The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1854, Page 4

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The Conard mail steamship Canals, Captain =tone, WEB leave Berion on Wednesiay;at 12 o’clock M., for Liv- aps Toemvlh will close in thiseity at quarter to thzoe Padoos to-0.0 rew & ternoon. ‘To Genin, (printed im French and Foglixh,) #ill be Petliabed at halt-past wine o'clock to-morrow morainz thagle eopica in wrapeers, sixpance. ‘Bho conten’e of the Europesn edition of the Hansro Wil sm brace the news resoivod by mai) and telegraph at @ev office during the previous wou and to the beur of _ yarlicavoa. st The Newe. LATER FROM VENFZUBLA. By the arrival of the bark Mayflower, from Be- «@aire, we have advices from -Venezuela to the lat iastant. An engagement had taken place between the in- seargenta undthe government troops at Coro, waioh | Pl resulted in the defeat of the insnrgents. The Paez party, numbering about three hundred amen, were defen'ed after an engagement of reve- ga! hours ageiost 1,200 government troops, whe o- sppied the city.of Coro. The insurgents retreated wath the loss of.abont two huodred men, together Whe I Carton ot tre Beb¥s of 19583- Tre Collapse of 1954-°5—S ume of the Times. ‘With'n the last tbree months we bave repeat- aly calbed the attentionrof our readers to the increasing syanptoms in the movements of the stock-jobbipg, com erci#], and Snaveial world, of an impendieg mouclary Pov n, anslagous in its causes and resdlse io the memorable collapse of 1837, The year 1835 and the year 1836 were years which carri:@ away the whole business coman- nity on whe’ high tide ef an excessive pet bank inflation, Sey ond all the bounds of safety com: mon benesty, or common sense. A puffofwied come—a breach was made in the flimsy fabrie— aresriag storm fullewed, and the magnificent air-built castie, frome is topmost towers to its outside palisades, was swept away into the gulf of universal bankruptcy. Van Burrg and the democratic party were held respo @ le; and by an evershelming eprising of a swindled and indignant people, the successor of Jack#on was ignominiously repodiated in 1840. Years elapsed; trade, exchanges, commerce and stock jobbing gradually a:aumed the forms of order and regularity; suinglasters were superseded by more reliable paper, and the State banks generaliy were reorganized upon something like @ healthy system of operations, Wish stight and t.mporary fluctuations, the move- ments of Wall street were plaio sailing til) the gold began to pour in from California, The first arrival of California go'd excited # geveral incredulity coscerning the astoaish- ing rumors of the nitable sapplies of the preciousmetal in the newly acquired El Dora do; but as the shipments increased from month , to mouth, unbelief pave way to contideace and confidence to enthusiaane. A spirit of apeculation and stock jobbing specdily followed; but for some time, with the experience of 1836-7 asa warning, its highest demands were amply sup- ied by the reguisr and steadily increasing receipts of gold from fan Francisco in ex- change for New York merchandise. The Cali- fornia mines were inexhaustible; and the subse- quent discovery of richer washings and larger “ chunks” avd “ nuggets” «mong the hills and grulches of Australia, would warrant tne most vwith General Geraches and the #02 of the Consal | uniimited and the most preposterous schemes @aperal of Holland, resident at Laguayra. General Paes was Lourly<xpected from New York. FYROM MADEIRA. By the arrival of the schooner.fareh Maria, at this port from Madcira, we learn that there was an- ether entire failure of the wine erop, the blight ing again appeared on the vine aad grape. The UG. &. abip-of- war Marion was at Madeira oa the dta @t July, ‘The day was celebrated with much en- ‘Meusiaeas on board of her, and an exchange of conr- Mesies between the Portuguese snd Amovicaus took Place onthe ovcasion. THB RECENT LOT IN Se. LOULE: We pavlish today fal particulars of the recent sot in St. Lauls, which le represented to iave boen me of the ‘ mostappalling tat ever took place in the country.” For forty-eight hours the city was dma complete state of anarchy sud confusion, and fee slightest jretexts vero aed as excuses for the ef speculation in mines, genuine or spurious, incorporations with souls and bodies. or with- out either body or soul, in all sorts of consptra- cies for fleecing the gullible public of their supezabundance of cash. They were all availa- bie, aad all in request. The summer of the year 1855 was the calmi- nating point of this golden epach of inflation, The Crystal palace was the comprehensive em- hodiment of the faet. We adhere to this