The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1853, Page 2

ation, so largely prevails in almost all concerns re large bodies ” men — megs to week niddlemen in the of great Roe esac Emperor with an ambition to rival the Augustus of ancient Rome, is amnsing himself with a building freak, that will cost the good people of France no trifling sum—Drmit, edificat; and he seems to take vast pride da the work, as if he were doing bis subjects some mighty good, and all for the benefit of the working classes, for whom he is con- structing wholesome, airy lodging houses, to be placed under police surveillance. Well, this is a novel mode of bribery; but perhaps it may have its effect, although rumor says that the geutry of the bunlieue, the barriéres, and the islands of the Seine, are far from pleased at these demonstrations of imperial philanthropy, because they prefer their filthy, ragged, poverty- stricken independence to the condition pro i which would make them the slaves and victims of the police, and through them of the Imperial govern- ment. The only other object of interest is that new M. Silas, the great classical composer, is in the north, where he is féted by all the professors and amateurs. This author's music is published by , Beale & Co., of No. 201 Regent street, who are, itis said, realizing handsome profits. y Walter Maynard’s song of—* Let Nobody Know,” sung by Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam, has reached a fifth edition, Mr. James Anderson and Miss Fanny Morant’s en- agement terminated last Saturday at the Theatre «yal Standard. They proceed to Scotland, r. Josh Silsbee is starring at the York theatre. Davenport is playing Markwell’s “ Louis XI.” at Edinburg. : Thanks to the never-failing liberality of Mr, Mitchell, the enterprising lessee of the St. James’ Theatre, (French plays), we have been indulged with a revival of “Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr,” an early product’on of the world renowned Alexander Dumas. The cast included Regnier and Lafaut, (hosts in themselves.) and the youthful tragedienne Malle. Madeleine Brohan. On Priday night “Malle. de la Segliere” was performed for the first time this magnetic phenomenon. yclept the “ table-rapping,” which seems to be fair ly turning the heads of many ‘on this, as well as the Frengh side, of the Channel. Great are the wonders described—mighty the resalts stated—but, for our own part, having tried several | the exqu' experiments in a perfectly orthodox fashion without | shared a any favorable results, we must withhold our adhesion to the cause, until we have further and occular evi- dence of its truth. One other object—of no interest —is the continuance of arrests and liberations of imagined political offenders—unbappy victims of the | Fouche-like system of espionnage which now per- <teut than in vades that country, even to a greater the time of Napoleon the conqueror of Marengo and ‘Austerlitz. The re-establishment of capita | punish- Ment for political offen-es, too, will, without doubt, greatly tend to make the husband of Eugenie some- unpopular; by tbat i has no confidence in the good will of the people that he has taken on himself to rule. It bas been the subject of unfavorable remark here, that possessing, as you do at this moment, most of the very best of our English actors, combined with such eminent artists as Eddy, Burton, and others, | headed by the great tragedian Forrest, your New | York managers can only make your stage a pale re- | fiex of ours. No sooner has ‘‘Macbeth’’ been exhumed | to afford a subject for a spectacular melodrama at | the Princess’s, but (1 perceive by the files of the | Heap) the manager of the Broadway theatre be- | comes suddenly alive to the fact that this tragedy | pos-esses a peculiar claim to public favor. Surely | there must be more vitality in your senses than your | managers seem to accuse you of. Must you see with our eyes—hear with ourears’ Can you not feel an | emotion that has not been “ octroyé” by a London audience? Are you dependent on us for opinions as | we are on you for cotton? We cannot believe it. | ‘We maintain that the fault lies with your managers, | who do not encourage the literary department of their entertainment. “This is evident by the prize of | £200 given by Mr. Forrest for the best tragedy—a | very liberal sum for America, but an amount that | would not command a three-act drama from a first: | class dramatist in England. Mr. Kean gave £300 to | Douglas Jerrold for * St. Cupid,” and five hundred guineas to Bourcicault for ‘Love in a Maze.” Web- | ster gave 750 guineas to Bourciecault for “ Old Heads and Young Hearts.’’ and the same author received five hundred for ‘‘ The Willow Copse.” Bulwer re- | ceived £1,000 for “ Richelieu;” Markwell £300 for “Louis XI.;” Howard Paul £200 for ‘ The Meb | Cap;” and Kean gave 200 guineas to Bourcieault for | “The Corsican Brothers.” It is by such due appre- | ciation of the literary portion of the stage that good | ieces are obtained. It may be hoped that the ternational copyright treaty will, if passed tice some of our dramatists to take the field New York, and also put the American dramati “ litterateurs” on their metal—but managers must be On Saturday night, “ Rigoletto,” au opera by Verdi, new to this pos rl though for eraeee teat to the continental public, was produced at the | It is in three | | March. A letter of that date says:— The libretto is | Royal Itatalian Opera House. acts. The scene is laid in Mantua and its envi- rons, in the sixteenth century. taken from Victor Hugo's play of “‘ Le Roi Fameuse,” which was only played for one night at the Theatre Francais, and then withdrawn by order of the Minis- ter. It has been also dramatized and represented here under the title of ‘‘ The King’s Fool.” I will give you a résumé of the plot. Peneed Signor Mario, iovanni ndee of the Don ool ; and amon; is flames we find Gilda, the daughter ot Rigoletto, his buffoon ; the Countess of Ceprano, the wife of one of his court, and Magdalen, the sister of a noted bravo. Gildas | (Mdlle. Bosio) has been carefully watched and guard- ed by her father, and only permitted to go alone to church, where the libertine Duke has seen her, and at once became smitten with her charms, and gains | her affections, unknown to her father. Rigoletto | Gignor Ronconi), in his character of court buffoon, | has, it appears, made himself enemies amongst the | courtiers ; and, to punish him, they form a plan to | carry off his daughter. The plan succeeds, and the fair Gilda is taken from her father's house and lodged in the Dueal Palace. | Here she is discovered by her father, who, after so difficulty, is enabled to rescue her. Rigolctta and hi om pe escape into the Caste ; and being greatly id of her continued love for the Duke, he engages lucile, the bravo, to rid him of the difficu! iy low, 8 ‘acile is assisted in his murderous trade by his sister Magdalen, (Md'lle Didiée,) 2 captivat- ing woman, who allures the Duke into her mother’s — Magdalen, Pogntle. a tender a and i wn petit prise with the person and pretty compliments of the young Duke, persuades her de- lectable brother to spare his life. During the inter- view between the Duke and Magdalen, concealed with his daughter, in order to expose to her | the character of her lover, and to cure her, if possi- | ble, of ber unhappy, attachment. He then ar roee | atime during the dead of the night when he will return to have himself the gratification of disposing | of the body of the Duke by throwing it into the river. Before his arrival at the bravo’s house, his | danghter Gilda, who, at his desire, has dressed her- | self in man’s attire, the more readily to escape pur- | who wear red and black scarfs, urge the people to | suit, returns to the place in which the Duke is con- | cealed, with some indistinct view, as it would appear, ay an interview with the object of her affec- tions, 10 has created too deep an impression upon her heart to be discarded at the will of her father, and with a hope of saving him from the | hands of the bravo. Sparafucile, meanwhile, has 60 | gehools, over the doors of which there ia written on | far yielded to his sister's wishes as to promise that he will murder the first passenger who may chance | to take refuge in his house during the storm, which | is then raging, in lieu of his intended victim. Gilda | at this moment arrives, and is soon despatched by | the dagger of the bravo, who deposits her body in a | sack, and hands it over to Rigoletto at the appointed | time. The discovery is ahortl afterwards made by Rigoletto that he has caused the death of his own daughter, and the operatic tragedy ends with the — despair of the wretched father, heaping | upon the head of the libertine Duke. The | music is not remarkable, with this exception, that | for Verdi it is without the usual preponderating noiao | of wind instruments. Ronconi’s acting of the father reminded us of the elder Kean in his prime. He, | with Mario, and Mdlles. Bosio and _Didiée, | appeared after each act, to receive the loud applause of a fashionable and crowded andience. ‘e are promised a new piece, in three acts, at the | Lyceum, on Thursday next. It is called ‘“ The | Lawyers.” The aaa parts will be enacted by Mr. Charles Mathews, nd Mrs. Frank Mathews, | and the pretty and intellectual Miss Agnes Robertson. A new farce is accepted at this theatre from the pen of Mr. W.R. Markwell, under the quaint title of | “ An Odd Pair.” There are but two parts in it, to be = by Mr. Charles Mathews and Miss Robert- | son. Miss Emily Wyndham (the toasted of the | fashionable habiiués of the Lyceum) is engaged by Mr. Wigan for his forthcoming campaign at the | Olympic. ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ is an- nounced for to-morrow evening at the Adelphi. It must be as a barlesque, I take it, as Madame Celeste and Mr. Benjamin Webster are entered for Mrs. | Page and Falstaff. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean still | continue to do great business at the Princesses, and they are hard at work, and sparing no expense on | the forthcoming production of Byron’s “ Sardana- palus.” The Surrey opened for the summer opera | ‘Beason last ihersal F iss Romer is the directress, and Mr. Edward Stirling the author and actor—of Drury lane—the stage manager. Mr. Howard Paul hae a drama accepted here. By your files of papers per this mail you will read an account of the opening of the Royal Industrial Exhibition of Dublin. It was by all accounts a very pattie affair. The musical arrangemeuta were un- r the direction of Dr. John Joy. Only one theatre, the pteand, indulged us with a new piece last night, Whitsun eve, which is, by the by, a somewhat rare occurrence. This was entitled ‘The Emigrant’s Progress, or the Lady May,” and in- cluded in the cast Messrs. Leffler, Manley and Frazer, and Mesdames Rebecca Isaacs, Ormonde and Feather- stone. Mr. Allcroft has to congratulate himself on a success. I have just returned from a splendid dejewner a la fourcheti, given by a high judicial personage, living | Eaton square, himself an author and staunch pat- ron of the drama. The reunion took place for the pu of assisting at a reading of Mr. Dion Bourci- | cault’s new drama of “Faust and Margaret.” Some | five-and-thirty of the cream of literary talent partook | of their learned host’s entertainment, who one and all expressed themselves highly delighted with the | rich treat afforded them by the talented author of “London Assurance.” Jullien bas retarned from Brussels with a fresh supply of shirt fronts, (commonly denominated Ri chards,) of the most hein 6 description, overloaded with Mechlin and Brussels lace. He eonducted two concerts at the eonservato're of the Belgian metropo- | Tis, and was agreeably surprised on the termination of the last concert to receive from the leader of the . orchestra a handsome baton, accompanied by a written testimonial from all the musical celebrities in | Brussels, headed by Mme. Pleyel, the great pianiste; | M. Reickert, the flate player; Jules de Glimes, and mony others too numerous tw enumerate. Mr. Albert Smifh and Mont Blanc are still all the | ic | of demure young | fancies he left or con, This piece is familiar to the English public } a english Version from the pen of Mr. Webster, | under the title of ‘The Man of Law,” which, but for isite acting of Mrs. Stirling, would have similar fate to most of this gentleman’s translations. It possesses all the requisites of a good eomedy—an ingenious plot, well conceived and well sustained characters, with dialogue at once easy, animated, and polished. Regnier’s genius, in the double capacity of dramatist and actor, was therein displayed to all perfection. Malle. Brohan, by her grace und feeling, gave great interest to the charac- ter of the youthful heroine. The clever scheming Baronne de Vaubert, had an excellent representative in Madame Armand,a lady who has been recently added to the company. M. Roland’s perfor- and it furnishes strong proof, more- | mance of the astute adyocate was exceedingly | clever, and “c'est tout dire’ that Lafont played Bernard. Marquis. The house is nightly crowded with rank, beauty and intelligence, and we cannot give too great raise to these series of fine performances to Mr. itchell, the liberal director, and to Mr. Chapman and the other gentlemanly attachés of this elegant theatre. On Saturday evening a new and original comedy was produced at the Haymarket theatre, by the Rev. Mr. White, the clerical litéerateur and author of the “ King of the Commons” and many other good plays and works. I fear to trespass too much upon your valuable space or I would give you an outline of the plot—suffice it to say that the house was crowded to suffocation, and that the comedy, including in the cast the names of Buckstone, Chippendale, (your Chip, who is fast becoming a favorite.) Misses Pitz- william, and nisa Howard, went off in a blaze of triumph. tone has gone in to win, and has really done wonders since he became lessee of this i] theatre, which Webster allowed to sink into sad disrepute. Yesterday, Whitsun-Monday, with Greenwich Fair, commenced all the al fresco entertainments of the London season. The Surrey Zoological Gardens, with a splendid exhibition at the lake and a large addi- tion to the menagerie, was crowded from a very early hour, and Vauxhall (the soi-disant Royal pro- perty,) and Cremorne Gardens, under the manage- ment of that metropolitan favorite, T. B. Simpson, of the Albion, were similarly attended, as was indeed the case with some sixteen or seventeen similar es- tablishments in the environs. The principal tho- roughfares were thronged by holiday folks from the small hours to the small hours, in company with Phebus, who, for the first time these six or seven months, persisted in shining forth in all his bril- liancy. Nour faithful Don went with a very quiet party eople to Richmond, where he lost the seat of his life, t. e., his heart; so you see there is danger even in sunshine. Yours, Don C#ear. The Chinese Rebellion. The advices from Hong Kong are to the 28th The intelligence we communicated last mail, the | 11th, regarding the rebellion in the north, was tully confirmed on the receipt of advices of the 3d from | Shanghai on the 12th inst., and, as we expected, Her | Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Sir George Benham, left | this for Shanghai on the 13th inst. in Her Majesty's he Duke of Mantova, | gteamer Hermes, then under orders to proceed to the | Straits, but detained for this special service. It ap- | pears that application had been made by the Viceroy | of Soochau to the English Consul at Shanghai to co- operate against the rebel force for the protection of Nanking. The rapid advance of the rebels had spread consternation and alarm through that capital and | ether wealthy cities, and the Imperial officials seemed entirely paralyzed and powerless. Our latest advices, of the 20th, from ange report the rebel force investing Nanking, which it was expected would fall, and it is further stated that delegates had been sent from Soochau to the rebel leaders, offering a large sum to secure that wealthy city from molestation and plunder. There are alao reports that s portion of the rebel force had proceeded north. The native bankers and wealthy people were removing their families and treasure into the country, and goods had been sent from Soochau to Shanghai for safety. At Shanghai there wasa general panic; bankers’ and merchants’ houses were shut up, and an entire stoppage to trade. Money was so scarce that the duties of exports had to be arranged by giving secu- ay in bills and other property to the consul. he naval force that must now be off Shanghai is calculated to restore confidence in that vicinity, and if the rebels proceed north, and do not delay round Nanking and the neighboring country, internal ’ T- | trade may be resumed sooner than the present state igolette is | of affairs would lead one to expect. The revolutionists have their inspectors of troops, their