The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1854, Page 4

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THE NEW YORK HERALD—CALIFORNIA EDITION. The United States mail steamship George Law, Captain Box, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at bwo e’clock, for Aspinwall. The mails for California and other part of the Pacific will close at one o’clock. Tne New York Wxexry Heracp, California edition, eon- taining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, ‘will be published at ten o’clock to-mo-row morning. Bingle copies sixpence. Agents will please sendin their erders ar early as possi The News. By a desperate effort yesterday, as it appears by our telegraphic advices from Washington, the Sen- ate resolved upon the experiment to-day to gal- vanize into life again the skeleton of the Gadsdea treaty. Perhaps they rhay succeed; but if they do it will only be equivalent to a recommendation to the President to re-open negotiations with Santa Anna or Almonte upon the new platform. Perhaps the dread of a terrible war with Mexico may fright- en two or three Senators into line, and thus secure the necessary two-thirds vote. Our views upon th Gadsden abortion are more elaborately given in Separate article. The despatch concerning the movements of the English in China contains infor- mation which should challenge the special atten- tion of the administration—that is to say, if it is not Bo swallowed up with party plots and counterplots at Washington as to be totally in ible to anything connected with our commer relations abr The rejection by the Senate of the nomination of secure to Amer‘cans the rights of re‘igiou: worship | abroad, took occasion to make some remarks simi- ‘Be Oun FoRxiox Conuasron- | Pavi Jones—Hor Conn | 506 Broadway —Pawonasaor [/ Benjamin F. Angel, as Consul for Honulula, is | doubtless owing to certain statements of the hard shells relative to his course at the Baltimore Conven- tion. It is said that Mr. Prior, formerly an editor of the Washington Union, in the columns of which he abused this paper without stint, is to be rewarded for his zeal by the appointment of Minister to Turin, in place of Mr. Daniels ; but as there seems to be some uncertainty as to whether the place is yety ef cant the report may be premature. Letters from Mr. Buchanan state that the convention between this country and Great Britain were progressing fa- vorably. The coasting trade of that country has been thrown open to all, with a view to induce our govenrmenteto extend similar privileges, the carry- ing trade with California being their main object. The police courts yesterday were not over-bur- dened with rogues. A daring burglar was caught with a portion of the property in his possession. A man was arrested for defrauding the Hudson River Railroad Company out of $600, by forged orders. A fugitive from Philadelphia was caught and sent back again; and a legal gentleman of Boston was liberated from the Tombs—the particulars appear under the } e head. The Cor held an ini unfortunate German apotheca: suicide on the 29th of March, and, strange to the body was only discovered last Monday noon, in some bushes, near Seventy-eighth stree A meeting of the citizens of the Eighth ward op- posed to the renomination of the pri Police was held last eveni: Spri on the body of an » who com yor, and his confirmation by Commiesioners, illegal in the opinion of the meet- ing. We publish a report in another column. We publish clsewhere a translation of the royal cecree issued by the Queen of Spain on the 24th ultimo granting a free pardon to Cuban political offenders. A report of the trials which took place before his Fionor the Re: order, in the Court of General Sessions yesterc: iven else . The trial of Fenety, for arson in the first degree, was continued yesterday. The case will probably be concluded to-day. A full report is given, The navigation of Lake Erie is now reported to be anobstrueted by ice, and as soon as the canals are opened we shall experience a rush of all sorts of freight through that great artery of commerce alto. gether unprecedented. There is nota single brauch of industry throughout the State that does not, to a grecter or less extent, receive a new impulse from this event, and the present above all preceding sea- sons is propitious. A report from Vera Cruz has reached New Or- Jeans to the effect that fifty Americans have been arrested at San Blas for landing without passports. The Cochituate Bank, of Boston, which suspended payment last Friday, is expected shortly to resume business. Temporary receivers were appointed yes- terday by the Supreme Court, who will probably re- port to-morrow. Richard Vaux has been nominated for Mayor of Philadelphia by a large majority of the democratic party of that city. Captain Canfield, of the Topographical Burean, Bon-in-law of Gen. Cass, died at Detroit yesterday morning. The General left Washington yesterday