The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1853, Page 4

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New York, Wednesday, June 8, 1853, SOOO ‘The News. The additional news from Europe, brought by the Canada, and published in another column, is of the highest political importance. Ine Turki quesivu and the Chinese rebellion absorb all other questions. It appears that the Porte had thrown himself in the ‘hands of the French and English, and that the Ras- sian Envoy had retired. The result of this important movement will be looked for with the most intense imterest. The Chinese rebellion, and the part the United States are likely to play in the affair, begins ‘to excite fears of American preponderance im Chins. The London Times, taking a deep interest in our ‘welfare, warns us of the fate of Rome. These scraps ‘of news have a peculiar attractiveness, and demand attention, here /and elsewhere. The debate in the Assembly yesterday, upon the ‘Senate's proposition for a Committee of Conference, imdicates that little if any of the fire of discord upon the Canal question has been quencked by the recent trip of our legislators to Niagara Falls. Some of the speakers seem to have been unusually sarcastic on the occasion. It was finally reaelved to permit the Speaker to appoint the committee, which he did in the course of the afternoon, by naming four democrats and one whig, the majority of whom have been strong opponents of the Senate’s plan of amending the constitution. ‘When the time arrived for going into executive session in the Senate, that body was naively informed that there were no communications from the Gover- nor upon the table, an@ consequently it was not necessary to interfere with the regular business. ‘This will be rather dishesrtening news to the anxious expectants of office; but it will be very gratifying to the whig harbor masters, &c., who may now pretty eonfidently calculate upon holding over fer another year. Several bills, mestly of an unimportant charac- ter, were passed by both houses in the morning. Little business was done, however, during the after- noon. One thousand @eiegates are reported to have been present at the opening of the Southern Convention at Memphis, Tenn., last Monday. Bat little was done on the first day, beyond the appointment of officers and the selection of committees to draft reso- lations, &c. According te the despatch from our special Wash- ington correspendent, the announcement of the withdrawal of Gov. Trias from El Paso has some- what dampened the hopes of those aspirants for military glory who may have been really anxious for another brush with Mexico. Gen. Garland’s in- structions are said to be simply to maintain an “armed neutrality;” not to take possession of the valley, but to protect the American citizens, and, should occasion require, to subject himself to the @isposition of Gov. Meriwether. As to the boundary line, it is held that the initial point has not been es- tablished according to the terms of the treaty, and is still open for settlement by the joint com- mission, or, in case they should fail, by ne- gotiation. Should the latter alternative be resorted to, dollars and cents will, it is thought, remove all cause of trouble, as Santa Anna is greatly in want of money, and we have no objection to incor- porating another strip of territory into the Union. The report that-the Vixen had been sent to Vera Cruz, to watch ‘the movementa of the Mexicans, is doubted by those supposed to be best informed. Well, where has she gone? Why so much mystery about her? Can any body tell? The special committee appointed by the Connecti- wut Legislature to inquire into the causes of the acci- dent at Norwalk, made their report yesterday. They state the cause to be, primarily, the carelessness of the engineer in charge of the train, and the in- sufficiency of the signals at that dangerous locality. The report is also seycre upon the management of this important line, and states that the president is especially negligent in the discharge of the duties devolving upon him. The committee submitted no bill or resolution with their report, for the reason that the Standing Committee on Railroads design reporting a general law, in order to avoid similar calamities in fature. Dates from Rio Janeiro to the 27th of April, state ‘that coffee was coming in freely from the interior, ‘but that the prices asked were rather too high for those desiring to purchase. A very large meeting of the stockholders of the Ogdensburg Railroad was held at Rouse’s Point, on Monday, for the purpose of electing officers, consi- dering the proposed consolidation of the Northern roads, &c. The officers elected are represented as opposed tothe consolidation scheme, notwithstand ‘ing that the annual report of the Ogdensburg road shows that there is no dividend to be declared on the earnings of the last year. The steamer John Hancock, belonging to the Ringgold expedition to Behring’s Straits, having ‘been repaired, finally sailed from Norfolk yesterday. Arthur Spring is said to have signed a paper yes ‘terday exonerating his son from all participation in or knowledge of the murder of the two women in Philadelphia, for which crime the fatber was a few sweeks ago sentenced to be executed. We elsewhere publish an account of a most affecting interview be- tween the unhappy parent and child on Monday. hy referring to the information furnished by our Brooklyn reporter, it will be observed that the Supreme Court was the scene of a perfect furore of excitement throughout the most of yesterday. The abolitionists had mustered in strong force, for the “purpose of hearing Judge Baculo’s decision con- werning the little negro girl, Jane Trainer. But weither the child nor her mistress were forthcom- i. @; and on sending over to this city after them, th ty refused—at the suggestion of strong friends, it is + tid—to obey the officer, and accompany him to Kin, % county. Where will this peculiar controversy