The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1853, Page 4

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The Atlantic, from Liverpool, arrived at this port about wic-day yesterday, bringing our correspon- ence uid bles of Lovdon journals to the 4th iast., and Liverpoo! papers to the Sth, with the latest Con- tinental advices, The news by this arrival is of a ig w , very exciting, and yet grave cha- rac 1 atwe should have issued an xtra irmediately apoo the receipt of the intelli- gence had it not been the Sabbath day. The world- wide »,ony which was so long endured with regard to the Eustern difficulty is ended. Advices forwarded from Vienna upou the 3d inst state that the Grand Divav of Turkey had deliberated ia council aad recommended the Sultan to declare war against Rur ia, to which he had acceded, contrary to the wi-tes of bis more powerful but less enthusiastic allies; and it was said that hostijities had actuaily commenced. During the negotiations which pre- eedei the crisis, the aspect of the affair looked more pacific, but its political complications bad not be- come less entargied. The Imperial Military Con- gress at Olmutz had brought its sittings and daily revie ys to a close; but the popular mindia Europe had become impressed with the idea that duriag tme conferences the Czar had se represented t the Emperor of Austria the financial and po- litical dangers and difficulties which pressed apon bis kingdom, that the young monarch seemed in- clined to detach himself from a union with Eagland aad France, aud cosiesce with his Northern brother. Pruss’a, it was thought, would also take the direc- ep of ber counsels from Russia, and thus the two great Powers would become isolated in the strugg'e. Orders had been issued ‘rom St. Petersburg for the Russian troops to take up their quarters for the winter in the Principalities. The Emperor of Aus- tria bad suddenly departed from Vienna, accompa- nied by the Prince of Prussia, for Warsaw, where they were to meet ihe King of Prassia, and perhaps the Emperor Nicholas. A highly important and most gratifying piece of pews brought by this steamer is the fact that Martin Ko-zta had been released, an] is now apon his re tarn to the United States in the American bark M.moca. Our copious extracts from the foreign files, with the latest despatches which we give, wil] sufficiently indicate the feelings operating upon all the leading parties engaged in the question, as well as the state of mind existing in Europe, up to the moment when the steamer sailed. Frapce remained still at peace internally, and the supply o* food had become more plentiful and easy. The Emperor and Empress had returned to Paris from their northern tour. It is said that the empire is warned by its ruler to be ready for any emergeavy. A revolt had occurred at Cevita Vecchia, in Italy, where Curdinal Antonelli had to permit the govera ment sysiem of rule to accommodate itself to the popular will. The case of Miss Cunninghame con- tinued to attract attention in Tuscany and the Uai- ted Kingdom, but the lady still remained in prison. The news from Madrid possesses no special inter- est. The London journals contain an account of the Awerican d'fficulties at the Chincha Islands; but the fullest particulars were before reported in the Her- ALD. There is nothing further from India, China, and Australia, except what we publish. Our telegraphic despatches contain nothing of im- portance. It is denied that the adi tration was hostile to the Ingraham demonstration in this city. The city of Bremen accedes to the convent on made with the German States for the extradition of crimi- nals. There were nine deaths from yellow fever at Mobile on Monday and Tuesday of last week. The epidemic had entirely disappeared from Pensacola, bat had made its appearance at Demopolis, Alabama. A riot occurred at the Front street Theatre, Balti- more, on Saturday night, during which a policeman was shot. The Boston Light Infantry arrived here yesterday from the ‘ Modern Athens.’ They will remain two or three days, and the “' sights’’ will be shown to them by the New York Light Guard. We print to- day a description of the corps, fall roll of the officers and members, &c., &c. An open sir meeting of the City Temperance Al- liance took place yesterday afternoon at the corner of Bight avenue and Thirteenth street, when mach feeling was evinced at the summary manner in which the Street Commissioner had removed their tent. In the course of the proceedings a young man, named Hugh Darrow, was arrested by the police for carrying about him a slung shot, and taken to Jeffer- fon market police court, where he was locked up by order of Justice Stewart. We give in another co'umn an authentic account of the recent brutal rape and murder perpetrated on ‘the person of Catharine Quigley, at Jamaica, L, I., together with the evidence at the inquest, and other circumstances connected with this diabolical affair We sincerely hope that the perpetrators may yet be made to feel the penalty of the law. The most ener- wetic efforts are being made to bring the guilty to Justice. Two young men, named James Duffy and Michael M'Coy, were yesterday arrested on suspicion of being the gnilty parties. The consecration of the Bishops elect of North an@ South Carolina, will take place this morning, at tea o'clock, in St. John’s Chapel. Tue brig 8. Thurston arrived at this port yesterday grom Cienfuegos, reports the deaths of three of her crew oa the voyage, namely:~Edward Snow, o Bouth Orringt.n, Me, second offiver; Thomas J Warren, of eine; and John Brianey, of Boston, Oxy tsin Elle'son, ot the oark Victory, died at Cien- geeues on the 16th, and Nathan Pinkney, of Yar mouio, N S., and Alexander Sultana, of Boston, on tbe Lith ultimo. No, 258 | a way--Breax Hovse— | The Great Eastern Q