in consequence, Ex-Govgnor Nehemiah R. Knight, of Rhode Is- Jand, died at Providence yesterday, lar to those delivered by him on other occa- sions. The bill relative to the flnal settlement of the c aims of officers of the Revolutionary army, was taken up, and, after some discussion, postponed, After an executive session of two hours «nd a half >the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representative: yesterday the Senate bill to increase the sa aries of clerks and others in the executive departments was again | taken up. Amendments restricting the operation of the bill to the present fisea! year, and leaving the promotion of clerks to the heads 0’ departments, were adopted. A proposition to make the aw ap- plicable to all loca ities was voted down. The bill | passed by a vote of seventy-six to sixty-flve. It is difficult to understand the reason for excluding the | government employes who do not happen ta reside in the District of Coiumb a from the benefits of the | proposed increase of salary. A bill was introduced | by Mr. Lane to provide for the admission of Oregon into the Un'on asa Sate. The West Pont Acade- was taken up in Comm t ee of the Whole, the ques- tion under consideration being the appropriation for the erection of a hall in which to teach cavalry tactics. This elicited an animated debate, when it was proposed to visit th toa better understan f the subject, and the House accordingly adjourned. The packet ship Underwriter, from Liverpool for this port, went ashore during the gale on Monday night, four miles south of Shuam Beach. Our ac. counts from the wr state that most of the pas- sengers had succeeded in reach the crew were throwing the the weather continued mo vessel would be got off. the shore, and verboard. If 3 supposed the > steamtugs have been sent to render her a The ship is insured in Wall street for $72,000 and the cargo for $150,000, We have nothing further relative to the ship re- ported ashore near Barnegat Inlet, and the pr tion is thatshe broke up and all on board perished. The two schooners also stated by us yesterday to have gone on shore near the same place are proba- bly totally lost. We shall receive definite informa- tion from Barnegat some time during the day as to the fate of the above mentioned vessels. “Other ves; sels are said to have been driven ashore during the recent violent gale; but the reports could not be traced to any reliable authority. Our special report of the fifth day’s proceedings of the Southern and Western commercial convention may be found in another part of to-day’s paper. The various propositions submitted by the business com- mittee, the Pacific Railroad, the Gadsden treaty, and the exploration of the river Amazon, were the prin- cipal topics under consideration. Utter Rejection of the Gadsden Treaty—Ad- ministration Defcat—Probable Dismember- ment of the Cabinct. The Senate of the United States has, in several instances, shownits independence of the administration. We had a striking illustration of this fact in the election of the Sonate printer. But the moral effect of that example was soon after neutralized by an inglorious surrender to the Cabinet in reference to the Collector of this port. Had the Senate sustained Bronson and the hard shell democracy, we might at this day have had a more popular and useful administra- tion, and more harmonious counsels in the Cabi- net (a new Cabinet), and in both houses of Congress. The Senate, however, have just atoned for that drawback upon the Bronson question in the great achievement of the igno- minious rejection of the Gadsden treaty. The motion made yesterday to reconsider the vote will doubt result as the first trial resulted, in the repudiation of the whole concera. If ything should possibly be patched up it will not he the G For th moral hones e Senate are o: se. To justify themselves before the country, fully and com- pletely, all that isnow required is the removal of the seal of ecy from the proceedings in exe- cutive session, and the publication in full of the debates, the documents, and all the letters con- nected with this grand plot for plundering the Treasury, upon false pretences, of twenty mil- lions of dollars. We have heretofore given some of the salient points of this Gadsden abortion ; but there are other disclosures yet to be made which will doubtless prove that this rejected tri was an extra diplomatic piece of spoils-jobbing from beginning to end. It appears that it was con- cocted without advice or instructions from the State Department, which is generally supposed to be entitled to the control of such matters ; it appears that Marey was actually ignorant of the treaty scheme till the treaty was made ; and it also appears that the Secretary of War and certain outside individuals were the prime movers with the President and the camarilla of the White House in perfecting the plot with Santa Anna. The rejection of the bargain