The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. | SANES GORDON SENERTE PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, Berioh MW, CORNEA OF FuLHeN AND Nassau Bs re a E DAILY AGRALD 3 osnte por cop wt rer ee HERALD seery n das os 4 Par oR, Or SE per cnet ortecim, sad Wt fa soy part of the nt "both to tactude portage ET, LETTE. ‘mitt for Sustacr, None, of with 4 Deements tobe port paid, er the pow ot will be daduated jrow | Be y remitte, VOLUNTARY CORREA! news witetted from any ye berally paid for. Jon F PARTICULARLY M2QURSTED 7 7 vs. WO NOTICE taken ef anonymous communications, We do and ¢! p thos ejected. MEO TRINTING csecuted ith neatne, sheaymese, th. BOWERY THBATRE, Bowery—Uncrz Tom's Can. BROADWAY THEATR«, Brosdway—Two Buzianrs— A Minsuxwens Niout 6 Dream, BURTON'S THEATRE, Ouswsere sioat— 2 Minsumusr Nrewr's Dream Uvrorx Sam. MATIONAL THEA’ Bammer. svening—U atham steset—Afiornoon— ADIN. he adway—Be cunt : RATRE WALLACK'’S TH onway—-Bact Aare Worm am KUMDEA AKENICAN MUSEUM—A‘torac: Wiuzs’ Boy. 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Bho Naw Youn Warxsy Ventre, California edition, oon- Baining the latent intelligence from all parts of the world, {WMI be published at ten o'clock this morning, Bingle copies shxpence. Agente will please send in Qheir orders as ently as possible. whe The news from Europe is important. It is very important, All Europe is in a state of feverist anx lety. Western Europe is awaiting the answer of tho Ozar to the ultimatum of the Porte. The Ozar holds CWS. ¢ acquiesced in the extraordinary transactions eon. | figures that so far from pa ying the interest on nected with the sale of the school lands at fifteen the new inyestment, that, would necessarily re- | coats per acre. From the tenor of the despatch it H quire to be drawn from * ,he pockets of the people red that either the purchasers of this domaia | by a direct tax, then, qe think, shrewd busi or else the stockholders in a railway company are 0a | 114) would entertain a strong istic ans Aeaents the direct and speedy road to fortune. | seanenhnee Che: near? at pe } Among the important legal intelligense published | MCUITINE debt. f to-day, are reports of the arguments of counsel in the | W hich of these two pictures corresponds United States District Court in the case of Alex” | With the present gtate of the New York canals ? ander Heilbronn, claimed by England as a fugitive | Se far as taxes are concerned, our State debt | from justice for an alleged forgery; careof H. H.Day | is $24,000,000, or about $8 per head; a round sun, Boot we shall be told that this debt stands upon a basis of works that are worth more monty, and therefore ought not to be vs. the New England Car Spring Com any; various | decisions in the Court of Common Pleas, do. The attention of politicians and all others who desire to keep posted up in the affairs of the nation, coed a debi This beings us to the second is directed to the history eleewhere published of the | ig ae pg sn Genreia, | POwt Are the canals worth the money they eiboaiete fable end psa’ ie oe ext: estimated at and is their business flouris)- Lessons get b§ agaist | %.g and on the increase? A glance at the ful- ‘oe contain & large amount of | lowing table of the tolls on the State canals } for the last four fiscal years is perhaps tle best answer to the question :— Tolls. «$3 486,172 recapitulate the herd: 1850 Letters from Vers Cruz, Gibraltar, Cxracoa, Pe 1851... 3,772,153 nambuco, Erie, Karrisburg, Boston, Geergia, Gaivas- | 1 317915 gton; Pedlic | 185 «+ 3,168,546 Thus since 1850, while the produce of the C | West has been increasing with enormois | Huwanity o tern Hog Packing: Com | strides, and the carrying trade growing with ‘t, Merine, Miscclianeous Iatelligeace; | the revenue from the canal tolls has actually Meriality Report, & fallen $300,000. The cause of the decline is quite obvious. The canals compete with three rail- roads—the Erie, the Central, and the Northern— for the Western trade. When the first railrosds were built the State tried to protect the canalsby prohibiting the carriage of ireight on railways; but of course this ridiculous enactment soon geve way beneath the pressure of public odium. A fair field was then opened for com- petition; and the result, which any child could hgve foreseen, has beena gradual approach on the part of the railways towards a monepoly of the carrying trade. Their superiority in poiat of speed was sure to make the rivairy no rival- ry at all. Accordingly, in the four fiscal years ending in 1853, we find the freigh:s of goods earried over these three railroads to have in- creased from $1,122,432 to $4,.500.000, rather more than 400 per cent. It is pefectly obvi- ous that every year will accelerate this rate of progression. Increased traffic wil enable the railroads to lower their rates of freight, and in course of time, they will possess over the canals ihe advantage of superior econemy as well as infinitely superior