The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. ae JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, , CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. ‘OrrICE XN. eeemomomqqwwaeaeaeaeaeeee AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Manco Srarpa—Finet Kicut—Tue Toonies. NIBLO’S, Broadway.—Jouw Bux. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham strees.—Ricnarp III— Poor Sovpiga—luRy Ovr. . CHARLES THEATRE, Bowery. CAVALIERS AND ee nt vaae Haapt Neven Won Fars Lapr— Huspawo's Szcner. AMERICAN MUSEU Bwan- Inisn Dracoons. MADISON AVENUE.—Afternoon and Evepiag—FRAN- eoni’s CoLossaL HirropRome. WASHINGTON CIRCUS—Cornor of Twenty-ninth atrect and Sixth avenue. eet CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broadway—Ermorian Maxovixs uy Curisty’s Ovens Trovre. RLS, Wood’s Musical Hall, 414 Broad- INST RELSY. GTORAMA, 58 Brosdway—BanvaRn’s PANORAMA OF vue Tlowy Lawn. OWEN’S ALPINE RAMBLES, 539 Broadway. THIS EVENING. CASTLE GARDEN.—Ivsrrumenrar Concert, sy Don- wor7)'s Conner BAND, oon—Boors ar THY Poor GentLemss- Woop’s MINS way—Ermioriax THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. The United States mail steamship Illinois, Captain Hart- wtene, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two clock, for Aspinwall. The mails for California and other parts of the Pacifie ‘will elose at one o'clock. The New York Wexxiy Henatp—California edition— ‘with the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at 10 0’elock to-morrow morning. Single copies, sixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as early as possible. The Fews. Having despatched a reporter to Susquehanna immediately upon the announcement of the fatal dis- aster on the Erie Railroad last Thursday evening, we are to-day enabled to lay before our readers a full and accurate account of the melancholy affair. Oar reporter, it will be seen, has taken great pains to procure a correct list of the names of those who are known to have been killed and wounded; but it is believed that some of those on the train were blown into the river, of whom nothing has yet been Jearned. The simple description by the spectators of the scene consequent upon the explosion, is thril- ling in the extreme. While upon this sorrowful theme Jet us once more urge upon our legislators the importance of suspending the discussion of political, sectarian, and other matters, until after they have passed the bill now pending in the Assembly for the better preservation of life and property on railroads. We give to-day the translation of quite an impor- tant document on a very interesting subject, to wit: the manifesto made by Governor Lane to the Mexi- can Commisehners, in defence and justification of his course in declaring the annexation of the Mesilla Valley. The statement was originally delivered in English, but no version of it in that tongue has hitherto been published. The first we saw of it was in the Universal, of Mexico, from which we have translated it, as a remarkable piece of documentary history, and for the benefit and information of all who feel an interest in a subject which once threatened, and may yet prove to bea casus belli between this republic and Mexico. Both branches of the Legislature adjourned from Friday till Monday. The Senate ordered the Catholic bill to a third reading by a vote of ten to eight, and the Assembly passed the bill repealing the act legal- izing the canal lettings of 1851. It is reported that not over seventy-five persons were in attendance at any one time at the State Tem- perance Convention, which assembled in Rochester last Thursday. That body adjourned on Friday after- nocn, having done but little during the session be- rides electing officers for the ensuing year. We learn from Washington that Secretary Dobbia has returned to bis post. During his absence he was offered a public dianer in Wilmington, N. C., but plead pressing business in the Navy Department for not accepting the compliment. Major Drake, in con- sequence of the illness of Col. Graham, has been ap- pointed to run the base line of the contemplated government canal between Apalachicola and Pensa- cola, Fla. Vice Admiral Seymour, commander-in-chief of the British naval forces on the North American and * West India stations, has been received with distin- guished honors at St. John, N. B. The Common Council have resolved upon presenting him with an address expressive of approbation for the satisfacto- ry manner in which he bas watched over and prc- tected the interests of the colonial fishermen. The Admirai’s visit to New Brunswick is said to be for the purpose of concerting measures for the more effec- tua! protection of the fisheries, for which object the most extensive arrangements are still making. Steamers and sailing vessels are being manned, equipped, and stationed at every point where a mackerel or herring is likely to make its appearance during the season. 4 Scarcely a day passes that we do not hear of one or more railroad projooto epringtug up among our enterprising countrymen. Some idea of this extra- ordinary spirit of internal improvement throughout the land, may be gleaned from the large amount of intere:ting information relative to railroads published jm another page. By reference to a paragraph in another column, it will be seen that rumors are afloat that George Law is negotiating with Santa Anna for the transfer of those muskets which created such nervous anxiety among the Cuban authorities some months ago. It is hinted that if Santa Anna has the wherewith to pay for the celebrated weapons he can have them ; otherwise it is not unlikely they will be reserved for the protection of Purser Smit’. Considerable difficuity has been engendered among the crew of the ship Silas Leonard, which sometime ago left Matanzas for Trieste. They allege that they were shipped from this port for Matanzas and back. Five of them deserted at M., crossed