view, it must be conceded that the casting vote given by Mr. Speaker Ludlow against the formation of that joint committee, contributed in a great measure to procure the continued embarrassments of the session, created an ill feeling between the two houses, prevented har- mony in the Senate in relation to executive sessions, threw much important business over- board, and rendered it indispensable that Gov- ernor Seymour should call a special session of the Legislature. Hence we would inquire, whether this matter could vot have been amica- bly adjusted, if the Governor, Senate, and As- sembly had been more courteous towards each other during the early part of the session ? Nothing but this state of feeling prevented the Senate from acting early upon all the Govern- or’s recommendations to office, and confirming them. All the lucrative stations in-this city and elsewhere are still in the hands of the op- ponents of the administration. The harbor masters, loan commissioners, and others of equal value, were withdrawn trom the Senate, after it was satisfactorily established that their con- firmation was very doubtful. The Governor was wise, probably, in not exposing the names of his appointees, to the chagrin of the disap- pointed. As it stands nobody knows who the successful competitors are, and, theretore, all the applicants will enter the fall campaign with equal zeal, each one thinking himself upon the executive slate. Perhaps the most extraordinary proceeding during the entire session, was the offering of a | resolution in the House, within twenty minutes of the close of the session, impeaching one of the highest officers under the State government. Atan early day a committee was appointed by the Speaker to investigate canal frauds. Nothing was heard from it until the expiring moments of the session, when, in the midst of the greatest confusion, excitement, and discord, Mr. Champlin, with stentorian lungs, demanded that the regular order of business be suspended, in order that he might make a report of a very important character from a select committee. The House, it seems, without knowing what the report was, yielded. Mr. Champlin then stated what the report was, and read a resolution im- peaching John C. Mather, one of the Commis- sioners, for grossly improper conduct in the discharge of his official duties. The House was astounded at this announcement, but in- stead of adopting the resolution, by acclama- tion laid the whole subject upon the table. We say this was an extraordinary proceeding. The committee should have made their report a month or six weeks earlier, instead of throwing it in as a firebrand, which was seen to produce a conflagration at a moment when every mem- ber was in a high state of excitement, twenty minutes before the adjournment. We care no- thing about the merits of the report, or the jus- tice of the resolution; but we do contend that it was unfair and unmanly to make the extraordi- nary presentment at the moment it was done.and in the hasty manner it was accomplished. It looks as if it was the intention of those in the secret, to adopt the resolution of impeachment in a hurried manner, when the members were engaged in tumult and disorder. It looks to us as if it might be comtstrued into a premeditated attempt at persecution. What will the people think of it, when the reasons for impeachment. contained in the committee’s report, shall be circulated far and wide, as they will be, through- out the State? What effect has the recent session produced upon the “harmonious democracy?” Is it now an unit, as declared to be previous to the first of January? Are there no more hunkers, barnburners, hard or soft shells? These inter- rogatories can easily be answered, by re- ference, any day, to the columns of the two antagonistic papers at Albany. The breach was never wider than at this moment. The vindictiveness displayed was never more bitter, virulent and _ hostile. The elements of discord were never more boisterous, and personalities never more vin- dictive. The pertinacity with which Senator Vanderbilt and the rest of the hunkers have adhered to the indispensable necessity of finish- ing the canals by constitutional amendment, has been resisted by the other side, backed by Governor Seymour, Comptroller Wright, Attor- ney-General Chatfield, Speaker Ludlow, and others. The yielding of the latter at the ele- venth hour places them in a whiffing condition. and shows that they have abandoned principle and policy. and stepped off theirplatform, for no other purpose than to produce reconciliation before the next election. They know, with the present feeling, no democratic nominations of importance can succeed. There are six State officers in the field for re-election—four barn- burners and two hunkers—and the expected resignation of McAlpine will bring another