as- sumption. The Cryctal Palace was the thing whick overdid the thing-—-the extra bale of mer- ehandisg, -or the. owe feather .more which broke the .camel’s back, and which gave us, over his .prostrate jody, the frat front view of the elephant, 1. was the ingnguration of the Crystal Palace that inaugurated the be destruction of property, and scenes of violence and | ginning of. the collapse. The success of the Med. The greatest hatred and vindictiveness ap- pest to have cxizted between the parties engrges, q@pd the inrocert snd peaceable suffered alike with the guilty and evil disposed. A number of arrests were yiade, and it is to be hoped that the ringlead- eve encither side wiki be severoly dealt with, and taught that the laws of the canutcy canuot bo ont. waged arxi cet at defiance with impunity by vituer metives ox foreigners. Sincerely do ve trust that such scence of lawlessness and crime may never again be recarded in this country. 1oWA ELECTION. She returns from the recent election in lows eemes in slowly. By « dos; atoh from Chicago, we eara Ghat Grimes, the whig aad anti-Nabroska can @idate tor Govern, is about 1,100 ahead in seven- team counties. STREET PREACHING YESTERDAY, Im this city, three street preachers occupied the City Hall steps at the came time. One, the accor royal speculation at Hyde Park had inflamed the patriotism of some of our enterprising citi- zens till the agony was incupportable. They ordered a Crysal Palage for New York; vor the London, the Paris,the St, Petersburg of Ame- rica was entitled toit—and they knew the ¢hing would pay. ‘Phe products of art, genins, and indusiry, from the four winds of heaven and all the islands of the sea, collected and artistically arranged in a beantiful glass house, would cer- tainly pay. The conatry was fluzh of money, Caifornia and Australia bravely kept up the suppiies, our people were becoming gich, luxu- s and extravegeut, and were al@ agog for some new excitement in the abwence of a Prot sidential election. The Crystal Palace was de- creed the greatest deskderatum of the age. The siock went off at a high figure, Ike hot deen player ot the angel Gabriel, contented himso!f | cakes on a frosty morning. The whole commo- with singing; the second dea tibed the enormities wf the Pope and the Chuncl of Rome, while the third divided his attention between the corruptions of the Church of Eogleng and the editor of the ismaip. Where was a large gomber of persous fm attendance, but all soemed peaceably disposed, nity was Infeejed with the contagion, It was the old moromania of the Souta Sea bubble— the Yazoo echeme, and the morus multicaulis imposture, in a new ehape. Everybody in New York was to be enriehed by it ; and the island, and no fighta or rows took place, Qn the passing | within two or three ycars, it was predicted, ef a willtary funeral gown Broadway, the crowd | would prove to be too small to contain the quietly dispersed. In Brooklyn, E. C. Ataley, the American sailer, adaressed an audience on the freedom of apeeci qand the gkcry of bis country, in the City Park, and wae bstened to with attention. After he had con- <@inded, 2 portion of the ckowd followed him cut of @ee Park, and some boys made considerable noise, Tat no act of violence wae attempted. Ju Williamstarg preaching took place at people, the buildings and the increased mer- chandise which would flow In upon us. And what wae the resalt? Stocks went up, Parker Veine, and veinsin Grass Valley and in the moon went up, bread-teffs and provisions went up, town lote end eountry homesteads went up. marble stores and brown stone pala- the | ces went ap, and rents went up to an incredible seomner of North Fourth and North Second streets | figure; and notwithstanding @ revulsion was Phe sudience were very orderly, aud no disturb- | distinctly foreshadowed from the insugaration moe occurred. NBW YORK STATR MILITIA. , Ag interesting account of the first division of th Rew York Stave Militia, with names of the ofllcers, @eser iption of dress, and all the information it was possible to procure, is given elsewhere in our paper thin morning. It will be seen that fe farce of 5,890 citizen soldiers, viz:—3,300 tnfan- of Barnum’s second-iand museum of industrial curiosities, rents continued to go up till last May, when they were raised to such amazing figures of extortion as to excite ® sensation of reaction, something ef pavic and something the division has | of apause. The self-adjusting balances of supply ani de- By, 1,289 cavalry, 1,241 artillery, exclusive of | mand have beemquietly, but to an inspprecia- guveral independent mifitary organizations. This | Jo extent, rapidly working out a revolution, Poree ia well