The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMBS GORDON DENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND nOrroR. | Brngs ». W- CORNEK OF KASSAU AND FULTON F ps, ————— bn actoamees Fr gR M8, eed STD | coma per eonty CHE Dal i UY HERALD every Balurday 4 Sec See ey cawem ; the burepean BAZ rum $4 per cope. «7 BS Fer Gms . 2 ry park of Great Britis, ark B14 any part of the tient. both to tnebede postage OR TOTICK taken of anomymout C0 munication. We do - oLuNy, y CORBYSL O! NOPONCE, contawming sm: mat news, scbicited from a ter af the wort ‘mall be Miberaly paid fe soon 08! gavte ane Pinviocisiey ‘snowman '2 UE LETTERS by mou for Subseristions or with sdocr te be post paid, or the postage will de deducted fr* money tod MES PRINTING exccuted with neatnese, cheapness, and WER TISEMENTS renewed every day. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—“1au7T Rorr- pO10— 2LL THAT GLITTERS 18 e wae bru Act or Rici - CATRARINE r Goup—PER- ' WATIOWAL THEATRE, Chatham etreet.--Six Dockers or Oxiie—FRENCK BPY. AMERICAN MUSEUM—afternoon, Fonry avn Firyy -- Fuarscrion—Hoie is vue, WAr.—Evesing, Vomsican Baotneas. ROOMS MINSTREL HALL, 444 Brosdway--Ermorian Muroreeiey arp BuRLEsQuy OrERa. BUCKLEY'S OPFRA HOUSE, 559 Broadway.— Buon eer’s Erworaw Orena Trovre. utter, and awo into an alleged alteration of the re- Alation regardiag the pay of tho clerks, Toe bill wiking appropriations for fortillvations was passed. synopsis of rte provisions is giv Our special despatches are interesting. Gibson, who, it will be remembered, waa coniined & nat Batavia, and whos @aptain long time in pris fis presence ba ) capital, and an in m that his absence would be his company. The politi- ciang out there e split upen the Gibson case. The ministry de: amaarily te eject the Captain from the territory, while the opposition are delight- ed at the perplexing state into which the officials have been thrown. Meantime, the Captain and our Charg’ a’Affaires are working vigorously for a | setth ment. The Senate in exeontive seasion yesterday had the Canadian reciprocity treaty under considera tion. Anetlort will be made today to take a test vote on its ratification, PROIAL AFFAIRS. The foreign news produced no effect on bread. staffs, owing to reduced stocks and fight supplies} inferior to ¢ State brands of flour advanced 12} cents per barvel. Prime white wheat was diso searce and firm yesterday. Corn in prime shipping order was also firm, and in one case sold one cent higher per bashel than on Saturday. Rye was also scarce and held at 1234 126 cents. The cotton government quite a fare tion Lad been given tur more agreeable | | FRANCONDS HIPPODROME—Mavison Sevan. New York, Tuesday, July 25, 'To the Pubile. ‘She New Yous Hema bas now the largest circulation any daily journal in Farope or America. ‘The Daily Henacp circulates nearly sixty thousand Meets per day. ‘Sho Weekly editons—published om Saturday and Sun- @ay—reach o circulation of nearly seventy (housand sheets pe week. ‘The aggregate issue of the Hens establishment i about four hundred thousand sheets per week, or over inventy millions of sheets per annwn. Botice to our Subscribers, Beis stated to us that rome of onr up-town carriers Barge mere than twocents a copy for the New Youu Mima. Two cents is the price on any part of this fetand and suburts; and any carrier charging more, on @otice being left at this office, will be dismissed from our empry. The News. We present our readers this morning with a paper teeming with important and interesting intelligence. ‘The arrival at this port yesterday of the steamships MHincie and Prometheus places us in possession of Jeter advices from California, the West Coast of Mexico, Central America, the South Pacific, Bermu. @a and Jamaica. The steamship Pacitic also arrived yesterday, from Liverpool,’and by her we have re- oeived four days later news from all parts of Europe. THE DESTRUCTION OF BAN JUAN. Qn the 13th inst. the city of San Juan, Nicara- was, was bombarded for six hours by the sloop-of- war Cyane. A party from the ship then landed and set on fire the buildings, completing the total de. struction of the city. This was done by command of our government, in retaliation for injuries ‘in. fiicted on the property of our citizens there, and for the alleged indignity offere? to our Minister to Cen- tra] America, Hon. Solon Borland. The authorities of San Juan refused indemnity in the first instance, and apology in tee last, and have, therefore, suffered the punishment their temerity incurred. NEWS FROM JAMAICA. By recent arrivais we have received files of Ja- maica journals, with the letter of our Kingston eorrespondent, to the L2th of July. There is no po- Hitical news of importance, and our correspondent has summed up the current events of the island to ‘the latest moment. The Hon. Edward Jordon had aceepted the mayoralty, conditionally, THE WEST COAST OF MEXICO. The revolution of the South is making r@pid aud wuinterrupted progress, and the people seem to triumph everywhere. As we ‘anticipated, the ru- mor of the death of Alvarez was without any foun @ation, and was got up by the government party in the capital to deceive the people, who are now join ing in thousands the revolutionary etandard. We publish elsewhere some interesting intelligence re- garding the blockade of the port of Acapulco, and the conduct of our representatives in the matter. The Kingston Morning Journalnf July 5th says: — ‘The cholera is still lurking about St. Ann’s Bay it has decidedly been on the decrease