candidate in the field. A new Senate is to be elected to serve for two years, and a House of Assembly for one year. Should they allow the question to go before the people. as to whether taxes or tolls shall be impored. or the surplus revenues be pledged for finishing the canals, they are shrewd politi- cians enough to foresee the result. To lose the State, the power and patronage of the canals, after having full sway only one short year, would be preposterous ; and tosome of the pre- sent State officers a disappointment from which they never could recover. But whether the late caving in of the adherents of the tax and toll project, will eventually “save their bacon,” is a question for future solution. The extra session, what will it amount to? Simply a rehash of the ridiculous nonsense, in the main. of the expired hundred days. The men who compose the Legislature will return the beginning of the summer, prepared for a sa- lubrious time in the shade of the majestic elms of the Capitol park. And with the canal matter, the everlasting code, the impeachment case, and a half dozen matters of smaller note. the very able dignitaries of this profound Legislature will find ample excuse for remaining in those comfortable quarters, until the dog-days, sum- mer disease, or some kind of pestilence drives them to their homes.” Wnrat wit. Become or THE Green Spots?— Aw Act oF Desecration.—What a terrible foe to nature is this restless, ubiquitous, heartless thing known as progress and improvement. No epot within many miles circuit of the city can remain any length of time free from its encroachments. Utilitarianism is its sole creed, and veneration has no part in its system. One by one the secluded spots on the upper part of the island have been overtaken by its strides. Villages have been reached and incorporated into the city, and now even Har- lem itself is only the extension of the Fourth avenue. Jones's Wood, which, so lateas last summer, was the resort of picnic parties, and tar- get excursionists, and solitude-seeking lovers, has had its sanctity violated, and now sees streets formed through its romantic dells. But while Hoboken and the Elysian Fields were spared from absorption, and allowed as a sort of public park. where the worn out toilers in the busy haunts of man might sometimes isolate themselves from their exhausting occu- pations, and enjoy the sweet communing of nature—while that spot was spared we felt somewhat consoled for the want of city parks. But progress, like the great destroyer, respects not the beautiful more than the vile, and before its ravages even the Elysian Fields seem destined to disappear. The winding walk of the pebbly beach is now converted into a macadamized road; where lisping childhood and rosy faced nurses sported about. bands of Trish laborers are now engaged in the unro- mantie employment of blasting and levelling ; and the Sybil’s cave appears condemned to degenerate into an ice house to one of the man- sions now erecting in that vicinity. New Yorkers will soon have nothing left as a raral retreat in the dog days save Coney Island, Printers’ Prices—Tue OLp axp THe New.— The following will show the increased cost of composition on the New York Heraun, by the newly established rates of printers’ charges, over the prices which have previously been paid :— Composition bill on New York Heranp for week ending April 9—old prices Composition bill on New York Her week ending April 16—new pric Difference... Which will make an annual increase in the cost of type setting alone on ¢ paper of | $4,653. ‘The Fate and Prospects of Mexico. The solution of the Mexican problem is fast approaching. Thirty years of democratic struggles have been consummated in the dicta- torship of Santa Anna; and while gloom has been thickening over the political prospects of the republic, her social and financial evils have been hopelessly aggravated. Internal rivalry between the States, hostility to foreign powers, blind neglect of the real resources of the coun- try. and an insatiable craving for change, have plunged Mexico into an abyss from which it is beyond the power of any individual to extricate her. She may not yet have reached the inner- most circle of the eddying whirlpool which shall engulf her nationality; she may yet be des- tined, under the ephemeral guidance of new rulers, to revolve once or twice through the narrowing orbits which enclose the fatal vortex. The wave which is to overwhelm her may be eluded by Santa Anna, to break upon his successor; but the fate of the country once known as the brightest gem in the Western continent is now merely a question of time. Recovery has long since been impossible ; rescue from the powerful talons of the American eagle is now a mere idle dream, Mexico must fall. In a word, Mexico must be ours. Among the few citizens of the Mexican