The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERATD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. spoils system decreed by the Cabinet; and here | of Europe, and who understands not aword of | we have it, Our Collector enters into a logical | the French or any other modern language but analysis of the contemptible instructions of his official superior, and shows, from substantial ' Qrrcce §. y. comm oF FoLTON awn wegean ere. | facts and the sober deductions of commonsense, TRRMB wet atone. PEE OLY UERALD ? conte per copy—8T per ome wm. THR WEEKLY HERALD every Sa at, OS exnte copy. or cmnwm ye cm $4 per an- Eee: wert ef Great Briteta. ‘ard 2s foamy pale he beth (e metwde poetage. Vorume XVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. MBTROPOLITAN BALL—Jvitian's Concenr. BOWERY THEATRES, Bowery—Two or rue Bnove— Been xvan. BROADWAY THEATRE, @er—Bory ro Geop Lvex— adway—Dicx, tHe News- w rom Lapias. WIBLO’S, Broadway—Aonent Macarne—Gioriie—Me- wma. quariomaL THEATRE, Chatham street--Uncim Tom's win. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Reven Diamonn. 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A rumor is current that Judge Heymenfelt, of Califoraia, has new been offered the post, but that he will decline, 98 will aleo several prominent Southern democrats when the opportunity occurs. Several appoiatments of Postmasters are announced, among them that of Fisher Ames Hildreth, at Lowell, Mass. Official ia- formation has been received of the presentation of Mr. Vroom at the Court of Berlin. News from Havana to the 6th inst. bas been re- ceived at New Orleans. The report of the discovery of a conspiracy among the troops at Cardenas is officially denied. The cholera was raging fearfully at Matanzas. The County Board of Philadelphia yesterday re- ceived a communication ‘rom two of the commis: sioners, stating that they bad subscribed two million dollers to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and asking the concurrence of the board. No definite decision was had upon it. Since the receipt of the !ast European advices the demand for breadstuffs has slackened a trifle. Cot- ton sold yesterday at a further decline of a quarter of acent per pound. The decision of Judge Grier in the Wilksbarre slave case, was delivered at Philadelphia on Satur- ‘Gay, and may be found in another column. The Marshal and his deputies were discharged from cus- tody. Three individuals, Irishrsen, have been arrested, charged with perpetrating the murder of Catharine Quigley, near Jamaica, Long Island, and committed to prison to await an examination. The excitement near the ecene of the outrage continues unabated. The opening session of the University of New York, commenced last night with an address from Professor Draper, President of the Faculty. The hall was crowded in every part. The class this ses- sion is very large. The consecration of the two Bishops of North and South Carolina, Drs. Davis and Atkiason, took place yesterday at St. John’s church. It is a matter of congratulation with the church that at length it has relieved itself from the embarrassing position in which it was placed by the apostacy of Bishop Ives. Both boards of the Common Conncil met last evening. In the Board of Aldermen, Alderman Sturtevant offered a resolution widening West street one hundred and twenty-five feet, from the Battery to Thirteenth street, which was referred to the Com- mittee on Streets. The report of the Committee on Salaries and Offices, increasing the salaries of police- men as follows:—Patrolmen, $600; lientenants, $300, and captains, $1,250, was, after a smart but-dull de- bate, eventually, for want of a constitational vote, referred back to the committee. The Board of Aw sistants met at a quarter past five, but adjourned for want of a quorum The echoower Northwester, from Wilmington for this port, has Leen found capsized at sea. After a long struggle, yesterday, Horatio Need- ham, (free democrat,) was chosen Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, and ©. T. Davey, (whig ) was elected Clerk. The steamboat Georgetown recently sunk at Grand Town, on the Mississippi river, and would prove a total lose. The National Democrats and the Spots Cabinet-Letters of Messrs. Bronson and O’Conor—The War goes bravely on. Two very interesting aud important political papers will be found in our columns to-day. We commend their careful perusal to men of all parties, but especially to the spoils Cabinet and their imbecile and huckstering newspaper organ at Washington. One of these papers is the reply of our Collector, Bronson, to the late coarse and offensive edict of Secretary Guthrie, concerning the dispensation of the public plunder among the free soilers and abolition- iste who have crept into the confidence of the Cabinet; the other paper isa history of the war. by Charles O’Conor, intended for the par- ticular enlightenment of the Washington Union. Bach of these letters will fall like another bombshell into Tammany Hall, and both, we conceive, in a masterly way settle the business which they take in hand. For some days past a reply to Master Guth- rie has been looked for from Collector Bronson; and now that this reply is out, it will not disappoint the public expectations, The public are prepared for a cool and dispassionate dissection of the wretched and disorganizin | | the degrading and destructive consequences of an adhesion to the miserable and dishonorable Treasury manifesto. Master Guthrie is admonished that it is bad policy to treat the democratic party as a mere coalition of factions only to be harmonized by | judiciously guaging the public plunder among | them. He'is informed that it any federal office- | holders from tnis city were instrumental in | breaking up the party at Syracuse, they were | not from the Custom House. Pity the same | could not be said of our Postmaster and | Surveyor Cochrane. The Secretary of the | Treasury is also advised, (and it is a bit of in- formation which may yet be useful to the | Cabinet), that in State politics, whatever may be the local troubles aud squabbles of the party, | the members of the Cabinet at Washington have — no business to interfere. Andsuch is the un- | answerable truth. Concede the legitimacy of Gutbrie’s instructions, and we concede the right to the Cabinet to leave their du- | ties at Washington, and to take ihe stump, and | dispense the spoils in person, at every local election in the country. If the President and every member of his Cabinet were to come to | New York this