the Gulf in an open bout, and were picked up off Cape Florida. The vessel on Friday put into Newport for more hands, whereupon most of the remaining crew left her. The American steamer Creole, running in the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick trade, was wreck Cape Roseway last Wednesday evening, and, her cargo, will prove a total loss. The pas were saved. Some excitement bas been produced in Philade phia concerning the final disposition of the remains of Arthur Spring, who was executed for the murder of the sisters Shaw and Lynch, last Friday week. On opening the coflin supposed to contain the body wot the deceased, nothing but a log of wood and some wlothing were found. For the accommodation of the churoli-going com 4 Wnity, we elsewhere publish a list of the sermon: ay, ecially advertised to be delivered to-day, togeth wit a varetY of other religious information, whi: *b particular attention is directed Th. * annexed is a brief summary of the contents o today’s inside pages:—Interesting European Ir telligen "€, embracing a letter from one of our London . rTespondents, Curious Developements of Paris Life, Disquisition apon South Ameri fairs, Theats.‘cal and Miscellaneous ivems, &c. Letters from Woncord relating to New Hampshire: Politics; Review of the recent Democratic Conven- tion in that State; Boston and North Carolina Cor respondence, Sabbath Amusements and Alligator Killing in New Orleans; Fina..cial and Commercial Reviews; Local Theatricals, &c. i Marcy’s Instructions to eur Con- suls Abroad—What next? Nothing, since the inaugural address of Gen. Pierce, has given a more lively sense of exube- rant satisfaction to the country than Secretary Marcy's circulars to our plenipotentiaries, chargés, secretaries of legation, and consuls abroad. He has gained, from these good old time instructions, golden opinions from all sorts of men, women, and children. Hence, being persuaded thereunto by a yearning desire fully to discharge our duty tothe public, we took. cecasion. a day or two #g0, to express our Com. mendations of that democratic republican re- formation appertaining to the official costumes of our diplomatic corps, which reduces them frum the highfaluting pomposities of flunkeyism to the primeval simplicity and blue yarn stock- ings of good old Doctor Franklin. Actuated by a similar purpose now, we have a word or two to say in approbation of the of- ficial letter to our consuls. But first, we must confess that the order to the secretaries of lega- tion, that they are to be careful not to exceed in the amount of their drafts, the sum to which they may be entitled in account with the United States, at the date of the draft, has a very suspicious look about it. Does our cautious Premier distrust these gentlemen, or suspect, notwithstanding “their papers” and Congres- sional recommendations, that here and there, perhaps, there may be a Jeremy Diddler among them? No harm done, anyhow, in keeping a sharp eye upon the treasury. Our secretaries of legation are generally young men, and it is well they should be thus admonished against the temptations of foreign courts. They may be dazaled and led astray; but it is well, we re peat, that they should understand that beyond | the sum of two thousand dollars a year the government can’t pay the expenses, for that the | day of extra allowances has gone by. Let them remember the example of good old Doctor Franklin, in his maxim that— “A penny saved is twopence clear — A pina day ’s a groat a year,” and lay up something against the contingencies of another election. But to the consuls. The Premier eets out by declaring that the employment of foreign clerks in our consular offices is a bad practice, and ought to be, and, in point of fact, must be, abandoned. Very good as far as practi- cable, but rather tough upon the con- suls, for Americans, even abroad, are ac- customed to a higher scale of charges than foreigners. And how will that work? And how will Messrs. Soulé, Robert Dale Owen, Belmont, and other distinguished foreign born ministers, and other officials abroad, like this thing? But the order will have the effect of ex- tending among usa knowledge of foreign lan- guages. which is eminently desirable. Mark, then, the far reaching sagacity of our Premier. and admire. And then they must report every fee, if it be but a single fee; andeven if they get no fee at all, that foct must be reported, which is all right. And “the exaction of fees for the verification of passports, which might be dispensed with,” must be stopped. That’s good, It ig Ben Franklin’s view o: the subject toa hair. No tricks upon strangers, if you please. And then the Secretary informs his consuls that people are accustomed to travel all over these United States without a passport, which we believe is true; but still, to many of our consuls abroad, this-may be valuable infor- mation. Another point of instruction of the pure de- mocratie school is this—that if our consuls think they are imparting “dignity and importance to the place where the business of the consulate is transacted, by calling it ‘ La Chancellerie, and the clerk in their employment ‘Le Chan- celier’ ” they are very much mistaken, There is no law of Congress for it. It won’t do It is the trick of the charlatan. Our Pre- mier despises such Frenchified nonsense, and won't have it. “La Chancellerie!’ Take it down, and put up “Clerk's Office.” so that our people may not mistake you for some French Chancellor of the Exchequer. “ La Chancellerie’’ Contrast the contemptible eyism with the sign of the patriotic son of wax near Columbus, Ohio, illuminated with the American spread eagle, and inscribed in let- ters of gold— E Pluribus Unum, J. Watkins, shoemaker,” and how paltry the consular hum- bug appears! We are positively glad that S eretary Marcy has ordered *' La Chancelleri and “ Le Chancelier” to be taken down. Th smell of the moustache * dem fine kwecha, white kid gloves and “eatrait de cologne. Down with them. 4 bas La Chancellerie! A bas Le Chancelicr! Vive la Republique !