re- public who have still the heart to think of the condition and destiny of their country there are none so blind as to anticipate permanent relief from the return of Santa Anna. To one, the event seems pregnant with foreign wars. Another can see no safeguard against dis- union, disruption, and the total destruc- .tion of Mexican nationality. A third goes farther, and contemplates without dread the annexation of Mexico to this Union. “ The dissolving action of our system,” says an able Mexican writer, * has not ceased one jot,’ and he adds, in a tone of doleful prophecy. that if a spirit of unity—which he admits does not exist—should not suddenly spring up to heal the sores of his country, “the United States will obtain the object of their intrigues, and Mexico will at length be blotted out from the catalogue of nations.” Such is the prospect which the Mexican publicists themselves foresee. Wecan well afford. in view of the miseries which afflict that unhappy people, to forgive the imputation of intrigue which they cast upon us, though they cannot have forgotten that the destiny of | Mexico was once in our hands, and we might. had we chosen, have seized the whole country. to unite it with our own. An endeavor on their part to hide their straits under a decent shift of compulsion should not excite our anger. But in truth, if we set aside considerations of national feeling and pride, the Mexican peo- ple ought rather to view their impending fate with joy than with regret. They have now spent thirty years in fruitless attempts to govern themselves. During that period, the utter im- possibility of joint action among the States for the common benefit has been irrefragably dem- onstrated. Each experiment has afforded new evidence of the irreconcileable hostility of inter- ests between the manufacturing and the agri- cultural, the maritime and the inland States. Each successive constitution has furnished fresh instances of collision between the federal and the State governments. Conciliation has been abandoned in sheer despair. Ruler after ruler, constitution after constitution, has been tried, and the net results are a state of confusion and anarchy appalling to describe. The foreign debt of the republic, which did not exist in 1821, amounted to $52,774.497 on 31st December, 1852, and this is exclusive of nearly twenty- three millions of dollars paid to the creditors since 1832. The domestic debt has increased during the same period from $40,000,000 to $76,179,406, By what means does Mexico ex- pect to be able to liquidate this debt—to pay nearly $129,000.000, or even the interest on that sum? She can indulge no hopes of increas- ed revenue, for though her income before her independence was $20,000,000, her revenue, under General Arista, barely exceeded $10,000.000. She cannot rely on increas- ed taxation upon a people among whom insurrection has become a chronic disor- der, and whose poverty is alone a safe shield from onerous imposts. Of the in- evitable consequences of repudiation we need not here speak. We repeat, the only practica- ble exit from the labyrinth—the only cure for the “dissolution of the social bonds—the chaos of ideas and principles—the continued agitation —the slow and prolonged agony’’—now press- ing on Mexico, is peaceful incorporation with this country. And if the Mexicans knew their own interests they would demand it. That they will not we feel tolerably assured. The extinction of a nationality is one of those operations to which no people, however despe- rate their case, will voluntarily submit. Santa Anna, too, isnot a man of politic expedients, but of desperate resolves. He lacks pru- dence, honesty, principle, but not boldness or ambition. Uraga might bave consented to be Viceroy of Mexico, or Lieutenant of Queen Christina; but Santa Anna would scorn any such subordinate post. He would rather be crushed at the head of a ruined people than prosper in foreign tutelage. Hence it is that to our mind a rupture of our relations with Mexico, consequent upon some violation of our rights by the Dictator, seems a most likely ocourrence. Ona calm review of the various modes by which the annexation of the republic might be effected, we see none more natural than the process by which one-half of its for- mer territory has already fallen into our hands. Desperate circumstances, operating on the mind of a man of Santa Anna’s desperate character, can suggest none but desperate remedies ; and we can discern none more clearly foreshadowed than another war with Mexico. Out of what pretext it may spring time will show. It seemed nursed in the Tehuantepec business; but the ratification of that treaty by Santa Anna’s friend and coadjutor, Lombardini, would appear to indicate a willingness on his part to carry out the policy of his predecessor in this respect. Some interference