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CHARLES THEATRE, Bowery—Tue Kine anv THE pilinvan Labia’ diomts—Jacw Suer? AMERICAN MUSEUM—In the Afterneon—Domxsric Booxomy—Panre 1m 1793. CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brosdway—Ermorian ‘Muvopizs by Cunisty’s Orzna Trover. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood’s Musiesl Hall, 444 Broad- way—Erworias Mineraris' MADISON AVENUE—Afternoen and Evening—Fnan- eorrs CoveseaL Hirrovnomx. OMACUS, 37 Bowery—Equestnian ExteRrammesre, GBORAMA, 586 Broadway—Bamvanp's Pawonama or ms Hour Lanp. MRLLER’S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES, 539 Broadway. O@WEN’S ALPINE RAMBLES, 639 Broadway. MUTROPOLITAN HALL—Paor. Anpancen. New York, Monday, May 23, 1953. The News. By reference to the despatch of our special Wash- #egton correspondent will it be seen that the foreign appointments are at last fairly emerging from the gepenetrable mist in which they have so long been enveloped. True, they have not all been decided upon, but a large number have, and the balance, it is understood, will be arranged either to-day or to- morrow. On inspecting the list thus far completed we do not find the name of a single New Yorker mentioned. This looks a little squally for the prospects of the hards and softs. However, it may be that the President is keeping the mis- sion to France in reserve for either General Dix or John Van Buren, or, possibly, some prominent man of the hunker school. Ex-Governors and ex-Congressmen, it will be seen, are still coming im for a liberal share of the good offices, and, at the same time, the services of a few ex-editors are duly appreciated. Read the despatch. Withe jury in the Gardner case had not arrived at a @ecision at nine o'clock last evening. A general onslaught against gambling houses has of late been made in Cincinnati. The last establish- mentof the kind that remained open was entered by the police on Friday night. The proprietors were ar- vested, and the tables and other gambling utensils destroyed. The anniversary of the Hicksite Quakers com- menced in this city yesterday, as will be observed by the report elsewhere. The principal assemblage eonvened, as usual, in the Rose street Meeting House. Among thoge who spoke were Mrs. Rachael Barker and Mrs. Mary Lippincott. The substance of their vemarks will doubtless be perused with great Interest. \ Father Gavazzi last evening delivered his usual Jeoture to the Italians, at the Stuveysant Institute, em the subject of the “ Hopes of Italy.” He con- ‘tended that that country could never enjoy civil and religious liberty until Popes and Popery were utterly abolished, and in conclusion passed a severe cen- ware on the Italians engaged in the late affray with the sailors of the San Giovanni. J. Frederick Becker, keeper of a lager bier shop a No. 101 Essex street, yesterday afternoon put an ‘end to his existence by cutting his throat with a ra- ger. An account of the melancholy affair will be found elsewhere. A vast amount of highly interesting and instructive imformation is given 60 our inside pages today, a8 will be seen by the following list:—Letter from Washington relative to the Cuban Slave Trade, in- @nuding several despatches upon the subject from Lerd Palmerston and Marquis Miraflores, of Spain; Account ofa Visit to the Jesuit College at George- town; Political and Gossiping Letters from Albany, Boston, Florida, Oregon, Rio Janiero, and Nica- vagua; the Negotiations fora Spanish and Mexi- ean Alliance; Communications concerning Spanish Repudiation and the purchase of Cuba, the Fishe- ries, the Norwalk Disaster, and the comparison be- tween Servants in Europe and America; Review of the Works in the National Academy of Design; Commercial Affairs, dc. Meeting of the Legislature—The New Rall- road Law. On Tuesday next our Legislature will again assemble at Albany. The session will be im- portant. Besides the canal question, which will, doubtless, occupy several days, and the Report on the Art Union, which may give rise to an interesting debate, the new railroad acci- @ent law will be submitted, and the opinions of members taken thereon. Most of our readers will thank us for sparing them any comment on the first. Dry as many of our legislative pro- ceedings are, none can vie with the canal controversy in dulness: it is hard to say whether the members who discuss it, or the public who read their speeches, are entitled to the greater credit. The fate of the Art Union may be safely left in the hands‘of the commit tee: sufficient for the day is the disgrace thereof The subject ot railroad accidents, and the means of preventing them, though largely dealt with ef late, in the newspapers, will still bear a brie examination. nut of one hundred railway accidents, causing lose of life, or injuries to the persons of the wellers, ninety-nine are clearly attributable either want of care, or want of skill, or want ot precaution on the part of the railway officials, or want of proper machinery and mechanical arrangements along the line, Indeed, if we except such cases as where a mis- chievous person causes a train to fly off the track by laying a stone or log of wood on the rails, or where an embankment suddenly gives way, no previous symptom of ite un- soundness having been perceptible—and our readers will easily estimate how many railroad accidents are due to such causes as these—all injuries suffered by travellers on railways are directly chargeable on the officers erdigectors. It would be a very easy matter to *eumulate a mass of evidence in support of this statement from the published records of railway sridents in this country ; but let any one who outs reall to mind the cases he has heard of, and he wit. not need further