The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1853, Page 6

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ACADEMY HALL, 662 Prow REENISH GALLER BIGNOR BLITZ—Sruv GHINESE ROOMS, MURITION oF THE Sx 696 Brosdway—Panonama ov | | alway—Franuensrems Paro p—Surepise MAN. odway—Day and Bvening lysrirure. $80 Broadway—Puauam’s Gir Ex- | we MingoR. POWELL’S GREAT Qovenyxrst is Now Duuen, 613 Broadway. L PAINTING ror tHe NAT TM NATIONAL ACADEMY OF New York, Sunday, October 16, 1853, | The Ne The mails by the Humboldt, from Havre and Beutbampton, were delivered ia this city at aa early hour yesterday mornicg, and our files by the @Mavada, from Liverpool, reached us, via Bosten, in the evening. The London dates, by both steamers, ome 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 iatelli- gence had reached us previously by telegraph ; the detiils 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 manifestoes issued by the Sultaa and the Czar, with gw long letter from Kossuth, stating his opinions upoa the merits of the quarrel. ‘The imperial military congress had commenced its sittings, with great pomp and 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 vorthern tour. A Scotch lady, named Cunninghame,—said to be linee! descendant of John Knox—had been arrest- ei in Tuscany, for distributing religious cracts, and was placed in the same p 3 which was lately oc- eupied by Rosa Madiai, in order tojawait her trial ua- | der a new penal statute lately passed to meet such cases. The reception of the news in England and Scotland had caused intense excitement, 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 ia her be- half, but he remzined inexorable at the time of our last dates. Melbourne, ( Australis), news bad been received England dated upon the 4th of July, bat the Hz | @f the 12c) instant published intelligence to the 21st | of the same month, exports of gold had ar ived at Singspore. There is nothing decisive from | China. The Singapore B:- Monthly Cwrcwlar, dated upoa the 13h of August, bas reached us. Gold dust had slightly decline velue dariog the fortuight ended upon that day, ow » the scarcity of money aad favorable rates of exchange. Australian could not ‘be quoted higher than from #28 to $29 per bunkal and other descriptions were at from $2 to $27 Toe imports were two hundred and one bun- | kals, and the exports amounted to eight hundred and | eighty. Our Hamilton, (Bermuda) correspondent, writing | wpon the 27th ultimo, informs us of the further | progress of the yellow fever, which was still most fatal to the military, both officers and priva‘e men. Major Byles bad been sworn in as Administrator of the Government. The weather was very wet and squall. Our 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 at all eveuts. Half @ million dollars of government stocks were redeemed during the past week. It is stated that Hon. Robert M. McLane, Maryland, has been appointed Minister to China. Dr. Steiner, of the army, is to be tried by court mar- | tial for the alleged murder of Major Arnold. L. K. Lippincott is to be married to “ Grace Greenwood” —Miss Clarke. An unfortunate accident occurred in this city yes- terday, caused by the caving iv of a sewer in Madison street, by which one man was killed and four others wounded. At Philadelphia yesterday eight men were drowa- ed by the sinking of two scows io the Delavare 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 interior. Accounts from New Orleans state that old residents of that city may safely return, but strangers should keep away. At Cincinnati coal is very scarce, and 2 number of manufacturing establishments have stopped in oon. wequence. The Onio river is low and receding. The returns of the election in Ohio indicate a ma- jority in favor of free trade in spirituous Iquors. A woman's rights meeting was held at Cincinnati on Friday evening, at which Lucy Stone and Lucre- tia Mott were the stars. Eight hundred thousand dollars have beea sab weribed in Florida towards the constraction 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 Etoa 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 Hall on the 7th of | sissippi of about sixt | yesterday visited the Cry-tal Palace and Randull’s | Island. At the latter a beautifu silk banner was pre- sented to the boys by a member of the company. In | our report there is » ven an account of thenew building now in course of erect on as a House of Re- foge for Juvenile Del nqvents—an instifution which will be of great iu postavce. We publish this morning an exceedingly interesting letter from our correspondent in Minnesota, contain- ing the treaty nego'iated by Governor Gorman with the Winnebago f ns, and the speeches of the | Commissioners and leading chiefs. By this treaty the government obtains searly one million acres of prairie and timber land, having @ front on the Mis- | miles. | . The leading fancy stocks advanced @ fraction yes- | terday, with large transactions. There were large sales of flour aud wheat, without any material varia. tion in prices. Cotton sold at halfa ceat per pound decline. Freights were firmer. The steamship Baltic, for Liverpool, yesterday carried