uestion—Declaration of War—Tremendous Issues Involved—Grand Opening for the Progresstve Policy of the United States. | 'The complicated and perplexing negotiations | among the great powers o° Euro e upoa the Turkish question have, according to our ad- vices by the Atlantic. been brought toa close, ration of war from Cabinet of the The chain of military | by adce Sultan against Russia. | in this act of sublime moral courage, simply comprebends the substantial interests of the civilized world. It is an act which will mark a protracted and complicated struggle between nations and the despots and the people, the most tremendous and fearful tat the world has ever | seen. and the grandest and most decisive and radical in its great results. | Liverpool regarding the despatch from Vienna, | that the Sultan had signed the declaration vo- | ted by his cabinet, the news is given by the entire London press as anthentie and reliable, and in this view we shall treat it. There have been some singular coincidences in the late s of the parties concerned in this mo- mentous controversy. While yet the Emperors of Russia and Austria, and the King of Prussi | were fraternizing at Olmutz. in the presence of an Austrian army of fifty thousand men, the Turkish Divan. embracing one hundred and magnates of the empire. were gravely rg that war was the only resource of safe- decid | ty and of honor. date of the Vienna despatch announcing the Sultan's confirmation of war, the British cabi- net were sitting in extraordinary council upon some previous information. The importance o this last intelligence cannot be exaggerated assuming it to be entirely reliable. The Sul- tan having put an end to the sophistries of Rus sia, and having, at all hazards, resolved to risk his empire in the seale of war, we repeat that this bold and courageous act in- volves a chain of consequences the most tre- mendous and comprehensive in the history of the world. The first result will be a general European war; and the first division of parties in the struggle will probably be Ruesia, Austria and Prussia on the one side, and Turkey, England, France, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland. and some of the small States of Germany and of Italy on the other side. Spain and Portugal, too, from their state of de- pendency upon England and France, may, per- haps, be Grawn into an active participation in the general melee. The Czar will move some two or three bundred thousand men into Tur- key, from the North, while Austria will be com- pelled to pour in her auxiliaries from the east ward. Prussia, from her evident fear of Nich- olas, we may expect to see driven to the dan- gerous duty of standing guard against the movements of Louis Napoleon. hand, the combined English and French fleets will not only give such defence to Constantinople sians from the Black Sea, and with means and munitions of war. will rouse again the Cireas- sians to the field. Nor is it yet too late in the season to detail a fleet of steamers to the special duty of the bombardment of St. Petersburg, and the destruction of the Russian naval forces ia the Baltic, in which work the Dutch, the Swedes, and the Danes would doubtless co-operate most upon the seas, we may reasonably count upon the march of a French army across the Alps in- to the Austrian States of Italy; and of another French column, with its Dutch and German con- tingents, across the Rhine, on the high road to Vienna. This schedule of military movements, from the state of the parties in Europe, we pre- sume will most probably follow close upon the heels of the first battle or two in the Turkish territories. ; What next? The revolutionary elements of Germany, Hungary, and Italy, the debris of the convulsions of 1848-749, will spring up, and play their terrible part in the bloody drama. The high prices of bread and other necessaries of life, will only tend to swell their numbers, and exasperate them to the fierce alternative of revolution. Thus, we shall have the awful complications of a series of insurrections against the continental despots, combined with all the perils and disasters of a general war among themselves. Nor is it likely that the socialists and red republicans, when they rise again, will limit their warfare against the political dogmas and civil and military usurpations of despotism. | The antagonistic religious gystems of the conti- | nent may be drawn into the general strife, and | the safety of the Holy Father, and his spiritual as wellas his temporal government at Rome, all-pervading and sweeping convulsion. The end of this universal war, its closing results, are beyond the limited scope of human percep- tion. We can only see that the voleanovis firing up, that the great eruption has probably com- menced, which is to shake to its political and religious foundations the continent of Europe, dencies in Asia, in any event. The real policy of England and France in reference to Turkey is, not so much to preserve the integrity of that empire as to put a per- manent check upon the eastern aggressions of Russia, in the establishment upon the ruins of Islamism of an independent Christian nation or confederacy in the East, comprehending Turkey in Europe and in Asia, and her provinces in Asia Minor, including the Holy Land and the Holy city of Jerusalem. This policy does not imply a revival of the fanatical spirit of the Crusades, but the substantial question of the balance of power in the East. This check upon Russia cannot last upon the de- cayed politico-religious polity of the Prophet. ‘The Prophet’s dynasty must be superseded by the more vigorous. active, and progressive principles of Christianity, before the indepen- dence of the Turkish States can be permanently secured against the encroachments of Russia ; but thus her march to the eastward may