despatch. When this comes to pass, where will the reveuue fom canal tolls be? No fresh outlay for widenng, deepening, lengthening or completing tle canals could, prevent or even impede this result. A hua- dred millions thrown into ther bed or oa their banks would not alter the .act that the rail- | lia and An Important Htection om the Fifteenth Shel the Stee Run into Debt Ten or Pwenty Malitons More? ntion appears to be paid to the election which is to take place in this State on the fifteenth of this month, We hear no H sement, no canvas fer votes, ond son with elections for State offi- yr even Governor or Pri nt, the one now at hand is paramount in importance to the peoole of Mew York. There is 2 souad reason for the anomaly. Particular care has ,been taken by those who have arranged the affair to muiie up the real issue in unintelligible words aud obscure phrases, so that very few of those who wilt be called upon to vote will have any idea of the principle inyolved, or the problem proposed for their solution. They will be told that on 14th and 15th June 1853, the Legisla- ture, sitting in extra session, passed the follow- ing ameuément to the constitution of 1846:— Substitute for section three of article seven, the following: — After paying the said expenses of collection, sn- perintendence, and repairs of the cana's, and the sums appropriated by the first and second sections of thi re shall be appropriated and set ul year, out ef the surplus revenues a's, asa s und, a sum sufficient to forest a and extinguish the with n eighteen yer { #oy loau made ons if te said sinking fand shail ent to redeem any part of the priacipal not be st at the stipulated times of payment, or to pay any part of the interest c ed, the such be pro- said sinting fucd. After com yvisivos, there shall be nés, into the treasary tate, tro hun di the 3, to defray s of goveramest. The re- means to satisfy an ‘ed on the credi with the foregoing d annuaily out ct eaid rev roads are a swilter and may »¢ made a cheaper means of conveyance tor goals. Finally, with the evidence before our eyes, first, that the canal revenws are diminishing, the peace of the world in his hands, All now de- pends upon him. His refusal to : e to a renewa of negotiations on the new basis, plunges Earope and Asia, and, perhaps, America, ia a general war—a struggle such as th never saw—a battle, ot giants. An unfavorable answer from Russia isa for the bombardment of Sebastopol and the tempo- rary destruction of Russian power on the shores of the Black Sea, of immediate ag zressive operations in British India, and the opening of the great Haro- pean campaign. ilence the auxiety to hear m the Czar. Hence the n, lustuatiag condition of the English money m Hence the inereased demand for Amer ies. Waat will the Czar do? We hope to know by the Paettic, due to- morrow from Liverpool. Apart from the importance of the advices respect- in, th state of the flour mar. kets of Europe is of gre menttous. The news by the Arabia reports anot’ > in breadstufts. The comparative quotations by the last steamer are as follows:— ing the © rm que c advan ARANTA 49 0850 é 50 0461 6 ght the news does not appear t a careful perusal will show Europe is in @ crisis. , brought by the steamer ds to the 19th ult> from the capital, p 24th from Vera Cri The most important point of the int fence is the sub- Ject of the introduction of colonists, which is being discueced in Mexico. Oxe of the journais of the capital announces that @ vraid planis about to be brought forward for importing colonists from Asia, and aucti that Germany will probably fuinish this des! Santa Anna was about to Procced to his palace of the State of Vera Cruz, where he was to be ac by two mem: bers of his cabinet and a mw ry forte of between two and three thousand men. The Mexican papers attach some crodit to the report that a clause has been embodied in the recent Gadsden treaty, lating for the jgyment of au indemnity of sov muillions of do! tiers who hare There ia no later news froy his corps of ali that the Me: h jour! the San Francisco paper: The consideration o! will be resumed in the United States Senate tod ay that measure being the special order until disposed of. It having been a Senators are in favor of th apprebensi concerning i the greatest anxicty € tive to the Although at fir of much import , that it is full of intere: The news from M Texas to New Orle the my usteros, he subject in the House, bers o ature are ia the x to which thay have allic Measure proposes to x classes in accor cal meaning of the eyes of not ouly their but_of the entire nation movemen' desire to ¢ Jon Van Baren 1 derstand a highly been opened by h. from Alal the Neb: makes quite a me against the bill, what the royal « Northern democrac m with Col ia, wh sses his conviction of the vact dilfere n@ from ** principle” and from “ pique, reply of Col. Clemens is represented to be d bed for its patriotic manliness. Friend J ver much annoyed at the dictation of the