proof. In every ease that hae fallen under our notice, the disas- ter might hav, been averted by proper pru- ence, discretion and liberality on the part of thecompany. Many railroads, doing a profita- ble business. have never caused the death of a single individual. According to the published recurs of railways in Engind, some 42,000,000 pereons travelled over ten lines during a period of about a year, and out of the number only ten were killed, and about as many injured. The proportion is, we believe, even lese in France and Belgium. Gn our American railways, 98 we showed the other day, the deaths average one per day. It:may be urged that loss of life may ensue from accidents over which the diree- tors have no apparent control, a8, for instance, the breaking of an axletree, a bridge giving way, &c. This argument we shall best answer by a reference to the French railroad law, which obliges railroad proprietors to change their axletrees, and have all the fragile works on their lines surveyed, at regular intervals of time. This law is based on sound principles of reason, and saves many lives annually. Where it does not exist, the prudence of directors ought to supply its place. If that prudence is wanting, the directors are obviously to blame. We think, therefore, that we are justified in stating that at least an immense majority of the aceldents which occur on railways may be directly traced to some fault on the part of the diree or their agents. Here is a wrong—of what gnitude, with the Norwalk disaster fresh in our memories, we need not say. For this wrong the law ought to provide a remedy. It provides none. At common law, we believe, as well asby statute, personal injuries inflicted by negligence and carelessness, as well as malice, may be compensated by damages awarded by a court of law. A man who has lost a leg by a railroad collision, may sue the company for the value of the limb; but if he have lost his head instead of his leg, the com- pany escape scot free. For the minor injury they are liable to punishment : the greater, they may commit with impunity. It is quite sufficient, we are sure, to draw the attention of the Legislature to this anomaly, to insure its-correction. Life is at least as valua- ble as preservation of the person, and ought to enjoy at Jeast an equal protection. It was taught by the old legists, who loved a fine- drawn theory, that as the executors of a man had suffered no absolute injury by his death, they had no claim to demand damages from him who had caused it. This was part of the old stock of legal principles, one of which obliged a wealthy man to sue the seducer of his daughter for the loss of her domestic ser- vices. We are fortunately getting rid, now-a- days. of these exquisite conceits ; and we hold individually that the family of a mechanic or a professional man is more seriously injured by his death than by the fractute of his leg or the dislocation of his arm. If it be just that John Thomas, whose ribs have beén broken by my carelessness, should oblige me to pay the doc- tor’s bill, and compensate him for ‘his loss of time and bodily suffering, it is surely equally just that, if John Thomas is killed by the direc- tors otf the New Haven Railway, his family should receive from the latter some equivalent, for the support of which they have been deprived, We will say no more on this subject, but will take it for granted that the Legislature will see the expediency of obliging railway com- panies to pay to therelatives of any one killed on their line a proper equivalent for his pecu- niary value to them. Difficulties will doubtless arise in the mode of estimating that value. A fixed sum has its advantages; though, on the other hand, it would seem but equitable that the family of a professional man, who have been in the habit of spending $10,000 a year, should receive a larger sum at his death than the fa- mily of a laborer. The English railroad law leaves the assessment of the demages to a jury, and $20,000 and $25,000 have frequently been paid for a single death. Ina recent case, $100,000 were demanded by the relatives of an eminent merchant. This branch of the subject may safely be left to the Legislature. A further elucidation and reaffirmation of the common law with respect to personal injuries is also requisite. Not one-tenth of the injuries caused on railways are evercompensated. The company laugh at the cripple who craves a pit- tance in return for the loss of his robust frame; and he is forced to endure his misery as he best can. The new law should distinctly fasten on the company a full liability for such injuries. These remedies, if practically enforced, will make a marvellous difference in the number of railway accidents. But they must not be merely formal laws. To be practically en- forced, the duty of ¢: them into effect must not be left to the poor relatives of the slaughtered man, or to the wretched crea- tures who limbs have been shattered, and whose energies are consumed in the vain desire for a speedy recovery. The duty of enforcing any law imposing, ® penalty on railway compa- nies for accidents on their lines must be dele- gated to a public officer, or the law willbe a complete nullity It should be made the duty of the District Attorney, so soon as the coro- ner’s inquest has established the fact of the deaths or injuries on a railway, to levy the amount of the penalties forthwith, leaving it to the company to show that the accident had occurred by the visitation of God, and by no fault of theirs. If the prosecution of the suit is left to the relatives or to those who are lying on a bed of sickness,’their absolute inability to undertake a protracted litigation would operate to neutralize the whole object and intent