afternoon, and canvass the State | in behalf of the free soilers till election day, | dispensing rewards and punishments at every point, they would be simply carrying out the late outrageous edict from the Treasury De- partment. Far different are the instructions of our Col- lector to the apparently ignorant Guthrie. They are practical, and to the purpose— based upon law, the constitution, and the duties of the Secretary’s office. And while our Collector very properly insists that even ‘the Secretary of the Treasury must | conform to the prescribed usages of the depart- ment, his right to invade the privileges of the Collector is just as boldly and properly denied. | In a word, the task has been easy to show that | an order without precedent, without warrant, | and without justification, is an order entitled neither to obedience nor respect. Honest men. therefore, will approve the dis- obedience of Judge Bronson to the spoils manifesto of Secretary Guthrie; and from the superior knowledge disclosed by our Collector of the official duties of the head of the Treasury Department, we would advise that he be re- moved from his office here without delay, and transferred to the control of the Treasury in the place of Guthrie, who will find more genial employment in returning to his pork specula_ tions, or whatever may have been his business pursuits in Kentucky. The historical review of the ‘family jars” of the New York democracy, by Charles O’Conor, bears us out in all that we have said of the dangers of mere coalitions for the spoils, dis- regardful of principles. But the day of set- tlement is here. The breach is re-opened, and strangely enough we find an administration elected to carry out the principles of the na- tional democrats, identified with the abolition and free soil pack of agitators of the Buffalo platform. We find the Cabinet issuing their edicts for the reward of these agitators, as if the hypocritical repentance of seditious dema- gogucs rendered thém more proper recipients of executive favor than men who have never been disgraced by an unholy alliance with the filthy abolitionists. Read the letters of Collector Bronson and Attorney O’Conor. A little more of such salt would season the whole lump. The war goes bravely on. Who comes next Foreign Missions and James Gordon Bennett. The organ of the spoils-Cabinet at Washington his own. Mr. Mason, it is said, will not take the office; but even if he ehould, we are very sure that he will not remain in it much longer than a year—just sufficient to enable him to pocket the outfit and salary of eighteen thousand dol- lara, The Senate, we are confident, will recall him, and a great many others besides, who are utterly unqualified for the positions they occupy in the present ominous relations of the world. Such is the amount of our information on the French mission, in connection with the name of Mr. Bennett, which has been bruited about so much in the newspapers. We have no doubt, however, that he will immediately prepare and forward an application to the spoils Cabinet for this mission ; and, in anticipation of his doing so, we now call upon all the newspapers, and upon the whole tribe of stump orators through- out the country, to take up the important ques- tion and discuss the merits of the applicant, in order to enlighten the Cabinet on the matter to be brought before them, and to determine the mind of the President when the issue shall be made, We, therefore, announce with great modesty, but with equal formality, that Mr. James Gor- don Bennett, the editor and proprietor of the New York Heratp, is now au applicant for the highest embassy in the gift of the American government ; and that is the embassy to Paris ; and that he will forthwith make out all the ne- cereary papers and present them in due form to | the spoils Cabinet, for the solution of this im- portant question. We, therefore, call on our cotemporaries, here and elsewhere, to fire away ; our dependence is on the good sense and patriot- ism of the President. Viranax OpPeRA—WHEN WILL IT BE Estab LISHED ON ouR Som.?—Eight or ten attempts have been made during the last quarter of a century to establish Italian opera in this city and country, and most of them have failed. At this moment an opera house of immense magni- tude is in the process of construction in this metropolis, and two others, of similar dimen- sions, are projected, and the association there- for organized in Philadelphia and Boston. The walls of the Academy of Music, near Union square, are rapidly being reared up to heaven ; but walls may rise, and saloons may be opened, and chandeliers may be lighted, and wardrobes collected, and great artists engaged, and yet there may be something in the moral soil the permanent establishment of such an insti- tution, mingling art and pleasure, exquisite music and execrable morals in the same dish jan the same public establishment, The Aonde- my of Music is rising rapidly from the ground. but the engagement of the greatest artists of the old world—Grisi and Mario—about whom so much has been said, is blown to the winds Mr. Hackett, the negotiator in Europe, might have been able to contend with Count Nessel- rode of Russia, but a more potent reason has entirely negatived the idea that Grisi and Ma- rio can come to this country for at least a year, and the probability is that they never will vi- sit it. 3 Grisi, it seems, at the last accounts was in that condition spoken of somewhere in Shak speare, and it was probable that in a few months she would make an addition to an in- teresting family that can boast of many fathers. This gives the coup de grace to any expecta- tions that Grisi will ever appear in this coun- try, or Mario either; and we do not. believe that either of them will. But another and curiously important ques tion springs up at the threshold of the in. | quiry—can an Italian Opera, possessing the characteristies and excellence of the institution in the Old World be ever established in the New? We doubt it very much; and we be- has not directly made the assertion, but adopted the coinage of others, that Mr. Bennett, propri- etor of this journal, had made an application to | the epoils-Cabinet for the mission to France. It is now necessary to say something on the sub- | ject. | We have made some inquiry into the matter, and have ascertained to our perfect satisfaction | that the assertion is entirely untrue. Mr. Ben- | nett has not made any application to the spoils- | Cabinet for any office for himself or others, ex- | cept one, and that