The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1853, Page 4

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We elsewhere publish further particulars of the disastrous effects of the storm which swept over this section of the country on Saturday evening. In ad dition to the terrible calamity at Haverstraw, of whick a full account is furnished by our special re- porter, we learn that a new four story brick building, in process of completion in Brooklyn, was blown down a few minutes after the workmen had left the premises. The inside wall is reported to have been twelve inches thick, nevertheless lictle remains standing except the basement walls. The new cot ton factory at Attleborough, Mass., worth, with its contents, between forty and fifty thousand dollars, ‘wis entirely destroyed by fire on Saturday night. ‘The building is supposed to have been struck by lightning. As yet we have not heard that any dam- age was done by the storm yesterday. A despatch from Baltimore states that the wind, rain, and light. ning there, during the afternoon, were very heavy. The Atlantic, from Liverpool, arrived at this port early yesterday morning, putting us in possession of European journals and advices down to the twenty- ninth of June—four days later. The proceedings of the English Parliament were aninteresting. Lord Lyndhurst, in his place in the house of Peers, made some very severe remarks upon the late Nesselrode manifesto, which he charac- terized as being “ illogical in its conclusions.” In the Oommous, Mr. French alluded to the slave laws of South Carolina. The Income Tax bill had become Jaw, and the people were being much amused with the grand military display at Chobh’m. France was perfectly tranquil, but the continuance of most unfavorable weather caused some apprehen- sion to be felt regarding the yield of the present harvest. i There had been a ministerial crisis in Spain, and Her Majesty had appointed Senor Calderon de la Barcea—at present Spanish Minister at Washington— to the important office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Persia had been visited simultaneously by every description of plague recorded in either ancient or modern history, beginning with locusts and running @own to the cholera morbus. The same political suspense, heretofore noticed prevailed at every court in Europe, regarding the final issue of the Eastern question. There was no doubt the Sultan had rejected, courteously but firmly, the last and third ultimatum of the Czar; and the chief points of attention were whether the latter would pour his troops into Moldavia, and if he Gid, whether active hostilities or farther negotiations would be resorted to by the other great powers. The Paris journals incline to the opinion that peace will be still preserved, although they acknowledge that the Emperor Napoleon felt annoyed at the serious interruption resulting to general trade from the troubled aspect of affairs, and that he had very plainly inquired of his Northern brother “ what his intentions were 7” Full details are given of the latest news from Australia and China, which had been received iu England, together with the last market quotations. We publish in another column a letver, containing some additional particulars in relation to the Lady Suffolk and the landing of her cargo of slaves at Ci- enfiegos, on the island of Cuba, some weeks ago. According to our correspondent’s account of the affair, Santa Anna had some connection with it. He says that she cleared from Cuba under the Mexican flag, with no other papers than a certificate from the Mexican Consul at Havana, stating that she sailed with a temporary license under his seal and signa- ture, bound to Laguna de Terminos, and that on her arrival she was to be nationalized as a Mexican ship, owned in Mexico by Dr. Jose Ruiz, a confidential friend of the President. By way of New Orleans we have one or two add:- tional items of news, brought from Havana by the Rlack Warrior. It is reported that a wealthy Frenchman, named Forcade, had been arrested on a charge of being extensively engaged in the slave traf- fic. Several petty Cuban officers had also been placed under arrest for similar reasons. Rumors were also current at Havana that the Chinese, or eoolies, on one of the interior plantations, had re- yolted, and that in the course of a fight an overseer i was killed. } Gen. Pierce, we understand, will be received by the military at nise o'clock oa Thursday morning 4 See the account of the preparations for his reception in another column. ‘The funeral ceremonies of the Rev. Henry Chase, late minister of the Mariners’ Church, Roosevelt street, were performed yesterday afternoon at that ( edifice, in the presence of a large congregation. Want of room corapels us to refrain from referring particularly to the larger portion of the unusnaily interesting information with which this number of our peper is filled. The attention of the reader is, however, directed to the lengthy accounts we give of the most extensive fairs, or exhibitions of industry, which have hitherto been held in different parts of the world. By way of variety, we also publish a description of the curious scenes outside the Crystal Paiace up town. in addition, we insert letters from i Albany relative to Saturday's legislative proceed ings, and the trial and conviction of Hendri for the murder of his wife ; tae important deci of Judge Strong in the Supreme Court, granting a peremptory mandamus against the City Treasurer ; Commercial, Politic.1, and Miscellaneons News, &c. ; ; . te tee Tue War «nv New Hampsuine.