The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1853, Page 4

JAMES GoRD on BENNETT, FROERIETOR ) WeETCR Drrica ©. W. CORNER 0) eee ha hee No. 287 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, METROPOLITAN HALL—Joviren’s Conorn. staal THEATRE, Sowery—Lavy or Lyone~Ma BROADWAY THEATER, tre Peay ee x, THe News , fn a acai “nT NIBLO’S, Broadway— BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambere street—Two Parmype— Par avy Lorn > tational THEATRE, Chatham etreet—Unore Tom's ———e | WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Bisan Housm— | Pourore’s Prove, AMERICAN M memwric Evoxomy a sac-Quarn's Qws—Do- | Evening Oc Forse aT Home. a and Evening=Faavco- MADISON AVENUE. mr’s Covossan Hisrunne. STY’S AMER. TRIOMLAN MELO. OPERA HOUSE, 472, Brond- | wy Caisry’s OPERA TROUPE. WOOD'S MINSTREL'S, Wood's Musioal Hall, 446 Broad- way— Lr ssorian Miworh ris. BUCKIEY’S OPERA UOUSB, 69 Broadway—Buox say's Erwiorian Opera TROUPE. BANVARD’S GEORAMA, 600 Brosdway—Panonama or wer Hoty Laxn. HOPE CHAPE Bawa or Nragans. ACADEMY HALL, 662 j RUENISH GALLERY; 63 Broodway—Dag and Evening | BIGNOR BLITZ—Sr SHINFSE ROOMS, weSITION OF THE Sx? POWELLS GREAT NAT QovaRnnxeyT is Now oven Duarte Broadway. SB way—FRanuensreins Paxo- adway—Sueerine MAN. vvasant Lysrirore. 3 Broadway—Peauan’s Curr Ex- Mie Mingon L PAINTING ron tHe Mz NATIONAL ACADEMY OF New York, Sanaa October 16, 1893. The News: The mails by the Humboldt, from Havre and Beutbampton, were delivered ia this city at an early hour yesterday mornicg, and our files by the @Oavada, from Liverpool, reached us, via Bosten. in fhe evening. The London dates, by both steamers, come down to the 30:h ultimo, but our Liverpool ad- vices by the Canada extend to the lst instant. A synopsis of the chief points of the European intelli- gence had reached us previously by telegraph ; the details which we today publish, however, will be found exceedingly interestiog. The acpect of the Eastern question had become even more grave than usual, and we give the latest manifestoe: issued by the Sultan and the Czar, with g long letter from Kossuth, stating his opinions upoa the merits of the quarrel. ‘he imperial military congress had commenced its sittings, with great pomp ard grandeur, at Olmutz, and no doubt some decisive movement will be made towards solvigg the graud Turkish difficulty after the deliberations of ‘the sovereigns have progressed a little. France remained peaceable, and the Emperor aad Empress were well received by the populace upon ‘their northern tour. A Beotch lady, named Cunninghame,—said to be ® lineal descendant of John Knox—had been arrest- iin Tuscany, for distributing religious tracts, and ‘was placed in the same prison which was lately oc- @upied by Rosa Madiai, in order tojaweit her trial un- der a new penal statute lately passed to meet such eases. The reception of the news in England and Scotland had caused intense excitemeat, and Lord Clarendon had taken up the subject of the protection of this lady with much vigor. The British represen- tative at Florence, and the American Charge d’A! fairs, had both applied to the Grand Duke in her be- half, but he remeined inexorable at the time of our last dates. Melbourne, ( Australia), rows bad been received in England dated npo the 4th of July, bat the Hersey of the 12¢h instep shed intel!igeace to the ef the same month, Large exports of gold had ar rived at Singspore. There is nothing decisive from | China. The Singapore Br Monthly Circular, dated apoa the 13h of Augnsi, has reached us. Goid dust had slightly declined in velue during the fortuight ended upon that day, owing to the scarcity of money aad | favorable rates of exchange. Australian could not be quoted higher than from $28 to $29 per bunkal and otber descriptions were at from $21 to $27 Toe imports were two hundred ond one bun- kals, and the exports amounted to eight hundred and eighty. The Toyenansing Hore iowa, of Philadelphia, } London is nearly the uaiys appointee who does not | thing but cecasional teak of blood from a | NEW YORK HERALD, | | yesterday visited the Cry-tal Palace and Randall's | Island. At the latter s beautifu silk banner was pre- | sented to the boys by a member of the company. In | our report there is 4 ven an account of thenew ron AND wassav @r& | building now in course of erect on as a House of Re- fage for Juvenile Del nquents—an insti ution which will be of great iu portance. We publish this morning an exceedingly interesting | letter from our + orrespondent in Minnesota, contain- ing the treaty nego'iated by Governor Gorman with the Winnebago Indians, and the speeches of the | | Commissioners and leading chiefs. By this treaty | the goverzment obtains cearly one million acres of | prairie and timber land, having @ front on the Mis- | | Hasipp! of about sixty miles. | . The leading fancy stocks advanced @ fraction yes- terday, with large travsactious. There were large | sales of flour aud wheat, without any material varia. | tion in prices. Cotton sold at half a ceat per pound decline. Freights were firmer. The