— Vive le bon homme, Docteur Franklin! Furthermore, our consuls will understand that they are to remain at their posts. unless upon leave of absence. over Ttaly and the Alps on pleasure excursions. leaving the ume tu the care uf the clerk. Then, again, the consuls are to furnish the department, gratis, we suppose, with everything they can pick up relating to “ scientific discoveries, to progress in the arts, to agricultural develope- nis, and to general statistics, in foreign coun- t ’ the object being to publish a book. by the government, every year, of the information thus collected. Peantiful idea, that, and quite a plum for the public printer! But if Secretary Marcy can’t afford to pay for such services, we dare say that, where it is valuable, the New Yorx Hernaxp, as heretofore, will allow an equivalent, and print all such information and spread it before the world without charge to the treasury. Thus, in the Pickwickian sense. we cane with the generous Claude } that “We outbid you sordid huckst and are ready to lay down the dust. he is, we still too much for Secretary are Premier wind ig off the consular uniforms from the And we repeat again icks to the blue y le lent rn stock- it is an exe d thing. He Th The »part ment ha ment 0 Dudley Now. rescribed the subording aving de ties. th hours of labor, and their hoars of re- having warned them of the dish to which he they may be in- wving laid down their chart of public private morality. what are we to look for in itial international work of the State Deparin sese circulars are not bad they are certainly good for Buncombe. ta the Premie reised his authority. we trust the Preg nt, with equal stringency, will hoid his work. Our relations with Spain, England. France, Cuba; Hayti, ond the Sandwich Islands. are critical, Let not the Secretary of State quit Washington nifl the fog is cleared y. and the country is aseured of peace or war. Action! Action! Governor Lane’s Derance or Hiuseur.—We publish in another portion of our columns, this morning, a literal translation of the communi- cation made by Governor Lane, of New Mexico, in defence and justification of the course pur- sued by him, in reference to the annexation of the valley of the Mesilla. This manifesto of the causes which induced him to take the bold step of officially annexing that territory to the United States, was presented by him to the Commissioners of the State of Chihuahua, charged with regulating the difficulty, and by them it was forwarded to the Mexican govern- ment, and published in Spanish in the govern- ment organ of that capital. A copy of the docu- ment has been most probably forwarded by Governor Lane to the administration at Wash- ington; but if so, it has not hitherto found its way. in full, into any of the American journals. | The great importance which must be attached in this country to an act calculated to serve as a casus belli with the neighboring republic of Mexico, invests Governor Lune’s state- ment with a high degree of interest; and we therefore translate and publish the Spanish version of it for the edification of our readers. The facts given in it with so much precision and exactitude, con- stitute the statement a highly valuable paper | in a historical point of view, as well as strong- ly fortify Governor Lane’s position. Nor is the fact of his having been superseded in his governorship by the President’s appoint- ment of Mr. Merriwether, to be at all regarded in the light in which at first blush it might ap- pear, to wit, as an implied censure on his course with regard to this affair. The Mexican official organ does, however, so construe it, and ad- duces it as a proof of the pacific and honorable sentiments of our government towards that nation. We do not at all, however, coincide in this view of the motives actuating his remova! from office, but believe, on the contrary, that the grounds on which he has so ably defended his position are also fully adopted by our go- vernment, and that the cession of the Mesilla valley to the State of New Mexico will be in- sisted on. For a full comprehension of the whole affair, we once more refer our readers to Governor Lane’s manifesto. Tue Marz Liquor Law—Prospect or a Rz- VoLUTION or Partres.—The proceedings in our Legislature admonish us that the Maine Liquor law, for the State and the city of New York, is * manifest destiny.” If we escape it now, there is but little prospect of escape at the next ses- sion. And thus, aside from the war question, the Liquor law rises to the imposing magnitude of the paramount question of the day ; for the establishment of this law. in New York will inevitably work out a revolution and reorga- nization in the political parties of the country. Already this coercive temperance movement is spreading through Ohio and the West, and, ineredible as it may appear, it has actually in- vaded the State of Kentucky, the first white pioneer into which entered it with a bottle of good old rye whiskey in his pocket! And he lived to be somewhere near a hundred years old ; and his example has been a law of Ken- tucky hospitality from that day to this. There- fore, we may count upon a political revolution when the Maine Liquor law is preached success- fally in the very heart of Kentucky, without a | scrimmage Let the politicians look to it. The Maine law men, upon political candidates, are drop- ping democratic and whig distinctions. Their shibboleth is the Maine law. Where is this to end? Between the two old parties, in all the Northern States, it is probable that now the Maine law party can turn the scale in every No more trolloping | city, county, Congressional, or State election: | And will they not do so? If thirty thousand | frec soilers in Ohio, for the last five years have controlled the elections in that State, involving over three hundred thousand voters, what may not be accomplished in New York, Ohio. In- diana, and Kentucky, by fifty. forty, thirty, or twenty thousand rigid political partizans of this Maine Liquer law? If misery loves com- pany, the old maids and bachelors of Newport, restricted to cold salt water and ginger pop will soon “ rejoice with exceeding great joy,” if we may trust the signs of the times. Let the politicians turn their attention without delay | to the Maine Liquor law. “We are in the midst of a revolution.” Wuat a Contrast!