The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNET?, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR ‘OFFS H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND WA8S40 STS. “TSVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. “AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Wornrnrvn Wouss— asve or Canve—Lirz or howper. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadwey—M.corrs. BWIBLO’S—Don Grevarss. DURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Sanvove Faui- BY—ToopLss. [RATRE, Chatham ane Purnveme Haw andor Tows—Ax WALLacn’s street—Karusnwe aun or TYRR. THEATRE. Broadway—Oxp Hzavs aD Weuse Heanss—Pracricar Man. . RLES THEATRE. Bowery—Evaterx Wisos— one “Arrsctiox—DEcuALUMEAUX. MUSEUM—Afternoon—P. P.. on tHe Maw amp Ret eR MISCMIEy Maxuinc. Evening—-Waww OBRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 473 Brosdway—Ermoriax Mesonuse by Cuniorr’D OPsRs UPR. WOOD'S MINSTRELS. Wood's Musteal Hall, 444 Broad- way—Bruiorian MineTRaisy. MADISON AVENUE—Afternoon and Evening—Faan- wom’s CoLossat Hirropnoms. OTROUS, 37 Bowery—Equsernian Exrenrarmerrs, G@BORAMA, 586 Broadway—Banvann’s Pavonama oF was Howy Lam. BRELLER’S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES, 599 Broadway. @WEN’S ALPINE RAMBLES, 539 Broadway. New York, Friday, May 6, 1853. ——————————————— ‘The News. The three days later advices yesterday received #rom Europe, by the steamship Asia, though in many sespects very interesting, cannot be classed as im- portant. True, the difficulty between Turkey and Russia had again assumed a very threatening aspect, Prince Menschikoff having once more threatened to quit Constantinople unless the demands of the Czar were complied with—yet it is said that the English ambassador had been closeted for four hours with the Sultan, and the probability is that some plan was agreed upon by which the differences witn Russia would be arranged. Should the misunderstanding Jead to hostilities, it is broadly intimated that Eng- land will espouse the cause of Turkey. Extraordi- nary preparations for war are reported to be going on in Russia, and a recent victory over the Canca- sians appeared to have given an impetus to the mili- tary spirit of the people that was almost without pre- eedent. Greece, too, is threatening Turkey. In fact, the fire of revolutionary discord, awhile tempo- rarily smouldering in Europe, is manifesting still un- paralleled fierceness throughout the entire East. The political news from England is of no special moment. The Canada Clergy Reserves bill had been veada second time in the House of Lords. On refer- ence to the eynopsis of the new British tariff it will be seen that it proposes a total abolition of the duties en several of the principal American prodactions. Dr. Ackilli, the celebrated seceding Catholic, has de- elared his intention of coming to the United States. Kossuth has taken steps to prosecute the publishers ofthe London Times for a defamation of character in their recent publieation concerning the searching of his house by the police, &c. Mrs. Stowe was still Jooked upon asthe great American lioness by the people of Great Britain. A wholesale attack was re- cently made upon Bonapartism by the Paris Presse, and a \“warning,” it was surmised, would be the eomsequence. Political items of interest were remarkably scarce throughout France. Spain ig still in commotion. It is thought that the wew cabinet will not succeed, and that another will soon be appointed. The negotia- tions between Switzerland and Austria are now said to be progressing favorably. We hear of ministerial and representative changes in Holland and Denmark. ‘The Austrians continue to erect barracks and fortifi- cations in Italy. Great religious revivals are report- ed to have been produced in some parts of Italy and Holland by miracles of a most wonderful descrip- tion. Commercial affairs in London and Liverpool were somewhat unsettled, owing to the uncertainty that existed as to whether the financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be successful in Parliament. Prices for stocks were heavy, and but little was doing. Large shipments of specie cou- tinued to be made to Australia. Foreign securities were firmer, and United States stocks and railroad debentures were in good deman?. The Liverpool cotton market was very quiet, at the decline men- tioned at the previous dates ; neither had there been any improvement in breadstuffs or provisions—in fact, trade generally was inanimate and stagnant. From Washington we learn that the President and his Cabinet are still actively employed in the selec- tion of proper successors to the numerous whigs whom the decree of partizan warfare requires them to remove from the minor public offices in all sec- tions of the country. By reference to our tele- graphic despatches it will be seen that a great many collectors, surveyors, mint officers, &o., were ap- pointed yesterday. It is understood that a new Governor for the territory of New Mexico will be mamed to-day. A gentleman of Kentucky is spoken of in connection with that post. It is supposed that the foreign missions will not be definitely arranged till next week, or at all events till after the recovery of Secretary Davis, who is confined to his room by an attack of neuralgia. So far as concerns a certain class of politicians and financiers in this city, the most important item of pews from Washington is the declaration that Secre- tary Guthrie has given a decision adverse to the ap- plication of some of the old Custom House officers, of both political parties, for the fees of their offices, in- stead of fixed salaries. Those interested in this matter have been striving for a long time to effect their object, and, through an opinion farnished by Attorney General Crittenden, came ‘very near succeeding