—We ander- i stand that Mr. Edmund Burke, of New Hamp- shire, intends to start a daily paper at Ne yport N. HL, to be devoted to a criticism of the Presi- dential appointments and policy; the neglect of the “Old Guard;” the annihilation of the Pat- riot, and the straightening out generally of matters down East. The paper is to be furnished for three months for twenty-five cents. H is to be called the Old Guard. Mr. Burke is at present in Washington. and the first number of the paper will be issued on his return to New- port. ‘The Mission of Mr. Soule to Spain—WRe Ap- | dual sentiments of ambassadors. The well estab- pointment of Mr. Calaerom as Spanish Min- Vished rules of pe } Tn short, without something more to make | officercd and managed that sccidents were ab- ister of Foreign Affairs. The report brought over by the America. of the appointment of the Spanish Minister at | Washington, Don Calderon de la Barca, as Minister of Foreign Affairs at Madrid, is con- j firmed by the arrival of the Atlantic. We are | gratified that it is so, for we recognise it as an omen of peace, and of the continuance of our; triendly relations with Spain, without neces- | sarily arresting the policy of “ manifest des- tiny.” Mr. Calderon, most creditably to himself, nq most advantageously to his governmer ¢, has for many years occupied the post at Wr shington which he is now valled upon to rel‘inquish for the still more responsible position, of the Pre- mier of her most Catholic Majesty. And, doubtless. the thorough k:sowledge which he | has acquired from his long and intimate official and social relations with the government. the institutions, and the people of the United States, constitutes the all-sufficient reason for his transfer to Madrid at this particular crisis. We also consider it conclusive of this fact. that any negotiations which may arise concerning the island of Cuba, are to be conducted at the Spanish capital under the eye of the Queen and her ministers and advisers. In this view the mission of Mr. Soulé assumes the very highest degree of importance, as does | also the question ofhis reception or rejection by the Spanish Cabinet. The appointment, however, of Mr. Calderon as the Spanish Secretary of State, we regard as settling this point, beyond all doubt, in favor of the most cordial and gra- cious reception of Mr. Soulé. The kindly rela- tions, official and private, which have marked the intercourse between these two distinguished gentlemen since their first acquaintance with each other, and which have not been interrupted by the appointment of our new minister to Spain, are the basis of this conclusion. Inde- pendently, however, of these personal relations, we are disposed to maintain our original ground that Mr. Soulé is entitled to and will receive a cordial and generous reception at Madrid. The Spanish papers have been engaged of late. in discussing the international relations between the United States and Spain. They affect, amongst other things. to have discerned “a remarkable change of policy” on the part of the States toward that power. and to have de- tected new and formidable dangers impending over the sovereignty of Cuba. Mr. Soulé, our newly appointed Envoy, is regarded as consti- tuting an important element in these dangers, and the propriety of his official reception by their government is seriously considered. Itis made a point by some of these journals, not only of solemn, but even of national importance. However flattering all this may be to Mr. Soulé, and however palpable the fact that such a result could scarcely have occurred in refer- ence to an ordinary man, yet it is nevertheless plain that this belligerent agitation is alto- gether unofficial. It is, in fact, little else than a feeble echo of the free soil and whig fanati- cism prevalent in this country. Points of national honor and etiquette are also raised and agitated. Mr. Soulé’s career of life is gone over in considerable detail, and a Spanish Protectorate in Mexico is openly ad- voeated. The gravamen of all these protesta- tions against Mr. Soulé apears to be little more or less than this—He is supposed to be a fillibus- | tero—he is supp%sed to covet the possession of Cuba for the United Siates—to have avowed as much in his speeches in the United States Senate, and to have even been complimented at a sup- per in Washington for these identical incendi- ary sentiments. This last charge. it must be admitted, is 0 a nature truly alarming! That a handful of gentlemen. at a political supper should have gone so far as to utter and proclaim an admira- tion for sentiments of this class on the part of Mr. Soulé—this. we admit, is enough to justify all the consternation that has evidently taken possession of the throne of Spain. That such a foe, capable of purposes the most insidious and disastrous, should be admitted within the sa- cred boundaries of the realm.