The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1853, Page 4

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Revoil, No. 17 Rue de la Hangne. ‘The Kuropean mails will close at balf past ten o’elosi 4e-morrow morning. ‘The Weakiy Bxaatp will be published at haif-past nine welock to morrow moraing. Single copies, in wrappers ‘mixpence. ae tr OE Highly Important on the Eastern Ques- ton—Treaty of Alliance between France and Engiand—The News Confirmed. From special information, upon which we place entire reliance, we learn tha’ on the eleventh day of November, in the city of London, a most important treaty of alliance was ogreed to and signed by Count Walewski on the part of France, and Lord Claren don on the part of England, in reference to the Turkish question. Thus our views of yesterday concerning this reported arrangement are positively confirmed. ‘The treaty thus concluded between the high con- tracting parties of England and France was de spstched immediately by couriers to Berlin and Vienna, with an intimation that from the day of its arrival at each of these capitals a period of seven @ays would be allowed to the cabinets of Pruz sia and of Austria to determine upon their assent or pefosal to enter into the arrangement. If agreed to, well and.good ; if rejected, it was to be understood that France and England would take the settlement ‘and the responsibilities of this Eastern controversy into their own hands. We further learn, that from the terms of this ‘tweaty, Ruzsia will be required forthwith to evacaste fhe Danubian Principalities, or that,in refasing, she hazards the momentous consequences of an immedi. tte jo'nt declaration of war from England and France. And as the shortest road to peace, when once this declaration is made, we may safely assume that the active operations of the allies against Russia ‘will be of the most effective and formidable descrip- tion, by land and sea. We may count upon the movement of two hundred thousand Frenchmen, in the highest state of equipment and discipliae, across the Rhine and the Alps to compel Austria and Prussia to show their hands. We may also expect a simultaneous movement of the French and English fleets near Constantinople into the Black Sea, and that the extermination of the Russians ia those wa- fers will speedily follow: while, unless prevented by the freezing of the Baltic, another equairon cf the allies will no doubt at the same tine set gail for the latitnde of St. Petersburg. | ‘This positive and warlike alliance between France and England is due, first, to the unmistakeable wish- | es of the French army, the Freach people, and the matural inclinations of the Napoleon dyzasty, rest- ing, as it does, upon the glories and the unavenged disasters of the empire. fecond’y, this alliance against the timid and trifling expedients of Lord Aberdeen, is dne to the force of the public opinion of England, which is beginning to have a voice even in the foreign policy cf the government upon questions of euch import as this Eastera struggle. Thuia programme cf prospective military operations is opened before us of the most startling and imposing grandeur. Once begun, upon the plan of this treaty ef November, the war will probably go on, until Napoleon the Third, on the Rhine, the Po, the Danube, the Elbe, and the Vistala, shall avenge the treacheries which prostrated Napoleon the First. It isthe beginning of a nei order of things, aud God speed the right. Very Interesting from Waeshington—T:i- umph of Nationa) Princip! in the South. The United Stats Senate has been laying down the law to the administration,in an act so direct ‘and emphatic as to preclude all possibility of a mis- constrnetion. Read onr Congressional report of yes- ferday’s proceedings, and our special despatch con- cerning the election of printer to the Senate. Beverly ‘Tucker, of the Sentine!, (national democrat.) twenty- six votes; Gen. Robert Armstrong, of the Union, (Van Baren free soil democrat.) seventeen votes Majority for Tucker, axti-administration,) nine— democratis majority in the Senate, sixteen. Cari- us, this, very, and decidedly interesting, It appears that the Cabinet mide the electioa of Gen, Armstrong a sine qua non—that the last vos fige of organized hostility in Washington to Guthrie and Co. was to be “ernshed out;” and it appears that to this end Gen. Cass snd Judge Donglas wet in for Armstrong; and thet afier the el mo Tucker, Mr Sevator Dodge, of Iowa, declared the r sult “ anything bat complimentary to the democrat. : orgsniza‘ion.” Perhaps it is, a8 applied to the Cai- net; but, for all that, it will have a te@meudous mo al effect all over the oonntry, and the greater from the fact that it has taken all parties by su-nyise. In eomsmexnoration of this great moral ti ho yr 'neiples over the spoils organization im the Sena'¢ a . Ty | the xationats to-day will fire a gran? malate of a buo- YORK HERALD. | teres oo cay cee ax operation, new that the ‘eis broken, to be followed | Ler start’ g eoisions by the Seaste. | » er now assure the custom huase party | Well, tie United up in seme We con xo le of the safety of Colle stor Redfield. Btates Sena’ as done some remarkable things during the ! enertwev yars it gave us the | t f'42—the tarffo “46; it settled the Org n} ne: tion, an with Mexi promise measures of 1850, and » sey have given a blow to the «#0! eee and the Gual resale or “220 will be the reory reat aeevual party, Upon vhe & grromise measures, with er without the adminis- tra’ion, as General Pierce may decide. ied the question of rh ont 422 COM> | The News. Lower Celifornia isa republic! We leara by the George Luw, arrived yesterday, that the Walker Expedition, fitted