during the last admintstration; ‘but unfortunately for them, Mr. C. shortly after re- viewed the matter. In Secretary Guthrie’s decision it is conclusively established that these gentlemen, by the very law on which they built their hopes, were not lepally entitled to the fees of their offices—conse- quently their glittering prospects have all been swept sway at a single brush. Had the claims of. these gentlemen been favorably considered, several of them who are now in moderate circumstances, would have been suddenly raised to affluence. But these are not the only ex-custom house officers whose demands have met with repulse. Our correspondent states that the Secretary of the Treasury has also decided against the claims of Messrs. Maxweil, Bokee and King, for a considerable amount of forfeitures. Verily, these are stirring times, both among the outs @nd the ins. Gen. Scott, who left this city yesterday morning, arrived in Washington last eyeniug. He has gone to the capital on business connected with the coxw- mission appointed to examine and report upon a location for the Western Military Hospital. * Some sixteen hundred {people, including three hundred ladies, yesterday gave a complimentary dinner in Boston, to ex-Senator John P. Hale, New Hampshire. The despatch states that the com pany sat down to the table at two ek in the af- ternoon, and had not risen at nine. Cassius M. Clay, Horace Mann, and many others of their school, were among the guests. See the speeches, &c., un der the telegraphic head. ‘The last advices from Buenos Ayres confirm the previons report that the revolution had been brought to a close. The eommissiovers had agreed upon a Considerable excitement existed against the British Charge, in consequence of his having asserted that the Buenos Ayreans had themselves been the cause of all the bloodshed. The British Packet denounced him as “a partizan of Urquiza’s, and the unblush- ing apologist of rebellion and‘anarehy.” Owing to the distracted state of the country freights were still very scarce, and there were, consequently, one hun- dred and thirty-four vesseis in port. A despatch from Albany informs us that the first canal boat from Buffalo arrived yesterday afternoon. She was loaded with seven hundred barrels of flour, for this city. The Texas papers declare the reported discovery of gold mines in that State to be a hoax—the speci- mens of precious metal exhibited having been brought from California. The delegated Convention of the American Medi- cal Association terminated the ardaous duties of its sixth representative deliberations, in this city, yes- terday afternoon. The faculty of New York enter- tained their professional brethren from every section of this centinent, together with our most distinguish- ed judges, clergymen, merchants, and the fair ladies of their families, at a grand dinner In Metropolitan Hall. The array of talent, fashion, and beauty pre- sent has never been equalled in America, and never excelled by any similar assemblage in the civilized world. About eight hundred doctors sat to dinner, and they were smiled upon by nearly five hundred ladies, showing that afflicted humanity may always gladden beneath the united tenderness and skill of the daughters of Venus and the sons of Esculapius. The Art Union Committee assembled yesterday at the Astor House, and the evidence of Monk was cone cluded.—See report elsewhere. In addition to much other interesting reading, to- day’s inside pages contain the proceedings in the Broadway Railroad case in the Supreme Court, to- gether with the notice of an application for an in- junction against the Crystal Palace; Detailed Ac- count of the Sport over the Centreville Course last Wednesday; Lecture by Father Gavazzi, on ‘Relics and Images;’’ Commercial, Railroad, Theatrical and Miscellaneous Intelligence, &c. ‘The Schemes of the Day—What are they? ‘Who cares about them? We have go often been told that we live in anage of schemes that men’s minds are all made upon the point. It is an understood thing at the present day, that at regular intervals stupendous undertakings and prodigious enter- prises, which some years ago would have seemed utterly insane, shall be proposed, discussed, and carried out ; and we are so accustomed to hear of such matters that they excite but little ‘surprise, and create hardly any excitement. Some day, an adventurer will devise a large umbrella to cover the whole city in rainy weather, and with the exception of a few knowing ones who will take stock in the con- cern, New York will receive the announcement of the invention with perfect apathy. Or a cempany will be established for the purpose of supplying the whole city with ice creams at domicile, for a mere nominal sum per month; and we shall consume the delicacies with as much nonchalance as if-our forefathers had be- queathed them as an heirloom. Ors system of air-cars will be set on foot, to whirl us from place to place, over housetops and chimneys, in an incredibly short space of time, for a beg- garly trifle; and we shall become aerial navi- gators, without so much as elevating our eye- brows. Doctors will finally agree to let medi- cine alone, and patients will frequently recover : but the public will scarcely deign to acknow- ledge the boon. Philanthropists will devise a scheme for cleansing the hearts of criminals, instead of twisting their necks; and a bare paragraph will satisfy public curiosity on the subject. Congress will hit upon a scheme for purifying the city of the lower order of grog shops und uther dens of infamy ; and in a week we shall have forgotten that such things ever were. See the schemes which are actually in contem- plation and progress, and test the interest mani- fested in them. The World’s Fair, for Instance —an undertaking of such magnitude that it was made a