The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. FAMES GORDON GENNETT. FROPHIETOR AND EDIZOR. ‘SPFICD H.W. CORNER OF TULPON AND WASSAU ETS os ag oer encase anes idan ince tits ae es AMUSEMENTS THIS EVSNING. BOWERY TERATRE, Bewery—Uvicre Tom's Cam. | BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdwey—My Youno Wire awn My O1v Uneneice /$ THEATRS, Chambers street—A Minsummen THEATRE, Chatham street—Afternoon — gps’ Gasentrk—hveningUncre Tom's Canin. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Soupien's Court: soupy —Bacus.on OF ARTS--Love AND MURDER. BRICAN MUSBU M —Afternoon—Harry Max —Nico1o0 ramiLy--Svening~ fx Orv Beewery. BROADWAY MENAGERIS—Liturrurias Kivo—Mam worn Lapy ann Lavine TRAMED animals. CHRISTY’S AMBRICAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad- way—Ermiorias MeLopizs ®yY CuRisty's Minsrkes. WOOD'S MENSTRELS, Wood's Minstrel Hall, 444 Broad- way—mcoriax MinsTReELcy. BUGKLVY’S OPERA HOU: ‘Ser's Brmormn Orsra Trevrr. 539 Beoadway—Buck- BANVARD’S GEORAMA, 596 Broadwey, Pavorama ov ‘wee Houy Lanp. RBENISH GALLERY, 563 Broadway—Day and Night. BIGNOR BLITZ—Srovvesanr Instrrure, 569 Broad way. ACADEMY HALL, 668 Broadway Pernau's Girt Bx Woerrrone ov Tux Seven Mite Minnon. BRYAN GALLERY OF OBRISTIAN ART- S13 Brond- way. New Verk, Monday, Feb 27, 1854. Matis for Europe. THE NEW YORK EERALD—EOITION FOR EUROPE. The royal mail steamship Canada, Capt. Stome, will Jeave Boston on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpcol. ‘The Wanciy Hunsin (printed in French and English) will be published at half-past nine o'clock to morrow morning. Blugle copies, in wrappers, sixpence. ‘The European mais will close at a quarter to eleven @olook to morrow morning. Buabseripticns and advertisements for any edition of the New Yorx Husatp will be received at the following places fm Barope :— Lavmroor.. John Hunter. No 2 Paradise street. Lompor .... Edwards, Sandford & Oo., No. 17 Cerabill, Wm. Thomas & Uo., No, 19 Catherine street. Pans ....,.Livingston, Wells & Co, 8 Place de la Bourse, OUR ACENTS IN PARIS, FRANCE, We beg leave to state to our readers and patrons in Pasis, and Europe geverally, that Mr. B. H Revoil, 17 Bue de la Banque, Pars, is mo longer connected with the Maw Yorx Hunaxp, either as correspondent or agent. Moser. Livingston & Wells, 8 Place de la Bourse, aro ear only agents in Paria, both for advertisements and subdecriptions. News. Though the drenching rain storm yesterday pre- vented many good Christians from attending diviae worship, and numerous others from taking their ‘wsual Sab>dath recreation on the avenues and in the waborb;, where they are in the habit of repairing once a week for the purpose of inhaling a little fresh air, it had the excellent effect of removing a portiun of the filth from the streets, and has therefore proved an infinite blessing to those who are compelled to re wide within the corporation limits. Cleanliness and parity are absolutely requisite to health and comfort; and as our lecal authorities and their street cleaning contractors seem to have become utterly regardless of the sickening and almost impassable thorough fares which they get paid for keeping in order, or rather disorder, we and they should all be truly thankful for an occasional sf wer, to wash away the impure evidences of their corrupt iniquity. The extraordivary mortality within the past few weeks, notwithstanding the coldness of the atmosphere, Should operate as a timely warning of the dreadful consequences we may expect from the uncleanlines: of the streets, from which disease and death wil! spread to every square in the city upon the ap- proach of warm weather. Glance at the detailed re. port of the City Inspector in another column, and then ponder upon the necessity of adopting precau- tionary measures against sickness during the ap- proaching summer. We have said that the storm Swept off much of the filth; but there is sufficient left to render walking and driving through the streets the reverse of pleasant, as will doubtless be testified to by the thousands who will be called forth by the bright sunshine to-day. ‘The storm caused nearly a complete suspension of telegraphic operations last evening. With the ex- ception of the Magnetic line, which succeeded in working one wire to Washington, no line in this city was able to operate any considerable distance. The storm in the vicizity of Baltimore on Saturday night 1s said to have been the heaviest experienced this season. ‘The rain fell in such torrents as to fairly deluge the eountry. The storm in this neighborhood ceased late yesterday afternoon, and was followed by a dense fog, which, fortunately for navigators, disappeared in a few hours, and left us in the enjoyment of a warm, lear and beautifol starlight night. It is said that one of the chief topics of conversa- tion in Washington is the protest of Messrs. Cramp- ton and Sartiges, the English and French Ministers, against the fitting out of Russian privateers in American ports. The reply of Secretary Marcy has not been made public. It may be possible that he will await the action of the Senate on Gen. Cass’s movement with regard to our foreign policy prior to replying to these ambassadors in detail. While upon the subject it may be as well to quote the resolutions which Gen. Cass last Saturday so strenuously urged the Senate to adopt. Here they are: Resolved