The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, ™ u FELTON 87S JAMES GOURDOY BENNETY, | AND edvance LD 2 vente per vopy- $7 per aanam, PROPRIETOR N27 EDITOR. ERALD every Saturdry at Oe “ene re WEAKE ¥ P< ar Pa ae ‘or 83 per annum ; the Furopern Ratt oRany part of Cirent Britain, au $3 10 any part of che jrent, bot to Include pon Mee IRs ne XIX SMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CASTLE GARDEN—4veia vr Lamwur moon, DROADWaY THEATRE, Broadwey—C nose xeo THR AT WWANTIO—INISA AssURANCE AND Yarkxx Monastry. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Vextoe Paesenver— Mx xymoon. i BIBLO’S, Brosdwey—Univie—M. Daonarumeav. | ATIONAL TUEATRE. Chatham etreet—Resxie avn whites Tene eure: Fomsme B. Puase. | AMPRICAN MUSEUM Afternoon —Aunnose Gear. | wart—Evoning—osina Mea nows. GMRISTY'D AMERIJAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad | wayp-Eruioerts MxLovces py Curiecy’s MinsTeELs. ~ WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 444 Brosdway—Briormen | @mernncoy ayn Bumiesque Orpaa. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broadway—Bvox- | aue’s Ermerian Orera TRovure. FRARCONT'S HEPPODROME—Mapwon Sevane. | Now York, Monday, July 3, 2554. To the Public, ‘The New Yeux Hena.p has now the largest circulation of amy daily journal in Kurope or Am rica. ‘The Daily Hinaip cironlates neariy sixty thousand sheets per dry. ‘The Weekly editions—published on Saturday and Sun- @ey—reach a circulation of nearly seventy thousand sheets yer week. ‘The aggregate issue ol the Henaip establishment is s@dout four hundred thousand sheete per week, orever twenty millions of sheets per annum. ~ Mails for Europe. ‘KE NEW YORK KERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Royal mail «steamship Canada, Capt. Stone, “will eave Boston on Wednesday, at 12 o’elock, for Liver- ‘The European mails will close in this city at half past fen o'clock on Tuesday morning, ‘The Wesxty Hexara, (printed in French: and Duyiish,) ‘Will be. published ai five o’clock this afternoon, Bingle copies in wrappers, sixpence. Sabscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the ew Youu Himap will be received at the following places fa Europe:— Iavmnroor.. John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. Yanvon ....Edwarde, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catherine street. My. Hadley, of the New Hampehire Reporte rwas elected Stute Printer over Mr. Batterfcld of the Patrret, by a joint vote of the two hou- ses, of 165 for Hadley to 163 Yor Buttertield. thecal Veeachery at Concord-Election of Stote Painter. he Sey atoria: Questen. On Saturday last, the telegraph brought as he ‘astounding information from Concord, that This frightful act of disohedience and treach- ery to the administration is one of the most significant and ominous political events of the day, Mr. Butterfield is an especial favorite of the President, personal and political; and pos sexses a larger share of his confidence, we ven- ture to say, than eiher ‘Caleb Cushing, Charles Gordon Greene, ‘Celonel Nichol- son of the Washington Union, Paul R George, Sam Green, er John W. Forney. It was the New Hampshire Patriot which first developed the spoils policy of General Pierce’s administration. Oer readers will re- Meniker that manifesto, the exultation with which it was received by the Buffalo free soilers, and-the savage indignation with which it was | repudiated by our old hunker democracy. Re- peatedly, since, ‘has the fulfilment of the Pa- triot’s predictions confirmed its position, now generally admitted as the confidential home or- gan of Gen. Pierce. Holding this relation to the President, and having vigorously defended the administration through thick and thin, in all its removals, all its appointments, all its measures, and all its recom- mendations ; having boxed the compass and wheeled about with the celerity and flexibility of the Washington Union itself, on the Nebraska question; and having fought for the administration through the late popular elections with indomitable energy, great skill, remarkable ingenuity, and with a degree of zeal and devotion worthy of a better cause— having done all this, we say, it is a sin anda shame, a crying sin and a burning shame, that Butterfield should be thus driven from the field without either bread or butter; yea, without even a “thank-you,” for his pains. The solution of this merciless operation is ex- ceedingly simple. As in the case of the elec- tion of Tucker, as printer to the United States Senate, over the head of the administration or- gan, £0 in the election of Hadley, the cham- pion of the Burke party and the nationel hard shells, the blow is aimed, not at the man, but at this masters. The fact that the Concord Patriot Livingston, Wolls & Co., 8 Piaoo de la Bourse. The News. ¥ROM BUENOS AYRES, We have files of the British Packet to the 22d of April. Advices of ten days later date, (to May 2,) bad been previously received, via Hngland, by the Boropa. Neither arrival had any news of special importance. On the 18th of April the constitution ‘ef the State was solemnly p:omulgated in the Plaza @e la Victoria, and, as an appropriate solemniza- ‘Bon of the august occasion, all the State prisoners @etained by the police in consequence of the late special authorization were set at liberty, and re- stored to the bosom of their families. LATER FROM CUBA. By the arrival of the steamship Black Warrior we have advices from Havana to the 27th ult. The political news is unimportant. One of our corres- pondents gives an account of the recent landing of large number of slaves near Trinidad, evidently through the connivance of the authorities, by which ‘the Captain-General bagged a considerable sum of Money,and the subordinate officials, of course, a fair proportion. The letter, published elsewhere, are very interesting. COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. » In this market on Saturday fiour was firmer, with free sales for export. Common grades of State Brands advanced 124 to 26 cents per barrel, Wheat ‘was unchanged. Corn was duli and lower. Be- ‘ween five and six thousand barrels of flour were engaged for shipment to Liverpool at 2s. per Darrel. Cotton was quiet, and prices without ma- terial chanze in quotations. AFFAIRS IN THE CITY. Yesterday passed oft quietly. The street preach- ers in this city and the suburba held forth as usual, nd there was not the slightest manifestation of @isorder. Coroner Hilton yesterday held the inquest on the body of Edward Bogan, who wasshot with a pis- tol on Saturday night, by William Foulkes, in Frank- fort street. The jury returned a verdict of “ Wilful murder.” A full report of the evidence will be found in another column. We understand that in some portions of the city yesterday, the keepers of public houses were noti fied by the authorities that the ordinance against the Sunday liquor traffic would be rigidly enforced. Many of the fashionable hotels were included in the notification. The order was generally complied with, and it was sad to see the thirsty wayfarers perambulating about town, when refused their ac- oustomed beverages at their naval haunte,in search of more hospitable or less conscientious dealers. In Philadelphia yesterday the drinking shops were all clozed. Areport of the sermon of the Lord Bishop of Que- beo, delivered yesterday in Trinity church, on the ‘eccasion of the ordination of nineteen deacons and Shree priests, is given in another column. An im- Tense concourse of spectators attended to witness ‘the ceremonies. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘We publish to-day some extracts from newspa- Pers relative to the emigration to and settlement of the recently organized Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Now that the Governors and other of- cers of these Territories are confirmed by the Sen- ‘ate, an unprecedented rush to this rich agricultural region will undoubtedly take place, California, Oregon, and even Washington Territory, are tolera- tly well supplied with politicians—indeed, we may @ay they are Completely glutted with tho commodi- ty—and therefore we look for, a hogira of wire. pullers before and after the ides of November to ‘that ansurveyed country, now in the almost undis- puted possession of the aborigines. They—the po- Uiticians—scert their prey « long distance, and ‘where there are Indians to be swindled, and emi- grants to be cheated with all sorts of land claims, there isthe paradise of these broken down, gamb- Ming, spoils-grabbing cormorants—those moral fun- gues on the body politic. To the bold pioneers of civilization westward bound we would say, be- ‘ware of these rascals, Josiah Emery, late Postmaster at New Vineyard, Me., has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for purloining « letter containing one hundred and fifty dollars. Verily, the way of the transgressor is ‘hard. A mass convention will be held at Jackson, Michi- gan, on the 6th inst., of those who “think that the time bes arrived for a union at the North to protect Mberty from being overthrown and towntrodden.” ne handred and seventy names are appended to the call, and the meeting is to be composed with- ‘out reference to the former political associations of ‘the participators. ‘We have received later papers from Nassau, N. P., but they are barren of news. The weather continu- ed intensely warm, although an anusual quantity of rain had fallen. The captain and crew of the ship Remittance, lost on the north side of Eleuthera, had gailed from Harbor Island for a port in the United States. There were but twelve fatal cases of cholera rc ported in Philadelphia during the past week. A telegraphic despatch from Norfolk states that the steamer Legare has arrived in Hampton Road in a sinking condition. She was engaged, we be Jieve, in the coast suryeying service. is a special organ of the cabinet, and the kitch- en cabinet at Washington, is the cause of its rejection. The New Hampshire Legislature has simply discarded Butterfield, as involving the most emphatic protest which they could ex- press against the administration, for, doubtless, the Legislature believed that a remonstrance involving so large an amount of the public plunder, as the rejection of the cabinet State printer, would be felt more keenly by the spoilemen at Washington than any series of empty resolutions which could be adopted. Truly, have we fallen upon evil times. The Granite State is in process of disintegration. The ramifications of party treachery are extend- ing in every direction, like the subtle contagion of the cholera. Drugged liquor, free soil princi- pies, Nebraska and the spoils, have brought both houses of the New Hampshire Legislature to a deplorable state of insubordination. Discord prevails in Concord, and confusion rules the harmonious democracy. Poor Butterfield, the anointed for the office of Public Printer, is defeated, and Wells, the administra- tion candidate for one of the vacancies in the Senate, to be filled, hangs fire upon two or three mysterious, intractable votes. .A motion was made to get at these fellows, by providing that the election, imstead of being by ballot, should be viva voce; but it wasno go. It was aflash in the pan; and finally the House post- poned the election till Thursday next—the second day after the Fourth of July. This will allow one day for