masters, their imperial guards, their mas- ters of the horse, their surveyors, their officers in charge of the signal department, all of whom wear yellow scarfs and yellow kerchiefs; these are all dignified with the title of excellency. Besides these there are some who wear red, green, aad flowered scarfs, as their distinguivhing marks: while those enter into their confederacy. ‘he oath they ad- minister is to the following effect “Let those who do not heartily unite with us be blown away from | guns, or Le cut in pieces with swords, or be thrown into the sea.”” ‘The revolutionists have set up several female red paper : ‘This is the place where young females reside; should any one presume to enter in a disorderly manner, he will be beheaded. The revolutionists have marshalled their army ac- eording to the following arrangement :—A Kwan- chang, sergeant, has charge of twenty-five men; a Pih-chang, lieutenant, takes charge of four ser- eants, or 100 men; a Leu-suh, captain, superintends four lieutenants, or 400 men; a Sze-suh, colonel, has the command over four captains, or 1,600 men; and a Koun-uh, brigadier, is over four colonels, or 6,400 | men. Hung-rew teecen, who assumes the title of T’ha- | eping wang, great pacificating kimg, is forty-one Mie of age, tall in stature, with a red face, sandy ard,and a native of Hwaheen, in Canton pro- vince (lat. 21 deg. 37 min. N., Jon. 110 deg. 48 min. E.) The name and surname of this individual are falsely reported: his true name is not known. The agents of the imperial army have not been able to ascertain it correctly. It is also reported that one revolutionary chief, ealled Choo-kew-taou, is superior to Hung-sew- teeuen; and it is said that at Kow-t’how-san, whem he arrived in Foo-nan, all the revolutionary chiefs came out to receive him on their knees. hey also slaughtered oxen and pis, and bad a feast for three days, on the occasion. In the event of the rebelliom being successful, itis expected that Choo-kew-taou will be the new emperor. The following proclamation, (translated by Dr. Medhurst,) has been issued by the insurgents: — In the first year of the Fmperor Tae-ping (Great Tran- quillity) of the How-ming or Later Miog Dynsst , in the sixth day of the thid moon, (April 23, 1852.) the revolu- tivnary army, in five divisions, obtained a seoond victory, when a servant of the new dynasty, in command of ths advanced guard, named Tsang san sew, respectfully transcribed the following proslamation:—‘Kwo, the great general, havirg chief superintendence of the foress bow in possession of the region aboat Hoo pib prorince, makes this proclamation. In judging of the rive or fall of empiren, we see that when & power loses the affections of the people it will soon be broken: and in axcertaining the gracious or unfavorable disposition of the mind of Heaven we find that a power possessing virtue ill in- crease in strergth. The T’shing, or Manchow dy for the last 200 year: been irregular in the ar: ment of official dignities, while the complaints of the perple have pot been attended to; but our Em- peror Teen tih, with one burst of anger, hea pecifed the people; for th past he has been attacking the ops scoordiag to whieh dynasties eurvive or perish ow raised an army for the defence of benevoler ic hteousnsaa: be has compa*sionated your determined scholars and vir- tnous inhabitants of Hoo-kwang, till hia most tender fee!- ings are exhausted, and hae slaughtered the ravenous ofteersand abandoned magistrates till he is tired of the carnage: now you scholars and people, having vigorously reolved to make common cause With him agaiast the enemy, must not flinch from your resolution. Tho-e who are rich among you must, according to your wealth, con- tribute to the support of the troops; and thore who are poor must select the youngest and stoutest of your num ber to ewell the ranks ef our army. Whoever ean tave alive one of these mandarins, whether military or elvil rball be rewarded with 10.000 pieces of money, who- ever can bring in one of their heads shali réceive 3.000 But should any dare to disobey our commanda, we have resolved to pillage their cities; let them not, therefore, Jay up cause for future reg:ete—for which purpose this spr ecial proctamation ie issued Heaven originally favors the virtuous, and all men paturelly possers s certain degree of talent Fron the earlisst antiquity attention has been pala to suitable ap parel, and from the mort remote ages revard has been had to ceremony and musiz; bat now there ros ners of the bar. rer de-ert have entered our palaces nad (hese inhab of bare mountains have taken possession of our halls, They have not followed the regulation: of Yaoa and Shun in the government of the country, bat have made human beings assume the appearance of irratfonal ani mals. Tho ¢ who diligently atudy the works of Confusiue and Menolus, seldom succeed, through the me tiam of the literary ‘examinations, in attaining offici«l dignity, while those who make use of pecuniary considerations As for Regnier, he was inimitable as the | | frequently attain to the highest posts of military and | personal differences cease to have any interest, and civil rank. as » one, Rave hitherto eoncseled my | we must deciine to revert to their share in these ene (ie Galeton Leow ~ tae), | transactions It is more important and satisfac- residence was at Pohae, and (like the patriot Leu- sete erect in etivement at Nan tea, a0 to learn, as we do from the New Brunswick we 4 . ” ‘eho kept secret all traces | @ddress, that the prompt and efficient protec- or himeel st: cn eee Laxeding fn the footateps of | tion afforded by Her atest ’s naval forces to the Leu thang) who concealed his name at Wei shwuy, My fisheries of British North America have enabled ancestors by a linealdescent have been tre subjects British subjects to enjoy their rights unmolested, to the Ming dyn: from that day to this upwards of | the great advantage of the province. We at once ‘and nove of them to the day of imps of the Tartar dy- pasty. I myself having no de for the exoluments | conferred by the Manchows, hi herto remained in » | private station, but now seeing you opprewsed by this tyrannical goverpment, a:d ubserving how the rapacious cficers and corrupt magistrates, without the slightest regard for the country or the people, have uniforcl offenced against the principles of benevolence and rec titude, thus causing your people to be estranged at once from each other ani fiom virtue, and to fall | into calamity witrout soy fault of your own; whetber high or low. all seem contending alike for gain; whetber courtier cr clown, none appear to aid any other in the practice of virtue; consider- ing, further, that the black haired race have been for a long time oppressed. and that the general body of the | people baye no one to rely om—theretore | my brave warriors, avd furnished my spears and thus uniting our energies in defence of righteous prees forward in the attack, and raising the virtuous standard we inteod—first, to overthrow the dynasty, and then proceed to breakfast. We reverently worship the Deity (Shang-te) in order to protect the people. We sim- ply arrange our plans for attacking and killing the ty- rant, and fora tim ent forth our armies in imitation of Ching-thang and Woo-wsrg But you Tartars, hav- ing no wise counsellors or planning +tatesmen, and being equally destitute of brave generals good soldiers, have hastily assembled the gentry and elders to collet and drill their reighbors, and have violently urged the villege braves to turn out in your defen the ancients employed a standing army to protect th people, but you now drive the people to become soldiers. You frequently complain of distress equal to that of splitting bones, and when our troops advance in the leas degree, you abandon the protection of the people and are the first to run away alone. Now you may know that the generals and soldiers of our state have coveeived the determination to proceed east- ward and have the ability to borrow the eastern wind when we need {t. We, both prince and people, are in possession of great intelligence and heaven-conferred ty 5 elapsed, ackoowaaese the validity of the interpretation given by the British governmant to the treaty of 1818, and the importance of putting an end te the infractions of that convention, which had occurred pete under cover of the concession made with re- ference to the Bay of Fundy,in 1845. The only | doubt thrown over that cenvention last August arose from the impreper construction put upon