by the Sentte ard House of ‘the United States of Americs in Congre: the peor]: of this Usion have ever vis nts the deep eatooncern he renswed intervention of Powars in then faire of countries mot embraced within their borders, tleulsriy whee rach intervention bad edly ¢ Object the repression of geuerous political sentians ats; ‘aad that they will vever permit such an oosurreace upoa ‘thir continent without physical restacce to it, Rerolved, That while the United States of Acsrica Giazoeed to observa in a apirit of good ¢ Saeewr, ail tne wever behold! =1b & Dear this government, and alan copies th De tapemitted to diplomatic genet ia foreign cour $e order that the sentiment and purpore of this r-pu lic way bene'ther miscouceived mor misendersioo in any quarter of the globe. ‘The debate upon the Nebraska, Kansas bill wil! be resumed in the Senate to-day and closed to-morrow evening. On Wednesday Judge Douglas intends to eal] for a vote, and then we shall ascertain how the question stands in that body. It is reported that ex Attorney General Crittenden, who has just been elected United States Senator for Kentucky, has declared in favor of this measure. This ramor Is in @ measure confirmed by his remark that old party Jand marks were fast becoming obliterated, and that the national democrats were daily dra ving nearer the whig platform. This tends to show that he is inclined to endorse the policy of the national demo- rats, who are all in favor of Mr. Douglas's bill, bat gome of who are nevertheless beginning to despair of its success in the House. Ramors are afloat that there are signs of « change in the feelings of the President and his Cabinet on this question, and that it is probable the leading organ will soon deny, by authority, that the bill is an administration measure. ‘We have examined the whole subject, retrospectively and prospectively, in an editorial article. An election for printer, in place of the late Gen. Armstrong, will be held in the House to-day, and much anxiety is said to exist among the various riva candidates, as well as among Congressmen them" selves, relative to the result. It is intimated that some of the free soilers have proposed to support an enti Nebraska man, and thus, if possible, make this election a sort of test vote upon Jadge Douglas's bill. So far as the actual interests of the people are soncerned, it cau make hut litte diftereuce Who se cures the berth, for under the present system of do- ing the public printing i can hardly be expected that the work will either be exoedited or executed | ine superior manner, The imm=nse profits derived | from the public pinting, have for years been em- ployed in sustaining party orzans that ‘have not the ability or energy to stand for a month upon thelr own merits, and until a government printing office | is established we need not expect « change for the better, no matter who is fortunate eneugh to secure the work. The last trial o’ the Gardner cese is drawing to & | close, after hiving oxcupie! the attention of the jndiciary at Washinton for cight or ten wecks. Counsel for he defence made his closing speech last | Saturdsy, ond there és a prospect that the case will be submitted to the jary next week. ‘They are on the point. of} practically testing the merits of the Maine law in Mississippi. The Senate of that State has-emended and passed the probibitory liquor bill from the Hou:e, and all that is now neces- sary is for the lat«r body to conur in the amend- ments. Owing to the furtuvate brevity of the telegraphic despatches, we are to-dsy able to publish lengthy additional and very interesting details of the Eu- ropean intelligence brought by the steamship Eu- ropa. The letters from our Londoa and Peris cor- respondents, besiles furnishing meoy cuvious items not found elsewhere with regard to the war, con- tain a mass of highly entertaining information relative to political, commercial, and general affairs throughout the Continent. The last commersial advices from Earope do not appear to have had any material effect on our mar- kets. The stock operators in Wall street seem to be in a flourishing condition, while the dealers in flour and provisions are gradually lowering their prices— this, too, in face of the fact that money is daily be- coming easier. Upon the opening of the canals and other channels of Northwestern navigation, a few weeks hence, consumers will in all probability be gratified with such a reduction in prices, of flour particularly, as will enable all classes to supply their wants at a moderate rate. James Saunders, Marshal of the Hibernian Socie" | ty, was Jast Saturday sentenced to four months im- prisopment in the penitentiary, for having partici- pated in the riot in the Ninth ward on the Fourth of July. Prior to receiving sentence the prisoner offer- ed an affidavit setting forth that he did all in his power to preserve the peace, which document, together with a full report of the Recorder's sen- tence, will be found in another page. We annex a brief summary of the coatents of to day’s inside pages: Letter from St. Louis relative to the Gadsden country, &c.; Interesting from China and South America; Account of the horrible mur- der of a wife in Onondaga county; The arre*’ of an extensive mail robber in Connecticut; Action the Illinois Legislature with regard to Russia and the Missouri Compromise; a variety of