be arrested, while her further extension westward will depend upon a successful war directly with the combined western powers. We may safely as- sume that here the policy of England and France is identical, for the interests of the Napoleonic empire and the British nobility are the same. The perpetuation of both will depend upon those peculiar privileges and monopolies of power which form the basis now of both the French and the British governments. The full recognition of leon THI, and his legitimacy. among European sovereigns, involves a full measure of reciprocity from France therefore, at present existing between England and Louis Napoleon. implies an offensive and defensive alliance against Cossacks and Repnb- Phe entente corJiale, | movements and polit cal revolutions involved | new epoch in the world’s history. a general, | Notwithstanding there were some doubts in | ia, | And on the 3d of October, the | On the other | as may be required, but will sweep the Rus- | heartily. Simultaneously with these operations | may soon become a prominent exigency in this | and which is to change from Mahometanism to | Christianity the Turkish empire, and its depen- | icans, or anything changing the balance of power upon the continent to the advantage of | Russia or republican institutions, It is trae | that while France has been impatient of re- straint upon this Turkish question, England has been moving heaven and earth to compass compromise and prevent a war; but now that it has come, the imbecile policy of Lord Aber- ' deen must give way to an active and energetic co-operation with the Sultan by land and sea, whatever may be the price of bread in England, however her trade and business may suffer, and whatever the consequences to her commerce, ' her colonies. or her deep laid plans in refe- rence to our own continent. War being decla- red by Turkey, France and England are in for | the war. Austria is in for it, all Europe | isin for it, the monarchs are in for it against | each other, and the people against the monarchs. and Russia against them all. The end will be the end of the Ottoman dynasty, and many | greater and grander results, only to be mea- sured by the complications, the duration, and | the ferocity of the general struggle. | Nor can we share in the erroneous opinion | that, while all Europe isin a blaze of war and revolution, we are to remain in a state of pacific neutrality, the friends of all parties, in the | peaceable enjoyment with all, of the profits of the carrying trade. War is contagious—let it spread over Europe. and it will cross the Atlan- | tic. It will extend to Cuba, it will revolution- | ize Mexteo, it will be very apt to light again | the flames of rebellion in Canada and all the | northern British provinces. We might safely | count upon Ireland, had not all of able-bodied | Ireland emigrated to the United States; but we | sball be surprised if Australia, amid the “ noise and confusion,” does not shake off the shackles | of the British land menopoly, and set up la republican government for herself, We | may, at all events, reasonably expect temp- | tations and provocations enough before this | European war is two years old, for some deci- | sive action in regard to Cuba, Canada, and Mex- ico. We shall. perhaps, be called upon to de- | cide whether the independent “Lone Star,” ap- | pealing like Texas, for annexation, shail or shall not be admitted into our Union—we may | be called upon to say whether the people of Mexico shall be utterly destroyed by their in- | testine wars, Indians, and fillibusteroes, or whether, from a sense of humanity and gener- osity, we shall extend over them the genial protection of our benificent institutions. Nay, more, we may expect before this European war is closed to be required to meet the question, | face to face, whether Canada and the contign- ous provinces shall form a part of our confed- ration, or an independent republic. Such are the contingencies which we should be prepared to meet. as the probable fruits on this side the Atlantic of a general European war. Such will most likely be some ofthe many issues resulting from this religious quarrel, between the Sultan and the Czar, with re- gard to a few semi-barbarians of the Greek Church on the confines of Asia. And we say now, that if this administration, ments is a palpable confession of guilt. Gov- ernment organs and toadies are not so few or 80 sparing of noise that, if it had been possible to defend the Administration on lis own merits, the work would have been left undone: we may safely take it for granted that in some quarters at least. our character would have been untouched so long as that of the Admin- istration was susceptible of defence. It was ouly when Cushing, Marcy, and Davis were sunk beneath all hope of salvation that their friends bethought themselves of abusing the Herarp. What particular results may flow from such @ course among the public, the curious may possibly take the trouble to ascertain; for our- selves, we must postpone the inquiry until many other questions of more direct and prac- tical moment have been thoroughly investi- gated and solved. We need hardly repeat that we decline the side issue offered us. Our cha- racter will keep until the cabinet is dismissed, It is in fact of far too small importance in com- parison with the weighty interests at stake elsewhere, to merit special attention at this crisis. While the awful changes which were averted by the genius and patriotism of Clay in 1850 are again overhanging the country—while all the practical fruit of the glorious campaign and election of 1852 is being counteracted by the feebleness and imbecility of the men it raised to power—while the lesson then taught by the citizens at large to professional politicians is being openly derided and contemned, while