administratio, in drawing up and scnding to the Tammany Com mittee resolutions for their adoption, aud ah voted against. Paul R. George, wh Pierce's friend, is also represented to as the Prince at the course of the admiaistration. Yesterday being the Sabbath, we of course re eeived but little news by telegraph. Onr Albany despatch, however, contains some interesting infor- mation relative to the squandering ef the schoo! fand, to which we would direct special attention Bx Copptrolicr Wright, it wil be peep, denigs bay , in each al year, be applied to meet repriations for the enlargement snd comple- n of the canals mentioned in this section, until the d canals shall be completed. In eacn fiscal year ier the refhainder shall be diyposed of in such a manner as the Legislatare may direct, but shall at no time be anticipated or pledged for more than in advance. The Legislature shall an- ing the text four years, aporopriate to tof th rie, the Oswego, the Cayu- and secondly, that lust year the Legislature was forced to raise a sumof $1,200,000 by a tax partly required to makeup their deficiency, we cannot possibly discover on what grounds the advocates of the new loat expect the canals to pay the interest. They cannot pay the in- terest on 000,000, though their railroad er AD - competitors are only in their infancy; how on ement of the Iteks of the Champlain canal, | earth are they to pay the izterest on $34,000,- f 000, when instead of three we shall probably have half a dozen railways leading from the west to the seaboard? » rebuild them, a enin not exceeding tvo hunéred and fifty thousand dollars, The remainder of the revenues of the canals for the eut fisea ear in whch such appropriation is ma er aha Mo cntied S rote ot perlty Lied rials : Ji does seem to us, therefore, that the people and if the same sha'l be deemed’ insufficient, the L ot New York would do well to think maturely t the same session, provide fur the Getisiency bz The Legislature shall also bor- row one million five hundred thousand dollars, to » holders of the canal certifica d ovisions of chepter 51, the amount receiv islature shall over this matter befure they ratify, by their vote on the 15th, the action of their Legisla- ture. We have endeayored to lay before then the simplest and most elementary view of the i : eo no iuterest to BS question; believing that the deductions & , shall be paid on such certifi by sions of phat twelve of this article, suggests are quite as reliable as thor every law for borrowing money to be submitted to | which flow from high philosophical 1 le, shall not apply to the logas authorized economical considerations. Still, it cm hardly fail to occur to the minds of many tha; in proposing to siuk more millions in thes: canals of ours, the Legislature is overlooking s recognized law of commercial economy. Canak are only a step in the seale of internal comma. nications, They rank above post roads; as being more rapid, more convenient and cheaper chan- nels for the transmission of goods. But they rank below railroads for precisely the same reasons. When a country is dependent on com mon high roads for the conveyance of her goods toa market, she does wisely in running in debt tc build canals. But whew all her available private capital is invested in constructing communica tions of a higher order—viz., railroads—to pro, pose to lay a tax of three dollars a head on her population for the purpose of going backward: and embellishing her useless canals, is exactly like throwing one’s purse into the water, be cause one’s pocket book has already fallen in. We are sorry to say it—but we must speak plainily—and we will therefore add that we have no doubt these views are shared by the Legislature at Albany which passed the amendment in favor of the loan, They are so self-evident, in fact, that one would need to be very, obtuse to fail to see their accuragy, We are convinced that the Legislature has passed a law of whose absurdily it is amply aware, and simply because it will place in the hands of the anti-slavery majority a sum of ten millions, wherewith to open the polities! campaign. We are now formally notified that it is their inten- tion to run Seward for Governor, and we can readily guess that the next Presidential election will not pass without some active par. ticipation ow his part. For these schemes the anti-slavery men want money. The canal com- pletion scheme is accordingly devised; and if the people of New York vote in the allirmative on the 15th, they will pocket ten millions, quite a handsome fund’for their purpose, and which sable them to wield un irresistible amount of corruption. Shall we be taxed ten more millions for this? vis section, No part of the revenues ef the ca- ,or of the fands borrowed under this section, shall be psid or applied upon, or in consequeace of any alleged contract mace under chapter 455 of the laws of the year 1851, except to pay for work done rials furnished prior to the first day of Jane, ‘dhe rates of toll on