steamship Bultic, for Liverpool, yesterJay carried ont nearly a milion» principally in gold ingots. Our Foreign Missions ‘and Misrepresenta~ viens Absead, Everybody knows how the domestic offices of | State have been filled under the present ad- ministration. add a single criticism to the volumes of censure which they have generally provoked. Let us turn to the foreign appointments, which are | now nearly complete, and cousider them as a whole. Complicated and momentous pol.cy bas recent, European representatives required at least as much caution and judgment as the division of | the spoils at home. Our national interests im- peratively demanded the services of shrewd, experienced diplomatists in all the continental Courts, American honor, not less than Ameri- | can commercial prospects, called for a selection | of men whose ability and character were likely to do justice to their country. There was hard- ly a Court in Europe where the post of ambas- sador or charge was likely to be a sinecure. The protection of citizens travelling abroad, the superintendence of our commercial relations | with foreign nations, aud the proper represen- tation of the republican principle abroad, were duties which none but men of the first standing and reputation were able adequately to dis- charge. At no period in our history had these duties assumed a more formidable character than at the time when General Pierce was in- augurated President; and it must have been a source of lively satisfaction to him to reflect that, owing to the dispersion of the whig party and the great unanimity among his supporters, a wide field, comprising nearly all the eminent men of the country, was laid open for his choice. All the talent in the land was at the command of the administration. How has it availed itself of the adv: tage? The answer is but too simple. With a few exceptions, all the European em bassies baye been filled with wofit, in- capable men. A natural wish to give the new Cabinet @ fair trial, and an indulgent recognition of the difficulties which surrounded it, in the shape of unredeemed pledges and crowds of huagry office-seekers, induced many to overlook the errors of the earlier nomina- tions. Many true friends of the country were persuaded, in the hope of better things in the future, to repress the sorrow they felt at the lamentable want of judgment evinced by the administration in their firsi selections of foreign ministers. anothcr was but faintly censured—the peopl hoping steadfastly that those which were to follow would atoze for all. The list is now complete. We have nothing farther to hope or expect. And it would be rank dishonesty to- , day to hide the fact that the nominations, as a whole, are worse than the bitterest Toe to the administration could have aaticipated. We need not here recapitulate the considera- tions which invest our embassy to Spain with peculiar importance at the present moment. If | there was @ mission requiring judgment, dis- cretion, diplomatic experience, and high per- sonal character, it was assuredly that to Mad- Our Hamilton, (Bermuda) correspondent, writing | rid. Whom have the administration chosen to wpon the 27th ultimo, informs us of the further | @)) i+» progress of the yellow fever, which was still most fatal to the military, both officers and priva‘c men. Major Byles had been sworn in as Administrator of the Government. The weather was very wet and yma Washington despatch announces the retarn of Secretary Dobbin from his visits to the naval stations. It is to be hoped that something practical will eventually result from the journeyings to and fro—son ething to redeem the character of our naval steamships atall eveats. Half @ million dollars of government stocks were redeemed during the past week. It is stated that Hon. Robert M. McLane, of Maryland, has been appointed Minister to China. Dr. Steiner, of the army, is 4 be tried by court mar- tial for the olleged murder of Major Arnold. L. K. Lippincott is to be married to “ Grace Greenwood” —HMise Clarke. An unfortunate accident occurred in this city yes | terday, caused by the caviog in of a sewer in Madison street, by which one man was killed and four others wounded. At Philadelphia yesterday eight men were drown- ed by the sinking of two scows io the Dela vare river. They were laborers, in the employ of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. The yellow fever still rages ‘earfuily at various pointe on the Mississippi river and in the intorior. Accounts from New Orleans state that old residents of that city may safely return, bat strangers should keep away. At Cincinnati coal is very scarce, and 2 number of manufacturing establishments have stopped in oon. wequence. The Oaio river is low and receding. The returns of the election in Ohio indicate a ma- jority in favor of free trade in spirituous I\quors. A Frenchman—expelled from his coun- try in consequence of his red-republicanism—a man of average talent at the bar. but whose political principles are a mystery to the public and a puzzle to his friends—whose public