with the Vera Cruz and Acapulco route may more rea- sonably be expected. That such a course would be directly detrimental to the best in- terests of Mexico, and would lead to the down- fall of the Dictator himself, seems clear enough; but Santa Anna’s rashness and headstrong character are still more notorious. as he does, onthe brink of a volcano, relying solely on Providence for a government—seeing, as he must do, that the manifest destiny of Mex- ico is to become part of the United States, and having, moreover. a debt of vengeance and hate to discharge, that he should furnish us with a fur- ther illustration of his character, by violating the faith of the Mexican government, seizing the property of American citizens, and selling the right of way through Puebla to a new compa- ny, would seem by no means impossible. Whatever form of provocation he might choose Standing | to adopt. the result would be the same. Touse the noble language of the President, “controlled by no timid forbodings of evil from expansion,” we should, in case of need. proceed to annex the remainder of Mexico by the shortest and most economical process, Since 1832 we have taken from Mexico 109,9442 square leagues of terri- tory. being a trifle over one half the whole pos- sessions of the republic prior to the indepen- dence of Texas. Mexico still possesses 106,- 0674 square leagues of territory, blessed by all the advantages that nature can bestow, but cursed by a population that can make no use of it. We are not sure that it was sound policy. in 1848, to make a distinction between this terri- tory and Upper California and New Mexico. Had the whole country then fallen into our hands the Mexicans would have been saved many years of disaster, our national wealth would have been largely increased, and the isthmus would now have been covered with a prosperous and active population. Tur New Cotrecror.—No man in the city, just now, has quite as many admirers and friends as the new Collector of the port; and since his appointment and acceptance the ranks of the hard shells have received an amazing accession of numbers. The softs have become hard, and the hards have become harder than ever. The soft shell petitions which were got- ten up while the nominee was in embryo, have undergone a thorough overhauling, and every thing savoring of Marcyism or Van Burenism carefully expunged. In the way of signatures and letters, in the estimation of the hungry ap- plicants, the soft shell leaders are below par at the custom house. while the autographs of the prominent hards command a large premium, and the demand is most decidedly active. There appears to be no limit to the present popularity of Judge Bronson, for even the organ ofthe abolitionists, the Evening Post, compli- ments him, now that he has accepted; altheugh the ‘noise and confusion” incident to a removal of its publication office, unavoidably delayed its felicitations until all hope of his declining had vanished. But partizan journals, like other un- fortunates, are afflicted with short memories, else the Post would not forget that it attributed Judge Bronson’s opinion on the constitu- tionality of the Nine Million Loan bill, to a de- sire to sell his law library on favorable terms to the State. distributing its bountiful denunci- ations of Webster and Bronson about equally between those distinguished lawyers. after their legal opinions were promulgated in support of that famous measure. The Collector. happy man, has between six and seven hundred snug places to bestow. so that he can provide for at least thirty hard shells in each ward. which will average. say six, in every election district. What a formi- dable organization for the primary elections! Who wouldn’t be a hard shell, now that they have a collector whose shell is as hard as Dick- inson’s and Schell’s put together? But what will the soft shells think of the matter? Are they to give it up so, Mr. Bronson? What will Judge Bronson do? And, above all, what will Mrs. Grundy say ? Tne Wa TERING PLaces—SanaToca xp New PoRT—TuE Marve Law.—The new liquor law of Rhode Island is now in full blast of opera- tion, and its provisions will be enforced at New- port during the approaching fashionable season with even greater stringency than the previous law was carried into effect last summer, which must operate to the further detriment of that beautiful retreat. At Saratoga—sober. quiet. but fashionable Saratoga—no such restraint will be placed uponits numerous visiters as the Maine law will impose upon the few stragglers who will resort to Newport. The staid and sober inhabitants of Saratoga county, with an eye to their interests as well as their opinions, very wisely, at their late charter election, put at rest the Maine law question, as we see that in every town in the county the liquor law can- didates were defeated. Anrival OF Francont.