men high in office unblushingly tell us that they recognize no other political gospel than the trumpery platform erected last year by a ‘ew sordid politicians at Baltimore, while a premium is placed on treason, of whatever hue or shade, and the only work tor which the ad- ministration evinces any aptitude is the parti- tion of the public plunder among the only classes of men who ought never to have re- ceived the smallest sign of favor from govern- ment—when all this is going on at our doors, and both foreigners and natives gaze with won- der at the astounding course of a government from which so much was expected, a public journal can find occupation enough without stooping to defend iteelf in reply to the silly slanders of obseure rivals, Marcy on ovr Foreicn Arrarrs—-It is a rather fortunate thing that our Secretary of State has had so many opportunities of showing how he interprets the President’s Inaugural, Fortunately—we mean for the country—as tending to remove all doubt and uncertainty with respect to Mr. Marcy’s views and opin. ions,and rather unfortunately for Mr. Marcy, as proving pretty conclusively that, as in the matter of the appointments, political capital is all be seeks to make out of the distresses of his countrymen. In the Koszta. case, for instance, Commander Ingraham did all that was required. He saved Koezta; all that was expected of the home gov- ernment was a decent approval of his conduct shall prove itself fully equal to cope with the | great responsibilities of the impending crisis— if, with the close of this European and Asiatic | war, we shall have the proud satisfaction to | number Cuba, the States of Mexico, and Cana- | da, too, and the adjoining British Provinces of | the North, as States of this glorious Union then we shall be fully prepared to endorse this | peddling, huckstering. spoils Cabinet—Marcy, | Davis, Guthrie, and all; for they will have. | proved themselves equal to the spirit of the | age, and the imprescriptible requisitions of | “manifest destiny.” | Read the news from Europe. We think the | signal has been given for a continental war, on | the Jand and on the seas. How are we to avoid | our part In the grand and fearful drama? We call upon the administration to buckle up for | the crisis. We may expect by the next steamer | news of a battle or two with the Russians, and of the movements of a million of men in arms, We shall need all our surplus revenue. We | shall need an active fleet of war steamers. Oar navy should be strengthened without delay. We cannot count upon peace with all Europe in the field. Replies of the Administration to the Attacks of the Herald. ; Ifitwere true that this journal had ree ived fifty thousand dollars, or avy other sum, for supporting General Pierce during the last Pre- | sidential canvass—if it were true that the whig or any other party had paid money to its pro- prietor to induce it, afterwards, to assail the Cabinet—if it were true that George Law had purchased our opinions for fifty ora hundred thousand dollars—if it were true that W. H. Seward wrote for the Hzraup, or that James | Gordon Bennett had applied unsuccessfully for office under the administration—we are totally , at a loss to discover wha’ purpose these va- rions facts would serve in the pending political controversy. Were the country called upon to sit in judgment upon the Heratp, and were its | editor formally arraigned at the bar of public opinion, similar charges and imputations would | be pertinent and opportune. But as—we say it with due respect—it is the administration, and not the Hrrarp, which stands in the dock, we must formally object to the adduction of irrelevant testimony, and confine the prisoners’ counsel strictly tothe record. General Pierce’s advisers must defend themselves on their own merits. If they have done wrong, it will be a sheer waste of their time to set out ona wild goose chase after our motives in bringing the wrong to light. When those motives shall | have been impugned by competent authority, we may possibly resolve to explain them. Until then we can only regard allusions to the point as subterfuges designed to divert public attention from the administration, and to make us the prominent figure in the battle—an ho- nor which, for the present, we beg to decline. The very clumsiness of the device shows the poverty of the cause we assail. We charge the Administration with open treachery to the peo- ple. We assert that General Pierce was elected wholly and entirely on a “ Union” ticket—that his overwhelming majority was altogether due to the position of hostility in whieh he stood towards every disnnionist faction. And we add, that no sooner had the victory been won. than all this was forgotten; disunionists were summoned to Washington, and the Cabinet portioned out the spoils among the very fac- tions whore colletive existence had well nigh been destroyed by General Pierce's triumph. This we call treachery, base, unprincipled mockery of the well-known and loudly ex- | pressed wishes of the people. And when the | defenders of the Cabinet, inetead of attempting to dispnte that the facts are so, or to argue that | such conduct is not base, unprineipled, and treacherous, sneakingly raise up aside issae about our motives or our honesty,or our position, But Marey could not spare the opportunity of gaining a little popularity, nor resign all the glory of that event to its rightful claimant. Ac- cordingly, with the aid of Webster’s previous despatch, the Kos#ta letter is penned; and for a short while, in a few men’s minds, Mr. Marcy looms out a patriot of the purest water. But note the contrast. Three American citi. zens are now imprisoned in Cuba, no charge having ever been brought against them, and no opportunity having ever been afforded them of disproving the suspicions under