of the law. Directors would threaten a lawsuit that would cost $10,000 ; would visit the poor widow and orphans, and tempt their misery with the offer of a few hundred dollars for a release ; would take advantage of the feeble mind of the invalid to bully him into a compromise. If the law is to be enforced at all, we repeat, the duty of carrying it into effect must be imposed on a public officer, who may be entrusted with the responsibility of portioning out the damages among those who are entitled to them, without trouble or expense to the latter. American Enterprise and Discoveries—Histo- ry of the Principal Exploring E:xpeaitions, We present to our readers an interesting ac- count of the various expeditions fitted out by the government and citizens of the United States to various parts of the world, and the discoveries in science to which they have led. Of these the following ave the principal:—Mara. time expeditions—Pendleton’s South Sea expe- dition, Wilkes’ exploring expedition, Lynch’s expedition to the Dead Sea, the American Arctic expedition, the Japan expedition, Ringgold’s North Pacifie surveying expedition, Lieut. Hern- don’s exploration of the Amazon, Lynch’s Afri- can expedition, and Kane’s Arctic expedition. The following are the principal inland expedi- tiéns:—Grey’s discovery of the Columbia river, expedition of Lewis and Clark, Pike's expedi tion, Long’s expedition to the sources of the St. Peter's river, Schooleraft’s expedition, Fre- mont’s expedition, Kearney’s expedition, &o. The Heratpy has always been the friend of national exploration. We do not consider our Davy by apy means #o ubiquitously and a. groseingly effective that it cannot spare from ite belligerent fanctions a small stipend to sti- amniate scientific research and add a chapter to our knowledge of the geography of the globe. On the contrary. the navy has always felt the want of the frontier service, the Spartan high school.of the American army; and we do not see that there is any better aquatic substitute open to it than the divers exploring services, in which we have certaiily sea room ample left us to emulate foreign nations. We therefore lent @ cordial support to the efforts of the late Secretary Kennedy to give play in the navy tothe activity which in the army has illus- trated the names of the Fremonts, Emorys. and Stansburys, and made them at once an honor to the body to which they belong and the best possible indication to the country of its efficiency and spirit. Things at least look hopefully now. Lieutenant Hearndon, (of the navy.) has just returned from an exploration of the sources of the Amazon; Commander Ringgold, U.S. N., is nearly ready for Bhering’s Straits; Lienten- ant Page, U. S.N.. ison his way to the rich valley of the La Plata; and Dr. Kane is on the eve of his departure for the frozen ‘north. How euccesstul the present administration with Mr. Dobbin may be, in carrying out the liberal policy of Mr. Dobbin’s predecessor, remains to be seen. We hope it will devote this arm of the national strength to something better than battens and bomb shells, dry docks and salt beef. We visited yesterday that one of these expe- ditions which has a special claim upon our sympathies, as being a measure of humanity, with objects of a more utilitarian character— the Arctic expedition in seareh of Sir John Franklin—~and made a minute examination of the Advance, being received with marked atten- tion by her officers on board. and a couple of large shaggy Newfoundland dogs, who have already taken up their quarters there. The Advance, it is known, has already sustainedthe rough encounters of an Arctic cruise. We were told that no vessel has ever visited the Polar seas§ more ably strengthened against) their peculiar trials. Her bows are a mass of solid timber some six feet from her cutwater, breasthooks form a perfect labarynth in her forecastle, and cross-beams, some four feet asunder, traverse her entire length. All these are for the purpose of resisting the pres- sure of the ice; but externally two layers of heavy oak sheathing, with long strips of boiler iron, protect the hull from the cutting action of the drifting fields. It seems the general opinion that the open Polar Sea, one of the great geographical prob. lems of the day, will. if it exists at all, disclose traces of the missing vessels and their crews. The primary object, therefore, of the Arctic ex- dition, that which has enlisted the liberality of Mr. Grinnell and the sympathies of its com- mander, is the search after Sir John Franklin, But this is not incompatible with other aims, and special attention is evidently to be given to scientific observation, The organization for this purpose, for an expedition limited as to means, is singularly complete. It has particu- larly engrossed _the attention of Dr. Kane, and has invoked the suggestions and pecuniary aid of nearly all our learned societies. The Smithso- nian Institution has behaved with praiseworthy liberality, and it should be published as a fact creditable to New York. that our American Geographical Society, a young but already most effective institution. has been the most prominent of all in affording a prompt and ju- dicious co-operation. The line of travel is ex- pected to stretch to the north of any latitude that has been yet attained upon the Western continent, and on this account will favor (singu- larly) valuable researches in temperature and terrestrial magnetism. The meteorological and magnetic departments, therefore, are fitted out with instruments, at the expense.we fear, of many a Sunday’s ration of small stores; and Dr. Kane has, to assist him in his daily observations. young Mr. Sonntag, late of Altona, who fills the place of astronomer to the expedition. A