armed, equipped and disciplined, and ‘we have no doub: that in case of their being sailed ato actual rervice, they would prove more effective Han any similar number of regular troops. . TOR CBors. From the extracts published in another part of today’s payer, it will be seon that almost through- eat the country the crops have saffere? and are and a collapse, Last year, the new buildings erected in New York might be counted by thousands; this year, with all the materials to he had at much lower prices, they are reduced to a few *cattering hundreds, The difference is manifest everywhere thronghout the city. Lost year, from tle multitudes attracted to euffering from the excessive drought. Okio ap- New York by the Palece, or drivea bere by pears to hevewuflered severely, and the eomplainte from Teuncasee are alinost universal, In many portions, unless apeodily visited wi't rain, the crop wf potatoes will be an entire failure. MISCRLLANFOUS. Capt. Hollins, in the United States ship Cyano, fasrived at Bosten yesterday, from Aspinwall, via Ban Juan. Another instance of insolence and rapacity of the Cuban officials wil! be fourd in our paper to-day. ‘Whese outrages are now of almost daily occurrence, nd our oltizens having dea'ings with Cuba are the yellew fever in the Scuth, our gales of mer- cbandise to counicy dealers were doubled, trebled and quadrupled in qnantity; and toan unusual ¢xtent, the goods were of the richest qualities. But how could onr friends in the in- terior abstain when morey was easy and credits so\liberal? Basing theirestimates upon their delusive sales, oar merchant princes launch- ed boldly forth into princely expenditares of ‘ttheir own ¢redit in fine stores, fine silks, fine houses, splendid turnouts, seutinually subjected to insults and potty anney: | royal dinners anf fast horses. What were ances, How long is this state of things to exist? New cotton, in smali parcole, has commenced to asrive in Now Orleans. GP r0cnes oO” MHP Issvarection w Csivs — Jn another part of our paper will be found several imperia) revcripts from the Pekin Ga- cetia, Which, notwithstanding the exaggero tion and bombast by which it is sought tucou- gal the trath, more effectually demonstrate the progress made by the insurrection than any of thd statements that hawe as yet reached us It is evident from these documents that the days of the Monchoo dynasty are numbered; and {t is pot improbable that by this time Pekin iteelf hee fallen into the bands of the rebele. It behoves our governmeat to wate) with vigilance the progress of events in the Chinese empire, and to neglect no opportunity of extending the futerests that it bas cost xo munch troable to acquire. No more favorable opportunity could presens itself thm the present, of firmly establishing our infurnce fn thats quarter. two or three thousand for nn elegant pa'r of Vermont bays? A mere trifle, What was a grand foncy drove exctusive ball, costing tive, tem or fifteem thousand dollars, ta the New York merehiot who could aiford ¢en thousand dollars rent for » store and twenty thousand fer clerk hire? A bagatelle, What was a dwelling house costing iifty thousand doliare? All tue fashion. But the dance is crer, and the filer, hat in hand, is collceting bie pay. We are bosinning to count car evports of epecle to Kurope by millions por week; our merchants are falling }aek upon the country,and the country is slow to raise ‘the needful supplies, Wall street fs fat, trade is dull. stools are down, and money isoaly eacy tipon very sound securities, Vacomfortable supplies of lust yeat’s stock of importations stil] remafa on hand, They must*be shoved olf at a saerifice into the country, or sold for what they will fetch under the hammer, Room ia wanted for the fall stylos of 1854, and the eur- ne of 1353.an) of the last spring cannot 1 te permitted to remain ‘over as sc much Zo 80, from the fa ure of the i:terior to come deed capit 1 when cash is o> bal'y want ed. The prospect, therefor , is hat the drain of specie to Burope w i con inne, nd hat our importers, 1 mavy cases, with all the'r efforts to meet their‘Earcpean | abi itie:, will fail to to their relief. Extraordinary loans apon urury by the banks will only ¢ransfer the hazard from the merchants to the banks them- selves; avd when they fail, the revuls:on wil be complete and uviversal. A more palpable falling off in the monstrous estimates of 1853, of our speculators and fioan- ciers, fer more decisive and remark:ble taan the tightness among the merchants, is the de- cline im this city in rents and realestate. Io every principal street there are notenavted houses ad stores, and significant and anrea- tonable placards are linerally posted