political, com- mercial and miscellaneous intelligence; advertise- meats, &c. ine Tae Nebraska Hill—The Prospects in the House—curious and Importaut Diclo- aur.s. A very general impression prevails, and it is gaining strength every day, that the Senate bill repealing the Missouri compromise will be swamped in the House. Upon this point, from intelligent and well informed sources at Was! ington, we have received some curious and in teresting disclosures, caleulated to give shape and consistency to the prevailing idea in the public mind. The democrats have a majority exceeding eighty in the House of Representatives. Could anything more be desired? Yet, strange as it may appear, our democratic administration has not the confidence of the House, nor has the House the confidence of the administration. Disaffection and rebellion are open-mouthed. where all ehould be harmony and co-operation Both wings of the party in this city have for- mally acquiesced in the Nebraska bill; yet it appears that neither the one nor the other is to be counted upon in the House. The Cabinet organ, after shuffling from point to point, like a weathercock, has become the bold right hand man of Douglas; yet the Cabinet is still sus- pected, Secretary Marcy appears among’ the lobby members for the Nebraska bill and its constitutignal Wofastment;, but still the mem- bers of the House are incredulous... The daily exhortations of the Union meet TAs but mockery from the free soilers, and ot! but suspicions of treachery and double dealing from the inflexible “Old Guard” of the party. Hence we find the prevailing impression abroad, that the Nebraska bill will be swamped in the House, is also entertained by the Cabinet and its active partisans in Congress, notwith- standing the bill is declared an administration measure, and in spite ofupwards of eighty demo- cratic majority. It is understood that with very few exceptions all the Southern democrats and a large proportion of the Southern whigs will vote ‘or the bill; yet it appears that without that little party known as the New York hard shells there will be lacking from five to seven votes—indispensable to the repeal of the Mis- soari restriction. It is said that the opposition democrats from Maine, (to say nothing of New Hampshire,) but including those from Connec- ticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and other Northern States, cannot be overcome except by the aid of the New York hard shells. We are admonished of the stf_ more surpris- ing fact that, even with the co-operation of the New York hards, it has been thought expedient to enter the market to purchase from ten to twelve Northern flexibles, if they can be found, as necessary to eke out a successful vote. But how are these men to be bought? There are only two foreign vacancies of any account un- disposed of, and all the snug berths ia the home department are appropriated. What can be made of the mission to Chili, and the London consulate? Perhaps from eight to ten votes on the Nebraska bill; thus runs our information. A Northern democrat, with the chances of his 1e-election depending upon the free soil senti- ment ot his district, cannot afford to accommo date the administration without some equiva- lent for the sacrifice of his place in the House. But it appears that it is quite possible to secure half a dozen good na. tured fellows for Nebraska upon the pro mise of Chili, and three or four for the Lon don consulate and its estimated receipts of five thousand a year. This will be making the most of a small capital; but desperate exigencies justify desperate expedients; and if the men can ught, they must submit to be sold. When ne is to wash the administration of its slavery accusations, and to place it on the broad constitutional footing of the Nebraska bill, it were folly to be over nice with men who are ope to conviction, and who may be had for a song Admitting, however, that zon votes may be conciliated with the r to Chili and the London consulate, it seems that the support of the ultra nationals is still wanted to render the Senate bill certain and sure in the House. Bat here, again, there arises a most unexpected stumbling block. We are advised from Wash- ington that the“hards” are not disposed to be squeezed out like am orange, and then to be tbyowa awey, They haye ng faith in the admin. istration—no disposition to be used for its com- venience—no faith in the spoils democracy of the Soutb—no presertt inclination to overtook their treachery to their Northern allies in the hour of trial—no confidence in that som of Southern democracy which dances’to free soil music, with the Van Burens and the party of | ‘the Buffalo platform, over the division of the public plunder. Hence, it is said, while the inflexible hards believe in the principle of the Nebraska bill, that they whe count upon using them upon this measure for the relief of the | administration, will be terribly deceived in their calculations. What is the fair interpretation of this extra- ordinary and humiliating state of things? What is the proper solution of ‘this difficulty upon a great constitutional and democratic measure, with a democratic majority in the House un- precedented in the history of the party? Why is it that in the outset of its legislative career, we find the administration thus divested of the prestige and the popularity which brought it into power? Why