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The passengers by this arrival have been but a little over twenty-three days on the route, and we believe the trip is the quigkest on record.— The mail which left San Franciscd on the 23d ult. is yet due, but the news has been anticipated by this arrival. The intelligence, as before announced, pos- sesses very little importance, and we are enabled to find but very few extracts in the papers of any in- terest. We give among the list of interments in San Francisco the names and former residences of the un- fortunate individuals who lost their lives by the ex- plosion of the steamer Jenny Lind. The mines are represented as being productive, and the agricultural resources of the State were beginning to attract the attention due to so important a branch of industry. The markets were still inactive and many of the leading articles had experienced further depression. Business was dull in San Francisco, which was attri- puted to the prolonged holding back of the spring trade. In addition to the California news the Union has brought us later and very interesting news from the Sandwich Islands, South Americaand Panama. The intelligence from Peru possesses moré than nsual im- Portance, particularly to the mercantile community. Read the proclamation of President Echenique con- gerning the existing relations between Peru and Bo- livia; also, thé decree with Zegard to the navigation of the Amazon. Our despatches from the national capital will at- tract marked attention this morning. As was an- nounced by our special correspondent two or three days ago, all the selections for representatives abroad, 80 far as it is intended to make changes at the pre- sent time, have been completed, and we are to-day enabled to furnish the list. Having elsewhere given an interesting article upon the subject of these ap- pointments it is unnecessary to say more here. We learn from Washington that the State Depart- ment has officially declared its readiness to pay the third instalment of the Portuguese indemnity. The jary in the Gardner case have not yet arrived at a verdict. Ina message to the Judge of the Criminal Court yesterday they remarked that there was no probability of their agreeing before to-morrow, at the earliest, consequently the Court adjourned till that time. The case of John Charles Gardner will pro- bably be taken up next Monday. By reference to the letter from our Bermuda cor- respondent it will be seen that another gross ourage was recently perpetrated upon an American vessel by the employes of the British government. The Ame- rican ship Glentarmer, while laying at Hamilton, was twice searched—first at the instance of an army offi- cer, and again by authority of the Vice-Admiral— The excuse offered for this proceeding was thata person belonging to the British artillery corps had escaped from Jamaica and was believed to be secreted on board. Capt. Chapman of the G. entered a pro ‘test to which the Vice Admiral paid no attention, in tonsequence of which the captain resigned bis au- thority. The frequent repetition of these humiliating outrages upon our flag should be checked perempto- rily, otherwise they may create such a bitter feeling of hostility as to cause the spilling of blood, and eventually be the means of once more compelling us, as a nation, to protect our mariners by force of arms. A little timely precaution on the prrt of those powers whose naval officers have of late manifested a dispo- sition to treat vessels sailing under American colors with wanton impunity, may save both them aud usa great deal of unnecessary difficulty. The State Senate of Massachusetts is still busily engaged upon the liquor question. The House yes. terday refused to meddle with the running of rail- weed trains on the Sabbath, and rejected the bill for the appointment of a board of railroad commission- ers. By the way, the New York Legislature is to Teeommence operations to-day. Let us hope that they will abolish the system of wasting day after @ay in useless debate, but go to work in earnest and complete the business necessary to be transact- ed. People are anxious to know what they intend doing towards the farther preservation of human life on railroads. A despatch from Rockland, Me., announces that pearly all that place was destroyed by fire last Sunday. The Congregational Church at Lockport was strack by lightning during divine service last Sab- bath afternoon. Luther Crooker, one of the choris” ters, was instantly killed, aud six others were severe ly injured. The shock is said to have been so ter- rific as for a short time to render every person in the building completely powerless. From Buffalo we learn that the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly yesterday resolved to hold the next session in Philadelphia. Considerable debate was had upon the slavery question, but at the sug- gestion of Rev. Mr. Spies, who counselled moderation, subject was dropped. One of the committee i presented a report condemniag the fashion of dancing and affirming the right of a man to marry his own niece. x The Methodist Episcopal Cenference held two sessions yesterday, at their church in Allen street. At the first meeting two gentlemen were proposed for deacon’s orders, but rejected. Mr. Robinson ap- plied for elder’s orders, and the committee before whom he had passed his examination reported fa- vorably; but the Conference rejected him, on the ground that he was an immethodical individual and would be practically useless to the society. It ap- pears from some discussion that arose that Mr. R- figured as one of the Celtic bards in the late unsuc- cessful insurrection in the Emerald Isle. He has, however, now “hung his harp on the willow tree,” and applied for elder's orders, but unfortunately without success. Our report, which will be found elsewhere, contains a highly interesting statistical account of the pecuniary affairs, number of