persons and property transported on the canals shall not be reduced be- low those for the year 1852, except by the Canal Board, with the concurrence of the lature. All ‘acts for work or materisls on any caaal, shall be made with the person who shall offer to do or pro- vide the same at the lowest price, with adequate se- curity 102 th rmance, This amendment having been again passed by the new Legislature, a few days since, in eccordance with article 13 of the constitution, the only remaining formality which is required to clothe it with legal and binding force is a yoteof the people. Accordingly, an act has hany, declaring that the sense en upon it on the t will devolve upon us on that whether or no it shall become a law t this function of suffrage, lect in the community will ation of the above ous. The bulk of ess that yo to the Legisla- orrow ten millions of dollars for the tate canals. Such however, is the simple truth, The whole pith and mean- \ vote affirming the proposed amend- vill be an emphatic expression of willing- he part of the people to tax themselves st ona fresh debt rred for the purpose the canals, In the question to which we shall or no, will be simply t consent to ran the of dollars, in and do you or do iv y to amendr its real ture tc completion of t d completing tion man is called upon da’ y course of his afai o a simple compariso pective benefits to accrue from the con- 1g from a new indebtedness. Ii ion arose in the ¢ party to whom it twoitems, and decid H Ity. If it appeared that tively free from debt, Sroor, Pranon Movement 1 I LVANTA— We see it stated that a movement ison foot in Pennsylvania with a view of securing the elee- tion John W. Forney (now Clerk of the House of Representatives) as the next United States Senator from said State. This is a cu- ece of business. and suggestive of many reflections. But upon the whole, we rather think that Forney is the very man to suit the exact standard of Pe ig pect of their be ty. The State wh additional expenditure | ral tax upon whisk fonal traffic and | ry, r dangerous compe” d that the enterprise was no pr for the r he treasu- up in arms ag government of George Washington—the State which only fell back from the } ppt policy jof repudiation becanse it had not the moral courage to faee the ydney Smith—th ¢ which sus s the lawless rioters for diminishing would nece nal rece that no # to be feared, ar allibly pay the 1, then the pi ed outlay would pre- light; if interest on the sum If ina very favorable n the | ta thread and r taxes were alren peanuts at Erie, would be ye ly repre- household badget, if the canals were, | sented in the United States te by such a as a comm me, the next thing to a | monas Forney. If the State, a nthorities, failure, ift ness was visibly decreasing, | its politicians, or any of its democrat if there Was no guarantes that increased ex | men, should get into trouble at W igton, the pendifure would ensure increased trae cr | author of the letter to his friend Goo. Roberts Lally competition, if it was domongtrable in | would be the man, we think—the very man for spoils- the emergency, ifsubornation of perjury would do the basiness. Forney. then, is the card for Pennsytvania. Get the democracy fuddled on whiskey, get up another whiskey insurrection, keep up the peanut and parched corn rebellion at Erie, and amid the smoke and the uproar Forney may be run into the Senate. In view, therefore, of the probable election of Forney, we call upon Congress to remove the mint to New York without delay. Pennsylvanias, Forney is your man But don’t forget Ja- meison, and don’t forget the whiskey. The Guelphs and the Stuarts—An Historical - Parallel. The Albert policy, as it is now termed in England, has aroused such a storm of indigna- tion amongst all classes and parties through- out the country, that it is likely to lead to the most serious consequences, In influencing the Queen to exercise a pressure upon her cabinet to further the interests of the Russian Auto- crat, and in secretly carrying on intrigues with the German powers to thwart the de- clared views and sentiments of the English people, the Prince Consort has not only com- mitted a treason against the State, but he has compromised the interests, and perhaps the safety, of the Crown. He must have read ill the lessons of history, or he would have de- duced a warning from the parallel furnished by the conduct and fate of the Stuarts. It was this leaning towards foreign in- fluences, more perhaps than their religious bias, that caused all the troubles and finally led to the expulsion of that unhappy family. It is an error to suppose that his attachment to his faith was the priocipal cause of James’ misfortunes, for at one period he had no more zealous defenders than the Protestant bishops. No; it was the besetting sin and tendency of his family to create civil discords, and then call in foreign aid to repress them, that, manifested more strongly than usual in him, engendered distrust