national work in England—is here set on foot, prosecuted, and will soon, we trust, be carried to successful completion, by a pri- vate company. A few months have been suffi- cient to lay the foundation, erect the iron walls and rafters. and glaze a large portion of one of the finest edifices in this country, It will not comtpare with the London Crystal Palace, in point of size; but it will probably be large enough for our purpose, and does not yield to its elder brother in point of symmetry or archi- tectural elegance. In the course of a month or so it will be filled with the noblest products of human ¢kill. from all quarters of the globe: Hundreds of thousands will visit it and throng the neighborhood. The tower will reflect a portion of its popularity, and a judicious ad- mixture of astronomy and sherry cobblera will insure a fair dividend to the proprietors. Be- sides substantial profit in the shape of hard cash, the projectors of the World’s Fair will have rendered a service to their country by | bringing its manufactures into fair and honor- able competition with foreign wares. We need not remind our readers that the United States, from various causes, appeared to great disad- vantage at the world’s Fair in London, We shall now have an opportunity of correcting the erroneous impressions received by Euro- peans respecting our industrial condition. We “must beat John Bull and his neighbyrs, com- pletely and thoroughly; and while we do so, requite their jealous cavils at our contributions to the London exhibition, by a courteous dis- play of hospitality. This the Crystal Palace will enable us todo. These are the results we anticipate from it. In view of their magnitude and importance, we may well wonder at the comparative apathy with which the public re- gards its progress. But, as we said, such is the way of New Yorkers. There is the Hippodrome, again—a novelty equally attractive and striking. Our circuses and equestrian shows sink into utter insigni- fieance when compared with the lavish display of artistic skill and splendor which Franconi promises. But who cares about the Hippo- drome? Some little excitement was got up the other day, when it was ascertained that the first performance was solely intended for the press, and that ladies ware not to be admitted; and the five hundred gentlemen who discovered that they were connected with the New York press were for a short while objects of envy, But the excitement soon died out. If Franco: establishment covered the whole of Madison square, instead of one corner, New Yorkers would soon learn to regard it aa a matter of course, quite unworthy of.any special notice. A great opera house is going to be built house that will rival the largest theatres ir Europe, and eclipse even the fame of La Scala. We shall, within its precinete, be enabled to hear the greatest works of Meyerbeer, Mozart, and Rossini. for a miserable half dollar, The whole city will he free to share the treat. The Bowery will be invited, and tickets will be peace, on terms highly favorable to the city, and th | Within the rewck oi thy dwellers on the Maat treaty was to have been ratified oa the 1th Mareh. | river. Music will no longer be confined to the few, who learned to smatter « few words of Italian for $20 a quarter ; {our own language will be adapted to the airs, and we shall cease to imitate the Englieh in despising our native tongue. Whenit is built, the ragged boys in the street will discard “Dandy Jim” and the “Old Folks at Home,” and will be known to warble snatches from ‘Puritani,” or whistle cavatinas from “ Robert.” Who cares for the opera house? The greatest, perhaps, of all desiderata, is a comfortable, economical, respectable lodging house. People who have no house of their own are at preeent at liberty to choose between living ata hotel, where it costs a small fortune for bare subsistence, and taking rooms at one of those licensed purgatories called boarding houses, which realize the highest possible de- gree of physical and moral discomfort. It is now proposed to supply the deficiency by a model lodging house on the French plan. That it will succeed, if established on sound econo- tical principles, and will be followed by dozens of other similar establishments, we see no rea- son to doubt. Our population is increasing with unequalled rapidity. Men, even with large incomes, do not like to spend $1,500 or $2,000 a year, for mere board and lodging; and have a still more violent antipathy to entrust- ing their domestic cares to the tender mercy of the ogres who preside over boarding houses. Ina few years, if the experiment we have mentioned is judiciously carried out, we shall have hundreds of large buildings, divided into separate apartments, in which families can enjoy the comforts of a home without incurring @ ruinous expenditure. But who is thinking about Mr. Sanderson or his echeme? Again, while people with incomes of $1,200 to $3,000 a year need a quiet, comfortable, econo- mical residence, the working classes require as imperatively a public promenade where they can breathe the fresh air and enjoy the luxury of an hour’s walk through shady alleys, canopied with green foliage. London has its’ parks—Paris its gardens, Shall New York be the only great city that can boast of neither? Shall we, who revel in countless tracts of available land, be more stingy of our acres than the English or French, who have not an inch unoccupied? Heaven forbid. The poor muet have their park, if it cost us a million to purchase it. It must and will be laid out, and thrown open, before we are many years older. A week after it has been opened, nobody will think or talk about it. So the world wags. Scheme after scheme, project after project, reform after reform, follow each other in rapid succession. each adding a mite to our personal