congre- gations, deacons, elders, &c., of the various Metho- dist Episcopal churches throughout the country. To-day’s inside pages contain, in addition to much other interesting reading matter and advertisements, the proceedings and debate in the Board of Aldermen last evening ; Objects of the Southern Commercial Convention ; More Letters from Col. Benton ; Pre. parations for the Celebration of Queen Victoria’s Birth-day in Canada; Financial and Commercial Reviews, &c. The Great Memphis Convention—Highly Im- portant Movement of the South. We have on several occasions heretofore ad- verted to the specific and general objects for the consideration of which the great business con- vention of the Southern States will assemble at Memphis on the first of June. We publish, this morning, a few particulars of the delegations appointed to represent their respective States at this interesting, extraordinary, and import- ant assemblage. From Maryland to Louisiana the men of the South at last appear to have waked up to a practical conception of their domestic policy; and the numerous distinguished names, of all parties, which appear in the several delega- tions, attest that this affair at Memphis is to be something more than a holiday jubilee for the explosion of gas and champagne, and the con- sumption of Tennessee beef and corn dodgers. It is plainly intended that this convention shall mark the initial point ofa great revolution in the South—a radical and comprehensive revo- lution—without secession, without civil or ser- vile war, without foreign or meretricious aid. without arms other than those of domestic en- terprise, energy and activity, organized upon a practical basis, and directed to the practical ob- jects of the carrying trade, home manufactures, home colleges, anda more enlarged system of common school education. And it is gratifying, especially, to observe that South Carolina, that fiery, high-spirited and impetuous little commonwealth, has at length had the film of political transcendental- ism removed from her eys; and that she sees that railroads, steamships, factories, foundries. and schools, are of greater moment to the self sustaining dignity of a State than all the mi- croscopical hair-splitting constitutional abstrac- tions that have been discovered from the epoch of ’98 and ’99 down to the present day. In battling against a rigid Northern monopoly protecting tariff, she perhaps did well enough though her resistance was carried to nullifica- tion. In opposing the nefarious schemes of Northern traitors and fanatics for the bloody extermination of {slavery, she was, perhaps, ex- curable, though her opposition was carried to the very threshold of secession and a Southern confederacy. No doubt her radical, uncompromising resistance in both cases did much to effect a compromise between the North and the South; and to this extent the entire South and the Union may be indebted to South Carolina. But in the sequol she has discov- ered that neither the causes of the compara- tive decline of the Southern States, nor the means for their domestic prosperity, are de- pendent upon hair-splitting interpretations of the plain letter and law of the Federal Constitution. And we repeat, that it is highly gratifying to note this invaluable discovery in South Carolina, for her own sake and the immediate interests of all con- cerned, Georgia, the Empire State of the cotton coun- try, has already illustrated, in her extensive system of railroads, and in her numerous and prosperous cotton factories, the great fact that the South has within itself the essential ele- ments of the highest industrial prosperity. It is not surprising, therefore, that Georgia should nominate a powerful delegation, of nearly all her leading men of every county, to attend the Memphis Convention. Alabama, too, is deeply infected with the contagion of railroads, and Mississippi has caught the fever from Tennes- see. In fact,from the Dismal Swamp to the Balize, from Charleston to Chattanooga, and from Mobile to the Muscle Shoals, the hitherto sleeping South has been waked up to the prac- tical meaning of Southern rights, by that great constitutional expounder, the railroad locomo- tive. It passes through the pine barrens, and lively towns and villages spring up in its track —it winds through the gorges of otherwise im- passable mountains, and foundries, forges, and furnaces make the mountain sides resound with their wholesome music—it rushes, like the em- bodiment of a tempest, over a region of swamps and morasses, and straightway the swamp and the morass are blooming with fields of rice and cotton—it halts at a neglected seaport, and ships line the reviving wharves from the utter- most parts of the earth; or it stops for wood South ; but we do not apprehend, in consequence, any corresponding decline of the traffic and busi- ness of this city until the South shal! be able to compete succesfully with the facility and cheapness with which our carrying trade, in- cluding our coastwise transfers, is conducted. Under a separate confederacy, the South, by a discriminating tariff system, might draw off at once to themselves all that foreign trade which now goes to the South or comes from the South through New York and other Northern seaports. But under this Union, with the same schedules Of duties in Charleston and New York, and with our superior facilities for shipbuild- ing and navigation, whatever the South may do, we may still hold, for an indefinite time to come, the mass of the Southern exporting and importing trade in our hands. Such to us are the incalculable advantages of this union of the Northern and Southern States. Direct lines of steamers between the Southern ports and Europe, we apprehend, will be found» for yet some years to come, inexpedient because of their expense. Direct trade in sailing ves- sels is a more practical thing ; but we persist in the assertion that it cannot be succesfully es- tablished between