ont nearly a million’ | principally in gold ingots. Our Foreign Missions and Misrepresenta- tious Abiead. . Everybody knows how the domestic offices of State have been filled under the present ad- ministration. It were waste of breath aow to add a single criticism to the volumes of censure | which they have generally provoked. Let us ture to the foreign appointments, which are | now nearly complete, and cousider them as a | | whole. | Cowplicated and momentous as our foreign | | pol.ey bas recently become, the choice of our | European representatives required at least as | much caution and judgment as the division of | the spoils at-home. Our national interests im- j 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, and 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 Shat, 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 advan- tage? The answer is but too simple. Wit a few exceptions, all the European em bassies have been filled with unfit, in- capable men. A natural wish to give the new Cabinet a fair trial, and an indulgent recognition of the difficulties which surrounded it, in the shape of unredeemed pledges and crowds of hungry oifice-seekers, indueed 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. One was passed over in silence. | another wes but faintly censured—the people hoping steadfastly that those which were to follow would atone for all. The list is now complete. We have nothing farther to hopa or expect. And it would be rank dishonesty to- day to hide the fuct that the nominations, as a whole, are worse than the bitterest Tue to the | administration could have anticipated. 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- | rid. Whom have the administration chosen to | Allit? A Frenchman—expelled from his coun- try in consequence of his red-republicanism—a | man of average talent at the bar. bat whose political principles are a mystery to the public and a puzzle to his friends—whose public life has consisted ina few weeks presence in the Senate, where he was sent by mistake—whose | only claim to notoriety is a filibustere 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 hand, 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 ot extensive | commercial knowledge and shrewd political skill. Louis Napoleon is plainly exongh plot- ting mischief to this country, and it behuves us | that he be watched. Our commercial relations with that empire stand on a most unequal foot: | ing. Was Mr. Mason—a good-tempered, eaey- going old gentleman, who knows es much of French and diplomacy ae of Sansertt—the only | man that could be found for this importaat office? Perbaps the most incompreheusible of ali the extraordinary foreign appointments made by the present, administration is that of Mr. Bol- mont to the Court at the Hague. Had there been but two men in the country between whom it was possible to choose—the one e plain | down-enst Yankee. without learning. kuow- 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 -he represented at one of the leading courts of Northern Europe by an Austrian ex-consal— the agent of the Rothschilds—the born end etcadfast friend of the inveterate foes of our 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 415, which is a decrease of 15 on the mortality of the previous week. Summer diseases are very prevalent, afd an alarming increase has taken piace recently in the number of casos of stil!-born and pre- mature births, which it Ja 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 letter, 13. Th deaths by consumption numbered 45; by eonvulsions 31; by croup, 19; by debility, 10; by @imrrhora, 15; by dysentery, 25; by typhus fever, May by inflamua tion of the bow 18; of the luge, 13; by maras- wus, 19; and by oid age, 8. There were four cases of suicide—one by shooting, one by hanging, one by jump ng out of a window, and one by cutting the throat. Of the deceased, 276 were natiy 6 of the United States, 78 of Ireland, 26 of Germany, ad 9 of England, government and our institutions—a man whose only recommendations are his standing in Wal) street. and his ekill in the financial operations of that meridian. How can Mr. Belmont re- present the republican principle in Europe? Should he be called npon, 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 ° Must we antie'pate from him inconsistency gh to do us credit? Of « similar character are the other appoint- wero a sickening task to examine each in detail—to speculate on the motives ich can have induced the administration to ud ruined Hnglish socialist to Naples, or lecure country politicians to the other Euro- 1n courts, Luchanan, our ambassador to | me It | able phenomenon of modern times. | reprove, been less deeply rooted in the h 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 anaiden , ambassadors will contrive to find his way home. The British Artatogracy=The Relers of the World. Mr. Macaulay says somewhere that the his- tory of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the last eighteen centuries, is the most remark- The private memoirs of another body--ihe 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 ancient 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 co . from be- ginning to end, has been entirely exceptional and utterly unlike anything that the world | ever saw before. Two hundred years ago the aristocratic ele- ment was well nigh extinguished in Englan?. To all outward appearance it had ed to exist. In a few years. had Cromwell been sue- ceeded by a man of vigor and character, it would have vanished altogether. This was not the cage. Moreover, religious d 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 I.; and the bulk of the people, wearied of wars. 