and dislike in the minds of his subjects, and ultimately led to his ejection, or rather flight, from the kingdom. The bigotry of tke epoch was not as intense as at this distance of time we might be disposed to conclude from the closing events of James’ unfortunate reign. It should be recollected that the Reformation itself was as much a political and social as a religious revolution. It was not merely against the ecclesiastical abuses of the Church of Rome that the efforts of such men as Luther and Cal- vin were directed, but against the despotism ot its system, which chained down the aspirations of the human mind, and rendered it the willing instrument of political tyranny. In emanci- pating themselves from its trammels, England apd Scotland were, therefore, naturally at- tracted by a community ofsympathies towards those States of northern and western Germany, which, like themselves, had succeeded in throw- ing off the Papal yoke. It was obvious that the true interests of the English people lay in the close and steady maintenance of those friendly relations, in order that they might pre- sent a counterpoise to the influence which the Church of Rome still possessed in France, -Aus- tria, Spain, and other parts of the Continent, Itwas by keeping this fact steadily in view that Elizabeth secured the confidence and affec- tion of her subjects and consolidated her power. Unhappily, the accession of the Stuurt fa- mily to the throne of England had the effect of completely altering that policy, for their family alliances, and intimate relations with the court of'France, rendered them at all times ready to subserve its political objects. During their reigns the English court might be said to be the centre of Freuch intrigues, and the peace of the kingdom was perpetually dis- turbed by French intermeddling. In short, their whole policy seemed marked by an utter contempt for, and hostility to, the political as well as religious prejudices of their people. Hence the troubles and discords in which they were always plunged—the tragical end of one monarch—the expulsion of another, and the final exclusion from the throne and kingdom of their whole race. In inviting William of Orange to assume the reins of government, the English people took care to guard against the evils from which they had suffered, by selecting a monarch whose pre- vious antecedents insured a steady perse- verance in that line of policy which -had ren- dered the reign of Elizabeth so glorious and eatisfactory to the nation. Actuated by a na- tural resentment against the French king for his interference in their internal affairs, they granted enormous sums to William for the prosecution of the war against him. Under Anne and the first and second George, a similar line of policy was pursued. The English nation, animated by the spirit of liberty, endeavored to repel not only every thing like foreign intor- ference, but to humble despotism in every part of Europe. Up to this period we have seen the Protestant powegs of Germany linked closoly in sentiment and feeling with the Eag- lish people, and maintaining a firm front to the common enemy. We are now compelled to re- verse the picture. The rapid developement of the resources of Russia, under Peter the Great, and the recep. tion of that country in the acknowledged cate- gory of European nations, exercised an import- ant influence on the external relations of the Protestant Courts of Germany. They became sensible of the growth of a power which wouid eventually overshadow, and perhaps absorb their own, and they felt it necessary to culti- vate its good feeling, even at the expense of their ancient political predelictions. The ef. fect of this course has been to loosen the ties that formerly bound them to the Eaglish peo” ple, and ultimately to array them on the side of despotism, But we have yet to look on another and stranger alteration in the relative positions of the parties who have figured ia this historical tableau. In little better than a century and a half after the expulsion of the Stuarts for their Romish tendencies and French partialittes, we find a Protestant Queen of England in triguing with the German Courts for the far. therance of the interests of the Northern auto- crat, thus placing herself in direct opposition to the views and feelings of her people, and sell- ing the ally whom she had undertaken to protect. We behold, the equally singular anomaly of Catholic France, the ancient enemy of England, suddenly chang- ing her réle,and acting in concert with its people in a firm resistance to the encroach- ments of despotism. To explain this it will be necessary again to go back a little. The first French revolution was brought about as much by ecclesiastical as by politicul corruption. The influence of the clergy had not only been directed to the spiritual enslave- ment of the people, but it controlled the foreign as well as the domestic policy of the State. By reducing, thérefore, the ecclesiastical power too, to