our Southern ports and Eu- rope until Southern shippers can carry their goods hither and thither at New York prices. They are quite welcome to make the experi- ment at Memphis. Competition is the soul of business, and always results in benefitting the whole community, Home manufactures, however, open up the largest field of enterprise to the South. In the working up of cotton into the various fabrics into which it is wrought, the Southern States have almost every advantage in their hands for an absolute monopoly of the raw material, as far atleast as the United States are concerned. And there are a thousand other branches of manufacturing industry in which the South might certainly as cheaply supply their own wants as they can be supplied by the North. In a word, there is euch an opening in the South- ern States for the establishment of an extended and diversified system of home manufactures, as Would speedily fill up their waste places, by the heavy current of the manufacturing classes which would flow in upon them from all sides. The idea of educating Southern students in Southern schools and colleges exclusively. doubtless is due to the abolition notions which have crept into many of our Northern institu- tions of learning, to their own immediate preju- dice and to the distrust of Southern men. In fact, the various objects and projects of this Memphis Convention may be largely credited to the abolition movements of the day, and to the desire of the Southern people to render themselves independent, even of any business intercourse with the North, as far as possible, now that they have the means by railroads of the necessary facilities of intercommunication among themselves. We shall look to this Memphis Convention and water at a country cross-road. and hotels, schools and churches rise out of the earth at its approach. In the language of Captain Maury, the locomotive has turned the Mississippi up- side down, and transferred one of its mouths from the Gulf of Mexico to the port of New York. And it is this great agent of civilization and progress—of commercial developement and material prosperity—that has instigated this Memphis Convention. We may therefore expect the most important results from this business-like gathering of the Southern States. It may not be amiss here to repeat the special obfects of their proposed de- liberations. They are to consider the policy of A contiaental cotton market, in opposition to Liverpool; A domestic port of transhipment and domes tic exchanges, in opposition to New York; Lines of steamships directly between the ports of the South and Europe; Direct exportations and importations; Home manufactures; Home schools and colleges. &e. Now, upon every one of these specifications, the Southern States may do something to les- een their dependence upon the North. A conti- nental cotton depot, in opposition to Liverpool. suggests the desideratum of more uniform prices and more certain sales in both markets. A general Southern port, in opposition to ew York, may also in time work well to the for some praetical results. because it will be largely composed of practical men, and is called to consult upon practical things. But what- ever they may do to secure their own foreign trade directly, or to extend their home manu- factures to the exclusion of Northern competi- tion, or to withhold their young men from Northern colleges, we have no very serious ap- prehensions that New York will be damaged by their proceedings. We rather think that we shall gain by anything and everything, under this Union, which will tend to develope the re- sources of the South, and populate its vast ag- gregate of uninhabited territory. Let the Memphis Convention, therefore, do the best they can. Let the South help themselves, and God help us all. Tur Forercy Aprorntuents—Our special Washington correspondent telegraphs us the list of foreign appointments which have at length been made, and also the reasons which have induced a postponement of some of the cases for the President. It will be seen that his despatches, heretofore published, anticipated many of the important appoint- ments, We have reason to believe that the di- plomatic selections now presented to the coun- try are the work of the President himself. The list, taken as a whole, will meet public appro- bation. So far as we can judge from a hasty perusal of the names, they represent fairly the talent, gallantry and honesty of the country. In the men selected for the most important posi- tions—England, Spain, Mexico, &c.—we have a guarantee not only that our national honor will he fully sustained, but that the foreign policy so plainly marked out in the Inaugural, and unanimously approved by the country, will re- ceive full justice at the hands of the eminent statesmen to whom it will be in a great measure entrusted. That a good deal of dissatisfaction will prevail in certain quarters, among the dis- appointed especially, is a matter we must natu- rally expect, for it must be confessed that the general character of the appointments is less calculated to please particular cliques than to give satisfaction to the whole country. Nety York, with the exception of Mr. Belmont—an admirable selection—is passed over, although we are strongly inclined to believe the mission to France will be given to Mr. Dix. This will be sad news to those worthy gentlemen who have pinned their faith to the small clothes of the Secretary of State. and perhaps open their eyes to the fact that General Pierce, elected by the American people President of the United States. does not intend to delegate his duty to others, Tre Mission To Bertin.