since Friday. In the villages it is still doing its sad work, and a mumber of deaths daily take place. The disease made its appearance at Higgintown on Saturday. Ip consequence of the appearance of cholera in the town of Rio Bueno ‘a beard of Health was formed at the adjoining yMage of Danean’s. A mectigff of the commissioners of the Plumb Point LighthTuse was held in this city yesterday, and a lettor was read stating that cholera of a very malignant type prevailed in the neighborhood of the lighthouse and an under keeper had died of the disease. Cholera was stil! virulent in St. George's Ai Hope Bay and its vicinity there have been about fifty deaths from th h ult. INTELLIGENCE PROM BRRACUDA. We bave receive] additional files of Bermuda journale. The Bermudian of July 12th We hear that information has been received by the packet, through a private channel, that Lieut. Col. Freeman Murray, late of the Seventy-second regi- ment, (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders,) would shortly be gazetted.as Governor and Commander in-Chief of the Bermudas. THR NEWS FROM EUROPE By the steamshin Py ewe have received our Mies of papers amd the letters of our correspondents giving us four days later news. In another part of the paper may be found a comprehensive compila. tion of the events, and in an editorial article, to which we direct attention, we have given our yiews Of the position of afaire. INTERESTING FROM BUENOS AYRES. Ger advices rpm Buenos Ayres ave to the 20:b of May. The <irgentine Packet, in a political sam- Mary, congratulates the people, the Assembly and ‘the State, on the peacefal inauguration of ajconsti fational regime in the nomination of representa- Vives atid senators. It is said that General Urqniza purposes to lovy an extra dnty of twenty-five per | ent on all goods aud merchandise transhippea from the cypisal. The country was quiet, and muy politica) exiles were returning home. YROM WASHINGTON. Im the Senate yesterday the forenoon was o2cu pied by Mr. Pettit in replying to the pungent letter of Col. Benton, wherein the former is styled « “‘great Har” and ‘“‘a dirty dog.’ All the repugnant features of 01d Bullion’s early career were alluded to. The remarks of Mr. Pettit were received with frequent expressions of disapprobation. The amend- ment to the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Dill relative to the construction of water works for the District being under consideration, a proviso that no money shal! be expended on this object watil Washington and Georgetown appropriate and pay Over a samequal to one-fourth the amonnt al lowed by Congress, was alopted, and the il) was laid aside. The Senate then went into executive seasion. In the House Mr. Washburn of Illinois, breanght forward a charge of fraudulent alteration of the bil! granting lands to Minnesota for railroad purposes The facts of the case ase ect forth in the debate on the subject, which may be found in the telegraphic re port. The alteration, aecorJing to the statement of & member of the Committee on Public Lands, wa: Gesired by certain parties for certain purposes, and after consulting Colonel Forney, the clerk of the House—who ont the knotty question of the honesty of th t rking, “Tie & Verstwt shoaic be mave’—the fraud was commit se 5 ovmupition warappolnigd to wguiryinty iy top the market, without any decline in quotations, was dull after the receipt of the kteamer’s news. Owing to the late news from England tallow advanced about one cent per pound. Twenty-five thousand pounds were sold at 12) cents per Ib. The News from Europe—Austria and Prussia Tikely to Take Different Sides. The complex interests involved in the Bastern difficuity are at last beginning to resolve them- selves into definite and intelligible issues. The retreat of Russia from the lower Principalities, and the concentration of her forces on the line of the Sereth, were susceptible of a double in- terpretation, the most unfavorable of which, as regards the good faith of Austria, was that Which most generally prevailed amongst Euro- pean politicians. Even the hopes excited by her later declarations and action did not suffice to conquer the latent distrust that existed as to the sincerity of her conduct, Her policy has, in general, been marked by sych® disregard of all moral princi- ple, and such a purely selfish consideration for her own interests, that her alliance has almost been regarded with as much dread as ber open lity. This, no doubt, has in some degree arisen from the precarious and exceptional character of her fosition. Her empire is com- posed of such heterogenous and antagonistic ele- ments, and is held together by such frail bonds of union, that it necessitated more than ordinary subtleness and skill on the part of her states- men, to steer a safe course amongst the political shoals and quicksands by which its exist- ence has from time to time been menaced. The gravity of the circumstances to which the present European complications have given rise have, however, placed her in an embarrassment from which the proverbial diplomatic adroiiness of her statesmen have been unable to extricate her, She is driven to the choice of two aliernatives, both of which are fraught with extreme difficulty and peril. After in vain seeking to temporise, aud to pur- sue a safe, middle course, she finds herself re- duced to mak¢ a final election between the powers who have been alternately flattering ond threatening her. Like all who have not the moral courage to face a present danger to ayert