—who, whilst the Ministry is pale, and the Queen herself speech- less with apprehension—may make over the frontier, with the island of Cuba in his port-folio; nay, who once admitted within the citadel of Catholic power, may, in the space perhaps of forty-eight hours, lay the entire Spanish empire in the dust—this is a madness not for one in- stant to be enterteined. The wisest men in Spain foresee. and foresee plainly, that if he be once received, there is no remaining hope against these inevitable results. They plainly | behold the irremediable end of the Spanish mo- narcby for ever. We admire this prophetic wis- dom! applaud these fears! But jesting aside : it is not true (as the Span- ish papers assert,) that Mr. Soulé has ever avowed himself to be a fillibustero. Thealle- gation, from whatever quarter proceeding. is a groundless and impudent falsehood. Neither his speeches nor his acts have ever declared | him such, and it is altogether improbable that any one of the seribblers by whom he is thus assailed has ever perused his eloquent orations. Ifthey had. they would have discovered not villany, not political larceny, not contempt for the common laws and common interests of na- tions, but, on the contrary, an elevated advo- cacy of those great canons of international law which constitute the safety of the strong as well as the safety of the weak. In his speech delivered in reply to Mr. Clark, so little under- stood, but so often and so bitterly denounced they would have discovered in hig allusions to the Lopez expedition, sentiments like these :— ‘ Sir, I disapproved then, as I disapprove now, the reckless undertaking,” &c. In k speech, also, upon the “joint resolutions relating to Cuba,” &., his lan- guage is thi Sir, I am against this govern- ment forming any scheme through which an at- tempt might be wrest Caba from Spain, in violation of the strictest precepts of the law nations.” short, whenever are taken to ascertain th natter, one is brought to this simple made to real truth of the bat unm answerable conclusion—that there not the least foundation for tergiversations so ¢ op ated and ridiculous. It is even assumed that the appoin Mr. Soulé is aimed as a deliberate nt Spain that this reception “ involves not only point of high importance, but also one of nation- al honor,” and that ain could not admit him without derogation to her povrer. to her traii- tional dignity, and to the most cor n senti- ments of honor and decorum.” Wh tions of honor are involved, puneiilio—« Spanish punctili certa admiration, but wi Quixotism may be very common sense. It is quit gine that governments care a deserving of not rly ndricrons to ima- for the indivi- ly e ho! or prop intercohtsé proviue | the matter even creditable, not a donbt can be abundant gears against evils. real or imagi- nary, from su: hg quarter. The letter of instrac- tions furni’ rea by his government constitute the actua’, character of a foreign envoy. He is a nullit » for all other purposes. Save in those | Ca8eS’ where discretionary powers are confided to hit’, he is as incapable of mischief as the pens, Yok and paper with which he writes. Even when invested with discretion, if he should pre- sent for discussion an exceptionable subject, a simple intimation that the question could not be entertained would dispose of it definitely, with- out more words. If a minister be duly accred- ited by his government and deport himself with | decency, that is sufficient. It is utterly farcical to suppose that a ministry have so little to think about as to heed the ribaldry of writers, or to ; institute an inquisition into the antecedents of their diplomatic guests. If it were otherwise. the reception of a minister by any power would be almost radically impossible. It is a case, without precedent. that nations should seruple to receive a distinguished envoy, representing a friendly State, for no better reason than that his opinions and deportment at home should not have comported with their own caprices. But it is contended that, under the interna- tional code, Spain, in common with all other governments, is empowered to reject an envoy without the assignment of any reason for it. This right is assumed to be an established and recog- nised usage, and one which has been enforced time and again by civilized nations. Our owa example is cited by way of precedent; and thus Spain is not only justified by the law, but by | the practice, if she should think proper to put in force against ‘us this extraordinary prero- gative. Not satisfied with demonstrating this point. both by argument and usage, much stress is given to the law itself. Wheaton, a distin- guished American jurist, is appealed to, and the doctrines as laid down by him are declared to be decisive. Having made out a clear case to their own satisfaction, they go on to con- sider how far it is incumbent upon Spain to give Mr. Soulé a flat rejection, and send him home. Upon this point the oracles are divided. A word of argument on this whole propo- sition : In the first place, these papers know as little of international law as of the opinions aud speeches of Mr. Soulé. There is no probability that they have perused 2 solitary paragraph of either. It is not true that nations have the right to reject ministers plenipoten- tiary without the rendition of a reason. Acts so arbitrary are unknown in diplo- matic history. International law authorizes nothing of the sort. Neither the United States nor any other power has ever pretended to such a stretch of authority. Nor do the cases quoted from this practice of the United States lend the slightest support to such a view of the subject. In those cases the question decided was not a question of reception. Both minis- ters had been fully received, and had resided for a length of time near this government. They were simply dismissed, and for the excellent rea- son that they were deficient in good breeding. As to the language of Wheaton, the opinions, assertions and arguments of ihe Spanish press are just as groundless as upon all the other points of their case. So far from sustaining them, however. he