it, and the alarming language used by the American cabinet of that day, while the government at home gave, by their organs, a very confused account of the mea- sures they had actually taken, and even denied that any new or extraordinary precautions had been em- ployed at all. The colonists themselves, however, at whose instance this additional ie ‘tion was given to the British fisheries, furnish the best evi- dence on this point. They tell us that the protection given was prompt and efficient, and they evidently set the hi Past value on the Property in these fishe- ries which it secures to them. Within the last few weeks it has been stated in the House of Lords, on behalf of the British government, that the same in- structions which were framed for this purpose last season, have again been sent out for the guidance of the naval officers on that station, and a high tribute was paid to Admiral Seymour for the firmness and moderation with which he had executed them. At the same time, experience has demonstrated that these measures are in no degree inconsistent with the rights of the’ United States, and the excitement which was caused by Mr. Webster's precipitate de- claration has entirely abated. The negotiation commenced at Washington be- tween Mr. Everett and Mr. Crampton, for the adjust- ment of several questions now pendiug between this country and the United States—such as these fishe- ries, the reciprocal freedom of trade in colonial pro- duce, and the law of international copyright—was courage: how is it then that you Tartars do not know that it is time to collect your seattered bones, and fire the eig- pal beacons in indication of your terror: thu displaying cur illustrions virtue, and imitating the States of Yu and Joey who (out of regard to the virtue of Wanwang) set- tled their mutual differences. If you still »emain ignorant of the signs of the coming empire, now that we, having interrupted by the termination of Mr. Fillmore’s eriod of office, and we regret that the late excellent President had not time to crown his honorable ad- ministration by a treaty embracing these subjects. But we have no doubt that communications have already been made to the new Cabinet of determined to march our royal troops, with the attain- | Washington for the same purpose; and it is mcat of our object full inview, have but to give the sig | said in the United States that Mr. Buchanan nal for advance, sud we ascend the h'll of our hopes and | has stipulated, on accepting the office of dash through the barrier that opposes our progress, then | Minister in London, that he shall have full power to when you find no defence m your iron bound citadel, nor | treat on all these matters. It would be unwise to on eeneat Holkoon, of WHat use: will: he your: puedes the disposition of a gentleman who is pro- Hung, captain general of the army. baving entire | bably Hecatey pass Cie in this Scum superintendence of military affairs, and aiding in the and who will be conerned in the management of the advancement of the T’hae ping, or Great Pacificating | relations of these two cognate empires. Mr. Bucha- Dynasty, in obedience to the will of heaven, issues this | nan was Secretary of State to the administration of importa: triumpbant proclamation, to announce | President Polk, when the Oregon negotiation was that he has purished the oppressor and saved the people. | carried on and brought to a successful termination. fe ee Siecumot ape use sepeciaus He is, therefore, well known as a minister, to some of ins of the public offices are no better than wolves eee te members of the present British govern: tigers, all originating in the vicious and sottish | Ment, and, though his manners are sa e cold, rch at the head of aflaixs, who drives honest peo- | and his opinions extremely decided in support of the a distance, and admits to his presence the most | American party now in power, his past experience worthless of mankind, relling offices and disposing of | and his straightforward conduct in office inspire con- preferments, while he represses men of virtuous talent, | fidence and respect. that the spirit of avarice is duily inflamed, and | ‘The choice made by General Pierce, of some high ard low are contending together for gain; the | other diplomatic agents of his government, does not rich and great are abandoned to vice witheut control, er Me maT iteat aa thAtORANE DUChioee, oe whilegthe poor and miserable have none to redress their Borl a eee has Teen aclested’ ear tinvos (ithe wrongs, the very recital of which exasperates one’s | Borland, w ' oy is a y . feelings, and makes one’s hair stand onend. To refer to | States of Central America, where questions of con- the cate of the land revenue in particular, it appears that | siderable difficulty may easily arise, is known as the of late the exactions have been increased many fold, | Senator for Arkansas; and we are informed that, while the taxes due up to the thirtieth year of the last | even in the not unfavorable opinion of our own perpen coe me pein ee a seonens American correspondent, “ he bears about with him tre exhausted, and thelr miseries grown tocxcess. When | POmething of the stamp of those who have been our benevolent men and virtuous scholars contemplate tone eld Heleneed. lato. collimonae ith Mavonnos there things. their minds are deeply wounded, and they bie ioagh ae ‘without P ecnliaerascyicas pp >. Such collisions were not, we presume, of a matic nature, and we cannot regard with entire componnte the arrival of such an agent in a country cannot restrain themselves from rooting out these plun- dering officers and wolfish mandarins of each prefecture which is politically unsettled, traversed by swarms of emigrants, gpenly coveted by at least one 4 district, in order to save the people from the flames party in the United 61 and fioods in which they are now involved. At the sent moment our grand army is assembled like clouds; the province of Kwangse bas been settled and Chang sha (the capital of Hoo sa beeen o A; and, being Bow about ‘0 preceed toward the region of Kiang-se, we deem it ne- ee z Conary fo announce fo the people that they need not ve | _ But the nomination of M.[Soulé to the post of alarmed, while agriculturists, mecbanies, merchants ana | Minister to the court of Spain is still more extraor- traders may each peacefully pursue their occupations. It | dinary. That gentleman is a native of one of the is necesrary, however, that the rich should have in readi- | Southern States, and of French extraction. He ness stores of provisions, to aid in the sustenance of our | only acquired the use of the English language after troops; let each clearly report the amount of their eon- | Heveached the age of manhood, thougly he is now Shnenrs oo ee ee ond eral eras ee ibe known as one of the most impassioned speakers in receipts, as security that hereafter the money shal 5 all repaid. Should there be any bold and strong men or | ee fa Senate. Be longer Ago aie the wire counsellors among you, let them with one heart and | 25th of January he pronounced an enthusiastic eu- effort aid us in our great design; and whenftranquillity | logy in that assembly on the adventurers and bucca- is restored, we will have them promoted and reward- | neers who were concerned in the Lopez expedition ed according to their merit. All the officers of pre- | against Cuba, in which he spoke of the ‘heroic de- fectures and districts who resist us shall be beheaded; | yotion” of those misguided youths whom the Spanish but those who are ready to comply with our requisitions, | ¢oyernment seized and very justly sentenced to con- must forthwith send their seals of office, and then they | Gicn punishment, comparing them, in the may retire to their native villages. With regard to the weal. strain of eens cleans, to Lanes and Kosciusko. Such opinions may, of course, be ex- pressed in free countries, and we have people here 5 take every opportunity of expressing their lively sympathy for insurrectionary incursions and revolts all over the world. ‘But speeches of this kind are usually 8 lly rabbleof wolfish policemen, we shall, as scon as we suc- ceed, harg up their heady as a warning to all. Being upposed to operate as a disqualification for office; rah on much pe positive grounds, the Em- now apprehensive lest local banditti should take occasion froro cur movements to breed disturbanees, we wish you people clearly to report the same, and will immediately exterminate them. If any of the citizens or villagers dare to assist the marauding