naturalist, with a full equipment for collecting and pre- serving, is another important limb of the expe- dition ; and the liberality of the late Secretary of the Navy has supplied it with a fine daguer- reotype apparatus. which, we suppose, will bring back a complete gallery of Esquimaux in costume, and enable us all to study the features of the Polar landscape, around our firesides at home. We were struck with the hardy, weather- beaten appearance of the watch officers—a list of whom, with the other members, we expect to obtain in a day or two. They were all volun- teers—more than one of them tried companions of Dr. Kane’s former travels—and all anxious and ready for their departure, which. we are informed, will take place on or about the last of next week. The feature of the expedition which distin- guishes it from those heretofore undertaken by Great Britain, is its plan of endeavoring to pe- netrate to the extreme north on foot, and over- land. After the Advance is arrested by the ice in the northern avenues of Baffin’s Bay, depots of provisions are to be pushed forward on sledges, drawn by Esquimaux dogs, and an at. tempt made by Dr. Kane, in person, to reach the open water. His little party will drag after them their own provisions and clothing, trust- ing to the snow-house for shelter, and bearing acouple of India rubber cloth boats, spread upon basket-work, a device due to the ingenuity of Mr. Bennet, late keeper of the Minot Light- house. With these boats, which we examined with an interest almost painful, they hope to put out on the unknown ¢ea, and seareh it so thoroughly as to bring back proof of the destruction of the lost ships Erebus and Terror, or a satisfactory negation of the fact. If traces are discovered pointing in any particular direction, our countrymen will follow them up to the end. They were one hundred and thirty-eight stal- wart men, in the vigor of manhood, these English, who now more than six years ago disappeared behind the iee wall of the Polar circle. If they have been unable to adapt themselves like the Esquimaux, to the rigors of its dreadful climate, the extreme cold has at least in charity preserved for perfect recognition their remains. The Accident to Mcs. Sylvester. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK MERALD. Seeing such an incorrect statement in the report of the New York Henatp of yesterday, of the unfortunate acci- dent on the Harlem railroad, I think it my duty to cor. rect it. As my mother attempted to cross the track on the corner of the and Grand street, « four horse car, furiourly driven by a careless man, came with such awiftness, and the flag man not being. or not attending to his duties, that the woman, before having time to cross, was knocked and most seriously injured be- fore the car was . She waa then taken ton neigh Conte tre store, from there to my residence,accom- ae by two of the Fourteenth ward police and a few nda, and nat by the conductor, as erroneously stated. By giving this » publication you will convince public that it wae caueed by the negligence of the driver, and not by the carelessness of the yee roe paper, bat No, 408 Bowery. Sardinia—Its Pelicy and Gevernment. Much has been said in this country about Sardinia, but no American paper has yet given a fair and impartial account ofevents transpired in that part of Italy since 1848. All the repub- lican governments which sprung up at that epoch in Europe were annihilated immediately after their birth, some by the combined forces of the despots, others falling, as France and Tuscany, by their own hands. Kings and princes, threatened by their subjects, granted constitutions, which they repealed as soon as the Holy Alliance re-established the statu quo ; others became the champions of freedom, be- cause the revolutionary times required it from them; but where are now to be found in Europe the republics and constitutional governments of the memorable year 1848? France, desolated by socialists, commu- nists, Fourierites and red republicans, who declared individual property a robbery, ac- cepted a dictator, afterwards crowned a parvenu empesvor, and left the republic only a matter of history. Venice, after a year of desolation by cholera and famine, besieged by land and sea, surrendered with glory. Rome, so nobly de- fended by Garibaldi, so weakly governed by the triumvirs, fell, erushed by a coalition of four foreign armies; and Tuscany was sold and betrayed by the dictator Guerazzi, who was more ambitious of personal glory than ofredeem- inghiscountry. So. one by one, all the popular governments disappeared, all liberal constitu- tions and all hopes of a better condition of things. And amidst this general ruin Sardinia alone stood proudly and independeft, main- taining its constitution, and marching always forward in the way of progressive and liberal institutions. The heavy budget of two unfortunate wars against Austria to redeem Lombardy from a foreign despotism, which amounted to several millions of dollars, were paid. The Piedmon- tese people accepted willingly new taxes, without a murmur, without any hostile demon- stration. That small kingdom became the refuge of sixty thousand Italian exiles, and all of them found means of existence, and equal pro- tection as born citizens. In vain Austria claimed the surrender of these refugees. The Sardinian government, as proved in its last pronunciamento to the foreign powers, never gave up a single individual, the only refugees banished from that free land being those arrived at our port in the San Giovanni, and a few others for having united in the last partial con- spiracies of Mazzini—a mad‘ enterprise, against which the most conspicuous Italian republicans in London, Paris and Piedmont