which they are detained, Their case was laid before Mr. Marcy months ago, but the condition of the three poor fellows is yet precisely what it was. We have never heard, in fact, that any attempt has been made to inquire into or mitigate their wrongs. The reason is simple. They are mere sailors, and no capital could possibly be made out of their release. Again, Captain Gibson asserts that he has been shamefully treated by the Dutch authori- ties in Sumatra. Capt. Gibson is unknown, and knocks in vain at the Secretary’s door. But the independent press came to hear of his case, and gave it publicity: in other words, it be- comes available for political capital. We hear immediately that Capt. Gibson has been sent for—that Marcy will ask for $100.000—that all will be arranged, &c. Marcy rises in the poli- tical barometer. Weeks elapse; nothing done —Gibson forgotten. Marcy has doubts whe- ther he be a man “worth protecting.” The press solves the problem with a thundering affirmation. Quick as thought Gibson is sent for; Marcy is as patriotic as ever. Gibson shall have his capital and interest. Belmont shall } » that day. Gibson is tickled on the eulject diplomatic mission; and while thus amused. is gently advised to give Marcy a certificate of character. No com- pulsion, of course, only a mild suggestion. Poor Gibson—with $100,000, an honorable issue out of hia difficulties, and perhaps a diplomatic mission, on the one side, and a blank vision of poverty and contempt on the other—swallows his scruples. The letter is written. Marcy is satisfied now that the man “ not worth protect- ing” has certified to his character; and the Union, with the other government organs, join in a yeean of triumph at the noble patriotism and discrimination of the Secretary. Talk on ’Change. Flour on Saturday was romewhatdirmer—common State brands haying closed at $6 87a $7. Wheat was active, without material change in prices. Transactions in corn were light. There were sales of seven hundred bales of cotton, at half a cent per pound decline. Captain Nye, of the steamship Pacific, was on ’Change, who stated that the favorite Collins steamer Pacitic— which he commanded—would be all right, and ready to resume lier trips on the 12th of November. A gentleman, repu‘ed to be posted in Cuban affaira, al- luded to the correspondence of a friend in the West India Islands, in which it was stated that important negoti- ations were on foot, to which England, France, Spain and the United States, were all parties. Further particulars were expected by the Black Warrior, the substance of which might be given to the public. The merchants, as a class, who generally congregated each day on ‘Change, were thought to be much easier in their monetary affairs than some of the banks; conse- quenily, it was facetionsly proposed that the merchants should hold a meeting on ‘Change for the benefit of the banks. Orx Bes1's Covoxy.—The difficulty about the title to the land in Potter county, Pa., on which Ole Ball had estate lished his Norwegian colony, is likely to reault in an ex- pensive suit at law. It is said that the soil is miserably poor, and that a large number of the emigrants gladly embraced the opportunity to leave the location, Tim Pritanenpnta Fiwerion.—The result of the late elec- tion in Philadelpbia favors the consolidation of the vari- ous districts Into one cures a redial cherge in the present organi fire Cepartment of that city. snicipal government, and also se zation of the The Secretary of the Treasury acknowledges the re- ceipt of $20, through the hands of the Rev, A. J. Elden, of Baltimore, the same liaving been handed to him as be- we say that a resort to such contemptible argu | jopging to the government, The Cabinet and the Custom-house—Peter G. Washington. For the last few days Mr. Peter G. Washington, Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury, has been staying at the Astor House, whence he is 10 take his departure this morning for the capital. The ostensible object of his visit to New York is to inspect and send out the six new revenue cutters recently built, and also to make arrange ments about the assay office, and thereby hangs a tale of asnug job, But we have reason to know that his chief business here is of a somewhat different nature—in fact, a mission of diplomacy. He has come as the agent of the Cabinet to patch up the quarrel about the Custom house spoils, and prevent if possible Mr. Bronson replying to the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, which the ad- ministration have found out to be capital mistake, and would now gladly recall it if they could. But litera seripla manet, and the Collector will reply, notwithstanding the diplomacy of Mr. Washington, This gentleman has been in frequent communication, in private, with Mr. Cochrane, the Surveyor of the Port, and Mr. Fowler, the Postmaster. He has been making sundry inquiries about matters and things in New York, which lead to the belief that st least one object of his visit is to get information for his masters. It is to be hoped he will get and give it more correctly than did another agent of the government, who put up at the same hotel for some time previous to the inauguration. He is smelling about in all directions, and when he meets a prominent hard shell he endeavors to soften him by the most persuasive kind of eloquence. The leaders of the soft shells speak coafidently of the immediate removal of Mr. Bronson, and say it will have a most beneficial effect upon the approaching election ‘They even name Mr, Redfield (soft shell) as his succes- sor. On the other haxd, some of the knowing ones say that the cabinet would not do anything so foolish, and that the Collector will not be decapitated till after the election, if even then, But there is no knowing what a eabinet may do that could concoct and send such a mis- sive as the Guthrie letter. It is stated, however, that the administration would willingly let bygones be by- gones, if Mr. Bronson would only fore; o his é¢ termination toreply. But they have put him on his mettle by giving their letter to the public, und there is not the slightest doubt that he will answer it. Wattack’s TuraTre.