wn 9 New York Historical Society held their regu. lar mewtthly meeting last evening, at their rooms in the Un, ‘versity, when the usual business was trans- acted, anu’ Mr. J. Blunt delivered an address on the title of the United States to the North Western ares inside P98e8 contain a full report of yes terdo,¥'s proceeding * in the United States Circuit iat, in the case Pee he charged on the hii seas; three more letters = — corresp, ‘SMent at New Lebanon; of Proceedings of the Farmers’ Club; Report r Pi ta f the Sonthern Crops; Commercial, Theatrical, Naval, #4 Avteigence, &¢. THE CHARTER ELECTION. ‘The Result of Yesterday’s Vote—Triumph of Reform—The Future. ‘The crisis is over. The battle is fought and won. Public profligacy and misgovernment are utterly routed. Reform is triumphant, and we have now to usher in a new era of honesty, economy, and sound constitutional rule. The old charter is dead. A new one, full of sterling qualities and bright promise, has been accepted by an immense majority of our citizens, and may now be considered the law of the land. The following is yegterday’s vote for and against the amendments:— Against the For the Wards. Amendments. Amendments. 1. + 428 531 318 989 906 36,472 3,351 Majority in tavor of new charter...... 33,121 Let us not stop to look back at the past. What it was—what deeds it shall answer for— what calumnies it gave birth to—what cruel injustice it nurtured—it were now both useless and painful to recall. The fature is the proper picture for present contemplation. Leave to the historian the harsh task of painting in its true colors New York in 1852. Obliterate every trace of the laws which were recorded in the statute book for the information of the curious and the instruction of posterity. but which were never intended or attempted to be carried into effect. Whisper not a word of ¢ldermanic re- sistance to law, of violations of civic rule, of profligate expenditure, of wanton dissipation of the public property, of corrupt favoritism and dishonesty. Let all these abuses sleep in the grave to which, we trust. yesterday’s vote has consigned them. Of aii the records of the era which has just ended, we would have the people of New York remember but one fact. We would have them bear steadily in mind a the name of councilman will again become synonymous with the most opprobrious epithets in the language—no economy will be practiced in our expenditure, and taxation will continue. as it has done lately, to increase with giant strides, Members of the Legislature will turn | adeaf ear to the complaints of a communit which, having had the remedy for its ills in its own hands, wantonly cast it to the winds. yr on the other hand, political prejudices are | gis. carded at the elections. anda sound, ¢ gitical discrimination exercised in selecting « jouncil- men—if. in short, the citizens of New” York set themselves honestly to work to cor plete the task which the Legislature has comm jenced, we have every reason to hope that or city will yet be a model to its sisters, both * fm this coun- try and abroad. Our Religious Sects—Interestiny ; Pacts for the Historian, Ifany ofour readers have over seme the disgust which the proceedings of the cr’ yy peoplerecent- ly assembled at Hartford hav ¢ ¢reated in their minds; if any possess suffici’ sem self contrel to lay down the paper calmly, , and philosoghise on the factasaphenomenonin gypial history ;the re- sult will necessarily have , ween a deep feding of satisfaction at the consci’ gnyness ofthe botndless liberty enjoyed by the pegple of these United States. Here we have ; hed a parcel of lanatics and firebrands congi egeted together, in the heart of one of the snost moral States of the Union, for the set p’ ampese of uprooting our re- ligious belief, and engting ridicule-on the faith to which we owe. ‘comfort in ‘tribulation and hope in the hour of @eath. They have not pre- tended to offer ' gs im substitute for the book they revile or t’ pevereed they denounce. Their motto has be am @estruction: and had their power been a8 great as their will—had their intellect eque Jied‘their maliee—it is beyond a doubt that t’ sey ‘would have «unsettled the'con- victions of’ many minds. Fortunately, Heaven has in me’ sey ‘counteracted their evil designs, by stampi ng their words with the indelible stigma of/ untruth and folly. They carry with them th’ sir own refutation, and among reasoning men Wi J} onky avail to prove their utterers in- sane. Sti Nl, though the intelligent reader will de: rive nothing from the reports of the Hartford Cor rvention beyond a conviction that the fool pr’ eponderates over the knave in such.men as G arrison, Davis. and Barker, it isan event of 1. slight significance that they and their fel- J.ows should have beensuffered to vituperate. in that the law they adopted yesterday, and which, judiciously and honestly remembered, will bestow on us and our children the blessings of an upright and economical government, is the fruit of the labors ot ‘the New York dele- gation in the Legislature, and that whatever credit it reflects on its authors belongs of right to them. To the Assembly appertains the merit of its adoption. To the Metropolitan Hall Committee belongs a certain share of praise for their efforts fer reform, and for the time and attention necessary to secure the oon go much desired by our citizens. This one item of our*past history we would fain see rescued from tke oblivion which ought to enshroud the rest. Now, the proper sphere of patriotic citizens is the future—the carrying -out of the law it has cost so severe a struggle to pass. That is the point towards which all our energies should be directed. That is the wheel to which every skoulder should be placed. The reformed charter tends to abolish the distinction heretofore .existing between the government of the city and the governed. It confers upon the people a fuller measure of self-government than «ny community ever en- joyed. It is the nearest