protested. In the kingdom of Sardinia the parliament is divided into two chambers—the Representatives, who are elected by the people, and the Senate, the members of which are nominated by the King. The Piedmontese constitution is based on more ample liberties than even that of Eng- land, allowing Jews and Protestants a seat in parliament; and at the present time there are three Jews and five Protestants elected by Catholic voters. The ecclesiastical tribunals have been abolished, entire freedom of the press is guarantied by the government, and edi- tors are fined or punished by a tribunal of jus- tice only when they are found guilty of conspiracies against the constitutional govern- ment of the country. Two Archbishops were banished as traitors; and the Minister of the Interior has lately published a decree directing the Governor of Savoy to allow the introduc- tion of Protestant Bibles into the State; and in the city of Turin may be seen, at this very day, a bookstore belonging to the Bible .Society of England. All forms of religious worship are permitted, and the poor Waldenses, so much persecuted in past times, have now many churches and schools provided by the gov- ernment. In almost every city and village are to be found the National Guard, workmen’s associa- tions, women’s conventions, not, as in the United States, for the privilege of advocating temperance and wearing pants, but to promote the education of their sex, so much neglected on the continent of Europe. The militia are drilled in daytime, in the evening are taught reading, writing, history, geography, &c., by their officers, and every six months are publicly examined and rewarded: Thus the soldier is a citizen, and not, as in other countries, a mere instrument of des- potism, so that when he returns to his home he is enabled to educate his children in the same Way. To advance the welfare of the country a Sardinian ministry has concluded reciprocal treaties of free trade with eleven different nations ; has favored companies and railways, which are better organized and constructed than many in the United States. A gigantic railroad across the Alps, from the Alpine city of Swor, threugh Savoy and France, has just been commenced, and another, of equal magni- tude, is to pass into Switzerland. As soon as this great railway shall be ended, all the products of the United States for Switz- erland and the south of Germany will take a different direction. This road being considered as the artery of that part of Europe, vessels from our ports will no longer go by way of Bremen, Antwerp, and Havre, but land their cargoes at Genoa, to be forwarded southward. For this purpose the Minister of Finance pro- posed to shipowners in Sardinia to establish three direct lines of packet ships between Genoa, Charleston, Mobile’ and New Orleans, for the cotton trade, allowing to the proprietors @ great deduction on tonnage duties on each new vessel which shall exceed a certain number of tons. It is estimated that since the free trade treaties between Sardinia and other powers have gone into operation the port of Genoa: alene has been visited every ‘year by two hundred ships more than it was under the protective tariff. These enterprises have induced the govern- ment to contract with an Anglo-Sardinian com- pany, having a capital of ten millions of francs, for transatlantic lines between Genoa and New York, and Genoa, Rio Janciro and Monte- video, This line will begin its operations betore a year, with seven steamers, of fifteen hundred tons each. Moreover, the liberal king. Victor Emmanuel, granted on the 19th of April last four hundred thousand frances to the Lombards robbed by Austria, and has recalled her ambassador at Vienna. —_——_ | Tus Steam Yaour Nortu Stak ann Steamer Asia.— The ship Robert Kelly, which arrived yesterday, reports that on Thursday, at half past eleven A. M., in Int. 4048, lon, 69,tshe exchanged signals with the steamship Asia, henee for Liverpool on the day previous. On Saturday, at noon, in lat. 40 03, lon, 70 39, the R. K. passed Com- modore Vanderbilt's steam yacht North Star, stooring ESE. Wisconsin [ea given charters for fifteen thousand miles of railroad, that will require $300,000,000 to construct, ss eee SS = Theatrical Amusements of Hew York, Notwithstanding the approach of the dog days, the vari- ous theatres of the metropolis have not ox- perience any diminution of patronage, but have the same well filled houses which have rewarded their exertion throughout the winter season. Franconi’s Hippodrome bas yielded, so far as novelty is concerned, te the Chinese ‘Tong-Hook-Tong troupe at Niblo’s, which at present con- stitutes a most interesting element among the sights and amusements of New York. The eempany consists of some fifty performers,natives of Chia, Japan, and other Eastern nations; and as this is the first time that we haveever had the Celestials appearing in such a character in this lati- tude, the euriosity to see their representations is neces- sarily very great. ‘The Hippodrome has, however, lost none of its attrac- tions, but draws immense attendances to witness each performance. The stag-hunt, which for some time past has been in course of preparation, is to be produced with great magnificence this afternoon and evening, the per- formances commencing with the splendid mock tourns- ment. Madame Alboni, assisted by several distinguished ar- tists, including Bose de Vries, {s te give a grand concert in Metropolitan Hall, on Thursday evening, for the bene- fit of the talented conductor, Signor L. Arditi. For the first time here, Mad. Alboni will sing ‘ Di Tanti Palpiti,” from Tanoredi’s opera. ‘This will be the last opportunity for our citizens to hear the great contralto, as she takes her departure