out at Sao Pranciseo, had landed at La Paz, seized two Mexican Governors, iowered the Mexican colors, raised the new republican far, md gained a battle, deslared Lower Cali- free and independent and a republic, ani chesen a President, Se of War, and 9 Secretary of the Na dove in one week by o handful of o. Whatacoantry! But this is only the ng of the end in the Pacido. Although this movement may fail, yet it is the heading of the list of Avglo-Sazon republics in that quarter of the globe. We give the particulars of this wonderful affair in another eclama. The George Law bronght us files of California pa- pers to the 16th ult., from which we extract the de- tails of the uews. We find nothing in the intalli- gence of any particular importance beyond the inte- rest which usually attaches to everything comiag from the gold-lined shores of the Pacific, and we shall therefore merely call the reader's ation to the columns which contain the news, led with the remark that it embraces all the necessary items which contribute to the formation of a complete pic- ture of the new State, showing the mines aud the miners, the manners and the customs, the crimes and their punishments, together with the movements and man@uyres of the mixed but homogeneous popula- tion. i Want of space prevents us from extending more than a mere passing reference to the late news else- where given from Australia, the Sandwich Islands, countries bordering on the South Pacific, New Gra- nada, and Oregon and Washington Territories, all of which is yery interesting, and portions of it quite im- portant. By the arrival of the George Law, we received our West Indian files with the letter of our Kingston correspondent, dated upon the 28th of November. The news from Jamaica is of importance, bothina commercial and political point of view. The econo- mic party in the Assemb!y have surrendered the principle for which they so long contended—the right of appropriating their own money—to the government party, after having created so much ex- citement about it. The new “import duty bill” has been asgented to by each branch of the legislatare, anda reconstruction of the constitation is to come up for consideration In the Houze. The inter-solo- nisl intelligence is favorable. The steamship Star of the West, which left San Juan, on the Ist inst., with the same dates from Ca" lifornia as brought by the George Law, has been compelled to put into Norfolk for a supply of fuel. A despatch states that she has a million and a half of treasure on freight, and half a million in the hands of the four bundred passengers on board. ‘The steamer Union, from Charleston for this port, was also obliged to put into Norfolk for coal. The Alabama, from Savannah on the same day that the Union left Charleston, came in last evening. The news from Washington to-day will be read with marked interest aud satisfaction by every true fiiend of his eowntry. Besides the signal triamphsof national principles in the Sevate, through the rejec- tion of the propristor of the Cabinet's organ as public printer, it will be seen that the administration was also virtually defeated in the House on the proposi- tion to make the post of Librarian an elective office. Mr. Bayly’s resolution for this purpose was disap proved by only two majority. This exhibits a healthy revolutionary feeling concerning the condact of both the administration and its favorite clerk, and, what renders the circumstance more striking, is the fact that the democrats have a mojority of over seventy in that body. These are probably merely the pre- liminary arrangements for the campaign against the gpoils-dividing Cabinet and their proselytes. The proceedings of the meeting of the New York Mercbants to remen:trate against the removal of Collector Bronson were laid before the Sznate yesterday. The standing committees of the two houses, it will be seen, have not been materially altered from those of the last session. Gen. Cass cffered a resolution, which was adopted after amend- ment, calling for information and correspondeace relative to our relations with Great Britain, and seyeral Senators introduced bills to grant lands for various railroad projec Apropos, the vote in the House upon Mr. John Wentworth’s scheme to assist in the construction of the proposed road to the Pacific will rather dampen the spirits of those en- goged in that enterprise. Gerrit Smith has opened the temperance budget. Read the proceedings. ‘The second trial of George A. Gardner, for false ing, commenced in the Criminal Court at ington yesterday. ections were held for municipal oSicera in vari- cities of Massachusetts yesterday. There was no choice for Mayor in either Boston cr Lawrence. In the former place the regular whig candidate was far ahead of any one competitor, bat did not receive nt votes to give bim a majority. In Lowell, #l, the whigs clected their Mayor and a large mojority of the Common Council. Advices from the City of Mexico announce that rich golden discoveries had been made in Sonora. The cholera hed ceased its ravages. Two Supreme Judges had been removed, and one of them, ex- President Cevallos, banished for refusing to accept the honor of knighthood of the new order of Guada- lupe. By the way, information is said to have reached New Orleans that Santa Anna intended to assume the title of Imperial Majesty yesterday. Considerable excitement seems to have been pro duced amoxg the people of Pittsbarg, by the appear. ance of the Pope’s Nuncio at one of the churches last Sabbath. The disaffected exhibited their dis- pleasure, after the service was over, by puffing eegar smoke in the faces of the Nancio and Bishop O Conor. We regret to learn