The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1853, Page 4

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Revoil, No 17 Rue de la Banque. ‘Bee Buropean mails will clove at half-past ten o’cloe me the morning. ‘Whe Wamnty Henaxn will be published at half-past rine @ dock to-morrow morning. Single eopies, in wrappers, sixperee. The News. At last we have the sincere gratification of being able to positively announce that the New York Lr- gislature has finally adjourned. The unexpected Dut anxiously desired event took place about six @ clock last evening. It is a remarkable fact, that More business was disposed of yesterday, in each hone, than during any previous diay—we may way week—since the assembling of the legis- Iative body, in Javnary last. Nearly every mea- ware of importance has become a law. The principal among the many bills passed yester. d@ay were those for the Central and Jones’ Wood Parke, avd for the incorporation of the At- Isntic and Pacific Railroad Company. The Senate's Maine liquor project was defeated in the Assembly fer the want of eleven votes. The yeas consisted of thirty whigs and tw nty-four democrata; the nays were five whigs and fifty-one democrats. Six whigs and twelve democrats were absent. The bill pro- pesirg to so alter the existing law with regard to Courts of Impeachment as to remove the Lieu- tenant Governor from the Presidency thereof, wa+ Jeet by thirteen to forty-seven. The advocates of this measure strenuously contended that Lieut. Gov. Church, who was to sit as presiding officer of the court, had from the beginning, not only opposed the impeachment of Mr. Mather, but was in re ality officially connected in the very trans actions for which the latter gentleman was to be tried. The Senate adjourned with dignity and decorum; but there was a regular flare-up in the As sembly. A motion was made to extend a vote of thanks to the Speaker, whereupon Mr. Burroughs, the independent democratic representative trom Or- Jeans, took the floor, and denounced Mr. Ludlow for the partiality he had shown, &c. In the midst of this tirade, the Speaker ancounced the Board of Managers to prosecute the charges against Mr. Ma ther in the Court of Impeachment. The board cou- sists of three barn>urners, one hunker and three whigs. A resolution was offered to reprimand Mr. Burroughs for insulting the Chair, but amid the eon‘urion the House was declared adjourned sine dic. Laus Deo! We learn from Albany that the Lieutenant-Gover- mor bas summoned the Court of Impeachment to meet in the capitol on Weduesday next, the 27th inst. The Europa’s mails reached this c’ty yesterday evening from Boston, and we publish the details of ‘the latest European intelligence this morning. The Jeading features of the news were embraced in or telegraphic summaries of the two preveding days. ‘The aspect of the Russo-Turkish question was mare warlike, for the Premier of England hast assured the Peers, in aconvervational allusion to the subject, that, fhe combined fleets of Great Britain and France were entirely at the dispoxal of the Sultan, «nd would not ealy enter the Dardanelles, but proceed to the Black Bea, if he so wished, to secure the integrity of his emp.re. The reply of M. Drouin de Lhuys, on the part of the French Emperor, to the Nessetrode note, is also very clear and specific as to the views and intentious @f his Majesty’s government. We alxo publish a short despatch from Constanti- | neple in which it is asserted that Comm dore String- bam, the Ameriean paval commander on that sta- tion, had tendered “material aid,” ov the part of Sur government, to the Sultan, at an official inter view. This, of courve, we did not believe, and upen opening the Jetter of our London correspou- dent we were confirmed in our faith, as he gives Ocmmodore Stringham’s speech made apon the oc- @asion, which we submit to our readers. The depurtere of Mr. & Joy Morris, American Charge de’ Affaire, from Naples, was mach regretted by all c asses of the people. ‘The general news will be found interesting. The covtest for the speila between the soft and hard shells of Rochester ia avont being renewed in Washington, as we learn by a despatch from the Matter city. The President may yet be forced to set aaide the claims of all these factionists aud place eonvervatives in the offices. By telegraph from Ciaciunati we learn that an extensive «onflagration occurred in that city yester- day. Nearly all the buildings on one of the largest Dloeks in the place were consumed. The houses were mostly.cf wood, afd principaily occupied by poor families, The actual loss is only estimated ut fiity thousand dollars, but the eutire honsehoid furni tare of many of she inbabitunts was destroyed, aud eonsequently the suffering caused by thia calamity will be very severe, The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention is to be held at Worecs4r on the 22d of September. The Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts yesterday adopted a provision limiting the term of Justices of the State Court: toten years, William Cating, the man who murdered the two ebildren of Timothy O'Brien, last December, in Ber gen county, New Jersey, was pnblicly executed at Hackensack yesteriay, The awful apectacie was wir nessed by opwerds of two thousand people. The wretched man con vctcd h'weelf \nder the gallows i+ a firm manner, o ihe surprise of all present. A full report of ‘le proceediug# will be found ebewhere We publish to-day an extended notive of articles on exhftiition at the Crystal Palace, among which will be found an exceedingly interesting description of the arms from the Tower of London. We