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 a friend to the people, he showed himself a dangerous foe to the nobility ; and accordingly, as soon as bis religious opinions had forfeited for him any popular love 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 oter; Marl- borough writing to the Elector to promise his support ; Shrewsbury extorting favors from the poor woman who had not ten minutes to live ; a few 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 had hap- pened to be horn with titles. They chose uo king. set 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 spy 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 eo pro: y of British commoners, popular liberty » have been established. Unfortunate] has never been the casein Rogland. ‘The est aim of men of intellect. learning wealih is to he admitted to the drawing-rooms of ihe titled few, and probably to give their daughter to a noble roué, or secure a coronet on the family pannels. This prestige outweighs every consideration of more solid benefits; and 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 ha 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 ective agents 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. Nay, more—England is too contracted a sphere for the display of their ambition. The Continent ie nearly as pliant @ 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 support and favor, as in the case of Loais Na- poleon—these fifty or sixty heads of families have led Lurope by the nose for half a century at least. Themselves the while as sorry a body of men as you could find in amonth’s journey, So degenerate by constant intermarriage among themselves and lives of profligacy, that no and | | for Italy, which were omitted, because no The Moyame naing Fose Com pany, of Philadel phia, | London isnearly the only appointee who does not | thing but cecastonal draughts of blood from a pure plebeian source could keep them in exist- ence—eo deficient in ability tuat they could never carry out their own schemes without the aid of the class they oppress—so devoid of the higher, nobler qualities of burman 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 in | any single walk of intellect. This, neverthe- | less. is the class which; for a ceutury or more. | i} with occasional interruptions, has governed, and stili continues to govern, the civilized world. The 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 consnis of both countries, with their salaries. ‘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 $503,705, while the total amount of fees re- ceived by about one hundred and seventy-five American consuls amounted to oaly about | $111,000, The salaries proposed to be paidout to the one hundred and twenty-nine consular agents, provided for in Mr. Campbell's bill, referred to below, amounted to $160,500; the | st sums being embraced for consular o Great Britain and her colonies. statistics given were compiled irom “Dictvichsen & Hannag’s Royal Almanae, published by authority,” in London,in 1852, In making comparisons we have followed the alphabetical order of the English list, instead ofthe American arrangemeat, Tn the British column will be found many consulates which are not contained in either of the American columns. Aud agaiu, the American catalogue embraces many not to be found inthe | British enumeration. Hence the British column has been given es nearly entire as possible, and the American given where they correspond. The British list gives thirty vice consuls at large | salaries or fees were given, and we had noth- | ing to correspond with them in the American | list. Were these added to the 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 aud 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 spasinodic efforts which have been cecasionally made in 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 Jubn A. Rockwell in 1948 contempiated some important changes. It proposed to reduce the number of consular representatives, and to pay fixed salaries, It provided for the appointment of seventy-five consuls, 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 hundred and twenty-nine consular agents ofall Mnds, 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- pense 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 of $100,000 or $200,000 per annum over and above the amount of fees reeeiv- ed, provided the daties of the co: were enlarged and enforced. Their services to the , commercial, agricultural god manu- Is woul the value of q ) per aniwia to vice consuls Vt should. in no case, be less than from $1,000 to $1,500. otherwise the services of suitable men