cooling off from the drugged liquor which will doubtless be drank in Concord in commemoration of the “glorious Fourth.” Bat there is another and more ominous fea- ture in the arrangements at Concord for this week. The Nebraska resolutions, or rather the anti-Nebraska resolutions, are made the special order in the House for Wednesday. There is a prospect that the coalitionists, on these resolu- tions, may put the Legislature of New Hamp- shire back to back with the administration. Should this be done upon principles, and upon the spoils, the executive establishment at Washington will be left to the equivo- cal and divided support of Tammany Mall. Ah! yes!) A lucky and a happy man is Captain John Tyler. He was elected by the whigs, and repudiated by the whigs; he was refused admission into the democratic church ; yet he flourished without a party, and after frightening the whige and the demo- crate with a National Convention of office hold- ers at Baltimore, he retired with the dignity of a victor, and lives in his retirement like a phi- losopher. How different the position of Gen. Pierce! Elected almost by popular acclama- tion, he has fallen into general decay. He found the country hopeful of peace and sectional har- mony, and of a brilliant career. It was a deli- rium—a mirage: it has vanished away. The invincible party which brought him into power is destroyed. Even New Hampshire, a State which can swallow almost any democratic pre- scription without flinching, now finches under the pressure of bad principles, bad associations, bad appointments, bad leaders and bad liquor. The Megislature has taken the spoils from the spoilsmen, und the House of Representatives at Concord sticks upon the Senator ordained by the administration—the minds, the principles, the loyalty and the liquor of the faithful are all drugged. They try the election ; but it is a failure—they try again, only again to stick. They are confounded, indignant, and hold over again for a few days; and Mr. Wells is to have another trial on Thursday next. Who can predict the result? Will Wells be elected?—and if elected, will Hibbard also be elected? Wells and he must go together. Can- not two or three votes be secured in some way for Welle? Are all the coalitionists so very rich and so very independent that it is impossible to persuade them to a reconciliation, through the agency of a foreign mission, a fat consulate, or something of that sort. Several members of Congress are said to have made their everlasting fortunes upon the Nebraska bill, Cannot some of the New Hampshire coalitionists be persuaded into the policy of a good speculation? Or if the spoils are appropriated, why not give the coali- tionists a Rowland for an Oliver, and drug their liquor for them on Thursday next? Put some of them to sleep for eight or ten hours Surely all the drinking men are not among the faithful democrats. The defeat of Butterfield for State printer betrays not only the wrath but the power of the coalitionists. It shows that the prospects of Wells and of Hibbard are sim, and almost hopeless, unless some re-ia- j forecmetts: are speedily secured. New Hamp- sh're must be saved, or all is lost, Tae Durcu Gertie Trovetusome Acin.—. The impunity with which the Cuban aathovities | have been allowed to threw-ebstructions in the \ way of our commerce and to insult our flag, has, as might have been foreseen, fostered a \ similar disposition ou the ‘part ef the colonial | otticers of other forcigu dependencies, whose jeal- | ousy or whose interests happen to be trenched | upon by Yankee progress. {2 another part of \ our paper will be focad a communication from | the island ef Caracoa, detailing the particulars | of e difficulty which has just arisen between | our Consal there and the Dutch authorities, regarding the construction of the commercial treaties between this country and Holland, or rather arising from the enforcement of despotic regulations directly in contradiction wiih | those stipulations. It appears that it had been, for many years, the custom of the consignees of American vexsels at this island to board them before they had entered the harbor, ani to obtain the register from the master, for the purpos? of | entering the vessel and her cargo at the Cuitom house. Now the effect of this: regulation has been virtually to take from our Consul the control of American vessels, which is vested in him by our laws, and which provides that in ee ae “fue Srmuzrs—We trust that the work of | Cdeaning and purifying the streets of this city | Will not be cuspended, but that it will b2 carried on with renewed vigor. Such weather as we had ou Friday Saturday and yesterday is enough of itself to breed am epidemic, and when dirty streets, tilled with decomposing vegetable matter, are added to the influence of a dense humid atmosphere, the speedy pro- pagation of cholera becomes almost a certainty. In Williamsburg we noticed, on Thursday, | that the city officers were engaged in cleansing and washing the street gutteps with a solution of chloride of lime—an example worthy of imi- tation. In walking through a portion of the Sixth ward, yesterday, we perceived that the gutters were in many places filled with decayed vegetables, halt submerged in pools of dirty water, the mixture giving out a most disgusting odor, and evolving the most noxious gases. The coincidence between these circumstances and the fact that there were four coffin shops in the same street, gave rise to sundry uopleasant speculations, and induced us to think that the liberality of one undertaker, who displayed a sign on which was written, “Free passes to Greenwood,” was eatirely unnecessary, as many persons in the