was, simply asking the ad- | ministration, if it were so willing, to bestow a | smal] consulate in Europe upon a gentleman— not Mr. C. E. Lester—of his acquaintance, who had formerly occupied a similar post under a preceding administration. The letter presented to the Secretary of State on this subject, puz- + zied that functionary exceedingly, even though | it had received the endorsement of the Presi- | dent. -Indeed, the President himself was at a | loss to conceive whether the letter was a simple one of introduction, a joke, or a serious applica- | tion for office. The Secretary of State. however, treated the applicant and the missive with his | accustomed brutality; so that Mr. Dudley Mann, | the Assistant Secretary, who is equally well versed in all kinds of diplomacy, thought that evenin his coarse and vulgar manners the dis- tinguished spoils Secretary of State exhibited more than his usual bear-like urbanity. That small favor asked by Mr. Bennett from this Ca- binet was refused at once and for ever. This, we believe, is the extent of the applica- tions of Mr. Bennett for office under the present spoils Cabinet. But we understand that since he has seen the newspapers commencing the diecussion of the question as to his capacity and fitness for the post of envoy to France, and as to the propriety of appointing him to it, he is balf-disposed to take the matter into serious consideration, and to immediately make a for mal applieation to the administration, from top to bottom, for the appointment to the French mission. The discussion of the matter in the newspapers, on false intormation, has brought the subject vividly into his mind, and he thinks that on the whole he is as well quali- fied, in every point of view, for the mis- sion to France, as is a French red-re- publican paragrapbist for the mission to Spain, or as an English broken-down socialist is for the miseion to Naples, or as a Jew clerk from Frankfort—become rich in Wall street—is to become American Minister at the Hague. Mr. Bennett cares very little for the salary which attaches to the post, for he sometimes ex- pends iff one of his own missions to Europe to collect information, double the amount which the government give to their functionaries. But he thinks, after mature deliberation, that in the present state of the world, and from the appear- anee of things in the East and West of Europe, he is at least much better qualified in every point of view for filling the American embassy in Paris, than a quiet, indolent, respectable coun- try judge of Virginia is, who, though he knows the value of oysters and the use of cards. knows nothing of the diplomatic or political relationg | lieve that all the projects to establish it will | end more likely in comparative failure than in success. The opera, or musical drama, originated in Greece many centuries ago; but then its form and qualities were rude and barbarian. The germ of opera was the chorus of the old Greek tragedy. It was revived in Italy in the middle ages. and may be considered a natural emana- tion from the splendor, the beauty, and the morality of the Catholic Church and the Catho- lic clergy in that period. During ‘the last few centuries it has grown and become developed till it is now almost a social and artistic insti- tution in every great capital of Europe, con- nected with its highest classes, and partaking of the policy of the government and the forms iety. With some few exceptions, the Italian opera in Europe has presented the highest character- istics of musical excellence, of artistic skiil and genius, mixed and blended with yoluptuous- ness of manners and general immorality of principles in social life. The whole liae of artiste-—male and female --partake of the char- acteristics of the privileged classes, and con- tribute to their pleasures, either as artists in public or as favorites in private life. The ad- dition of a beautiful, splendid and voluptuons ballet to the musical drama has only present- ed @ wider developement of the same great soeial principles which accompany the opera in all the capitals of Europe. The great- est artists of the age, Grisi and Mario, only presented, in their own history and ia their own persons, the same characteristics which have marked the institution of the Italian opera from its origin to the present day. The highest developments of art, music, personal beauty and grace, singularly blended with vo- luptuousness, corruption, and all that wild en- thusiasm of manners which characterize the privileged classes of Europe in the present day; and even with all these fascinations, it is a matter of historical fact that in no capital of Europe does the Italian opera subsist on its own attractions alone. Every government of the old world has either directly or indirectly to sustain that splendid and voluptuous insti- tution, by large subsidies and subventions of money. And still, with these aids, the reck- leasnees, dissipation, extravagance and wild- ness of managers and their artists, always tead to sink them in ruin and bankruptcy. Can such an institution, with euch charac- eristics—beautiful, enchanting, and engaging in one respeet; questionable, doubtful, and im- moral in another—be blended with and succeed ina Protestant republican country, where reli- gion is spiritual, and not voluptuous, as in Italy—where morals are not yet absolutely gone; where society in some of its aspects is only in the first stages of corruption, and where public opinion, guided by strong principles of morality, is yet paramount over all other pri- vate influences or interested enterprises! This will soon become the great question of the day, alongside of that of the dissolution of the Cabi- net. and both may be discussed with ease and mfort during the next twelve months, 2 $ i i Talk on ’Change. The maxket for breadstuiTs was lec animated than it was before the receipt of the Atlantie’s news. Common brands of State flour closed at $6 87 4 $7. Wheat sold tow fair extent, but prices for both it and corn were some easier, About 500 bales of cotton were sold at a decline of about e., making the whole falling off in the past ten or fifteen days, equal tol cent per lb, The views among commercial houses regarding the foreign news were contradictory, Some houses professed to have received letters written at the last moment up to the departure of the steamer, stating that the question had become more yacific, snd that the despatch announcing the declaration of war was no where fully credited. ‘That a grand council bad beem assembled