that Lieutenant Joseph Adams, nephew of John Quirey Adams, died on board the United States steamship Powhatan, early ia Oe- tober. Nine persons have been arrested at Cleveland, charged with beving stabbed, murdered, and thrown overboard a Mr. Anderson, who was formerly mate on board the steamer Buckeye State. The ascased were deck hands on board the steamer Louisians, and the deed is alleged to have been committed dnring a recent trip of that vessel between Bullulo and Cleveland ‘The Board of Aldermen met last evening at the usval hour, and, after transacting some unimpertant busizess, adjonrmned stil tomorrow afternoon. There seemed to be a great disposition on the part of whig members to coutioue the session, bat thove members who yoted in favor of the Manhattan Rail road especially were in a very oneasy state of mind lest a number of the v tees from his Honor the Mayor, which are at present on tho table, should come up, and consequeutiy shirked them for the second time by adjourning as soon as a few petitions and res ons were presented. Among the basi a jetants was the of the 10 report of the C ren ¢ oa Board «f rmen ja favor of enm of $50 000 for the New York Juyonlle Aeylom. Ta the Superior Court, terday, Judge Marray Heffmen cslivered a decision jn the case of Rass & Reed against John Cooke & mpavy, wh motion to restrain the deferdauts from fuld'ling : nts tn contract for lay rapite blo My aw Fulton snd Grand streets, New Yor oh wee Uaalad cn ground thatea injunction wa: not the proper remed . : Thesreument “* *2 defence in the great opera suit of Pe *% Bennett, was commenced in the amet r¢ rday. We elsewrere give a portion of the ep no doubt, be perused with great attention by all classes of readers. The seventeenth anniversary of the Colored Or- phan Asylum was celebrated at Hope Chapel last evening. Waat of space compels us to forego referring par- ticularly to a variety of telegraphic despatches and many columns of other interesting matter contained in this day’s e. The headings of the different ar- ticles, however, will tend t? enlighten the reader as totheir character, R rt of Secretary Dobbin—Beggarly Con- sation ef our Navy—The Daty of Coa- Breas. The report of the Secretary of the Navy, which we published the other day, is a sensible, practical, and satisfactory State paper. We trust that it will secure the early and practical attention of Congress, It is somewhat painful, somewhat humiliating, to have such an official exposé as this of the heggarly condition of the United States Navy thrown out to the world; but the recommendations of Mr. Dobbin, to the great end of strengthening this right arm of our Bational defence, are seasonable, whole- some, and very easy of fulfilment, The two most important features of this busi- ness-like report are—firet, the necessities for an increase ; and, secondly, the policy of a re-or- ganization of the navy, more in accordance with the progress of our times, the genius of our institutions. and the spirit of the age, than the present antiquated, rottea bureau system of the “old fogies.” Upon the first proposition, the increase of the navy. the astounding facts presented by Mr. Dobbin ought to suffice, with- out farther argument, for the immediate adop- tion of the recommendations which follow. We had expected, from this official report, a melan- choly exhibit of our weakaess upon the salt water, but nothing quite so feeble as the sum- ming upof Mr. Dobbin. Hear him :— The Amerioen Navy of ahont seventy vorasls, . Of these, many ships of hips, and sloops of war, ot 2#, but I am sdviaed by the Buran of Construction, Eanipirent and Repaita, are no! worth re palriag. There are not now in the Navy forty vessels which could be brovgit into service In minaty days, if needed. There is no steamer in the Pacific or African squacson; but one cf two gaus in the Braz lisa squadroa uno we have no steamer of more than tes guas. “This is a sorry sight.” Contrast it with the navies of England and France, and the disparity is positively alarming. According to the “Al- manach de Gotha” of 1853, the British Navy for the year 1851, consisted of three hundred and twenty-six sailing vessels, and one hundred and sixty-three steamers of all sizes; and the Navy of France of two hundred and twenty-six sailing vessels, and one hundred and two sieam- ers, from one hundred and twenty to six hun- dred horse power; and within the last two years the steam force of both England and France has considerably augmented, chiefly with screw propellers. We are even behind poor old Spain, which bas afloat a torce of some forty sailing ships, and thirty steamers. And, as it is with these powers that we shall have to contend, singly or combined, in the event of a rapture concerning Cuba, Hayti, or Central America, it would be well for the Chairman on Naval Af fairs, in each House of Congress. in view, at any day, of the possible contingency of- war, to count the probable consequences to our navy, our vast commerce, and our extended seaboard, considering that in three months, from all quar- ters of the world, including everything we have, we could not bring a government force of forty vessels into service. The recommendation. therefore. of Mr. Dob- bin, that six first class steam frigate propellers be immediately built, is reasonable and sensi- ble. The advantages of the propeller over the side wheel ship, as a vessel of war, are manifest. The war steamers lately built, and now in course of construction by the British and French governments, are, we believe, almost exclusively, if not without exception, propel- lers. Five millions of dollars is the maximum of the estimated cost of construction of the six propellers