vicinity would probably receive a strong call to some such place. It seems to us that the Aldermen and Coun- cilmen of the lower wards can do much towards improving the sanitary condition of their con- every instance the register shall be deposited with him. A fine of five hundred dollars is even directed to be imposed for non-compli- ance with this provision; but owing either to the weakness or neglect of our consular representatives at the island, it has been hitherto suffered to fall into abeyance. With different men, however, different mea sures, Our new Consul at the Island (Mr. J. H. Young, of New York) on comparing the prac- tice that had hitherto prevailed with the treaty stipulations and the American laws regulating such matters, determing@ te-enforce uch a con- | struction of them as wae esmalstent with his duty and the interests of Mts countrymen. On the arrival of the first American vesel, he ac- cordiugly boarded ker before she eatered the , and obtained the register of the ship from thé master. This immediately bought the question to an issue between him anl the Gov- ernor. Finding that he could not ompel him to deliver up the register, he issueda notice to the government pilots, to the effect hat a per- son named Young, having detained the papers of the Abbott Devereux, all American masters depositing their registers with hin for the fu- stituents, Their excuse is, as we are well aware, that the amended charter ties their hands so that they can do nothing; but they can act, personally, if not officially; and there are always people enough who are willing to contribute their money toward any good ob- ject, provided some responsible man can be found to superintend the distribution of the funds, and thus guarantee that they shall not be misapplied. As the Alderman of the ward, or the Councilman of the dis- trict, claims to be, for the time being, the leading spirit of its citizens, he should en- deavor to earn the title by a rigid supervision of the interests of his constituents. He should employ such leisure as his pursuits allow him in the examination of the streets within his district, ascertain their condition, and, after estimating the cost incident to putting them in acleanly state, he would find little difficulty in raising the money needed for such a purpose. We opine that it would be much better for the merchants of this city to spend some time and money in sanitary measures than to suffer from a repetition of the cholera season of eight- een hundred and forty-nine. 7 We have no faith in or hope of the present ture would be fined five hundrd guilders. Nothing, in short, could have beenmore insult- ing and unjustifiable than the whobk tone of this document. Although severe mesures were threatened against the vessel, and the Colonial Court and Court of Justice were even convened for the purpose of considering the):, no further inconvenience was, however, sushined by the consignees and master than a tenporary delay of eight days, before the usual permits were obtained for the discharge of br freight and the loading of her return cargo. Another mode of action has yeen, however, reserted to, to gratify the feelings of vindlic- tiveness against Mr. Young, to which this affair has given rise. The Jew merchants of the island, (and with the exception of two Dutch and an American firm they are all of that persuasion,) who have been thriving on the im- punity with which, through the laxity that has hitherto existed, they have been enabled to get goods into their ports, are, at the insti- gation of the authorities, preparing a petiticn to our government for the removal of Mi. Young, whose uncompromising honesty and firmness interfere sadly with their profits. We trust that upon an occasion in which no great amount of energy and pluck is demanded fom them, the administration will not hesitate to sustain a conscientious and independent mirded public servant in the fearless discharge of his duty. Cost or Beap-Work—RECIPROCITY WITHTHE British Cotonres.—A gentleman in this «ty, being on a tour in Cenada recently, thougtt he would encourage the native industry of t.e place by purchasing some samples of Iniian bead work. On crossing the line, these cur osi- ties which were purciiased as @ present for his wife, fefl under the notice of the Custom House officials and the following document was uly presented to the owner :— Cotpcron’s Orrice, Disrricr oF Nugara Port oF NIAGARA. Thereby certify that ‘James Monteath has entered at this port the following merchandise. icles, and aid duties thereon according to law, ree pieces bead-work Commission two per cen Total.,....... $3 69 ee 30 cent Given under my ‘hand and seal ‘of the at Niagara Falls. Protest.) CHARLES N. V, JONES, Dep. Ceci, This case affords a nice argument for the ad- vocates of colonia! reciprocity. If it costs a dollar and eight cents to introduce three pieces of bead work into the United States, our tariff surely requires remodelling : but the present reciprocity scheme, which does not contem- plate any interference with manufactures, would hardly reach the case. We commend it, however, to the consideration of the colonial papers from which we publish extracts else- where. Bead work, we presume, is one of the moet extensive manufactures of the Canadas; and most travellers, of whom several thousands cross the borders every year, have been in the habit of investing some small sum in its en- couragement, Now, unless our Canadian neighbors will add manufactures to the list of articles they desire to admit free so that bead work may henceforth escape the thirty per cent paid by Mr. Monteath, we fear that the knowledge of his case may affect the sale of this