comfort and happiness. So many, so vast. are they. that none of the num- ber can arrest our notice or retain our grati- tude for more than a fewhours. Its impression is yet fresh on our mind when it is blotted out by @ new one, more surprising, more popular still. We forget what we owe it, and cannot for the life of us remember the discomfort we suf- fered before its birth. Like the acute throb of pain that memory cannot recall after it has ceased, the inconvenience caused by the want of an opera house, @ park. a lodging house, will soon pass away from our recollection when we have got them. Crean Streets vs. rae Krrcuenmatms,—Old Sol is rising in the firmament, and tho soles of our feet are beginning to toast on the hot ficg stones. Ina few days, the atmosphere which surrounds us will be endowed with the most remarkable chemical powers. Save living beings, all substances impregnated with mois- ture will be dried up, and the liquids they con- tain evaporated. Could our eyes but discern them, clouds of gases—some of them deadly, others only unwholesome, but all noxious— would be seen to rise from either side of our busiest thoroughfares, dealing sickness and destruction around. Fever and pestilence lurk in every gutter, in every dust heap that lies twenty-fours hours in the sunny street. This is the time to test the practical working of the new Police law. Thanks to the press, none of our readers are unaware that a city ordinance expressly prohibits the throwing of heaps: of dust. ashes, garbage or filth into the street. Noone whospends a quarter of an hour in the open air needs to be told that that ordi- nance is daily violated in every quarter of the city. Parts of Broadway, and one or two of the best streets up town, present occasionally a tolerably clean appearance ; but five-sixths of the crogs streets. and almost all those which run parallel to Broadway, are literally vast receptacles of decaying vegetable and animal matter. It is the duty of the police to puta stop to so alarming an abuse. The police under the old system could not check it; in fact, they did nottry. The police under ihe new system must enforce obedience to the law, or we shall have the work of police reform to do over again. Every man must un- derstand that if he allows a heap of garbage on his beat to escape his notice, or if, when he sees it, he fails to report it, and supply such evi- dence as will enable the proper officer to prose- cute the tenant of the house whence it came, he is robbing the city of bis wages, and helping to scatter disease among the poor. Captains of police must likewise bear in mind, that if they retain in the employ of the city men who have been convicted of negligence. in this respect, they are accomplices in the theft, and, from their higher responsibility. doubly criminal. This matter of street eleanlinees has been worn threadbare in the newspapers. It comes home to every man, and all have chorused in denouncing it. Still, to all outward appear- ances, the evil remains as it was. Divest the controversy of party clamor and high sounding verbiage, and what is it? A war between the city and the kitchenmaids, Insig- nificant as we may think the latter class they have actually kept the whole city at bay for eeveral years. Talk of your civic ordinances, your police regulations, your incorruptible al- dermen, your model police—Betty knows no- thing of all these things, but continues to ompty her cabbage stalks, potato peelings, and dust pan on the side walk, ae her mother did before her. and as she hopes to do tothe end of her days. Her mistress may issue a geneiml pro- clamation on the subject; but Betty knows well enough. from the tone in which it is uttered, that it “don’t amount td ‘any- thing.” and placidly pursues the even tenor of her way. Honest Betty. having a very limited acquaintance with the chemical properties of cabbage stalks, and contenting herself with the very natural convictim that they cannot remain inher kitchen, doa what little she can. in her ingocent way. to poison her neighbors ; and, if ever a doubt crosses ber sim- ple mind, ebe consoles herself with the reflection that her intentions are pure and the police caro lest, phe knows that Peggy, the cook over the way, docs the same, and Biddy, the helper next door, is even @ more regular contribator to the stores of street filth than hereelf ; and who ever heard of harm coming to either of them from the practice? Reasoning thus, Betty, whose trans- atlantic origin deprives her of such luxuries as the perusal of the newspapers, defies the whole posse comitatus, and earns a passport to fame in the bills of mortality. It is time that this should cease. Betty may escape the arm of the law, but her master is a broad target for its vengeance. A few examples of severe punishment would do more to clean the streets than all the clamor in the world. Our task has been fulfilled. We signalize the grievance, and point to those whose duty it is tocure it. If they fail, we must then turn our shafts against them and their overseers. June is close at hand, freighted with one hundred thousand visiters to the Great Exhibition. The streets must be kept clean, the tide of disease must be etemmed, should it cost us our whole city government. Tae Pusiic Treasury.