—Yesterday our learn- ed, and theological cotemporary of the Courier. vouchsafed unto us an orthodox evangelical editorial lecture on the decline of the churches of the lower part of the city. and on the universal thinness of oar church congre- gations, on the Sabbath, in all parts of this | mighty Babylon, of seven hundred thousand people. And though the drift of the argument | was melancholy, the moral thereof was ortho- dox to the back bone. Gur venerable cotem- porary has, at length, found his true vocation. It is theology. He has*found that the dirty business of politics is all vanity and vexation ; that the “Pride, pomp and circumstance of glogioas war,” | are all moonshine ; and that diplomacy is but a i delusion. Between the pursuit of these bab- | bles and bau'les, and the substantial functions of the theologian. what a contrast! Let our venerable cotemporary persevere. Between the noise and confusion of petty party squab- bles, and the calm dignity of evangelical teachings, what acontrast! Let our brother of the Courier stand fast to the faith. Will here be war? Postace Enxvrnopes—The stamped Post Office envelopes ordered to be provided by Con. gress, are, we understand, ready for delivery, and we presume. will be distributed to the public throughout the country, about the first of July— the beginning of the new fiscal year. Let us have them soon as possible ; and let them be pro- vided with sufficient gluten or paste to hold the envelope together with a letter in it. The de- tached stamps have been tried and found want- ing in gluten. They are a nuisance. Give us the stamped envelopes, Mr. Nesbitt. good and strong; and we do hope thatgho Postmaster General will not delay ‘heir genoral distribu- tion for the public use, longer thad the first of Ju Prospect or a Lona Nar.—Some of the most despairing of the whig journals inform us that their par is dead; others. a little more hope- ful, say that “it is not dead, but sleepeth.” When its nap is out, let us know. Goon.—Our recent spell of weather, of warm funny days, and rainy nights. gives promise of libera supplies of bread and butter. TION OF THR Founrit or Juny av Tarny- 10 Monument Association will lay the corner stone of 2 monument, to be erected in commemoration of the captme of Major Andre on the 4th of July next. James T. Beale, Bey in to deliver the oration. The cor- ner stone will Le laid by Col Jewer A. Hamulton, ‘The Canadian Clergy ives. the time, to the churches of England and Scotland, “Probably there is no question that is calculated to | in the act of 1840.” exercise a more decided influence upon the future condition of Canada than the disposal of the clergy reserves, which, by an act of the British Parliament, have recently been placed at the disposal of the Legislature of the Province; and hence we conceive that a brief sketch of the history of this grant, and the circumstances in which it orginated, will be ac- ceptable to those of our readers who feel an interest in the affairs of a colony with which the United States are daily becomimg more intimately related, and may remove much of the misconception in which the subject is involved; the difficulties in relation to which, we fear, will be found to have been increased, rather than dissipated, by the adoption, in this in- stance, of the principle, although sound in itself, that the colonists, having had self government con- ceded to them, onght to manage their own affairs. The object of the French monarchs, when found- ing a colonial empire in America, was not so much the promotion and extension of trade and commerce ‘as the introduction of the Christian religion, as es- tablished in France, to effect which, extensive grants of land were made, and owing to which—aided by individual endowments and purchase—a religious community was established, that was recognized, at the time of the conquest of Canada by the British, and which has since been treated with the utmost toleration. This acknowledgment of the Roman Catholic reli- gion in Canada, together with the payment of tithes and dues to the clergy of that denomination, and the magnificent provision made by men of wealth for its support, naturally produced a corresponding action, on the part of the British government, for the maintenance of a Protestant clergy, by the reserva- tion in the constitutional act of 1791, by which Canada ‘was separated into two provinces, of one-seventh-of the surveyed lands for that purpose, and forming what is termed the clergy reserves. ‘That this reservation was originally intended for the clergy of the Church of England, there cannot be a doubt ; and in the Clergy Reserve bill of 1791, as at first introduced into Parliament, it was intend- ed expreasly “ for the support of a Protestant clergy, in liew of tithes.” The words in italics, however were struck out at the instance of the Bishops; but in September of that year, Mr. Dundas, then Colo- nial Secretary, addressed the following letter to Lord Dorchester, governing Canada, which, as it exhibits yery clearly the tenure by which lands were held, and the views of the government of that day, and as it has never before been published, we shall sub- join :— As there does not appear at present—says Mr. Dundas— to be cufficient provision for the support of a Protestant clergy, either in Upper or Lower Canada, the collestion of tithes, has, under the act of the present year, been suffered to