cannot be procured. Consuls to the following places were to be invested with diplomatic powers, viz.:—Tangior, Tunis, Tripoli, Athnes, Alexandria, Leghorn, Rome, Basle, Hamburg, Bremen, Frankfort- ou-the-Main, Honolula, Muscat, Bay of Islands, Montevideo, Guayaquil, Guatemala,.and Port | au Prince. It was 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 consular 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 leas 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 in 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- acribes the fees to be charged for servicce. If a consul grant ® certificate to an alien, he ir to be forthwith dismissed. No commissions to be received on receiving or disbursing sea- men’s wager. Consuls are not to discharge | marivers without three months prepayment of wages from masters of veesels, and full proof to 4 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 janced or discharged, to be paid | omitted. ont of the first two months’ prepaid wages, an? | the balance to be given to them. A list of marl- ners to be kept, with an account of all public moneys, and an official entry to be kept of every discharged seaman. The duties of coa- suls regarding vessela are also prescribed ; neglect of which will expose them to an action at law. The law of 18038 to be enforced. The act further provides for proceedings regarding intestate estates, and the present commissions allowed. Record books to be kept of all trans- actions appertaining to vessels, cargoes, fees, commissions, &c., and quarterly returns made. The vice consulates are to be filled by none but citi of the United States. To be con- tinued in office not louger 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 books of transactions appertaining to their office, and to communicate with the State Department remi-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 Sceretary of State to organize a consular bureau, and all correspondence to be conducted through it. The chief of the burean, to receive asalary of $2,500 per annum; and to be allow- ed two clerks. The chief to make annual 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 otber 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, provided 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 otf Good Hope, St. Helena, St. John’s, Halifax, Pictou, Turk’s Island, Hobart Town, Riga, Archangel, Stettin, Nantes, St. Pierre (Martinique), Point-a-Petre (Guada- loupe), Cayenne, Algiers, 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 Salvador, 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 eonsequence. 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 pointed out, as regards the consuls, The bill makes no provision for a consul at Leipsic, in Saxony, where the consular fees are worth $1,250. The viceconsulships 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 In Austria, Vienna is left out. In Denmark, Copenhugan; in Sweden, Stockholm, and in Norway, Christiana are omitted. Prus- sia, Bavaria and Norway are excluded 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 consu- late. In Chili, Conception, a town of some sixty thousand inhabitants, is omitied. We might, also, name a 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 consu!s 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, Intsrracsxcs— Orto or Roses—The Rev. Samuel H. Cox, of Brooklyn, bas just pubfished a highly important and interesting letter. in which, feom the direct authority of Madam Otto Goldschmidt herself, he denies th? late ramors 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 Goldschmidt had turned out to be a perfect little tyrantin o small way. The Rev. Mr. Cox says: In @ late affectionate letter received from Madara which has been shown me, and which is now before me, the facts are all stated, in genuine le, which perfectly demonstrate the anthenticit, the present statemen. A sense of ji an prop: bus induced me to yield to the request, and give the matter to the eons own sel Ser ully persuaded of their truth, Her have jeeplsy wounded by the story that her band is un! to her, inconsi jerate, reckless, and even crush Not to examine such reports, it is enough for me to say, that, herself being witness and judge, they are sl! totaly false ; that envy and ma- lice, or tovlish loqnucity coupled with ignorance, in- vented them all; that nothing but the diametrical reverse is true of her ‘dear Qtto;” that no woman in the world bas more reason to be grateful to God for her hana i, and eat ae man in the world could be pre delicate and complete pattern teudernead; couridera‘ion and affection. Tas et a brief epitome ot woat, with full heart, she writes to her friend aforesaid. She writes, indeed, without reserve, and witbout affectation; without sensibility, at ouce stung and dignant. ° The Rev. Mr. Cox furthe? says, that “it ix very certain that the American people have no interest or wish to dissent from her own most credible and conclusive 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 crowning 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- faetorily 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. ES Coitector Bronson’s Lerrer 1s Comme.