hence for Europe, on Saturday next.! ‘The Sontag troupe will soon be in New York again. We understand that Madam. Sontag will not for the present visit the Eastern cities, but will merely give a single con- cert in each of the towns of Providence, New Bedford, Taun- ton, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford and New Haven. It isin contemplation by her to form an English opera troupe, with Sims, Reeves, Forbes, and other eminent ar- tists, and to give opera here during the summer months. Signora Steffanone is giving very splendid and success- ful operatic entertainments in Richmond, Va. Paul Julien gavea concert at the Atheneum, Brooklyn, on Thursday evening. He is againgto appear before a New York audience on Thursday evening next, when he is to perform at the complimentary concert to be given to Mme Aurelia Forenczy, at Niblo’s Saloon. While the remaining fixtures and furniture of the Astor Place Opera House were sacrificed at the hammer, a few days ago, advertisements have been published asking for architectural plans for the new Academy of Music, to be located at the corner of Irving place and Fourteenth street. So the world wags. Borton’s theatrejhas beén enjoying its usual good for- tune in the way of overflowing houses. Mr. Burton has made a short engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wil- liams, who appear this evening in the two Irish pieces— ‘The Custom of the Country,”’ and “Unele Pat’s Cabin.” In the Broadway there has been at length an inter- mission of “Macbeth,” which had for weeks been pre- sented nightly to large houses. This evening Forrest is to appear in his favorite character of Jack Cade. The performances conclude with the laughable comedy of “To Paris and Back for Five Pounds.’’ Mr. Wallack has again resumed the sock and buskin on the stage of his own theatre, where his personal act- ing receives the most flattering commendations. To- night he appears in his original character of Martin Heywood, in the interesting drama of ‘ The Rent Day,” in which Lester plays Toby, and Blake, Bullfrog. The afterpiece is announced as ‘‘Asmodeus.”’ The charming French and Spanish danseuses, who creafed suchan excitement in Niblo’s last summer, are now delighting the fashionable people of the eastern quarter of the city in the Bowery theatre. Soto, Pou- gaud, Lavigne, Drouet, and the rest of the ballet troupe, appear to night im two divertisements. ‘The National theatre interests and amuses its audience this evening, by the representation of ‘‘The Turkish Lovers,” aad by the production of Signor Donetti’s troupe of monkeys and dogs, whose performances created so much fun and excitement at the Astor Place Opera House # yearago, The amusements conclude with M. Donetti’s kaleidoscopic views. The £t. Charles theatre has, during its brief existence under its preseut management, attained, and very de- servedly, a large share of popularity. There are three interesting pieces advertised for this evening, and on to-morow evening Mr. J. Pilgrim is to take a benefit, on which occasion ‘‘ Eveleen Wilson’? is to be presented. At Barnum’s Museum, Sheridan Knowles’ beautiful drama of the “ Hunchback” is to be presented this even- ing. ‘The Bowery Amphitheatre maintains its rivalry to the Hippodrome with much spirit. ‘The two negro minstrel concert rooms—Christy’s and Wood’s—are among the most agreeable and popular of our city amusements, and are particularly patronized by strangers visiting New York. Professor Anderson, commences this evening at Metro- pelitan Hall, the first of a series of three farewell: per- formances, previous to his departure hence for Europe, Mr. John Owens’ unique represensation of the ascent of Mont Blanc has proved extremely attractive in this metropolis. The other panoramic exhibition—Banvard’s Holy Land—still draws large attendances. The Museum of Fgyptian Antiquities, at the Stuyvesant Institute, is a very curious and interesting collection, and well desery- ing of inspection. The Turf. CENTREVILLE COURSE, L. I.—TROTTING. On Friday last, May 20, trotting match for $1,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, took place be- tween Mr. Nodine’s bay mare Highland Maid, and Mr. Somerindyke’s gray mare Lady Vernon, the former win- ning very easily in three straight heats. This was the first time that Highland Maid has trotted in public, and she has proved herself to be one of the fastest nags at present on the turf. Her owner thinks so wellof her, that he offered to match her against any horse in the world, except Mac, two mile heats, to skeleton wagons. She was matched last year against Iola, but falling lame on the day of the race her owner paid forfeit. Mr. Somer- indyke’s mare had been the favorite at two to one from the time the match had been made up to near the hour of starting, when some of the favorites of the owner of Highland Maid, being let into the secret of her capabili- ties, came on the track with well lined wallets te make a haul. They soon ehanged the face of the money market ; amd before the race began Highland Maid was the favorite at 100 to 50. One gentleman bet $1,000 to $600 on High- Jand Maid. Two days before another gemtleman bet $1,000 to $500 on Lady Vernon. A large amount of mo- ney was won and lost on this race. ie track was in most excellent order for good time ; and but for a strong wind blowing duringg the heat, the time would have been much less than was made. There was a respectable attendance at the course. First Heat.