by the Sultan on the 27th ult. was not doubted—and that they had recommended the declaration of war against Russia was possible, but that the Sultan had approved or signed the declaration, was not credited. Others, however, were dis- posed to give full credit to the message, and considered that war between Russia and Turkey (if not already began) was uravoidable, English houses, however, well informed, expressed strong assurances that should Turkey and Russia commence Fngland would not join in it during the present winter, at least, if at all, The arrival of another steamer in a few days would probably solve all doubts on the subject. The failure of an extensive sugar refining firm in Rhode Is- land was announced, The house within the last month or two had bought considerable sugar in this market, and notes for considerable portions of it were scattered among our importers and jobbers. Confidence in the house had for some weeks diminished, and their stoppage was somewhat anticipated, It was said that the causes which had con- tributed to their suspension were supposed to be in some degree connected with matters outside of their regular business. of the republic not altogether congenial with’ I Lomparni Av Nivio’s.—Max Maretzek has at length fultiiled his promise of producing an opera that is not thoroughly hackneyed. “I Lombardi’’—one of Verdi’s most ruccessful works—was played last evening before a tolerably full house. Verdi has never been a standing favorite with the public, like Meyerbeer, or even Rossini ; Vut he has written music that is destined to live. This prediction we may safely venture to make for “ Ernani ;”? it bas long since been uttered by the first European critics in respect to “Lombardi.” Not so obviously in reference to the melodies, which are scant, and rarely striking ; but rather of the choruses, which are full, so- norous, and manly; and of the vigorous style in which the baritone part is written, We confess, then, that we saw with lively satisfaction the announcement that ‘Lombardi’? was to be substitu- ted for the oft-repeated operas which have recently mono- yolized the bills. Our anticipations were fully realized by the performance. Beneventano, as Pagavo, the parri- cide, who, stung with horror and remorse at the discovery of his unconscious crime, flies to Jerusalem, becomes a her- mit, and finally dies a penitent, or, as the libretto poetically expressesit, “in an ecstacy of holy fervor,” was better than we ever recollect him. We wish we could be al- lewed to think that our criticisms had been of service to this gentleman, and that we could claim any share of the credit reflected by a contrast between his singing of last evening and the performances we heard from him on bis return from Mexico. In the scene with the banditti, his voice pealed forth with unusual power and tone; the ‘O speranza di vendetta” is seldom more effectually sung. Those who wish to know what Mr. Beneventano can do, should hear him im Pagaao. Mie. Steflanone (Giselda) likewise sang with more fresh- ness and sweetness than has been her wont. We cannot say that we like the music of Giselda ; there is a want of meledy throughout, for which all the art and orna- ment in the world can hardly atone. But what she had to do ske did well. The scene where she discovers that her lover has fallen by the hand of her father, and bursts into the frenzied exclamation, “ No—non 2 d'lddio,” af- forded her a fine opportunity of displaying both the power. of her voice and the resources of ter histrionic skill, both of which were acknowledged by the audience with enthu- siastic applause. Salvi (Oron’e) did his best—what that is the readers of the Herap and opera-goers know full well. We are bound to say, however, that his duet with Gisclda—“Fuggi, abbandoni, 0 misero”—reminded us of former days. The choruses, and these were the picoes de resistanco— were capital. Great credit is due both to Max Maretzek snd Mr. Hensler for the manner in which they have been got up. The scenic effect, decorations, and dresses, were alae good. On the whole, Lombardi wasa hit. All whe love mu- sic, and Cesire in fairness to know the good points in Verdi's repertoire, should take an opportonity of hearing it ere it makes way on the bills for other novelties. Broapway Ti ¥ piece “Dick the Newsboy,”” was played last evening for the first time. It was written for Mrs, Barney Williams, who takes the part of Dick ; and as it succeeds in developing her acting, and presents her in a new and interesting character, we presume the public will be satisfied. drama, we may say of it in Dick’s own dialect, that “ it hostilities, that France and | Considered as a | Lecture on the Reformation in Ireland. BY THOMAS D’ARCY M’GEE. A very large audience of the Irish portion of our citi- zens assembled last evening at the Tabernacle, to listen to the lecture of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, upon “The present and past attempts to establish the Reformation in Ire- land.” The Speaker, when he came upon the stand, was greeted with loud applause, He said— Ladies and Gentlemen—I eome before you to-night to speak of Ireland, ‘This country cannot be coolly judged by a traveller out of a car window, as he travels through it, but by us who know it as it is—know it in its barren fields, its belfry towers, that are bell-less, and scenes of oppression. (Loud applause). This subject is interesting in being the only subject of the kind. I shall give, ax wellas I can to-night, the true story of Ireland, past, as well as present. The first King of Ireland of foreign race was Henry the Kighth of England, of whom, robably, you know something, (Great laughter). Henry VIL, of pious and immortal memory, (Laugh- ter) was the first king of Ireland of foreign extraction. It is not my busipess to lecture on the de'ails of Irish his- tory—I wish it was, that I might have an opportunity to plot out many of the mistakes and false statements, which have been recorded of her, and which are cel we as true, because no oue takes the trouble to enquire into them. What were the privileges of the Irish church in Treland under Henry the Vili? It was eminently Roman, ‘And betore they would give up their religion their hi-tory will prove, that their eminent men consented to banish- ment and death, (Great applause.) The sovereignty of Ireland being vested in Henry, living only six years after ho received the lrish crown, noattempt during that time was made to interfere with irish religion; but when an attempt was made to destroy a statue