—We are informed that there is now a surplus of twenty millions in the Treasury of the United States, and that at the present rate of the receipts from the customs, the total receipts of the cur- rent year will hardly fall short of the large aggregate of sixty millions of dol- lars, At the same time, it is quite likely, from the movements of retrenchment and re- form which appear to be going on at Washing- ton, that the expenses of the government wil) be somewhat reduced. We should not, there- fore, be surprised (provided, always. there is no war in the interval) if there shall be a surplus in the Treasury on the first Monday of Decem- ber next, of thirty millions of dollars. What more auspicious time than this could there be for a grand combined movement of all the friends of the Pacific railroad throughout the country, towards a general demand upon the next Congress for a bonus of thirty or forty millions to the Pacifie railroad? And what more favorable occasion could we have for the purchase, upon liberal terms, of another slice of Mexico, or a matter-of-fact, business-like ar- gument with the Spanish government upon the Cuba question ? Let this accumulation of surplus cash be spent to the advantage of the nation, for there is nothing so liable to breed corruption a3 large sums of money lying idle in the Treasury. While it lies there, it is buta constantly increasing temptation for rogues to take hold of it. Let us buy a little more land —let*us patch up the navy, and let us build the Pacific railroad ,with this surplus. Our southern cotton and our California gold will keep up the supplies, peace or war. What a great country is ours, and what a glorious prospect is opened —will open—before us! Let us wake up to the duties of “ manifest destiny.” Great Excrrement 1n Cusa.—According to our last advices from Havana, there is very considerable excitement prevailing in that city, and all over the island, on the Cuban question, The official Diario is in a perfect blaze of alarm and indignation at the appointment of Mr. Soulé to Spain. It threatens all sorts of dreadful things if he attempts to try on the fil- libusters at Madrid, in any way. And if there should be a liberating expedition sent over to help the Cuban creoles to independence and free trade, the whole island, in its defence, will be re- duced toa mass ofruins. Meantime, itis reported that the cunning old Catalans are selling off their property, and making all snug; as the sailors say, against the coming storm, while, on the other hand, the still more sagacious creoles are investing largely in real estate. Notwith- standing these portentous movements, the slave trade seems to be as thriving as ever, and ne- groes, fresh from the gold eoast, rule at good prices. But the Spanish authorities at Havana have no faith in Soulé, none in Gen. Pierce, no respect for his inaugural address, being fully impressed with the terrible idea that the ad- ministration is in a league with the Cuban Jun- ta and the Order of the Lone Star, to seize upon Cuba the first dark and stormy night, af- ter all the preparations are perfected. Verily, Mr. Soulé, from the outcries of the Diario, will never be permitted to enter the city of Madrid. The matter is becoming intensely interesting. A Symptom or Resettion.—The Vational Democrat, of this city—the special organ of the hard shells—begins to exhibit a disposition in- clined to mutiny. It produces the party statis- tics of the elections of 1848 and 1852 of this great State, to show that Gen. Pierce owes his overwhelming plurality of 27,000 votes to the Cass wing. the Van Buren counties actually falling behind their aggregate vote against Gencral Taylor. The moral of these figures is that the only sure reliance of the democracy of New York is upon the Cass men, the hankers, the hard shells, the anti-Van Buren, anti-Dix, anti-Marey faction. This may be so; but why should the hard shells complain? Have they not got the Collector? What more do they want? Perhaps they want the State Depart- ment and the mission to France? Why. then, don’t they speak out? What’s the use of this inarticulate mumbling and grumbling? What isthe matter? Out with it. The Italian Opern—Contract between Hackett and Gilsi and Marto ratified. The musical world on this side the Atlantic will be happy to learn that an agreement was ratified yesterday, in this city, between James H. Hackett on the one part, and Mattia Montecchi, the authorized representative of Mario and Grisi, on the other part, according to which engagement the greatest tenor and the most splendid operatic actress of the age have agreed tocross the ocean and sing for sixty- three nights in North America, for what they have concluded to accept as an equivalent, a compensa- tion which will average, extras included, about twen- ty-five hundred dollars per night for the pairof them. * This is a great consummation. For two years Mr. Hackett, directly or indirectly, has been nego- tiating to seeure an engagement on this side of the water with these two most distinguished masical celebrities. In October last he despatched Mr. Charles 8. Seyton, (formerly Jenny Lind’s man of businers,) as a special commissioner to Mario and Grisi in London, and he returned in March last, having cettled the preliminaries of their engagement. A few days ago Signor Montecchi arrived in this city with the requisite authority to “clinch the bav- gain,” and it was accordingly ratified yesterday be- tween the aforcsaid high contracting parties. Sometime during the coming autumn, on or before the completion of the new opera house, Mario and Grisi may be expected to make their debut toa New York audience. What they are in their pro- fesvion it is unnecessary here to repeat. Their repa- tations in Earope may be guessed at by the follow- ing eireumstances:—The Emperor Nicholas had ex- pected them at St. Petersburg during the past win- ter, but it eo happened that Grisi’s health rendered it semewhat inconvenient to undertake in her situa tion—-indeed, it was entirely out of the question to think of undertaking—the risks and jolting of so long a journey. Having completely recovered, however, ber retivement ot London, the agent of the Cza again invited her to come with Mario to the Russian capital and name their own terms. About the same time Louis Napoleon, as we are informed, sent word to Master