—Highland Maid won the choice of the traek. She took the lead on the turn, and went to the quarter pole two lengths ahead of Lady Vernon in thirty-five seconds. On the backstretch 9) the gap, and was six or eight lengths in front in 1:13. She thea slackened her speed somewhat, came home under a strong pull, making the heat in 2:33%, avout thirty yards shead. The gray mare broke up twice during the heat; but theee misfortunes did not alter the result. It was evident that the bay mare had too much foot fer the gray, and those who had backed her were satisfied that their money was lost. Second Heat —The bay mare took the lead at the start, and kept in front just as far as it suited her driver to the end. She went to the see pole in thirty-six seconds—to the half mile pole in 1:14, and jogged round to the score in 2:36, ‘Third Heat.—The gray mare was a the word was given. Her driver the wheel of the gray. The bay then outside ; and even with this disadvant Vernon to the quarter pole in rege second: bay was forty yards clear at the half in 1:14, an the same distance in front at the gaol. Time, ‘The following is a summary :— she beat Lady ‘The Farmar, May 20.—Trotting match, $1,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. + F. Nodine named b. m. Highland Maid. 11 J. Somerindyke named g. m. Lad: 223 ‘ RicHuonD (Va.) Racks, May 18.—Purse $200, two mile eats. Thos. D. Watson entered ch. m. Florenee, by Herald, dam Marchionees, 4 yearsold....... 1 2dr. Jobn Harrison entered Maid of Edgecombe, by Boston, dam by Andrew, 5 years old... 2 1 1 ©. N. Green entered ch. hs Governor, By n Register, dam by Timoleon............e+ceee Time, 8:48 4—3:46, Nasuvinix Races —Warvor Course, May 16.—Parse $250, teo mile heats. W. W. Woodfork’s Martha Dun, by Sovereign, dam by Stockholder, 4 years old.. nts yi P. §. Fowler’s g. m. Gertrude ter, dam by Sir Richard, 6 years 11 ‘Williamsburg City Intelligence. Erxcrion or 4 New Cuvrcn Eprricet.—The congregation attached to the Protestant Reformed Dutch Chirch are about negotiating for a plot of ground on the corner of Hews street and Bedferd avenue, on which they intend erecting a handsome church edifice. Axomnen New Banking Hovsr.—The trustees of the Williamsburg Savings Bank have recently purchased several lots on the corner of South Third and Fourth streets, on which they intend erecting a splendid bank- ing edifice. It isto be three stories high, built of brown stone, and havea forty-eight feet front on both stmets. Barnixa.—Rev. Mr. Fister, pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church in Grand street, baptised te young female converte, at the foot cf South Eleventh street, in view of a large ooncourre of people, yesterday afternoon. The first passenger train from Syracuse to Roches- Liles = rect route, passed over the road on the Tus NEWS BY TELEGRAPH: mors of certain appointments which were not t be made, as well as the names of several which were decided upon. We learn te-day thet these statements are cor. roborated, andcan be depended upon as abselute fasts, As they have been definitely determined upon, we wil) repeat them, They are as follows:— In addition, the following appointments may be relied upen with positive certainty:— Anguste Belmont, of New York, Charge to the Hague, This appointment will be very acceptable to the commer: cial interests, and also to the democracy, for his known liberality to the refugees of all nations who have come ta our shores. Colonel! Bissel, of Hiinois, mem ber of the last Congress, will get a chargeship. James C. Green, of Missouri, ex-member of Congress, will also receive a chargeship. Among the consuls are the following:—Eaward de Leon, late editor of the Southern Press, Consul General at Alexandria. * Ex-Governor Wood, of Ohio, Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Maine, Charles J. Helm, of Kentucky. It is believed that all the appointments will be fixed to-morrow, but it is by no means certain. Mr. Vroom’s appointment as minister to Prussia meota the approbation of the New Jersey disputants, as an ex: cellent compromise. x.Y.2, THE GARDNER TRIAL—THE FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS, FROM THE REGULAR NEWSPAPER AGENT. Wasuinaton, May 22—9 P, M, The Gardner jury are atill under charge of the bailiff, There is an intense anxiety manifested here to learn the SSUaric area Pact memo ay From Cincinnati, BREWERY BURNED—GAMBLERS ARRESTED. Crrcoman, May 21, 1853. Fortman’s brewery, on the corner of Main and Twilfth: street, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, The citizens and police are making strong efforts ta suppress gambling. The police judges have issued var- rants for the arrest of the proprietors of various gambing houses, in consequence of which all these establishmanta in the city but one were closed. That was entered ast night by the Marshal and his aids, the proprietors arrut- ed, and the table and gambling implements destroyed, From Philadelphia. DWELLINGS BURNED—STEAMSHIPS LAUNCHED. PHILADELPHLA, May 22, 1855. A fire occurred to-day, at noon, in Sixth street, 0p)0- site Washington square, in which the mansions of Joan M. Read, U, 8. Thouron, and B. Eaugereau were seriowly damaged. ‘Two steamboats, built by Captain Loper, for the Parter Vein Company, were launched yesterday. Railroad Opening Celebration, «&c, Baurimore, May 24, 1853, ‘The opening of the railroad from Savannah to Colun- bus, which unites the Savannah and Chattahoochee rivers, was celebrated on Friday. We have no mail to-night south of Aagusta. Salling of California Steamers from. New Orleans, New Ontzans, May-22, 1853. The steamship Philadelphia sailed for Aspinwall this morning, and also the steamship Daniel Webster for Sen Juan. . Markets EW May 21—Noon. The foreign advices by the Afrion were, secelvee bp iba Associated Prees at 11 d'elock last ight. Sales of” cot ton to-day, 4,000 bales, at firm prices. The quotation for atrict middling are 8%c. a 10e- New ORLEANS, May 21, 1853, Bales of cotton to-day 4,500 bales, at