Canadian staple to a very serious extent. They had better look to it. ADJOURNMENT OF ConarE: There is now a hope that the country may have a reasonable interval of relief from the spoils Proceedings of the present Congress. The committee of con- ference reported on Saturday in favor of a final adjournment on Friday, the 4th of August, and the report was adopted by both houses. There is no necessity for a meeting again in October, unless there is to be a war with Spain; and as no war message has been, or is to be, sent up to the House, let both houses rejoice at the beams of peace, and adjourn. Let the spoils- men be content with the regular appropriation bills, and the ten millions of the Gadsden treaty, till December next. We desire that the | members should be apprised of the fact that there is a higher power in this country thay the administration. We feel anxious concern- ing the members of the House. Some of them may yet be saved, by this seasonable return to their constituents. The expensive farce of this session has lagted long enough, hydra-headed system of city government, and we see plainly that private citizens will again be obliged to take up tke broom and pay for that work which should be done by city of- ficers, and paid for out of the city treasury. It isnot pleasant, we know, to pay twice; but the work must be done, and we see no other way by which it can be thoroughly executed. Some of the more public streets have recently presented a more cleanly appearance than usual; but how it is done, and who does it, we cannot say. A number of street cleaning con- tracts were announced as having been con- cluded a month since. Where are the new contractors, especially in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth wards ? Resstan Possessions iN AMERICA—INTENTIONS OF THE British GOYERNMENT.—We publish, in another part of this paper, an interesting de- scription, translated from the French paper of San Francisco, L’Echo du Pacifique, of the Russian possessions on the northwest coast of this continent, north of British Oregon, and from which the Russians are divided by Presi- dent Polk’s fighting line of 54 40. In connection with the late announcement of the London Times, that “it is reported to be the intention of her Majesty’s government to take possession of Sitka and the other ports in the Pacific belonging to the Russians,” this de- scription, from our French cotemporary at San Francisco, will, at this crisis, prove to be par- ticularly interesting. The seizure of the pos- sessions in question by England will be tanta- mount to their permanent transfer to the Bri- tish crown. Some weeks ago we called the at- tention of our government to this subject; but while the Cabinet of England have taken the hint, ours were too intent upon the spoils of the Gadsden treaty to pay the slightest atten- tion to the policy of purchasing, as we might have done for a trifle, the aforesaid Russian pos- sessions, in advance of the projected movement of England, for their occupation. Now they are lost, and England will be greatly strength- ened by their acquisition, in the very quarter to which we must look, in the event of war, for our naval supplies and resources in the Pacific ocean. Such are the neutrality and “ masterly inactivity” of the present administration. On tHe Wrve.—New York presents a singu- lar aspect, just now. Most of the fashionables have shut up their palaces in the Fifth avenue and elsewhere, and are off to the sea-shore, or else indulging in dishabille costume, fresh eggs and rural drives in their rusurban retreats. Their places on Broadway, at the opera, or in the churches are filled with strangers, mostly from the South—tourists who have come here to see our race week, and then todepart for the cool breczes of Montreal, the shades of Sarato- ga or the surf of Newport. The Broadway ho- tels have been well filled during the past week, and the retail dealers will have no occasion to complain when they “balance their cash” at the end of the month. The railways and steam- boats diverging from this city, are in the full tide of prosperity, and although they carry away immense numbers of New Yorkers, who fly from the heat and dust of the metropolis to get a whiff of country air, yet they bring back agsmany. During the past week everybody has been on the wing, and the metropolis bids fair to be as gay as ever during the summer, not- withstanding the cholera rumors which our Philadelphia friends have so industriously cir- culated. Tax Season or Frvtre.—During the past four days two hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred pine apples, forty thousand eight hundred bananas, and eighty thousand cocoa- nuts, have been dumped upon our docks, and great is the consumption thereof by the Go- thamites—the juvenile citizens particularly, as we may see by a walk through the Bowery. There is nothing more delicious to the taste or more conducive to bodily health than sound, ripe fruit; but every body should carefully re- frain from excess in eating it, and be very careful to reject that which is not fully ripe or in the slightest degree tainted. “Let us use the good things the gods give us with pradence and moderation.” A young man named Vangorder was drowned in the Suequehanna river, near the mouth of Towaada creek, on Wednesday afternoon last, while bathing. ilies . = Tae Pouce Usivonm—fecrer oF THE MovE- wenT.