—We learn, by a pri- vate letter from Washington, that the appoint- ment of Governor Peter D. Vroom. of New Jer- sey, to the mission at Berlin, is decided upon, and that O. J. Wise, son of Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, goes as Seeretary of Legation. Mr. Vroom’s appointment is one of the best selec- tions we have heard of. He has been long a distinguished and leading democrat of that State, having represented her several years in Congress, and since been Governor and Chan- cellor of the State. He married a daughter of the late Garrett D. Wall, U. S. Senator from New Jersey. This appointment of course ex- tinguishes the pretensions of Mr. Stevens, Gen. Wright, and Mr. James Wall and other Jersey candidates for foreign appointments, as tho State cannot well claim beyond this. We sus- pect that in the selection of Governor Vroom the President has wisely taken the responsibi- lity, and settled the contention amongst the rival Jersey claimants without heptarchical, or Senatorial advice and consent in advance; and we learn that the office was not sought by Go- vernor Vroom. Tne Hacve Cuarcesn.—It is announced Mr. Belmont {s to have this office. Among the candidates for it was Mr. Isaac V. Vanderpoel, of Baffalo, and not Judge Aaron Vanderpool, of thig city, Dtplomatic and Consular Appointments by the President of the United States. Telegraphic despatches enable us to announce the following appointments, by the President, of minie. ters and charges d’affaires to foreign countries, and consuls to foreign ports:— ENVOYSEXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTERS PLENIPO- TENTIARY. Great Brrraix.—James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, in place of Josepn R. Ingersoll. John Appleton, of Maine, Legation. Spaiv.—Pierre Soulé, of Louisiana, in place of Daniel M. Barringer, Russia —Thomas H. Seymour, of Connecticut, in place of Neil 3, Brown. Prursia.—Peter D, Vroom, of New Jersey, in place of Daniel D. Barnard. Brazit.— Wi liam Trousdale, of Tennessee, in place of natruico James Gadsden, of South in place of FXICO —James ¥ Alfred Conkling. rain uaa is . Cmu.—Samuel Medary, of Ohio, in place of Bailie Pey- Centra: Awmerica.—Solon Borland, of *Arkansas, in place of John B. Kerr, and B. M. Edney. The only remaining Minister Plenipotentiary to be appointed is that to France, in place of Mr. Rives. The pay of Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary is $9,000 per annum as salary, and $9,000 outfit. Secretaries of Legation receive $2,000 per annum. MINISTER RESIDENT. SwirzeRLAND.—Theodore 8. Fay, of New York, for many years Secretary of Legation to Prussia. The Minister Resident to Switzerland is a new dip- lomatic office. There ia one other of the same class, viz.: to Turkey, now filled by George P. Marsh, of Vermout, a whig. The pay of minister resident is $6,000 per annum. “ CHARGEE D’AFFAIRES. DENMARK.—Henry Bedinger, of Virginia, in place of Miller Grieve. NRTHERLANDS.—Auguste Belmont, of New York, in place of George Folsom. Bricrcu.—J, J, Seibler, of Alabama, in place of Richard H. Bayard. Two Sicius.—Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, in place of E. Joy Morris. Sanpixra —Richard K, Meade, of Virginia, in place of William B. Kinney. Austria —Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, in place of Themas M. Foote, who was appoinled last year, on the resignation and recall of C. J. McCurdy. New Granapa.—James 8. Green, of. Missouri, in place ef Yelverton P. King. PENNSYLYA4NIA4.—John Randolph Clay, of Pennsylvania, continued, BuENos AYRES, OR ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.—William H: Bissell, of Illinois, in place of John S. Pendleton. Bouvia.—Charles L. Woodbury, of Massachusetts, in place of Horace H. Miller. Charges d’ Affaires receive a salary of $4,500 per annum and outfit. Appointments to Sweden, Por- tugal, Venezuela, Ecuador and Rome, remain to be made. The latter (Pontifical States) is represent- ed by Lewis Cass, jr., who will probably be contin- ued, if he desires it. COMMISSIONER TO SANDWICH ISLANDS. Shelton F. Leake, of Virginia, in place of Luther Sever- ance, of Maize. Salary $5,000 per annum. There is a Commissioner to China to be appointed in place of Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, whig, who went to China as Commissioner last year. The pay, which was $6,000 per annum, was advanced to $9,000 since the appointment of Mr. Marshall, and $9,000 outfit. Appointments Acapulco, Charles L. Denman, of Calitornia.,.G. W. Slocum, lecandria. Edwin De Leon, of 8. C..... «D. S. McCauley. Basle. David S. Lee, of Iowa...........s«..Natban Buchard, Jobn H, Howain, of Obio....--......William T. Tucker. Bordeaux. «+. Fred, Kahl, CONSULS. Removals, Alfred Gilmore, of Penn....... remen. William Hildebrand, of yi . Ralph King. Tork. Dennis Mullins, of New York. - Alfred Mitchell, M. J. Lynch, of Ilinois,. James Foy. Mr. B. Dessolf, of Rhode Island. James De Wolf. Genoa, E. Felix Foresti........+..+ G. G, Baker. Hamburg. S. M. Johnéon, of tee RE +++-8, Bromberg. favana, Alex. M. Clayton, of Missiesippi....W. L. Sharkey, Hong Kong. Homolult. + Charles Bunker. Liverpool: James Keenan, of Pennsylvania >. .Frecerick T, Bush. Benj. F. Angell, of New York...., Elisha H, Allen. Lahaina. Geo. W. Chate, of Maine. Natbaniel Hawthorne, [rR +«-T. L. Crittenden, fe bourne. James M. Tarleton, of Aiaba « Joseph A. Henriques Paris. Duncan F, McRae, of N.C.....» + +68. G, Goodrich. Panama. Thomas W. Ward, of Texas......,., Amos B, Corwin. Rio Janeiro. Robert G. Scott, of es Edward Kent. Charles J. Helm, of Kentucky, H, M. Burton. Talcahu William B. Plato, of Diinois Tv. Wyndham Rebertson, of La. Trini 5 John Hubbard, of Maine. Samuel McLean, Reuben Wood, of Ohio, eee .- William Duer. Donald G. Mitchell, of Cuan 7 cea Flagg, (re. signed in 1861.) Zurid Geo. F. Grundi, of Pennsylvania....W. L. J. Kiderlen. A large number of consuls to other foreign ports remain to be appointed. The only consuls who receive salaries (all others being paid by fees) are those for London, $2,000; Tangier, $2,000; Tunis, $2,000; and Tripoli, $2,000; and those for Beyrout $500, and Alexandria, Consul General, $5,000. The consuls in the five China treaty ports receive $1,000 each for judicial duties. In the foregoing diplomatic and consular appoint- ments it will be observed that a variety of classes, professions and occupations are represented, al- though there will doubtless be much dissatisfaction among the unsuccessful applicants and their friends: The Governors and ex-Governors of States are—Sey- mour, of Connecticut; Vroom, of New Jersey; Trous- dale, of Tennessee; Wood, of Ohio, and Hubbard, of Maine. Members and ex-members of Congress— Soulé, of Louisiana; Borland, of Arkansas; Gilmore, of Pennsylvania; Meade and Bedinger, of Virginia; Owen, of Indiana; Bissell, of Illinois, and Green, of Missouri; Lieutenant-Governor, Shelton F. Leake, of Virginia. Authors (in light literature)—Fay, Haw- thorne, and,Mitchell (or Ik Marvel). Editors—Me- dary, of Ohio; DeLeon, of South Carolina, and others. Merchants—Belmont and others, few and far between; while lawyers, as usual, form a large proportion of the list. A brief notice of some of the most prominent characters among these diplomatic appointments may be expected. James Buchanan is well known as a statesman and politician. He is a bachelor, of 62 years of age, having been born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in April, 1791. He studied law, of course, and entered public life as a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in 1814. He was elected to Congress, having been attached to the old federal party, in 1820, and served as a member of the House of Rep:esentatives until 1831. In May, 1831, he was appointed by General Jackson Minister to Russia, having become united with the Jackson democratic party some years before the election of the General to the Presidency. On his return from Russia, he was United States Senator in 1834, and continued a member of that body until 1845, when he received from President Polk the appointment of Secretary of State. He has been in private life since March, 1849. Pierre Soulé, Minister to Spain, is a distingaished lawyer of Louisiana, where he has resided since 1425. He is a native of the south of France, and is about fifty years of age. In the U. 8. Senate he ranked high as a debater. Thomas H. Seymour, the present Governor of Con- necticut, bas been four times elected to that office, and previously was elected to Congress. He is a native of the State over which he presides, and is a lawyer by profession. He is arelative of Governor Seymour, of New York, and is about forty years of age. He is a gentleman of pleasing address and agreeable man- ners, It will be recollected that he commanded a regiment in the war with Mexico. Peter D. Vroom, Minister to Prussia, is of an an- cient Dutch family in New Jersey, of which State he was Governor from 1829 to 1832. He was also William Trousdale, Minister to Brazil, was Gover- nor of Tennessee for two years; elected in 1849, Samuel Medary, Minister to Chili, has been long known as editor of the Ohio Statesman, of Colum- bus, and a prominent leader of the democratic party of Ohio, He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in President Pierce's cabinet, but has now ob- tained a very honorable and lucrative diplomatic appointment. Solon Borland, the Minister to Central America, we have often had occasion to notice as one of the late Senators from Arkansas. He is a uative of Virginia. Theodore S. Fay, Minister resident in Switzer- land, is a native of the city of New York. He be- came early connected with literary pursuits, and was associated with Morris and Willis in the old New York Mirror, a weekly paper. He was Secretary of Legation to Prussia, under the late Henry Wheaton, and has been con- tinued under his sueceasors at the Court of Berlin. He married a daughter of the late Barent Gardenier, a distinguished federal lawyer, member of Congress, and editor in his time, some forty years since. The appointment of Mr. Fay is considered a very popular one. To please the literary class still further, the President has appointed to consulships two other authors, viz: Hawthorne of Massachusetts, (General Pierce’s biographer,) and Donald G. Mitchell, for- merly of Norwich, Connecticat, but for some a resident_ of New York—better known as Ik Marvel. He is said to be writing, or contemplating, a work on Italy, and goes to Venice, where there is not much official business for a consul. Mitchell is thirty-one years of age, and is but little, if at all, known in ities. ‘is father was thej late Rey. Alfred jitchell, of Norwich, Connecticut. Mr. Belmont, of this city, who has received the ay pointment of Charge to Holland, is well known the commercial world as connected with the cele- brated bankers, Rothschilds, of London, &c. He isa native of Germany, and married the daughter of Commodore Perry. Robert Dale Owen, Charge to Naples, is a native of Great Britain, and a son of the well-known Robert. Owen, of Lanark, in Scotland, whose writings and lectures on socialism have given him much notoriety. The son came to this city about twenty-five years since, and soon after engaged in public affhirs as a writer for the press. He was one of the editors of a weekly paper called the Free Inquirer, which was continued for several years. He settled afterwards on an estate his father had purchased at Harmony, Indiana, and was twice elected to Congress from that district, viz., in 1843 and 1845. Notwithstand- ing his peculiar notions on religion and some other subjects, he has been honored with the confidence of the democracy of Indiana, and ,has held various public offices of trust. John Randolph Clay, Minister to Peru, entered public life at an early age, as secretary of legation to his relative, the late John Randolph, of Roanoke, who was appointed Minister to Russia by General Jackson, in 1830. Mr. J. R. Clay has continued in diplomatic employment as secretary of legation and charge at various courts and governments for most of the time since he has been of age, and is scarcely known as a politician in his native country. Robert G. Scott, Consul to Rio Janeiro, is the well-known Virginian whose letters drew out the opinions on the compromise platform of the demo- cratic candidates for the Presidency, at the Balti- more convention. The consulship he obtains is one of the most valuable in the gift of the President. The changes in our commerce with foreign na- tions, and particularly the .intercourse whieh is ex- tending with the countries and islands of the Pacific ocean and the South Seas, have rendered many consulships of value which formerly attracted but little attention. Some of them are exaggerated, however, in the reports respecting their emoluments; for instance, that of Panama, of which the Panama Herald of the 10th inst., remarks as follows:— THE PANAMA CONSULATE. People in the United States seem to have the most ex- travagant ideas as to the pecuniary emoluments of this office. We have already given extracts from our New York cotemporaries, in which the consulate here is vari- ously estimated at from $20,000 to $100,000 per annum. Now, the fact is the office does not actually more than Pay ME. Corwine'sexpenses. and whatever money he may ave wade, ho never acquired it from the office. The books of the Consulate, which are always open to inspee- tion, and the archives of the State Department at Wash- ington, will show, as we are credibly informed, that the office is worth from $3,000 to $8,500 per year, and no more. This amount will scarcely support a gentleman in Panama, where rents ard every thing else are exorbi- tantly high. If, therefore, Col. Lee or Major Ward, or any body else, comes out here as Consul, with the expec- tation that the office is one of profit, he will be sadly disappointed, Doubtless the office, some three or four years hence, after the completion of the railroad, will be a source o profit to the incumbent. By that time, however, a new administration will be coming into power; and even if a change is made by the present administration, the new appointee will have togive place to aayther, who wil! reap the harvest. A Card to the Public.—The following two PAkeTe were presented to the Board of Acistants, on the 8th inst., and referred. City and County of New York, #8 —S. Benson McGown, of suid Gity, being duly, sworn, atith, That he was the Astis- tant Alderman of the Twelfth ward, of said city, during the year 1852; that on the 27th day of December, of’ said your, while in the chamber of the Board of Assistant Aldermen, Horace P. Russ, of the firm of Messrs. Rusa & Rei'l, approached deponent and stated, thatif deponent would, on theevening of said day, December ‘vote for the passage of the contract granting to Messrs, Rues & Reid the right to pave Tryon Tow, Chatham street, Bowery and Fourth avenue, with the Russ pavement, hey Horace Ps Russ, would give $1,000 towards securing his, depon election in the coming fall. 8. B. McGOWN, Assisi Iderman, Twelfth Ward. Sworn to, this 18th day of May, 1853, before me, Isaac 0, Barxer, Commissioner of Deeds. City and County of New York, ss.—Horace P. said city, being duly sworn, saith, thatthaving lea the report of the Committee cn Streets of the Bo sistant Aldermen, in favor of the contract to Russ & Reid to pave Chathsm street, the Bowery, itc., with the “Russ pavement,” would be’ presented and inetod upon ard on the evening of the 27th day of December, 1852, do- onent attended sald board to be present at the vote; that eponent had conversed with the al members of the hoard to ascertain their views, and had ascertained that fourteen of the sixteen present were in favor of the project, and wonld support the report; that of the two who clared their hostility, Benson McGown of the Twelfth war one; that he had at all times voted against the ‘ payement,’'and deponent considered him, and he was known, us the dermined enemy of that pavement; that while depo: nent was geated in the chamber of said board, and shortly revious to the vote upon said subject being taken, cai icGown came towards the place where deponent’ was seated, when a jocular canverention enswed between said McGown and deponent, in relation to the said report, dur- ing which andin the’ spirit with whieh the said’ cou- versation had been carried on, the said McGown put out bis hand and held it,as if he expected to receive romething from deponent; that deponent troating the not as a jest, Ianghingly and in a joke said to him in reply to the act of holding bis hand as before stated—""Well, Twill give you $1.00 for your election, next. Fal nothing further was said; MeGown, turning with at, and shortly afterwards recorded hi ponent expected, against the said report. Deponent fur- ther suith, thet deponent has heard within afew days that said McCown, from, motives of personal enmnityltowards de- onent, growing out of deponent’s exposuro of his practices in refercnce to matters connected with city affuirs, has trumped up from tho conversation alluded to, a charge that deponent attempted to bribe Lim on the oocation above re- ferred to, Tint this deponent avers that the circumstances attending sald transaction are truly set forth ns above ; that deponent well knew at the time said conversation occurred, that fourteen members of tho sis teen present would vote for tnid reastre, which would be three votes more than neces- sary ty carry it; he also knew that McGown was unchango- ably committed against the moasure, and, from his hostility Uefore manifested, did not expect or d his vote; that deponent did not seek said McGown, but enid McGown came to depenent; that the conversation was commenced in spurt, and Reporent ‘would have ‘fas much right to charge said McGown with seeking a bribe, by holding bis hand as re: ferred to, ns the latter was for charging deponent with at temptingto bribe him in the response which deponent mado the fost. But the whole occurrence was treated by de ponent and said McGown as a jest; and, asa proof that each is the fact, the said MeGow: ined silent on the sub- ject, 80 far a3 deponent knows, until 9 few days since, when he lias renewed it, as depbnont ebarges, fron malig: Bant personal motives, growing out of the following eirearm stances —Doponent having been informed that said MeGown had offered n member of the Board of Aldermen a bribe of $1,000 to vote for the Third Avenue Railroad, in which paid McGown took ureat interest, and another bride to one of the members of the Committee on Sewers to report in favor of a certsin sewer, took occasion to expose his conduct; that within a few days deponent bad an interview with said Me- Gown, in which be stated to him that doponent had know- ledge of the offer to bribe the eaid memter of tio Committee on Sewers, in whieh sald McGown admitted the fact, and erved that ‘it was only a suit of clothes” tin feed : HORACE B, RUSS Sworn this 18th day of May, 1853, before me, Joun McKin- ain, Jr., Commissioner of Deeds Tho following is a statemont of Mr. Moggs in relation to the shove :— Iu tho early part of Merch last, Tealled on Assistant Aidermon McGown at the City Hall, and while in conver tation with him, I stated that I had learnod to my great disappointinent, that the Street Commissioner, from tome er, had excluded from the nesessment salo, the building a sewer in cording to its terms, that was due me thereon; I then expressed a de- r. McGown wou!d see Aldorman Bard, ( the mone ire that Sf the Committee on Finance cf the Board of A and ask him to report on this eulject, whieh was then that committee: Chat if a report wae made, 1 wou! understand my position, and would know whether to com Thence A tuit Geainet the Corporation or not. I thon added, PAP Alderman Bard will report qu the sutject, I will give , Tee of asuit of cluthes.” scat Fy JOHN MEGGS, Contractor. Shortly after the above conversation stated byMr. Megcs, Touet Alderman Tari an waa passing ont of the rear duo Teil halle T mentioned to Aldcrman Bard, that but a few tuinutes Lefore, had soon Mr. Mezge, who had requosted vo cay, Ubatit. a report was made on his sewer contract He terse) ‘would make Mr. Hard s present of a #uit of ne cheseand that he did not wish to have @ lawsuit ghout Punters he could not avoid it. Alderman Dard fe wlout it jaa fow days.” (The report has re 9 t+ been made.) me the charge contained in Mr. Ri Le paper relative of the Board of ird Avenue Rail jays, * having been informed” that such was hocaee;— Mr. tues or bie friend, Mr. Mabbatt, who pre rented the paper, #hall in the due covrse of nd before atribunel higher than a “Committee on Inv disclore his informant, and the" trumped up” elx ing thereto. he whole tranaaction. Let any candid, unbisssed wr judge for himself. how eonvicting are the sweeping ertions of Mr. affidavit. What does Mr Russ answer to proffered $1,000 bribe? Mout it wae only in jest.” plausible it would be, ¢! teres contract that will by mo of $1,000 to s mem! iv vote in’ favor of the he charge of the elected to Congress in 1838, and served one term in the House. He is a lawyer by profession, and was” originally a federalist, but became a democrat in the thne of Jackson, bribe of $1,000 poatedly said senstants, could control in bi Russ, in. his paper purporting to he on: ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP PRANELIN.. ~~ e FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. THE LEADING POLITICAL AND OTHER NEWS: Firmness in Cotton at Liverpool, ke., &e., den ‘The U. 8. mail steamship Franklin, Capt. J. A. Wottors,’ arrived at this port at seven o’clock this morning, bring ing the usual British and French mails, 3 She left Havre and Cowes roads on the 11th inst., an@ brings files of London and Paris papers, together witle our private correspondence, to the 11th iust., four daya later than previously received via Liverpool, The British and North American mail steamship. America, from Boston and Halifax, reached the Mersey on the morning of the 9th inst. Fe The U. 8. mail steamship Washington, after ‘ pasiage of thirteen days and seven hours, touched ‘off Cowes, Isle of Wight, on the 7th, on her way to. Bremen; all well. y ‘The Artic arrived in the Mersey at midnight of the 10th inst., after rapid passage from this port: The authoress of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was, on the 7tlt inst., welcomed to Stafford House by the Duchess of” Sutherland, where, in the midst of an assemblage of the rank and aristocracy, and s considerable muster of pubs lic men, she was presented with the long talked of ade dress of the women of England. Mrs. Stowe was on thig occas‘on petted and lionized bya whole bevy of duchesseq and countesses, From Paris it is stated that the Duke de Nemours wad about to pay a visit to the Count de Chambord, when the “fusion” would be arranged. Some of tlee ardent legitie matists seemed to fancy a reetoration was not far distant. It was reported in London that letters had been re- ceived from Shanghae to the 3d March, of five days? later date than received by the overland mail, containing an announcement that the British residents had pro» visioned their ships, and were prepared to embark im caso of emergency; that the Chinese authorities had ap- plied to the British Consul for aid to enable them to pro- tect Nankin and to quell the rebellion, and that the Con= sul had referred the matter to the Colonial government.’ A letter from St. Petersburg, of April 25th, says:—a There is much talk in the best informed cireles of a se« cret mission of a Russian Envoy sent to China overland, and who it is said had already arrived at Kiatha. It was confidently reported that the object of his mission was to offer to the Sovereign of the Celestial Empire the aid of Russia in quelling the insurrection in his dominions, The weather in England for several days prior to the departure of the Franklin, had been very wet and unseae sonable. Snow had fallen in many places, The money market presented no change. Discount¢ were light at three per cent, The bullion in the Bank of England had fallen to a lower point than for some months, Stocks, shares, bonds and mines dull. Liverpool cotton market very firm. Sales on the 9th, 7,000 bales; sales on the 10th, 5,000 bales, At the Mark Lane Corn market there was only a small show of English wheat, the extreme humidity of the weather having affected the samples, and a decline of ona shilling per quarter took place, business being very inac- tive. Arrivals of foreign corn were liberal, but prices of floating cargoes were pretty firm. The operations in dou were very limited, with prices very firm. Indian corm firm. At Manchester, stocks of manufactured goods were low ‘and prices very firm. Some of the houses in that city were having clipper ships built for their own individual trade to India, China, &c. At Birmingham, transactiong had increased by the fall in the prices of metals, and bu- sinees was ina healthy state. Many hundreds of iror houses were built for Australia, and also some irom churches and a cavalry barracks. The tendency to a rise in the value of wages continued,’ and 3,000 or 4,000 new houses for the working classes were being built yearly. Business in Nottingham had been checked by the inclemency of the weather. In the woollen districts there was uninterrupted activity, and the Irish linen market a small and good buriness. The departures from London for the Australian portd showed an increase, but there was no rise in freights. PASSENGERS ARRIRED. In the steamship Franklin, from Havre—Mrs Hollander, two children and servant, Mrs Scqwartz, C Remington, lady and two children, E Krollpfaiffee, E Lemireia, P L Ronalds, bearer of despatches, and servant, Mi+s Evens and eemensy E Rechter, L Chase, H Masterson, E Bates, O E Roberts, W Burbage, H Geit, Dr W H Cammerce, Miss McNally, Mies M Hatton, Madame Jouvre, © Hovey, C F Bresthaupt and daughter, EH Borel, E Torr, J G Durand_and lad: New York; W Ai Indy and three children, T Hepk dale, A Ritchie, Mrs Templeton Coolidge, Boston; Prof Rit ley, tr Sauvan, Philadelphia. E Alwany,'A Lebeau, J Boun 2p, J Jona Pongan, N Orleans; Madame Caullo, five children and two, servants, E Bourgools, M Duprez, Ha- tel vana;T Ranger, Michigan a lamestown; A Do Clauzel, bearer of d , St Louis; WB Locontenly* Buffalo; H Devani, L De: i, L De Marconnay, P Rs ils ithson, lady, onild and ser L Roger, F Duplan, Mr AJ Cudiurd, J’ Blotcher, E J Nicolas, P Nicolas. P Durand, O Pla J Le Rolie, J W. uzanna Bonde farchand, Engla: L DeMarconnay, »@ Cornell, An: 4Cath Olioce, M Bufet, L J na Mause, Josephine mairs, H Dumet, M Laberde, France; Cath Hahnhen, Er tine Frank, Germany; J Anderson, Sweden. Total J&, Extensive Fire in Brooklyn, About three o’clock this morning a very destructive fire broke out in Brooklyn, opposite the City Hall. Every building above 344 on Fulton and 276 Adams street, to the interzection of those streets with Willoughby, was de- stroyed. Of the entire block, the only houses that wera left standing consist of five or six small frames on the lower corner of Adams, some seyen large stores on the lower corner of Fulton, and ten dwellings fronting on Myrtle avenue. Full particulars of the conflagration will be given in our evening edition. Bal OF THE CatHarine Ferry Boats.—The old Catha- rine street ferry boats were sold yesterday, by public auc- tion, at the Merchants’ Exchange, and brought the fol- lowing prices:—The Liberty, $2,750; the Independence, $2,700; and the Olive, $2,800, Tae latter is upwards of twenty years old, and was rua for a long time on the Ful- ton ferry, for which she was built asa passenger boat exclusively, and bore thename of the Olive Branch. The Steam Yacht North Star. The following letter turned up yesterday. It has beea drifting about somewhere since Sunday morning:— Srzam Yacut Norra Star, Orr Sanpy Hook, 9 P. M., May 20. ‘We came out of the United States Dry Dock at7 o’clock, and our pilot will leave us in a few minutes. We have been treated most courteously by the government officers at the Navy Yard, who exhibited, with the high excel- lence with which their duties were discharged, the gallant bearing ard polished mien which, to the honor of the rervice, is £0 generally acknowledged by all who are brought in contac! with them. The skip works admirably. We happened a few minutes to overhear the Commodore ay to the chief engineer, Tam in po hurry. Twelve and e half days to Southamp- ton is quick er ough for an excursion like ours.’” Everything promises well. Your very obedient servant, Unfinished Sewer. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In your Herat of the 20th inst. T find aa the above caption, wherein the writer says, convenience 1s experienced in Wooster street, from the circumstance of the thoroughfare through that street being blocked up by an unfinished sewer, which had beem. left when nearly half completed, by the contractor—who, we understand, has another in a similar condition im Thompson street—owing. as the writer is informed, to- financial embarrassments.”” Your informant cannot ibe well posted in the matter of “unfioished rewets,”” or he would not, I think, suffer himself to be led into the publication of a mischievous error in respect to them. well calculated, if not corrected, to operate injuriously upon innocent parties. ‘The facts of the caxe are briefly as follows :—The con- tract for building the Thompson street sewer was taken by the undersigned on the 27th of April last, to be com- Tleted in nivety. days from the date thereof, He bas no connection whatever with the Wooster street sever, and never had; is prosecuting his work rapidly to comple- tion, without delay or embarrassments of any kind—finan- cial or otherwise—and he has no doubt the work will be completed to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, considerably within the time limited by the oontract. 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