of our Lady at Tuam, tiose who made the attempt were severely rebuked by the king. Durirg the same oge! find a correspondence to Cromwell from Bishop Brown, stating thac none will listen to the Reformation. A little over three hundred ears ago, an order was issued calling upon all the shops of Ireland to meet at Dablin, to receive the new liturgy from England. This was an interesting meeting. They had # long and exciung debate, aud, finally, we are told, the Bishops rose and leit the convention, refusing to be bound by the liturgy of England. (Applause.) These are the facts in the reign of Henry and his son Ea ward; and in my mind there was never any greater rejec- tion of any schism than that given to the Protestantiam of England. Ighall now proceed to shew how Protestant- ism was introduced into Ireland under the used; great wi kings. Speliation was the a8 was collected in the monasteries and cathedrals, tempted the robbers. At this time science and were not divorced; but science sat at the knee of religion, and the shadow of the same cross fell upon both, and the benediction was to each alike, (Loud wpplause.) I don’t think thee is any instance in history where the conqueror denied the conquered the right to live on their own soi), except where this was refused by Fegland to Ireland. The first contiscation in Ireland was under Henry ViIJ. In the old Celtic times, the chief was nit vested with a fee simple of the soil; but every clans- mar har aright to his soil, as giext as’ the right of the chief to his patrin onial acres. Therefore, when Queen Elizabeth confircated a whole province, under the pre- tence of punishing the Earl of Desmond, she confiscated land which he never owned and to which he had no right. ‘Therefore, when the people were forced to rebellion by such injustice, such rebellion was mace a pretext of confiscati whole provinces. The principal contiscatious in Irelan: were at an early Gay. The fourth great eonfiscation was under Charles 1, under his agent, Strafford, who is known in Irish history as “Black Tom.” Ulster and Leinster had been confiscated Strafford proceeded to examine the estates which it was intended to confiscate, being attended with an army of ten thousand men, which he called “good lookers on.” Of course, all titles were decided by the granc juries defective. This agent returned to Eng- land with a sum of over one million dollars, which the Irish had been obliged to pay for what was called their revious ignorance. | now come to speak of the Puritans. It Every much the custom here to praise this body of men. I should, as much as any other inan in New York, like to be fashionable, if I could do it with a clear con- science. (Great applause.) The Puritans, I say, were the founders of a bloody dynasty, and I am prepared to rove what I believe. They originated with a desire and intention of putting down the Pope—they made war upon Ireland in 16$1, which lasted tll °62. Cromwell whipped England in three pitched battles—it took him two years to conquer, Scotlai but it took him five herd before he could conquer the peasantry of ireland, poorly supplied with food and arms. (Great applause.) Cromwell when, varelieaded, he entered Dub lin, told ‘the burgesses that he did no$ intend to leave the island till he bad establisted the true religion, (the Protestant.) and annihilated idolatry. Among the acts of Cromwell, who was the unionionist of England, Ire- lan¢ and Scotland, is one which says that no Catholic shall live within six leagues of any walled town, and all who were in such towns should immediately depart. If any Catholic should be found with arms in his hand, he must be immediately hot, and if he should be found out of his house after the curfew had sounded, he also was to be shot. This is the history of Ireland under the Puritans, and these are some of the reasons we have for remember- ing these people. (Great applause.) When persecution had done its worst, and when all the land of Ireland had been confiscated, behold the people were as far from Protestantism as when they commenced their confisea- tion. Now had to be adopted another system of tactics. Protestantism started with the assertion that every one hada right to his own opinion, ane to argue freely upon the question of religion. Now, I will defy any one to find a single case in the first two hundred and fifty years of the Reformation, where @ single discussion was Wlered to Cat! ole: There is no single instance in this fie where Protesten ared to stand upon the merits of discussion, (The speaker here related the many in- lances of porcution ani martyrdom undor Queen Piivabeth ) Tehull pass from these facts a6 soon as pos Lund sible. Atter tw found that persec 4 years of persecution, it was would not answer; that notwith- sand m standing sll the d vurders, and confiseations, Cathe! increased, The Trish seholars were seattered over the earth; and every Irislioan should remember the fact that tothe Irish students, during these times, were opened the doors » colleges of Spain of France, of Rome, and and there were given eda bed and beard to the Irish ents of the ’ were to return to their native to fight the battle of faith. (Applause.) It was in 3 when Englaud conceived the idea of proselyting schools, It was sxid that the only way to produce the | desired “reform, was to take the children and educate don’t amount to much:,’’ neither plot nor characters are | them, for it was impossille to change the faith of adults, strikingly original ; in fact, a sery close resemblance may be traced between the story and that of about fifty dramas which we haye been unfortunate enough to wit ness, A savage miscreant escaped from Sing Sing, buin- ing with a desire to ill-treat his wife, driuk brandy, rob plate-chests, and murder his step-son; n long-su wife, doating on her son; an old gentI:ian, full of philan- thropy and bank notes; a sort of half idiot, ly drel, brutified by ram; and Dick, the newsboy, indust ous, self-reliant, generous, noble, Young Amer short, need we say more? Such aco the imate: which Mr. Conway has mixed up, and which revultia the f scoun. drama before us. The thread of the tale is oc: asiorally | broken by moral and political retections from Dick; and though, as he confesses, these are borrowed from the Hera, we should be the last persons in ihe world to object to their truth and point. We mast concur with the audience in preferring te take them in ‘he proper dozes in the Hinatp’s leaded brevier, re them thrust down our throat i Mrs, Willi jains acted generally su rit reldom 54 nt then Last night. Dick will become a £ nt ths losalities which adjoin the Park. Mr. Fisk, the idiot xcoundrel, deserves great credit for Lis performance, It was dificult, but his suc- cess was complete, Mrs, Howard would oblige us im- mensely if she would not say “my ce-e ild,” and would generally conform to the rules of pronunciation laid down by Walker, Webster, and other competent authorities, Mr. Howard is slow. We ought not to close without a word of praise for the seene, which represents the ruins of s house that has fallen in, We have seldom seen a stage eifect more true to nature. New Horkt—Tirme Cooper Hovsk.