—The steamer Washington ar- rived om Saturday from Bremen, brought eut the entire Hippodrome troupe of Mons. Franceni, together with the extensive stud of horses, wardrobe, ehariots, and general paraphernalia belonging to his famous Parisian establishment. The following are the names of the prin- cipal members:—Mons. Franconi, Madame Franconi, Mons. Chirinie, Madame Chirinie, les Fréres Siegrist, Madame Siegrist, Mons. Mason, Madame Mason, Mons. Maria, Madame Maria, Mlle. Angelina, Ml'e. Eugenie, Mile. Caroline, Mile. Adeline, Mile. Leontine, Mons. Nicola, Masters Niesls, Mr. B. Stickney. The company and stock are in most excellent condition, and will organize and commence practieimg in the Hippo drome, Madison square, immediately. The first public exhibition of this colossal and novel equestrian enter- tainment will take place on Monday, the 2d of May, a pro- gramme of which will be published in a day or two. Mons. Franconi has invited the members of the press to attend his first full drese 1ehearsal and coirée, on Monday ening, the 25th inst. The revival of the festivals, games and amusements of the ancient Greeks and Romans, with all their most daring feats and animated splendors, will form an epoch in the history of the public amusements of this country; and, by a judicious management of his establishment, if Mons. Franconi should not exactly restore to equestrian entertainments the rank and popularity they enjoyed during the classic ages, when kings were competitors for the prizes in the chariot races, and when warriors esteemed a victory in the Hippodrome or the Olympian Games the highest honor, and equal to the conquest of a foreign province, or the greatest triumph in the field of battle, he willat least elevate his profession far above what it bas ever attained in this country, and, moreover, secure to himself and associates the reward of his magnificent enterprise. The Hippodrome will not, as its name would imply, be exclusively devoted to feats of horsemanship, but, in order to vary the diversions, divers exercises of the Grecian Pentathlon and Stadium will be introduced, con- sisting of vigorous displays of exciting gymnastics, such afoot raging, leaping, darting, poising, efimbing, and other atletic and daring feats, the grounds being so ar- ranged as to admit of this diversity in the entertain. mente. Personal Intelligence, ‘We mentioned in our issue of yesterday, the arrival of General James Shields. The General puts up at the Union Placs Hotel, where he will remain during his brief stay in this city, General S. was one of the most distinguished officers connected with the war with Mexico. He com- manded the brigade of which the New Yo.k volunteers formed a portion. Yesterday, among the guests who visited him were Captains Farnsworth and Hall, of the New York volunteers, who, we understand, are endeavoring to make arrangements to give the General such a reseption as his merits deserve, We have no doubt but the Common Council will co-operate with the volunteers in extending to the General all the honors due one so deservedly enti- tled to the hospitalities of a patrioticcommunity. Among the arrivals last night at the Metropolitan, were Hon, Thomas J. Rusk, U.S. Senator from Texas; Hon. Thomas H. Ward, Texas; Major Hammond, the newly appointed Collector of San Francisco; Count and Countess Rossi, and suit, PHiladelghia, Hon, Thomas F. Marshall, in honor of whom so man; complimentary obituary notices have been written, is announced asa candidate for the Legislature of Kentucky in Woodford county. Hon. George W. Chase, member of Congress elect from the Nineteenth di.trict of this State, is seriously ill, His complaint is eryripelas in the head, William B. Rogers, who has been Professor ‘atural Philosophy, Geology and Mineralogy, in the University of Virginia, ‘for the Fist noventeon years,jand J. Lawrence ir Smith, Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, have resigned their respective professorships. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kaq., the newly appointed Conral L at Liverpool, is in town, en rowe for Liverpool. splendid fortune, as * ‘The New Golden Ingots. We are indebted to Messrs. Adams and Company, of -» of this city, for am inspection of two large ingots 0” fine California gold, issued to them—after assay—from: the United States Mint at Philadelphia, last Saturday. Independent of thelr great value, the ingots are very: beautiful, both from the neat manner in which they are put up and the accuracy with which they are labelled and stamped, so as to show the weight and current coin- age value of each ata glance. The requirements of the. law in this respect will be better understood from » pub- lication of the following ‘‘Note’’ of the authorities, whic». we annex :— panne Se DELPHLA, Ap: The of