proposed, the necessary supply of timber being already on hand at our various navy yards, And five millions, out of a surplus of thirty millions in the treasury, with Secre- tary Guthrie calling loudly for depletion, is but a trifle in comparison with the importance of ihe object in view. We want at leasta dozen effective steamers, of the most approved models, machinery and equipment; and ten willions of the thirty lying idle in the treasury could hardly be better appropriated ; but Mr. Dobbin, no doubt, impressed with a suspicion that such an enormous outlay for the navy, ina single appropriation, would be considered rank treason bythe membersfrom theWest.has thought it most prudent to be modest in his demands, and hence he only asks for six propellers, and five millions of Gutbrie’s surplus, ‘ whffch has in- creased, is increasing,” and by hook or by crook, mu:t and will be diminished. Let the propellers be built, and let the Sec- retary of the Navy see to it that not one of the parties of the Bureau of Construction, Bquip- ment and Repairs. concerned in the getting up such abortions as the Alleghany, the Fulton, and the Water Witch, have any thing to do with the construction or equipment of these new ships. Let some such practical steamship builder as FE. K. Collins be employed as the director and superintendent of the work, and then we may count with confidence upon a fleet of etcamers, creditable alike to the depart- ment and the country. The second most important branch of Mr Dobbin’s report upon the re-organization of the navy. meets, also, a8 may be supposed, with our cordial toneurrence; the Nuw York Henao, for some years past, having vainly endeavored to attract the attention of Mr. Dobbin’s prede- cersors to these identical reforms, which he so earnestly and ably advocates. The promotion of officers according to merit-a reti¢ed list of the disabled and superannuated—a system of encon- raging rewards of merit,and of increased compen- eation to the sailors, must be approved alike by the considerations of sound policy, as by the dictates of justice and magnanimity. Mr. Dob- bin says:—“T entertain thé opinion that a re- tired list, on redueed pay. for the faithful who have become infirm; the discharge of the inefli- cient who have no claim on the bounty of thelr government for services rendered; pro- motions regulated by capacity, merit, and not by mere eeniority of commiesion; pay, to some extent controlled by sea serviee, are reforms not only demanded by the condition of the ser- vice, hy considerations of justice, but absolute- ly recersary to the preservation of efficiency and urefulnces.”’ And this has been precisely cur opinion for @ long time past, and we are, | quarter. ch of Mr. Sandford, which will, | ratifieé the more in finding that it therefore. Mr. Dobbin bes done ‘his duty nded@ a plan for strer | His epecifications involve neither extravagance | nor untried theory; they are moderate, def- | nite, and practical. He proposes a re-organiza- tion of the personnel of the service upon the elementary principles of justice and common | sense. Let us have the six steamers, if no, more; and let us have the re-organization. It | is high time: amidst our unparalleled inter nal prosperity we have criminally overlooked our defenceless condition upon the high seas. In three months we could not now—sailing craft and steamers, big aud little, good, bad aad in- | has recon different—bring into service forty ships of war; | but in three months the navies of England and France could sweep the bulk of our commerce from the ocean. The Secretary of the Navy has discharged his duty like a man of sense ‘and a patriot; be has shown himself equal to the wants and the exigencies of his department. Tis report is before Congress; the responsi- bility of practical action in the premises is with the House of Representatives and the Se- nate, and, to the extent of their negligence or hostile eupidity will they be held responsible to the country. Free Somism or Presipent Pierce.—We have received no reply to our advertisement calling for a copy of the letter which General Pierce is stated to have written to the Free Soil Committee of 1848, declining to run as free soil candidate in lieu of Van Buren, but warmly sympathising with the opinions and policy of the committee. We therefore insert it again ; and we hope and trust that some of the free soil leaders who are cognizant of the real facts will let us know the truth of the matter. We are likewise anxious to be furnished with a copy of free oil speeches said to have been delivered by Gen. Pierce, and to which reference is also made in the advertisement. A developement of these matters would throw a great deal of light on the conduct of General Pierce at the recent elections in this state, and might possi- bly explain what to many people is yet an im- pervious mystery. More than one shrewd observer has been puzzled by ‘the singular influence of John Vaa Buren, as well with the President as with all the inmates of the White House and the heads of the various executive departments. When Prince John goes to Washington he is inti- mate with the highest personages in the go- vernment, and seems to obtain just what he wants of them. Yet he speaks of the President and Mr. Marcy in terms which cannot be con- sidered as cither flattering or respectful. Prince John is remarkably shrewd and cau- tious. Marcy, too, and General Pierce are cautious men; they cannot surely have in- volved themselves in the recent dificulties‘in this State, and stepped out of their way to suffer a defeat without some good cause. The closer we examine the matter, the more pro- bable does it seem that