gives them as firm and flat a negation as could well be embodied either in the English or Castilian tongues. His words are these: “So, also, one court may absolutely re- fuse a particular individual as minister from another court, alleging the motives on which euch refusal is grounded.” Nor does he stand alone in this position. Merlin, Martens, Bynk- ershek; in fact, all the leading authorities, are positive upon the same side. Nor is any autho- rity to the contrary anywhere to be found | higher or heavier than a Spanish gazette. Contemplating the question, then. upon the plain ground where it is thus leftgit is manifest that this whole agitation is altogether unofficial and absurd. As to ~ the remarkable change of policy on the part of the States toward Spain.” which is assumed to exist by the Spanish press, there is room for very little doubt that those most sapient periodicals take counsel rather of their fears than of their wits. Had one of them | sought for an expression of the real policy of this government, in a proper spirit and in a proper place, that policy might have been in- contestibly ascertained, with a very slight ex- penditure of trouble. The inaugural address of the President contains the following words:— Indeed, it is not to be disguised that our attitade | as a nation, and our position on the globe, render the acquisition of certain possessions, not within our ju: | risdiction, eminently important for our protection, if not in the future essential for the preservation of the rights of commerce and the peace of the world. Should they be obtained, it will be through no grasp- ing spirit, but with a view to obvious national inte- rest and security, and in a manner entirely consistent with the strictest observance of national faith. We have nothing in our history or position to invite ag- gression—we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. Purposes, therefore, at once just and pa- cific, will be significantly marked im the conduct of our foreign affairs, I intend that my administration shall leave no blot upon our fair record, and trast [ may safely give the assurance that no act within the legitimate scope of my constitutional contro! will be tolerated, on the part of any portion of our citizens, which cannot challenge a ready justification before the tribunal of the civilized world. To add another line to the overwhelming re- ‘orded by this passage tothe complaints in question. would be more than supererogation ; and it may be safely asserted that this govern- ment didnot appoi Soulé for anything like fillibustero pro pl . but because he was a gentleman, a scholar. and a statesman. The probability is. that the real objections to the opinions of Mr. Soulé ave not to anything he has advanced which cou!d have given honest umbrage to the court of Spoia, or which could have excited a genuine warmth of feeling in that quarter. His real o and threatening positic to Great Britain—in his ¢ tempts to exercise an ed poli American scas—of her attempts to in ence con over th gate, if possible. a Protectorate in M or othe: to embroil as with Spain; and in his loud ap- peals to the hereditary hatred univer: in this country toward the habitual assum, of that insolent power over the rights liberties of our own people, in common w those of the whole civilized globe. these points, and upon the Mex! Upon all n Protecto- lent. But England, on the contrary, (who wields a dictatorial dominion over even the opinior of her decrepit ally,) is too keenly al If, then, there be any govern: England, whose restless ambition and anxiety have aroused and kept in motion this fruitless agitation, and who would gladly accomplish the discomfiture ¢ tatesman like Mr. Soulé, the blunt audacity of whose courage augurs so lit- tle for the success of English machination upon this side of the Atlantic, rationally entertained of the reception of Mr. Soulé. Should he be rejected, however, @ rea- son must be furniehed for it—a reayon that would comport not only with the ‘gaditional dignity of Spain to give, but with, the untradi- tional dignity of the United Sto’ces to receive. | The Last Rallroad Acct’ n¢_wilt the Legt lawure do 4 ny¢ning? It is now well undsretood that railway pas- sengers take the rit’ of the drawbridges of the line being down when the train reaches them. Railway companies have discharged their duty when they have appointed a bridge tender and established a signal. The former may be not only unfit for so responsible a post—he may be negligent and careless; his duties may be far too onerous for one man to fulfil—these matters concern travellers not the company, and if they result in accidents and loss of life, it is most un- reasonable to lay blame at the directors’ door, The signal may be invisible, or placed in so im- proper a position that it cannot be seen till it is too late to check the progress of the train; these are inconveniences for which the company is not responsible. Passengers paying their fare in a railroad, know what they have to ex- pect. They have only themselves to blame, if in the middle of their journey the train is pre- cipitated into a river or thrown from an em- bankment. This principle—for the establishment of which we are indebted to the recent accidents at Nor- walk and Wilmington—is a valuable addition | to cur compendium of railway law and usage. Every day adds some new doctrine to the bud- get; in course of time we may fairly expect that every contingency will be provided for, and precedents recorded for every possible emergency. When this consummation is reached, custom will have established a code of railway law on fundamental principles like the fol- lowing :—1. Railway companies are respon- sible for checked baggage, but not tor life or limb. 2, No blame shall attach to the officers of a railroad in consequence of a colli sion accompanied by loss of life. if either of the trains wag behind time. 3. No blame shall at- tach to engineers, conductors or agents, in con- sequence of trains being behind time. 4 No blame shall be attached to railway officials in consequence of accidents at drawbridges, if it can be sluwn that a bridge tender had been ap- pointed aud o signal established. 