tne gold ined bythe mit are eaulred y law to contain a designation of the weight and finene :, and these accordingly are stamped upon them. The i.’ bel, which is alio gl to the bar, is not of any lezil value, but is @ mere memorandum of tion, whici,, it was supposed, an owner might wish to have, namely, as the contents of the bar in value, and as to the net amount which would be paid if the bars wereafterwaris returned to the mint. The label states—Fir. the gross value, or the amount in dollars, which can made from the bar, at which value iy ae out to the owner. Secondly, a statement is the deduction of one-half per cent, which will be levied for the expeu+e- of coining, in case the bar is returned to the mint for tha* yurpose. Third, the net amoun$-which can consequent- 5 be realized in coin at the mint, The last amount constitutes the cash value below, for which the bars should never be sold, as they ean always: be realized at that rate at the mint, and hereafter at the New York Assay Office. For purposes of export, for sale to manufacturers, and other commercial purposes, they should have a still higher value, varying ageording to the circumstances of demand. PATTERSON. ‘The bars are of different sizes, and the labels, stamps, &c., are pasted and impressed upon the solid metal. The label upon the larger reads thus:— 00000000000000000000000000 +00000000 0000000000000000000 ° MemonanpuM or Goi BAR—No. © Ons: 214.31; A: 9803¢—Fine, . @ Lees charges for coinage... ° © _ Value in coins at the mint...¥........... $4,301 74 o o U.S. Mint, Philadelphia, 16th’ Aprii, 1383. ° o (Signed) B.D. DUNNING, for Treasurer. ¢ 2000000000000000000000060000000 00000000000000000000000- Upon the opposite side of the ingot the foil is stamped. with—U. 8, Mint, 1853, Philadelphia. No. 1. Fine 980%, Ore, 214.81,” The smaller bar is labelled:— 000000000000000000000000000 00000000 oo000000ev00000000 Mrmonanpum or Gon Ban—No. II. ° 1177 15 oo 58S o ° © One: 57.52; A: 90—Fine, . 0 Loss charges for coinage. ° : =e © _ Value in coins at the min $1171 27 0 © U. 8. Mint, Philadelphia, 10th Ape ° © (Signed) 's —_..... R. D. DUNNING, for Treasurer. 0 0000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000 The reverse side is stamped with—"U, S. Mint. 1853. Philadelphia. No. Il. Fine 990. Ozs. 57.52.” ‘We were also showen two of the small sized ingot: by Messrs. Harnden & Co. Fire in the Navy Yard. DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY —ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS. ‘A destructive conflagration occurred in the navy yar. yesterday morning, which raged furiously during the greater part of the day, and had not been completely: suppressed in the evening. It originated about nine o'clock, in the painters’ loft, over the timber shed, which is situated about the centre of the yard, and is supposed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion from a barrel used as a receptacle for scraps of paint, bits of oakum, and other refuse of a highly inflammable charae- ter. The building in which the fire originated was of brick, painted the usual straw color, with a roof tiled with slate. Its dimensions were 300 feet in length by 60> in width, and on the exterior presented the appearance of being fire-proof. It was divided into three apartmenta;, the ground floor being used for the storage of seasoned’ timber, which; comprised the beams of a frigate, a sevyenty-four, a sloop, and the frames of three other war vessels, besides a large amount of promis- cuous timber, for useas occasion might require, The loft was used as a storage for paints, varnishes and oils; while the southwestern end was divided off, and eccupied as the gunner’s loft, where all kinds of small arms were re- - paired. A quantity of old iron’ was also stored in thie apartment. Most of the timbers were placed in the shed fourteen years Se | and in 1947 under charge of the then Inspector, Mr John Simmons, were taken out and replaced, since which time it has remained undisturbed. fire burned with great fury, rend the efforts of the fire- tmollaned, the walls only beng lot standing. It wil, how- Seecibe seomemry tay tice tira: Gawatoative oper tions for rebuilding can be commenced. The structure stand- ing apart from the other buildings, enabled the firemen to labor without hindrance ; and although the wind was blowing strongly during the morning, they succeeded in IMMENSE confining the flames to the edifice in which it originated. Daring the progress of the fire two distinct rengrd took place, which created some fears among at work about the building: but on the officers of the yard that no! nature was allowed in Go xt the shops, gain resumed with bled vigor.” I however, that several bombshells had been th: the old iron in the gunner’s loft without of the overseers, as the explosions occurred in that