apostolic dimensions, and freeing the State from its despotic and embarrassing embrace, France at once reversed its former position. The religious element ceased to exercise any further sway in European questions, and new principles were thenceforth destined to regulate its political relations, It became evident that the contest must for the future lie between popular principles and despotism, and that England and Frauce, as the representatives of the former, must eventually be drawa together by the bonds of mutual sympathy. Although traditional prejudices, and the political com- Dinations to which the insatiable ambition of the first Napoleon gave rise, contributed for a time to postpone this result, the two nations have been gradually approximating to it tor the last quarter of a century. Under Louis Philippe a considerable advance was made to- wards a close and cordial alliance between the two countries, and but for the unfortunate pro- jects of dynastic aggrandisement, which inter- rupted the good understanding that existed between them, the evils that at present menace the peace of Europe would in all probability have been averted. The seriousness of the existing crisis has, however, consummated a result which the folly or the ambition of the rulers of France had so long retarded. In the uncertainty that prevails respecting the policy and ulterior designs of the French Emperor, it is thought by some that the present alliance between the two countries holds out no prospect of stability. We are of a different opinion. The principles tliat unite them are of a vital and permanent character whilst the empire is but an accident imposed upon the French people by temporary circumstances— like martial law ina state of anarchy—io be removed when the pressure of the necessity that called it into existence has passed away. Tu the many changes and shiftings whichethe history of politics presents to us, we do not know a more siagular revolution of opinions than this. In the time of the Stuarts we find the popular fecling of England acting in close unison with the then liberal tendencies of the German powers, whilst the sympathies and family alliances of the court inclined it to faver the interests of despotic and Catholic France. In our own days we behold the strange spectacle of a cordial union in political sentiment be- tween the people of England and France, and ot a Protestant sovereign intriguing with these same Protestant powers to further the cause of Russian despotism. What can be expected from a line of policy which thus exasperates and arrays the people against their rulers, but the most fatal and disastrous results. In all these fluctuations of opinions and par- ties, the English people alone have played a consistent part. The character of their institu. tions, approximating as closely to our own as in a monarchy is possible, has kept them steadily attached to those great principles, which, throughout all these political changes, have preserved their liberties intact. It is not, therefore, to be supposed that they will now more than at any former period of their history, tamely submit to have their feelings trified with, or their interests poised in the balance with those of a petty German principality. As soon as Parliament meets there is no doubt that both the Prince Consort and Lord Aber- deen will be called to a severe account; and unless the former can give a satisfactory reply to the grave charges that have been advancing against him, we may yet witness in the fall of &nother dynasty a parallel to the fate of the Stuarts. Departure of Byprxt—The readers of Sun- day's Heratp will have learnt how Monsignor Bedini left this city on Saturday, having em- barked on board the steamer by stratagem, in order to avoid any such popular disturbance as was anticipated. Whatever opinions may be entertained respecting the character and ante- cedents of Monsignor Bedini, we think few un- biassed men can look back upon his visit to this country without a shade of regret. De came here, en passant, on his way to Brazil where he was to act as resident minister from the Papal States, Formally accredited to the President by a letter from his master, the Pope, he was, according to the law of nations, enti- tled to the same protection at the hands of our government as any foreign minister resident at Washington. His functions here, it is true, were not those of anambassador. He was only instructed to arbitrate between the bishops and trustees of certain Catholic churches at Buffalo and els*where respecting church property; and the refusal of the latter to be bound by his de- cision naturally terminated his official career. Still, the law of nations makes but little dis- tincfion between an envoy accredited specially as minister resident to a foreign government, and an ambassador pasting through a foreign country to whose rulers@@e is formally introduced as the representative of a temporal sovereign : and with all the light which the