take this opportunity of requesting all who may henceforward favor us with communications on this exhibition, or other matters, to write only on one side of the paper” By doing so they will relieve our printers from much trouble, inconvenience and delay. By reference to the inside pages the reader will find a report of the reception and speech of General Quitman at Red Hook, the place of his nativity, on Monday last; Account of the exciting contest be. tween Flora Temple and Tacony, over the Union Course, last Tuesday; Additional Particulars relative tothe Frightful Catastrophe at Niagara; Proceed- ings of the Board of Educution; Coroner's Ino quests, &c. Ce Whe Stick of the Rockec—Tne Last Card of Kussuww. The brilliant orator of Hungary had the habit, whilet addressing immense audiences in thie country, to brandish before them a huge tword, with the solemn and emphatic oath that when it should again be drawn in the cause of his country it should be sheathed only in vic- tory or blood. From the deep obscurity into which he had fallen he now re-appears upon the stage of action, not indeed with sword in hand, but flcurishing a goose quill. and cursiug, if not swearing. is still his occupation. But he makes a sorry figure. His recently published correspondence bas beea read with pain by many of bis former friends and admirers—by many who clung to the hope that he was not a were man of talk. They go far, very far, to contirm the common sense estimate placed upon him by the New Yorx Heravp, and to let him down from the false height which he occupied in the opinion of some. Kessuth is an eloquent declaimer. The crowds who have been dazzled by his words, even when he spoke in a language not his own. will all testify to that. Ae ig a scholar, tor his frequent addresses have been ‘characterized by learning as wellas by eloquence. He has the imagination of the poet. If victory soared upon the wings of fancy. ifwords could be success- fully marshalled in array against men, Huo- gary had long since triumphed. But the talkers of our revolutionary times. the orators of those days, were men who backed up great words with great deeds. They could fight as well as speak ; and. what is more, they understood how to carry on a war against terri- ble odds with that transcendent skill which, in spite of every advantage against them insured success. It is in the comprehensive ut litarianism, the practical talent for planning and arranging all the branches of a complex scheme, in which different agencies are to be employed, in such a manner as to attain an ob- ject difficult of sccomplishment— it is in this, so essential to the character of a great leader that Kosreuth appears to be signally wanting. Heis ambitious, he is probably industrious, not leck- ing in acertain kind of energy; but he is fitful a creature of sudden impulses, visionary, a dreamer. It is no true service to the-cause of human liberty to rank him where he does not belong. He has exhibited a want of »practical judgment, of clear common sense, of a know- ledge of the real world and of human nature. which would doom to disappoin'ment hereafter, as 1t has done in times past. great hopes placed upon him. In December, 1851, Kossath landed upon our shores. having been brought here with his nu- merous suite in a national ship and at the ex- pense of our government. He was received with such an outburst of welcome as never greeted a foreigner’s arrival in this country before. Here he was magnificently eatertained as the guest of the city, so was he by many other cities and he enjoyed a sort of triumphal march through the country. Invitations from all quarters—warm. cordial, flattering—poured in upon him. A keen, shrewd, calculating man, might have seen in the general and lowd acclamations which greeted him the evi- deuce of a friendly feeling strong enough and deep enough to render him invaluable aid and assistance if appealed to at a proper time and in a proper manner ; and such a man would have known how to avail himself of it. The people of the United States are republicans; they sympathize ferreutly with all republican taovements elsewhere. We have no doubt that when Kossuth was here, if he could have showa any definite plan. offering a fair aad rational prospect for obtaining the liberation of his country, he could have procured millions of | dollars to be hazarded in the Hungarian cause. Thousands of young men would bave willingly gone home with him to help fight the battles of bis country if he could have shown them any way to get there and a decent ehence to con- quer. But Kossuth did no sue. tiiog. He de- manded at once “ material aid ;” but so far as he shadowed forth the grounds o2 which he | based his hopes of being able to use it success- fully in establishing the independenee of his country, he failed to convince the great major- ity of the people that those hopes rested upoa any substantial basis. This was the reason he did not get more money. People whe wished Hungary free. who, if she were maufully en- gaged in the struggle in her own behalf. would have willingly given money toaid her. thought their funds qnite as safe and quite as well in their own keeping until the occasion for their employment should ar Yet gold flowed pretty treely into the coffers ot Kossuth while be was in this country, and he ought to have pesceived that the national feeliag of the Unai- ted Stutes waited only for a suitable opening to help in bearing him aud his people to vietory and freedom. Lut what do we now bebold him doing ?