is it ‘that the democratic party is disorganized throughout the country and demoralized in Congress? Why this ur- gont, stringent necessity for giving the’ Presi- dent and the Cabinet the temporary support of Douglas and the Nebraska bill, to keep their heads above water? Let the Southern seces- sionists and the free soilers of the Buffalo plat- form answer. With these factionists in the highest seats of the synagogue, we cease to be surprised at anything; and the defeat of the Nebraska bill, prima facie, becomes a matter of the highest probability. In addition to the foregoing details, however, it must not be forgotten that during the last week Mr. John Van Buren and some other lead- ing free soil Buffalo democrats have been among the visiters to Washington. Very late- ly, too, Mr. John Cochrane has been there. Nor does the tone of the Evening Post or the Albany Atlas betray any excess of fear con- cerning the real policy of the administration upon this Missouri question. Taking these ele- ments into the general estimate, we are puzzled to determine whether the danger to the Ne- braska bill in the House, from the boisterous support of the Cabinet organ, is more to be dreaded than the confidential meetings between John Van Buren, Colonel Clemens, John Coch- rane, and others, with the Cabinet themselves. Having thus detailed for the information of our readers our latest advices from Washington, we leave the issue between the House and the administration. The Nebraska bill may be de- feated; but it may not be amiss for all parties interested to be informed in advance of the sin- gular combinations which make up the opposi- tion in the House. And the causes are still more curious and interesting. The whole case is the most singular and distressing which has ever been prevented in the history of our poli- tical parti Was Jobn Tyler ever reduced to h extremities? Never. on, Gadsden and Col. Wather—Tae Article of the New Treaty—The Adminie tration Policy. The eighth article of the new treaty with Mexico, as concluded between Gen. Gadsden and Santa Anna, is as follows:— Art, 8. The twa bigh ocntrae'ing Powers, fally imprors ed that under aurploes of peace, and upon the paste of mu'pal good faith and of the rerpect whi-h nations re ciprooally owe, their prosperity will increase, erpecially when from vicinity tneir interests grow to be mingled and identified, and recogcized, the reciaroosl cbiige- tows of eivuized goveroments and the acknowledsed pro visions of tbe lows of mations, agres by proof of that estire soufidence which they tertain, anc of that friendship whish tney device to be an alterable and complete as poasiole, thet when of © ther country @ai! perfect, eal respectively, they will cheerfally co-operate ia theese Geavors to sup cress all such artempte i But to make the thing specific and practical- ly applicable to all such liberating enterpri: as that of Col. Walker, this article. as dicta by Santa Anna and agreed to by Gen. Gadsden, goes on further to say of the high contracting parties," that—. ‘Th ‘tually sed lv obligate themselves in all vegree at veh Waele evterprisee hich. any OTA deen prevented through the civil authorities vefore forma- ston, 10 sid . ‘civil snd military forces, on due . y of the aggres- sons of the citizers and sut jects of the other, and thai the lawiew a¢ventarers may be pursued ani overtaken on the high sea, their elemeots of war destroyed, and the deluded captives neld reepoustole ia their perso, ant that with the merited retribution inflicted by the laws of nations sgainst al) such distarb+r« of the peace and hap piness of contiguous ard frieadly Powers It being onder. stood that in all cares of suscenfol capture the delin quents so captured shall be jacged and pan rhed by the government of that pation to which the vessel capturing ‘the , Conformably to the laws of such nation. 'y belong, This is the cream of the whole matter; but in submitting the treaty to the Senate the Presi- dent skims it all off, and leaves the blue milk of the first half of the article for the satisfaction of Mexico. Inother words, the amendment of the President emasculates the article of all its strength, and virtually turns Col. Walker loose upon Lower California and Sonora, with- out obstruction or danger from the army or navy of the United States. The Presitent’s pro- position leaves our responsibilities and obliga- tions precisely where they are, and we may judge of their efficiency for the protection of Mexico from the coolness with which Col. Wal- ker, and subsequently his reinforcements, equipped their vessels and collected their forces in San Francisco, and from the perfect impunity with which, under the eyes of all our government officials at that port, civil, military and naval, they sailed out on their lawless enterprise. We have already suggested the mystery which is connected with the finances of this Walkerexpedition. We ask again what parties furnished the sinews of war—the vessels, the arms. the clothing and provisions, and the mu- nitions? Not Col. Walker and his men. They had no money, no vessels, no supplies of old muskets and artillery, like George Law. In Gen. Jackson's time a large and unaccountable deficiency occurred in the New York Custom House, which was never satisfactorily explained until it was discovered that Gen. Sam Houston had spent « considerable amount of money de- rived