up, notify. ing the passenger of “tbis bouse to jet,” “the upper part of this honse to Jet,” ‘for sale or rent,” &c. Here and there an unfinished block has been stopped in the course of its erection; and the interest, at least, of the capital expend- ed-is Jost, from the want of capital te finish it, or'the whole capital expended may have been savrificed, from the usurious terms upon which it was borrowed. While there was a hope of restoring the equi- librium of things without material detriment to the community at large,we were disposed to pass by these evidences of an over-straiaed specula- tion sinking into a collapse; but now that the day of settlement is at hand, and the disease ap- pears to be an unmistakeable epidemic, we may be absolved from admonishing the public of the great change which is impending, in reference to the holders of real estate, the buyers and the renters of costly stores and town and country houses. Already the work of reduction in rents since May last, is rather curprising. ‘We are inform- ed that some stores, which were offered as an accommodation last spring, at ten thousand dollars rent, may now be had for five or six thoneand; and that some dwellinghouses, which could. not be made to pay from boarders and lodgers their May rents of five and six thousand dollars a year, may be had for two or three thousand, or even less upon a pinch, Where rents cannot be paid, they must be reduced, or the landlord. must inevitably be the loser; for where the occupant has no means there is no redress. Plain as a pike staff. Rents are, there- fore, coming down, property is changing hands, and speculators in city lots are already, in many instances we dear, on the verge of ruinous losses, in the dectine from the value of their in- vestments when the bubble was full blown. The continuous eupplies of gold from Califor- nia have,thus far-averted the catastrophe of a sudden and violent revulsion. But, consulting the evidences around us, we are by no means cenfident faat either tho ‘supplies from Califor- nia, or the sagacity.ef our merchants, or the temporaryerelief afforded by the bauks, will arrest the downward teadency of things short of a ,general sensation. The war ia Europe is @ dead drag upon us, notwith- standing ow vaunted monopoly of the oarry- ing trade; the iatentions and prospects of the administratiqn in reference to Cuba are neither advantageous for the preseg’ nor promising for tho fatusey sod from amy +e day tho potty flickerings an@ fluctuations.ef Wall street are only significant of some general impending mischief. In @ word, if our commercial and tpeculative operations of 1843 were based upon false estimates and upen debts largely due in 1864, and if the profits of the interval have been squandered away in vulgar extravagances, the day of settlement can only result in failures, explosions, a general panic, and a general oon- fiseation, The fears of Wall street, the sus- picions of the public, the pressure of the unpaid bills of 1853, are all looking in this direction. Reaction from excessive expansion is no less a Jaw of trade than a law of natare; and the re action bas commenced. The Brooklyn Ferry Monopoly. We have heen favored with several letters in defence of the Union Ferry Company, signed “ One of the Managers,” which, in ac- cordance with our invariable rule as regards anonymous ccmmunications, we are compelled to decline inserting in our eolomns. As a gen- eral principle we hold that the man who is afraid or ashamed of endorsing with his name the truth of the statements which he wishes to set before the public, is influenced by motives that render their accuracy questionable, and we will not, therefore, be parties to their cirenla- tion. Let the managers of the Union Ferry Company come forward collectively, in that bold and manly manner which indicates the consciousness of a jast cause, and publish such an explanation of their affairs as will satisfy the public that they are driven to their present measures hy necessity alome,and they may rest assured that instead of the odium which they have brought upon themselves by-the equivocal nature of their statements, and the non-fulfil- ment of the new conditions Which they have imposed upon thelr customers, they will meet with support and sympathy from every right- minded man. As regards ourselves, we shall in euch a case be but too happy to afford them every facility in our power to set themselves right with the public. Butit must bedone ino manner that will Icave no grounds for the suspicion of a desire to shirk the responsibi- lity of statements that ore liable to be controverted by subsequent disclosures. The course pursued by individual members