publicists afford ns, we cannot discriminate between the position of Mr. Crampton and that of Monsignor Bedini- It is very clear that if the former were threat- ened with personal violence, if the newspapers teemed with inflammatory attacks upon him and if organized bands of men openly avowed an intention of molesting him, it would be the duty of the government to afford him ample protection and to secure his safety by every means in their power. It would be an indelible disgrace to any civilized nation to suffer the passions of the populace to compel a foreign minister to escape from its shores by stealth. This the American government has done ia the case of Monsignor Bedini. He was obliged to slink away like a malefactor ; and this clearly and obviously through the want of moral courage in our government to protect ‘him Mr. Marcy may have been right in refusing him a passport; but formalities apart, it is very clear that the administration were deterred, by the senseless clamor of a few Protestant fa- naties, from dealing with Bedini as they would have dene with any other foreign minister. The occurrence is the more to be deplored as the temper of the Catholic governments of Europe is known to ve by no means forbearing, and we have scores of fellow countrymen now travelling in Austria and Italy, on whom it would be quite easy for a vindictive monarch to retaliate, At any other time we might possibly have defied such apprehensions ; at the present, when war overhangs the whole European continent, and our interests imperiously demand the preserva- tion of a strict neutrality on our part, the pos- sibility of accidents which may draw ys into the struggle is doubly to be regretted. Corr ition oF Taoss Srapagp AND PorsoneD IN Cixcixnati.—We visited late last night such per- sors as bave been stabbed and poisoned within the past few days, and fiad that the family of Mr. Mal- comson are all well and will undoubtedly recover. Mr. French, who was stabbed by Dr. Frank, is now considered ous of er by physician. Mrs. Graham, who was cut by her hnsband, on Water, between Vine ond Walnut streets, is quite low, and as _yet the Indications for her recovery are wifavor- able—Cimeinnat) Gazette, Feb. 3. Tae Scartet Lerrer—GRreat EXxcirEMENT—~ The agitation concerning Gen. Pierce’s Scarlet Letter keeps pace with the new anti-slavery agitation, and in some instances runs ahead even of the Nebraska question. That letter— that invisible letter of Gen. Pierce to the New York Van Buren free soilers of 1848—has al- ready acquired a reputation which throws the Scarlet Letter of Nathaniel Hawthorne into the shade. The two articles which we publish to- dey upon the subject, from other papers, show that the public curiosity tosee that awful letter of Gen. Pierce is spreading far and wide. We are beginning to see tbe fun of it. When shall we sce the letter? Why, oh why, does not John Cochrane give us the letter? Trans ror Joun Mrromen.—aA crocodile weep- ing over the body of a dead lion is a moving spectacle. But we have a more melancholy sight in the grief of the Abbe McMasters as he wipes bls weeping eyes with his white handker- chief, over the fallen John Mitchel, ~ “ Fallen from his high estate.” The Abbe mourns bitterly that the Irish patriot should have so soon and so sigually suc~ ceeded in cutting his own throat. Only think of His Holiness, Pope Beecher, putting down the great revolutionist at a single blow, and the organ of Pope Hughes standing by and weeping over the catastrophe. “This is a sorry sight.” Dramatic und Musical Matters, ‘The pro:perous cacee> of the city theatres seems ta know no intermission, Daricg tte past week all the houses were full every night, and the prospect is equally good for this week. The main feature in our theatrical world, at preeent, is the production of “A Middsummer Night's Dream,”’ which was viry sucoessfally played at Burton’s on Friday, and which is to be given at the Broadway theatre this eveaiog. At the Bron’ way theatre: the play is arranged in three acta; at Burton's it is played in five acts, At both thestres the Mendelsohn music is gives, and et the Broadway Misbop’a duct, ““Iknow @ bank,” in sung. This play has been produced twice be- fore in America—at the Park, in 1841, with Miss Cush. map as Oberon and Mr, Williams as Bottom; and at about the rame tine at the Tremont thestre, Soston, “1% was not very succersfu! at either house. Annexed is the esate the present revivals: Broadway. . Mr. Conway. Mathown Starve'ing the t Hippolyts Queen of t) Am: Naslo- ia: 8-Gonsomheian mn Firrt Fatcy Posceblassom Cokweb At Burton’s the pleos is di-ected by Mr. Hurtum—at the Broadway, by Mr. Thomas Barry, Tze representations will, probably, vary in certain points, but both will be interesting. The public voice has already attested to the Buccecs of Mr, Burton, sud its verdict relative to the Broadway will he given to-night. At both of these theatres, (Burton’s and the Brosd- way,) the pieoe will bs givsn this