from the United States for the liberation of Texas. And so, in contemplating the finan- cial mystery of this Walker expedition,we should not be astonished at all if some large and mys- terious deficiency were brought to light in the San Francisco Custom House, Navy Agency, or Post Office, within a year or so, Ofcourse, the President has issued his procla- mation against Colonel Walker. But the offi- cial promulgation of the objects of his enter prise and the success of his movements will be calculated to recruit Colonel Walkep’s army by enterprising yolunteers, who might otherwise lack the faith to enlist, rather than convince them of any crime or danger in joining him Adventurous Californians will read the procla- mation with a smile, and they will exclaim, “Oh! this is all gammon—we understand it. Col. Walker is there, sure enough. The Presi- dent saysso; and just as good as says:—‘ Boys, now is your time.’ Who, them, goes to give o lift to Col. Walker? Gold mines down there— fresh ones—and rich old fellows in their haci- cndas, with srpver of horses Aud gatle—righ a Jews—beautifal daughters just waiting for Generar Cass on Our Forzran Pouicy.— Anglo-Saxon husbands. Who volunteers for | The Senator from Michigan is determined to the liberating army of Col. Walker, and for the chances of a rich Spanish senorita for a wife, and for a trip to Washington next summer, with the pay and mileage of a member of Congress? Upper California is used up. Lower California and Sonora are now the card. Come, boys, now is your time.” Such will, most likely, be the effect of the President’s pro- clamation among the Upper Californians; and such, too, will be the practical effect of the Pre- sident’s amendment of the Gadsden treaty touching the filibustering expedition of Colonel Walker. What we desire, therefore, is an answer, “by euthority,” to the following questions:—Who furnished the einews of war to Col. Walker? Is the Presideat’s amendment to the eighth arti- cle of the new treaty intended for the protec- tion or the punishment of Col. Walker? Is the “manifest destiny” policy of Col. Walker any part of the unwritten policy of the administra- tion? Or is it the policy of Gen. Pierce to set up a filibustering republic in one part of Mexi- co, and the empire of “His Serene Highness” Gen. Santa Anna in another part of that doomed and unhappy country? Or is this Gadsden treaty a mere sham, a disguise. a diplomatic stratagem, for hambugging Santa Anna, while the real policy of our administra- tion is in the hands of Col. Walker? Have the claimants on Mexico to be provided for under the treaty any interest in the Walker expedi- tion? Who is the decoy duck, and who is the real negotiator of our government upon Mexi- can affairs, Gen. Gadsden or Col. Walker? Till these questions are answered we are sorely puzzled which of the two to choose as our real ambaceador to Mexico--Col. Walker or Gen. Gadsden. Which is our man? Intsrnationat Coprricut in Vireinia.—It is clear that the advocates of international copy- right have no chance in Virginia. Our read- ers are aware that, if that State is remarkable for anything. it is for the ability and intellect of its periodieal press. The Richmond Examiner is peculiarly distinguished for sagacity, libe- rality and uprightness, In one of its late num- bers, it devotes one of the six or seven editorial columns with which it usually delights its sub- seribers, to the annibilation of the International G@opyright law ; and goes about the work in this wise. First, “4mthors merely reproduce ideas; Macaulay, Prescott, Bancroft, Irving, Webster, Kent and Story have built up their reputations upon the facts and thoughts fur- pished by men long since dead: therefore quoth the Examiner, “the present copyright laws are sufficient protection.” Next, the Examiner argues that “the authors and press of England have constantly labored to render the United States ridiculous in the eyes of Europe ;” and after a few paragraphs of fuany blunders, in which the Edinburgh is mistaken for the Quarterly and vice versa, it concludes that “ piracy and robbery of such men (to wit the British authors) is a justifiable species of lex talionis,” and “is consoled by the reflection that though thousands of their works are sold im the United States, the advantages of their republication enure exclusively to American publishers, printers, binders and engravers.” This is a very pretty confession to make. Without stopping to question the Examiner's Latinity which seems to be on a par with his English, we may safely infer from this, that should the editor ever find his way into this office, his conscience would justify him in carrying off anything he could lay his hands on, as a /ex talionis (to use his own words) for our turning him into ridiculeby copying his nonsense. Kditors engaging in controversies with the Examiner will govern themselves accordingly. Our cotemporary continues, and quotes the works of some half dozen eockney scribblers who have abused America: inferring from the fact that we ought to revenge ourselves by stealing all the British literature we can get. We ought real'y to apologise for replying to such stuff: but does the editor of the Examiner not perceive that by following his advice we should revenge ourselves on our own authors to begin with? It isa great mistake to sup- poee with our Southern cotemporaries