that cause is the exist- ence of some such letter as we seck, which may now be in the possession of John Van Buren. This would at once explain both the extra- ordinary influence of Brince John and the very general support the cabinet is receiving from the free soilers. The former still contrives to play Mephistopheles. to the Washington Fausts. We have heard it ramored of late that it was the intention of the government to re- call Mr. Buchanan—the only good foreign mi- nister we have—from London, and to replace him by John Van Buren. The supposition is strengthened by the fact that the administra- tion free soil organ in this city has, for some time past, been devoting a large portion of its space to the abuse of Mr. Buchanan. This course has obviously been taken by the editor with the approval and consent of John Van Buren and the other free soil leaders. A complete developement of the true position of men and matters in 1848 might account for all the strange procecdings of the President since his election, and Gnally place him squarely and frankly on the free soil platform of the North, in the hands of the free soil politicians. Coos Forxer’s Derence.—John W. For- ney bas publiehed a letter in the Richmond Enquirer, in which he attempts to get rid of the load of odium which his letter to Roberts has fastened on his shoulders. He says that it was “the result of an ardent attachment toa friend.” Ardent, indeed, must have been the attachment that would prompt a proposal to play stool-pigeon for the purpose of injuring the character of a defenceless woman. Mr. Forney’s friends bave cost him dear; and by the following sentence we see that his intimacy is equally expensive to thim:-—‘I wrote,” he says, “as I would write tomy brother.” Fortu- nately for his name, nature had denied him that blessing. If she had been more gencrons, according to Mr. Forney’s own statement, the world might have witnessed the shocking spec- tacle of one brother soliciting another to in- veigle an unsuspecting man to drink, in order to extort from hima boastful confession of an imaginary triumph over female virtue. Those who have viewed his letter in the only light in which it can possibly be regarded, he styles “a combination of personal foes,” and attributes honest indignation to “malignant inge- buity.” It was in words somewhat similor, that Bristol Bill denounced the efforts of the law to bring him to justice ; and the late amented One-eyed Thompson never ceased to complain of the “malignant ingenuity” of the grand juries who would persist in indicting him, and whose “personal” animosity hurried him to an untimely end. We bear no private ill-will to Mr. Forney. Malignity has had no share in the strictures we have passed upon his character. On the contrary, we have taken every opportunity to assert our belief that he was an amiable man in society, and was possessed of many very creditable qualities. Now that he has triumphed over the moral sense of the country, we wish him joy of his victory. Let him enjoy his hard won spoils in peace. So far as he is concerned our task is done ; but we shall see that the members of Congress who voted for him be not forgotten when they again present themselves before their constituencies as candidates for re-election. Tur Srraker ov THe CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. —The Hon. John Sanfield McDonald, Speaker of the Canadian Parliament, is at present in town, having just returned from a six months’ tour in Europe. Mr. McDonald is quite a young man to fill the position he holds: he owes it in part to his political opinions. but in a greater degree to his well-known ability, his urbane manners. «1d hia personal popularity in the House. During his tour through the highlands of Scotland, he astonished gomo of the natives shown the pitiuble feebleness of our Navy —he | at Glengarry, in Conada, and pr t. | language, the habits, and the pecullarities of by addressing them in Gael! s#| bas at length firmly taken root ia the right | prise was increased when he informed them | that he was one of several thousand descen- He has} dents of the MeDonuld clan who had settled and their sur erved the thel: forefathers, The discovery of a new home eo like the old one must have been a pleasing evrprise to the Highlanders, Mr. McDonald is now on his way bome. We sball next hear of him when the Canadian Parliament meets, and his onerous duties commence anew. Tre Broanway Ramroan—A New Swis- pLe.—The Manhattanville Railroad, alias the Broadway Railroad, alias a swindle upon the people of New York city, is now in the pocket of the Mayer, waiting his veto, with the expec- tation of passing ultimately, nolens volens, over his head. . Now, we admonish the Corporation, that if now or hereafter they shall attempt the con- struction of a railroad in Broadway, they will do it at the risk of incurring some visible mani- festation of the public displeasure. We are ap- prehensive, in fact, that if our present corpe- rate authorities, or their successors in office, shall proceed to tear up the Broadway Russ pavement to make room for a railroad, that they may look out for riots and outrages of a more violent and formidable character than those lawless scenes lately enacted at Hrie. Broadway is the great central artery of the city, and, contract or no contract, the people, we fear, will never allow this street to be ob- structed by a railroad. The parties now con- templating the experiment, before they proceed further, would do well, perhaps, to reflect upon the possible contingencies of active resistance. Five Hundred Dollars Reward Will be paid to any person, barnburaer or free soiler, of New York (aud no questions