mandarins in their tyranny, end resist our troops and adherents, no matter whether they reside in great or small places, we will sweep them from the face of the earth. Be careful. Do nos oppose ‘A epccia) proclamation. Given in the recond year of Teen-tih, on such a month and such e day. ‘The following couplet is appended to the above procla- mation :— - . “Our valiant armies by thousands are preparing to ad- vance on the region of Peking. “And our august monarch, once seated in the deep re- ceases of his palace, will revive the days ef Yaou and on. Woo, the Provincial Judge and Intendant on the on the northwestern coast, has addressed a_peti- tion to the Consuls of Shanghai, seeking their inter- vention, of which the following is the last and only important paragraph:— peror of Russia actually declined at one time to re- ceive Sir Stratford Canning as ambassador from this country. Such a mission bas the air of a provoca- tive, rather than a pacific, errand; and it is impos- sible not to connect the menacing expressions con- tained in General Pierce’s inaugural address with the known character and opinions of the mem whem he selects to carry his policy into execution. Meanwhile, the Spanish government itself is doing more than any foreign conspiracy can attempt or any foreign minister desire to weaken its hold on Cuba, and to prepare the | world to view the overthrow of its authority in that island without regret or displeasure ; for that author- ity is every day more closely and directly identified ‘have considered that the various provinces of Honan, | with the prosecution of the slave trade in its most Hooput, Keangse, Guemtrung, aod Keavgnan are all | odious and execrableferm. The violence and fraud Places with which Ehanghsi bas commercial transac- by which whole tribes of native Africans are brutally tone, and that from the time that the rebels heve spread | kidnapped into slavery are encouraged and protected themeelves from Keangre to Honan, a year has elapsed, after which they invaded Hoopit, Hankhow, and some other marts of eommeree have also been disturbed by them, or that merchants are arrested in their course, | ddrre not move. Now the rebels presume to move | F sia os p the stream of the Kiang, and distur Nan- ing. If they be not speedily intercepted trade will be stopped, Gril hc commercial Gelereouree, boas OMiam ond Sorcign | nations will te atanend Having just received the above | communication from the Governor, it is incumbent on me | to inform you, the honorable Consul, begging you to make inquizy into the care, and beg the +hips of war which have already orrived at™hanghai, with the one stationed here for the ¢efence of the port, to go forward immo- diately to Nanking and act in eenjunction with the “lor- chas”’ already there, exertizg their united strength in at- | tacking the rebels, nwearing to exterminate these villa- nour banditti, to'gratify the feelings of the people, and premote commercial intercourse. I also requert tl the honorable Consul, will write to expedite the arrival of those versele of war that are expected, that they may go up successively te Nanking, and eweep away the remains there vagabonds from the face of the earth, and there- by tive tranquility ta the whole region. The offcers and 1¢ people of China will be uoder great obligations to you, andI the Intendant, will be exceedingly obliged, We, therefore, beg and pray of you to expedite the matter. A necessary communication. Hoenfung, 2 yeer, 24 moon, 7th dey.—Mareh 16, 1853, (From the London Herald, May 17.) * by the gross corruption of the government ; and the price of blood drained from the colony is amassed among the unblest wealth of the i palace. Upon a nation guilty of such crimes by the hands of its rulers we know not when chastisement will fall ; but it ts less dificult to foresee the quarter frem which the blow will come, for the rapacity of the Scuthern Blates of Nerth “America, of which M. Soulé ts the feheet yd representative, ts obvious- ly the power by which the atrocitves of the slave trade in Cuba will be avenged. Mrs, Uncle Tom Stowe. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY IN LONDON—GRAND GATHERING OF ARISTO- CRATS, QUAKERS AND ABOLITIONISTS. [From the London Times, May 27.] The annual meeting of this association was held yesterday evening, at Exeter Hall. The large room was most densely crowded, there being not a nook or cranny in it which was not converted into a tem- porary Poser ogee some carnest anti-slavery supporter. e chair was taken most punctually by the Earl of Shaftesbury, sapporet by Professor Stowe, Mr. C. Beecher, Mr. J. Starge, Ool. Thompson, Mr. G. Cruickshank, and a number of other gentle- men. Mre. H. Beecher Stowe, with some other ladies, occupied seats in one of the side gallerics, and Mrs. Chisholm sat in the one opposite. When Mrs. Stowe entered, the excitement of the assembled audience rose to a tremendous pitch, and it was several minutes before the eheers, with which the hall rang again, kad sufficiently relieved them. When she withdrew, the same honors were paid to her, every one standing up and cheering with heart and soul. ‘The Earl of Suarressury, who was received with applause, opening the proceedings said, that they were assembled to protest with the utmost intensity of principle, and with all the force that language could command against the groseest wrong which the wickedness of man ever perpetuated against his f-low- men—(cheers)—a wrong which great in all ages—great in heathen times, and in heathen countries great even under heathen rentiment—was inde-criba’’) moasteous in Chritian days, and not unfrequently was exercised over Christian people. (Cheegs ) It was surely remarka- ble and dirgraceful to this century and generation, +o boastful as it was of its progress that after the institution of so many Bible sccieties. after 0 many professions and preaebwents of Christianity, and after #o many decla rations before their fellow men, that they should be as- rembled at this t'me to protest sgairet the conduct of a mighty Protestant people (cheers) who, in the spirit of the Romi+h Babylon, had resorted to her most abomi nable practices ely, making mercbandise of the tem ple of God—trafiicing in the bodies and souls of her people. (Cheers.) ‘They were not assembled to proclaim and maintain their o«n immaculate purity, or to stand forward and say: “We are holier thaa others.’ They had already confessed openly the heavy «hare they had ia bygone days in this vilest of wickedness. They declared it again, and added their deen remorse for whet had pasved; but they now sympathized with the preponderating bulk of the Americar people—they felt the difficulties which beset them in the oourse they wished to pursue, and they rejoiced and approved of thelr good Intentions. But they had no patience with those professed leaders who misled the people, with those who blasphemausly rested alavery on Hely Scripture and who in this way desecrated their pulpits with doctrines better suited to the synagogue of Satan, (Cheers.) ‘This was indeed a dismal prospect to those who trembied at this dispiay of human power, but they had this consolation, that while the enemy came in like a fieed, the Lord would raise upa standard ageinet them; and He had done so now. He had rated up a new, wonderful end inspired proteetress; and, although her tex was feeble, yet, irresistible by her truth, rhe would prove to their adversaries as wwer of strength ; and the Tord would sell this Sisera into the ands of a woman. (Cheers ) He would ask any one, if they Lelieved that the statements in that marvelloas work to which he bad alluded were at all exaggerated? the measures of the late government, for the protec- | Tid they not rather know that, say what one would; the tion of the British North American fisheries, has | h would not be fully stated, and that the reality of been revived by the publication of an address to the 'y was much worse than the fiction? But that was crown from the colony of New Brunswick, and by | notbiog to their solemn declaration ; the vicioasnesa of the production of an elaborate despatch of Mr. Eve- | the principle was at ones explained in the mece novion of rett, in which he reviews at unconscionable length | #8y'ry. and its abominations were almost, the actual the part taken by Lord Malmsbury, Mr. Webster. and inevitable consequences of absolute and irre There was also, indeed, a convention after the tak- ing of the Bogue forts in 1847, but none of these treaties or conventions have