apart- ment. Although the concussions were quite loud, an2. fragments of timber were scattered about, no harm re- sulted therefrom. ‘The contents and value of the building are as follows, ax near as an estimate can be made :— The beams of one seventy-four, a , and sloop-of- war, of Southern pine; the frames of three other vessels, iount of other timber; the- of live oak, and a large whole valued at about $60,000. The contents of the painter’s loft, im which a large quantity of paints, oils, and turpentine was stored, nee it but the day previous,)-were valued at about The contents of the gunner’s loft consisted. principally of tools, and old arms taken there for repairs. ton, about $6 000, *. The building is valued at about $20,000—the amount. appropriated by gevernment for its construction. RECAPITULATION OF LOSE, assured by one of of a dangerous one hook and indder company, and seve wg to the mavy yard, were put in re- quisition immediately on the di ery of the ‘fe, and & stream was also forced from the dry means of the steam engine. The Brooklyn iasere out in full force, and labored assiduously during the greater portion- of the day. The Chief of Police, and ‘the captains and’ men of the various districts, were likewise on hand, There can hardly be a doubt that the fire was thejresult- of spontaneous combu-tion—the shops being all closed: immediately after working hoars, no ingress allowed after that time. Some nine months since the barrel placed at the head: of the stairs for the reception of the refuse of the paint shop was discovered to be on fire just before the men had concluded the labors of the day, but it: was extin- guished without causing material ; and one of the men, after wiping his hands on a oakum, threw it out of the door when it tely ig- nited. It was then remarked that a fire in those build- ings, from spontaneous combustion, might some time occur. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS: Thomas Daley, a member of No.7, was run ore Engine No. 19, while proceeding to the fire in the ya: He was badly hurt, and it is feared some bones were broken. Two officers of the Second District police carried. him to his residence, on the corner,of Hudson avenue and: Front street. Alfred Johnson, a machinist em loyed im the yard, while aeeisting at the fire, had’one of his legs broken by the falling of a piece of timber from the burni building. John ‘ite and Mr. Brown, members of Boglae No. I were both injured—one of them serisualy, having had several ribs broken while aiding about the fire. During the time of the fire the marines patroled e' part of ¢ yard, in order to prevent desertions. sb City Polittes, TAMMANY SOCIETY OR COLUMBIAN ORDER—ELEC~ TION OF OFFICERS FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. The annual election for officers of this Society, will be held at Tammany Hall this evening. ‘The following can- Sidaten belong to the old line of the Demoeratic Republi , can party. For Sachems. Joseph Cornell, Jared W. Bell, Jacob Brush, Richard B. Connolly, Wm. B. Aitken, Joseph A. Jackson, Alexander F. Vache, Garrett H. Ite, Jobn J. Manning, Cornelius 3. Bogardus, Joseph M. ‘Maral Ulyses D. French, 5 te ‘Thomas W a ‘or Secreta Sagamore, William L. Hall,’ John Becker. For Treasurer, For Wiskinkie, James C. Stoneall. . \. ‘There is another set of candidates, but their circular are circulated ina secret manner. The polls will be opened from 7 until 0 o'clock, ‘and no doubt the can~ ae will be carried on ina spirited manner by both prrties. Marine Affairs. Fast, Sanix¢.—The clipper ship “ Flying Cloud,’? Capt. Creesy, who is co-operating with Lieut. Maury in his system cf observations for the wind and current. charts, went on her lant voyage from San Francisco to ‘the Sandwich Islands in sight days, She carried sky- sails and royal studing sails all the way, and averaged 266 miles a day. She was steering west in chase of the setting sun, and actually gained twonty minutes upon him ‘daily, for in consequence of her great speed, each one of these eight days was to her about twenty minutes longer than it was to ua who remained stationary here at home. —National Intelligencer. Teas.—The best assortment of fine Teas will be found at tho store of the Canton Tes 126 Chatham «1 the oldest ten readers that thi either at wholesale or retail. Bargains in French Chi the att n of the public to the ment of this quality of French china for the from the creat porcelain manufactory This consignment will be opened nnd exposed for 18th April, nnd consists of dinner, ten and di in plain, white, and various fancy patterns, TI slightly damaged, but not at all unfit for uso—t bolng searcely porceptible—and will bo sold at a reduction from twenty tv thirty per cont below the usual price jn order to clots the consignment nt once, HOVOMWOUT & DARLEY, {61 Broadway, ote of