a prospectively greater one, thore is now reason to believe that she will coim- mit herself irrev.cably to those extreme measures of the coalition, against which it was supposed she guarded herself by the equivocal character of the co-operation to which she bound herself by the last Vienna protocol. ‘This new view of her position and intentions is not only consistent with, but rendered ex- tremely probable by the stretegic movement which withdraws the Russian ferees from the lower Principalities, and concentrates them oa the line of their own frontier. If, as there had been some reason to suppose, the oc- eupation of those tervit had been part of @ previously concerted plan between the cabinets of St. Petersburg and Vienna, it would be difficult to account for the precipitation and disorder with which that movement was ef- fected. The reason assigned for it was plausibl enol y, that of a desire to cone: Austria and to prevent the danger of a collisi between the forces of the respective countri ut we now find that ihere was no nec for all this haste, nota single Austrian s having as yet entered Wallach Frou i is and other circumstances that have since traas pired, and which will be found detailed under tie hoad of the Pacific's news, we are forved to the conclusion that the movement was dictated hy more serious apprehensions on the part of Russia than were at first supposed to have ia- fluenced it, and that the breach between the two courts is now complete. It looks as if the Rossian commanders in the lower Principali- ties were in reality afraid of being hemmed in and utterly exterminated by the allied forces ou one side, and those of Austria on the ott This view of ihe case is the more natural and probable one, and is horie owt by the langus ze of the Russian organs, as well as by the subse- quent declarations atiributed to the Czar, whois stated to have expressed himself in the mos dignant terms with regard to the tardily declared intentions of the Austrian yo)» a- ment, Prussia also scems to be thr. ¥ ing aside the mask, and in proportion as Aus- tria appears to ingling towards the ult; signs of the coalition, the sympathies of former are more epenly manifested in favor of the Czar. Her journals now contend that her action should not be made dependent upon that of any other power—a declaration significant of the course that she means to pursue. A serious point of difference has evidently arisen betwecn the views previously entertained by the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna, and there are grounds for believing that the discordance of opinion is occasioned by a departure, on the part of the latter, from the principles laid down in the separate treaty be- tween the two Courts, If this hypothesis be correct, We may shortly expect to see an open rupture take place between them, for events are now burrying on with a rapidity which will leave to Prassia no alternative bet to range herself boldly on the side of the Czar. The difficulty, therefore, far from holding out ® speedy prospect of a settlement, seems to us to wear a more critical and dangerous aspect than ever. Once secure of the co-operation of Prussia, it will be the policy of the Czar to content himself with protecting his frontiers n the Turkish sfde and to carry the war into he boart many. He will there fad an luaries who bave # direct userest in breaking doya ibe poliiga) supremacy of Austyja; and A if he chooees to beli¢ hie own principles, and call to hia aid the revolutionary elements that lie smouldering beneath the tottering sup»r- structure of her Ul constructed power, be will so:n render her & source of em- barrassmeut and difficulty insgead of an element of strength to. the co " With bh chances in hie hands, 3 not likely that amy present reverses that his arms may experience will indece Nicholas to listen to the terms that it is intended to im- pese upon bim. It is by the protraction of the war alone, whether under present favorable conditions or otherwise, that be can hope to dissolve the powerful combination that is leagued against him, and to avenge himself upor the members of it individually, and he is not a man to be arrested in his designe by any scruples of conscience or of humanity. The present difiiculties of Europe may, therefore, be said to be only in the first stage of their de- velopement. The period of their settlement no ng can predict. Emportant from Central America and Mextem We give this morning the details of two afluirs in which our payel commanders have distinguished themselves @ Ja Ingraham, and by which the pavy seems likely to gain some little credit with the fighting element of our popula- tion. The first case appertains to the blockade of Acapulco, and the action thereupon of the com- mander of the United States sloop of war Poris- mouth, Captain Dornin. Our readers are al- ready aware that Alvarez lately kicked up a rebellion against Santa Anna, and fixed his quarters at Acapulco, which, through Yankee entermise, has become the chief Mexican port on the Pacific. The Mexican man-of-war Santa Anna appeared off the port of Acapulco, and her commander announced that it was ina ttate of blockade. Now, as Acapulco is the stopping place where the California mai! steam- ers get their coal, water, and fresh provisions, and as the Mexican government has given the United States the privilege of a mail station at that point, this prohibition was very inconve- nient, to say the least. One mail steamer, the Golkien Gate, was ordered off, and Capt. Dor- nin