any relation whatever to material or moral support, or to the employment of Br'tish ehips, sailors, or marines in favor of the Em- peror, and against the “ vagabonds,” or inner, as coutra-distinguished from “ outer barbarians,” who question his Chinese Majesty’s celestial authority and supreme and transcendant power. Officionsly, though not officially, and as mediators, well-wishers. and advisers, British functionaries in China, may doubtless serve the cause of humanity, ce, and commerce, by offering suggestions and aterpoalig possible modes of accommodation and solution of the roil or civil war ; but any direct interference on be- half of the Sun and Moon against his people, or any direct interference at all, unless for the purpose of penne British or European lives or property, or british er European commerce, would appear to us to be not merely undesirable but imprudent. It may be that the American consul or commodore on the ‘station (the Western Republic having also a treaty with China) may promply accede to a requisi- tion on which a British consul or commander may panse or refuse. We can scarcely think 60. The American treaty or convention with China is, like our own, @ purely commercial one—is, in fact, a treaty whereby Brother Jonathan like John Bull is allowed to trade at five ports. If that American trade be in anywise injured or interrupted, or a hair of the head of any Jack Tar of Yankee Jand be in- jured by either of the contending parties, whether the Emperor or his subjects, we have no doubt that reparation will be promptly cought and speedily found by some captain of the United States navy; bot we do not imagine that’ America, which has hitherto eschewed political alliances with Europe, is likely to enter inte a treaty, offensive and defensi with his Celestial Majesty against millions of his dis- pai bape oh It is mnch more probable that the officials and ships of England and America will act together in protecting the persons of Englishm and Americans and protecting the interests of th trade, than in interfering ia a domestic quarrel be- tween a sovereign and his subjects. The Fishery Question In England, and Gen- eral Pierce's Foreign Appointments. [From the London Times, May 14 } ‘The discussion which was raised last summer, by and himself, in this affuir. As, however, the British | "FO." be power. Did they doubt the fact? te would Foreign Minister, and both the American Secretaries gatement, snd would preface it by observing that he of State of Jast summer and autumn, are now alike | never read anything more striking or condemnatory of withdrawn from the control of public affairs, their | the rystem they had met to denounce, This was pro- ounced by one of the Judgeh in North Carolina, and it ble to read it without feeling convinced that the man who gave Eetaranes to, it =e not only a man of great mind, Ww a man of great honor. The case on which he to adjudicate was as follo The defendant hed bir yeer. During this time she committed some blight offence, for which the defendant undertook to chastive her. ‘She ran away upon this, and be shot at her ard wousded her. ‘The question which arose was, whether he.was jurtified in uring those means of coercion, tha whether the privilege of shooting e slave did not be: long onby to the actual proprietor. This was argued with reat force, and then the judge pronounced his decision. ‘he noble Karl then read ‘he extract and commented on it, it wes to the effect that the power of the master must be absclute, and the right of the master could not be al. lowed to be brought into discussion, and the slave must be made sensible that there was no appeal from the power of his waster. ‘This judgment might not be reversible on earth, but there was another appeal which would be made.’ to the highost of ali courts, wheve God himself was the judge. Some people said that there was an inferiority in the negro race, That was untrue But they were not met to inquire whether their black brother would i—It was & case of appeal ® slave woman Ror a become a Shakspeare or a Herschel. He was arked | were they not immortal as thewselves? If our ad vereuries vould demand of them to ow him the handwriting of God which degraded them to the level of the beasts that pe But if they were iwmortal, then let them hear the words of our Lord, ‘: Whosoever shall offend oue of these little ones, it were better for him that # millstone were hung round his neck, and he were cast into the sea.” What was their duty, then? Was it to stand still? Yes, when they received from the same authority command; and then, and not till then, would they do £0. (Cheers.)' Were they to listen to those who said that they were doing more harm than good? Slavery, it was true, was mystery, and so was all sin; but they must fight against it with the armor of light, the shield of fuith, and the sword of the spirit, and he trusted the day was ‘not far distant when the beavy burden of slavery would be removed and the oppressed go free, Mr. Cuaamovzov then commenced reading the report, but the impatience evinced by those in the body of the hall made him very soon desist, and he contented himeelf with making very brief allusion to it, and stated that the Talance in the treasurer’s hands on the Ist of May had emounted to £118 17s. 7d.. the donations and aubscrip tiovs for the past year, to £724 1s. 9d, and the balance due to the treasurer, £228 11s, 10@. “The ex senditure during the same period was £1 071 11s. 2d., so that the deficit was the rum stated, £228 le. 10d. ‘The Rev. J. B Brown moved, and the Rey. W. Arthur seconded, the@doption of the report. | Mr. J Sturce then read the list of committeemen and office bearere for the ensuing year, They proposed to add to the number of correspondents Professor Stowe, of Massachusetts, (cheers,) Mr, Charles Beecher, and Mr. 5, A. Worde. of Cauada, ‘The Rey. W. Bkock thén proposed the frst resolution, as follows: — “That this meeting, deeply impressed with a conviction of the inh einfulyege of slaveholding, and of the doctrine theta being may be made a chattel and become pro- perty t Now man, deem it especially incumbent upon trem, “at this most solemnly to assert the prin- me, ciple of immediate and unconditional emancipation, as the only one that is consistent with the rights of the sla\s and? the duty of the master. meeting, regarding the maintenance of fessedly Christian communities ag a disgrace to humani- ty, a dishonor to civilization, and an outrage upon religion, Would therefore emphatically irm it ss their deliberate that it is the imp tive duty of professing , of all denominations and in all countries, to li!t up their voices in uncompromising condemnation of an ini- quity so monstrous; and sealously and perseveriagly to em- | ploy all moral and pacific me: 0 effect its removal.” ‘the Rev. 8. Wanbi, minister from Canada, seconded the resolution, and in a very sensible apeech in stanced the manner in whieh negroes and men of color were looked down upon throughvut the States. | Mr. G. ALEXANDER read letters from the Earl of Carlisle | and the Portuguese Ambassador, explaining that their absence was unavoidable, from other engagements. The Earl of Carlisle mentioned that he intended to call the at. tention of the House of Lords to the condition of the slave trade in Cuba on the 30th of this month, @ Rey. J. Burnett proposed the next resolution, which was as follows :— ‘That, with a view to the correction of public sentiment = on this subject in slaveholding eommurities. it is of the first importance that tl ho are earnest in condemnation of | slavery should obs | duty t rage the of ural re- | sources of countries where slavery does not exist, and the | soil of which is adapted to the growth of produc mr ly of cotton—now partially or chief] jabs and, though the extinction of from « diminfshed demand for slave pr moral effects of » ste abhorrence of slavery itself, and from an unwavering and s consistent opposition to. it, mecting would earnestly recommend that, in all casos wh it Ispracticable, a decided preference should be given to the by a inst works in the native language which, if the not likely to have readers, at least prove that has a literature of its own, T! are some fi laid cabinets included in the , fans ¢ traordinary beauty, gongs decorated with ar ment of taste known only to the East, and cat) bra preventing naveldiee in design which we may suggest fresh ideas to European manufact ‘The articles of costume produced will not, prot be turned to much account here, but the potter, papier