de- prives Santa Anna of his empire, and, in all ity, of his Dictators! We may ex- pect shortly to hear that Mexico has become too hot to hold him, and all for the want of the fifteen millions of the treaty, especially the three millions ready cash required to quiet his hungry army, and to keep the Mexican people under his foot. Those other five millions for Mexican claims—another batch of the Galphin and Gardner stamp—being also lost, the administration spoilsmen feel as painfully as Santa Anna their inglori- ous defeat. After changing the boundary —after cutting out these claims entirely— and after reducing the total cash price of the treaty from twenty millions to seven millions, it was still rejected. Such was the distrust of the Senate of the retention of any vestige, in any shape or form, of this Gadsden arrange- ment. Now, this verdict of the Senate, in almost any other civilized government, would be re- garded as tantamount to a verdict against the Ministry, an1 a change in the Ministry would immediately follow. The Cabinet at Washing- ton, however, will hold on until the President shall assume the responsibility of turning them adrift. Why should he hesitate any longer? We are assured that differences of opinion, and conflicting jealousies and plots among them, have been carried almost to the extremity of personal hostilities, and that they can no longer act with anything like confidence or harmony in the business of the administration. Marcy hates Cushing—Cushing hates Marcy; Jeffer- son Davis despises both; they all despise Davis, and all suspect each other. With no other bond between them than “the cohesive poser of the public plunder,” it cannot be surprising that these squabbles should exist among them, it is only surprising that they have been able to hold together a whole twelvemonth, in spite of themselves, in spite of Congress, and in spite of the wishes of the country, The causes of these cabinet feuds and dis- ay In the United Btates Senate yesterday the Home- | cords are well understood. The policy of amal- gamating such faetions as the Northern free soilers and Southern secessionists on the basis of the public epoils could work out no other than the mest pernicious resulta, The secessionist and the free soiler can never be identified in har- mony upon national principles | y th: vulgar process of filling their stomachs from the pub- lic treasury. General Pierce has doubtless made this important discovery by this time. | If he were aman with a tithe of the moral self-sustaining reliance of General Jackson, or | were he but possessed of the heroism of Captain Tyler, he would at once perceive his line of | action, and act accordingly. He would hold this verdict of the Senate against the Gadsden treaty as an authoritative recomm ndation for a change in the personne? and spoils p' his administration. He would ve ect this pie- bald secession and free soil cabinet, he would appoint a new board of advisers, harmonious and homogeneous upon the broad principles of a well defined foreign and domestic administra- tive policy. The appropriate occasion has of- | fered itself for this line of conduct, an oppor- my bill, returned from the Senate with amendments, | Hippodrome, with a view | | tunity which, if rightly bestowed, might yet redecm the administration, and restore it to the confidence of Congress and whe respect of the American people. The idea that the rejection of this treaty will | result in a war with Mexico is a most con- temptible absurdity. The consequence will | most likely be, instead of a war between the two republics, the more rapid advances of Mex- ico to the fulfillment of her “ manifest destiny.’ e embryo revolution commenced by Alvarez againt Santa Anna may now be spec@ily brought to its full developement in the expub | sion of the Dictator from the country, and the establishment of a new order of things directly contemplating the peaceable and spontaneous annexation of the whole of Mexico to these United States, Our protection, our prosperity, wealth and enterprise, have undoubtedly sown broadcast among our Mexican neighbors a de- sire to share in the solid advantages of our glo- rious Union. What folly, therefore, to speak of a war with Mexico as the result of the re- jection of the Gadsden treaty, when the best result of its ratification would have been to fas- ten upon the Mexican people an unwelcome decpot at the expense of our own treasury. Gen. Pierce has held the control of the admi- nistration at Washington for a little over a year, and he cannot be blind to the conse- quences of the misguided and suicidal policy which he has pursued. The elections since Marck, 1853, in New York, Maine, New Hamp- shire, Connecticut and Rhode Island, have shown the late overwhelming democratic party to be utterly demoralized and paralyzed in the North. The failure of the Nebraska bill in the House, and of the Gadsden treaty in the Se- nate, show the