continue; but your Lordship will understand that it is not wished to continue this burden longer than ig necessary for the competent, provision of the clergy. If, therefore, the proprietors of lauds Mable to the pay. ment of ti:hes, shall be induced to concur with your Lordships recommendation in providing a sufficient fund for clearing the reserved lands. and for buiidiog parsonage houses on the several parsonages which may be endowed, under the act of the last session of Parliament, aad at the same time provide an intermediate fund for the maintainance of the clergy during the period that will be required for the purpose of so clearing the reserved lands, the obligation of the payment of tithes may then cease. Ihave thought it necessary to explain the sud- ject to your Lordship, that by making it understood smong the proprietors of these lands, they may perceive the means which are in their power to relieve themselves from a burthen which is naturally irksome to them. Under this construction of the act of 1791, the clergy of the Church of England enjoyed the entire revenue arising from the reserves, until the claim of the Church of Scotland to a participation was sub- stantiated by the first legal authorities in England. By the terms of the original grant, however, it was provided that the appropriation of the reserves might be altered at any future period, by the Colonial Le- gislature; which being unable to agree upon any sa- tisfactory scale of division, the entire subject wassub- mitted to the British Parliament, and an act was passed in 1840, distributing the proceeds of the re- eerves among the different religious denominations of the Province, the Church of England having the largest proportion, that of Scotland the next, and the Free Church, Wesleyans and Baptists, being pro- vided for according to their numbers respectively, which at the time was considered a final and satis- factory adjustment of the question. But the Free Church and Independents, who are from principle opposed to receiving State support, refused to accept their proportion, and have since continued to agitate the Province, insisting that the reserves should be diverted from their original object, end be expended for the diffusion of education. At length, about three years since, the subject was taken up by the Legislature, and an address was ul- timately sent to England, which has led to the pass- ing of an act of Parliament, as has already been stated, authorizing the Canadian Legislature to deal with the reserves as it may deem advisable. Theaddress upon which this act is predicated, could not have been passed without the sanction of the Canadian government, nor without the support of the French members of the House of Assembly, whose object does not appear to be so much the se- cularization of the reserves as the exercise of the right to deal with what they consider is the property of the province, but who already begun to perceive that the same right may be exercised by a British majority in the Legislature, when they shall be suf- ficiently united, with reference to lands granted originally by the King of France, for the support of the Roman Catholic Church in the province, by which its present ascendancy in Lower Canada will he destroyed, as has been already broadly intimated by the Duke cf Newcastle and Mr. I’. Peel, during a debate recently, in the Imperial Parliament. That these lands do not belong to what, by a political misnomer, is called “ the people,” will, we presume, be admitted, after a moment’s considera- tion of the manner in which the surrender of the territory of the crown was effected. Until very re- cently, the ungranted lands of the North American | colonies were held by the government of the mother country, founded upon their acquisition by conquest; and from the revenue derived from this source the | Some ten or | principal public officers were paid. twelve years since, however, it was proposed to surrender these, upon condition that the Legislatures of the different provinces would defray the ex- penses of the civil gouernment ; and after consider- able chaffering as to the amouut to be paid, this was agreed to—each colony consenting to pay a cer- tain and fixed sum annually ; and the lands of the | ™. crown were accordingly conceded. At this time, as was well known in Canada, a con- siderable extent of territory was embraced in the clergy reserves, which it was not supposed for a mo- ment was included in such surrender, and which having been already granted for a specific object, it was notin the power of the British government otherwise to appropriate, but which the colonists now wish to obtain without giving in exchange v further equivalent. It further appears, by a letter from the Duke of Newcastle to the Governor General, dated in March last, that when the arrangement was effected by the act of 1840, dividing the proceeds of the clergy re- serves among different denominations, an under- standing was entered into between the British go- vernment and the Archbishop of Canterbury, repre- senting the Church of England in Canada, by which anannual charge was contingently imposed upon the consolidated fand of the mother country, to the extent f £7,700 sterling for the Church of Bagland, and £1,680 for that of Scotland. This contin; Y could not arise, unless the proceeds of the reverves should fall below the joint amount, against which event the provision was intended; and it was revent- ly contended in Parliament, that in making a final settlement, the sums so guarantied ought to be re- served ont of the general provisions of the act, and definitely charged to the reserves. Such a provision, however, the British government would not consent to introduce; but “ who indulge the hope,” says the Duke of Newcastle, “that if at some fature time, the Parliament of Canada should think proper to legislate npon the reserves, they will not love sight Jt will thus be