asked), who will furnish us with an authentic copy ef a eertain letter, said to have been written in 1848 by Franklia Pierce, of New Hampshire, in reply to an invitation to attend the Buffalo Free Soil Convention of that year, or to be their candidate for the presidency. The letter to General Pierce was written by a com- mittee of free soil democrats, or barnburners, of New York, and bis reply is said to have sympathized with their views, and approved the platform con- siructed by John Van Buren im Baffalo; but, from certain private motives, he declined the distin- guished honor ef being the candidate instead of Martin Van-Buren. Apply at the counting room of this cffice for further information. AL80, A HANDSOME REWARD will be paid to any person in New Mampshire, or elsewhere, who will furnish the New York HERALD with a copy of the anti-slavery speech, or spseches, delivered by the said General Franklin Pierce at Manchester, New Hampshire, and elsewhere in that Btate, a few years ago, with certificates of the accu- racy of the report thereof written eut by the Rev. Mr. Foss. For farther particulars apply asabove. Further About the Great Pire in-ClLff Street. ‘The ruins of this great conflagration were still crowded yesterday. Two or three engines were at work all day, endeavoring to put out the ctill burning pile. We ha heard of no forther accidents than those we have already published. As to the insurance we have been unable yet to learn the diferent companies having risks upon these buildings, but we have received the following note designating those having no risks up» them :— 10 THE EDITOR O¥ THR HERALD. re stated that all or jhe city, have suf ent of the Me following sow} that rth eriean, Commonwealt! ‘uiton, Park, Jefferson, Clintor Knickerbocker, Howard, Marine, Atlantle, Irving, Oro ited States, Citisens, Niawar: epublio, City, Mercantile, Empire ¢ity, Hamilton, As to the 1-ss of Cooledge & Brothers, we have heard that the Hamilton Irsurance Company had « risk of $6,000 upon their buildings. Woikmen were busiiy engaged yesterday in getting out the buried cafes of the Harpers, Ibis incefetig. vle firm are again at work, and will continue their business with but little delay ouaccount of their immense lors. They have already engaged a large building «nm the corner or Beekman ani Gold streets, and were yesterday engaged in stocking it with the necessary apparatus for the continuance of their business. They pid probably recommence their work of publishing 10 Cay. ‘One ‘great item of the loss by this fire is the loss of the rent of their buildings for the winter season. Had they beem burned early in the spring or in warm weather, they night have been reconstructed immediately. Bat by burning at thir season of the year. they must remain till spring before the work of rebuilding them can com- mence—a lors of at least three months’ rent, which may fee copervee at about $10,000 fer the sixteen buildiugs yarne We alluded yesterday to the loss of new manuscripts of roung aspirants for literary fame. In regard to this, we ave been infor xed that am+ng the unfortunate incidents consected with the late conflagration was the loss of the muanueeript of a novel just written, by = young literary gertl roan of this city, and ieft with the Mesurs. Herpsra abcut two hours previous td the fire, for publication. Tho avther had devoted some months to the production of the work apd was to receive a per centage on the copies gold. Anit wasthe euthor’s oaly cops, the loss and dis. sppcictment to him is more easily imagined than de- seribe¢. Theauthor ia a member of the bar of this ci'y. We prasum e area great many othtrs who have met with the same misfortune, | Police Intel!igences LI8T OF POLICE OFFICERS ATTENDING COURTS—A NEW SYSTEM ADOPTED. The Chief of Police bas adopted a new method of de ta'ling policemen te attend the varions courts of polices, A rexgeant an four policemen coastituts a equad. Exch private is required to report the busisess done during the day to his scrgeant, ‘and the sergeant makes an entry ip a book, and bis report is made to the Chief cf Police cnce every week. FIRST DISTRICT POLICE COURT. Squad S—Sergeant Mansfleld ;" privates Downing, Mar- tin, Patterson and Lord. quad G.--Sergeant 8. J. Smith ; privates Sweeney, Rue, raxsous, and Campbell. ‘SRCOND DISTRICT POLICE COURT. Squad F —Sorgeact Elder; privates Gallagher, Moore, Kearney and Undert ill, Squad _R—ergeant Johnson; privates Satton, 8 —ergeant Johnson ; vates Sul Erowr, De Binder and Jarboo. gi ° FORCE ON BROADWAY. &quad I —Yergeant Hoffman ; privates Jackson, Osse, McGrath and Stoughton. Squad W.—zergeant Perkins; privates Murray, Wool Jey, Cushing and McGuire. Squad E.—Sergeant Lindsey ; privates Johns, Meehan and Knapp FMIGRANT VESSELS. Squad D.—Sergeart Bell ; privates Baker, Fowler, Linn, Lowery and F, ied. The Disturtonce in the Elewrth Ward.