—Another hotel has been added to the already large number in ihe city, or rather, an old one has been metamorphosed into a new. Yesterdey the Cooper Houre, 434 Broadway, corner of Anthony street, was opened by Pease & Brother. The building was known about five or six months ago as the Liotel de Paris. It has beem painted and papered anew, and, though small, it now looks neat and elegant, The parlors ave well furnished, and the bed rooms seem com- fortable, Its central position, and the fact of its being intended for the quiet and reserved portion of the travel- ling public, who do not like the bustle of the larger and more fashionable hotels, will probably always keep it filled, provided it is well kept. Already the majority of the rooms are occupied. Eien Price or Frert at MAtaGa.—Advices from Malaga tothe 21st September, state there had beon more rains, which had retarded the curing of fruit, and prices were higher than ever before known. Pox raisins were costing $150 on board, and it was expected by some that they would reach $2. Marine Affairs. Dreapret. Mortaury on Boarp Suv.—A despatch from Now Orleans, dated Ost. 13, states that the Hamburg bark George Nicholas, bound fromNavy Pay to Cienfaegos, had been picked up at sea, and taken to Now Orleans with the captain and ail hands dead, except the mate, who was sick. Sreamnoat Ixsvectors’ Rerort.—Mesers, J. M. Weeks and Henry B. Renwick, general inspectors of the port of New York, have made the following report to Collector Bron- von, in the matter of the collision between the steamboat Utica end sloop Jane Grant, which orcurred ia the neigh- borhoud of Poughkeepsie, 'on the night of Tuesday, Sep- tember 20 :—We decide that no fault can be imputed to the pilot of the steamboat Utica, but on the contrary, he is entitled to praise for his presence of mind, exereisa in the prompt sheering of hiv vessel to the westward, which probably prevented her from being sunk. Wo report further, that we believe that sald sloop was carry ing more sail than was either necessary or prudent; that she wns fm consequence. t to ¥, end that the collision occurred from the utter impossibility of steering under such @ press of sail, We further deem those in charge of her to haveacted improdently in sailing in the track of the steamer, when she had « free wind and could have kept entirely out of her way. Wedo not deny that sailing vesvels have the Hight to sail in such parts of the river as may best uit their purposes, but it is c ly their best policy tokeep out of tho track of steamera, when they can do so without inconver tence to them ae was the case of the Jane Gr question, t on the nignt in ng | | Day | is as much # unit with the Roman Chureh as it ever was. and thus were the whole energies of powerful gov- | ernment devoted to alienate the feelings of futher and son; and within a hundred years, they thus hoped to alter that opinion which they could not change with their free dis cussion. (Applause anc laughter.) The present. refor- mation of soup ladle and missionaries, will all end as did the reformation of old. Yuree hundred years is time enough to try the faith of a nation; three hundred years have pasred since the commencement of the first refor mation, and to-day, in the gocdly year of our Lord one thousand eight hrindved and fifty-three, the Irish nation (Loud and prolonged applause.) The speaker closed with a splendid prophecy for the fu- turé of ireland. His close was greeted with great enthu- siaem, Wallack’s Theatre— Reply of the Defendant. To James GoRDON Benserr, Esq. I was never ‘more surprised than in seeing the article in the Hisutp of this morning, headed Wallack’s Theatre. I had heard nothing of the difficulty there named—and with respect to my being present, that is un- true. Your correspondent could scarcely have mistaken Mr. Charles Wallack, sged 27, for Mr. Wallack, aged 69. Your correspondent must have written in a spirit of grent acrimony and unkindness to have drawn so. much severity on me and my es’ablishment as is contained in the editorial remarks on his complaint. My strictest orders have been always given to those concerned with the front of the theatre, to treat the public with the utmost attention and civility, and even when (as on crowded houses is frequently ‘the case,) persons are dnipatient and violent, to bear with it a3 far as possible, and seek every means to accommodate; and for the neglect of these orders, I have discharged moro than one or two of my employés at different times. Nevertheless, it is almost impossible on very crowded nights at any theatre, to prevent an occasional incon- venience. ‘The reason on last Friday night was in the refusal to give tickets for another night, (as has hitherto been the custom,) after all the sitting roem was full—au error which cannot oceur again. The following heads the bills of my theatre:— Srxoiat, Novice.—The public is respectful, he future, when the theatre is full to placard to that effect will be posted outside No money will be returned, Tes also again earnestly requested that the patrons of the theatre will re- issued last season, vis: That roserved sents t he kept vacant beyond the first act of any nights per- formance. Lenclove you, sir, a few returns, some of last season and some of this, of the receipts at’ the doors, to show informot, ascertain. that the “ascertained capacity” of the theatre is $750, and thatthe receipts of lust Friday were considerably short of that and of many sinaller sums—but when the receipts approach six hundred dollars the notice ‘stand ing room only,”’ is placed at the doors, and $600 receip do not take up all the sitting room, I have rebuked strongly the indiseretion of my em- ployés in not giving tickets for another night when de- manded. But the enclosed returns will show that the public on the night in question, were not admitted up to the capacity of the theatre by a considerable sum. T