seen that an apple of discord has been thrown int) Canada by the late act of Parlia- ment. The free church party are evidently ac- tuated by hostility towards the establishments; and whether this reservation is provided for by local legisiation, or from the consolidated fund of Great Britain, their‘aim will be defeated. The French Ca- nadians are finding out that if the clergy reserves, originally set apart for the support of the Protestant religion, and confirmed by solemn acts of Parlia- ment, can be diverted to secular uses, there will be no validity in grants made previous to the conquest of Canada, for that of the Roman Catholic Church. ‘The members of the two national churches, and the conservative portion of other denominations, will view such a diversion as an act of spoliation; and, finally, should the French Canadians oppose such an appropriation in the present instance, the measure cannot be carried, and the question will re- main to distract the minds of her majesty’s lieges in Canada, where it will continue to be a bone of con- tention. : Before concluding, it may be as well to state that the lands embraced in the clergy reserves are not withdrawn from sale or settlement, as they are con- stantly inthe market, and are continually being taken up by settlers, so that no injury accrues to the province in this- respect; and as to their establish- ing a union of Church and State in the colony, that is an assertion too absurd to deserve notice, and is controverted by the fact that their proceeds are par- ticipated in by all denominations of Christians ofany standing, and, under the act of 1840, even by Roman Catholics. If those who have hitherto opposed these grants had directed their efforts against the im- mense tracts of wild lands held by absentees and speculators, which cannot be obtained except at exorbitant prices and under rainous conditions, or against the Indian reservations, which materially in- terfere with the settlement of the province, the most beneficial effects would have been produced, without creating those bitter and unehristian feelings which, whatever may be the result of the present move- ment, cannot fail to be perpetuated. Marine Affairs. ‘Tae SreaMeuiP Sovrueaner, Capt. Foster, arrived yester- day morning from Charleston, in 5$ hours, bringing us late papers from that city. DEPARTURE oF THR WashincTon —The United States mail steamship Washington, Captain Fitch, left at noon yesterday for Bremen, via Southampton, with 110 passen- gers and $300,000 in specie, Tue New Steamsuir JaMestowN.—This beautiful addi- tion to the line between this city and Richmond, will not take her place in the line until Saturday, the 25th inst. ‘The Roanoke will succeed her on the following Tuesday, the 28th, which will hereafter be the regular days.for these steamers to leave New York. Tne CurreR Smp SWEEPSTAKES —The attempt to launch this ship yesterday proved unsuccessful. In sliding from the ways she heeled over, struck against a ship on the stecks alongride, and remained fast; and the united efforts of two steamtugs to pull her into the water were inef- fectual. She is in a very awkward position—partly in the water and partly out. The ship in careening knocked away a staging, which was crowded with spectato-s, throwing miny of them int> the water. Several wer taken out slightly bruised, anda lad had his arm broken. The CENTREVILLE COURSE, L. I. Wepyespay, June 15.—Trotting match $500, mile heats, best three in five, to 250 1b. wagons Mr, Fish named g. g 8, Odell named s. h. Nimrod, Same Day.—Trotting match $200, mile heats, in har- ‘Dees. T. Davis named r. m. Prairie Maid. W. Whelan ramedc g Cream Pon? Time, 2:65—2: UNION COURSE, L. I. Tuvrspay, June 16.—Trotting match $500, mile heats, best three in five, to 250 Ib. wagons, W. Whelan named br. m. —— H. Woodruff named b. m. Kate LOUISIANA RACES, Metane Course.—A ten mile trotting match came oT on May 30, between four horses, viz :—Neddy, Flat Bo Gray Harry, and Bay May. Nedy won by half a mile Flat Boat was the only horse that want through the race Desides the winner—Gray Harry giving up ou the third, he following is a and Bay Moy on the seventh mile. table of the time:— Time. Sixth mile. Fifth milé, Total... .cssces@eeeceveseeveerercres KENTUCKY RACES. Loursviie Course, June 6.—Purse, Galt House stake, $100; entrance $109; $50 forfeit, i 'sb. . J. M. Clay's J. Campbell's Unknown Woman FouND DRowNED.—Corcnor Gamble yester ay held an inquest at Pier 9, North river, on the body of an urknown woman, found floating in the river, opposite Bedlow’s Island, The body was brought to Pier No, 0, where the Coronor held sn inquest. Dr. Uhl made an ex'ernal examinstion of the bedy, and found it to exhibit all the appearances of death caused by drowning. The decea-ed was ao stout-made woman, about 28 or 30 years of age, Greased in a common red and white calico frock, cotton chemises, on one foot was @ bigh quartered shoe.’ A verdict was rendered of “Death by drowning ” A WARING To PARENTS, ~-Coroner Hilton yesterday held an inquest at No. 87 Bayard street, on the body of a child five years of age, named Edward A. Meyers, who came to his death by eceidentally falling into a tub of raiding water, causing injuries which resulced ia death in a few hours after. It appears that the mo:her of the child was :n the yard washing and the child was drawing awagon and welking backwards, and, coming against the tub. fell into it A verdict was rendered of—"Death caused by accidental scalding,” Fatat Accent oN 1H Exm Rar.roap —Coroner Hilton yesterday held an inquest at tae New York Hospital on the body of Isasc Montague, aged thirty-five, a native of the United States, who came to his death in consequence f his leg being crushed by the cars of the Erie Raticvad, while parsing through Orange ccunty. It seams by the siatement made by the deceased, that on Friday aftecavon, he laid down to rest himeelf near the railroad track, aud