administration to be powerless upon any great test question in either branch of Congress. In fact, every step taken by Gen. Pierce to strengthen himself has tended to weaken him, and disorganize and break down his administration and his party. Now, as it is said that the President, in his quiet moments, is a man of sensible views and opinions upon government affairs, he must perceive the hand- writing on the wall against him, unless a radi- cal revolution is introduced into his administra- tion, beginning with a revolution in his Cabi- net, and a change of the policy upon which it was appointed. Let him thus begin the good work, and following it up with a ministry which shall be a unit upon a sound and comprehensive public policy, and his redemption may yet be sted long before the 4th day of March, 1857 It is quite possible that should Gen. Pierce enter upon this wholesome revolution we may ¢' him our cordial and hearty support. Other- wise we shall have no other alternative than to fulfil the appointment which he has given us as the leader of ihe great and constantly increas- ing opposition party. The Gadsden treaty suggests the point where the work should begin. 3 Barnum ano tHe Crystan Patace.—Mr. P. T. Barnum is progressing vigorously in his de- termination “ to place the Crystal Palace among the imperishable enterprises of the age and the nation.’ This remarkably fine e <pression we borrow from one of a couple of manifestoes which this morning make their appearance in another column. It seems that Mr. Barnum has succeeded in inducing hotel keepers and other enterprising individuals to subscribe a sum of $100,000 to rescue the Crystal Palace from its immediate difficulties. All the suits against it are withdrawn, and great hopes are entertained of its glorious resu ation on 4th May next. It is announced that objects of art and luxury, curiosities from Japan, and ma- chinery from New England will be exhibited in reckless profusion. We are inclined to think that Barnum ought to have sent to the Palace the mermaid or the woolly horse from hisMu- seum ; these would draw better than a world of Japanese knick knacks, or Yankee steam en- gines, Wecan’t say either that we approve of his idea of offering $200 for two prize odes ; the sum had better been applied to the pay- ment of the debts of the institution than to the encouragement of bad poetry. But Barnum can’t help copying himself. There is one inci- dent in his past career which we trust we are not about to see repeated. All the world knows that, once upon a time, Mr. Barnum lit upon a very old negress named Joyce Heth, who figured extensively throughout the Western and Northern States as Washington’s nurse. Joyce was very old, extraordinarily so, in tact, as the doctors discovared on a post mortem examination ; and some judicious agent of Bar- num’s, foreseeing that the old lady might die, and the speculation be brought to an untimely end, wisely bethought himself of providing a substitute, and set out on a journey through- out the Southern States in search of a second Joyce. Unfortunately, no one had thought of notifying the agent in whose care the genuine original old Joyce was, of the projected ar- rangement ; and when she died at Worcester, he, like a simpleton, bifirted the fact out to all the world, and spoiled the schem>, We trust that Mr. Barnum’s attempt to resuscitate the Crystal Palace will be more successful than the attempt to resuscitate old Joyce Heth. Fasntonabe Traver.—Notwithstanding the lateness of the spring season, and the severe snow storm which has lately visited us, the stream of travel has commenced flowing with great volume and rapidity. For several days past seven hundred to eight hundred persons have diffed at one hotel—the St. Nicholas. The arrivals have averaged one hundred a day, and the departures about the same number. The Metropolitan, Astor, Prescott, Irving, and other hotels have received large numbers of tra- vellers, and the gay season hag already com- menced, Chevalier Webb IN Encland—His Rea! Mie sion Disclvecd—Read! Read! Chevalier Webb, otherwise known as G neral James Wateon Webb, of this city, has for some time past ben regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the “Irish Ambassador” at Lon- don, in behalf of the odministrati-n of General Pierce, and el the vast, varied, and delicate# diplomatic interests of the United States near | the kitchen cabinet of the court of St. James. In this capacity, according to his own paper, he has been making himself exceedingly useful to Mr. Buchanan—having, among other things, as- | sumed and discharged the great task of fixing the righ‘s of our neutrality with England, from the noblest impulses of that very ardent patri- otism for which he has always been distin- | guished. But the charming official documents and correspondence which we publish to-day, show that the character of the “Irish Ambassa- dor’ was but the mask assumed by the