approach that can safely be thade to the popular assemblies of the ancient republics. Uader its operation, the real civic power will reside in a body of sixty men, chosen from as mary small districts, into which the city will be parcelled. All appro- priations of money will originate with them; ir fact. the actual government of the city will be placed in Meir hands. The only sound arantee, therefore, for an honest and eco- nomical administration of the law will be in the character of these councilmen. Selected, as they will be, from small districts, every voter will be able to exercise the right of suffrage understandingly. He will, in general, have some acquaintance with the private cha- racter.of the candidates who solicit his support. He will not, as formerly, be compelled to choose between men who were equally stran- gerstohim and be tempted to allow his po- litical affinities to usurp the place of a sound discrimination. It is but re&sonable to presume that the gentlemen who may covet the honor of representing one-sixtieth of the city will be tolerably well known to the residents of that district. It will then devolve on those resi- dents to decide which of the two or more cam didates who offer themselves has the highest reputation for integrity and business tact. All other qualities are moonshine. Business tact and integrity are the two things needful for a councilman. If he have these he will do his part to govern the city as it ought to be governed. If he have not these requisites, it will matter not a button that he be eloquent, amiable, rich, influential, popular, or fair- spoken ; he will be the man. This great problem of managing rightly for municipal affairs is thus reduced to a very sim- ple question. If the citizens of New York are sinccro in their recent outery for a good gov- ernment, they have now an opportunity of proving it. All that is required isto know, and choose knowingly, their delegates to the Com- mon Council. Having done this, they may re- turn with a tranquil conscience to their private avocations—the city business will be soundly and honestly administered. The Legislature has done all it can. The press have lavished their influence. The remainder of the task de- volves on the citizens alone. Each voter bears an integral share of the re- sponsibility, and will bear an integral share of the blame in case of failure. If, being a demo- erat, he allows himself to be persuaded to vote for a democratic candidate, of whom he knows nothing, or whose character is not above reproach, in preference to a whig whose reputa- tion is unblemished—or if, being a whig. he denies his support to an honest democrat, to give it to a political jobber of the whig school, he is laboring to defeat the beneficial design of the reformed charter, and to perpetuate the re- gime it purports to overthrow. [f, again, through negligence or indifference, he omits to cast his vote at the elections for councilmen, he labors as effectively, though negatively, for the same end. If such a course of conduct is pur- sued by any considerable number of our fellow-, citizens, the result is inevitable. We shall again relapse into the mire, out of which we fancy we have emerged. Cries of corruption apd wisgoyernment will again rend the air, ang public conclave, the truths that we hold most sacred, and the faith that we are: taught from our cradle ‘to cherish as our life. The times are not so far distant when, for a tithe of the infidel language uttered at Hartford, men have been sacrificed by mobs. or burnt at the stake. In the compendium of common law: that is daily quoted in-our courts, the crime of profane blas- phemy is denounced as scarcely less ‘heinous than rape or murder, ana judges are enjoined to visit it with a penalty searcely less rigorous. Spots are still shown to the traveller on our own coast where our ancestor: vindicated their religion ‘by -putting to death human beings whose reading of Saint Matthey was different from theirs. Now,'we may not only deny Stint Matthew’s gospel, and all the other sacred noks. but we may call public meetings in the hesrt.of a popu- lous and intelligent community to give e, sok emn eignificance to our sentence of infamy on those who read or believe in the Bible; and though it must be a matter of deep regret to the right-minded that men cannot taste of freedom without degenerating into licentiousness, the unrestrained follies of the Hartford assembly are really a gratifying proof of the liberty we enjoy, just as a rank, luxuriant growth of weeds 8s evidence of a prolific soil. «The same inde- pendence of thought under which their minds run riot, serves to develope and strengthen the germ of manly enterprises and noble aims ia souls of higher stamp. We Americans owe much to its agency. Let us not, in view of the tares. forget the wheat that it ripens. A curious task indeed will develve upon the fature historian who shall portray the religious sects of this period. Fergotten ine great mea- sure. perhaps—certainly distorted ‘Sy thp re- fracting medium of time—how few cut of the number will be painted in their true cdors! Sincere enthusiasts will be described as shrewd hypocrites—designing knayes as unfertunate monomaniacs—powerful sects as insignificant— stray gatherings as important parties. Still, amid all the errors which are inevitable in the performance of suck a task, the main treth— our unlimited freedom of conscience—will strike the: historian at every step. Mormens. Shakers, Fourierites, Perfectionists, Rappists. New Harmonyites, and all the other sects of a ike character, repudiate some essential doctrine of Christianity—profess opinions which the bulk of our citizens deem hostile to the well- being of society at large, and still enjoy nndis- turbed license to do as they please. The Mormons deny the New Testament, or, rather. interpret it as licensing polygamy. Their high priest has seven wives, and some- thing less than forty children, which, as he is in the prime