5. Railway companics are uot yesponsible for the vigilance of bridge tenders, or the suitability of signals, 6. Conductors shall be at liberty to run as few cars as they please, irrespective of the number of passengers, and although the inadequacy ot standing room inside may drive many of the latter to the platforms outside. 7. Passengers standing on the platforms are liable to punish- ment, and if an accident occurs may be fined for their imprudence. 8. No warn- ing shall be given of the approach of a train. and pedestrians and vehicles shall be freely permitted to cross or proceed along the track; in case of any person be- ing run over and killed, the railway companies shall be entitled to claim damages from the relatives of deceased. Let no one hastily conclude that these rules are extravagant. Practicully. most of them are in force at the present moment. Remember the Norwalk massacre, and the more recent slaugh- ier of the two unfortunate young men, Girvin and Titus, at Wilmington. Could rules 4 and 5 receive a more forcible illustration? Bear in mind the collision at Chicago, a few week since, by which sixteen human crea- tures were ruthlessly murdered. What was the defence of the company but the words of rule No. 2? Rules 6and 7 are not strong enough for the Hudson River Railroad Company. On 2d July last, the 6 P.M. train left the city with several passengers more than it could accommo- date. At Tarrytown. « few persons got out. The conductor immediately invited those who remained in the hindmost car to come forward, and uphitched the car. Every forward car was filled to overflowing and the passengers, includ- ing several ladies. thus unceremoniously dis- posed of, were forced to stand on the platforms from Tarrytown to Fishkill and Poughkeepsie, the conductor being deaf to all expostulation. He was bound, poor fellow, to “ make his time,” and the company were too eager to swell their dividends to provide engines enough for the traffic. Again. we hear constantly of people being killed, « by their own imprudence” while crossing or walking on the track. But is it not notorious that most of the railway tracks are used as footpaths in the country? Has any one ever heard of a railroad official giving the slight- est hint to people walking on the track. of the danger they run? In other countries, railway companies are bound to fence in their tracks, and to exclude pedestrians from the enclosure: Hiere, there is not a fence post from one end of the line to the other. Ifthe world were en- tirely inhabited by men of prudence and expe- rience. such precautions would not be neces- sary; but the imprudent, the unwary, the foolish, the young, are as much exposed to the danger as their superiors in reason, and have a paramount claim to our protection. The public may depend upon it that Rule No. 8 is not far wide of the actual state of affairs. It is with these facts before them that the New York Assembly, on Saturday, negatived Mr. Gilmore’s motion to make the Railroad Accident bill the special order for to-day What explanation members are prepared to give of this vote, we are of course unable to say. The country now holds them responsible for loss of life on railroads. Directors are anx- iously watching their proceedings, and exultiny in the prolongation of the present era of parsi mony and recklesness. The appointment of ad- ditional and more efficient officers, the increase of precautions, and the outlay which is re quired to insure a moderate guarantee for safety on railroads, are all delayed until the decision of the Legisiature is known. Some companies, we liave reason to know, would cheerfully vote the required expenditure, if they were assured that the precautions which their experience dic- tates would coincide with the views of the Le- gislature, and that the money spent would net be rendered useless by the adoption of another scheme for insuring security. In truth, the re- e of other companies to alter their luc’ present thrifty system is very short-sighted policy—a candle-end economy, whieh is ruinous in the equate force of officials, and an insufficient supply of engines, cars and other railway appurtenances, may save a few dollars on the face of a balance sheet; but it really occasions a loss, which is the greater be- cause it cannot be appreciated. The safety of travellers and the profit of companies are in- separable. If the pubbie could be convinced. at the present moment, that any particular rail- road leading out of New York was so efficiently —si “as CLL. soitiely impossible on the line, the receipts would be doubled in a month, The Legislature naa yet two days before ft. Two hours will do all that is required. Shall our last appeal be in vain? Tak ApsovurNMENT oF THE LEGISLATURE— Tax Matuer ImreacuMent Case.