have ever, (and shall continue to do i) tesired that very respect, civility, and attention, shonti by paid to the public at my theatre. The terms of ‘‘mennness’” and ‘impertinence” are new to me, and I think will be new also to thore to whom Thave the honor to be known, as applied to me, I think, sir, you will see by the enclosed document that the first does not apply, and as {was not presont at all in the affair of Friday night, the second cannot apply. I do not admit that after a long professional life, di- vided between America and Exgland, that Iam here a foreign actor, nor do I dread a change in the kindly feel- ing of the New York public towards me, whom in thirty- five years | never have and never shall offend. I deeply regree the least inconvenience which may have occurred to any of the public at my doors; but your cor- respondent must evidently have written while in # ver} vad temper, and hence (perkaps unintentionally) wit! some exaggeration, Trusting to your well known fairness to give this letter space, Tam, dear sir, yours traly, J, W. WALLACK. 151 Crosny Sraeer, Oct. 17. The following is the statement to which Mr. Wallack refers — Mor day, Oct. 18, 1862+ Much Ado About Nothing,’” “ Only a Clod,”? $655, Thursday, Now. 26, 1852—' Morning Call,’ “ Soldior’s Daughter,” “High Life Below Stairs,” $700. aturday, Dec, 26, 1852—' Popping the Question,” “My Christmas Dinner,” “ Mysterious Rappings,’” and “Happy Man,” $720 75. Thursday, Jan, 20, 1868— The Heir at Law,’ “The After the Wedding,” 8750. ¢ ednesday April i The Young Quaker,” and “The Review,” $663 1 Monday, May 10, 1858—" Don Cwsar de Bazan,” and “Used Up,” 9684. Thursday, Oot. 13, 1859—~" Bleak House,”” and “Rough Diamond,” $¢50. Friday, Qet, Ly 1850-—% Bleak House,” and Fortune's Frolic,”® $646 75—-the night in quosti Two men were drowned at Paitimore on the 12th inst, ‘Their names were Wm. Faithful and Wm. Miller. Personal Int nce. Dr. R. L. MeKley, Boston; Charles Bell, Alabama; Jos, J. West, Savanah: 8. 4. Whitakers, Pennsylvania; A. W. Reere, Georgia; Robt. "A, Poe, Alabama; Frank Aéams, Poston; L. Goggin Kentucky; Wm. H. Smith, Phila. James i. Gilson, Phila., arrived at the Prescott House yesterday, H. Huntington, Hartford; Mr. Child, Boston; A. C. Morton, Troy; J. Bewston, San Francisco; Judge Stewart, Alabama; Geo, Chickering, Boston; Capt. Pendergrast, U, 8. A.; Hon. H. Watkinson, Tennessee ; H. Crosby, Washington; J. McDonald, Canada; C. M. Reid, Washing- ton, arrived yestercay at the St. Nicholas, Gov. J. W. Davis, Oregon; G. N. Kendall, Ne: . Maj. Hawecry, New Orlasusy Gir Geo: Steam Geman? Livemore, Boston; Capt. Loper, Phila; ford; Mr. Corben, Washington; 8. yesterday at the Astor House. Col. D. &. Miles, of the U. S. Army, reached ‘his home irr Baltimore, on the 1th inst., from New Mexico, where he has been stationed for the last two years, im command of the Third Infantry. Hon. Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, with his family, is among the distinguished visiters now in Washington, Governor Pennington, and General T. Cadwalader, 0 New Jersey, were in Detroit on the 15th inst. Father Gavazzi is delivering a course of lectures in Cin ti. G.P.R. James, Eaq., the British Consul at Norfolk, arrived at Wheeling on the 13th inst., on his way tothe Northwest, and it is said will include Chicago, Mackinaw, and Sheboygen in his route. During the remainder of the preseut month the Presi- dent will receive visiters only on Thursday and eg a each week, between the hours of one and two o'clock 2. M. ARRIVALS, in the steamship Roanoke—Mr Vasu- ert, G Vlumloy, J Fellows, J E Male, Wm ff Richards, Edward, ee and indy, Miss Loyall, Airs Miles King, Francis De Corder, R Gathlin, Dr Jas Watkins, Wm H Robards, jr, Mrs Fried- lander, Miss Winder, Hl. Castellar, Wan Gi LB Goggin, Jokn Morrison, Miss Goggin, E Goggin, Miss Leftwich, R Martin and lady, Mra R-Méliwaine DE Robert Watts, Cap D G Farragut and Indy, Mrs Dunn, Miss L Loyal, VB Gro- ‘owell, Robert Kemble, Gritin Mann, Wm Trenal ‘am Smith, Chas Grown, and 10 in the st . From London, in ship Christiana—Mrs States, G Whit+ worth, K hildren, G Williams and lady. Frew Li ee Wright—Mr G Somerville, Capt LAL eooused. From Liverpool Waterloo—W K Delany. Polltical Intelligence. Calvin Hud: Ke ster, has been nominated by the barnburners for Congress, in the Twenty-ninth district, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resigna- tion of Mr. Boody. ‘The whigs have nominated Henry Wells for Judge of the Seventh district. Court Caiendar -This Day. U.S. Cireviy Courr.—1he Urial of the Henry Clay steam- boat calamity. Sorxnts Court—General Term.—Motion calendar. ScPcrme Covrt—Circuit,—Nos. (#1, 317, 318, 520, 321, big ila dota —Nos. 529, 828, MOM First.—Nos. , 277, 317, 205%, 427, 615, 711, 817, the te, 76, S11? Part Seeond—Nos. 368 607, 634,” 804,’ 660, 683, "262," 677, 705, 770, 76834, 845, 850, 812, 886, 326, 890, 144, 196, 135, 217, 226, 256, 316, 825, 343, 395 to’ 400, 402, 403, 405,” 408, 407, 409, 410, 411, 414, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 424 to 4982 SSS American Institute Cattle Show will ‘Chapen, Hart- Phila., arrived From Richmond, & Wilson, JP ham, RA Bolton, lace on the 19th, 201 id Zit October at Hamil- on square, on a ten ty grauted by the corporation te the American Institute for the expres purpose. Whe s are: lies between the Third and Fourth avenues, four mil ytreug he City Hall. Railroad cars and omnibuses pass the square continually, throughout the day. neon gente uetesuen pleas sure. Fare on the cai five cents. It is expected that this fair will be the greatest exhibition, and present the lat- varicty, number and quality of Horses, horned cattl wine and poultry, of every sort, ver exhibited, si ‘AD, je in our State ntrances ¢t mad Wednesday, tho ith inst at noon oe Pa) Admittance twenty-iive cents, and Travellers.