feir jrrices, under Africa’s news; The quotations for mi are D%0. a 10c. The receipts to-day were only 860 bales, Ex; 5,800, Provisions are declining. Mess pork, $15; siden, 734¢.; shoulders, 53(¢. Rice hea Most, May 20, 18 ‘Tho sales of cotton for the week amount t) 7,000 estan Receipts during the same time, 1,100. Exports, 1,600 Stock exclusive , I Closing quotations in middling, 0%e." aren y 21, 1853, during the PROVIDENCE, Ma; ‘There has been a steady demand for cotton week, with sales of 3,000 bales at quotations, market closing firm. For wool the market continues without change in prices, with larger sales; the sales of the week were 118,000 pounds. In printed cloths, owing to searcity of goods, the sales bave been light. ders have been received the South, wi it be filled. Prices are very firm, with an adva: ; mey. The sales of the week amounted to 28, pieces. City Intelligence. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE, BY CUTTING HIS THROAT WITH A RAZOR. Yesterday afternoon a terrible scene occurred on the premises No. 101 Essex street, consequent upon J. Fre. derick Becker. keeper of a lager bier shop at the above named place, having terminated his life by cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased was found to be ab- sent from his family for an unusdal length of time, and, search being made, his step daughter discovered shim ly- ing on his back in the rear cellar, with his throat cut in dreadful manner, his clothing saturated with and the razar with which the horrid deed was porpetra 1 . ie alarmed at the sight, screamed for as- itante viomenreras persons ietted to the spot found the unfortunate man dead. The facta, as given by the family, relative to the cause of the self destruc- tion are, simply, that, for several days the deceased had been considerably under influence of wine and Deer, and yesterday he his wife he was going up to the Crystal Palace; she monstrated with him, and would not give her consent. then drank more freely. At twelve eset s alarm of fire was sounded and the deceased ran off from the if E above described. The impression is, that he was laboring under a tem; aberration of mind at the time he int flicted the wound. The deceased was thirty- years of age, a native of Germany, but had been country for the last seventeen years. Formerly sided in Philadelphia, where he carried on the business. During the last four years, however, resided in this city, and since the 1st of April has kept a lager beer shop in’ Kasex street. Coroner Wilhelm was notified to ho! ‘8 The deceased has left a wife and three children. Captain Bradtord, of the the Tenth ward police, ‘took cburge of the body, hy placing ‘@ policeman on duty at the premises until the arrival the coroner. Tax WraTHER.—Yesterday was a very fine day, & mise of the near of summer. Thermoseter ot 8, at which point it continued during day. Towards night the thermo- to fall, but rather betokened an a meter did not ap} upward movement Fins —On{ Saturday afte:noon about one o’cl 8 fire was discovered in a clothes pantry in the lower of the arene house No. 149 bet hg Place, occu; by Mr. Heath. It wasextinguished with trifling damage, and was, nodoubt, the work of an ineendiary, as no had been used there by the family during that day. Fatse ALskM —The ordinary monotony of Sunday wag relieved yesterday afternoon about sixo’clock, by analarm of fire, which was said to proceed from the basement of 189 Fulton street, anda considerable ‘‘ muss’’ was caused, by the ringing of the fire bell. Engines were seen hurrying down town in all directions for the scene of the oceurrence, only to find out on their arrival that it was alla eed ‘Those on their return were met by others from more distant parts of the city, who had not yet been able to [en far, and a scene of indescribable con- fusion took place. Chatham street was alive with people hurrying to and from the fire ; engines both ways, and forced each minute into contac: with en- gines coming in a different direction, while clouds of dust —which at present is very plevtiful in’ that locality—en- veloped every thing ins dingy mist, One or two fights took place in the course of the confusion, and be nod No. 17 on her return broke down in Chatham street, in conse- quence of one of the wheels coming off. All this hubbub and tumult was caused by an urchin, who having ob- perved some rmoke issuing rom a stove pipe bel to the house. ran off and told the police o! on duty that a fire bad bioke out in the ba-ement, by whem the alarm was given. . Camp Drorrixc.—On Saturday afternoon, about four o’clock, P, M., a young infant, apparently @ week old, ‘was found in the aliey adjoining No. 194 Mulberry street, which had been abandoned by its inhuman mother. The child was discovered by a Isdy named Hughes, who brought it to the station hovse of the Fourteeath dis- trict, and it was sent to the Almshouse, in charge of jcor Dwyer. Accipent.—On Saturday af'ernoon, between five and six o'clock, ® boy named Michael Cody, while alidi down the balusters of the New Haven A depot, at the corner of Centre and Franklin streets, fell from off his dangerous porition on to the sidewalk, by which his head was reverely cut. He was tasen to the Sixth ward sta- tion house, where Dr. Simmons» dressed the wound. Tae Grocers’ Gvarp, commanded by Captain J. F. Gerder, made their annual target excursion, a few days 0g0, to Hobdken. Twelve beautiful prizes were contested for, and were won Ke the following members:—Firat, by D. 'Ebries; second, by J. F. Kellers; third, by J. Cong; fourth, by F. Hubner; Afth, by H. Voss; sixth, by Chas. Brickwedel; seventh, ‘by H. Freee; eighth, by H. Mayer; ninth, by F. Knubel! tenth, by T. ; eleventh, by Geo. Dunsvofl; twelith, by H.