Lumley, the London manager, thatif he could sueceed in bringing Mario and Grisi to Paris for the next winter’s musical campaign, the said Mas- ter Lumley might consider himself as having a carte blanche with regard to compensations, which he might fill up with figures of his own cheoding. Lum- ley had been kind to Louis Napoleon the poor exile, and Napoleon the Emperor was moved in his over- tures bya sense of gratitude. In fact, his object was, in this agreeable way, to pay up his indebted- ness to Lumley, with an imperial margin of interest. But Grisi had made up her mind to come to the United States, and thus Hackett dipped in between the two emperors, (like Napoleon at Austerlitz,) and bore away the prize. Mario, as is universally known, is the great tenor of the age. To our home-made aristocracy, delight ing as they do in the honor of a foreign titled guest among them, it will be exceedingly gratifying to learn that Don Giovanni Battista di Candia, of Cag- lari, in the island of Sardinia, commonly called Monsieur Mario, is an Italian Count ; and everybody, but especially the belles of the opera, will be still more charmed to know that he is, in every sense, a stylish, accomplished, and, above all, a very hand- some man. Sucha good figure, such a fine, intelli- gent face, such eyes—and then such a voice; ah! he is perfectly irresistible. It may also be interesting to those of our readers who are curious to know something of the domestic relations of a public artiste, to learn that Grisi is under no sort of obligations to her former husband. It appears, from a written document before us, that Giulia Grisi, now residing at Percy’s Cross, Fulham, in the county of Middlesex, (or, in other words, in London,) where also resides Monsieur Mario, and which said Giulia Grisi was formerly the wife of Monsieur. Auguste Cwsar Achille Gerard de Melcy, is now no longer s0, for that, on the first day of June, in the year of our Lord MDCCOXLIII, she was legally separated, in person and estate, from the said Auguste Casar Achille Gerard de Meloy, by a judgment pronounced in the first chamber of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, in France. And it will also be gratifying to assure our readers that not only is Grisi the greatest actress in opera of this age, but that she is one of the very handsomest women that ever opened her beau- tiful mouth to the unbounded admiration of the gaz ing and listening multitude. We learn that on the occasion, about two years ago, of the entertainment given by Mr. Bates, of the firm of Baring & Brothers, at his house, to the Duchess of Gloucester, a little incident occurred, illustrating most strikingly the pride which Grisi entertains of her powers in opera. ‘She was the chief singer at this entertainment, and in the gene- ral conversation which followed the music a distin- guished gentleman spoke: to her of the immense harvest of dollars that Jenny Lind was reaping in the United States, and suggested that a trip to this country, and a series of concerts, would be of all things the most successful arrangement that could be made. Grisi replied, ‘No, sir; no,no. I could not go to America without giving them my Norma.” She will come, therefore, in her full character of prima donna, not only in “Norma” but in all the best operas of the day. After their engagement in the United States, Mario and Grisi will return to Europe and retire to private life. They are both already quite rich; but as the measure of a modern European singer's glory is no longer complete without a visit to this country, and a draft upon our surplus California gold, they have agreed to come. ‘ The price of tiekets has yet te be arranged. But if the grand tenor and the superb prima donna cost the maestro some twenty-five hundred dollara per night, and the corps operatic, accessories, &¢., &c., another thousand, we should suppose that a single ticket will range somewhere about the price of a barrel of flour, including drayman’s expenses, or a trifle of a dollar or two more or less. Hurry up the opera house. Let them come along. Talk on *Change. The foreign news by the Asia was the subject of con- versation. In its commercial features it was considered unfavorable for cotton, without indicating material ehange in breadstuffs. In money matters the news was considered good, and the belief expressed that so long as there continued to be a good demand in London for Ame- rican railrcad stocks and bonds, and consols sold so high as 1003 a 100%, the rates of interest could not advance there, or sterling rule very high here. A merchant said, however capacious the English appetite was for American securities, there would be no difficulty of feeding it to its utmost satiety. “The most important news brought from Fugland was the proposed reduction in the British tariff, which it was Delieved would be adopted, as it was a government mesrure, brought forward by the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. Many of its provisions would prove highly advan- tegeous to American interests. Quercitron bark was to be made free, with meats preserved in any other way than salted ; pickles of all kinds; turpentine, of greater value than fifteen shillings per ewt.; spirits of turpentine, Ame- rican furniture woods, of walnut and maple, would go in free. Cured fith, not otherwise enumerated; sails, of ali sorts; bair, skins, and manufactures of ekins or furs; waste wood, for stowage, &c., were to be free, and in which Americans were interésted. The duties were also to be materially reduced on a long lst of articles, in many of which this country was interested. The duties on ‘teas were to be reduced. It was considered that the bold strides England was making in a liberal free trade policy, and the favorable results whieh had attended it, by the increase of her