life | has consisted in a few weeks presence in the Senate, where he was sent by mistake—whose | only claim to notoriety is a filibustero speech, worthy of a lieutenant of Lopez--whose con- duct, both previous to and since his nomination has completely destroyed any former repute he ' may have had for judgment and discretion. Such is the man who--with fifteen millions in | one band, and war in the other—-has been sent to negotiate with the government of Spain for the acquisition of Cuba. France. too, required a man ecromercial knowledge and sh: kill, Louis Napoleon is plainly enongh plot- ting mischief to this country, and it behoves us that he be watched. Our commercial relations with that empire stand on a most unequal fuot- | ing. Was Mr. Mason—a good-tempered, easy- going old gentleman. who knows es much of ot extensive ewd political Frerch and diplomacy ag of Sanser!t—the only } man that could be found for this important office? Perhaps the most incompreheusible of ali the extraordinary foreign appointments made by the present, administration is that of Mr. Bel- mont to the Court at the Hagne. Had there been but two men in the country betveen whom | it was possible to choosee—the one e plain | A woman's rights meeting was held at Cincinnati | down-enst Yankee, without learning. kuow- on Friday evening, at which Lucy Stone and Lucre- tia Mott were the stars. Bight hundred thousand dollars have beea snb scribed in Florida towards the constrastion of the Pensacola Railroad. The warehouse of Messrs. Wyche & Cates, at Ma- con, Ga., was destroyed by fire om the Lith instant. ‘There was an insurance on the property in the Etua office, Hartford. Under the head of City Politics may be found the address of the committee appointed at the great reform meeting held in Metropolitan Hal! on the 7th of March, to the electors of this city. The number of deaths in New York during the past week, according to the City Inspector's report, was 413, which is @ decrease of 15 on the mortality of the previous week. Summer discases are prevalent, aftd an alarming increase has taken piace recently in the number of casos of still-born and pre- mature births, which it Js feared is not unfrequeatly produced by artificial means. Of the former the City Inspector, in his last weekly report, etates that there were 28 cases, and of the latter, 13. The deaths by consumption numbered 45; by eonvulsioas 31; by croup, 19; by debility, 10; by @imerhwa, 15; by dysentery, 25; by typhus fever, Ma by inflamas ‘tion of the bowels, 13; of the lumge, 13; by maras mus, 19; and by old age, 8. There were four cases of suicide—one by shooting, one by banging, one by jump ng out of a window, and one by cutilag the throat. Of the deceased, 276 were natiy 2 of ihe United States, 78 of Ireland, 26 of Germs~y, aid 9 of England, ledge, experience, or any earthly qualification to reeommend him, and the other Mr. Belmont— it would assuredly have been the duty of the Cabinet to select the former. But when, as was the case, scores of able and patriotic men could bave been chosen for the post, it was an insult tothe whole country to suffer this republic to -be represented at one of the leading courts of Northern Europe by an Austrian ex-consal— the agent of the Rothschilds—the born end steadfast friend of the inveterate foes of our government and our institutions—a man whose only recommendations are his standing in Wall street, and hie ekill in the financial operations of that meridian. How can Mr. Belmont re- present the republican principle in Europe? Should he be called upon, on any occasion of emergency, to vindicate democratic dignity and place the United States in an honorable position of antagonism to the despotic goyern- m nts of Europe, how can he be expected to act” Must we antic!pate frome him inconsiete ney gh to do us credit? Of a similar character are the other appoint. nie It were a sickening task to examine each in detail—to epeculate on the motives can have induced the administration to send a ruined English socialist to Naples, or lecnre country politicians to the other Euro vn conrts, ‘Wr, Duchanan, ou: ambassador to 1t were waste of breath aow to | as our foreign | become, the choice of our | One was passed over in silence. | disgrace the country. What principle can have | actuated the Cabinet in the distribution of these important trusts—whether it acted on a mere equitable scheme of dividing the public plunder among personal friends of its membere, or from motives more disreputable still—is a matter of conjecture. It ix fortunate for the United | States that our constitution enables the Seuate | to revise the whole batch. When the proper time comes, more than one among our maiden , ambassadors will contrive to find his way home. The British Artntocracy —The Kelers of the ‘or! Mr. Macaulay says somewhere that the bis- tory of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the last eighteen centuries, is the most remark- | able phenomenon of moderna times. The private memoirs of another body--the aristocracy of | Great Britain—during