—-Both houses of our Legislature have agreed to adjourn sine die on Wednesday, at three o’clock in the after- noon. We suspect that the tax-paying people of this State are indebted for this gratifying resolution to the fact that the Crystal Palace is to be formally inaugurated on Thursday, that the President of the United States and a portion of his cabinet are to be present. and that our very industrious lawmakers at Albany desire also to sce the show. But for this, we might have had the session prolonged in interminable gas and twaddle, upon various questions, to the end of the dog-days. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday till two o’clock—-there is a chance, though a very slim one, for the central park, a better chance fur the Railroad Accident bill, not much of a show for the Maine Liquor law, and a very slender prospect, indeed, for Mr. Taber’s Catholic Church Property bill, upon which he has labored with a zeal worthy the most ardent neophyte of Loyola. The all-absorbing question is the Mather im- peachment case; and from the general indictment and the specimens against him which we pub- lished yesterday. it will be seen that his political enemies,whigs and barnburners, have made out, prima facie, a very serious case against him. According to the last vote of the Assembly on Saturday, however, the trial will not be prose- euted against him during the recess, the com- mittee in behalf of the body having been re- fused. How the Assembly are to get round this impediment we shall probably learn be- tween this evening and Wednesday. for that Mather is to be victimized by the whigs and soft shells appears to be a foregone conclusion. Well, in any event, this extra session has done something. promised a good deal more, and has given cecasion for a considerable waste of time, in both houses, in clamorous wr lings and noisy debates, during the very of the late hot weather, to the great d ofall concerned. We can only be than\:‘ul for that which we have recetved, and if w. are to be surprised by an astonishing despatch of busi- ness between this time and the final adjourn- ment, 0 much the better. Tue Fars or tak Wortp.—On the fifth and sixth pages will be found a history of the great fairs of the world, which we have no doubt will be read at this particular time with much inte- rest and instruction. It will be séen from this, that the idea of great exhibitions, like that re- cently held in London, did not originate in England, but that France and other countries can lay equal claim to the honor. To England certainly- belongs the credit of realizing the idea. and carrying it out on a grander scale than had ever before been attempted. Her palace of glaes was the first grand structure of the kind ever erected for the purpose, and she first proved how successfuily so gigantic an under- taking could be carried into execution. Great fairs have been held in different parts of Eurepe long before the Crystal Palace was ever thought of. and were attended by per- haps as large a concourse of people; but none of them can compare with it in the number and variety of articles exhibited at that great mu- seum of the industrial world. The fairs of France were entirely national, except those of Beaucaire and one or two other cities to which the manufactures of Belgium and other adjacent countries were admitted. If we regard only the number of persons in attendance as the test by which the importance and character of a fair is to be judged, then all that have ever taken place in any other part of the world become insignificant in comparison with that which is held once in every twelve years at Hurdwar, in Hindostan. At this fair between one and two millions assemble, a large proportion of whom are pilgrims, who are led from the most remote parts of that country by their religious zeal aud a desire to bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges. Here we find the poor devotee mingling with the shrewd merchant—the one actuated by religious enthu- siasm, and the other by a desire for gain. How different this ‘rom the great exhibitions of Europe, which, .!though atteaded by not more than one tenti) or one twentieth part of the number, have been productive of incalculable benefits to the industrial classes! They show how much society is dependent upon them. and how indispensable is that labor which at one time was considered degrading and dishono- rable. This is truly an age of progress in the industrial as well as in the political world; structures rivalling the most magnificent de- scribed in tales of Eastern enchantment have been created for the display of the works of art aud science, and prizes of greater intrinsic worth than those gained by the successful com- petitor for the favors of royalty have been awarded to the skilful mechanic. These ex- hibitions are full of a glorious promise for the future; they forete!l that good time coming when men will be found contending only in ihe peaceful walks of industry, and all nations will be joined in one great brotherhood. Tre Passacr or extracted from th makes the last pas somewhat lor ger than SraaMeER ARABIA —The frllowing spool Courier of the 29th of Juoe, ye of the Cunard steamer Arabia at rst reported: — vorasion, achieved the fastest nas. She eailed from and nt 2:10 BP. on the 150) on on the ss To ne BA saluted tho d the landing stage. this allowing thirty five minutes after 12 es the time of starting, makes the passege 9 days, 17 hours and 7 minutes, inean time, or thorny seven minutes louger tasn previously given, Her passage will now eompare as fo, lows with the Aretic’s, the best previously wale Days. Houre, Min Ajabia (Cunard) y 7 7 Aastic (Collins), 9 7 16 Difwrenee ia favor of the Arabia... 