crafty Chevalier to disguise his real designs. His real mission is to sell the stock of the Guyandotte | Land, Coal and Iron Company of Westera Vir- ginia, among the London fancy stockjovbers. Beautiful operation! Read the Guyan- dotte documents and the Chevalier’s cer- tificates. How nicely has he been pull- ing the wool over the eyes of honest John Bull! What a flaming series of articles those were which the Chevalier con- tributed to the London Times, defiaing the policy of the United States to be dead against the piratical nuisance of privateering! How thankful should Lord Clarendon and the British government be for these assurances. No won- der the Chevalier has been dining and wining among the highest officials of the British capi- tal. He has pulled the wool over their eyes to some purpose; if his diplomatic services will only work out their desired effect upon the stock exchange. But great as are the merits of Chevalier Webb in this business, he has not the merit of origin- ality. He has only been “following in the foot- steps of his illustrious predecessors,’ the Cheva- lier Wikoff and others. The example of Cheva- lier Wikoff is strikingly analogous to that of Chevalier Webb. It will be remembered that Chevalier Wikoff some years ago was over head and ears in European diplomacy, having little less than all the secret arrangements of Lord Palmerston and Louis Napoleon upon the Con- tinent in his hands, These important diplo- matic functions, however, were but a ruse to his real object. Under his State sedrets he had a great secret of his own, He was in pursuit of a rich prize—he was anxious for a rich wife—he found the desired object in the wealthy and accomplished Miss Gamble. “She had money and he had none, and that’s the way the fray begyn.” He opened negotia- tions with her—his diplomatic notes, a Jd Menschikoff, were rejected—his ultimatissinum was rejected; but he pursued her, across the Channel, up the Rhine, over the Alps, like Napoleon, and down into Italy. There they captured him and clapped him into prison, and there he ended his matrimonial venture and his diplomatic career. He disappeared from the public eye, and is now superseded in his diplomatic character by Chevalier Webb. A few years ago, when Kossuth was electrify- ing all England with his knowledge of the Saxon language, and the wrongs of “down trodden Hungary,” the Hon. Robert J. Walker was on hand. He spoke at various public meetings ing} favor of Kossuth and intervention; and at Manchester and Liverpool delighted the mass meetings assembled with his liberal doctrines of free trade. But it soon appeared that the real mission of Mr. Walker was to secure a small loan of fifteen millions or so for the State of Illinois, But in spite of his strong sympathy for Kossuth and Hungary, and his free trade speeches, the antecedents of Illinois were against Mr. Walker, and the loan was a drag. About the same time there were some other Ameri- cans in England who were more successful. They pursued the same course in reference to the great principles of liberty, free trade, common origin and all that, and got.off upon the Lon- don stock jobbers a considerable amount of shares in certain California gold mines, and, pocketing their proceeds, returned home. Chevalier Webb, however, has an immense advantage over Chevalier Wikoff and all his other predecessors, in being powerfully backed up with strong certificates. He has “the best of city references.” Look at them. First and foremost is the certificate of Bishop Wainwright, of New York, who-kindly recommends his pro- tege to the Archbishop of Canterbury. But why did not the Chevalier get a letser from Archbishop Hughes? Then he might have gone to Rome and dined with the Pope himself. Next, ex-Goy. Hunt endorses his fellow-citizen of whom he made a General of the New York State Militia. Other distinguished names fol- low, when, lo! and behold! we come upon Ed- ward W. H. Schenley—the identical Captain Schenley, who disappeared from these parts a good many years ago, pending the agitation of the question, “ Who married Captain Schenley?” Other certificates, which would have been exceed- ingly valuable in the premises, have been strange- ly overlooked by Chevalier Webb. With the aid of the “spirit rappers,” a strong certificate might have been obtained from the deceased Nicholas Biddle, of the late United States Bank—a receipt in full for $52,675 26. The Commis- sioners of the Bankrupt law of 1841 could also have given a clearance for some five hundred thousand dollars, more or less, ia behalf of the Chevalier. Gen. Duff Green could have. en- dorsed him upon those “mahogany stocked pis- tols;” Graves, of Kentucky, in the matter of the Cilley duel; and Thomas F, Marshall upon another affair of honor. The vote of the United States Senate upon the confirmation of the Chevalier, as Minister to Vienna, might also have been employed with prodigious effect, in support of