the past two centuries, are. to Our thinking, quite as striking and wonderful. We shall seek in vain a parallel for them in the whole range of aveient and modern history. Whether we regard the ridica- lously small means which the British nobility really has had at its disposal. or the stupendous | effects it has contrived to bring about by the | exercise of those means. its course. from be- ginning to end, has been entirely exceptional | and utterly unlike anything that the world | ever saw before. Two hundred yee ment was well nigh | To all outward appearan exist. In a few years. had Cromwell been suc- ; ceeded by a man of vigor and character, it | would have vanished altogether. This was not | the case. Moreover, religious dissensions had ' during the Protector’s reign diverted public atiention from the great politieal issues that | were being tried, and thus the crushed aris- | tocracy were enabled to rally the scattered | fragments of their party and prepare for a fresh campaign. Availing themselves of the | first symptoms of disorder, they hurriedly re- called Charles II.; and the bulk of the people, | wearied of ware. and still smarting from the | effects of former intestine troubles, sulkily ac- | cepted the Restoration. A period of which | brazen debauchery was the only distinguishing trait followed. James was a less pliant tool in the hands of his courtiers. By no means friend to the people, he showed himself a dangerous foe to the nobility ; and accordingly, as soon as his religious opinions had forfeited | for him any popular Jove that might have interfered with the plan, a few private meetings were held at the houses of some of the leading noblemen, and William of Orange was invited to invade the kingdom. Again—when Anne was on her deathbed, aud much of the people’s welfare depended on the choice of her successor, by whom do we find the contest fought? Bolingbroke in one | anti-chamber, and Oxford in the other; Marl- borough writing to the Elector to promise his support ; Shrewsbury extorting favors from the poor woman who had not ten minutes to live ; afew Jacobite noblemen struggling tooth and nail for their pet dynasty. Of any expres- | sion of a wish or a fear among the people proper, with respect to the choice of their future ruler. we can find no trace. The mat- ter was fully discussed, argued, and decided, between some fifty or sixty men who hai hap- pened to be born with titles. They chose a king, eet him on the throne, and afterwards | ruled him. Nor does the history of the Hanoverian dynas- | ty belie the assertion that ever since the Restora- | | tion of 1660 these same fifty or sixty heads of | families have ruled England. The reins of | power have been occasionally held by men of superior ability. chosen from the plebeian order; | but these have only gratified their ambition oa | condition of ruling for the use and behoof of the aristocracy. All the laws which have been passed -—all the"measures of public policy which have been adopted—all the movements of Great | Britain with regard to foreign Powers—have | been framed and devised with a view to | strengthen and consolidate the “ higher classes” of Great Britain. Previously to the Reform bill, the popular representation was so great a farce that it could hardly have been necessary, on admitting a commoner to power, to stipulate that he should serve the nobles with zeal and fidelity. The fifty or sixty heads of families could upset any ministry when they pleased. and substitute a fresh one of their own choos- ing. When the wise project of Brougham and his colleagues became a law England, might have thrown off the yoke of the nobility had Englishmen been individuals of a different stamp., Had the inherent tendency towards flunkeyism, which their own writers £0 prooerly reprove, been less deeply rooted in th of British commoners, popular liberty have been established. Unfortunate) bas never been the case in England. est aim of men of intellect. learning wealth is to he admitted to the drawing-rooms of the titled few, and probably to give their | daugbter to a noble roué, or secure a coronet on | the family pannels, This prestige outweighs every consideration of more solid benefits; aud however ardent may be the republicanism of | the Englishman of twenty, who has everything to gain, no lackey can be more servile to the aristocracy than the same man when he has at- tained a certain rank and station in society. This peculiarity of the British character has saved the nobles. By working it judiciously they still contrive to control public affairs. And though commoners more frequently rise to power than they did—though in fact they are gener- ally the active agente of the government — the general tenor of the laws and the public policy have not been less unequivocally partial to the nobles since the Reform law than it was before. They still rule England; and to all appearance they will continue to do so for a long period to come. Ney, more—England is too contracted a sphere for the display of their ambition. The Continent ie nearly as