of life, promise well for the territory of Deseret. They believe that Joe Smith, whom we know only as a bold, unscrupulous adven- turer, is entitled to the devout respect and worship of the world. They establish a form of government for which no model can be found out of the ancient theocracies. Still, they thrive and prosper—the flag of the United States covers them, and in case they were as- sailed the people of this country would protect them. The Shakers, concerning whom we publish some interesting details in another column, de- part less widely from the beaten track. They accept the main articles of our belief, but seem to have adopted the ancient Rabbinical theory, that the first human creatures were “ anandro- gyne,” or of both sexes; that the separation of man and woman was the fruit of sin, and the necessity of marriage an infirmity which it is laudable to restrain. Hence their aversion to the nuptial tie, and its substitutes. They are, in short, what the monks and nuns were two centuries ago, in Europe—devotees voluntarily condemned to celibacy. We have, however, every reason to believe that they are less open to reproach than their prototypes, and can readily understand the consideration they enjoy. Other sects there are, in shoals, differing but slightly from each other. They all spring from the Communist stock, and accept the Bible in whole. in part, or not at all, as it suits their views. [Such are the Fourierites of New Jersey, who seem to be highly moral. respectable husbandmen. working on a Communist basis, and confining their peculiar notions to their se- lect circle. Such was the Puulaix estuviisied come years ego in Massachusetts, which me with guch an untimely end. Such are the Per- fee’ gonists of Oneida county, who carry out the C ,ommunist doctrine with conscientious rigor, sharing their farms, their wives, and their cat- tle with each other in blessed harmony. Such were the Rappists, who used to congregate in Pennsylvania for the purpese of reforming the world. To the same class belongs also the sect who inhabited New Harmony, in Indiana, estab- lished by Robert Owen, of Lanark. How much or how little of our creed these various bodies believe, it would de very difficult to say. We only know of acertainty that they deny many truths which we consider essential, and stand pledged to doctrines which we regard as incon- sistent with souqd morality. The toleration they obtain ‘is perhaps not less significant as a test of our manners and customs than the con- temptuous silence bestowed on the Hartford Convention. Tue Frontier InDIANS—SOMETHING TO THE Pomr—We have frequently suggested to the administration the policy of closing up the en- croachments of our frontier Indians into the Mexican States, by the purchase of that margin of open country which lies south of the Gila, and which, under the govern- ment of Mexico, has been laid waste and depop- ulated of its white inhabitants by the Apaches. The possession of this strip of territory by the United States, and its settlement by our enter- prising and warlike backwoodsmen and prairie- men, would form an impassable barrier to our wild Indians on the north side of the Gila, and would thus effectually cut off their murdering and plundering forays into the villages, towns and cities of Mexico. We are, therefore, grati- fied to learn that Gen. Gadsden, our new minis- ter to Mexico, is in favor of the plan of quiet- ing, not only the Mesilla valley dispute, by an indemnity to Mexico, but our frontier Indian disturbances by the purchase of the aforesaid margin of open country south of the mountain labyrinth through which the Gila has cut its wild and rocky passage. This is something to the point, and in the long run we do not know but that it would be cheap- ‘er, in convenient instalments, to buy the whole of Mexico, than to annex it through the expen- sive agencies of gunpowder and military glory, and pay for it afterwards. By the one process or the other, however, something must now be done. We myst buy off Santa Anna or fight him. There is no other alternative. Tue War Quzstion—ImporTaNT MOVEMENT.— We understand that General Mansfield. Inspec- tor General of the Army, has been ordered to a visit of reconnoissance of the Mesilla or disput- ed territory between Mexico and the United States. Viewed in any light this is an impor- tant movement; but, taken in connection with the late official pronunciamento of the admin- istration, it has a lively odor of ~ villanous saltpetre.” A war with Mexico just new will be much easier to get into, on both sides, than any satisfactory schedule of peaceful and Jona Jide negotiations. Let Wall street consider the question, and count up the apparently inevita- ble contingencies of ‘‘ manifest destiny,” and then answer us, if it can, is there no danger of war? What beeomes of Cuba in the event of another war with Mexico? Does not that ques- tion suggest a startling temptation to a rupture with Santa Anna? Yes, yes, there is a prospect of war. Tue GarpNer CasE—ANOTHER SEARCH FOR THOSE Mines.—We are informed that Majer Mor- decai, of the Ordnance corps, and two other officers of the army, have been detailed to Mex- ico. to. make another thorough search for the silver mines of Dr. George A. Gardner, for the suspension of which, on account of the Mexican war, his claim of nearly half a million was brought against, and paid by, the treasury of the United States. In the meantime, the jury having been déscharged in the late trial of Dr, Gardner for perjury, and another trial having been superseded by the other matters before the criminal court at Washington, we presume that the case of the said Gardner will be continued over to the September term. Before that time, Major Mordecai may, perhaps, find those mines. ‘When he does, we shall expect to hear from him. Let him be quick about it, or he may be eut short in his explorations by another war. ‘No Tre Lost.