revenue, would not fail to exercise a strong influence on the commercial policy of other na- tions, the expediency and wisdom of her course, being not Jess spparent than the brilliant national pecuniary results. With all these concessions, there was found an excess of revenue, proposed to be applied to the extine- tion of a portion of the public debt, a result which had not occurred before for many long years. It was stated on ’Change that a house in Liverpool, who had been largely engaged in the shipment of grain from this country, bad stopped payment. The amonnt of their liabilities was not stated. Among other sufferers by the fire at the foot of Fifty- ninth street, North river, last Wednesday night, was Mr. Amylung, who lost about $6,000, chiefly in fixtures, on which he had an insurance of only $3,000. As the Legislature would soon re-assemble at Albany, & hope was expressed that it would passa law in favor of organizing # commercial court in this city. Merely enlarging the jurisdiction of the Marine Court was not calculated to produce the relief desired, because cases would arise requiring, from the nature of perishable property involved, the most speedy judicial action con- sistent with the ends of justice. In other courts commer- cial suita would have to take their turn among a long list of actions relating to every sort of ordinary business. By having @ jurist to preside exclusively over a commer- cial court, he would become more familiar with such caces, and better acquainted with eommercial laws and usages, thus being enabled to make clearer and sounder decfeions. ‘The canal breaks were said to be more frequent than usual the present spring, and were likely to give some trouble to merchants, in regard to the delivery of pro- duce sold to arrive. A vessel which had engaged a con- siderable quantity of grain, was unable to obtain it, be- cause the shipper, owing to the canal breaks, was pro“ vented from receiving it. The vessel being nearly full, and ready torail, was seeking to supply its place. Tar Orera at Ninve’s—ComPiimestary Bexerm to Mr. Lx Gnanp Surm.—The lovers of the opora will be pleased to learn that this evening Mozart's great master. piece, “ Don Giovanni,” will be performed by the Grand Combination Italian Opera troupe, consisting of Mesdames Alboni, De Vries, Seidenburg, and Signors Salvi, Bone ventano, Rovere, Roti, and Zanovi. Mr. Max Marrtzek and the principal artista of the grand chorus and or chestra, have volun'eered their servicer. Awthisis the last night of fhe present searon, and as it is intended for the benefifof Mr. Le Grand Smith, the hoase will be crowded, Personal Intell Among the departures from thi were Gen. Win ott; and M. De Bodiseo, Rasian Minister, for Washington. : Among the errivals at the Metropolitan yesterday were on. 8. Turner, Louisiana; Hon. F, Pratt, Virginia Feverley Kenan, U8 Army: J. C, Walsh, U. 8. Navy; } mpsbt, dO. Wri. Stevart, Feq), London; Jaines Wr Bivizon, Casgow, Don B Agasro, Mesico, 18,14, 16, 11, 6, 18, 19.20, 21. Fatih 82h, Mp 219, 140, by Chanecor Frise a9) a6" art 479, 480, 481, 490, 400, 491, '492,'493,” 811, 179, 1 oa an, a2 418 aa 485, 480, 487, 488, 489, 495, 496, 407, 498, 499, 500. street, bas just 0} 0" cnses of fine Pana Leg- hora, ‘and braid hate ‘which ch, bel former seasons. Prices from assortment of children's hats lors Hing, sporti eve- a: , Mone: rose tc. he. ‘WARNOUKS, hatter 275 Brvadways louse. Jacob Banta @ffers to the Public a Hat for threo dollars, which for durability and slogance surpassed ty any establishment in the elty’ He aloo ‘has om, ide large assvrtment of men's and boys Panama ‘a large thorn hats, infants’ China and boys? Coburg, and other fe braid hats, which he is selling Bowery. duced prices, at No. O08 Be Economical, a yet in the Fashion... WM. BANTA, 106 trect, sellsa fine hat at $3—im, fact, the Brosuway art ® saving of twenty-five cent, He has this year’ introduced children’s summer hats, infants’ fine straw, braid misses’ beautiful Leghorn and straw Pol is the Word uy joe your Hats of the 0 mechanios, and thus serve je of hat, is the most elezant ty and durability their Union, No. 11 Park rows rice $4 and $3. are opposite By the Man About Town.—' you can tell a KNOX hat at a single glance ? We don’t kaow ‘curcelves, but the question is often asked, and with reason, too, for the Knox hat. always ftting the head perfectly: there is a neatnoss and good tanio. masifested im it’ thet ee tributable to this cunso lene, Then in point of way always. in sinpe, never’ Suraiag ‘seey oc i, , never turning grey or brown. They/are models of nesti ea, vis <. ness and elegange, whilq it that ‘an jet, An Imperial Crown, lent with glittering gems and brillisnts, tacks jaality that ie universally conceded to belong to the mat an aling fabrics of KNOX & JAMES, the Prescott Hou Perfect in material, aad perfect, fo maapinotare., the bate of ceful and olegant inappearance, 1a Ghat is equally to the purpose, highly’ fash heir, room is on the corner of Broadway and Spring stroet, Heller's saloon, fect tere—becomingne ales near Mealio’s Spring Hats.