fell asleep, snd in his sleep he thinks be must have rolied over end placed ove leg on the rail, as when the cars came aloog the wheels passed over cne jeg, crushing it ine terrible manner The train was stopped, and the | deceased brought to this city aud placed in the hospital, whee he (ied from the effects of the iajury. Previous to hin death he +tsted that he was without friends, and had | been married, but bis wife was ccad. The jury roadered the following verdict:—"That deceased came to bis death by being accidentally rux over by railroad cara, !n Orange county, New York, Deati BY RUPTURE oF THE Heart —An inquest was held | on Friday morning. before Coroner Gamble and an intel- | ligent jary, at No. 66 Cortlandt street, corner of Washing | ton, on the body of A G. Spence. The deceased was an Englisbwan by birth, though long a resident here, aged about forty eight years and from the almost instanta necus manuer of his death, whilst suppiog offa place of | hem and bread, was suppored to haye died from sniffo- | cation by hasty eating. A physician, Geo, Choethom, |. D., of 152 Greenwicn street, had visited him «mmedt= ately on the occurrence of the supposed strangulation, but found his parient pul-eless. no respiration of the lungs, | and no rymptoms of merely suspended life about h m—ia fact, dead. The face, throat and chest were perfectly colorless, aud no indication whatever presented of death occasioned by choking. ‘The post mortem examination of the body, made by Pr. Cheetham, at the direction of the Coroner, revealed the true cause of this instant: decense, No morsel of food or other cbstru found in the track of the esophagus, or at the commence: ment of the trachea (windpips), but death was suflicient Iv wecounted for by the rupture of the large vessels af the heart, especially in the left auricle, On this dis Tuption, dew:h would momentarily ensue, without a sob or pang, orenything but an unconscious sparm. The liver was pale, very large, and iadurated After a verdict in accorda: 1 the abore frets had bean randered hy the jury, ‘he remains of Air. Spence were taken charge of by his friends, for reepectable interment. Police 1 The Murder of Wm. Si r loil—Yesterday Justios Osborn conciuded the investign tion in the matter pending against Jawes MeArdle, Albert A. Bogert Corneling Collins, Hugh Hizes, and Timote: Hegan. wir a felonious asvaut on Win. Stall ra, ries which cansed his death. The asaatt Wns perpetrated ome four weeks ago, at French’s Hotel, ‘The magistrate, on the facts as preaented before ihe ¥ considered there waa enough exhidived against the ed parties to warrant his sending the case bafors J aod therefore held Jame McArdle, Aloect Timothy Hogan, to bail ‘ns livs Colling, and $1,000 each, tonswer too charge. Hugh Hives not being so fully identified in the affair, was dia chiniped by the magistrate from custody. Bogart, Moar die, end Colina, entered into the required hail aud were hhevated from prison; Hogan subsequently gave bail and was setat liberty, Ira. Caverry, who was arrestel on Fy iday night, on suspicion of belog eae of the paxtivs con- cerved in the mu der, was honorably discharged oy the mepistrate wpon the evidence of Mr, Freach, who tnoat positively stated that Caverry wax not one of the mea who aseaulted the deceased on she night in question. United States Marshal's Gffice, Jone 18,—David Coiling, one of the crew of the Ameri« can ship Austria, was arrested on a charge of having made a revolt avd for unlawfully confining the Captain, Kngene L Tessier, om the last voyage of that vewrel fom f the expectation which this guarantee held out at | Charleston to New York, for the Crystal Palace Exposition, is pment by the Turin commission of the speci - mens of Italian art and industry for the exhibition, AN Imposraz —A one armed fellow, calling himsefl Nicholas Mitchell, has been recently prowling about the Eleventh ward, represen’ himself to be “a Mexican Volunteer,” and soliciting from the ‘benevolent”’ or the “patriotic,” as the case might be. In furtherance of a Soest setbete be wae 2 the habit of Ree ay | e most extreor: is wens, and back thrilling appeals by the exhil ‘of hia muti limb, snd of many other “honorable scars.” On Wednes¢ay last thin warrior was desirous of out on parade, nd wanted the best “hoss’”’ in Conklin & Cozen’s. stables, which was duly caparisoned, and our mili hero having mounted, rode eff in gallant style, Naik came on, bat neither steed nor horseman returned, and Mr. Colyer, one of the proprietors of the stables, began to chew the end of reflection, whether the man of war had fallen off his horse or gone iu purauit of the eaemy. Ava firal rerouree in such doubtful emi he ap- plied to officer Arker of the above district, who being ‘an Expert’ iu euch difficult points took thé affair in hand, and tracked the “volunteer” to Newark. Here he found that ibe horse had been so'd for $60, half cash and a note for the balsnce, The rider had however disappeared, and mort probably will never return to show his Ciry Hosrrmau.—A carman, of the name of Patrick Musphy, while voloading some slabs of marble intended for shipment to California, during the storm of ria a(ternooa, met with a very serious accident. He carted four s!abe from Ferriss stone yard, at the eorner- of Greenwich snd Beach streets, toa wharfon the East river side between the Roosevelt street and Peok slip fer- ries, where the ship culled the Queen of Clippers— of which they were to form a part of the cargo—lay, Murpby, in conjunction with another man, had unloaded three of them, which were placed on one side, and while arrarging the fourth slab—which weighed about 280 Tha.