0 6 8 Fivht mruutes difference in ruxning three millions | YORKION Consvt,—Jean Zaliuf has been recognized by the Provident as Consul of tue Swike Confederation, for theStates of Kentucky, Obiv, wn? side at Louinvilie, ‘Tim Opnra at Carr the opera at Castle Lave be prevented to ior t falvi, and Bediali, a price, of tickets fe + dollar house. ght o arane Sor 4 Max Me etrek, The wy part of the ‘Tir THraTne.—The estertatoneats provided for this evening, ot the various places of amusement, are of a very attractive character. We refer our readers to the advertising columns, Sraik Convewrion—The Whig State Convention Of Mirslevippi in to assemble to-day at Jackson, I ln _—=S__—_—________ 7" . Tale on’ *Change was thinly attended on Saturday, and transac- tions in most deseriptionn of produee were moderate. Only about three Rundred bales of eotton were told, with<. out ebange in prices.: ‘The Common Council bavirg made the ™ vision for thé reception of the Relic ie ee ment previously referred to on thé part of the mer- chants was superseded, Theie was # request or memo- rial, however, circulating on Change, addressed, we be- lieve, to the Chamber of Commerce, desiring it to call a meeting for the purpose of devising means for manifest- ing to the President some suitable teken of respect on. bebelf of ihe merchants of the eiky, ‘The paper was aignus' by several! digbly respectable merchants of both politioal. parties. The proposition of the city postmaster to station a per~ son at the wharves of the iuropean steamers, in order thathe may receive letters up to the last moment prior: to their departure, and charge double postage for so doing. was condemned, It was deubted whether there wag legal authority for collecting double postage. That the op- portunity to have letters despatched up to the latest pos- table moment would be a boon, noone doubted. Thia they alzeady partially enjoyed through the private foreign letter offices of the city, the agents of which bired oarriagee to drive for the steamers, with letter bag contataing pre- paid letters deposited hour or more after the mails. had closed at the city post offices. In there cases, all that the private letter agemin charged was one cent per letter, or twenty five cents, inateas of twenty four, for England, Mr, Fowler proposed to leave parties to drive a mile or two to the Collins stearsers, or cross the North river to reach the Cunard steamers, aud then charge them forty- eight cents for the privilege of sending letters, which: they could at present do, through private foreign letter offices, for twenty-five cents. Whea Judge Morris was city Postmaster he either placed a post office oterk on the deck oi » steamer, or vent in person, and performed the duty of receiving and mailing letters until the boat was rearly ready to shove off, and that withont any addi- tional chesge whatever. Wonld it be toe much trouble to detail a clerk from the pou office, after the closing of the forcign mails +o receive pre-paid letiers at the steamers, nd forward them, and that without additional eharge? If an extia cherge must be made, would not one or two ents extra (if legel) per letter, be sufficient ? Tre half clipper ship Lidy T'ranklin was sold on Satur- #y ou terms not made public, She was about one year old, was of 464 tons burthen, and bad made a trip to Colifornia. Marine Affairs, SPLENDID Trir.—The clipper sbip Warner, Capt. Ripley, has made an extraordinary passage from Valparaiso: She left hat port on the 2d of May, at 5 P. M., and ar- rived here on Saturday morning, haying thus made the paseage in 7 From lat, 86 S, to port was acsome plishea in 27 daya te of sailing that ia but seldom: alled. We believe this is the shortest passage ever made from Vatpa Nove Lavsci,—Messrs, J. mM. & C. L. Bayles will launch at 2 o’clock to-mcrrow, at Port Jefferson, Long- Island, the schooner Flliptic, called after her shape, which is of » complete elliptic form. The design has been pa~ tented by Mr. James K. Howe. Her owaers say she will ail faster, carry more cargo, and cost less than any ver - el of her size. She is 120tops burthen. Her dimensions are;—Length of keel, 62 feet; on deck, 80 feet; beam, 20v feet; depth of hold, 834 feet. Also at the same place, on Wednesday next, by Messrd, Hawkins & Darling, a fine schooner ef 250 tons, named the R. H. Wilson. Taough intended for the eoasting trode, che will compare favorably with anything of her- class in durability of material, strength of cons zuctior. or beuuty of model; and it is expected she will, im point of speed, too, give a good account of herself, She will bo commanded by Capt. Daniel Hulse, and is owned by him and the merchants and mechanics of that piace. lays, Faneral Ceremoni es of the Rev Henry Chase These ceremonies were performed yesterday afternoon, at the Mariners’ Church, Roosevelt street, in the presence of at least two thousand people, Ata minutes past three o’clock, the undertakers entered the chapel, bearing the metallic coffin eontaining the corpse of the much lamented pastor, and deposited it upon two stools, in frontof the pulpit. The coffin bears. the following inscription :— eooccocooeoooec DOC OD OD De O00 ° Rev HENRY CHASE, 4 ° Died July 8th, 1853, . ° Acrp 62 Years anp 10 Moytas. ° ° @oooocsce coco DDO CO OOD DOO OOS Shortly afterwards, the wife of the decsaved, acoom- panied by several members of the fumily, entered the church, and occupied a pew expressly appropriated for- their accommodation. The Rev. Mr. SpavpinG then came forward and said :— ‘We have assembled, dear friends, this afternoon, to hear preaching, not from the lips which so eloquently uttered truths from this pulpit one woek ago to-day, from the text, “I would not always live;? but yet from the same lips, we have met to hear preaching to day, for though: dead he yet speaketh. I would say to the congregation, before we commence the exercises, that every one of the congregation will have an opportunity, after these exer~ cises have closed, of Jooking upon the face of that be~ loved brother once more. The congregation then sung: the 620th bymn :-— “Hear what the voice of Heaven proclaims For all the pious dead: Sweet is the vavor of their names, ‘And soft their sleeping bed.”? ‘The Kev Mr Wuare.y then said: Mice eye affectetin mine heart. What means this gathering to day—this pulpit covered with mourning—this circle of bereaved friends? Why is this church so thronged? The beloved asior Ftood bere last Sabvath, and he who has «tood here for uneasy thirty years. a champion upoa the walls of ‘Ziop, avd who preached his last sermon Inst Sunday, from there words: I would not always live,” has dehivered bis last weseage and is wrapped now in his winding sheet, and ts about to be gathered to hisfathers, We have come together this aiternoon, not so much to weep end wourt. as to rejoice that another Christian solder has fought his last battle, and is undoubtedly victor over the last enemy, ond gone to join the multitude that John saw before the throne. Another mariner has fiaished his last voysge, and entered in triumph into etermity. Another Chrievian suiferer has rhed his last tear and suffered his g. Henry Chase is dead; and yet he lives, He lives memory of thousands, who rise up toca)! bim bleas- ed, not ouiy in the cucle of his bereaved friends, wrapt in the habillitment+ of mourning that only express a dee; grief withip, but his name and memory are cmbstined in. ‘the affestions of thousands. He lives in the beart of the eburch He lives in the church of the seamen ; and all over this wide world, in whatever part you may go, there are thove who knew and loved Henry Chase, aod @ tear will trickle down the cheek of many a hardy son of the when be learne that he has fallen at his post, that eloquent voice will be heard no more that that itul countensy ce, lighted up with that smile so pe- culinr, will be seen no more. But thetr departed friend live: ip an upper, # better, and a brighter world, and he bas gone where immortality oversweeps all time, tears, all jwin and all death, and caunders in his ears like the eternal anthem—* Thou livest for ever.” Henry Chase, no doubt, Jast Sabbath expressed every seatinent of his beart, in the text he used. He knew that to die wae gain—that death would detiver him from the innumerable evils of Jife, and introduce him into the glories and plea- sures of the upper world, A few statistics I will present. toycu, *bich I will now reid:~ The Rev. Hanry Chase was born uear Troy in 1790, aad was converted and joined tae church when eighteen yesrs old. Truly, hw responded ;o the call, *My son, give methine heart ” Soon after thia, he commenced presching as a local preacher, snd was at the sume time engewed in teaching to the city of Troy where be tavght and labored asa lo- cal preacher. In 1819 he lefc his family ard ea x0 to New York, where he taugh: in the Wesleyan Swinary, and somet men asricted the pastor of the church. In the Spring following he removed his family to New York, where he acted as assistant pasto, iu this echureh for :wo or three yews. After this he was regeived ioto the tra. ction and stationed in Daane street, and fom he was appowted pastor of this church, in which e bas been engeged for nearly thirty years. fice he wax apporated year after year by the erence. anda year or two since he located, that niipurd his narse among the travelling preach- i tory, however, is well known, and I need not ev'er fortber into it, Rev. geutleman concladed by bearing testimony to the purity of character and the in- teliipence of deceased. The Key De. Mecvimews then delivered an address and pronouncrd a bevediouioa The cover wa» then lifted from the coffin, #0 as to ex- pose the face of the deceased, andthe congraga:oa fled by inorder, each, in turn, stopping for an instant to gaze upon the corpee ‘The coffin will remoin in the Mariners’ Chur morning, when it will be forwarded, for ine Miodiewwn, Counecticut, ntll this went, to City Intedligence. Imposition ON THE LiGHTA AVESUE RAILROAD —~ A large number of pasrengers on the Kighth Avenue Railroad fre st present subject to a great deal of annoyance and mpo ition by mistsking the cars which run through 5 rtreet to Broadway for those which turn down Jeet Brosdeay. When a passeager zeta into one of the ve wishes 10 go, he i he can get into one of the orber cars; but afte mmodating himeelf as direct: ed. he firds that be has either to pay his fare again for riding three blocks in the same company’s cars, or be ruthlessly thrust out. We have seen the car stopped, and ladies perempiorily ordered to leave it under tl above ciroumstenees, whea within one block of the stoo- ving plice, Numerous instances of this kind occurred jesterdey. This is @ palpable imposition upon the pub- lic, and some provision should be made to obviate it. Fer ow Prey rien Stever—Ahout half-paat oan o'clock, on pasiny Sorkiee # Ne Deuke Out i @ catpeas or shop situated in Fifty third street, betwoen Fifth end)