—It is a remarkable fact, in ilhustration of the speed of the Collins line of steamers. that by the last trip of the Pacific to Liverpool, merchants in that eity received re- plies.from their correspondents in New York in the uaprecedentedly short space of twenty days. The Adlantic, which arrived in this port on the morning of the 14th of May, made the trip in nine days and twenty-two hours, and some of the commercial advices which she brought were answered by mercantile houses here in time for the Pacific’s mails, which left at noon of the same day, and which made the trip to Liverpool in mine days and twenty-three hours: ‘These two passages, hitherward and back, hav- ing only consusned together nineteen days and twenty-one hours, merchants in Liverpool were, as we have said, enabled to receive replies to their New York correspondence in twenty days. We believe an instanee of the kind has never occurred in the past history of transatlantic steamships. It therefore deserves to be placed on record. Talk on Change. Sales of cotton reached 2,800 bdles, at steady prices. Other articles of produce .were languid. Merchants were awaiting the receipt of private letters per Canada, before doing much. The subject of illegal exactions was again referred to. Complaint was made by an importer of a severe hard- ship to whieh he had been compelled to submit, He stated that within a few days past the Secretary of the Treasury had instructed the Collector at this port to the effect that the department would not refund amy duties paid in excess, where the claim within the operation of an existing statute of limitation presented a legal bar to the allowance thereof. It was contended that if any such statute existed, it was unjust and oppressive, and should be repealed. The claims of government against indi- viduals were never barred by limitation of statute, and neither should those of individuals against the govern- ment be shut out. The suit which we noticed yesterday was commenced chiefly in reference to some other exastions considered illegal, and which were not barred by any existing tute. ita meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held yoe: terday, the committee previously appointed to visit the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, respecting the establishment of an Assay Office in this city, gave notice, through their chairman, Charles L. Frost, Esq., that they were not prepared to make a full report. The com- mittee consisted of Messrs. Frost, Charles H. Marshall, and Caleb Bartow, Eaqra. ‘The report stated that Mr. Guthrie bad expressed his anxious desire to bave the Assey Office put in operation in New York as early as practicable, consistent with the public services The amount appropriated, (one hnn- dred thoueand dollere,) being included in the general Di- plomatie Appropriation bill, was not available until the 20th June, inst ; but he was anxious to forward the mat- ter, and after it had been located, and put in operation, he hoped that machinery might be constructed in eon- nection with it, suitable for coining money, and, which conld be, with moderate additional expence, converted into © regular mint, The report ans received aud ap- proved, | ‘WALac’s THEATER. —Shakspeare’s pastoral play of ‘As ‘You Like It,” was performed last night at the abeve theatre, before a select audience, who did credit to their taste by @ just appreciation of ita manifold beauties. In these our days of melodramatic fustian and noisy bom- bast, it is not every manager that would have the courage to offer for representation a Shakspearean play of this description, which in truth is caviare to the multitude. Nor is it possible always to find s public that ean duly ap- preciate the sterling merit of many of Shakspeare’s plays, which are consequently falling into oblivion among theatre frequenters. Any attempt to resuscitate the le- galdrama shall always receive our mite of commends- tion, and we are consequently glad that Mr. Wallack’s praiseworthy attempt is so favorably received by « New York public. The attempt and the succeeding patronage do credit to both parties. With regard to the performance, it was very creditable, and the characters generally very well sustained. Mr Wallack’s Jacques was a well studied piece of acting, showing evidently that he could not enly act, but eould also do what is more diticult—enter with spirit into the author's meaning, Through the whole range of Shaks- peare’s characters we do not know of one more difficult than this, Asacharacter, it isa mere piece of poetic imagery; and to give the poet’s ideal a visible form, and to make it sufficiently corporeal to suit an audience, we look upon as the height of the histrionfc art. This Wal- Jack did, AMl those Beautiful pieces of poetry called so- Mloquies, with which that part abounds, such as ‘‘a fool, 2 fool; I met a fool i’ the forest,’” were capitally recited. ‘The well-known piece, ‘All the world’s a stage,” was another specimen of eloquence rather too affected, and perhaps somewhat overacted; but of this we will not complain, as withcut the acting, the soliloquy, although a fine piece in the closet, would be considered tame and spiritless on the stage. Miss Laura Keene’s Rosalind was very well played, as was also the part of Celia by Mrs. Conover. The latter lady looked much more be- coming in her shepherdess dress than in her ducal robes. Lester's Orlando is a care‘ul piece of acting, in deed too much £0; for fear of offending he md@es it almost spiritless. The young, rash, warm- Dlooded Orlando ought not to be made to ap- pear quite so stern and moody, although he is a younger brother. With such an Orlando, Shakspeare would never have made his Rosalindgto have fallen in love. Otherwise, the character is very well represented; Dut the actor has taken, in our humble opinion, a somewhat wrong idea of the author’s meaning. This play, rather than comedy—for to the latter name it is hardly entitled—has, perhaps, some of the most beau- viful ballads in the English language in