—In another column will be found letters from Mr. Stogdill, the chairman, and Mr. D. B. Taylor, one of the speakers at the late police indignation meeting, at the Park, explanatory of their views upon this question. It is ecareely for us to repeat that, sympathising in none of the motives that have set this movement on foot, we cannot recognise the good sense or expediency of the arguments ad- vanced by those gentlemen. If a police force be necessary at all, it is essential that measures should be taken to render it as effective as pos- sible. Now, without an organization that de- fines accurately its responsibilities, that marks it out from the general crowd, and that renders its presence manifest where it is wanting, it is clear that it must fail to fulfil the conditions for which the public tax themselves for its sup- port. It is precisely the absence of those con- ditions that has hitherto rendered the police of New York #0 ineflicient for the protection of the lives and property of our citizens, Wemay be over sanguine in believing that the proposed innovations will bring about a different state of things, but the experiment is at all events worth @ trial, and the public are not to be frightened from attempting it, because it may excite the susceptibilities of alarmists, who see danger to the constitution in almost every reatraint imposed upon the passions of the law- less and unruly. We find that the general expression of con- demnation which the resistance to the new po- lice regulations has elicited from the public, through the medium of the press, has not had the effect of discouraging the instigators of this absurd movement, and that another meeting is to be held in the Park, on the sub- ject, on Thursday next. Although a misappre- hension of the effect of these regulations no doubt produced the original feeling of discon- tent in the force which led to the first meeting, it is now evident that it has been seized upon by politicians to forward their own views. All cause of complaint on the score of ex- pense having been put an end to by the ex- planation of the Commissioners, we should be glad to know what well founded objections can be made by the force to regulations which tend to elevate them in public estimation, and to render them a still more efficient and respect- able body ? The continnance of the agitation proves the truth of what we before suspected, that it is less a police movement than a party contest between the democrats and Know Noth- ings to avail themselves of the police force as “an auxiliary instrument.to carry the next fall elections, Couteciats ExamInarTions.~The commence- ments of the different colleges throughout the Union, are now following each other in rapid suc- cession, We recently gave an aecountof the inte- resting proceedings which signalized those of New York University and Princeton College. Invita- tions are beginning to pour in from all parts of the country. The following have been just received:— ‘Pars ACADEMY, i, Jas. GoRDON Bawnzrt, Esq.:— iene aoiteh Sin—You are respectfully invited to attend the general examination of the students of the Free Academy, to be continued from ane to aay 12, inclusive, at the Aca- demy, corner of enty- street and Lexington ‘avenue. The order of examination wiN appear from the pro- gramme. Yours, EL. BRAD. EC. BENEDICR, A. MORAND, ” J. WC. LEVERIDGE, Executive Committee. The above we can easily attend, but we must de- cline the following invitation; Athens is too far from New York:— COMMENCEMENT BALL. Jas. GoRDON Bennett, Esq. :— ‘The pleasure of your company is solicited at the Com- mencement Ball of Franklin College, at the Newton House, on Wednesday evening, the 2d of August. ‘MANAGERS. JOS. ARMSTRONG, F. M. BOWEN, E. K. BOZEMAN, R. R. FUDGE, D. A. WALKER, B. F, THOMPSON, ATHENS, Georgia, Jaly, $154- We are glad the South have got an Athens. Col- leges will soon be established in every Southern State. The July Term of the Law Courts. The law vacation fast approaches, and the City Hall, #0 far as lawyers and litigants are concerned, will be comparatively deserted till September. Fervid, bright and glorious summer will attract tho members of the judiciary and the bar to the various watering places and other calm retreats, where they will for-the nonce cast aside Blackstone, Wendell, Kent’s Commentaries, and the Code, to enjoy the various pleasures which this season furnishes in the ascent of lofty mountains and the rambles by the sea shore, by the lake, from whose surface the air blows cool and refreshing, or through the grove, where thickly woven branches afford a shield from the sun’s fervor. Yes, those grave and solemn functionaries, who sit in judgment on men’s lives and property, ,and those eloquent advocates of right and wrong may be seen enjoying the most boyish amuse- mente, or, perbaps, lying in luxurious idleness on the green sward. . There will be very little business done this month’, ex- cept motions and decisions by the general term of the Supreme and Superior Courte and Gourt of Common Pleas. There is but one calendar issued for trials, and that is the Supreme Court Circuit. Judge Clerke will hold Supreme Court Chambers from eleven to ono o'clock daily, and will also hear the Saturday special motions at eleven o’clock, but no contested motion will be heard at chambers or the special term during the months of July or August. The great India Rubber controversy between Day and Goodyear, which has occupied Judge Betts in the United States Circuit Court for several weeks past in the exami- nation of witnesses, the reading of ponderous docu- ments, and the making of long-winded though eloquent speeches, ia still unfinished, and will be resamed on Thursday m€xt. There are several persons charged with offences on the high seas, and other crimos only cogniza- blo by the federal anthoritios, who will be placed on trial in this court at the termination of this long litigated claim to an important patent right. In