—The diffisulty which arose in the Fleventh ward en Sunday afternoon. in consequence of a street preacher acdressing a crowd of pereone, is set fort, on the return of Captain Squire of that police ¢isizict. a8 follows :~ Daniel Parsons—'‘dis- orderly confuct” This man was addressing « large crowd, at the foot of Third street, en the subject of Popsry and otter religious topics, when, in order to preveat any breach of the peace, and in pursuance of orders, I brought him to the station house, when the entire crowd followed. Most of them ere: orderly and well disposed, but few became excited, and, letting their veal outrun their dircretion, attemptel to rally the erowd to a rexcus. Several of there persons were also arrested and broughtin, Justice Woud was rent fer,in complicnce with the wish of many respectable citizens, who soon appeared, and after an examination into the matter, releaved the par ties from custody, with admonitien to abstaia from herings of that kind at prevent, while the public mind much excited His Honor the Mayor and Chief o Police, henring of the disturbance, were also present, aud approved the course of Justive Weod. When the prisoners were released, the people who had assembled left paace- ably, anc all was qniet, and so continued througuoat the evening Arrot of @ Pilicy Picket Sclvr Yesterday, Sergeant Fider, of the Second district police court, arrested Michael Rock, ona werant issued by Justice Stuart, wherein the accured stands charged with selling luttery policies to John T. Ruggles, of Xo. 195 Mott atrest, who makes the ccmplaint, and sets forth in hia affidavit that, on the 6th instant, he went to the policy shop kept by Rock, at No 109 Mereer street, where he purebased the tickets of the accured, ‘The police ofticer, on maxing the arrest, seized ali the books and evidences of the illegal business, and con d them to the court, and the magistrate,commit 6d Roch to prison to await a further examination, Lifrauding a Tailor —Oticer Moore, of Sergeant Elder's rqnad, yesterday arrested a young man named R Red eld, on s charge of obtaining a coat valued at $22, from Jel D. Berber, No, 634 Broudway, under the following ch cumstances—Redfield orderod the coat, and, when requested It to be reat to hiv lodgiug house, at No, 160 Kart Kighteonth street, Aleceater , ofl, Mr. Barber's porter, on the 22d of Novem yer was rent heme with the ooat, with instructions to get the money for tharame before delivery. Redield took the coat Trom the por'er, sud made en excise to leave the room {01 ent, and absoonded with it. On thefacte, the magintrate beld it to be ® constractive larceny, an) iced @ warrant for Redfield’s apprehension. Jastio pe committed the acoused to prison for trial, in defaul: of bail, THE RUPRO-TORKI<@ WAN —THE NAPOLEON DYN AST? WhET A Cay wey bring forth. The Russians appear to be daly treme berion Chel forces, amt it ie not expected We may S2peet LO rem ive eooounts @Riem shall three frevh Cifoulie (the way of the already aM oot perplexed diply mations corepation will come of om the 20h ef January, the aa~ miverrery of thelr Me je ties’ wedding Te these whe arg BOt Reeurt med ‘o the Merieam mode I will be diftewe thir sature, From ibe bigest te the lowest permoeage the heart ofthe el'y im 6 Gutter, Bren entiquartaag exert Lhemarives to Gerster precedent for the minutes’ Cotalls of the eeremons—ibe priesthood, fom the Arak- Cf their importases an) mclets ead tellers Hteraly lose Charles (hs Tenth to receive the oli of amolmtummmt itl Our Parts Correspendence. TUE BOURBON ORLEANS Fi TIVITIRO—"RADE IN PARIS —T TUR Dance, D miltery epeetions Any moment, therefore, * Osce mare vemer prevelly thet the long expected Lo conceive the waporte sor (hat le stacked te matters af biabop doweward bw giiee up with the eormeleus pride theirrenser, The earring: which eomveyed the ID tated ip the vepersble ainies of Notre lame bas hero mont lab orately reGtied, vile of rarest febrie aud heew, and Glee pret, an exquisite ince have dome thelr work witnim, while without (he eq: pages are aneh @ Cleese of gold that ro won‘er # grpirg crowd often imaging that tho barquet of big: efor comtiety of select merormus of the precious me'ais, cocasioonlly cilated with mother of peark No doubt it is sad deppotmtenent te the ehief sate- Ter of all (his am.remeat that, oo such am coeasion, he cannot present te ble umge eubjects am heir te hie aame and Jineege The fates. wtill true to their ancient primet~ ples, will pot give a!) things toatl mem They have gives to Lovis Napoleon «rer ./ntioa as astonishing as unhoped for-they have giver hin tw sl ep trarquilly te his bed ater the most estraordinary coup dca! which Bistory reeorle: Dut the lovely pertmer of (bat bed with all her sharms, acks 016 grace—the title of “mother,” Gooper, te his beautiful nowl of the * Breve,” makes Jacques place hia boat, for better security, im the track of the moenlight-— ard Napoleon conceals the bitter disappoimtment of kis heart by calling the werld to witners, while le barbarie xplendcr he receives on bis brow the imperial disdem of his uncle, which, ae before, may Cescend to ne lineal tm heritor. The Empress, it is row uaderttood, Cos sot em joy a state of constitution to give ber husband any rea- sonable hope that bis wishes will be gratified in this re- spect, and, trifling ar such a circemstance may sppear ‘a land of freedom like America, it is not without interest, as relating to the future fate ef France sed the conse- quent repose of Earepe Paris, generally, has enjoyei » peoullarfimm unity fro thore accidental confagrations which, is ether capitals often entail such terrible destruction on life and property’) ‘The custom which prevails, of many families, in different stages, imbabiting the same house, does sppeor at first the most favorable one for seouri against these fearfal visitations; but practically, the tem works well, and the dread of fire which #0 often ‘a topic of interest im other citien Is seldom alteded te Lately, however, the good citizens have reesived of a nature caloulated to remind them that their of living devolves upon every inhabitant mere than mary rerpensibility, imasmuch as @ eonflagration fairly breaking owt can seldom be extinguished uatil siderable property has bees sacrificed, and but too quently mapy lives -lost. One imatanee of this, many others, has lately occurred in the quartier St. tin, where houses and goods have beem consumed to amount estimated at upwards of 23.000 franes, and seve ral human beings have fallen victims to the fames. A performance has just taken place for the benefit of sufferers at the theatre of the Porte St. Martin, asd subscription was made among the audience whieh @d one thousand francs, The emperor and empress, it must be owned, never permit occasions of this xind pass unnoticed, have sent # donation ef 6,000 francs) while large contributions are falling in from other quarters) But another representation has occurred for the sam charitable cbject at the Theatre de la Gaietc, the title o which is, “Les Cosaques.’”” The piece is of » deside Borapartist and impsrislist character, and seasoned wit! mspy sharp and humorous hits at the Bourbons, and a| it happens to have made its debut exactly coincident wit! the reported fusion of the elder and younger b: anches c this iliustrious but ill-starred family, a more thas wus fensatien has been produced. Apropos of this fusion, whish is now, for the nonce, th subject of interest in the Paris circles—the Bourbons have the misfortune of never doing the right thing at th right time and place, have, atall events on this occasior cetermined that what is done shall be done dramatically end with something of the chivalrous poaring of thei ancient lineage. It appears that the preliminaries « ‘this interesting conference were airanged at Vienna b M. le duc de Levin on the partef the Dac de Chambor( and M. Reille, chef d’Escadron, and son of # French shal, cn that of the Ducde Nemours. One of the Duc d Chambord’s carriages was despatched to Vienna Ret stadt accompanied by the Comte de Monti, and th Duo de Nemours was thus escorted to Frohsdorf, wher standing at the dcor, uncovered, to receive him was th Due de Levir, by whom he was at once attended towarc the salon of the Duc de Chsmbord. Thin personage, su; rounded by bis assembled household, was seated, iu pectation of the importent arrival, and immediately o hearing the approaching foc tateps of his guest rose, an! at once hastening to the coor, welcomed the Duc de Nv mours with both hands, exclaiming at the same tim: “ Mon Cousin combien je suis heurcus de volrs Vonne visite : The reply of the Duc must have left’ th future(?) King of France nothing to wish for. “Itia I, he said, “My cousin, who had cause to felicitste my, self that Iam this day able to accomplish that which | have eo long desired. Ideslare to you with my who heart, ard with the heart of my brothers, that ia Franc ‘we no longer recognize but one royalty, which ia yor own, ard but one throne, on which soon we hope to # seated the elder branch of our House.” There wor were pronounced with great emphisis and feeling, ay produced a visible sensation smong the numerous pe fons who were prevent, and, after whish, the Duc: Nemours was le¢ by his ceusin into an adjoining cabing| where they remained in con‘erence for nearly an hou It is unders ood that affairs of vital importance to the caure were there discu wed, and t» the entire satis‘acti of both parties. On reentering the salvn, d countenance of the Orleanist duke was that of] || perron who had obtained at length the object of long ad anxious search, and turoing rourd and addressing hij) self to the accem bled company—I consiler this, gent§| men,” Le raid, “to be the happiest and proudest day my life; I remember, too, that it was on the annive: of this day that I had the honor to be appointhd Colo: by Charles X,” anc then accosting the Baron de —, w || through gocd and iil fortune, bad been remarkable for fidelity to the elder branch, he ssid, “I am too happy, te Ba: on, to corgratulate you on your unwavering Hancy and at-achment to a royal honse.” A‘ theexprd sion of his desire to be preser tec to the Dutchess de Chad | vord, he was introiuced to the lady by his cousin, was grace, forgiveness and perfect reconciliation. Oat. Due de Nemours requesting that he might be allowed | present bis Ducherse and her children, ve ments were msde that thin domestic episode shor take plece st Vienna, whither in a day or two Duc ard Duchesse de Chambord repaired, to ret the visit of their long estranged cousin. © hospitalities at Frohadorf, on a Jnrge scale, are io t place, when the fated calf will doubtless be killed eaten, to celebrate the return of the prodiga) son of Jeans, The Duc de Nemours, who, by the way, te also ported to have addresed hia cousin in the follow words:—"I have now, I hops, thrown a bridge over gu'ph which has too long separated us, over whic! trust, it will be, that one day we shall find our way by to Fran :¢’—requested one of the aides de camp to forw the exact details of this interview to Gens, Lamoria: Chengarnier, and Bedeau. It would seem that thiv fu event, famous in the estimaticn of the chief parties, been ma'nly brought abeut by the agency of M. Brag’ Guizot, Mo'é, and'Salvandy, and, that M, Thiers has nothing to de with it. Nothing of what Ihave just now marrated has fo its way into the Freoch prints, nor at the date at whi I write, Nov. 26, han it appeared elsewhere, though) ench details are matters of no ordinary interest, it ean} be lorg before they will be in the possosinn that press whick rejoicas in freedom on the othor of the channel, The subject here will contiane to ug atiention for a day or two, but no more. The Hons: Poufbon is doomed, and thia fusion, on which, ay w: the regency was anmounosd in 1848, men of ail pao erled “trop tard,” will probably be attended with ae ti result as was the expedient in 1861 for puttiog up Prince Ce Joinville as future President of the now def republic, Of both the elder and younger branch it 1 be eatd that thereis in the home of their fathe ger man than any of their house, ‘Kus little business bas, however, for a moment