mache specimens may prove useful. — bined with the more costly articles of househol and personal luxury are many objects illustrat’) the arts in a rude state and of an imperfect. civ) tion cooped within the narrow bounds of caste cerious example of this is to be found in two ex ingly clever representations of Japan demons. highest artistic power is developed in forms w are the embodiment at the same time of a grove superstition. Unlike the vulgar type which Ex) recognizes of the power of Darkness, the De the Eastern Seas is nearly all head, and that he, one in which the intellectual element is strat) united with the monstrosity of crime. i An object in the Fine Arts Hall, which wa) noticed in my last letter, is the case containin; morials of the Kean family. These include Car Wolsey’s hat, the fine jewelled dagger, once pee’, of Henry VIII, and bought at Strawb ill; the Turkish yataghan presented to Kd | Kean by Byron, and which he always wor | “Otbello;” the Andrea Ferrara which was presé | to him by his regis admirers, and whic | wore in “Macbeth,” his firstimd last play-bill miniatures of the ep In the hallis also disp! the original portrait of Dean Swift, a picture w may appropriately claim place there in consider: of his genius; and on the wall hang two likene and below stands a bust of that man who, during time, filled so large a space in the eyes and hear his countrymen—Daniel O'Connell. The artists hardly done justice to the bulky form and broad ures of the great agitator. It is rather remarl that the only two portraits admitted into the pic gallery,on the ground of their interesting ass tions ‘rather than on that of their artistic me should be those I have just mentioned. ‘The Irish Ex [From the London Times, May 17 J | According to a Kerry paper 1,000 emigrants already left the town of Tralee for America, aj large vessel is daily expected to arrive in that to embark passengers for New York direct. Bi this continued stream to the new world there i extensive current of emigration of the able bo working classes, particularly female servants, 1 tained per steamer to London. Over one hun} of this class left Tralee last week for the Eng) Teo lis. The Waterford Chronicle, too, has following statement in reference to the “ flig from that quarter of the Southern province:. The Sophia, Captain Bellord, left our quay on Wed day for New York, taking with her 80 paseengers; the Mars steamer left tor Liverpool this moring, ha) 180 passengers on board, bound for the United States, the fi ld regions. Among them we noticed some of | middle clars farmers who once were happy, but ov to the change caused in the times by the fi igh | the potato crop, combined with the capacious | unrelepting and tyrapical landlords, had te acopt (tho unwillingly) emigration from the land of their {| faihers, being the é coming inmates of workhouses. that, unless some means be adopted to stem the cur) | of emigration that is more than decimating our pop | tion, there will bea scarcity of hands to cut down eoming harvest. We fear not eontradiction in t aking. Will not our readers be surprised to hi that during the months ef October, November, and | cember, of 1852, no leas than 3,700 and odd persons || the quay of Waterford for America? And we havc | hesitation in »sying, that the number who have si) left are beyond this. We have daily accounts from | mers in all parts of the country, complainiug of + state of things—particularly where the landlords expe the eottlers off thelr property by giving them a nomi sum of money. As the inevitable result of this continuons drairc the population, the labor market is rapidly risi: and in consequence of the enormous advance in 1 prices of e necessaries of life agriculturists a) mechanics are demanding, and in mn, instan: receiving, an increased rate of wages. The journ:| men carpenters®f Waterford have put forth a te) hi ned in their condemnation of it, | perate appeal ete employers, pointing out t) Professor Stowe then addressed the meeting. After | many difficulties under which they have been suft!| mentioning the favorable opinions held | ing, and asking the modest addition of 4d. per dj with regard to the condition of fae of the republic, when it nowledged that slavery was a sin, aud ought to be abolished, and inrtamcing as a proof of this that in his early days black children were admitted inte the same schools as white, he observed that this state of | things continued up to about thirty years‘’ago; and the | reason that it had changed was owing to the profitable- ness of the cotton trade; that had made the change, and, be took God to witners, nothing elee. It was the profits of that trade which had riveted the chains of slavery over the Union. What right had Great Britain to interfere? She consumed four-fifths of the cotton grown in America; she sustained by these means four fifths of the slaves in the American States. That was her right to interfere. She participated in the guilt, not directly, but indirectly, for without the assittauce of Great Britaia the cotten | would not be used. The Americans could not consi ficient in their owm manufactures; and their sugar and rice | trade, compared with the cetten, was of little import- ance. He did not dictate to England the course of daey that sbe ought to take, but merely brought before their minds the evlemn truth. What did the slavehoiders and ectton growers eny? Why, that the English loved to stand vp in Exeter Hall and denounee them and demn them; but wouldtthey take any less cotton from them—wouid they diminish their profits one penay in their zeal te emancipate slaves, by adopting the way in which their zeal’ might be beneficial? The price of eotton regulated the priee of the slave. At present they ave- raged from $800 to $1,000, and te stock a eotton plan- tation took from two hundred to four hundred; so that an immenre outlay had to be made before slave labor | could be brought into eompetition with free labor. The | Chinese were now flecking into Amerios, and would werk | at the rate of Gd. a day, and the people of Great Britain now had an opportunity of making the slaveholders feel that they were in earnest, and determined to do seme- | thing towards the abolition ef the system. If they could abolish slavery by making spesches in that hall, or by legislation in Parliament, he should be most happy for | them to do so. But they could met. The ely way was by meking them compete with free lebor, and. if the Foglish could not make as much profit by using free cotton as slave cotton, they must be content with prae- tining a little of the denial they se properly preached to the slayeholder. ‘The Rev. C. Erxcuer said a few words; after whick, Col. TuoMPSON moved, and Mr. G. CRUICKSHANK seconded, the following resolution: — That this mecting, while deeply lamenting the oppressive enactments which teveral of the States of the Amefcan Union have recently parsed, with reepect to their free colored d which are not only caleulated to perpetuate inet color, but the ‘altimate and avowed ob- { eh is the foreible removal of freebern men from the jand of their birth, and, while regretting that the iniquitous fugitive slave law is likely to be still maintaind, and even igorourly enforced than heretofors, would never! ord their ratiefaction at the ercouraging a! are manifesting themeelves in that country; recogn! owerfal influenes ef public opinion to aceoreplish the mo important moral, social and polities! changes, this meeting would gratefuliy acknowledge the igual services which, under the diving bleseing, have been rendored to the anti slavery cause by the writers who have infu new spirit into the literature of the day, and held up ry to uni- yereal reprobation, hy the politicians who jenounced it. and by the abolitioniats generally, both ia England and rica, who, by their long and arduous labors, their per- nt investigation, and their uncompromising fidelity +0 ¢ cause of the enslaved and oppressed, have been mainly inetromental in forming public opinion, which has recently been evoked in so triumphant a manner: The usval compliment then having been paid to the chairman, the meeting separated. @he Dublin Exhibition. THE JAPANESE COLLECTION—MEMORIALS OF THR KEAN FAMILY, ETC. [Dublin Correspondence of London Times, May 18 } Next in interest and attractiveness for the moment to the contents of the Fine Arts Hall, which [noticed in my last communication, is undoubtedly the Japan- ese Collection, lent for the occasion by the Dutch government. It will be recollected that