pliant a tool in their hands. Space would fail us were we to attempt to sketch in the briefest manner the measures in the modern policy of France, Russia, Austria and Spain which can be clearly traced to the influence of the British aristoeracy. One has only to turn to the history of Lord Palmerston’s service in the Foreign Office to see how completely the sileat sway of the British nobles has pervaded the world. Here, by open threate through the docile Commons— there, by sordid agency through a house of Rothschiids-—elsewhere, by secret promises of evpport and favor, as in the case of Loais Na- puleon—these ve, ad heads of families have led Europe by nose for half a century at least, Themselves the while as sorry a body of men os you could find ina month’s journey. So degenerate by constant intermarriage among themselves and lives o! proiligacy, that no and ' au Prince. pure plebelan source could keep them ia exist- ence—so deficient in ability toat they could never carry out their own e¢hemes without the aid of the class they oppress—so devoid of the | higher, nobler qualities of buman nature, that | with all the advantages of the highest culture and commanding opportunities, not one out of the number has ever risen to the front rank iu any single walk of intellect. This, neverthe- Jess. is the clags which, for a ceutury or more. with occasional interruptions, has governed, | and stili continues to govern, the civilized world. | Whe Consular System of the United States. | To show the inequality of our preseut defec- tive consular system. as compared to that of Great Britain, we have publised iu another part of this paper a table (No. 1,) of the consuls of both countries, with their ralaries. ‘This table proves that the whole amount of salaries paid out to consular agents by Great Britain in 1852, (as far as the same could be as- certained,) amounted to the sum of about $563,705, while the total amount of fees re- ceived by about one hundred and seventy-five American consuls amounted to only about | $111,000. The salaries proposed to be paid out to the one hundred and twenty-nine consular agents, provided for in Mr. Campbell's bill, | referred to below, amounted to $160,500; the | heaviest sums being embraced for consular agents to Great Britain and her colonies. The British statisties given were compiled irom *“Dietvichsen & Haunag’s Royal Abnanae, published by authority,” in Londoa,i in 1852. In making comparisons we have followed the alphabetical order of the English list, instead ofthe American arrangement, Jn the British column will be found many consulates which are not contained in either of the American columns. Aud again, the American catalogue embraces many not to be found in the | British enumeration. Hence the British column has been given as nearly entire as possible. and the American given where they correspond. The British list gives thirty vice consuls at large | for Italy, which were omitted, because no salaries or fees were given, and we had noth- | ing to correspond with them in the American | list. Were these added to ihe two hundred and ninety-one consular agents given, they would swell the number of British consular agenta to | three hundred and twenty-one. The compa- | rison in every respect will show the utter in- significance and imperfection of our system. For instance, while England, through her eighteen consular agents in China—costing in salaries not less than $60,000—is enabled by extending their judicial and other powers to give the greatest expansion to her political and commercial influence in that vast empire, we have, at this critical moment but three con- sulate officers, receiving paltry fees for their services, and leave the mission of an ambassa- dor open for months. Still the spasmodic effurts which have been occasionally made iu Congress fur the revisal of our present system, however well intended, have uniformly and signally failed. The bill prepared with this view by a com- mittee of the House of Representatives in 1846, of which Mr. Campbell was chairman, and re- vived by the Hon Juha A. Rockwell in 1943 contempiated some important changes. It propuzed to reduce the number of consular representatives, and to pay fixed salaries. It provided for the appointment of seventy-five coneuls, the aggregate pay of whom was to be about $133 500, dhd fifty-four vice consuls, with an aggregate pay of $27,000; or for one bundred and twenty-nine consular agents ofall Wonds, at a total cost of $160,500. The number of consular agents would thus have been re- duced from about one hundred and seventy- five to one hundred and twenty-nine, which we think was a defect in the bill, and calculated to injure the public service. Instead of a reduction.in the number of con- sular agents, the growth and exigencies of the country require the consular force to be aug- | mented. | But, while it reduces the number of officers employed, the bill proposes to increase the ex- peuse of the consular system by about $59,000; | the salaries assigned them exceeding the present aggregate amount of fees by about that sum The people would not object were the num- | ber of their consular agents iuereased even | at a cost ot $100,000 or $200,000 per annum over and above the amount of fees reeeiv- ed, provided the daties of the were enlarged and enforced. Their services to the political, commercial. agricultural ed manu- facturing i t of the eo i* properly ned, Wor i value of ry Gi ood per annum to vice consuls is too little. 