—We have received a communica- tion complaining of the rudeness of the persons attached to Wallack’s Theatre, Our correspondent states that he visited that theatre in company with some ladies on Fri day evening last, and on being told at the box office that there was an abundance of room in the parquette, pur- chased five tickets. On proceeding, however, to the par- quette, not a vacant seat could be found—and, on the contrary, some two dozen or more ladies and gentlemen were crowded in the lobby, pushed about by the “ushers,”” and ordered in the most peremptory manner to “‘stand out of the way.” This being the state of the case, our cor” respondent repaired to the box office to state the facts, and have his money refunded. Several persons were gathered around the box office, all demanding either @ return of the money they had paid, or at least that tickets should be given them for some other nigkt. The box man told them there was “plenty of seats,” and refused either to return their mo- ney or give them tickets for their checks. Indignant at such treatment, one of the gentlemen said he should in- sist upon his money being returned, as the selling tickets, when the house was so full that not even standing room could be had, wasa gross imposition. Thereupon another individual came to the assistance of the box keeper, proclaiming that he was Mr. Wallack, and was responsible for the refusal of the box keeper. Mr. Wal- lack immediately strutted out of the sentry box ar- rangement, which answers the purpose of a ticket office, and, placing his arms akimbo, stared melodramically at the crowd. The gentleman who had first insisted upon his money being returned, again stated his case. Mr. Wallack told him that “no well-regulated theatre ever returned money for tickets sold; that it was the business of the parties who bought tickets to see that they could get seats.” And he continued to intimate that gentlemen ‘in England”? were not in the habit of preferring such complaints. The gentleman, however, happened to bean American, and did not chose to be imposed npon because an English actor saw fit to declare that in England gentle- men always submitted to imposition; and Mr. Wallack, finding the affair was growing serious, muttered that he would ‘show Low a gentleman should act,’? and said as there were ladies in the case the money would be returned, but if there had not been, he would not be bullied into such a course. Thereupon two or three gentlemen received their money. Much the arger number, however, left during the altercation—the ladies who were standing in the passage being much alarmed and annoyed by the rudeness and insolence of the flunkeys attached to the theatre. Our correspondent is a gentleman of respectability, and we attach every reliance in the entire truth of his state. ment. It would doubtless be very easy to get additional confirmation of the scone he describes, were it necessary, which it is not. This is not the first time complaints have reached us of the impertinence of the persons attached to Wallack’s, but we were scarcely prepared to learn that Mr. Wallack not only acquiesced in such con- duct, but rather set the example to his employes. Such impertinence may answer in London, but when English actors come to this country in search of a living, which they failed to make in their own land, they will find it to their interest, as well as to their personal convenience, to use the same civility towards American ladies and gentle- men which the latter always extend to every person. Mr. Wallack has done pretty well in his theatre, but if he persists in treating his patrons with impertinence, or if he imagines the meanness of selling tickets after every seat in his theatre is filled, and then refusing to return the money for which no value can be given, is likely to insure a continuance of the public favor, he will ere long discover his mistake. The history of this city furnishes instances of the manner in which an American public can punish the insolence and impertinence of foreign actors; and it would be well if Mr. Wallack were to profit by the lessons already given, As for the refusal to return the money for tickets, where no seats could be had, it displays a meanness unparallel- ed, we venture to say, in any other place of amusement inthe city. The veriest penny showman would not be guilty of such contrivances to fill his pocket. Cnarrranm CoNcERT 10 BE GIVEN BY MADAME Sontad.—A lively interest was manifested among the merchants on *Change, last Saturday, in the concert to be given by Madame Sontag, at Niblo’s, on the 20th inst., for the be nefit of the Institute for the Destitute Children of Seamen. Several of the large shipping merchants, believing the ob- ject to be most noble and worthy of encouragement, took fifty dollars worth of tickets. The irstitution for the un- fortunate children is located on Staten Island, and already has under its care between one and two hundred inmates. Political Intelligence. ‘The reform party of the Seventeenth ward have nomi nated Abraham Turnure for Alderman, and Thomas F. Jeremiah, Henry Hays, John N. Reynolds, James 1. Stewart and John D. Clute, for Councilmen. The Demoeratic Convention assembled to nominate @ -udge for the Seventh district split—the so'ts nominating Warren §. Worden, of Cayuga, and the hards Jas. Taylor, of Yates. . Azariah Boody, member of Congress elect from the ‘Twenty-ninth district of this State, has resigned, in