— Some persons are busy talking about Collector Bronson’s forthcoming reply to Secretary Guth- rie’s dictatorial State missive, and conjecturing ils 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, ap 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 send 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, in the United States District Court, by Judge Ingersoll, to varidus poo riods of imprisonment, for crimes upon the high seas. Those, together with Joha Williams and two others, who yleaded 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 reatenced to brief imprisonments, make nine convictions in that Court during the week. Inthe Supreme Conrt, special term, before Judge Roosevelt, the Canal and Walker streot im- provement case was resumed. Mz, Raub, a property hola. er, on @ former cecasion gave notice. to the Court that he was an ovjector, and he so wished it specially to be un- derstood. Yesterday, however, the parties in favor of the widening and extension of the streets, presented an affi- davit from Raub, in which ‘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 sorred, and the absence of other papers, so that the matter ap- peared a perfect chaos of quibbles and lege) sparring. The astute functionary on the bench seemed himself to be unable to ascertain 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 case before Judge Edwards, wae also postponed until next Saturday. Marine Affairs. Dirarrere or mm Batmic.——The U. 8, mail sieamshfp Baltic, Capt. Comstock, left at noon yesterday, with 130 patsengers. Her specie list consisted of $970,810 in gold, and £1,170 in English silver. Hurricane at Sza.—The brig Sardus, which arrived from Cardiff, via Falmouth, a few days since, experienced & hurricane on the 0th ult., in lat. 43 16 N. and lon, 33 24 W. While laying ‘o she was struck by a which she lost ber bulwark and broke her The ails were cut away, and the vossel becamo very euky. ~ Shippers to San Francisco, per Clipper Ship Lightfoot, at pier 2s, East river, wil pleace Lave all their freight on boned before Suturday, 29th nt, and hand in their bills of lading, for signatury, to 3 C0., No. 84 Wail strect, or Messrs, HOWES @ CO., 93 Poarl etrect, Intellect and its Culture, incladiag Juve- nile education, by 0. 8, FOWLEK, at Bleecker i Bleecker street, corner of Morton, on Monday ey 17; and at Me ) Institute, in the Bowery, corner of Di- vision strect, on Tuesday evening, Oot. IS, Wickets 1254 vente —but worth inany times their cost, as Mr, Fowler will treat scientifically Low to improve mem/ry, and develope fatellect Musical Notice —On Tucsday next will be bah a new Sung, entitled “Tuo Dying Worils of Little music Ly Horace Waters, author of Mother's Vow, ; arranged by Thoinas Baker. To be published by HO: KRACK WATEX: Broadway, tho great piano and music establishment. Name 3"—The Firm of Smith, wholesale aud retail dealers in read on dissolved. but their business is xti Daniol P, Smith, undyr tho sand magniiivont marble ie tock of fail and winter choap. Jothing is extensive, superior and Fall Clothing.—A Lar assortment of fasbiensble fail an om hand, besides cloths, eastimors goallty which ore made te orderin the latest ayes © FOSTER’: clothing cstablishment, 27 Cortlandt evreet, Carpetings.—Petersons & Ham} 'y 9 Broadway, unve received wail aro now opening their Fall pply of rich und elegant ¢arpotings, imported, exnreasly for je carpet, a ono entire ally tends, consisting of rioh Bouy: expot, mocdaition centee and lansionny boriler, surpassing Any oorpet over in this country, wedsllion valvot, moquet, Aumincter, tapostry and Bruseels oacpete, and ail grades of sacpet ctores. Also, olf 4 iy found tt Te erat Vorlety, dor pole on tho most liveral torma, al in pront variety, for sale Roots and §! tho best and cheapest in. the eity.—Fin and paturt leather boota, cork solo water pre every doveription, at BROOKS? shoe palace, (6 Brondway, and at his old stsui, 14 Paltoa strut. Carrell & Hutchinson call the attention of the public to their aseortment of diamond regookes, earrings, studs, fingor rings, do, Ao, stole guarant as feprosonied. 47 Broadway. arg Watches.—_Magic, Independent Scconds, ing lovers and open-taced watehos, of 6 ct Limekeopers, and wi ae UbdWINSON'S, O17 Hrvadyay. Watch Repatring.— Carroll & Hutchinson patsy ta ey Ra Pry uitfacturor, whor ome javile, O. a Li., 8 Brosdway, dew —Parision Jewel: verkmansbip and ting quality, onaraetied and set wita fine “souee, consisting of ever nig _piade for ormaronta, oom ve Pivhd at CARROLL & BUTEGINGON'S, O47 Wroadway Diamonds ~—In Package, at $28 Per Carat ted to suit customers, rich clucter, rings ‘bracelets, and earrings, at manufacturers’ ah oF approved cl:y sereptance. Onhee E51 7 of White strect, up stairs. risa DAVID RAIT, Importer Watches.—Chronometcr, Duplex, anchor, and cylinder Watches, in solid el cave, waeranted ti in fire a : aver conpect, for orter's prices, for cash or ap- conway, corner of White aty abhi DAVID RAT, Loporter. Lever, old a Manufecturers’ lag cmncirn brace! astpins, onrrings, setts ping, bracelote ‘Sreings, eh 1 chains, goals, Lookets, wad ait fine the manutscturors’ prices, 25 per cont be~