the Guyandotte Iron, Land and Coal Company. Seriously, however, what is this Guyandotte speculation? The stock, we suspect, is among the lightest of the fancies. We understand that there is now a gentleman in Wall street, “a aman of honor” and integrity, who, in good faith, undertook the agency in England of this same Gnyandotte concern some five years ago. In this capacity he brought out to the Guyan- dotte lands a lot of emigrants; but the lands were pre-ocgupied by squatters, who could not and would not be moved away. Trouble en- sued, the mortified agent being accused of all sorts of misrepresentations and deceptions in the matter. The gentleman in question is still in Wall street, and we doubt not that, if con- sidered desirable by English capitalists, his Guyandotte experience can be readily obtained. In the meantime, we give the whole catalogue of Chevalier Webb’s documents and certificates, for the edification of the jobbers in the fancies of Wall street, Corventions Norra anp Soura.—The South- ern convention lately in session at Charleston, naturally suggests @ comparison between as- semblages of that nature in the North and similar bodies at the South. In point of num- bers the Northern conventions have the ad- vantage ; we hear of at least a dozen conven- tions a year, and “the leafy month of May” ‘usually witnesses the performances of some six or eight. At the South, one convention per annum seems to satiate the popular appetite for that style of amusement. At the North, conventions are almost invariably radical move- ments, aiming at some impracticable social re- form. Thus we have conventions for the aboli- tion of slavery, for the propagation of spirit rappings, for the suppression of liquor, for the assertion of women’s rights, for the destruction of the Bible, for the establishment of a new re- ligion, and so on, At the South, conventions are at least originated on a more practical basis. Theirs are called together to take coun- sel on the establishment of a direct trade with Europe, on the conversion of shallow sand- blocked harbors into great seaports, and similar subjects, There is another difference between the two: Northern conventions are seldom at- tended by men of practical worth and eminence. Their eupporters are fanatics of every shade, reformed drunkards, and unreformed socialists, broken down politicians, and hairbrained talkers. In the South on the contrary leading men com- monly think it worth their while to -be present at these periodical assemblages; and to un- dergo as much annoyance as the frivolity of their associates may inflict for the chance ot conferring some practical benefit on their coun- try. This chance, in point of fact, is slender enough; it very rarely happens that any real good results from conventions North or South. Much time is consumed in talking; and most scrupulous attention is paid to punctilio and the rules of debate. Resolutions, highly pa- triotic in the South and highly philosophical in the North, are debated at length and occasion- ally carried; but as soon as the fiat of the con- vention goes forth, the members seem to think that their task is complete. In this respect, we see but little difference between Northern and Southern conventions. After the work is done, however—if that can be called work which is seldom anything more than talk—the charac- teristic peculiarities of the two sections of the country generally develope themselves afresh. Northern conventions close either with'a fight or with prayer.’ Southern conventions inva- riably with-a dinner and a ball. In this re- spect, we think our brethren of the South have the advantage. Tue Crry GovERNMENT AND ITs ReForM MeM- BERS.—Everybody recollects the frantic enthu- siasm with which the reform charter and the reform elections were hailed by certain classes and their organs in this city. To listen to them, a halcyon era was beginning, and the age of mismanagement was past forever. Alas! the bright dream was soon dispelled. The charter came into force, and it was found that it ren- dered any government impossible. The streets even could not be cleaned once without the ex- ercise of an unconstitutional p8wer by the Board of Health; and that cleaning over, it could not be repeated. The great thoroughfare of the city, Broadway, is cleaned by a private individual at the expense of the householders; and if the inhabitants of other streets require a similar luxury, they will have to resort to the same means. Meanwhile the Board of Council- men which was expected to be so pure and so honest and so energetic in the discharge of its duty has been as silly and as disorderly as any free school in the absence of the master. Two of the Councilmen have covered themselves with ridicule by an absurd play at duelling; and on Monéay night, a scene t60k place which must lower the New York Councilmen below the level of any representative body in Broadway. The whole concern from