of the board, in addrecaing anonymous commu- nications to the newspapers, instead of coming out in their collective capacity with a fall, ho- nest, and firm exposition of the facts, appears to werrant this construction. It certainly looks as if they had a weak case and shrank from its ecussion. - ‘ Inthe meanwhile, we are inundeted with communications from the parties whore inte rests are immediately affected by the alteration in the farea. The excitement prevailing in Brooklyn on the subject is tremendous, and in- eludes ald classes, from the proprictors of house property down to the humblest mechanic. The former will be injured by the depreciation which it taust cecasion in rents (in itself, by the by, bo very deplorable evil), and the latter by the inrend which it will make upon a natrow in- ecme, already rendered insoficient by the enor- ™mous rise which has taken place in all the ne- cessaries O° life. To all these persons we have bat one reply to make. We have heard tt asserted by many that the sugmentation in the faxes is in itsebf illegal, and that it might be snocessfalty disputed were the public inclined to go to the expense of liti- gation on the subject. We do not conenr in ‘this opinion, and we recommend the complain- ants totarn their attention to some more feasi- Y and effective remedy, Now, it seems to us thst if the consequences of this measare on tbe part cf the cowpmsy be in re- ality +o wide-epread and «ppressive, the public bes within its reach a ready means -éf redress. ‘We will even go farther, and say that where vhey have been treated with #0 much ditcourte y ond insclence, they wit) be wapting in self r-rpect aud spirit if they do not show the compsny tha* ‘they are, after all, but their servants, and thit the power which the latter lave craftily monopolised, and are now derpotically using, is ivenfficient to pro- tect them from their just resentment. We be- lieve we are correct in stating that the ferry leares contain no clause binding the Corpora- tion not to establish interm-diate ferries be- tween those alrrady in existence, if at any time they should deem it necessary to do so. Now, seeing the great-variety of interesta in- volved in this question, we cannet understand why an attempt should not be made te break down the despotism of the present monopoly, by establishing, by shares of low amount, 60 as to bring them within the means of all classes, anew reries of intermediate boats, under the title of the “People’s Ferries.” So great is the indignation caused by the recent measures of the Union Company, that we are convinced that not only would the necessary number of shares be immediately taken up, but that the speculation would prove a highly remunerative one. If, however, instead of the prospective di- viefon ofa fat eurplus fund, regarding the propor tions of which we are left in the dark, and the en- joyment of a present dividend of eight per cent, the Erocklyn shareholders of the new.company were only to realise the ordinary interest for the capital invested, they would still be gain- ers, for under tbe new regulations, property will be depreciated at least five and twenty per cent, and their inconvenience in other ways severely felt. Let us, therefore, by all means have a People’s Ferry Company. We do not avticipate that there will be the slightest diffi- culty in raising the necessary stock. Lonis Napoleon has, by his new loan, demonstrated that the masses are the true bases of all great financial operations. Let us give the Union Ferry.Company the benefit of the lesson. Deatus iv THE Crry—Sayrrary Erect ov Ciran Streets.—We ‘have hope that at some time or other, (and we mean to do everything in our power to hasten the arrival of taat period,) New York will be a.clean city ; that the people will put more faith in brooms, ‘thoes, soap, water, and other appliances whereby dirt is removed from the public streets or the public cuticle. We have hope that some brilliant Coun- cilman may be seized with an idea that free public baths would be valugble sanitary agents, and thereupon get an appropriation for their establishment and support, When these blessed times shall arrive, we may expect to see our weekly bills of mortality reduced at least one-half, and people will no longer be,oblige@ to desert the city during two months in the year, ‘through fear of cholera and other epidemic diseases. But the day of reform has not yet arrived ; and it is the duty ofa public journalist to labor unceasingly to prepare the minds.of the people so that they may demand the inestimable boon of clean streets; and fa qrder to make this demand so forcible +bet tt wust” ye CUMpiica wii, every> body must be satisfied, not