1 should. in no case, be less than from $1,000 to $1,500, otherwise the services of suitable wen cannot be procured. Consuls to the following places were to be invested with diplomatic powers, viz.:—Tangier, Tunis, Tripoli, Athnes, Alexandria, Leghorn, Rome, Basle. Hamburg, Bremen, Frankfort- ou-the-Main, Honolula, Muscat, Bay of Islands, Montevideo, Guayaquil, Guatemala, and Port | It wes provided that no person should hold the office of consul longer than ten years, nor Le recalled under four years, except for a cause satisfactory to the Senate. No consul was to absent himself from his post longer than thirty days, without permission of the State Department, and then not for a longer period than ninety days. The tonsular office was to be centrally lo- cated, and the hours for business to extend from 10 AM. to 3 P.M. (The office hours should be from 9 AM. to 5 P.M.) The duties of consuls were to commence immediately after their recognition by foreign governments. They were required to give bonds, with two or more securities, in sums of not less than $2,000, nor over $10,000. An exequatur to be obtained through a resident minister, where there is one, otherwise the application to be made direct to the proper department. Returns of consular agents to be made once im three months to the Department of State, communicating all important iaformation, and a vigilant watch over the interests of the Uni- ted States to be maintained. The consul to ab- stain from all participation in political or other exciting disputes, Another section pre- scribes the fees to be charged for servicer. Jf a consul grant a certificate to an alien, ho is to be forthwith dismissed. No commissions to be received on receiving or disbursing sea- men’s wager. Consuls are not to discharge miarivers without three months prepayment of | wages from masters of veesels, and full proof to | the consul’s satisfaction that it will be for the welfare or interest of the sailor to be so dis- charged. Exyenses incurred by sailors at the port where ianced or discharged, to be paid | pointed out, as regards the consuls. out of the firat two months’ prepaid wages, and? the balance to be given to them. A Ist of mari- ners to be kept, with an account of all public moneys, and an official entry to be kept of every discharged sear: The duties of coa- euls regarding vessels are also prescribed ; | neglect of which will expose them to an action at lew. The law of 1803 to be enforced. The act further provides for proceedings regarding intestate estates, and the preserit commissions allowed. Record books to be kept of all trans- actions appertaining to vessels, cargoes, tecs, commistions, &c., and quarterly returns made. The vice consulates are to be filled by none but citizens of the United States. To be con- tinued in office not longer than twelve years, nor to be removed, except for direliction of duty, in less than six. To receive no other nor larger fees than those received by consuls. They are to find honds in sums of not less than five hundred, nor over two thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of their duties. They are authorized to do all official acts except to grant passports. (The wisdom of this prohibition is not seen.) They are also to keep record booka of transactions appertaining to their office, and to communicate with the State Department semi-annually, or oftener, if required. They are to receive all books and accounts from their predecessors. The vice consuls, in addition to their annual salaries, are to receive five per cent commis- sions upon their salaries, to defray the expenses of postages, seals. flags, &e, No new consulate to be established but by act of Congress; though the President may en- large a district or add to it other allegiances. This act, with other laws bearing upon the dis- charge of their duties, to be forwarded to all consular agents. The Secretary of State to organize a consular bureau, and all correspondence to be conducted through it. The chief of the bureau, to receive asalary of $2,500 per annum; and to be allow- ed two clerks. The chief to make annus! reports of all consular transactions to the State Department, to be submitted to Congress on or before the first day of January of each year. Consular agents are also required to communicate information regarding the commercial, agricultural and manufacturing statistics ot other countries, in- cluding new improvements in the arts of in- dustry, &c. This law, it is perceived, had it been adopted, though objectionable as to the number of consular agents and the pay of vice consuls, would have resulted in a great im- provement on the present incongruous and im- perfect system. We give in another place (Ta- ble No. 2) a list of consuls, and the salaries annexed, proviced for in the bill. It also pro- vides for the appointment of vice consuls to the following places, viz.:—Bristol, Falmouth, Ply- mouth, Kingston-upon-Hull, Dublin, London- derry, Cork, Galway, Island of Malta, Cape Town, Capé of Good Hope, St. Helens, St. John’s, Halifax, Pictou, Turk’s Island, Hobart Town, Riga, Archange), Stettin, Nantes, St. Pierre (Martinique), Point-a-Petre (Guada- loupe), Cayenne, Alg'ers, Barcelona, Port Ma- hone, St. Iago de Cuba, Funchal (Madeira), Curacoa (W.1.), Santa Cruz, St. Thomas, Ve- nice, Ancona, Messina, Zanzibar Island, Apia (Navigator’s Island), Ovelan (Fejce Islands), Aux Cayes, Cape Haytien, Tampico, Matamo- ras, Tobasco, Santa Martha, Maracaibo, La- guayra, Maranham Island, Peru, Pernambuco, Santos. St. Catherine’s Island, Bahia or San Salvader, Rio Negro, Coquimbo, Ponce, and Talcabuana, The above list is very imperfect and ill-ar- ranged. Indeed, should the bill ever be re- vived, it should be recommitted to the Commit- tee on Commerce, who should, in making amendments, consult with prominent merchants engaged in foreign trade as to the necessary modifications. The Chambers of Commerce in commercial cities might be able to offer impor- tant suggestions. It will be perceived that while some unim- portant places are put down at $2.000 per an- num, others. of more sonsequence. are put down | at $1500. We shonld suppose that the consul at St. Petersburg ought to receive more than one at Frankfort and Basle, and that Hamburg was worth as much as Bremen or Leghorn. We do not see why the consul at Constantinople should not receive $2,000 per annum as well as those at Smyrna and Beyrout. These are only a few of the irregularities which might be The bill makes no provision for a consul at Leipsic, in Saxony, where the consular fees are worth $1,250. The viccconsulships named are also irregu- lar. and denote ill-judged arrangement. We find that such places as Mazatlan, Acupulco, Chi- | huahua. Matamoras, &c., in Mexico, are omitted. In the Papal States, Rome and other points are omitted. In Austria, Vienna is left ont, In Denmark, Copenhagan; in Sweden, Stockholm, and in Norway, Christiana are omitted. Prus- sia, Bavaria and Norway are exeluded from the list. In China, Shanghai, Amoy. and Ningpo, and Macoa are stricken from the list. In Aus- tralia, Melbourne and Adelaide are omitted. Also, all Africa, with the exception of the Cape of Good Hope and the Mediterranean ports. While the consul in Paris receives $2,500. no consul is provided for at Madrid, Vienna, or Berlin; Bolivia is omitted, and Lima, in Peru, is not honored with a vice consn- late. In Chili, Conception, a town of some sixty thousand inhabitants, is omitted. We might, algo, name @ great many other cases in point. They go to prove that those who drew up the bill were not commercial men, nor fully aware of all the exigencies of the consular system. In table No. 3, are comparative statements of the cost of the consular systems for each country, represented by Great Britan and the United States, aud the number of consuls as far as ascertained. We shall close our statistics for the present, by giving in table No. 4, on another page of this paper, the number of consular agents actually employed by Great Britain and the United States, and the number of those proposed to be appointed under Mr. Campbell's bill. Very Important Mvsicat Intersacencs— Orro or Roses—The Rev. Samuel H. Cox, of Brooklyn, has just published a highly important and interesting letter. in which, from the direct authority of Madam Otto Goldschmidt herself, | he denies th? late rumors that her little husband had “caught a Tartar,” and that she rales him with a rod of iron; as well as those other mis- representations, that Master Geldschmidt had turned out to be oa perfect little tyrantin a small way. The Rev. Mr. Cox says: In @ late affectionate letter received from Madara , which has been shown me, aud which is now before me, the facts are all stated, in genuine syle, which perfectly demonstrate the comes | 9 resent statemen. A sense of justice an propre us nbd aaah dis ply = by the Di nfs Fe iia band is unkind to her, inconsi jerate, reckless, even cruel, Not to examine such reports oa enough for me to say, that, herself being Piet and ere i bina rad that savy | ice, OF tou] mucity cou, with ignorance, in- vented then all; that “nothing but ths diamettioal reverse is true of ber “ dear Oito;” that no woman in the world has more reason to be grateful to God for her Loy N and nes al man po tenderness, cousidera'ion aud sfisotian his bat a brief epitome ot weat, with full ge she writes to her friend aforesaid. "She writes, indeed, plainly, without reserve, and witbout secs without sensibility, at ouce stung and virtuoualy in- dignant. The Rev. Mr. eon furthe? says, that “it is very certain that the American people have no interest or wish to dissent from her own most credible and conciusive statement,” and thatthe mischief of those false reports ought now to be stopped, “ albeit, efter their severity has often wounded the gentle bosom that now rejoices, and should have no such pang to countervail her joy, as the accomplished mother of a lovely and beautiful infant. justly ceowning the happy communion of its parents, in their own peaceful and private home,” We think so too ; and as:the reverend gentle- man seems to consider this matter of very con- siderable importance to the American people, we give the two nightingales the benefit of his vindication in our columus. Our. only wonder is why Barnum has not attended to this business before. A sense of gratitude, as well as a con- viction of public duty, should never permit Bar- num to remain silent where the interests or the happiness of Jenny Lind are concerned on this side of the Atlantic. His present engagement of the Bearded Lady should not be considered as cancelling his obligations to the Swedish minstrel. But as the Rev. Mr. Cox has so satis- factorily done what Barnum has neglected to do, we have no doubt the American people will be satisfied. Nothing like the music of night- ingales and the otto of roses. give the tmalter to the public over my wan nay 2 persuaded of their truth. ive Cot.ector Bronson’s Lerrer 1s Commva.— Some persons are busy talking about Collector Bronson’s forthcoming reply to Secretary Guth- rie’s dictatorial State missive, and conjecturing its tenor. and contents just as it suits their own particular feelings or bias. Others assert that the answer has beep sent by Judge Bronson, and that its tone leaves no alternative but his dismissal. _Now, we have reason to know that the Collector has been confined to his house for some days, and unable to attend to business matters, and that, consequently, up to Friday evening at least, he had not written to Secre- tary Gutbrie. But we are mistaken in the high toned character of the man if he does not seud a becoming and unflinching answer to the Guthrie manifesto which has caused such indignation to a large section of the demo- cratic party. If Judge Bronson does not re- sign his present official position in contempt for the Marcy Cabinet, he will be still Col- lector, for, having too much policy, they dare not dismiss him. President Pierce had much better get rid of Marcy, Guthrie, and the whole batch of hybrids, who seem to forget the people who placed them in power. The Law Courts. Five pyitoners were sentenced, yesterday, iu the United States District Court, by Judge Ingersoll, to various por riods of imprisonment, for crimes upon the high seas. ‘Those, together with Joha Williams and two others, who pleaded guilty of a revolt on board the ship Mortimer Livingston, and Peter Feuger, who pleaded guilty of larceny on board the ship Patrick Henry, and were reateneed to brief impriconments, make nine convictions in that Court during the week. Inthe Supreme Conrt, special term, before Judge Roosevelt, the Canal and Walker strect im- provement case was resumed. Mz, Raub, 2 property hold- er, on @ former cecasion gave notice. to the Court that he was an ovjector, and he so wished it «pecially to be un- derstood, Yesterday, however, the parties in favor of the widening and extension of the streets, presented an afii- davit from Raub, in whieh he stated that when he made his objection he ¢id not understand the case, and he now withdrew it. There waea great deal of desultory con- versation and disputing about papers not being served, and the absence of other papers, so that the matter ap- peared a perfect chaos of quibbler and lege) sparring. The astute functionary on the bench seemed himsel? tobe unable to escerta’n in what position the matter stood, or where they were, or whether the argument was an argument, or not an argument, and looked as if anx- ious to know if any one could tel! him when he would get to the end of Walker and Cunaf street. The matter stands further adjourned to Saturday next. The motion in the Jones Wood Park ease before Judge Edwards, was also postponed until next Saturday. Marine Affairs. Deparivure or mm Barnic.—The U. S. mai) steamship Raltic, Capt. Comstock, left at noon yesterday, with 130 patsengers. Her specie list consisted of $970,810 in gold, and £1,170 in English silver. Horricane ar Sza—The brig Sardus, which arrived from Cardiff, via Falmouth, a few days since, experienced a hurricane on the 0th ult., in lat. 4316 N. and lon, 33 24 W. While laying ‘o she was struck by a heavy sea, ia which «he lost ber bulwarks and broke her stauncheons, The sails were cut away, and the vessel became very enky. Shippers to San Francisco, Cy Lightfoot, at pier 24) Kast river, wilt pleace Lave all thetz freight on boned before Saturday, 29tL instant, and hand in their bille of Inding, for signat u CO, No. 4 Wail street, or Mestrs. HOWE .; 93 Ponel etrest, Intellect and its Culture, ineladin, eave nile education, by 0, 8, FOWLER, at Blecck Bleecker stro jonday eveni vition street, on Tuceday evening, 0 orth inany times their oo! it. 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