eveniag, and the rivalry: will result in the good of the public, At Walieck’s theatre, during the week, » variety of in- tererting performances h:ve deen given to full houses,’ Mra, Hoey has played Constance, in ‘The Love Chase,’? three times, aud the houce has been crowded on each Teprecentation, An interlace, by Brougham, called “Love and Murder,”’ han been produced, and successfully played, It is au amasing trifle—Brougham and Mrs, Brougham having the principel parts. It ia to be played this everivg, together wtth ‘A Bachelorof Arta’ and “A Pretty Piece of Buinesa? Om Tuesday “Love ite. Mace”? is to bo played, with Mrs, Hoey as Mrs, Buckes thorne, At the Bowery thestre ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ia stily rupniog to good hous:s, 1¢ will be given again this even+ ing. At the Netionsl thextre (bis afternoon, a plsce written by ©. H. Scunders, of Boston, aud successfully played av Kimball’s Museum. It is called “The Gamblers, or Lost and Won.” Mr. G. G. Prior, Mrs. Howard, Miss 0, How: ard, and other populsr performers will sastain the prin- Gtpel parts, Ip the eveniog ‘ Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? wild be given. The propristors of the Broadway Meragerio advertise the exhibition of @ wonderful dwarf, whois “ four timeo emailer than Tom Thumb,” and weighs only six pounds, At Barnum’s Mateom, Christy’s Minstrels, Wood’s Min- strels, Buckley’s Minstrels, and at Blits’s exhibition, (8tsyversut Institute,) interesting entertanments are an- ef whichwill be found duly set forth under the proper head. At the Howard Atherm2m, Boston, Misa Davenport is plsyirg @ highly suecss:fal engagement. She plays Peg Woftfogica in “Marks and Faces,” this evening. Miss Robe toon is stil as the Maseum, She had a great benoit on Friday. Mrs. Wilkinson, the actrose, has been giving readingo- of Shavsperre at St. Louts. ‘The New Orleans Picayune of Jan. 29, ai —' Mr, B, Ullman, the agent of Mme. ontag, arrived in town yeater* day, from Louisrille, where he lett her giving concert? with success. She commences her Now Orlesas concerto on Mon‘sy, Feb 6, at Oi: Fellows’ Hall. The party cons tists ef Signor Brdiali, Pczzoliei annd Rosco, tho distin- guished baritone, tenor and basso; Camiils Urao, the celebrated young violicist, and Alfred Jail, who, ag ® Piauiet, is not excelled by sny other professor of that in- strumen! now in this country, This is, indeed, ® mga: powerful consert company.” Mise Kimberly, the weli kucwn American actress, is in our city for ® day or two, sojourning at the Pressot’~ House. She hes been pleying for the last six months fae engagements in the Western vities, She plays shortly at Risley’s Varieties, in Washington, She has uot played ia this city sincs she made her debut at the Brosdway> some threa years since; ond it reems no more than rigbt that sho should have another opportunity at the Metropolitan theatre. The Deain sisters have beea playing ia Troy durlog the pest week, ‘ Xr. Collins, the Irish comedian, is at the National theaire, Wesbiogton. Kr. Forrest commences an engagement at the Natioaal thoatre, Warhington, t8is evening, Mica Jalia Dean, it is stated, haa accepted an offer of $20,(00, sna expenses, fF ty nights, to appear in Oall- fortis, and wil » for the gold region early in Marsh.) Mise Laura Keene is doing vary well with the Charles street theatre, Balliimore, One of the papers ea Miro Keene's style combines delicacy and ¢: sion fo & rewarkable degree, snd rhe is ae wel here N bye visy and irre. & Oonm- J herself sod gained host: nalvera. ed by Mr. Whestleigh, who posssasoo Miro Kate Saxcn comes aexs, aad gient ly tesiete by her am vigorous and effective style of Acting. (he genera) gilvct of apy piece in whisk she in ecgeg , sed che and hise Keens seem to revel in the parte which brirg t contact, ent ic Julilen’a tour is gives by & Baltimore correspondent ie 8/€ amonot of ie that had aemaraleted about rence-ed the pylng of the steamer im~ \ hig troupe were compelled per joke even for ; every atep the of the party, ‘or each successive move wae the toracking avd it was only by a Driek al. hat the overture was complet: 1. Jullien perturbation, but directed the movements of the party with bis usual tact, and after all his troables they arrived st Baltimere, (st least the gresier part of them,) ouly dalf an hour beaind the time arrange. for the concert. ‘They have been having Italian opera in Savacash, The News of the Bist wit. enye:—- ‘The oper wae cot annonused fu the For some rv me! Opera WEE Omitted; tae pre as among the meces- sities o the evening, and tue performance was uaequal, fometimes #¢ good a6 was desiracle, and then below me diocrity, Bat on the wavle, we coabt if auy of those present will regres it, the gema of the opers having boem rendered to weil as to mek ap io grest moasare the macy shortocmipgs and omi:stons, We may epesify the ooncind'rg air by Madame de Vriss a8 an itor ia respect worthy her powers—it elicited ‘wo must say in jason, is hn, Q es