— by the side of the others, it slipped. and fell on his leg, which was broken in two ‘thus causing a compound fracture. The injured man was conveyed to his home, in East Severtcenth etreet, between Avenue A and First avenue, and was afterwards taken, ia the course of yesterday, to the City Hospital, where he now 8. a Yesterday afternoon, between five and six o'clock, a a man pemed James Delshanty, who resides at No, 88 Trinity place, baa one of bis ribs fractured and reveral contusions about his body, by a eask of white lead, weighing cver 700 Ibs.. slipping from his hold while he was endeavoring to remove it from the stoop of a store at ihe corner of Font street and Maiden lane. prior to closing. He was teken to the Hospital, where his in- juries were examined by Dr McComb. ‘A boy named Pat Dougherty. while employed about = rintixg press belonging to Messrs. Hopkins & Jacobs, (0. 67 Forsyth street, and which was being need at the time for printing labels, got two of his fingers, the fore- finger and the cre uext to it, caught in the teeth of a cogwheel belonging to the machine, whieh were so se- verely lacerated that it was found ex; t to amputite them, which was performed yesterday at the Hospital, whither the boy had been conveyed by Dr. Derby. Aman ramed Samuel Smith employed 4s an excava- ter on the unfinished eewer nov in progress in Thompson- street, near Houston street, suffered » compound ture of the leg, from the caving in of the earth above. Yesterday the leg. about the thigh, was amputated by Dr. Vap Buren, at the Hospital. Fas ALARM.—Last night, at nearly nine o’cloek, the fire bell belonging +o the City Hall in the Park, rang an alarm of fire in the Eigh'h district. There was imme- diately a general issuing forth of the fire companies down * town, who appeared bawildored where to find the exact. rpot.’ Some rushed up Broaéway and others down, while @ few made a detour reund Chambers street, and one we perceived from our office rushing post haste up Nassau street, but evidently not well determined which road to. take. Atlergth, sfter a vreat deal of huntirg about and ferreting into all rorts of dark nooks and co) with lighted lanterns, the fire-seekers came upon the object of which they were in search, avd which turned out to be a bon fire nea: ly st the end of Cedar street, on the North River side, which was blazing fiercely in the middle of the road. From the bright light it cast around, it might very easily have been mistaken for s house on fire, and evidently wai caused by some stronger material than straw. These fires that are often made in the streets are very likely to be dangerous when the latter are very nar- row, and ought not to be allowed when composed of other- mafprials than +traw. Fire —Jate on Friday night police officers Mott and Denison. of the Seventeenth ward, discovered a fire in the attic bedroom of house 147 Essex street, occasioned some children playing witha lighted candle near their bed. The flre was extinguished by the officers. Damage trifling. ANoTHER Firr.—Late on Friday night a fire broke out in a two story brick building situate in Le Br i ing street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. The was éntirely consumed. Axotarn —On Friday night & fire occurred in a gaa fit- ting establishment, at 43 Green street, whieh was extin- guished without much lose. Fink Cavsep BY A Camrnexe Laue —On Friday night a esmphene lamp expleded at No. 129 Willett street, settiog- fire to the premices It was, however, extingujehed by officer Sickels and others, of the Eleventh police district, with trifling damage, AccipENT TO 4 FineMan ~ George Bowers, a member of Hore Compacy No. 47, while going to a fire on Friday night, in the Fourth district, fell down in Bond street, near Broadway, and was rua over by the carriage. He was reriourly injured, and was conveyed home to his resi- der ce, at No. 09 Levis street, by the members of the oom- pavy. Rartroap AccipEnt.—On Friday right 2 man named Isaac McTarnee. while lying on the track of the New York and Erie bollroad, a Orange county, had bis leg cut off below the knee He was brought over to the city across the Jersey City ferry, and delivered in chargo officers Van Winkle and Reed, who conveyed him to the New York Hospital. Accent — On Friday Inst, aman named Francia Dixon, while at work in the stone yard situated in Thirteenth street, be’ Firat and Second avenues, had his thigh badly crushed and the hore broken, by the accidental fall « large piece of granite. He was takes to Bellevue Hospital Deuricm TREMENS —A man named Edward Shelby, re- siding at No 81 Mulberry strest, was obliged to be taken, on Friday Jast to the stacion house of the Sixth police district, while laboring uncer an attack of delirium tre- mens, the effects of which were so violent that it waa found necessary to strap him down, This appeared to be of service, and as soon as sufficiently recovered, he was sent back home. Run Over.—On Friday afternoon a boy by the name of George W. Sawey. was run over at the corner of Grand. and Cannon streets, by a horse and cart driven by John Glass, by which accident hix leg was broken. He was taken to bis howe at No, 60 Pitt street, by policeman Michael Smith, of the Thirteeath ward. . Founp Drownrp —The body of an unknown female was found drowned in the North river, opposite Goveraor’s Tland, by a beatman named Wiliiain Welsh, by whom it was taken to pier No 9 North river, and the police au- thorities informed of the circumstance. Jersey City Intelligence, Drowxep.—Yesterday aftercoon, about four o’clock, & boat, in which were tio boys, named Samuel Burgess, and Thomas Rosn, capsized, near the Hedge, between Jersey City and Bedloe’s Island, and the latier was crowned. The other clung to the boat, and was rescued by an oysterman. Supreme Court, Refore Hon. Judge Roose volt. JoNE 18.—Courson vs Coursm and Wife=This case, a suit for divorce brought. by the mother, on tha groand that her son ware Innatic when ho married, wae brought toaconciusion this morping by the jury rendering a sealed verdict for the cefendant. The marriage of the arties bas been therefore ceclared valid, Mr. A. L. 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