that international copyright is a favor sought by England, and to be granted or denied by us. It is an act of justice demanded of the American and British public by the whole mass of writers in the English language. It is very true that a few twopenny authors and newspaper men in England have ridiculed this country, and nar- row-minded Americans like the editor of the Examiner feel very sore in consequence. But what have our own authors done to forfeit their claim to justice at our hands? The piracy of which we complain is quite as extensively carried on in England as here. Are the slan- ders of the Quarterly any defence for the British pirates! The Examiner enumerates a list of Aweri- can works which have sold here. But it for- gets to add how many of these works have been pirated in England, and to what extent the au- thors (Americans) have be@ robbed by the English publishers. It would be curious to as- certain how much money haabeen stolen, in the shape of pirated editions, from Miss Warner, Fanny Fern Donald Mitchell, Headley, Ste- phens, Sparks, Webster, Longfellow, Haw- thorne, and others within the last two years only. We believe it would equal the amount stolen by American publishers from British authors. The question is whether this system of mutual robbery, by which no one benefits but the publishers, and all authors of each country are injured, shall give place to an equitable system of honest interchange. The authors de- mand it as a right: those who argue that their demand ought not to be granted are either dis- honest like the publishers, or incurably stupid like the /.xaminer. Hion Prices ov Provisions ix New Yorx.— We have been favored by one of the most res- pectable houseyin San Francisco with a list ot the wholesale prices of the following articles, which, for the sake of comparison, we place in juxtaposition with the quotations of our own markets:— New Fork, Feb %. San Francisco, Feb 1 Baws, per Ib. Bige. to 8X0. s Che to — 3s, _ 12s, w 19 8e to 123 to 1046, 10 = e. to 12 100, =~ to ide 10e = California is not only the land of gold, but it is becoming the land of cheap living. Whilst the facilities of making money continue as great as ever, the prices of the necessaries of life seem to have been brought down to a point that will enable people to economise it. With us, between the exactions of griping landlords and the starvation prices at which things are arriving, it will soon not only be impossible for the laborer to save anything trom his earnings hut syen to Keep body and soul together, convince the Senate that he is not quite such an old fogy as his detractors pretend. While Mr. Marcy is prescribing the cut of coattails and the color of breeches, Mr. Cass is resolutely buckling to the practical questions of our foreign policy, and cutting Gordian knots by the score. He was the first Senator to insist om Monsignor Bedini’s right to protection at the hands of our government; and though his mo- tives on that occasion were transparent enough, and his account of the Nuncio’s hardships some- what exaggerated, what he said was still sensi- ble, judicious, and to the point. Equally worthy of him are his present exertions to secure for American citizens travelling abroad the right of Christian burial according to the rites of the church to which they belong. We are glad, too, to see that he has drawn the attention of the Senate to the position occupied by Great Britain and France towards this country, as gathered from the recent speech of Lord Claren- don. The assumption by these two Pow- ers of a right to interfere in the affairs of this continent—for Lord Clarendon’s remark implies as much as this—ought not to be allowed to pass without a full and explicit explanation. If the pretensions advanced some months ago by the Western Powers of Europe, in regard to the balance of power on this Continent, are to be renewed, the consequence will simply be that our sympathies in the European quarrel will be shifted from the side of England and France to that of Russia. So long as the policy of the Western Powers in that dispute can be in- terpreted as politic desire to protect the weak from the strong, and te curb the ag- gressions of the ambitious Czar, they will be sure of the sympathies of the American people. But should it appear that their course is merely dictated by a jealous fear of seeing any rival nation surpass them in wealth or power, then we should have no less to expect than Russia from the adoption of sucha policy on their part, and it would become our imperative duty to take the earliest opportunity ot com- pelling them to abandon it. That we could do with the greatest ease in the event of a Euro- pean war. The navy of Russia. however unable to cope singly with those of England and France, could if combined with our own and reinforced with American clippers and American steamers, hold its grou. against the fleets of the maritime Powers. 