it. “Blow, blow ye wintry winds,” and “Uuder the greenwood tree,’ were sung with great skill by Miss Julia Gould. This young lady’s ballad singing is very good. The remaining characters were all creditably performed, particularly Mr. Walcot’s Touchstone, who kept the audience ina roar of laughter. There was, however, one scene in the play that we should have wished to have seen omitted— the last ecene in the third act—where Touchstone and Audrey appear on the stage. Much of the conversation is too gross to be relished in the present age, aad more- over, the character of Audrey is too outré to be under- stood by any audience in America, where such a state of berotted simplicity is unknown. Mrs. Brougham did not improve it by her dress, which is too ridiculous a caricature. Such a character as she makes of Audrey does not exist in nature, and conse- quently not in Shakespeare. The scenery was very pretty, particularly that of the forest of Ardenne, where the banished Duke appears with h‘s lords, dressed as fores- ters, in green, The glee ‘* What shall he have that kills the deer,” was sung with much spirit andanimation, aud was encored. The Duke’s speech, ‘‘ Now, my comates and brothers in exile,” was too affected to be natural. The best scene of the play, hoWever, asa work of art, was the opening scene to act third:—A river view on the skirts of the forest, with mountains and water fall in the dis- tance. The waterfall looked actually real. The same re- mark holds geod with the banqueting scene in the forest, where Orlando rushes in with a drawn sword, upon the foresters seated at their table. This part was very well acted by Lester, as was also the wrestling scene at the beginning of the play, in which he throws the Duke’s wrestler, Charles, On the whole, it miay be said that the -ebaracters were all very creditably sustained. We have reen better acting, but we have more often seen much ‘worse, and we shall be satisfied if we always meet Shak- speare’s plays, particularly his comedies, as well exe- cuted as was *‘ Au You Like It” last night, Laser FRom SovTH Amznica.—We kave received files of ‘the Correio Mercantil, of Rio Janciro, up to the 20th of April, and of the Courrier, of Caraceas, up to the 30th of April. "we do not find in these journals, however, any politi- cal or other news of impertance. ‘The yellow fever was still committing great havoc, numbering many of its vietims among the foreign sailors in port. ‘The French war steamer Colbert bad arrived in port, on the 19th, from Toulon, with destination to replace the steamer Gassendi, on the Chinese station. The Colbert was to remain at Rio Janeizo some days, to repair her amacbinery. The transactions in coffee were active In the two ays preceding the 20th of April, 9,000 bags had been sold. LOOKING For Stavens.—Capt, Golder, of the brig Alfred Exall, whieh arrived yesterday from Sagua la Grande, yesced an Englith war steamer at- anchor ten miles west of the harbor, on the lookout for slavers. She was pro- bably laying watt for the Lady Suffolk, which was daily expected to arrive from the Coast of Africa with a cargo of slaves. Meeting of Mates, for the Formation of a é Protective Society, A meetfng of mates of vessels was held in Warren Hall last evening, for the purpote of forming an association for their protection and benefit. There were not more than thirty persons present, and the meeting was not called to order till near nine o’clock—about two hours af. ter the time for which it had been ealled. The meeting ‘was organized by the appointment: of James Carr as chairman, and T. H. Maine as secretary. The President stated the object for which it was convened to be an ad- vance in the present rate of wages paid to mates. To effect this, it was preposed to organize a society, and he recommended those present to sign their names to a con stitution and by-laws for its government. It was, he said, also intended to make it a beneficial soziety, so that in cage of sickness amovg its members, they would receive support from it. ptain James Scorr. in a few brief remarks, explained the benefits which would result from the formation of a society of this kind, and recommended its immediate erganication, ‘The ‘President then read the constitution aud by laws, which were submitted to the meeting for fu: ture adoption. He disclaimed any intention to create bad feeling between the employers and employed, by advising the wen to strike for higher rates than they at present received ; but he was confident that if all the mates arriving fn this port were members of this society, and not to engage for less than the rates settled by it, 'y would be paid a larger compensation. It would also be @ great conven-ence to captains looking for mates, as the rociety could establish w sort of intelligence office, which would be a mutual benefit to each, The by-laws and constitution were not adopted last night, but will be at the next meeting, which will be held next ‘Tuesday evening. ‘The Crystal Palace. ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXurmrrion or THE INDUSTRY oF ALL Nations. Orrice No. 58 Broadway, New York, June 6, 1853 TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, Sin-in answer to the note of your correspondent, “An Importer,” on the subject of the reveption of goods in the Crystal Palace, T would say that. if, he or any other exil tor will apply at the Palace to Me. Samuel Webber, he will easily got all tho information he requires, Respectfully, your obedient, w. Sir—The above, from your paper of this date purports to be the answer to a note that was published ia your paper come days since, and in which I was called upon by name. ° I did not think it necessary to take any notice of the note; but as some person has undertaken to answer it, and as both the tenor and the signature of the anawor give it the appearance of having proceeded from me, I feel called upon to disavow the authorship of it, because it is not consistent with my sense of propriety that an officer of an institution should make any unofficial or remi-official publication respecting the business of the ine stitution, and because I wish it to be understood, hence. forth, that in whatever I do for this institution, I both act and appear ina purcly official capacity, And this being the care, if Thad found it necessary to refer exhi- tors, by publication, to any other soureo of information than this office, I should have obtained instructions from the Board of Directors to do so through your advertising columns, —_Respectfally, your obedient servant, ‘ Wi, WHECTEN, Poltce Intelligenee. Arrest of a Burglar and Recovery of the Propet — Officer Baldwin, of the Lighth ward police, on Monday night srrested's young man, named William H. Curtis, ona charge of burglariously entering the dwelling house of Mr. Isaac Townsend, one of the Governors of the Alm: house, reriding at No. 46 West Twenty-third street, steal- ing therefrom a gold watch and chain ‘with » number of silver napkin rings, of the value in all of $200. On the person of the recused the officer found pawn ticketa, showing where he hed nledged the etnlan praner ly. jtum winch pawn nbupe tae officer recovered the preperty, The preoner wan taken before Jnsties Mo- Gsarh, who commitied bim te prison Jor trial, New York Historical Secicty. The regular monthly meeting of this society was held at their rooms last evening, at the University in Wash- ington Square, at half-past seven o’closk—the Rey. Dr. De Witt in the chair. About one hundred and fifty geu- tlemen were present. The proceedings were commenced by the Sceretary: reading the minutes of the last meeting, which were ap- proved. Donations to the Society’s Library were announeed by" the Secretary, ‘and the thanks of the meeting were tender- ed to the respective donors. The original deed of the Knickerbocker Insurance Company, the frst institution of the kind that erganized in the city, (1797), was among the many valuables acknowledged. This document bears the signatures of many eminent citizens of that time, A report from the Executive Committee,.on the nomi- nations for membership, referred to them at the last meeting, was received and adopted. The report recom- mended the election of the parties named, and they were thereupon unsnimously elected. Several gentlemen were then propored as eligible for membership, and the nomi. nations were duly referred. Mr. Moors proposed a resolutien, to the effect that hereafter all life membership fees be applied to the fire- proof building fund, which was to, E.C. Buvepicr, Esq., proposed the following resolu tion :—\“Whereas, The society, on the first day of June, 1847, resolved that measures be taken to raise a subsarip- tion of $50 000, to be applied to the erection of a fire- proof building for the library and collections of the so- ciety, and for its maintepance and support, the subserip- tion to be binding when $25,000 should be raised; and ia @ sum should be raised insufficient for the ereetion of the builiing, the same should be invested in gocd securities, until the same, by increment or addition, should, in the opinion of two-thirds of the members present at some stated meeting, be deemed and. declared 1o be sufficient therefor, and whereas the raised at that time wes insufficient therefor; and w: invested, and has so remained invested, till it has crement and addition amounted to the sum of $40, therefore, Reeolvyed, That the said rum is now, with i's incre- ments and additions, in the opinion of two-thirds of the members now present, deemed and declared to be suili- cient for the erection of ssid building. Ado Frep'k. Dx Pryster, Esq , presented on behalf of David Ogden, Keq...of this city an original ship model made by- Orlando B.” Merrill, of Belleville, Newburyport, Mass, in Mr. De Peyster accompanied the donation with some- appropriate remarks. y v. Dr. ADAMS presented from Capt. Carey, of the ship Oregon, a large block of timber of the Royal George man- of-war, which was sunk in Portsmouth harbor some seventy odd years ago. Mr. Josuri BuuyT was then introduced to the soslety, and proceeded to read the paper of the evening. The speaker commenced with a retrospect of some positions taken by him in @ paper upon another branch of this subject, read before the society at a former meeting. In: reviewing said he, the history of these cessions, Y can- not avoid contrasting the conduct of Virginia with that of New York, with claims similar in their character, but altogether superior, from the recent exercise and acknow- ledgment of authority in the Colonial ment, New York comes forward Promptly, generoul , without con- dition, and cedes to the United States her title to that magnificent domain new occupied by the free States of the Northwest. Virgiria, on the contrary, holds back during the whole contest with England, opens a land office to embsrrass Congress with the claims of squatters and occupants, and compels that body to order removal by military force, and finally, when the war is over, and Congrevs is at liberty to maintain the rights of the con- federacy without embarrassment from British interfer- ence, she offers a cession, coupled with eonditions and re- servations which even her own{son, the pure Madisor—true to bis native State, but more true to his country—is compelled to join in rejecting. With these facts recurring to my mind, I could not ay when I saw the debaters in Congress, and even the judges of the Su- preme Court ina recent decision, jolm in attributing to Virginia the sole merit of bestowing upon the Union that fertile garden of the West, bringing them to your attention, and claiming that your own State had some small share in that honor—that she, too, was in the same sense ‘the mother of States; and when they aud we recur with satisfaction to the. intercourse wl a wise and generous State policy has created. and promoted between ua, let us not forget that at an earlier period the same generous spirit made New York take the first ste and impart the first impulse to the movement which made them free independent and powerful States. On motion, a copy was requested for the archives of the Society, to which Mr. Blunt assented, Court Calendar—This Day. Uxnen States District Court.—Nos. 11 to 20, it—Part First.—Nos. 649, 546, Fart Second —Nos. 100, 4108, O0i, Iri03, 4,208" . Part Second.—Nos. 1,100, . 108, 1,118 to 1,117, 1,119 to 1,198, ' 7” feeble Scrmiok Covin— (Two Branches }—Now. (1,185), 680, 612, 617, 728, 861, 870, 500, 22% 696. 711, 725, 624, 415, €33 449’ 694, 056, 744, 757. 662 759, 788, 831, 834. 769, 871, 872, 874, 875, 8: 877, 878, 879, 880, 881, 883, 884, 85. 886, 887, 802, 803, '894," 895, 888, 889, 800, 801, 801, 846, 897, 898, 809. New York, May 31, 1853.—The Di of rectors the Associstion for the Exhibition of the Industry ef alt it ive meres that the Exhibition will be opened em lay 0 Nationy, the ISth Sul; t, the Directors avail them- ty to that the building whiol> and the Exhibition which they have pre- hey believe, fully meot the just expectations of It is proper that it should be known that, in erder to af: fora awiple scope for the inventive talent and skill of eur countrymen in mat rie! implements, we have increased the by adding nearly one- it faaily contemplates, hibition two hua- res. re feet, Not limiting their pla attractive, the Directers Lave organ: mineralogy and geology, in which some of talent of the country has been employed: and the tion is thus laid of & mort valuable national collection the mineral resources of the country The Directors had hoped to opon the Exhibition at earlier period, but tho ity and intrieacy of the construction and the high staudard of architectural beauty which it has been the object of the Association to attain, have produced delay, and it has heen impracticable for the Directors, notwithstanding their utmost vigilance and their mowt earnest desire, to announce the opening at an earlier day. In regard to the result promises to the coufidenee st scientific a ot al character of the exhibition, the st gratifying, and not unworthy of towards it by the covernment of confidence which ha: nal developement. building, ita division, , classification and Folica, bas been confided to the Navy of the United States, Captains 9. '. Di id C. H. Davir ; and the sauction of the gévern- ment given te the apppointment of these gentlemen, who have so much distinguished themselves in the spoeial ser- vices in which they have been employed, affo Ne proof 0% the confidence reposed and the interest felt, by the highess’ ea of the country, in the general objects ef the organized their departmont as fol- retary of the Su; dent ; Samuel Webber—Arrangemant of Bynes oa a Claseldobtion > Erof. B. Sillim: Chemistry ; wibly folt the confidence repesed irs itizens, in all parts of the soun' 1e to make every effort to satisfy pingcrors, Philip Burrows, Johnston Livington, Charles W. Foster, Theodore Sedgwick, William W. Stone, William Whetten, and they will c Just expectations, Mortimor alfred Pel August belmont, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., George L. Schuyler, Elbert J. Andereo viable * Henry TK. 70, John Danhi W. C,H. ell, Willian Kent, Incoh A. Wertervelt, Watts Sherman, James A. Hamilton, Samuel Nicholeon, ’ Great Auction Sale of la Lots.—We wish to call the attention of our readers to tho continuation sale 0f1 200 beantitul building lots and ville ALBERT H. NICOLAY to-morrow, Jui at the Merchants’ Exel high ground, at B Castleton, and is tl Kightieth st full partic tioncer in column. Sun Paint: —The Particular Attention of the public is called to GURNEY'S now style of colored Da- guerreotypes, whi anything heretofore preduced. Also, his matchles ye. No. 349 Broadway, Daguerreotypes by Meade Brothers.—Rooms refitted and furnished for th daguerrooty; taken by a now proc 1 their past efforts, ‘The public are invited to examine our new collection of stereecope instruments, purchased by one of the firm now in Europe. 1e agents for the sale of Maschers? celebrated pi steresorpen, for folld daguerreobypes, ne of the wonders of the art. Our rooms aro direct- ly opposite the Park fountain, and the finest location in the city, 253 Broadway, first floor, up stairs—Seo Herald of yesterday om Fine A’ More Truthful than any Ivory Painting, and equally durablearo thone exquisite crystalentypes takon only in_ New York by ROUT. 300 Broadway, ‘The ikonees has all the acouracy of the best angworre oly pn wi to the finest miniai is beyond all praise, Call and coss—no long flights of steps. merreotypes for 25 as Y. This tale is worthy of notice. For 6 refer to the advertisement of the auc- colors and finish are equal i icture of Julia Dean it it. ooms very easy 0 Progress of Art pes cente.—The fact that REES & CO. started the ches) system of picture making on record, and being successful to make money aud reputation by it, shows, to the world that thtir facilitics. and improvements are beyond the reach, of imitators and rivals. Rooms 259 Broadway. The Rocky Mountain Beaver and Warm weather arriving simultaneously, the former has one decided for it is upqnestionaby in jally if it bears the impress of Knox, the Hat- caltence, who is prepared to rupply upper and fom’? with tho mont clogant and stylish speci whionable article better than ever, and as KNOX’S salesroom is at 128 Fulton street. 'Town-Dom mene of this cheap as usual. A Hat Store to Accommodate U; venience and t, Nichol rofitably establ most fant hat over tasto and ‘Of course, we refor to the Rocky Mountain approciated hy everybody, is the hat for the ‘all and make your selection, refinement, 0 eaver, wiiie summer of 1863, You Can’t Lose Hat if you have your Mkenoss in it.—RAFFERTY & LEASK, No. 67 Chatham to Chambers atrest, are the only hattors inthe bat Lou pel your daguerreotype ia your" lind Tor & pateut for this invention, =a "ie Iikeness in his bat ‘ree 4 to thie wise, “ they have pw obarge, A wort