the Indian portion of the great exhibition was acknowledged on all bands as the most beautiful and the most instrae- tive part of a whole which contained so much of beth, An eminent Frenchman, writing with regard toit, described it as a revolution, and said that the Hisidoo manvfacturers were the Frenchmen of the Eat. E&uch being the case, and public attention having been strongly directed to the neseasity of extending among us a knowledge of the true prin- ciples of design, the Society of Arts last year de- termined to hold this summer an Indian exhibition in London. At first they wee led to hope that the East India Company would co-operate in such an undertaking; but changes in the direction having disappointed this expeetation, and other diffi- | cultios presenting themselves, it was finally decided | by the council, on the suggestion of his Royal High- ness Prince Albert, to use all the influence of the eociety in forming an Nastern collection for the Dub- | lin Exhibition. In pursuance of that resolution, and in conjunction with Mr. Roney, Mr. Winkworth, as the representative of the society, proceeded to Hol- | land, where they were fortunate enough to secure mavy of the most interesting Japanese objects at the Hague and at Leyden. A selection was also made from the museums of the Kast India Company, of the Ariatic Society, and other public bodies. “Mr. Hewett, of Fenchurch street, undertook to supply an | illustration of the arts in China, and from India, from the Queen, fom private collections, and from dealers have been forwarded a large, and, it is believ- ed, valuable display, more especially bearing on our own possessions inthe Bast. When the whole of these things have been one, arranved, we may expect to have placed before visiters to Dublin during the next few months an eastern exhibition hardly infe- rior In attractiveness to that of 1851, and well cal- culated to strengthen the instructive lesson which it taught. Mr. Winkworth, the chairman, and Mr. Parker Hammond, one of the members of the com- mittee charged by the Council of the Society of Arts with the formation of this collection, are over here at present; but Mr. Dowling, who it willbe recol- lected had the care of the Indian compartment in a Park under Dr. Royle, is the officer intrusted with the active management. The Japanese objects exhibited are exceedingly curious and instructive. They indicate a degree of civilization there on some matters which is troly surprising. A map of tho island, for example, is shown, which seems almost ; as carefolly drawn as if it had been turned out by Arrowsmith, and there are many | to their present rate of wages, which is 3s. i) | also state that they cannot work longer than twel] | hours—from six in the morning to the same hour|) 4d. Th) the evening—unless they are leas something exi)) for the overtime. There is nothing very unreaso1 ble in either of these demands. | Our Shipping Triumphs Acknowledged. | [eres Die Laadoat Daly News, May ie]. | Ca ae teat ye es ar ae America is the country which enters into this co’ | Ustyen with the atest energy and skill. The no doubt that all branches of the American na’ have the benefit of an education far superior to th || which can be obtained by the Series pee cis, class Great Britain. In reference to this it may be b | marked that papers have been supplied by the Am rican government to the masters of great numbers merchant vessels, containing a system of directio: with respect to observations to be made sarin the respective voyages. Aided by these and the logs « the veseels, Lieutenant Maury has been enabled obtain such a knowledge of the currents of the ocea and he trade winds as to reduce the length : certain yoyages by almost one-third. di covery of this nature has the effect of givin) the “Americans something very like @ mon oly of a particular le for a certain tim it is not too much to assert that the logs « the cra number of English merchant vesse would have been utterly useless in investigations « this nature. The general education of masters « English vessels is, no doubt, lamentably defectiv: The feeling of the meeting yesterday was unan | mous as to the necessity of ae 7 8 sufficier! education for the remedy of evils of this kind. 0» our mercantile and maritime eminence depends ov pone among the great powers of the world. W) ave up to the present time been in the possession c 80 many natural advantages that the race of eom| tition has been for us comparatively easy. One b: one these advantages may be counterbalanced! We are menaced in our manufactures, in our trade) and in our maritime supremacy. As & means 0) rising superior to these dangers, none can be mor, efficient than a sound practical education to the mer cantile afd maritime classes of our community; anc \/ if the meeting yesterday is able to render such ar education more practieable, it will merit the tude not of the city of London merely, but of thc nation at large. Murder of an Ameriean Ca] in_ in Manils From the Overland Friead of China, Mareh 28.) | e have advices from Manila to the léth inst. A horrible tale is told by our correspondent of they modes, Y Beret oe ‘apt. Paani oe lk can §] mity, and Mr. George Ma, ptt ag bh of the’ steamy iald rope factory. At present this) dreadfal affair is shrouded in mystery ; ee from the energetic meastres taken at the direct in stance of the Governor-General, there is but little! fear but that motives for the outi will eventual; come to light. The an reasonable supposition that it has been caused by a workman who was dis: charged he young American sub-manager of works, (absent at the time of the catastrophe,) ox, suspicion of stealing a horse; and that out of re: venge he induced a gang of robbers to attack the ple with their assistance consummating hii loody purpose. Only some one hundred and thirt) dollars appear to have been in the house, with whicl the murderers escaped. The event was first knowr, in Manila about eleven o'clock on the night ef Sun day, the 6th, Santa Misa, where the Higa factory) is situated (a place containing half a dozen mat) houses only, beside the dwelling-house of Mr. Mug: ford, with whom Captain Parsons was staying,) be ing about three quarters of a mile from the outskirts of the city. England, LE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE'S SPANISH PAINTINGS— THEATRICALS—FIRE—FORGERY, ETC., ETC. | T. P. Cooke, the veteran “William” of Black ey Susan, has reappeared on the London boards. Gabriel San Garrat, charged with altering a circu lar letter of Mesera. Dunoan, Sherman & Co., from] £210 to £5,210, was further remanded for a week, tc allow counsel to consider the case. Louis Philippe’s Spanish pictares had been ee of at public anction in London, and generally fetchec fair prices. His fine gallery contained masterpiece of Murillo, Velasquez, Zurbaran, Ribera, Cano, Cat reno, Coello, Ribalta, Castillo, Alb Durer, Titian, ani Bayen y Subias. ‘the “North Shore Mill,” the only cotton facto: Liverpool poseeseed, waa accidentally burned last night, 17th; loss £15.000. The mill was owned by Jobn and Alexander Brogden. The London Daily News of the 18th inst., contaii a report of a meeting of the “Peace Society” held i that city upon the previous night. The ubiquito Uncle Tom Professor was there, and treated Joh: Bull to a snap of a chapteron the Maine Liquor law, &c. He came in thus :— ‘The Rey. C Stove. moved the first rerol \—to the ef fect that war wa« oppored to the essential spirit of Chri: tisnity, end had inflicted many evils on the world. Mr. Banctay Fcx, of Falmouth, seconded the resla) tion. Professor Grows, in supporting the resolution observed) that, though the world had been cursed by (od for man’ apostecy, yet the evils of mankind srose from thelr om: choosing. If menkind would only abstain from war, druvkeuners. and slavery, by far the greater part of the ills that afflicted mankind would be put an end to for ever, He Ip America they had the advantage over din respect to temperance, England had the ad-| vantage in respect to slavery, and both were rowing pre: ty much in the rawe beat in respect towar. There cou! be no doubt that all the argument was on the side o} thore who were in favor of pence, temperance and liberty, ore allowed that this was ro as between individna’ and individual, snd it was # blasphemy against G to maintain that the same was not true between nati and nation. (Hear, be The more he looked into ‘New Testament, the more he found {n it n epirit of of freedom, and of temperance; sad.if mankind only fo