—Wolfe’s bna»ps—manufactured by the proprie- tors, exclusive! im, in Holland, for medical use, is entitled to ideration. It is made from the best barley that can be obtained in Europe, at any cost, wi an uroniatic vegetable decoction, of the most salutary efficacious propertits, from the ‘botany of Italy. No other medicinal beverage, at present in use in the United States, combines such peculiar virtues with so uniform an innocuous: ness. In gravel, gout, chronic rheumatism, and obstn of the kidneys and bladder, its effect is a0 prompt, de well-confirmed as to need ‘neither the testimony of pationta nor of physicians. It isin continual and ineroasing demand im the practico of tho latter, and itsinestimablo Properties in suck enses, and many others, are attested by the highest writtor, authorities. In all c.ses of dropsical tendency, ft isgencrally dopted in the early stages of when taken in proper quan- ecially at dinner, it is found to be effectual, in the most obstinate instances, when the use of other remedies has been pursued ix vain. The debility o by protracted chronic maladies, sluggish temperaments, exhansted vital energy, by whatever cause iuduced, is al certainly obviated by its judicious adoption, while its abso: lute freedom from every deleterious ingre ‘and the per- fect purity of allits materials. exempt it from the liability injuring even the most impaired constitutions, charac by such symptoms. J ut up in quart and pint bottles, handsomely with a fac simile of the proprietor’s signature on the Fer sale by all the respectable druggists and grocers in the United States, UBULPHO WOLFE, Sole importer and proprictor, 22 Beaver street. Gur Readess wiil please recollect that ALBERT H. NICOLAY will soli this day some Inrge and of U; In dy spe tities, as a diet drivk, and el. piendid cottage d-omted in the beautiful village y= yer Morrisania, withia two or three aninutes walk of the doc ot. The vale vill ti Hace o: © ground, at 1 o'clock, P. A... comprising tty me and Large ville sites, contain: ing frome ve to ten city ‘ute eck. This ‘beautiful propert m He: e known as Fordh ighty, and the view is unsur cverlooking all the surrounding vilinges and the Palisades cn the North river. ‘The strects ace all. bandomely geaton ind @ portion of these plots have fruit and shade trees upotye ‘hem, and ithe water a¢ this place is excellent. Seventy- five per cent of the pureli ey can remain on mortgazo for & term of years. Th in indisputable, of which a printed abstract will be free of cost, to all pur- chasers. This dei ly weeds inspection to be rable proporty « appreciated, and we reeomniend all porsons who are of purchasing # villa site ira. hieatt y tocution. to cents this property sud judge ofr themselves. Feve railroad tickets to attend the anle by 1) ant 11:30 o’eloek trains of th Harem Railrend, “Aloo, litvozraphic mapa and full parti lars can be obtained on applying to J. W. Barker, No 3 Ni saustreet, or the auctioneer, No. 40 Wali street” —________. Shippers to San Francisce, per hefoot, at pier 2d, Knet river, wili please have all freight on board bofore Satnrday, 2th hstant, and hand their bills of lading, for signature, to SUTTEN & CO., No. Wail street, or Mestre, HOWLS & CO., 98 Pearl strest. ——$——$— ive ° nite morocco oi has ever boen made quality to those that persona remark that ood a8 Anson puts he expected where th und ins the size that equal in Every da; vet, and twi for 60 cents, and warrante gost $2 and'$3 clrewhere. “they have paid $: 1 os % pai 3 ‘or pict ap iy siti; persons and deliv. ribg: ploteeng five minutes. Rem: , ANSON, Wie Metropolitan Hotel." “SSN: Broadway, opposite zographs, or D: on Paper, rartioutar attenti a is calles to this non Neapuce in the dae crean magnificent Leonard sirvets new taken at GURNEY'S Peers callers, 49 Broadway, corner hie mew style of solored day: ee aeianiaity ‘War! War!—The flame 1s kindled in Eus rope—the time fer the streggle has come—the struggle o Tighe Agaivet might. “But before you volumtesr tes te ROOT’S, 303 Brosiway, and get your picture for your friends, ‘for whea you teturn with viotory, flowing. b turban, and Turkish troweers, your owm mother won’ know you. Root's pietures, however, are t and un- obangeable, Fine Arts--Daguerreotypes in Oil, Mr. JOG, BUTLER, 21 brvadway, 6 ner ot Murray watt iis beautiful art combines the detail of she daguerrest with the finish of the finest miniature painting. "eee The Plumbe National Gallery,on tae up= per corner of Lroxdway and Murray street, continues to serve its patrons in the uime satisfuctery manner that it hae done for many yenry The 25 Cent fos busy e Bize that reotypes by Rees & Co. are 00 conta for, and superior to portraits that are made. To faye time and moue oud likenesses, go to REES &CO.S, 259 Broody th, the Ducrow of Ame~ Willreopen the National A uphitheatre, Philadelphi on the Ist of November, 1833, with ono of the’ most talented companies in existence. The corps dramatique will consist of tie most superior av: ilable talsnt; the stud of horses are unapproachable and u paralleled for their ity, and the company of artistos will be uncqul this or any other country. Note North, wit a tlomanty arta will meet w At vorciaity and patronage that they ever received fro.a the citizene of our sister city. A New Song.~Just Pubiished, “« The Words of Little katy; or, Will b * written Robinson, author of ti Lune; compored by Hur ater’, Thomas Beh ad by their superiority im we predict that ‘are Heury Turner, Raq., by Solow lished in the thor of Mott with a beautiful vij Vow,” &c.; arranged by 4 nette filustrative of the meeting with Tittle Katv. Price cents. Published by HORACE WATERS, 383 Broadway, the great pinno and mui One of Knox’s Huts is « Sure Passport to genteel rociety. It ism wate indie that the gentloman of taste, and ene who sic entablishmont. Advantages of a good style of drem aty! jou, andl will be engorly si mcht ater ty all over tasty hat. Knox's ye 'y is on the fer Fulon street is crowded from. moruing KNOX is one of the most successful business me ahead age, ‘Wholesale Lape taney cap and buanlo febee, whieh he wil cell |5'3 th t vary low prices, for ons. “Comm all to Cc. M.A’ €2 Greenwich street, near Something Worth Kn —It is for all wearers of fine bats to know that thebate sold he ranit & LEASK, fer $5 und $4, o1 be by ROT. ) CRM fads L0G) in addition to wi it} likeness, anced so, oppeniee Chasabers, troatee uty, elegance, oF mens contome judge for themselvur. No de Clothing Store... 411 Broadway, offer the best ionnble clothing to be foung ted to @xamino, jon, in amy ce, from marked prices. Legal Suits.—Our Law Courts are troubled with a vast 0 street, near Nassau, Silks and other Dry Goons. —Our Lady Read. y, Who wish to purchase any kind ts in the city will be aure dost quality re thei ®. ta. to get a i OF ilk gloves at fifty! con ich Embroklered and Plain Velvet vitos tho attention of Indies to his * Assortment 0! le yrrapals em| cloaks in tent ons Velvet, which are admitted by afl connoisseurs who have inspected them, to be the most elegant that | hitherto been produced in t is city. Also, ® great variety plain velvet and cloth cloaks, in the latest Parisisn fashions MOLYNRUX BELL, 6 Canal steeet, R i