—all that lies in his power to sever the great bond of simple habite—not to employ, as he did, men who, while publicly pleading their poverty, stood bedizzened with gold, to usher republican visiters. with a sort of imperial pomp, into his , august presence—but “For the glorious privilege | Of being independent.” ' Kossuth is dreadfully disappointed at Gen. Pierce’s mal-administration of our government. He speaks as if he had been elected school- master to the President, and goes minutely into detail to tell what things he has left undone | which he ought to have done. The fact that our newly-appointed ministers are not yet abroad, he says. ~is a negligence surpassing | | imagination”—“a degradation of national dig- | nity bordering upon ridicule, if not upon the | contempt of and from tbe civilized world.” | What ean be done? Alas! alas! that we have | come to this! Had we but a Kossuth amongst us always such things would never happen! We might porsibly. then, shine in the lustre—bor- rowed, it is true—of his own unequalled success! Kossuth in this correspondence has commit- ted another grand mistake. He has encountered a treason worse than Georgey’s; he has betrayed himself! The orator, the warrior, the statesman, has descended to petty fault finding and impu- dent dictatorial comments upon affairs which the people of this couutry thiuk that they have the right to manage in their own way. We have our national weaknesses, and might be flattered too far; but if Kossuth hopes by his imperious jeers to taunt us into his support. he might as well spend his breath in whistling against the north wind. \ Finally. the pearile and whining tone of Kos- suth’s last letter, and the inconstancy of pur- pose which it discovers would disgrace a school- boy. He has concluded that the prospect of ac- complishing the good which he had hoped to by his letters is dim and gloomy, and he wishes to _ be released from his engagement. What! then, | Chief of Hungary! is this the spirit with which | you led your countrymen, and hope again to | lead them, before the deadly and raking fire of a furious foe? Was it in some such hour of weakness that you resigned the office whese | title you still wear? Is there no more stead- fastness of purpose, no more manly courage in your heart than this would indicate? “Men should be made of sterner stuff.”” We are sorry to see the pen of Kossuth em- ployed in idle complaints against the first re- public on the face of the earth and in composi- tions manifesting a degree of weakness which can gratify none but his enemies. It he has no better employment for his time his country has little to hope for at his hands. Otp -Focyism mv THE Navy—Srx MILES AN Hovr.— With all the remodelling. and with all the new boilers and new engines that have been put. under the management of the old fogies of the Navy Department, into the steamer Prince- ton, it appears they have not been able to ob- | tain a greater speed for the shjp than the astounding maximum of six miles an hour! Yet Commodore Shubrick. it seems, thinks the Princeton will do for the ‘fishing banks ; from which we may infer that there is no steamer of the service conveniently at hand capable of doing better things. But the Prineeton is not the only cate of vast expenses and troublesome modifications to no purpose among our naval steamships. Excepting the Mississippi, which is an old stager, there is not perhaps a single steamer in the navy that has not cost three, four, or five times the amount of money neces- tary in private hands to bud a far superior vessel out-and-out. Is there a first class steamer in our navy, even in the matter of speed? Not one. This business will be a proper subjeet fora sifting investigation by the next Congress. In | the meantime. what is Mr. Dobbin about? Is | he too. anold fogv, or how? With Europe trembling upon the verge of a continental war, and with the possibility before us of a struggle at no distant day for the freedom ef the Gulf of Mexico and the balance of power in North | America. can it be that Mr. Dobhin is an old fogy. folding his hands and quietly consenting that a naval steamer shall be tolerated at six miles an hour? We have entertained the most flattering anticipations of “.retreach- ment and reform” from Mr. Dobbin. We have been induced to think that he would prove, upon 2 piuch to be.a man of progress, if aot a.real | “fast man.” Put ifhe is persuaded muck longer te permit a steamer of the United States to stand in commission at six miles au hoar we shall be compelled to classify Mr. | Dobbin among the old fogies and old graouies | of the Navy Department. Six miles au hour! | With such resources af rosin pitch. tar and tur- | pentine, as there are in North Carolina. the thing is intolerable. Will the Secretary of the | Navy be good enough to wake up? Six mites an hour! Positively shocking. | | Tre Mae Liqvor Law Larp Over—Ticut | Ficnt—Few Anzap.—And so the Assembly yea- terday decided against the Maine liquor law fifty-four to fifty-six. Tight fit. Just escaped and that’s all. Whatnext ? The question goes before the people. The Temperance Alliance including the Women’s Rights Associations. will rally as one man to the rescue—women and all It will be made the ruling shibboleth in the No- vember Legislative eleetion. It will make some ugly holes in the calevlations of both the old parties. [t will make the approaching can- vas spicy. interesting graphic aud funny. Can- didutes will have to toe the mark on the ques tion of liquor or no liquor. Root beer and gia- ger pop will command a premium. Distiller will suffer a decline. Swill milk will aecord- ingly rise in value as it diminishes in quantity. cf sympathy which bound us to him, He sits | Temperance orators will command a preiniam down deliberately to libel and blackea the | Look out for the origival six Washingto- ecuntry whieh stretched out her arm to briag | niane, ‘lhe Maine Law is to be erected ia him from « foreign prison, and clasped him | thie eity and all over the State as the platform warmly to her breast, as if he had beeu ove of | of « new political party. Dy uct of the Legisla- her own chosex and cherished sous. He upon whor we lavished. not caresses only bat gold and that. too, when there was no definite pros pect of hiv being aiie to use it exeept for his own personal advautege, is now tannting us ae arace of profit hunters. Smarting under the surveillaice which Engiand, with all her boasted love of liberty and law. places over hia move. ments he ocenpies bie time in s and taunting us with what he faulta, Assuredly Koswath las no reason to coin plain of us. Is he upon our bounty ? fuedir feeding not. indeed, now making spirit, which he $0 tan that bled us to pay ten doll cht t hear him lecture, and io give him money to bay old mu to be stacked wway to rust La deed. we are in the habit of regarding thie ivitas bealthful and useful, end worthy of encouragement Net tora train attendant,” wh ch Kossuth had—even in oar republioan land ture the fight has bee, adjourued to the stump. Toyour teats O Israel! Come. Motvan Lrre Txsvran -—From the highly indignant * exrds’ which have been patting aud re-pasting for several days be. tween Mr, Joba B. Swit. Lneius Robinsou. Geo. W Blunt Bemond Blunt. Mr Moses &. Grin- velland others, dhru, the columuar of our blan ket cotemporaries. touching the eleetion of 0.1 core of the Matoad Lite {nvorance Compaay w can come to ne other eucelusion than this he oficial crgan'vetionand the regulae meeti 4 t asroc'ut'ou are as loosely eon fthat benevele peter ue they are ladifier utly attended bythoae iitercsted. brom all that the parties t i ave given ntestin lee do potvonk a whit nigher thao those amos ile wire-workers of Tammany Doll mutuale” have cot yet fallea upon the demo ciate plan of vettling their disputes by dowa rght fighting, What may be che end of this M.- tual Life insurnave goutroversy we cannot de in evidene only tu termine, nor hew far it will benefit the con- | corruption whieh existed when they attacked cern, nor where the res justa exactly lies, The case appears to stand in the ratio of six for one to half dozen for the other. The public ought to look into it. Corporation Advertising—A Tric of Disinter. ested N. wspapess. We do not often comment upon the course which our contemporaries think fit to pursue. Newspaper polemics seldom result in elicit- ing truth; abuse of individuals too frequently takes the place of argument, and the reckless journalist is too apt to pander to the depraved taste for personalities which custom bas fos- tered among his readers. The bulk of the pub- lic are doubtless convinced by this time that each paper will consult its own interest and sa- tisfy its supporters by pursuing its course in- dependently of its neighbors, and by observing towards the latter the same scrupulous silence | wh’eh high-minded men of business in other callings practice towards their competitors. But however well-founded the rule, it admits, like all others, of certain exceptions; and it is one of these exceptional cases which induces us to transgress it to-day. It is within the memory of all our readers that among tbose journals which have visited the Common Council of New York with the most marked severity the Evening Post, the Ex- press and the Commercial Advertiser have stood pre-eminent. Language rarely used in the warmest political debate has been repeatedly employed by these papers to cover the Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen with shame and infamy- Epithets hardly known in respectable circles have been freely hurled, in their columns, at the heads of these luckless officials. That they have been excelled in grossness of tone and vulgari- ty of diction by some among their allies we cannot undertake to deny ; but where “ Billings- gate” is the rule coarseness is no evidence of peculiar malevolence. So far as the usual course of papers enables us to elicit from their language the animus which inspires them, we feel safe in asserting that by no journal has the Common Council of New York been pursued with more acrimony and more uncompromising rancor than the three we have mentioned. Shortly previous to the commencement of these diatribes the Evening Post, the Express, and the Commercial Advertiser, which were in the habit of publishing the corporation adver- tisements, petitioned for an increase of compen- sation for the service. Their petition ran as follows :— To THE Hon. rue Common Councin :— The undersigned, publishers of the several news- papers empluyed by the Corporation to publish its p oceedings, ordinances, &c., respectfully reprecent to your bonorable buody— batthe compensation now allowed for the services rencered Ly the subscribers falls far short, not only of a fair compensation, out -of the actual expenses incurred in doing the work. When the precent contract was entered upon the sum then allowed varely indemnified us for our ace tual outia: At'the preseot time the service ren- dered 1s many times greater than it was then, and our | etitioners think they are eutitled to, and do ae by ask that, from and after this date, an aunual sum more proportionate to the expenses incurred be allowed them. W.-C. Bryast & Co., Proprietors of the Evening Post. J.& E. Brooks, New York Express. Francis Haut & Co., Commercial Advertiser. The committee of the Common Council to whom the petition was referred drew up the following report:— The Committee on Ordinances, to whom was re- ferred the unuexed petitious, respectfully report that they have carefully considered the petitions, and deem it inexpedient to recommend their adoption: Firstly. Because-before and at the time the selec- tion of ccrporution newspapers was made there was bo complaint by the petitioners that the compensa- tion Was inadequate to the services rendered. Secondly. Because they have propositions of news- papers of as large circulation as those of the peti- toners, to do the corporation printing at the same rate now paid them, viz., one thousand dollars per abbum. ‘Thirdly. Because the Common Council has em- ployed almost double the number of newspapers hitherto employed, which has greatly increased the expenses of corporation printing; and considering the enormous taxes now impused upon the city they do not feel disposed to recommend any unnecessary lncreare. Fourthly, At the time the sele:tion was mide your committee wus disposed to continue petitioners’ papers in the employment of the corporation, us they bad long been employed by the corpo ation t do their printing, and as they were still gesirous to be retained in the cor, oration employ, notwithstanding the newspapers were of heuted circulation, which has long been a subject of complaint by our citizens. This induced the com- mittee on a former occasion to recommend an ia- crease of the number of corporation newspapers, amoyg which wasthe New Youk Heracp, (which reccB. weidation received the unanimous approbation of the two Boards and the sanction of the Muyor,) at three thousand dollars per annum; because its daily circuJation among ull clasees of our citizens was vearly forty thousand, while the circulation of its cotempararies was only trom three to five thousand. Aud here it may roper to state, that at the tine they recommended the present corporation newspapers they ascertained as near as they could that the Commercial Advertiser, Evening Post and Moning Lapress, did not exceed four or five thourand each, while the daily HexaLp was nearly forty thourand. Thus, udmitting the circulation of the three above named newspapers to have been five thourand each, the aggregate circulation of the Commernal, Post ard Lapiess, (each receiving one thousand dollars peraunum, for corporation printing.) is only fitteen thousund per day, while the daily HexaLp has newrly forty thousand subscribers, or about twenty five thousand per day more than the Commercial, Post and Express altogether. Thus in peying the Hegatp three thousand dollars per appum your committee did the petitioners no in- justice. Finally, the committee, in selecting the Heratp, adopted the policy ot our national Congress, which selects newspapers throughout the country tor post office advertisements, remunerating tiem according to their circulation and public utility. This report was never formally presented, as the petitioners, having been made aware of its tenor. very properly withdrew their petitions. ‘The above draft is however, authentic. We have no intention of questioning the justice «fmany of the attacks of the discomfited journal- ists on the Common Council; and nothing is far- ther from our mind than a design to undertake the detence of the corporation of New York. Our reuders—and we trust we may ‘be permitted without iudelicacy to call them the people of this country—will de us the justice to say that expored and condemned the enormities which have brought our city goverument into ccatempt with at least as much foree and can- dor as any of our cotemporaries. They will hear us out in the assertiou that while others were striving, under a cloak of integrity. to defeat the reiorm measares the sapport of the we iesaLy never wavered. and our vace was ne- ver sauting when a word from hence could as siet their success, That we did, in defiance of ihe murmurs of angry subseribers. refuse to voin in the bue aad ery against individual Al- dermen. aad Grtly persisted in regarding po- pularity as secondary to truth we are ready to ackuowledge; but we fearlessly appeal to our past course la exculpate as from auy charge of undye indulgence towards the Common Council, if cur present remarks should give rise to such an imputation. What we now desire to impress upon the public ia the danger of allowing themsclves to he led away by writers whose zeal for the pab- Tie good may very possibly be but a cloak for private spite. We do not say that the Express and the Post had no thought of the municipal the Aldermen; but we cannot help believing that the facts disclosed in the documents pub- lished above bad some share in whetting their civic ardor. It may be that the Commercial Advertiser was prompted by the purest zeal for the welfare of the city in belaboring the Com- mon Council; but we shrewdly suspect that. like Juno, the highly respectable and ancient female who presides over the destinies of that journal had a vivid recollection of the “Sprete injuria forme.” At all events, no injury can be done by stating the facts. We may seem, in truth, to be thrusting our own affairs before the public in publishing the report of the Committee of the Common Coun- cil; but the story is quite a tale of bygone days, and those who know the figure which the cir- culation ef the Heratp has now reached will readily acquit us of any wish to boast of having “nearly forty thousand subscribers.” Peace on WaR—ViEws or THE SECRETARY or War.—In his epeech at the Metropolitan banquet, Gen. Davis, the Secretary of War, said:— Then, my friends, I can say that I most cordially rejoice in the manifestations around me, whieh seem to indicate an increase of the fraternity of nations For such must be the effect of bringing together men from every quarter of the civilized globe to compare with each otber what each has been doing for the advancement of scieuce, what each has contributed to the increased comfort of man. These are con tributors to that bond of peace whicb will hold men together as one brotherhood, and lead them to make this earth what it was designed to be—the home of man in his blessed estate. [Applause } This is good beautiful, affectionate, coming as it does from the chief of the War Depart- ment. But at Newark, he was pleased to put in this important qualification. There was a time when our little constellation shed its heacon light over a small space; that little conrtellation, however, bas continued to shine on, star after star hus been adced, and now, wherever man raiees his hand the brightness of its effulgenve may bereen. But. my friends, | um neither a pro- pagandist, nor am I prepared to allow the wars of other nations to interfere with our prosperity. Though peace is our poliey, and I trust our destiny, there are greuter evils than war; and among those greater evils than war is allowing our flag to me 80 dim that he who appeals to it for protection, aud proclaims himself an American citizen, shall be de- rided and pronounced as a pirate. [Tremendous applause.) This looks to us like a gentle rebuke of Mr. Fillmore for quietly permitting the massacre of thoee fitty Americans at Havana, the unfortu- nate companions of the unlucky Lopez. But the allusion puzzles us to determine exactly the position of the War Secretary. Gencral Cushing is openly for annexation and progress. war or no war. We have tried it, and he thinks we ought to keep it up all the time. But where is General Davis? Looking to the Gulf of Mexico, is he for peace or for war? We should like to know. TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF NEW York Property.—According to the Comptrol- ler’s annual report of July 19, the total value -of the real and personal estate in the city and county of New York. for the year 1852, was $351,706,795.73, and for 1853 it was $413,632,932 94. showing an increase in round numbers of sixty-two million, upon an aggregate of three hundred and fifty-two million, in a single year, equal to seventeen per cent. If the as- sessment were made upon the income from the real estate of the lower half of the city the ag- gregate amount would ‘probably be increased not less than one hundred and fifty millien of dollars, such is the disparity between the offi- cial estimates and the actual rents. In the upper section of the city the Comptroller’s re- port more nearly approximates the actual pre- sent value of real estate, where the estimates are nearer the standard of actual rents and prices. Upon.the whole. the present aggregate for the city and county, in real estate, upon the actual basis of rents and prices, somewhat inflated to be sure, would swell the Comptrol- ler’s sum total pretty well up to six hundred aillion, But the worst is yet tocome. Tue CrystaL Patace anp Home Prorection. —The high tariff philosophers of the Zridune stick to their idle dream of protection with un- flinching tenacity, though the facts and the fates are all arrayed agaiost them. They have seized hold of the Crystal Palace as the me- dium from which the policy of home protection is to be impressed upon the country and upon Congress 9s the true policy of the goveroment. But we are afraid it will not do. We remember that in 1846 Mr. Stewart. of Pennsylvania, and otber high tariff champions, got up a national exbibition of American manufactures at Wash- ington, for the purpose of saving the protective character of the Dill of 1842; but lo and be- hold! the bill of ’46 was passed immediately at- ter; because the members had seen enough to convince them that our manufacturing interests no longer needed protection in the shape of bounties extorted from the mass of the people. We apprehend that such will be the result of this exhibition. A single glance at our home manufactured articles in the Crystal Palace suf fices for this conclusion. The tariff of ’46 has done well, is doing well, and will live a little longer. Talk on ’Change. There was rome lees animetion ia bresdstuffs and in Liverpool freigh's yesterday than the dey before, ax merchants were waiting the receipt of private lutters due by the Europa Common brands of State flour sold it. andin smell lots, at 12%c. per barrel decliae, Wheat, o” prime quality, #as fiem, Corn wae alan drm for that in sound shipping order. Pork was also firm The ralen of cotton yesterday reached 1.200 bates, aad on the day before 4,000 baies, part on speculation. The market cloved steady. Handsome samples of new Canada white wheat we-e exbibited on ‘Shange by Mesars Thos. Rigney & Co, which was heid at 140 cents, The Secretary of the Treasury bas addressed a circular to all the incorporsed companies. &e, in the Unite) States wader wre-oiation of the United Staiea Seuate adopted April 4, 1653, A eupy of this eireular, atdeasood to an incorporated company of this ety, was exhibited to ur on Change ye terday, The resolution wus to the felowing effet — Keolved, That the Seeretary of the quired to procure s6 tee as practiondin, bere to the Seawte at the commencement see-ion of Cor pres howing inforime! the aggresgece 8 canst and other evr, bt headin h of June Mertaled © veagury be ra 4 farcich he of 6 other foreua co vatries, cifyivg vo far ws the same ut of each of the above deseriy fou Of bonds md tacks The Seare state fh Dew cireutar that— Te cider to rnable 108 te comply, 90 far as praction- bie, with he above reolotion, Twill be obliged to you if yor wi)l cowmuniea'e to this dewsrtinen, Ter The authorived amount of oaptial «took of your company, the soourt setuall, pad mo and the amonot 10 he Ii we can be ascertatues, held by forwigaers, resdiog bounds of upe United States, on the S0ch tmonnt of bouds, if any, iasued by your artioular amount, 60 well as can be , wid by ‘oregvers readiag beyond the d+ of the Un ted Stare. on the 30/n June 1865 4 (he report to be prosauted of ‘he mexe sexnion oc Cougreas Lequest, at as ews dey as you jou vo this your attentive to thi con make it eonvenieat, will evafer ao ob! depariment The saformation -ovght, xf fully and weourately obtain- 64, woulo oo bt prove highly intereveing, But with rexerd to wary deorintions Of etook« and pariicularly of bonds i would Le d fliouit to tell where they «a owned. Tote conjon bonds, for tetancr, how cvn'd avy 5 ace fonctionsry or corporation official tail where the hulaecs resided? AN that would come ander their notice would be the presentation 0” coupens for payment Were registers kept, or trans er recor s of the bonds, with the fect stated whether the holder was o citizen of the United States or merely am agent for aliens or persons residing abroad, the recora would at ence give the infor- mation sought. Asfar ss the distribution ef bonds ef any hind were concerved the amount held abroad wad guesswork, As regacced stocks, scoounts ef whies were kept in transfer books to ascertain the locality ef stock- holders was more practicable The amount of bonds held abroad could to great extent be mere readily ascertaized in London than in New York. Mr. Peabody ‘and Baring Brothers would be very good authority. It would be well to have each fo eign couatry in which seou- rities were beld designated sevarately. This country bowever, was now ina position te earry pafely a much larger amount of domestic securities than it had ever done before We learn on good autherity that the one million stock in the Merchanw’ Exchange was beld by Americans ard chiefly by New Yorkers. Unlgse the usual sppropriations would be made for the charitable institutions of the city the sooner the Legia- lalure adjourned the better, for all coneerned. Gratl- fieation, however, wa: exuressed at the final passage of the Pacific Railroad charier. Mrrcugiu’s New Usiversat AtL4s —A most valuable ad- dition to al) pudlic officers, eebo Ix and private braries, will be the new edition just published by Thomas Cop- perthwait & Co, of Philadelphia, of “‘M tcbell’s Universal Atles”’ This editin comprises all the more recently organized \erritaries of the United States, e-refully map- ped out, and the subd virion into counties in all the older States. It also traces the newly divcovered riversand * Jakes in the interior of Africa und elewhere. Ia fact all the information e-certaiced up to this period, in reference to the geograpby of any por ion ef the gl be, bas been carefully mmserted #0 a« to make the “ Atlas’? complere and pesfect Itis composed of seventy-five sheets, containing v0 less than ore handred and twenty- two finely colored maps, planes and rections. Almost every map is sccomoanied with the most eorrect and , valuable political and topographics! stati tice—thore of the Umted States comprising the census of 1861 appor- tioned to eounti steamboat and other reutes acd * distances, and much other in‘ormation of importance. Some of the privcips! cities of the Union—New York, Pbilaceiphya, &e —bave a sheet devoted te themselves, with a reference to all the +quares, theatres. churches, merkete, and other public buildings, To the minor cities sections of the shests are appropriated. The work alto- gether is creditable slike to ita compilers and padlishers,, and is invaluable wherever critical correctness in reapeet to countries 1s a matter of importance. Cry Iotenigence. ‘Tae Weammer. -Dorng ‘be las: few dava we have been refreched witb oomyaratively cool weether, which haw Deew vary acceptab'e to ux wora out denizens of the city, who can only cream and talk «f “babbiing brooks and puling stream-.”? with ut baving an covortunity of spatcbing a bref resp te from the dustand bustle of city life Thr following was the heiuht of the thermometer at three different hours of the dxy from whieh the ave- rege temperature may be caleniaved ;— 94 M 3PM i Pease orc TE? so os 0s The wind during the whole of thodsy, was northeast. ‘Tae Lave Bonz Expiosios.—Wa. Riley, who wad struck on tbe bead by «me projectile at the boiler ex- plorton. on Tuerday last at Pratt’. foundry im Attorney street. died yesta day efrernonn, about three o’clock, at the New York Hospital ebither he bad been eomveyed immedistely »fter the sad accident. An eperation was performed by te vi iting vhy-rciaa, to try if any thi available eculd be effecied out allto ne purpose died frem oopcuson of he brain. avd bad remained in- vevrible singe the sxdevent The desessed was an elderly map. merrid, aud, we believe, in poor circum- sapees RavHER MyeTERIOUs —A day or t vo ago a row bost wag observed driving mtoe Eant river pear the foot of Egbty-ninth srest, which upon examination eonteined procfa of some strange effair, There was no person in the boat, bur there were found lying as the psir of cocton socks » pair of woolen »tockings, coitoa umbreélis « broen ik parasol, » sugle barrelled well tonded a6 cay; BaDd ue boat boo! ng preeumed'y the mele and female in ‘be boat might po: have given rise w suspicious conjecturey bad trere not bees fourd like- vise & tip pan Cvtalving nearly teo pills of congealed Diood, api srevtly quire Moreover eiota of blood were ob erved OD the pr ‘aad ocher eireums/ances tended 10 the mferepes thar some foul play had been committed Eve ytbing jared to show that some Dloody deed bed been oT ond thas very recently Dfore the discovery The oulice have taken the matter ip band, end wil), ve hope terset it out. CovusBia CoLiFGE.—-(be nivety-picth annual eom- mencemevt of by veverable instivution will be held ext Wedperday 27th ip t, ot Niolo’s It wili dountleag aver. dle au interesting and ine audience. A la-ge bun ber of stray cers are in tee whom it would be gratityicg towrve d. Fins —Yerrerdvy worving, ab war dir er) street great distance Mea-rs. Cas idy extinguirbed pov ‘an Ren Over —Wedne cay aferncon, about 6 e'elock, a boy paved Horry Welle wa- run over by a brick cart at *he cormer ot Gedte-d aud Dowting streeta He WAR conveyen to the reire:ce of bis areata, No, 39 Commerce street by a polos ofic-r aod attended to by Dre. Sherrid and Field who sated that lad bad re- ceived terion mre: sries Th ho witnessed the cceurrenct sequit the oriwer of all Dlewe. ACCIDENIE VESTEKDAY MORNING lao ing man by the name of theca Lroon ehilermy) yed op Peek slip dock, got jemord in swong & pieder cf oars that were oa the rpet end the worel fone ef ‘bem, while the car was teing diver slong cawe iv covteat witn his leg, which ‘DOD equeDce wa» bivked He wan takea to the City cuy, nt three o'clock & b ‘upping back & eg v-veral Lite, ocoupied by ©) Tt waa however, soon epored 10 have been eansed by He w pital. A young man nswed Luke Deaive by trade a plasterer, while at work Op "be pe~ ms: bie burldi mn froat of Mevropelitan Herel wh eb is ioteuded fora hotel, fell cown from x bebe of about rixteen feet. throogh the taxk op which be waa» nudiny oaving Broke. His head Very mc. cut, «rd bis ide bkn«ixe very veverely in- ed by the accident. He was taken te the City jon ital, ACCIDENT IN 4 Canat Boat —Jo-eph Lednp a nativa of Cevsdy sbo + emyploved na & 0-8 1040 Oa board of a New York avd brie ceoal but, coll d the Sant of fell down from the deck toro the ould, ia the eoure of terday by ebch be bad t the bead he was in bya 0 ehoulcers wovenre th, " to the side ef a pier the North river, whea he 10 fel down the barchway epics was opea an he ste beck and thus met with the injurie- strendy stated _ KATURN FROM aN ExcuRsIUN =Tre O'd Taps of the Fiph th eerd se urned ian wight from ao excursion to Sheepubend Bry avd gave th e« hearty cheers an tl peed the HRALD ottica Phe: tage wh eo wa- gaily decom +d aod drawn by twelve horses, and ere futlowed Oy 4 baguage wagon, contein- ing the Dree-sary ai peadnges of turir nompray. Map OX — Wednesday af « roo w mad ox ran threagh Twenty wend sco Coan y third streets kuoeking down and injering several pra me was at one time par- Nally recured oy the ool ce efficerson du'y in that lo- cslity, but broke loose spain The infuriated animal Wen rap up Te th avecue nod when it got es far ag Teenty-eigtsh atreee ran ot » ebiid Fortunately it missed ite sia struck its bead agaiost @ post, falling dows, when e hyntarder, wefure It could gut up again, cut the »vinel’s throat. “A Palpars HiT’? Some sufferer f-ow offisial maglect has vleeos large stick, in nu erect vo-tcoo, im « hele in Wall wtreet, vewe Broadway with the teliowiog ineerips top :— ‘In mwery of Sboume “urdy Street Inspec or’? I’ neme uch ax hie vere to be erected in alt the Tuts ip the sti@t~ of New York the ossaxe through the erty would be ard Meuls a crossing the civer Styx. Dray PniLn.—Wed say evening about balf-past reveo O’owck rfheee Hea-ns of the = Cwaatieth ward. for nd a dead ¢ 11d to x cr iin io the oven lot at the cormer ef i bivhy-tourth +treat and Bowlway. ‘The eoftin ond con enim ware tuken to the station-huuee, and a corecer voted t) hold an inquert TDENTITIED -~ 4 lot of gooey “hat bad huen found in a coach to Khvebeth stret by efiivnes Meehan and Judge, of the Sixth ward, ee @ untied as the provarty of Al D Poster & Whi vey tasior No 327 Broadway, wnove place was borg arivusly eotared oo the wight ef the 19th. mnst., by forcing open % Fide Coor leading tayo the entry wre io @ mamnod Marine Court. Before Hon, Judge McCarthy. — Piece against Kehve-—Uhis wes an r brokerage w recover from defendant $120» rendered ip procuring @ loan for defea- 12.600, It appeared from the evidence that plaintff. ws a rea! estate broker, sold, or acted as avent in weliing, four lots te defendant, and anders took to preeure # building loan of $12,000; defendant: bo pht the lets, and the evidence showed that some a oar of the loan wan received by defendant froaz Robert G. Brown, the owner he lots. | Mr. Brown tectificd that be suthoriged ; laintiff to sell the lots ia. question, and promived to a d did pay him, com- mission there or: that vefire ‘exotiating with the pluintify be teld him he hos recused to deal with another person wbo wanted to carve commission fiem both porties, The detendant denied any labile ity, ond inei-ted that the «riginal contrast was, that he wes to buy the lots at a stipulated price and building Joan was to be td, a4 part of the contract. The court, aiter hearing testunc for the defendant, © -U0"Y> Gave Jadgmont Auposintensoors Ofce, Vork 4 3, imo 7 Crystal Palace, New Pod that { th Exhibits ew cr alloted them te warenanle tine vie Gemorat Sa feat efit Heat dianoo of Mt ip favor of othoe SATCOSLDER, Secretary of Su porinten dente, AUN bio's, 14 the Personts ud and so are the Canal stroot. Ono r draws crowds ab P hor nites Miller ty Periurmanert over ail Away’ dolightedt Cocatnet et OY Niblow and JB) Lok yt aout teh will take place on Friday, & two o'eloo Pa of Bi, ‘hotwer iF ' aipesr’ pg I Lowa Grooaviile and Gipeoy.