com- sequence of his engagements in various railroad enter- prines having a superior claim upon his attention. Governor [#onard J. Farwell, who wes nominated for re-election by the whigs of Wisconsin, had declined to run, Personal Intelligence. Hon. J. R, Ingersoll, late Minister to England; Governor Dimond, Rhode Island; Col. Wm. M. Peyton, Rosnoke, Va.; and Capt. Sherrie, Ireland, arrived yesterday at the Metropolitan, Hon. Mr. Ashe, of North Carolina, member elect of the next Congress, is among the distinguished risiters at present in Wathington. Mr_ William Chambers, of the eminent publishing house of William & Robert Chambers, Edinburg, and author of the large number of valuable serial works which hi obtained so wide a circulation in this country, arrived in the Canada at Boston. ARRIVALS. From Liverpool, in the steamship Atlantio—S J Mr Okill, Gen ahd Mrs W oH Sumner and serv Maury and four ladies, Mr and G Blamb, EP Moore, Mr Haggar, Capt Curling, 3. W Gerird and daughter, Mr Coutert, FA Fisher, Mr Wheelwright, Met Sy eg, threo ‘childs 4, G Wells, US'N; JR AI hone! t, "Mr and Mrs G Wood, M Mr A Chesborough, Andrews, Mr Barcroff, Mr and Mrs Maloolmson. Mr and Mre RH Bayard, Mr Parvee and friend, WIL Webb, Rev J M Krebs, Jas Paul, Mr and Mrs Priestly, J Miller McKim and two ladies, Mr Molony, Wi Gregg, Dr and Mra D D Williams, © King, Mr and Mrs JS Waterman, two daughters and fon; Mr and Mra S Hill and two ehildren, Redmond, R Haisey, Samuel Lewis, Lemuel Sisson, Mr and Mrs EB Sterninn, child and. ‘servant; I Carroll, C Alvarado, F Sturgis, WW. Osborn, Mise Sturgis, Mr Hilen, Mr Miss Heron, Mr and Mrs Duncan, C Brackelom, e z HW Meo WS Smith, i hai dd Manroy, A Ecketrom, N Neleo Small, J Klink Sontdam, Mex MW ¢ iideen and’ servant, ‘Me 1, Draper, Mr and 1 Mr Hurry aud’ two daughe ir Mol Hawley, DE Haw ley. Mh M three children and servant, Ja an deervant, piers, Mr and Mrs J Butler, Ii rand Mrs A M Kimbe Gre Mred ROhandler,Mr andiirs Wil rf ‘ad Potier, Mise Pratt, Mies Anderton, JC an: on, nn, Miss Paine, Mr Lecch, BB Me: ‘oliend—2i0, J Dungteson, Misses Costs agave, Me Bod obi J ane Me WY Theatrical Intelligence. MR. JAMES ANDEKSON—THE OPERA AND THE BALL? MISS ELIZABETH HAMBLIN — DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN THEATRICALS. At the Broadway Theatre, Rarney Williams and hig. wife have been playing a mest successful round of Irish and Yankee characters. This week, the last of their prov sent engagement, a new local drama, entitled, “ Dick the: Newsboy, or Young America,” will be produced, witly new scenery and decorations, We are glad to see that the manager has secured the valuable services of Mr. James Anderson, the celebrated English tragedian, who: will make hia first appearance in America sinee his en+ gagement at the old Park Theatre, some six or sever) years ago, on Monday next. Mr. Andersom: was a groa® favorite with the people of New York, and as we see that his farewell tour through the provinces of Eygland has been attended with the most flattering success, and his several performances extolled by the press unanimeusly we anticipate an intellectual bistrionic treat in certaix. characters. In juvenile tragedy he has no superior; hia Claude Melnotte has never been surpassed; his Hamlet ia a classic and a dignified performance, and in all charae+ ters where grace of action, clear enunciation, manly beauty, good figure, and artistic declamation are requt+ sites, James Anderson excels. We predict for the mane ager and the actor a prosperous career. Come, Mr, Manager, let us have something more than the usua} routine of old hackneyed tr#gedies, that every schoolboy knows by heart. Mr. Anderson arrived yesterday in tha Atlantic. At Niblo’s theatre the opera and the ballet have beew played on alternate nights with great success. retzek’s management of the first named entertainment i9 admirable. During the week, “Roberto il Diayolo” and “TPuritani’ have been well done, To-night we are to have “I Lombardi.”” On Tuesday Antoine Ravel has @ benefit. This will be the last week of the Ravels, as they goto Baltimore. The nes ansewe, Yrea Mathias, is favorite with all the pation of Niblo’s, and their name cannot be expressed by a word so incomprehensive ap: “Jegion.”” Antoine Ravel -ails for Surope next Saturday Monsieur Jullien annownees positively the Inst week o his concerts at Metropoliian Hall. Everybody is do- lighted with Jullien. At Wallack’s theatre, “ Fleak House” has been played three times, and has been noticed at length ,in’ the Hera. The audiences complain of the length of the piece, (three hours,) and of ‘he long ‘ waits”? betweem the acts. We understand that ‘Bleak House’ will be played every night this we ight, “ Bleak House’ and “ Fortune’s Frolics.’’ Miss Teresa Esmonde, who hap lately joined Wallack’s company, bids fair to be a fino actress, “pwelfth Night,” “Paris and London,” and other favor- ites of last season, have sttracted great crowds to Bur- ton’s theatre, We never saw a finer piece of acting than Burton’s ‘Sir Toby Belch.” He gives all the unctuous richness of the luxurious, roystering, dissolute old knight without vulgarity, er once over-stepping the natura? bounds of the character. Mrs. Dion Bourcicault, who. plays under her maiden name, Miss Robertson, is soon to appear at Burton’s. At the Bowery Theatre, Mrs. M. Jones has been playing an engagement, She has appeared as “Romeo,” “Agnea de Vere,”’ and to-night she plays ‘Claude Melnotte,’? Weare inclined to the epinton'that Mrs. Jones displays bad taste in selecting male «haracters, and her figure ig not suited to them Last week there were several bene- fite—Mr. Eddy had a fine one on Wednesday, and Mr. Wil- liam Hamblin’s “appeal” on Friday, was honored by a house crowded to excess. The attraction was the ap- pearance of Miss C, Haniblin, eldest