—Every Gentleman who wishes to make a ry epbesrscce in Broadway this season should secure s pat. There are none he market that can compare with them for beaut; gance. MEALIO’S establishment is at No, 410 corner of Canal street. Business Coats, | sacks, spring frocks, spring Freed tee Meawtital variety of var choicest spring importations. . & J Nos. 33 and 86 John street, cover Naseau. Be ye Clothed—To be P; Clothed, it. is only necessary to callon our friends, W. W. PARSELLS & co., 54 hn street, corner of N. st, where very ry to complete » drobe may iperior style and wi A Choice of Spring ond Sammer Clothin:; may always be found at the Nassau clothing stores, 106 large stock of ready made garments, it materials, in great variety, al yatly redu prices. Summer basiness coats $1 50 to of evory olor, DULAN & THOMPSON. Horace declares that money derives its groatest value from belt Admitted, all who poss vest modicum thereof in a set of shirts made b; No. 1 Astor Hou: ct in style and fit, and al home at the time promised. {adiciously applied. This being ¢ article are recommended to ine GREEN, ways sent There are few Rarities more Prized by Gen= tlemen than elegant shirts, ‘Theso, however, aro no rarit With Agate’s customers. its Corazza shirte give universal Tatisinciion, while tho underelotvn, cra minor a) neces of agentleman’s dress. at lishment aans reproache. ‘AGATE, 256 Broadway. Ye Gents, Stopping at the Lars Take slook at those hate, that WILLIAMS psee ia tho € 01 And tl ‘And if your head should be long, or a little 5 Nota better “fitter” than he bas, is to befoun R80} mit thenthettion of thats freaeate . PE’ IN £00, onl] the attention hake rece sn carpetings rast received from the ea Bost eelebrated anuleto ing tapestzy valvohy of ofleloths, venefians, mattings, window jes, &e., ko. ae a ee gas Geewetnrtioes i 4 aro} Bettaeray snnptica of Fick and°alogust cerpotings, of supe: nb carpeting, of supe- jo and styles, entirely nowsand particularly ea to trade. For sale fullten per eomt lese than othex shores ilar goods. oe, for 15 Sales, ~ 4 LOUNSBERY, No. 448 Pearl steeet, are now re~ eciving in store, per lato jarrivals, a large stock of tapestry, Brussels, threo-ply, and ingria_carpstings, baste and Lich, having been purchased wwious to th i prices, they are enabled offer at very to. stal Palace Carpets wi at Hiram Anderson's also Hare's celebrated English oor wide, of fresco, Gothic and Italian lish and American im) three ply and ran re aad td, OO 10, and 70 ekake per cali irpets at , 40, ), mms eent H GHicleth at 2. 64., Be, 3 rand be. per yard: aleo1 006 jeces Manking and Gourqua white, check and fancy mat- ing, of s splendid quality, remarkably cheap. Town and Down Town.—We see that EDWIN E. BROOKS, so well known to the fashionable public as the most tasteful of bootmakers, has opened’s a establishment at 575 Broadway, just in the centre of the brilliant cluster of now hotels. iis stock compre- hends every article in his line for both sexes and all ages; and his pi ificent store. like those at hie lower place of busine: 59 Ful eet, will be found mueb below the ordinary Broad dard. es at this Deflance Salamander fafes.—Gayler’s Pa- tent —ROBERT M. PATRICK is the sole manufacturer in the United States of the above celebrated safes, and Goffin’s impenctrable defiance lockse—the best safes a1 locks combined in tho world. Depot No. 192 Pearl street, one door below Maiden lane, formerly 90 John strect, The attention of the Public is called to erat Noe 0. ifany, fore- It Is-being cot; Two Shilling well known in New York and elsewhore that it is unneces- tary any more to pay three and four dollars for pictures, when better ones can be had for only twonty-five conte. Brean 4 CO. take daily 250 and 50) pictures. Rooms 239 roadway. | are Daily Taking the Won- a hole families d put up in handsome ) am le, or in ertat sterescopie ‘tho public are invited to ox- well as their collection of "i st and the Bert in the ° ° stairs, 23 Broad rk fountain, Diamonds, Jewelry, Watches, Silverware, manufactory 281 Broadway, corner of White street, upstairs. Diamonds {the lot at {a porter’s prices; watches by tho European ; Jewelry, silverware, diamond rings, ra, ko., at manufacturer's prices, twene per c clow retail store dealers. “DAVID RAIT, Maunfacturer and Importer: Superb Library of the Cholcest Books. Friday evening salo, May 6, at 63<o’clock. Raphael's Leygio, fol.; the Florence Gallery, 4 vole, fol.; Turners Libor Flu viorum; Dodsley’s Old Piays, 12 v Biing tural History, 2 vols.; Mirror Tiluminated Books of the Middle A: ndon, Harrington’s Arioste, Todd # Beiumont and Fletcher, 11 v0 . J vols. ; Shakspeare, Robertson, Ford, Soorgne, 5 many others, oll the choicest editions, splon- didly bound. May now bo viewod. BANGS BROTHER & CO., 13 Park Row. Shell Combs at Rogers’ Bazaar of Fancy goods, 449 Broadway; also every variety of dressing combs, aft be, and toile ea, which will be sold cheap— re, 419 Broad m,n Prices usual to bi Elegant Weading and ‘Visti Sf bordered and plain, beautifully engras lendid wod ding oper, of the latest atyiea;, Ane oor plates, © ere 7 of pat onsular, notary and seciohy seals; heraldic devices of ever, desert ee: EVERDELL, 902 Broadway. Gas Fixtures !—Gas Fixtures !—~Twenty per Gent cheaper than any other house in the Uaited States. JAMES C. MOFFEN, manufacturor of gas ehandolie brackets, pondants, &0., for churches, hotels ings and stores, has now on band a groat variety ich, for style and finish oan 119 an jn N. B.—Gas pipe way. notice, Picture [ramet it seems ae if everybody to JAMES 8. BRADLEY & COS for their picture frames. Well, they are clover, wor thy gentlemén, and do their work in s workmantite and tasty We heartily way, givo thom a all, at 158 Willian street, corner of Ann strect, Agents for the sale of gilt monidings, French plate looking. clnsaes, &0. ne Lookhi The Battery.—This Delightfal but Mach nogireted promenade is aesuming its spring coat of emerald, and ite noble trees will soon be clothed with rich and um brageous verdure, i us that gentie able spring clot at No, 12 Fults az ab very strect. The Greatest Discovery Ever yet Made ta a or ene eeodueny thor 6 SING wins {nes are freciy shown in operation at 25 Broadway. ‘To those in cearch after Health, call or send to 103 Nactan ctroct, for n bottle of Dr. WATTS'S nervous tidote; take a xeceipt fort o money Will be reburne: or digenre now. ‘Iry it, a shout iy Will ake Up for all.” lier, and if it does no prea ig no exense for del v4 vinead. Don't be dow va we often Ciel ved bide