the charter to its low- est officer is ridiculous, absurd, and contempti- ble. We are in fact in the midst of anarchy. One provisional government has already been erected in Broadway, and the soonergother bodies of like authority set themselves to dis- charge the other duties which the government is obviously unable to perform, the better will it be for the city. Music and the Drama. PAUL JULIEN'S CONCERT—NEW DRAMA AT TIE Na- TIONAL THEATRE—NEW FARCE AT WALLACK’S. Pav Juuex, the youngest and the most remarkable of ye violinists of the present day, gave his first concert since his return from Havana last evening, at Niblo’s £aloon. There was a.crowded and fashionable audience, and the star of the evening was received with a most en- thusiastic welcome, but not more hearty than he de- served. He was assisted by Richard Hoffman, pianist; M'lle Henrietta Behrend, Sig. Andrea Manzini, and Miss 8. Jones. It was Julien, however, whom the people came to hear. It was the universal opinion that he had‘im- proved in his executions since he last appeared in New York, and this was apparent in his first casay—the ‘Tre- | molo of Beriot.”’ In Allard’s fantasia from the ‘‘Favorita,”” he displayed surprising delicacy of finish and purity of tone. The great ‘attraction of the evening was the execution of Mayseder’s variations on a single string. This daring attempt was entirely succoss- ful, and the youthful artist received the hearty applause of the coldest critics. The remainder of the concert was hardly above mediocrity, if we except Mr. Hoffman’s execution of Gottschalk’s ‘Waltz de Bra- voure,’’ which was artistically rendered, and encored. Miss Jones, who gave the cavatina “ Ernani, Involaini,”” and “Comia’ thro’ the rye,” has a sweet and powerful voice, but she lacks finish, and her style is altogether bad. e At Ti NaTIONAL TagaTRe we have a new and peculiar drama, never before acted in this country. It has been played at the London theatres—the Mary-le-bone, the Adelphi and the City theatre. It was first produced at the Ambigu Comique, Paris, last October, and afterwards adapted to the English stage, and called “The Struggle for Gold.” At the National, the characters sustained by Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Wallack in London, were played by Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Prior. There are some entirely new effects in scenery and «machivery. The second act repre- sents a sea of ice. The action of the first act transpires atsea, the third in Mexico, and the fourth and fifth in Paris. The drama is effective, but a great deal depends upon the scenery and machinery. Mr. Purdy produced itunder the title of ‘The Child of Prayer; or, The Love of Gold,’ and with new scenery. Mr. and Mrs. Prior, Mr. N. B. Clarke, Mr. @. L. Fox, and other popular members of the company are included in the cast. ‘The plot of the piece is hardly enough for five acts, and the language is defective in vigor. The play seems to have been loosely translated. The principal parts are Carlos and Malle. Delacour. Carlos is the person who has the thirst for gold, and he creates a mutiny on board a ship cammanded by Mdlle. Delacour's father. The captain, wife, child and servant are sent adrift, and are thrown upon a sea of ice. The ice breaks up, and all are lost, except the child and the servant. This effect was very well done at the National. In the last part of the play, Carlos is the rich Marquis de Monte, and the girl has found her friends, after she has long resided with the Indians who picked her up, by means of a prayer which her mother taught to her. Del Monte falls in love with her—she marries him—uses his wealth to prove him guilty of his crimes, and finally sends him to the scaffold. Like all French dramas, there are many inconsistencies in the “Struggle for Gold;” but, although the story is drawn out to an unpardonable extent, considering the poverty of the material, the plot is interesting, and the moral is good, provided we take it for granted that it is right to do evil that good may come, for the girl must “lay perjary on her soul” when she mar- ries Del Monte, The acting of the piece deserves | of ee | having a penny in his pocket he takes it to a pa praise. Mr. Prior’s Carlos was a fine acting, excepting that he was too slow in livering the lines, and his delineation of various passions—revenge, hope, fear, despair, and] bolic malice—in the last act, was truthfully repul Mrs. Prior’s representation of the heroine was a fini and correct performance ; it would be improved by a } more vigor, especially in the fourth and fifth acts. Fox, a8 Barabas, the faithful servant, was very «| He gave a very humorous perronation, without desc! ing to caricature. N. B. Clarke gave the Captain’s with proper dignity and effect. Mr. Howe, who play French gentleman, seemed but little like the part, an¢ should be taught how to wear a sword, how to drav how to hold it preparatory fora