0 one knows this better than the British Ministers and the French Emperor. Evidences of their apprehensions lest we should lend any aid of this description to Russia are already before us. Nothing short of sheer insanity could prompt the adoption of any other policy on their part than one of trank conciliation and open friend- ship towards the United States. We must have the allusion in Lord Claren- don’s speech cleared away by a thorough explanation of the intentions of the Western Powers of Europe. No better time than the present for a demand for such explana- tion is likely to offer. Had our foreign re- lations been in the keeping of some one of the distinguished men who have from time to time so nobly vindicated our national honor, we could have safely relied on such a demand being made without delay. With Mr. Marcy as Secretary of State, we are sure of nothing beyond the style of dreas to be adopted by our foreign Ministers. FasnionaBie Fouwies.—If it be true that unwonted extravagance and luxury in pri- vate life betoken the approach of a finan- cial crisis and ruinous storms, we in New York had better look to our safety. It is questionable whether at any time the fashion- able classes of any metropolitan city ever re- velled in such absolute prodigality as we now see around us. Neither London nor Paris ever saw the like. Rome, in her most corrupt days, never witnessed such wanton squander- ing of money. At the feast which Petronius describes as the summit of Roman extrava- gance, the master is roused from his slumbers by the breaking of a valuable dish, and some apprehensions are roused among the guests lest the offending slave should be crucified for his carelessness : in the houses of our wealthy men whole sets of Sevres might be smashed without bringing a flush tothe cheek of the master or contracting the brows of the impassi- ble mistress. Money is the last thing thought of in the drawing room. It is enough that Old Potiphar should reach his office by nine, and seheme and plot to get up fancy stocks or se moonshine railways and stock in order to supply the family exchequer with an inexhaustible fountain of wealth. Mrs. Pot and her friends do not care to dive into the mysteries of the Arctic Undermining Company or the Patago- nian Exploding Association, or to speculate on the chances of the stocks remaining marketa- ble, so long as thir purses are constantly re- plenished with gold and dollars. They are born to spend. That is their vocation, and to do them justice it must be admitted that they spend freely. Countless instances of the reckless extrava. gance of “our best society” might readily be adduced. We will take the single article of dress. Weare given to understand by those familiar with the subject that a lady’s dress— lace and jewelry included—such as are worn at our balls, is thought quite common unless it cost @ thousand dollars! That is to say, the fair wearer, whose total stock in life in the way ofintellectual and physical acquirements woul: hardly secure her living, or enable her to edueate a son, spends as much in one evening's folly—for the dress cannot possibly be worn twice—as a grey-haired bookkeeper, or an in- genious mechanic, or a skilful foreman printer can make in his year. Her night's gadding costs society as much as would support a family for twelve months. Still, she does not grudge it in the least. So long as papa or husband pay the bills, she will give fresh orders for jewelry and lace, and encowmgge trade in her simple artless way. There are papas of course who cannot afford to give so signal astimulus to our foreign imports. Some we could mention whom heaven has blessed with wives well-preserved, and a profusion o! daughters, are compelled, with incomes of seve- ral thousands a-year, to withdraw from society toeconomise. Old families, ranking fn virtue of their descent among our aristocracy, decline all invitations from absolute want of means to dress their deughters in modern style. Not that they are poor. Unless a man can be con- sidered poor whose income from rents and in- surance stocks exceeds $6,000 a-year. But simply from the fact that ifa man requires to spend half of that sum fora single ball, he might as well throw a moiety of his income into the Hudson, and make shift with the balance, It is we are informed, quite common among the old Knickerbockers to hear ladios say in seply 4 ap inquiry whether they intend i ¢, to Mrs. Snooke’ ball—“Oh, no! we do not go out we cannot afford to dress!” Extravagance is of course not confined to ball goers. Ball givers have their share. We all know the cost of flowers and other trumpe- ry in general requisition at balls. Most of us have had sad experience of carpets spoiled, chandeliers broken, and furniture generally damaged by the Playful eccentricities of our ju~ venile fashionables in a gentlemanly state of inebriation. But it is not generally known that — reise ger cy one of the most. considerable our domestic imports, which unfortunately is not found in the <asteete reports, is foreign cooks and confectioners. We do not know really whether they are not at this present moment the most important person- ages in the fashionable world. We could spare Mre. Snooks, and Mrs, Jenkins. and Mrs. Stubber— slopa, who give such delicious parties; but how on earth could we do without Foygras the cook or Meringue the French confectioner? They are absolutely indispensable to our social ex- istence. And who are the people who wear these $1,000 dresses and employ Foygras and Me- ringue? Are they sensible, intellectual. honor- able, amiable? Have they even the poor re- commendation of high blood, or hereditary respectability? Alas! Snooks’ father was a joiner, and his own hands have been hardened by the use of the plane. Jenkins grew his own potatoes, and supplied fashionable fumilies with the