the Common Pleas, the Walker divorce suit is still occupying the attention of the court and the public. ‘The judges have entered a special order for the con- tinuance of the last term into the present month, other- wise the case, after consuming so much time, would have fallen through. There 1s every prospect of the trial being brought to a clore by Saturday next, though there are several witnesses yet to be examined, and tho counsel will occupy three or four days iu summing up. To-morrow being the Fourth of July, ali the courts and judges’ chambers will be closed. A movement has been sot on foot with a view to ap- point stenographic reporters for the Superior Court, and facilitate the proceedings which are now retarded by the lawyers waiting to record the testimony in long hand. This would be desirable if it could be extended through all the courts; but the project was put into operation in the Superior Court on a former occasion, and though the duties were admirably performed by an accomplished gentleman, the system was not carried beyond one month, as the burthen fell upon a few members of the bar. If the expenses are to be borne by a tax upon the profession, they will be entitled to have @ reporter in every court, and they would naturally object to paying for the exclusive ac- commodation of those gentlemen who practice most in the Superior Court. The law courts of the city of New York would thus employ nine reporters—three for the Supreme Court, two for the Superior, two for the Com- mon Pleas and two for the Marine Court, which now dis- poses of some very important cases, involving isaues to the amount of $500. These nine reporters, at a salary of $2,000 each, would entail npon the bench and the bar an expense of $18,000 annually. If it is to be done at all, it must be accomplished in whole, not in part; itshould be done for its acknow- | ledged usefulness, and without preference for any par- | ticular court. But we apprehend that the project will, j for the second time, fall through. According tothe peual and established practice, the Grand Jury will be empanneied in the Court of General Sessions to-day, towhom will be submitted the calendar of crime for the month of July, and all cases not acted upon by former Grand Juries, The petit jury will also be empanneled, but this being onc of the warm months of the year, the business of the July term will be con- cluded in @ week, so their labors will mot be very ar duous. The calendar for this month exhibits, as usual, a pretty fair semblance in our midst. But we are happy to gee the calendar is decreasing every term since the first of January last, and this no doubt arises from the fact of having our police force in proper uniform and more fully _ ized and di-ciplined than ever it was our happy to record. Annexed is the calendar of prisoners for Genera) Sex sions for July, 1854 5 + 2 se - 1 . 6 3 3 4 person) 1 The prison cases alone, consisting chibfly of larcenies and burglaries, will only be disposed of this month, the bail cases being, for the most part, put off until Sep- tember, Judge Beebe will occupy the judgment seat thia term, », criminal and will, with his usual ability, see that no goes unwbipped of juatice. It is very probable that some allusien will be made, in bis charge to the Grand Jury, to the disgraceful Sunday fights in the Park and. elsewhere. The Common Council. The Board of aldermen will open their July sessions this evening, but, beyond the ordinary routiné business, nothing of importance ie expected to come off. The Board will, at ite rising to-night, aYourn over till Wed- nesday, and, itis thought, will thon sit every night ex: cept Saturday and Sunday, until the number of their sittings for the month are disposed of. This being the first Monday in July, the Board of Councilmen will commence their stated sessions this evening, and, according to their amended rules, wild continue in sorsion every evening except Saturdays and Sundays until their business is disposed of. Several important reports relative to printing thei proceedings in the daily papers; in reference to the re. ~ organization of the Fire Department; and the abuses of the present régime, will no doubt make their appearance this week. Besides this, many important documents re- ative to the opening of streets and avenues, &0., may be expected. ‘This week will bo spent in referring resolutions, and petitions and reports to the Committee of the Whole, and as this will occupy several nights it is not at all ikely that the Board will resolve itself into the Com: mittee of the Whole this week. Dramatic and Musical Matters. . Every week must have an ‘‘eyent,’’ and the event & the past week was the opening of Castle Garden by a por- tion of the new opera troupe under Maretzek, in “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which was given on Friday and Satur~ day nights. The merits of the artists have been previ. #f ously alluded to, During this week, Signor Graziani, the baritone, who has made a great hit, appears in ‘‘Maria di Rohan,”’ and the new contralto will make her débu/ on the: same accasion.——The various theatres have been doing” a fair business. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams continue toenact their peculiar dramas at the Broadway; but the houses aze not so good as usual.——At Niblo’s, the Ra- vels and Mile. Yrca Mathias have appeared in a new Dalle, “Urielle, or Le Diable Amorenx,”’ which has hig bly de. lighted the patrons of that house. Everybody should see “La Zingarilla,”’ danced by M’lle Mathias and Madame Marzetti. Madame Thillon is to appear at this house on Tuesday evening, as Stella, in Balfe’s opera of ‘* The Enchantress,” supported by Mr. Frazer, (tenor), Mr. Lyster, (tenor), Mr. Meyer, (baritone), Mr. A. Andrews, Mr. Reynelds, (late of Wallack’s,) Mrs, Maeder, Mrs, Conover, and an excellent orchestra, conducted by La Manna. A good ehorus is also promised; and during: Madame Thillon’s engagment of twelve nights, several English operas will be produced in the best style.