thrust, and how to liver it up when requested so to do. He seemed als! be afraid that the audience would not see him, and tinually placed himself in a position to oblige them td £0, The piece is well got up, well dressed, and, with exceptions above noted, well acted. It is produced ui the direction of Mr. James Anderson, and the sce: was paimted by Mr. Rogers. The play is to be gi again this evening. At Watiack’s TaEaTRe, last evening, a new Loni farce, ‘Number One Round the Corner,” was presen: first time in America, The idea of the plot is tal from a little French vaudeville, entitled “En Man des Chemises,” but it is so diferently treated, that alm as much of the English piece belongs to the adapter, } Brough, as to the French authors, of whom there no less than three. Mr. Nibbler, (Mr. Walcot,) one those smart young gentlemen who live by their wits, expecting at breakfast an uncle who does not come, \ fends a letter informing his nephew that he will rer his usual allowance in the afternoon, and directing h to take in a certain coat that will arrive from the tailo This little delay is annoying to Nibbler, who has s swered an advertisement of a situation of £5 a wed and has appointed to meet the advertiser, to whom he to pay £20as the consideration for the place. He is n| only without the £20, but he has not even got a pair boots sufficiently respectable to enable him to keep } ippointment. A coat is thrust into the room, which concludes is the article mentioned by the uncle, and broker, ‘Number One Round the Corner,” and wi the sum raised on it purchases the desideratd air of boots. ‘The coat turns out not to be the uncle” Lut the property of Mr. Nobbler (Mr. Brougham), anothd Jodger, who, while Nibbler is in anotier apartment fu bishing himtelf up for the appointment, enters the roo} in his shirt sleeves and finds on the table a duplicati which reveals to him the fate of his coat. The boo also strike his eye, and he carries them off as a lawfy prize to the accommodating ‘‘ Number One,” and obtair| on them asum exactly equivalent to that raised on thy coat. Mutual explanations then take place, and Nobbl¢ insists on restitution of the additional charges of ticket and interest, amounting to the large sum of tw| pence, without which the coat can’t be redeemed. Ni ller has not a fraction in his pocket, and a good deal ¢| the fun is produced by the lamentable picture which h| resents in this fix. ‘The plot reaches ite climax by th Uiscovery that the advertiser (Nobbler) and his corres pondent have already met. The former wanted to chea| somebody out of £20, and the latter hoped to get a situal tion under false pretences. The farce was well acted by| Messrs. Walcot and Brougham. At the Lyceum, London the parts were taken by Messrs. C. Mathews and Ro®by It was highly successful in London, and bids fair to b| equally popular in New York. Ye gods! It doth amaze me, "A man of euch a modest temper should So get the start of the majestic world, n im alon: loth bestride the narrow world and tay Tae, and peep about hu Ives dishonorable graves. ‘ We observe that in oomneguaniog of the remarkable success of a well-known artist, others in the business, by coming down to the level of quack operators, acknowledge thelr incompetency for their profession. Failiag in real com- petition, they now appeal to the picayune policy of eut- ting down fair ‘and giving poor work. Alas for art [ when her noisicst professors thus into oblivion. ‘rystal Palace ‘orld’s Fair) Medal is iter socket nes ats, aah his works, at his ficent roadway. Crayon taken at'uo cther piace, Cloudy woather_ all fair. Rooms et au. ‘Worth Seeing.—The most Splendid show of erreotypes, crystalotypes and stercoscopes ever made {EMT roudby musy be deen at SHOOTS World's Fale Premium gallery. ‘The proprietor challenges criticism. Call at $63 broadway. spenscheld’s Spring Style of Hat 1s de~ eidediy the hand: st fabric of the sea: e is ting, the mi: for 8850. Not rreotypes jo same as ing to be ; and tradesmen in Broad- ig agtistaction) n KNOX’S elegent nounced by the tistic ele, anes. u and in the Proscott House, is now daily crowded established head-quartors, fairly besieged by his numerous patrons, 4 Rees & Co., are the Original Inventors of the German system of teking Two Shilling dagucrreotypes, which they can clearly prove, if it becomes necessary, by some of our most reepoctable citizens; it is not our intoation to divert the businesy or mislead the people; but on tho con. trary to state plain facts, aud all we hops is, that our neizh- bors may do likewise. REES & CO. 885 Drosdway, formerly 209 Broadway. War Among the Picture Makers.—A Bold and desperate warfare is going on of iste against Ree: '0., the original two shilling dagnerrooty pis ty, 8 party of speculators, represent ing themselves the Daguerreotype Company of No. 239 Broad er of whom have had any ihterest in this . 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