child of the late manager of the Bowery. The play was “The Wife,” Mise Hamblin played “Mariana.” he spoke the lines, but we cannot analyse her acting, because she did not act at all. She has but few natural qualitications for the stage, and we presume that she does net intend to enter the ranks of the profession, There is nothing more than usual to say of the Nationa} “—Urcle Tom’? and full houses. Mrs. J. J. Prior, a clever actress, has joined the company, and now plays Elvira, in which character rhe is quite successful. The manager announces that “Uncle Tom’ will be played on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, x+ well as in the evening. The “Old Folks at Home.’ a most popular drama, is to be revived at Barnum’s It is to be played this evening. At Franconi’s Bippodrowe ihe interest will be en- hanced this week by the introfuction of several novelties in the equestrian art. ‘The «ox! attractive feature is the first appearance of Chia i srses a3 the Savoyards, one playing an organ while |) er dagees tothe music. The other is a new feat i» .ce) in the steeple chase, in which three of Frauce::’ indies, Miles, de Vere, Caro- line and Eugenia, are to jo) ‘heir steeds over @ twelve foot trench filled wiih Miss Gertrude Dawes ‘ished her engagement at the National theatre, Piii! via, and is now in this city. he is a dashing, popu’ar 2, and will doubtless soon ‘be engaged at one of our ares, Mr. Dion Bourcicault, av ‘Old Heads and Young HH: has been going the ro. i he New York theatres during the past week. | sated vat he has the manu scripts of two comedies, ueitier of which have ever been played. It is thought that thev will be brought forward by Burton. One of the weekly papers informs its readers that Mr. Bourcicault has expresed himself aa agreeably surprised to find that there were no Indians in New York city, that gentlemen did not pick their teeth with bowie knives, or hang their bovis over the box fronts at the theatres. It is very encourasing to the new world to know that Mr. Bourcicault is * satisted”” with it. We hope he will write for us a book when he returns, Madame Thillon is singime at the Howard Atheneum, Boston, The Bostonians have always admired her. Miss Julia Dean is playing to fair business. Miss Anna Cruise is playirg at Hartford, At the Chesnut street and National theatres, in Phila- delphia, ‘Uncle Tom's Cabiv”’ is still the rage, and draw. ing crowded houses. W. .i. Florenee and wife were tc baye commenced an engsgement at the former establish- ment last Monday, but in consequence of the success of “Uncle Tom,” it was postponed for two weeks. Mr. Forrest is playing at the Walnut. Mrs. McCready has concluded a very fair engagement with Bates at the National theatre, Cincinnati. Bates and the press have had a flare up, which has resulted im the determination of the manager neither to advertise or have any paid notices of his theatre. The City Coun- cil have also had a difficulty with Mr. Bates, and refused to renew his theatrical license unless he wil) abolish his third tier and whiskey saloovs. The Ravels have leased the theatre from the rst of December. John Gossin died at the West a short time since, of yellow fever. John Crocker and wife, formerly of the Park, also died of the same disease at Galveston, Texas, The London Obserrer speaks very highly of Brooke's Virginius, and says of avenport’s Ieilius that it was an “admirable” performance. Mr. Brooke's last week was announced at Drury Lane. The Surrey dramatic season commenced on the 26th of September, with the ‘Tempest, and the “Gambler's Wife.” Mr. J. R.Smith, av American artist, is exhibiting a anorama of a “Tour through Europe,’’ in London. Grisi and Mario were coucertising at Exeter. A French paper mentions the appearance of a wonder- ful new contralin singer, a Mile. Arva, by birth Hungarian, who is said to be exciting « great sensation at Frankfort. Albert Smith’s Mont Blanc, at Egyptian Hall, is shut up, and the adventarous Albert, in company with two friends, has undertaken a new pilgrimage. Instead of going to Chamouni, as befa#e he goes by the Rhine toZu- rich, the Riga, St. Gothard, and the Bernese oberland, where he ascends. He will there cross the Alps, over Na- polean’s great military pass of the Simplon. All this wil be shown and teld at his re-opening, in the end of Novem- ber. The statistics of the Mont Blanc exhibiton are very curious, It was open 628 days, and had been visited by 88,847 persons in the first, and 102,939 persons ia the second year. The sum received for admission was over £17,000, and it is remarkable that out of this immense sum one crown-piece and two shillings were all the bad money taken. ‘The room only holds 470 persons, and way: full on every occasion, ‘A new opera, called “Il Solitario,” by some young man: previously unknown, bas been so successful at Rome that on the first night the comporer was called before the cur~ tain ninety-seven times. The opera-house to be opened at Edinburg, by Mr. Wood, (not Miss Paton’s husband,) will certainly be open- ed this year. There is smad chance of its paying. Rachel, the great tragedienne, isin Paris again, and ap parently in rude health, Mics Anna J. Pease, a young vocalist of this city, wild sail in the Hiumboldt, for Italy, on the 22d jah atady: f “London Assurance, *? * “Love ina Maze,” &e., regularly and completely as priua donna for the Italian opera. Mr, G , the tragedian, is playing a successful en- gagemen Louis. Monsieur Jullien, we understand, has erfigaged Concert. Hall, Chesnut street, for his pecformances, and will with his band commence his concerts in Philadelphia on the th of November Mr, Neafic made his first appearance in Chicago, on the 10th inst, Mins Davenport bad a benefit in Pittsburg, on the 14th inst, She has been engayed at the Howard Athenem, Mr. Ma+ /