——At the Bowery theatre Mrs, Macready has been playing a round of legitimate characters, supported by Mr. W. R. Good- all. The business has been very good. On Friday, Mrs. Yoeman’s had a benefit, when ‘Love's Sacrifice’ wat played, with Miss Ellen Gray as Margaret, and Mr. T. 8. Leslie as Jean Ruse. Both the lady and gentleman are amateurs attached to the New York Dramatic Society, but their performance would reflect credit on. many pro- fessionals.——At tho National theatre, Mr. J. G. Hanley, Herr Cline and George E. Locke, have been playing during the week. Mr. Hanley givos promise of eminence in the profession, bat he has a great deal to learn. Be has fallen into the common ertor of melo- dramatic actors, viz.: playing parts in one continuous shout; it becomes tedious after the first hour, and Mr. Havley’s voice is not pleasant enough to render it; at all agreeable. Mr. Locke is an acceptable actor im ‘Yankee parts. Nothing new bas been done atBarnum’s. ——A new version of'‘Cinderella”’has attracted full houses to Buckley’s; the music is not so well sung ae that of the ‘‘Sennambula’’ by the same troupe, but the changes are well managed and the scenery is very good.——Mis¢ Julia Dean has returned to New York.——Mr. Jas. Hud- son, the Irish comedian and vocalist, sailed for Liverpoo? in Wednesday’s steamer. At the Broadway theatre, this evening, Mr. and Mrs, Barney Williams appear in 9 new drama, written for then and entitled ‘Crossing the Atlantic.” The after-pieca is “Trish Assurance and Yankee Modesty.’’ At Niblo’s, this evening, the Ravel family and Malle, Mathias will appear in “Le Diable Amoreux,” and M. Dechalemeau. Such a pill will draw a crowded house. At the Bowery theatre, to-night, Mre, Macready has her first benefit in New York. The bill includes “Venice Preserved,’ and ‘The Honeymoon.” At the National theatre, this evening, ‘the patriotia drama, “Rebels and Tories,”’ will be played, with Mre Prior in the principal part. Mr. xocke will appear in g new Yankee farce. At Barnum’s Mureum, this afternoon, the populay drama, ‘Ambrose Gwynnett,”’ is announced; in the evening, ‘‘Rosina Meadows.”” At Franconi’s Hippodrome, Madison square, a taking: bill is announced for this evening. At the several Minstrel Halls—Christy’s, Woode’ and Buckley’s—excellent bills are announced for this evening, PamapEirmla.—Mr. Henry Farren is announced to ap- pear soon at the Walnut Street theatre. Mr. Farren is @ son of the celebrated William Farren, and though « young man he has achieved o high position in the pros fession. He has played in London all the leading parts, such as Shylock, William Tell, Claude Melnctte, &e., and lately has been successful in many of his father's characters—Grandfather Whitehead, Sir Peter Teazle, Nicholas Flam and Lord Ogleby. He is said to be an ex- cellent character actor. Nothing new in Philadelphia, theatricals, The Arch Street theatre will close thig- week, Boston.—The Gabriel Ravel troupe are drawing arowded houses to the Howard Atheneum. The performance of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin’? at the National, by the Howard family, ban not been lucrative. The Museum will close on the 6th, after a most successful season. Burrao.—Mr. and Mrs. Florence have been performing at this place, and a complimentary benefit for them ig announced. Fat. River.—Mr. Lanergan’s dramatic corps has beet playing here to good houses. Fonniay Irzus.—It has been decided in the Court of Queen’s Bench, that the verdict lately come to in the case of “Lumley vs. Gye” was a good verdict, and that no further proceedings can be undertaken against the mas nagement of the Royal Itallan Opera, in the Wagner caso: @7go, that no damages from Mr. Gye are now to be hoped for; Malle. Wagner, we believe, being still liable to pro- ceedin, in London. che Slorlous uneortaiation” of english’ law teed rood rtists in Psris, that to reoord that Mr, Lamley's cetey te «« gome to nothing” may, perhaps, be of some smal! ‘use across the water. Now that all is over, we may add, that rarely has there been a lad; so pertinacion fought worthy the trouble of tilt, for who has been so little and EY ceane iin ty i A new ballet-—‘Gemma,’ the story , Gautier; the music by 11 Conte Gadetell, ba cipal dancing by Madame Cerito, has just been success- fully produced at the Grand W acd of . The promi- ses of M. Meyerbeer’s ‘L’Afi e’ for January next, which are beginning to appear in the papers, are—pro- mises: since, from the same sources, we learn that a part is to be ‘‘written up”’ for Madame Tedesco, besides the part which is to be entrusted to Malle. Cravelli. ‘Ibe approaching retirement of Miss Glyn from the stage in announced in the theatrical journals. “Babe acting’’ seems to be in the ascendant just now among the French;—a fact hard to reconcile with the government ordinance which professed to probibit aif prodigious exhibitions. Be the arguments of evasion what they mey, M. a never been fuller od ay sional delight ‘than when lauding in his feuilleton the ex- uisite acting of the little Celine Montaland, at the .entre Palsis Royal, in a new Spanish part written for her, and the admirable cleverness of the mite Bousquet, who figures in the ‘Tales of Mother Goose,’ at the Theatre Ambigu-Comique per aays:—As the final en- Bark at the Queen’s theatre ig A Bydi ‘Australia prema om and Me,