requested the Mexican commander to «x- empt the mail steamers from the blockade regu lations. The request was met with a refusal, when Capt. Dornin, in a very temperate but determined letter, officially informed the cap- tain of the Santa Anna that he should be ob- liged to force the blockade and convoy into port any American passenger or mail vesel, at the same time pledging himself that no arms or munitions of war should be landed from any vessel so convoyed. Whereupon the Santa Anna got under way and proceeded to Mazat- lan, leaving the two governments to settle the matter. A. full account of the affair, with copies of the documents appended, is given in the Heracp of this date. Public opinion will sustain the commander of the Portsmouth, and if he has done a litile wrong to accomplish a great right, Marcy will he obliged to back him up in the matter. All this happened early in June—a belligerent month from time immemorial. Let us now look at another picture :— A short time since the sloop-of-war Cywne, Commander Hollins, was lying off the Battery, and her officers, after a long and fatiguing eruise in an unhealthy climate, were enjoying “waiting orders,” pay and domesiic bliss ashore. But news came to Washington that our minister to Central America. the Hon Solon Borland, had been insulted at San Juan de Nicaragua, commonly called Greytown, in honor of Sir George Grey, her Britannic Ma- jesty’s Colonial Secretary. Our minister's life had heen threatened, passengers en route for California had been detained, and the property of the steamship company damaged to a con” siderable extent. So the Cyane, whose com- mander was familiar with these waters,was order- ed to San Juan. On her arrival, the captain demanded twenty thousand dollars to recom- pense the damage done to the property of the steamship company, and an ample apology fur the insult to the United States, in the person of our eceredited minister, The Nicaraguan au- thorities refused tocomply with either of these demands, whereupon Commander Hollins gave them one day to think the matter over. They still refused ; whereupon, after due notice and providing means of transit for those perso ss who desired to leave the place, the Cyane opened her batteries upon the town. Finding that the houses were so flimsy that the hombard- ment was likely to he of no avaif, Comman- der Hollins detailed a corps of under Lieutenant Pickering, who burned the town. An English man-of-war was lying in the harbor at the time, and her commander pro- tested against the proceeding, but his protest does not seem to have been particularly effect ive, All this happened on the t2th day of July, also a good fighting month. The Mdministration is really growing origi- nal, belligerent and progressive. Virst, we find Marcy snubbing Ausiria relative to the Kostza affair ; then he threatens war with Spalp, all about the Black Warrior, Cuba and cotton bales; and next we grow progressive, by uying, for ten millions, a strip of land in Mexico which will never be of any wee tous or anybody else. And now we are startled by the stirring scenes at Acapulco and Greytown, which we have above alluded to. If we can do these things with our present navy, we may surely defy the world when we get those six new steamers, now on the stocks, and all the honor and glory of these achievements will redound to the everlasting fame of Pierce, Marey ond company. At present it seems highly probable that the administration will go out in a perfect Maze ‘of glory. We live in pugnacious times, and if there is a free fight to come off, young America insists upon being “counted in.” man Coxorrss—Waat's To be Doxe!—Afver hav- ing congratulated the country npon the adpp- tion of a resolution by both Houses of Cot , fixing the day of the final adjournment of this Wastelul and profligate session, at the 4th of Au- gust, we are sorry to be advised that it is the intention of certain members in both Houses to reconsider this resolution, and to extend the session for some time longer. The prospect, therefore, is that before the adjeurnment not a dollar of Guthrie’s original surplus of thirty millions will be left in the Treasury, bat that one of the first acts of the next session will have to be a bill for raising money by a loan. The imaginary necessity of revenues to meet the economy of the administration thas vanishes away. What a blessing is peace with such economy as this—what a monstrous humbug fs democracy with such an administration at its head! Let them have rope—let the spoilamen go on. ‘Lhe sooner the Treasury is oxhausted, be sooner, perhaps, we shall get rid of ther, marines, } Great Excitement at Liverpec!—Prespect of @ Duel Between Doutiel K. Stickies and Jchn Van Buren. ‘The following letter, received from a reliable correspondent at Liverpool, will be apt to cre- ate @ sensation in Tammany Hall. We pablish it for the special information of the Sachems, the General Committee, and the Young Men’s Democratic Club of the old wigwem. Here it ie: TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK RERALD. Laverroot, July 12, 1854. Daniel E. Sickles, Eaq., Seoretary of the American Le” gation at London, telegraphed to a friend here yester- day, atking whether John Van Buren, of New York, had arrived by the steamer—whether or no he had left Liver- poo}, and, if 0, where he could be found. This looked rather belligerent, and set all the Americans here on the qui vive, as these two distinguishod gentlemen are not supposed to be # very loving couple. ‘The latest news is, thata hostile meeting is expected to take place before many hours, between them. The quarrel, it seems, grows eut of a savage speech made by Mr. Van Boren last autumn, st Tammany Hall. Some place on the continent will probably be {cbosen as the ground, Jtis kuown to Mr, Sickles’ friends to have been his purpose not to let the speech ,in question pass with- out fight oran apology, and as he is known to be game to the back bone, Van Buren will have to make the amende honorable, or fight, or else gohome. Look ovt fox the items by the next steamer, REPUBLICAN. The speech referred to, we suppose, was that made in Tammany Hall, on the 4th of Novem- ber Jast, at a meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic Club, (soft shell,) of which John Cochrane, Surveyor of the Port, was and still is the President. The offensive portion of that speech in the premises is, doubtless, the follow- ing extract, which we make from the full re- port of our reporters, as published in the Heap the next morning. Mr. John Van Bu- ren, in the course of his desultory harangue, had been speaking of the opposition of the Heraxp to the administration of Gen. Pierce. and branched off upon-Mr. Sickles after this fashion:— pee People that the reason of this hostility to General Pierce and his eabinet is, because they would not give Bennett the mission to Fravee. 1 do not believe it, for it is at variance with all his antecedents and previous his- tory, He rae to be a good, industrious man. Vorce—He ia good still. Mr. Van Buren—I had the honor of being gazetted to France myeelf, and it cost me so much that I had to com- mence the profession of the law to make up tie loss, (Langhter.) I would, thegefore, recommend friend Ben- nett to pursue his old industrious course, and make his paper more of a newspaper than it has heen of late, aud no longer continue growling at Gen. Piorce, but leave Il this to the dirty dominie of the New York National Demo- crat. Great efforts have been made to throw us into a minority. An effort has been made to show that the union at Syracuse wes dishonorable, end Dan Sickles— Vorcs—Where is Fanny White ? Laughter.) Mr. Van Burkx (laughing)—I did not inquire. (More laughter.) In 1849, we not only lost Sickles, but some respectable black men, who quitted us on the ground that we united with Sickles. ( of laughter.) If you look to one of the numbers of the Hxraup, in November, 1849, you will find George T. Downing talking in this way: “They served us in the last election just in the same way that they broke off from the old loco-focos in Tammany Hall. No party ever degraded themselves as they did by uniting with Sickles’? Another black said Sickles was too low to denounce; they ought rather to denounce the recont free sollers. But Do wg returned to the charge, and said—‘‘He was lower than the beasts; and nothing, surely, was lower than that.” (Laughter.) Now, in a legal point of view, it may be questioned whether there is anything in these remarks rendering John Van Buren directly liable to an affair of honor with Mr. Sickles. The Prince made no direct charge against the honor or respectability of Mr. Sickles. He merely stated what o respectable colored man, George T. Downing, (famous for his fine Shrewsbury oysters in every style,) had said of it the Secretary of our legation at London. was all very amusing to the young men of the Tammany Club, and no doubt the Prince him- self thought it very funny at the time. Per- haps, too, he may not then have entertained the remotest idea of a private voyage to Europe during General Pierce’s administration ; and he may have supposed that long before he should come within striking distance of Mr. Sickles the democracy would be re-united, hards and softs would become again a band of brothers, by-gones would be by-gones, and that the funny speech at Tammany would be buried and forgotten. There could have been nothing unreasonable in these expectations, but things have turned out differently. The speech in Tammany, as published in the Heratp, went over to London, as a matter of course—it was read and inwardly digested by Mr. Sickles; and, being a hard shell who strikes fire pretty readily, he “ took a note of it,” like Captain Cuttle, and has been waiting his opportunity. Fortune favors the brave, and, as good luck would have it, the Prince finds himself, upon bis arrival in Liverpool, confronted with a demand for an explanation, or for such satisfaction as is held to be the inflexible alter- native between men of honor. Will the Prince apologise, or will he fight? He is getting fat, he isa good mark—but is he a good shot? Can we rely upon the friends of the two parties in bringing about a compromise, as in the late affair between Messrs, Cutting and Brecken- ridge? Everything depends upon that; but in Europe it is not customary for friends thus to interfere. An affair of honor is there consi- dered a private affair, with which outsiders have nothing todo. To make the matter still more glowing, the “man of honor’ there, who backs out from a fight loses caste at the clabs, including the democratic clubs, and can no longer hold up his head among the chivalric fast young men of the day. Hence our anxiety about the Prince. The chanees are that he must and will fight; and, if he fights, his adversary will have a great ad- vantage over him; for while Sickles is a slender person, John Van Buren is above the ordinary size and weight. The Prince, not long ago, re- ceived achallenge from Mr. N. P. Willis, which, considering the laws of New York, the political [Prospects of the Prinee, end all the circum- stances of the case, he vérg properly de- Clined to notice at all. But this prosént affair is a “black horse of another color;” and when we are in Rome we must conform to the customs of the Romans. All theze considerations go to strengthen our ap- prehensions, that the mortal offenee committed in old Tammany will probably be settled through the dreadful intervention of gun- powder, perhaps somewhere across the ehannel, perhaps on or near the ensanguined field of Waterloo. Who knows? Mr. John Van Buren’s visit to Europe is said to be exclusively private. He goes to see the lions of London, the beauties of Paris, the charms of the Rhine, the wonders of the Alps, and the fine scenery, the fine arts, and, all the beautiful things of Itely. There he expects to join his venerab'e father, Ex-President Martin Van Buren, who, like a philosopher and geutle- man, has been enjoying for a year or too, the otium cum dignitate of his retirement from politics, beneath Italin’s soft and sunny skios— far away from the strifes and squabbles be- tween hard shells and soft shells, and quite a lion even with the cardinals and his Holiness, the Pope. Probably the programme of the Prince may comprehend a run to the Holy Laud to Constantinople, and to the seat of war along the norihern flank of the Diack Sea. Wo ore, boweyer, not altogether sure that this expedition of hie is entirely private. For all that we know, he.may be charged with {mpor- tant confidentia] diplomatic functions, at Lon- don, Paris, Madrid, and Rome, to say nothing of Constantinople and St. Petersburg. In this view our readers cannot fail to sympathize in the anxiely which we feel concerning the up- shot of this hostile application by Mr. Sickles to the Prince upon his arrival oat at Liverpool, We desire that the Prince should have the privilege of finishing his European tour, be- cause in its results it may be eminently useful in putting our European diplomacy upon the most favorable tooting, and because we look to his return ag the only medium for the reunion of the distracted, divided, and otherwise irre- concileable New York democracy. We shall await the arrival of the next European steamer impatiently, partly in reference to the pro- jected bombardment of Cronstadt, but more in regard to the warlike aspect of affairs between Daniel E. Sickles and John Van Buren. We live in perilous times, ——— Proposed Sale of Russian America to the United States. ‘We have the best reasons for knowing that Gespatches from the Russian Government ar- rived here yesterday in the Pacific, offering to sell to the United States the whole of the Rus- sian territory in North America, comprising the western littoral of the continent from: the Arotic Ocean to Observatory Inlet in lat. 55, and extending inland as far as long. 63 deg. About three months ago, we drew the attention of the Administration to the prospect of these possessions falling into the hands of Great Bri- tain, and pointed out the opportunity that was then afforded us to make favorable terms with Russia for their purchase. Shortly after our remarks reached Europe, the British journals stated that orders had been sent to the Pacific fleet to proceed with all haste to Sicka—the most important point in the Russian territory— and to seize it and the adiacent country on her Britannic Majesty’s behalf. We have reason to believe that simultaneously with this move on the part of Great Britain, a negociation be- tween Russia and the United States was set on foot tending to the disposal of the territory in question ; and it seems not improbable that the treaty or convention whose execution by Secre- tary Marcy was noticed in our Washington correspondence of yesterday, had more espe- cial reference to this subject than to the really unimportant point of neutral rights. We call this’ point unimportant because so long as the maritime condition of Russia continues to be what it is, her outlets blockaded, and her fleets locked up in the Gulf of Finland and the harbors of Sebastopol, it matters very little what the Czar’s intentions may be to- wards our merchant vessels: and though his concession of the docgrines of maritime law for which we have so long contended indicates a desire to cultivate friendly relations with us, and, if not to win us to his side, at least to en- sure our neutrality in the pending conflict, it can hardly be construed as meaning anything more. Practically it can neither involve any sacrifice for him, nor confer any benefits upon us. We should therefore feel no surprise if it were announced that this was only a secondary part of the understanding at which the Russian Minister and our Executive have arrived ; and that the rea! gist of that understanding was the substitution of United States for Russian sovereignty in all the American territory here- tofore ruled by the Czars. Be this as it may, it is now beyond a doubt that Russia desires to sell. Her motives—being in brief a knowledge of her naval inferiority, and a desire to concentrate her forces around the vital parts of the empire—are too obvious to require comment or explanation. Having to choose between seeing Sitka captured by the British, or selling it to the United States, Nicholas has very naturally preferred the lat- ter, and no one can question the propriety of bis decision. May we add in plain words that his policy is not clearer than our own—that if it is to his in- terest to sell,it is at least as much to ours to buy? Asmentioned above, the Russian terri- tory extends along the shore from a point near longitude 64 degrees in the Arctic Ocean to Ob- servatory Inlet onthe Pacific, being bounded on the south and the east by the British posses- sions occupied by the Hudson’s Bay Company. It comprises all the best whaling stations in the Northern Pacific, and, if annexed to the United States would give our whalers an advantage which would at once enable them to defy com- petition. Again, in a political point of view, its acquisition would make us masters of the whole western coast of America, from the Arc- tic to the Mexican boundary, with the exception of that portion lying between 49 degrees and 54 degrees 40 minutes, say some three hundred and fifty miles. We should thus surround Great Britain; and if, as seemslikely to oceur in pro- ceas of time, the Hudson’s Bay Company were dissolved, it would be manifestly for the interest of Great Britain as wellas the United States that this intervening tract should be transferred by sale from them to us. In this event; our ter- ritory would stretch in one undivided line from the ice bound oceans of the north to the line 32 degrees, such a coast as ne nation in the world possesses, and one which the natur*! ten- dency of the events now occuyring in-.Asia can- not but render extremely valuable. Even if Great Britain refused to part with Vancouver's Island and the vicinity, the military value of these possessions would be manifestly dimin- ished to a very considerable extent by our occn- pation of the const both north and south, in- clading the whaling depot at Sitka on the one side and the mouth of the Columbia on the otherb We make no question, therefore, of the conrse which our Executive should pursue in the pre- sent conjuncture, Our surplus funds could not be better employed than in acquiring the terri- tory offered us, The case of Louisiana, which was acquired under precisely the same circumstances, is an exatople which should, by all means, be followed. Should the Administration resolve on making the purebase, a difficulty is very likely to occur between Great Britain and this country. As soon as it was known in England that the purchase of Russian America had heen ’sug- gested to this government, the Presiden was notified that the British fleet in the Pacifi® had received orders to take Sitka. It may possibly be contended that this notification should have operated io prevent our purchase, or that such a purchase made in the teeth of the notifi- cation amounts to an act of hostility against Great Britain. We think it likely that this argument will be used on the other side the Atlantic, because we have known such argu- ments to proceed from the same quarter hefore ; but we regard it as eatirely fallacious and in- correct. Tho expression of an intention on the part of Great Britain could not affect the actnal rovereiguty of tbe Yzer, op deprive him o ! o we tho power of giving a valid title to the ter- rtery. Dail Wa intention to exeented, and Sitkn detually taken. the Czar has-a cle t to sell, and we to buy the tract menaced. If, therefore, we choose to buy, and_ Czar places us in possession of the ter British fleet will be bound to respect chase, under the obvious with us. This we take to be penalty of the true:view of the law on the point. Should Sitka n before our purchase is completed, the ease would be different, as there could be no delivery from Russia to the United States, and con- sequently no sale whence we could derive any valid right to the land. This consideration ought to stimulate our government to prempt measures. If the territory is to be bought, it must We bonght at once. Delay will preclude the possibility of our acquiring it, and will in all probability have the effect of aiding Great Britain in its promised conquest, and adding further strength to a rival whose power i- | already but too formidable on thig continent. chance acannon Meeting of the Board of Health. Tho Board of Health met with closed doors yesterday afternoon, and bad a long debate on the subject of the removal of dead animals, &e., which resulted in direct ing the City Inspector todo just what his duty requires of him, to have the dead horses removed from the streets, a duty for the payment of which service the laws of tlie State provide. Nothing is said of other being ba ‘the bloon, offal, &c., and the whole of this most ve matter must be allowed to float around the city in the river, until it shall become so decayed s< to mo longer float. When the Commissioners of Health called: upon Mr: Flagg, to get him to pay Mr. Reynolds, so that Le would eontinue, the Comptroller is reported to have said in reply, ‘(Come war, pestilence or famine, I will not re- cede, or in other words, I will not pay for the work done, whatever may be the consequences to the people.” We ‘thimk it impossible for Mr. Flagg to make any such anewer to the Commissioners’ request. He very likely said he would not pay the bills, Should the cholera increase, the lose to the eity in trade must in a short time amount toa sum greatly ex. ceeding all that Mr. Flagg may save in refusing to pay Mr. Reynolds. This disease commenced in 1849 at aba) ihe samé season as this year, and rapidly progr’ saad yo that it reached 714 in the week Corre ponding to last week. The principal ™ 7s iauty Was in the upper wards, where the bose boilers &c. were in full blast, and which have now been mostly stopped in consequence of tho want of material, and the exertions of the health au- thorities. Will they not resume their business now? ‘“CoMVL MENTARY BENEFITS. —How ComMIrrRes sks Mave. —We have received the following note from Judge Daly, relative to the unauthorised use of his name as one of a. committee to make arrangements fora ‘complimentary benefit’? to Mr, and Mrs. Barney Williams:— Cry 24, 1854 To rng Eprror or Tax Herat. rearing In atheatrical advertisement in the public papers, 1° find myself named as one of a committee of mai it, for a complimentary benefit to Mr. and Williams, This is the second or my name has been similarly knowledge, and I feel m take notice of it, not ting the public to join ina whom I have no acq! ig to be testimonial to persons with. whatever. Respectfully, CHAS. P. DALY. At this time we take occasion to cay that upon the list of same committee we find the names of several gentle - men who have no‘particular interest in, or knowledge of, theatrical matters. This practice of using the names of public men without authority has become quite com mon among actors, and it has grown to be a great: nuisance. Actors would do better to forego publishing any list of names, rather than to use that of any person. without express permission. Nanonal THRATRE—Frest NiGHT OF THE SkASON.—Tlia National theatre, Chatham street, under the manage ment of Mr. A. H. Purdy, was opened for the regular season last evening. During the brief recess, the theatre: has been thoroughly cleaned, and it now presents a light, airy and comfortable appearance. The weather last even ing was not favorable for promenaders; but, nevertheles:, there was a fuil house—the pit presenting a formidable array of the youthful patrons of the dratna, who re- ceived their favorites with the usual enthusiastic demon strations of approval. The upper part of the house wae also well attended, and there was a brilliant array of female beauty in the boxes. The plays selected for the opening night were ‘Pizarro, and the melo-drama known as the “French Spy.’ Mr. H. A. Perry played Rolla in a bold, manly, dashing style, but we are of opinion that the Peruvian Warrior ‘was not a white man; that he did not indulge in the lux- ury of a moustache or sport spangled dresses. Mr. Perry is an acceptable actor in light comedy parts, being gifted with a good figure, an expressive face, and » good voice. His present engagement is for six nights only. The other- parts in ‘‘Pizzaro’’ were sustained, albeit there seemed to be a genei to rant, from which the ladies even wore not altogether free. The compaay remains almost the same as last season. Mr. Howard, lately of the Broadway, Mr. Daly, from Bar- num’s, and rs Nichols are the additions, stad we miss Mr. and Mrs. Prior and Mr. N. B. Clarke. wm Fogg thule saps ace on, compen with vigor. nea Olty Intelligence, A SUPERB SERENADE was given on Friday tmiinight toa fair lady residing in Fifth avenue, betwoon Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. One of our corps happening to be mounting the avenue in hopes of a it beyond the caloric indications of ae sone was attracted to the spot, where a portion of the Ttalisn selections: opera band was execu' the most ch from ‘* ,?”. a Guieaente e "Laer “ad “Don Pasquale,’ and ‘‘Sonnambule.”’ The night was atill, not a leaf moved, and the sweet harmony of ten instruments was most refreshing and enchanting. The wocee Se ee taste and ey, in hie pretty compliment effect. uy Gur reporter's mind, the Heatt of the fair lady sonia not, if it would, long resist sucn fe ren for & surrender. As the band moved slowly away, it back thore beautiful strains from “Oft if the atilly night.’ "Twas delicious. Daring Rospgry ix Warn Srreet—Yesterday after as noon, about 43¢ o'clock, as Mr. Thwing, money broker, doing burineas‘at 61 Wal strest, was by ege of ie which Gee to $1,000, for the purpose of gen 3 a yo man, aged | about seventeen, sud nly ruabeit into the office, and St tae dior, tat San igs in eee eee el ie ran along that street towards Whitehall, 2 immediate} whvoh wae in Wheeling Vi dills thought which was eeling, Va. » It wae it that, had Mr. Thwing himecie pursued the rogue, and cried “Stop thief !’’ that he would have been headed and TacRation ror Tar Last Four Wanas Exping 2lsr Ixstant.—The following statistics just issued from the yor’s Offico at the Custom House, will give our read- ere some idea of the extent of immigration for the last four weeks, commencing on the 25th of June and endiny on Friday last, the 2ist instant:—Total number arrived, 26,772—average of 6,6983¢ per week; died on voyage, 160. Of these deaths, 122 were Cnaxcr rm tae Post Orricr Racvtamors.—On and after Sunday next, the Northern mail which leaves this cit; on Sundays will Le despatched at 7 o'clock A. M., not at 6 o'clock P.M., as at present. By faut ugh the steps of the ff steps 4 tatemparste habits, A verdict of deat! of the brain, consequent upon a fall, was e night, in a liquor store at Rondout death of one man. It ap while drinking in a groggery kept bya man named Evane had an angry discussion on some sul in the of ae they soon pepe pings fo ‘the found it neccessary to for & er: rival of the officer they became more violent, and assault~ od him ina brutal manner. threw trim down upon theground, when in self defence he was to use & revolver, Which he did with fatal effect, the ball immet!- ately piercing the heart ef one of his assailants. H» | wax ia the aot of siting again, when he was prevented by one Of the party. Arter tuts be surrendered biuntll to the authorities, by whem he was Kbersted, ow » hearing waa. ' at & number of men,