vegetable when fashionable people lived ia Dey street. Stubberslops painted doors and windows in his early youth, and Mrs. S. mixed the paint. Worse than this, Soooks is a stupid dog-headed clown ; Jenkins is mean and nar- row minded ; Stubberslops believes that Dick- ens wrote Shakspeare, and that the “Midsum- mer Night’s Dream” is the work of Mr. Barry of the Broadway. Respectable. though ignor- ant,*in the humble station in which they began life, they are now snobbish, contemptible and extravagant. Tux News sy THe Evropa—tThe intelli- gence brought by the Europa on Saturday, va- ries but little in its positive features from the previous aspect of the war question. We gather, however, from the statements and rumors of which it is made up, an impression decidedly favorable te the chances of a pacific termina- tion of the difficutty. We learn, in the first place, that instead of being eonfined, as it was at first supposed, to the extravagant and inadmissible “counter pro- ject” which he had presented to the Court of Vienna, Count Orloff was furnished with a se- cond and modified proposition, which he subse- quently delivered to Count Buol, but which the representatives of France and England refused to entertain, under distinct orders from their: governments, This fact would seem to indi- cate that the Emperor’s mind is far trom being positively made up as to the course he wilh pursue, and that the door is still open to nego- tiation. The Vienna correspondent of the London Chronicle appears to write under the impression that the question would be settled . by arbitration, and he states his conviction “ that something of importance, that is to say, something of a peaceful character, was in the wind.” The Czar is said to be sut- fering from a severe attack of bile, no doubt caused by the anxieties and perplex ities by which he is beset; so that it is not improbable that when Count Orloff returns to St. Petersburg he may receive fresh instruc! tions to carry out the objects of his mission—to which the famous counter-project appears, after all, to have been only intended as a mask—on the principle of the Irish agitator, who always inculcated the expediency of asking for much, in order to ebtain part. The Emperor of the French has, as we have stated, written to the Czar to make a last appeal to his good sense; so that matters seem to be generally tending towards the point at which it was always our opinion they would arrive, namely—the adjust- ment of the questions at issue by a general congress of the European Powers. From the seat of war we have nothing of a very decided character. The menaced attack upon Kalefat had not as yet taken place. Some small advantages had been gained by the Turks at Giurgevo and one or two other places, but they did not affect in any serious way the respective positions of the belligerents. The allied squadron were to return to the- Black Sea on the 28th ult., having under their protection two Turkish convoys freignted with men and ammunition for the scene of operations. Tux Gapspen Country.—The letter which we publish to-day from St. Louis, represents, on the authority of Major Stein, of the United States Army, that section of country acquired by the Gadsden treaty, in rather a more -favorable light than usual. But it must be remembered that the Major’s ex- plorations have been chiefly in New Mexico west of the Rocky Mountains, and that his incursions into Sonora were natarally along the water courses, where he could obtain for his men supplies of beef, wood and water. We have no doubt that Capt. Cooke, who went -through the heart of the Gadsden country, from one end to the other, and General Kearney, Lieut. Emory, Prof. Bartlett, Collector Collier, Lieut. Beale, and Col. Fremont, who have travelled the whole journey of the Gila route, describe faithfully the general character of the country, as that of thedesert. The fertile places are like those oases in the deserts of Af- fea, very beautiful and productive, but few and far between—ten acres of fertile land, on the average, perhaps, to ten thousand acres of desert. But for all that it may be worth twen- ty millions os a place of refuge for decayed politicians. Who knows ? Tae Marve Liqvor Law at AvBANy.—The tilt between Senators Brooks and Dickinson on the Maine liquor law project seems to have ter- minated in the discomfiture of the former. A mania for quotations and an overweening de- sire to pour out whatever scraps of erudition he had learnt in the course of his editorial career seemed to haye deprived Mr. Brooks of the advantage necessarily enjoyed by the an- tagonist of sumptuary laws. As often happens, too, with men of superficial attainments, Mr. Brooks had forgotten to read the books he quot- ed, and thus discovered, to his utter confusion, that when he fancied he had been qnoting Solo- mon, he had merely been repeating the sophisms the writer of the Proverbs places in the mouth of the “foolish woman.” These blunders gave Mr. Dickinson an advantage of which he did not fail to avail himself. In trath the vote on this question will not be much affected by the speeches which are made on either side, Near- ly all the members both of the Senate and As- sembly have made their minds up, and the best that can be done will be to hurry it through as soon as possible to make way for other legisla- Hou, I+ will come up egain in the Senate to: