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HERALD. ETT, NEW YOR, a JAMES GC, DON BE PROF" 4TETOR AND EDITOR, DPFICE X. W- goRNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. Lee ean TERMS ¢ ssh in advance. Hb UIE HERALD. 2 conte per annum. THE V/ERRLY HERALD, every 8 ‘at ent. both to UNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing impor- volicited ‘any quarter of the world; tf ured, for. BgrOun FoReios CORR ErMON- DENTS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL Luet- 7aRO NO’ TICE of SENT US. ret We do not ‘veturn those . x ALL LETTERS il for Subscriptions, or with Adver- “rami 'SO8'PRINTING ceccuted with neatness, cheapness, and ““BVER TISEMENTS renewed every dav. Soe Wotwme XVI... cece cesccsseeeseseee Me 167 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowory—Finsr Nieut—New Youx As Iv Is -Jacx Suexr. BROADWAY THEATRE. Brosdwar—Aq Overimate Fauiiy —Lirrie Topo. sox Verr— ann Wives - NIBLO'S, Broadway-Sweerneanrs Wanren, One THousann MiLiingas, AL THEATRE, Chatham street—Uncim Macn’s ones Ison Lion—Inish AssuRANCE. ST CHARLES THEATRE, Bowery—Afternoon—Busow Bar’p Svan Dean Suor, Evening—Fiac or rae Prav—bioomer’s Kisurs. AMERICAN MUSEUM-Afternoon—Attow Me To ApoLooise— His Lasr Lacy. Bvening~Masniep Lire. MADISON AVENUE-—Atterncen and Evening—Fran- @owr's Concesar HirropRome. WASHINGTON CIRCUS—Coruer @erect and Sixth avenue. of Twenty-ninth CHRISTY’S OPERA BOUSE, 473 Brosdway—Ermior:ay Mmovics wy Cunisty’s Ra TROUPE. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Prosd- wey—Rrniorian Minsrauisy, GEORAMA, 596 Brosdway—Basvarn’s Pavonama or wur Bory Lann. OWEN’S ALPINE RAMBLES, 539 Broadway. CHINESE ROOMS—New Onreans Senex avers. New York, Friday, June 17, 1853, ‘* It is with feelings of heartfelt sorrow that we again ‘gre so soon called upon to record another melancholy zailroad calamity. A brieftelegraphic despatch from Sasquehanna announces that a locomotive on the * New York and Erie Railroad exploded her boiler yesterday afternoon, killing eleven persons and wounding many others. Among the dead are three ‘women and the engineer. Four or five people, it is thought, were blown into the river and lost. Is ‘there no way by which these terrible catastrophes ean be rendered less frequent, if not entirely checked? Will not these oft-repeated and sanguinary occur- ences arouse the legislators of our own as well as all other States to a sense of the immediate necessity ef enacting stringent laws for the better security of Tife and property on railways? A bill having this auch desired object in view is now pending in the Assembly. We elsewhere give this proposed mea- Bure in detail, together with the report of the com- mittee on the subject. For the sake of humanity, et the members of our Legislature take this matter into consideration at once. Let not another life be Bacrificed by delay. Now is the time to ach Discord and confusion for a while reigned supreme in both branches of our State Legislature, as will be geen on referring to the description furnished by our Bpecial correspondent. Messrs. Cooley and Pierce opened the day’s busines in the Senate by a very warm debate on the subject of permitting Mr. Taber, who is too ill to be in ‘his seat, to record his vote in Havor of the Canal compromise resolutions. The @ispute is represented to have been spirited 3m the extreme—almost equalling the extraordi- Mary scenes that have occurred in our national ‘Congress within the last few years. The Mather im- peachment case is also said to have given rise to wome very curious and exciting proceedings in the Assembly. Mr. Champlin concluded his speech in favor of the resolution, and Mr. D. B. Taylor spoke im defence of the Canal Commissioner. After these . gentlemen had finished, a general hubbub com- menced. As the sailors say, ‘‘all hands were piped to mischief.’ This warm weather is certainly be- ginning to have a wondersul effect upon the wise men cf the people. Perhaps another shower bath beneath the Falls of Niagara would be beneficial to ‘them. We to-day publish lengthy details of the interest- ing European news brought by the royal mail steam- | ship Asia, including an important letter from our London correspondent. The perplexed state of the Eastern question and the news of Prince Menschi- ‘koff’s departure from Constantinople, had produced gome unpleasant vibrations in both the French and English funds, which had not settled down when | the financiers were again alarmed by the unexpected announcement, upon the 2d instant, that the Bank of England directors had taken the decided step of | raising the rate of discount to-three and one-half per cent, being higher than it has been since the year 1647. The monetary interest was alarmed, and | ‘the political capitalists, who are adverse to the Aber- | deen administration, attribute the operation to the inability of Mr. Gladstone to fulfil bis promises | made in Parliament upon the budget debate. | The Queen had held a grand drawing-room at St: | James's, which was attended by many American no- tabilities, who were duly presented. Mrs. Uncle | Tom Stowe having graduated through all the degrees of a Liverpool John Bull stare, a Manchest: scription, and an Exeter Hall aristocratic wi had expected to walk from the ‘‘cabin™ to the palace, bat was not presented to Queen Victoria. It was Tumored that the Countess of Shaftesbury was re- fused the honor of the abolition introduction by Her | Majesty. | Advices from Havana to the 12th Inst. were terday received by the steamship Black Warrior. | With the exception of the announcement of the re- Cent landing of a large number of slaves on the island of Cuba, she brings no news of special im- portance. The histo~” of the dispute between the Captain General and the uni #, Peepectine —” inculcation of liberal principles, as detaiied by Conespondent, will be found quite fnteresting, ere a special Washington despatches denies that any ofcial information has yet boen received | respecting the rumored intention of the Spanish government to render assistatice 10 Sante Anna, should he require it. This is quite likely. Off infsrmation is sometimes very diffi wide the departure of the Cuban our shores, during the last adm of an official nature was ever kno movements of the patriots till after thes States, and it was too late to overhaul the is little fear that the present administrat keep a sharp eye upon the movements of and his colleagues, and be fully prepared for emergency that may e. Another cori 1, of Tennesse* es Nothing ning the tration. will not ania Ania | Observes that Mr. Nich bi stood, will shortly assume the editorial charge of the Unicn newspaper. An Englishman named Dyson has been arrested at New Orleans, on a charge of hav the recent insurrection am ee our {| in that vicinity. Should the charge be against D., the punishment will be probably death. The rumors respecting ed rising of the blacks are believed to have 1 much exaggerated, and the excitemcat had near! subsided yesterdoy We learn that the workmen ta the Camber! er ¥ 3, to which coal mines have strack for | the diferent emp!oyers ref to give their assent. These strikes among the c ners are likely to haye a very serious effect upon both prodncers aad consumers throughout the country. The season is now quite advanced, and the supply of coal from the various regions is far short of the quantity furnished at the same period last year. The deficiency from the three principal regions in Pennsylvania ia re+ jorted to be about one hundred thousand tons. It is therefore to be hoped that the differences between theemployers and the employed will be speedily ar- Tle ship Gondar, together with eighteen hundred pales of cotton and a large amount of rosin, was con- sumed by fire at Charleston, last Wednesday night. The damage to the vessel and cargo is estimated at seventy-five per cent. The steamer State, partially laden with cotton and sugar, recently canght fire, and was scuttled, while on ber way from Houston to Galveston. The old Merrimack mill at Lowell, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The loss, which is covered by insurance, is estimated at eighty thou- sand dollars, On the night previous, in the same city, three buildings, with their contents, worth twelve thousand dollars, were consumed. By reference to our report of the Williamsburg millinery case it will be seen that Justice Boswell yesterday ordered the defendant, Thos. W. Boyd, to pay a fine of twenty dollars. Mr. B. wished to carry the case to the Supreme Court, and refused to pay the fine; whereupon the Justice wrote out a commit- ment, and placed him in charge of the keeper of the cells. Amid the excitement, counsel for the prisoner gave notice of his intention to present Justice Bos- well to the Grand Jury for official misconduct. The jury in the Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday rendered a verdict of man- slaughter in the second degree against Bernard Hagan, for having caused the death of his wife in Februarylast. The prisoner was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. Woodward, recently convicted for the murder of his wife, in Washington, has been sentenced to be executed on the 2d of September. Prior to hearing the sentence the unhappy man is said to have made a most affecting but unavailing appeal for a new ‘rin addition to much other interesting matter to which we have no room to particularly allude, our columns to-day contain the official reports of the pro- ceedings of the Common Council last evening; ac- count of the Horticultural Exhibition at Metropoli- an Hall, tocether with the list of prizes awarded; fall report of the contest over the Centreville course last Wednesday; Financial, Political, Theatrical and Miscellaneous news, &c. American Lions in Europe—The Secret of Biltish Hospitality. Mrs. Uncle Tom Stowe is not the only Ame- rican “lion” now in England. Another distin- guished countryman of ours is sharing with her the hospitality of the British aristocracy. We need hardly add that we allude to ex-President Van Buren. His name has not been so promi- nently brought before the public as that of his female rival, but we have the best reasons for knowing that his private success has been fally equal to hers, Circumstances, to which it is quite unnecessary to allude in detail, have pre- vented his receiving the honor which was be- stowed on his son some years ago: he has not yet led the Queen of England through a quad- rille. But this is obviously the work of acci- dent. and not of design. If any faith can be re- posed in receptions. and dinners, and balls, and presentations. and the other outward and visible signs of aristocratic favor. Mr. Van Buren is at present a most popular man among the titled few of England. It is true that we do not hear of any movement among the sturdy middle classes—the thew and sinew of the land—to do him honor. He has neither been indulged with a public ovation, nor has he descended to the meanness of a penny subscription list. So far as the bulk of the British people are concerned, he might at this moment be quietly reposing in the shade of Lindenwald. But what the people lack in enthusiasm, the nobles supply in po- lished civilities; and to a man of aristocratic aste, the latter are perhaps the more acceptable. Strange as it may sound to some of our readers, the same fact is quite as manifest in the recep- tion of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and in the wel- come bestowed on its writer in Europe. Tre- mendous efforts have been made by the aristo- eracy to organise public demonstrations in her favor. Money has heen freely expended by the Stafford-house committee, and complimentary tickets to festivals where she was to perform have been showered among the people. But if we make proper allowance for the natural proneness of the English to follow the example of their nobility—if we concede due influence to the active agitation of Lords Carlisle, Shaftesbury and others—if we calculate how many of the crowd which rose to applaud Mrs, Stowe at Exeter Hall went to see her as a curi- osity. just as they would go to see Tom Thumb. or a calf with six legs, we shall be forced to the conclusion that Mrs. Stowe’s re- ception has not been a popular one, and that the bulk of her admirers are confined to the aristocracy. Her penny subscriptions—the gross amount of which did not exceed three or four hundred dollars—show what little pro- gress the Stowe-negro-mania has made among the people. On the continent again the same fact is apparent. Her book was received with un- bounded rapture by the aristocracy. Newspa- pers which are believed to speak the sentiments of the raling powers in France and elsewhere, republished it. Courts, all over Europe, pa tronised ft; nnd to thoee who know how the French. Germans and Italians take their tone from the palace, it will appear quite natural that regal patronage should have heen followed by all the outward symbols of poy avor. A careful scrutiny will, however, lead to grave doubts of t genuineness, The enlogium of the Moni- teur has not elicited anything like enthusiasm from the people of France: and all the reviews h have appeared in independent continental have contented themselves with re- garding it as a mere clever novel. From no anany proof be obtained that its abo- litionist principles had met with sympathy among the masses; while, on the other hand. alundant testimony is there to show that royal sour and aristocratic sponsorship had not a little to do with its extensive sale, Here. then. we have a tangible fact. Mra woman of some talent and an Ame: can, writes a book which tends to k s the in her country into contempt, and to Martin Van Buren, an ex- stitutions of tates. places himself at he ame party, and by con ig to become the abglition eandidate in 1848, deals an harmony and th go to Earope, and feted by the aris- hat can be properly fwe set aside those cen actuated and a wish to sta the nobles, the ed toa then to that Americans are not a ck 1 the pale of aristocratt ty pe? By no means, Had ¢ or in visited England, their rec ve heen ofa very different stamp. ight not. perhaps, have been suifered to bash inthe suns of the Duchess of Sutherland’ emfles. and they would possibly have failed to secure the friendship of the amiable Lord Shaftesb But we should certainly hav beard of monster dinners and banqneis among the sturdy middle classes—the manu- facturers, the merchants, the mechanics, the operatives—who would have glad- ly welcomed and honestly appreciated their high character and noble statesmanship. Nei- ther could have stooped to a penny subscrip- tion; but had such a movement been possible, we know that the net amount would not, like Mrs. Stowe’s, have fallen short of the daily earnings of a grocery store. The reason of the difference is easily disco- vered. Mrs. Stowe and Martin Van Buren are the representatives of a principle which has threatened the existence of the Union. Clay and Calhoun personated the stability and endurance of our republican institu- tions. Hence the popularity of the former among those who have everything to fear from the spread of democracy; hence would have arisen the popularity of the latter among those who are already democratic at heart. Both parties reason logically. Re- publican principles are secretly but widely spreading both on the continent and in England. Military despotism gags the mouth of the continental democrats; but the or- gans of the middle classes in England have already assumed a democratic tone. Already a voluminous branch of popular literature has taught the people to regard our institu- tions with envy, and to hate hereditary aristo- crats and titled debauchees. No slight blow has been dealt at the aristocracy by the late elec- tion exposures. It has so happened that the individuals most deeply implicated in these dis- graceful proceeding have been members of that body; and so general has been the censure aroused by their peccadilloes, that it is rare now to see a noble’s name mentioned in an English newspaper without some epithet of contempt orindignation. All these occurrences are symptoms of a coming storm. A convulsion, compared to which previous revolutions have been mere summer showers,seems to impend over the British Isles, as well as the rest of Europe. The nobility are not so blind as to fail to read its prognostic aright. They see that their fate is in the balance. They reckon the rate of pro- gress of the advancing tide, and estimate, in tremor and dismay, their chances of stemming it. A poor sort of calculation, indeed; as though an infant would arrest a cataract with a willow switch. But if life depended on the deed, even the willow switch would be eagerly grasped. And so the English nobles grasp the slavery difficulty, our only vulnerable point in their opinion. to prove to their countrymen the folly of republicanism, and the utter hopelessness of establishing a stable republic in modern times. If, by dint of agitating the slavery question, one section of this country can be roused into open strife against the other, disunion and ruin must necessarily follow. This great Union would then give place to three or four feeble States, ever warring with each other, crippled in their resources, jealous and narrow-minded in their policy, and hardly holding any rank or position among the nations of the world. Mexico would, perhaps, be a fair type of each. Should this calamity ever come to pass, with what exultation would the English nobles turn round upon their democratic fellow-citizens, and point out “the natural and evitable consequences of republicanism.” How sagely Blackwood would ratiocinate! How morally the Quarterly would opine! How fondly the lords of England would clasp their rent rolls to their breast, safe at last from the dreaded encroachments of the monster democracy! That such is the secret of the welcome extended to Mrs. Stowe and Mr. Van Buren, no reasonable person can doubt, It remains to be seen whether the strong sense of the American people will not see the danger betimes. and convert the poison into a whole- some useful medicine. Dorés or Tue LeGIsLATURE—U NPRECEDENTED Inpvstry.—Our law-makers at Albany have re- deemed the expenses of their extra session, in the bill for the Canal enlargement. But that is not all—they have given us some valuable amendments to our new charter, for which we are, as we ought to be, duly thankful. Nor is that all. The Senate has passed the Pacific Railroad bill. Good. Let the House do the same, What shall we not gain by it, and what can we lose? And they have passed the Juve- nile Delinquent Asylum bill for this city, for the Rock Boys. the Long Boys, and the Short Boys, and all other vagrant juvenile barbarians. whose name is legion. Fifty thousand dollars from the State, fifty thousand from the city, and fifty thousand from private contributors, form the fund for this humane aad beneficent institution. Let it be carried out. And the Assembly have passed a bill for a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara on our side. Not too late. Let us have it, Plenty of water. No difficulty on that point. And it will pay— Vide, the Welland Canal. Then. again, Mr. Taylor Las reported to the Assembly a railroad accident bill. Very good. We want that bill. Human life depends upon it. If railroad com- panies are indifferent concerning the lives of a train of passengers, let them be held accountable to the widows and orphans they may throw upon the world. Nothing so simple and just. Let Mr. Taylor push forward his bill, and he will not regret it when it shall become a law. But mark time. ‘The Maine Liquor law is looming up at Albany as large as life. We have frequently expressed our commiseration for the people of Newport. upon the exclusion, by this Maine law, of a large proportion of their summer customers, by restricting them to cold water, lemonade and root beer. Now we begin to have our apprehensions concerning Saratoga, Lebanon, Niagara. and all the rest of our sum- mer resoris, excepting Coney Island. No Maine law can be made applicable to the émpire of Coney Island. It is a sandy country —very eandy—and any amount of liquor may be buried in its sandy hij ls, and excavated without detection. Bat this Maine law is now before the Assembly. Will they pass it? Ay, there’s the rub. Perhaps we may escape it a month or two longer, for the immediate business of the Assembly is the Mather impeachinent resolu- tions, and they may, perhaps, lead to the most astonishing results; and perhaps they may not. But really, the industry, the remarkable in dustry, which has been exhibited of late in both houses at Albany, is entitled to a puff. The people will be surprised and delighted at uch extraordinary legislative activity in this We cgn’b account for it, but so ie Liquor law and all. Still we want ing more. We want a park that great entral park. Connot Mr. Cooley give our city gotion a helping hand? A man that has been to Egypt ought to be a man of large Ve therefore depend upon Mr. Cooley. to seme extent, for our great central park, hot weathe deas. | that the very batteries of free soil and disunion Tus Wasnineton Organ—Two Srninos 10 ms Bow.—We are informed that it isa “ fixed fact,” or, as Mr. Attorney General Cushing would say, “a fixed constitutional fact,” that Mr. Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, will shortly establish in the city of Washington a new de- mocratic paper, right under the nose of the old Union, for many years the solitary central organ of the great confederated democratic party. We further understand that this new enterprise will be well backed up by liberal in- vestments from various quarters, of the “ sinews of war,” and that Mr. Tucker, who has been for some days at the Astor House, is en route to New Hampshire, to feel the pulse of the hard fisted democracy of that neighborhood. Of course, we can have no objection to an- other democratic paper at Washington ; and if it creates a little excitement in the family, so much the better. And from the antecedents of Mr. Tucker, we may anticipate something more of vitality and poifit’in his editorials than has been vouchsafed to us from Washington, since the days of the old Globe, when F. P. Blair wielded his butcher’s cleaver with such prodigious effect. Mr. Tucker is of the progressive school of Young America, and a mighty strong believer in the Monroe doctrine, and in that other doctrine of this latter day, so terrible to all * old fogies,”’ the doctrine of “ manifest destiny.” And just at this crisis, there is no telling what effect a democratic organ at Washington, advancing and pushing forward these doctrines, may have upon the policy of the government in reference to Cuba and the West India islands, Spain and Mexico, and in regard to the machinations of England and France. And those who are well informed as to the policy of Mr. Tucker, say that upon those subjects affecting our inalien- able rights of territorial expansion, he will make the fur fly in every direction. However that may be, it is evident from one of our telegraphic despatches from Washington, which we publish this morning, that the old Union has taken the alarm; for it appears that A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee, is soon to take the editorial charge of it. Mr. Nichol- son is a conservative, and by the disciples of Young America is declared to be an “old fogy” of the Cave Johnson stripe. But whether he can reinstate the Union in the position which it held under Father Ritchie, is a doubtful question. The fact that Mr. Tucker has receiv- ed sufficient encouragement to start a new de- mocratic paper in Washington, is. at all events, suggestive of something unsatisfactory in the present order of things. We had thought oflate that the Union was, de jure and de facto, the organ—its articles in defence of the administration being written with all the self complacency of a man in au- thority. But now a doubt is suggested, and the question recurs, is the Union to be the organ, or is Mr. Tucker’s paper to be the organ, or is Gen. Pierce resolved to do without a spe- cial organ, or will he probably employ the one paper or the other as the organ, as the oc- casion may require? or both, or neither, or how? This is a startling question—tremendous, isn’t it? On another point we suspect there is very little doubt. The Union will have a rival in Mr. Tucker for the printing of Congress, the clear profits of which no man has yet been able to estimate; but they cannot fall short, under the existing law, including the printing of both houses, of $150,000 for the short session, and 250,000 for a long session of six months or more. If this democratic rivalry for these spoils shall result in the establishment of a national printing office, it will be a great thing. Mr, Tucker may then congratulate himself in hay- ing been an effective instrument in stopping the very bung hole of political corruption. Oh, yes, by all means give us another democratic organ at Wash'ngton. The more the merrier Let not the democracy go to sleep. A Goon Sran.—We learn from respectable au- thority, that Mr. Soulé, for Madrid, will leave this country, in all probability, on the 26th inst. We hail this information as a good omen. The fiscal year does not end till the 30th June, and the appropriations for our new ministers abroad, be- ginning with the next fiscal year, do not take effect till the Ist July. Therefore, the earlier departure of Mr. Soulé for his destination, in- dicates a proper appreciation of this crisis in our relations with Cuba and Mexico, and Spain and England. We doubt not this distin- guished official will go out fully charg- ed with the instructions of the government upon all the various questions awaiting a set- tlement between the high contracting parties, of the United States on the one part, and of Spain on the other. In this movement we have an assurance, also, that if there is a war in the Gulf, and in the republic of Mexi- co. it will not have fallen upon us without an effort of Gen. Pierce to arrest it. But still the question recurs, will there be war? Mr. Buchanan, we are informed, will leave for England in the Baltic, on thy of July. Tur Drviston or tHE Spoms—Ware Tacries. —wWe transfer to our columns to-day, a cata- logue of the appointments of the administration, as made up and circulated among the whig presses of Kentucky and Tennessee, for elec- will be pergeived tioneering purposes. Thu te direcied with most efficiency against the whigs in the late Presidential campaign, have been seized by the enemy, who have turned the guns against the White House. Well, we intend to watch the progress of the game, and with in creasing anxiety as we gek into deeper water. The only thing now which promises the con- tinned adhesion of all the democratic elements of the late canvass, is a war with Mexico and Spein. backed up against us by England and France. That would unite the party and the country upon the administration, and perhaps the administration know it. Will there be war? Or, rather, lock at the portentous aspect of things all around the Gulf of Mexico, and an- swer us, ye trifling whigs of Kentucky and Ten- negsee, will there be peace? What are the spoils, when peace and war hang suspended in the balances? However, this whig catalogue of appointments may be useful for reference at Washington and Tammany Hall. Let the hard- shells read it. ‘nm ‘Change. Conversation referred to the character of the fore news by the Asia, Ina commercial senie it ras consi dered more favorable than that received by the Pacific, Ithadan effect in this market upon flour and wheat, State brands of the former were sold atan advance of Wheat was alo held firm, with rocdorate tranractions. Corn was unchanged, Cotton clored heavy, with sales of 1,000 bales. Provisions for the nfost part were steady, without much setivity. ‘The political news was considered to be of a more pa cific character, erpeeially ax far ae the Turkish question was concerned, while po one appreheaded thet Austria Ge. to 126. per barrel. Naval Intelligence, Thos ») Lexingtongwill lesve the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Saturday, foe the East jos. Letters, &e., for ho Hast india squedron, must be loft at the Navy Yard by 9A. M. would make war upon Switzerland. It was believed that the advence inthe rates of interest by the Bank of pored that it had been dene with a view to check the ex- travagant speculations going en, and to prepare the country against avy deficiency that might arise from short grain crops in England and on the continent, The movements of the bank were said to be almost as good a barometer of harvest prospects as the latter was of the weather. An advance in breadstuffs had scarcely ever failed incausing the bank to tighten the purse- strings more or less. In the present instance, considering the influx of precious metals from all quar- tere, the movement was considered premature. Solicitude was expressed regarding the character of the commissioner to be appointed to China to supersede Mr. Marshall. Considering the present importaat position of affairs in that quarter, together with the commercial relations existing between the merchants of the United States and China, it would require great discrimination onthe part of the administration to fill the office. It would be well that he should possess a knowledge, to some extent, of the language of the people, and a practi- cal acquaintance with their trade, laws, customs, man- ners, &c., and, in other respects, be a man of superior talents, tact, and discretion. It was an office in which those interested in the China trade felt a deep interest. The wish was expressed that the Legislature would concede the right to the United States to the ground re- cently bargained for near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The spirit of enthusiasm which pervaded the people at present in favor of internal improvements, had been manifested by the votes of counties, cities, and towns, on the question of lending their credit to railroads, &c. In nearly all cases the majority had voted “yea,” but it was doubted whether the majority, in all eases, were tax payers. Fears were expressed that this feeling, under the prevailing enthusiasm, might be carried too far, and that in some instances it would be found much easier to vote than to pay. A very respectable merchant, whom we meet almost daily on Change, was grossly assaulted evening before last near the corner of Laight and Hudson streets. He was quietly walking towards his residence, in company with a couple of friends, when a party of the “ Short Boys,” or :“rowdies,”” overtook them on the sidewalk, when the merchant politely stepped aside to let them pass, without uttering a word, whereupon one of the rowdies, in the most unprovoked manner, dealt him a blow on the side of the head, which was followed by another on the opposite side, when both his friends and himself, (the rowdies being largely in the majority.) raised loud cry for the watch, but none appeared, while the assailants coolly marched off. Such scenes are too common, and are disgraceful to the city. @he Passage of the North Star. The passage of Commodore Vanderbilt's yacht North Star, from this port to Southampton, is stated in the English papers to have occupied but ten days, eight hours and forty minutes, This isa mistake, The North Star left the Brooklyn Navy Yard (where she went to repair any damage she might have received by getting on the rocks the previous day) at seven o’clock on the evening of the 20th of May, and passed the Hook at nine o'clock fame evening, The hour of her arrival at Southampton is not given in the English papers, they merely saying that she arrived on the morning of the let of June. This would make her pasrage—calculating in clock time, from her leaving the Navy Yard upto seven o’clock on the morning of the 1st—exactly eleven days and a half, or eleven days and seven hours, real time. The trip of the North Star, although a very excellent one, and rendered of more interest in her being the first steamer fitted witha beam engine that ever crossed the Atlantic, is not equal to the best trips of either the Collins, or the Cunard, or the Havre line, It will also be borne in mind that she was not loaded down with cargo, which was a great advantage to her. The following table will show how the trip of the North Star compares with the quickest of the Collins, Cunard, and the Havre lines, calculated in clock time:— Coxuns Livg, To LivErroot. Days. Hours. Min. Pacific (May, 1851)... 10 30 Baltic (July, 1851) 1; » Arctic (Feb, 1852) Atlantic (July, 1852) Cunarp Ling, TO Arabia (May, 1853) Asia ats "tas2) » wn . Days, Hours, Min. 13 seseeeeeeeslO aS Franklin (Jan., 1862)..... The passage of the North Star compares thus with the quickestieastern passage of the Arctic—the shortest ever made: Days. Hours. Min. North Star—toSouthampton.....c..dh 12 Arctic—to Liverpeol..... 9 eo ib In favor of the Arctic........ 4 38) 56 Add for distance in favor of Liverpool’. ens DINE cesiessieesteices a Ye It will also be seen that the steamship Franklin, which ouches at Southamptom on her way to Havre, has ac) complished the distance in twenty-three hours less than the North Star, In making this statement we would not wish to be con- sidered as treating the splendid enterprise of Commodor® Vanderbilt lightly, or as reflecting at all upon the elegant Performance of his magnificent steamer. A wrong ac- count of the paseage having got into our paper, we con- sider it but proper to correct the error, if only in justice to the other lines, and as public information, In reference to this matter, we have received a com- munication from an anonymous correspondent, charging us with questioning the accuracy of the Pacific’s report of the arrival out of the North Star. We intended no such thing. Independently of our conviction that Capt. Nye is incapable of making a false report, wo know that the statement was furnished Capt. Nye by our Liverpool agent, who forwarded to the Pacific a telegraphic des- patch from Southampton, just before her departure. The charge is also completely answered in the fact that the report by the Pacific was strictly correct. Since the above was written, we have seen a letter from Commodore Vanderbilt, in which he states that the time of the North Star was ten days, eight hours and forty minutes from pilot to pilot. Our calentation is from dock to dock, as near as we can tell. We give Commodore Vanderbilt's letter in another column. It speaks ia the highest terms of the speed of the North Star, Crystal Palace, We uncerstond that Charles Losey, Esq., the actiog Consul-General for Austria, has been appointed by his government as Commissioner to the New York Exhibition, From what we hear of the untiring efforts of that gentle- man to advance the commercial and industrial interests of his country, and his thorough acquaintance with arts and sciences, we have no doubt he will acquit himself of his mission in a manner satisfactory to all parties. It will be remembered that Austrian industry has been largely represented at the World's Fair in London, and that some of the brightest gems of that exhibition have been furnished by the manufacturing ineanity of that country; and judging from the number of articles already arrived in New York, from different parts of the Austrian dominions, we are led to suppose that there will be a pretty fair array of the productions of that empire in Reservoir square. It is an Interesting fact that Austria, of all countries in Europe, has made herself pre-eminently acquainted with American ingeouity, The exports of agricultural imple- ments to that country have been yery conviierable. There is scarcely a tool, from the spade to the reaping machine, that has not been sent there to large amounts, and numerous are the labor saving machines and appara tus cf all kinds of American origin, that bave buen export ed to Vienna, Morse’s invention has been adopted on aly the lines cf telegraphs traversing the countvy in every direction, in preference to the system of the head of the telegraph Cepartment, M. Stetnheil. Austria bas born among the first to introduce the American plan of toco- motives, which is now universally in use on all the rail- ways On the ecntinent of Furope, It is not long eiace we have noticed a river steamboat engine, of considerable Aimensions, from Morgan's iron works, of this city, going out to the Danube, together with a model, by Mr. T. Coliyer, for the construction of the boat, which, we un- ng tothe Danube Steac Naviga pwencing a contest against all that mechanical sclence has been able to contrive for purpores of river navigation during the last twenty years. Considering the high degree of aporeciation American Ingenuity meets with in Austria, we are glad taat the Now York Crystal Palace will afford us an opportunity of judging, in some measure, of tha productions of those who have inace them-elves so well sequainted with oars, Supreme Court. Refore Hon Judge Raimond. Jenn 16 — Habeas Corpus, —Peter Larkin, » minor, was ged from the Ur States army on the applies mother. he being under #ge whon he enlisted without her convent United States District Court, Bevore Hon, Saige Iagersoll LAND WARRANT FORGERIES. Tore 16.—The United States vs. Garret G. Shufellt.— The jury im thir cere at a Jate hour lnat night, found the accused guilty, but onanimonsly recom him to meroy. tence was deferred until Monday, when Mr. Shofeldt’s counsa) will move for a new trial on a bill of England could not de of long continuance, Some wap: | exceptions, ‘Tho Strawveny Trade. is almost impossible” to calculate the number ef baskets of strawber-tes consumed in this elty, when thig delicious fruit is in reason, but we think we do not ever. esti mate the number when we set it down at twe mill Hons and a quarter, Some deys as many as one husdteq thousand baskets arrive, by steamboat and railroad,’ from different parts of this State, New Jersey, and Con. necticut, and are distributed among the retail dealere throughout the city. The great depot for strawberries ig Washington market, from which nearly every other market in New York, with the exception of Fulton, re- ceives its supply. The season begins generally about the latter end of May or the commencement of June, and lasts about five weeks. They arrive in very small quan- tities when the reason commences, the first being ré- ceived from Baltimore, packed in boxes, Each box con- tains;about two quarts, and is sold for seventy-five cents; but a week is sufficient to reduce the price to less thar one half. Those farmers who are so fortunate as to have their fruit first in the’market realize a handsome sum out, of, one ortwo thousand boxes. Inone er two weeks, however, when the Jersey strawberries beoome abundant, they can be purchased for five or tix cents s basket, ang they are at last reduced as low as three centa. ‘The baskets are packed in barrels, each of which com- tains from cne hundied and twenty to one hundred and fifty. ‘The largest and best are carefully picked and Placed in baskets by themselves ,before they are sent to market, where they sel) for six and eight eents a basket, There are from twenty-five to thirty persons in Washing- ton market who sell strawberries by wholesale, and still larger number of retail dealers. It isan easy matter to distirguish their stunds from the others, by the im- mense number of baskets piled or strung up before their Toorv. Mabing of these barkets affords employment to &. farge number of people, who commence at them two or three weeks before the fruit is ripe. They are all made of chip, and are worth about six cents a dozen. The amount of strawberries sold last season is esti- Dated ut about $120,000, but this year it is thonght it. will exceed that. As a general thing, very little attention is paid to the cultivation of this fruit, and it is allowed 10 grow almost wild, only a few being raised with any de- gree of care or attenticn. Sometimes we see a basket of rich, luscious and juicy berries, but they are very scares, and sell for too high a price. Towards the end of the season they become dry and sour, and it is a diffieult mat- fer to purebase any worth eating. The best arrive in market in the mi¢dle of the season, when the supply {salso most sbundant. It would be a hereulean task 1 calculate the increased quantity of milk and sugar cone -Sumed during that period... Who will undertake it? ig The Mechanical Engine Company of Balti- more, VISIT TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE AND HIPPODROME—« GRAND BANQUET AT THE ASTOR HOUSE. HCaptains Du Pont and Davis, Superintendents of the Crystal Palace, having extended a prompt invitation te the company to visit this magnificent structure, it was a6 once accepted, and yesterday afternoon was named as ar appropriate time for the pleasing interehange of eourte- sies. ti However, owing to the number of [friendly calls made upon them, the members of the Mechanical Company were compelled to make a slight alteration in their arrange- ments, and did not arrive at the Palace until five o’clock Inthe evening. a : The company was attended by the committee of ar- rapgements—among whom was Captain Leonard of the Third ward police—and headed by its marshal, Mr. A. 0, Brasbear. When the company arrived at the Palace they found Lietenants Cary and Rycard with forty men of the admi- rably disciplined and efficient police foree established. there, in waiting ‘The men were drawn out in line, and reeeived Mechani- cal Engine Company with a salute. wr. K. W. Bowysr, Lieut. Commandant of the Crysta? Palace Police, then came forward and welcomed the com- pavy in the folowing happy terms :—Gentlemen. I have to apologire to P bp for the absence of Captains Du Pont and Davis, the Superintendents of the Orystal Palace As- sneer mie pease very much that their duties ob- ged them to leave before your arrival. But, however, by their sbrence, the pleading duty has bee conferred on me, to welcome you all to view our Crystal Palace, and 1 Go extend to you a hearty welcome, and in doing so, the oply regret I experience is, that at this time we car ony show you the shell, but, be assured, when you next viit us we will show you the Kernel, (Cheers.) A.G Brasnear, the marshal of the company, made 9 handsome rep hen proceeded to view the Palace, the ly The company members expressing their highest admiration of its beau- ty and arrangements, and ac their departure they gave pine cheers for Industrial Committee and_ their officers. ‘They then returned to their quartere in the “Acsy Hoel, or, at Jeast, where their quarters had been in the morning, ies we Se, to be that the Baltimore oom- apy were distur! ibe clement Eraubduing, the Amectean Hotel eet cis yee rera being in flame: their return, and their vali-es sharing the teattering fate of the proporty of the otber inmates. ‘The company also visited the Hippodrome last evening. THE BANQUET AT THE ASTOR HOUSE. “#4 f Last evening af grand banquet was fgiven at the Astor Houre, by the Columbia Company No. 14, to their breth- ren of the Mechanical Engine,Company, of Baltimore, in honor of their visit to New York. & Theodore E. Tomlinson,’ Esq., presides, s Owing to the fire that occurred at the American Hotel, where, strange to say, the firemen of Baltimore resided during their stay in New York, the commencement of the banquet was delayed to a late hour, Among the invited [guests were Cornelius V. Andes? son, ex-Chief Engineer; Phi. W. Engs, President of Exe empt, Firemen, Zophar Mills, late President of ‘the Fire Department; Adem P. Pentz, Chas. MeDougal, President of the Fixe Department; George Kellock, C. Norwood, J, Y, Walker, Geo H Purser, Jawes T, Brady, Esq. &. As the guests sat down to an excellent bill of fare, such as Coleman & Stetson aro always in the habit of placing before their company, the President, in a few expressive words, welcctmed the Boltimore firemen to the city of New York, avd expressed the grateful remembrance with which bis bro:ers locked back to the hospitality they had received f» Balsimore, The venersble James Lovecnove, who has been fitty- thee years a firewnn, avd over forty years connected with the Mechanical Engine Company of Baltimore, re- spcnded briefly. The company then commenced discuas+ ‘9 the vianos and pure wines prepared by their worthy hosts, ive ornsmental corfectionery was varied and appro- priste, Opporite th® Chairman was the figure of a fire- man, ip the well known red ehirt and glazed exp; and at the extreme end of the centre table, was a house illumi- rated from wiihin 60 as to give it the appearange of being on fire. dir. Bravsuers, the foreman of the Baltimore Company, gave a yolunteer to ‘The Columbion "E e Cowpany 14 of New York—May they never be in worse company, and may we never be with- out as eafe a vanguard, ‘On the cloth being removed, the chairman proceeded to propore the s¢gwar toasts, whieh were as follow:— 1. Country and its Constitution—The noble legacy Dequeathed by the Ferocs of Lie Revolution, sacred toevory American heart from the Atlantic to the Pacitic. 2 ‘Tho Presidert of the United Sta:es—Elevatod to tha highest position within the cifts of the American people, may Lis ‘administration successfully maintain our obmmon prosperity, honor and ni 3. The State of New Dist/ngnished by ite enter: or prise, intelligence, industry ai tributes to prosperity and hap ward.’ 4. Tho Mechanical Engine Company, of Baltimore—Faith- ful and ¢ficient fircmen, intelligent abd courteous citizens, Coivmlin’s Sons extend to them, with cordiality, a Fire: eleom 16 bultiucre United Fire Department—Energetio, de- yoted, ond fearless in the discharge of its dangerous ‘and Imnertant dutiee—it needs no monument in the Monument riotism, in all that con- her course is “on- ai City. sity 6. ‘Ihe Monumental City*Founded by those who estab- trecdom of conseionce” on this continent, it hae # tLe chief eity of a State, which trom tho bat- of the revolution to the present day, has mani- evinting support of the constitution and devo- n. 7. ork Fire Department Fund—Contributed by the muniticence of the public, and protected and gistributed Dy its vigilant and devoted members—may it be ever ade- ovate torelieve the widows aud orphans of our deceased crs of Mechanical Engine Company of Bal hey ever be ae encocesful in extinguishing they heve boon in kindling the spark of fr er, by means annihilatian space, May the day ‘ent which will seo there irou belts uniti connecting every p in defence of woman's home have always been acrifice lifeiteelf, Air—Let the Toast be Dear lay toast Mr, Jas T. Grany rewponded, non to pay any eumpliment to the 3 bon; there was no State which honor of present than the State of vorch fret existed civil and rel gious lib- ret tine in his hte pe had ever met rd, but, ia commoa with. he used toraa with the his venerable friend, Me. Lovegrove, vh the wachive yet, will, when he gets to the of those wh r eord, be food at tha head of the machine, Flav ch ct | Mr. Brady then, in humorous remarks, re~ soe to the fact, that thouvh the vocation of the Ore- could not succeed withour water, ye% be conld see no he tabies now presented by tae dremen of Co- No. 14 Dae firemen are bound to blaze; tetopat the Americsn Hovel witaout set- uhter); ‘although they mignt think war gisd they wee going howe, for ‘y burntup (laughter). He chen wale? or they bing st on fire ( it very ipenitis he didn’t want 1 com limented them on their soMdierhke appearance military organization because it proves that th up, i recersity requued it, a greater dre th they pai orn. : To te 4th regular toast, Mr. Barry, of Baltimore, respor ded ‘Jo the 7th regular toast, Mr. PuRsER responded. ‘The fenrivities wero kept up toa 4 hour i and, hen our reporter left, the company were enjoying themselyes, and looked jike men that wére determined to do x0, «MN daylight did appear.””

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