ovly that it is im- portant, but that it is really indispensable —a matter of life and deata fo all of us. Fortunately the report ef the City Inspector places the evidence in our power, and we are enabled to show by figures that at least one- half the deaths within the city are occasioned by the disgusting miaema which arises from the filth and garbage which is suffered to lie nd to rot in the public streets. The following table shows the number of deaths in each ward for the week ending August 12th, and the pop- ulation of each ward according to the census of 1850 :-— Wards. A careful examination ef thece fignres gives us the most astonishing results, We see that in the Fifth ward there were fifty-eight deaths; whereas, in the Fifteenth, with a population equal in numbers, ¢here ‘were only eleven deaths. Sowe see that in one week forty- seven lives were lost, because the ‘streets and the people were not kept clean. What an ex- citement would have been created in town had these lives been lost by fire or any other acci- dent! Why, we should have heard of i: every where as a most horrible calamity, and means might have been taken to ascertain the cause and prevent the recur: ence of a similar disast or hereafter. But nobody thinks of these forty- seven victims of dirt, because, it is said, they came to their death in the natural way, and by the hand ofa wise Providence! What absurd cant! We wonder that such things can hap- pen in a city supposed to be civilized, and be lieved to he peopled by Christian men and wo- men, The Eighth ward is not particularly distinguished for cleanliness, and yet we find that, with one third more population than the Sixth ward, it bas only one balf the number of deaths. So there are twenty-four more victims to dirt. In the Twelfth ward we have seventy- one Heaths to a population only half that of the Fiftcent», and that gives us tixty-five more sacrifices at the altar of filth. But this is trivial compared to the terrible etate of things in the upper wards, where the air is constantly impregnated with noxious stenches arizing fiom butcheries, soap factories, bone boiling depts, offal deposite, aud similar death-dealing estabfishments. Over three bun- dred deaths, or one third of the entire city mor- tality, eccurred in fonr of these wards—two hundred and eighty-three in three of them; And all this brought about in con-eqnence of the stupidity of a city government which was elected to reform mnnicipal affairs, but which has only succeeded in making them worse than over before, . ; The record is a melancho'y and sickening one, but for the take of the living it should be carefully studied. The results we have arrived at, show very cleasly that the city gevernment when negligent murders about twenty thousand people every year, Of the deaths in New York certainly two-thirds are caused by dirty streets and grog shope, The city government bas in ite bonds the power to abate these nui- Fonces, and if this power is not soon used the present cfficials will be kicked out of office with more ignominy than fell to the lot of their predcceescra, a Frexcn IxpverniaL Exmsrrion or 1855.— ‘The French understand better than almost any other people the organization of great public dewonstrati What they do in this way is done perfect'y, and the secret of their success is that it is always done in time. We perceive by acircular from the Secretary General of the Imperiat Commission, that all the prelimt- hary steps are already being taken to arrive at amepeculative estimate of the probable elements of the exhibition, and of the provision that it will be necessary to make for them. The cir- cular which is addressed to the committees of the different departments, calls upon them to ascertain from the persons intending to send in machinery, from thelr respective districts, if they intend to exhibit their models in activity, and if so, the exact espace, motive power, or qoantity of water they will- require. It may, perhaps, be useful to American exhibitors to know that the pressure of steam employed will be five atmospheres, that ihe fall of water for hydraulic engines will be three metres, and the preseure of water from ten to fifteen metres, It is desirable that wheels and other hydraulic machines should be proportioned to the fall of three metres, Dramatic and Musical Matters. The programme of seven regular theatres, (the Broadway, the New York, Barton’s, Wa!lack’s, the Bowery, the National and the Museum,) for next season, will soon be placed,before the publis. Thea tre goers will have no occasion to complain of a lack of attraction; the only difficulty will be, among 80 mouch that is good, in selecting the best. The New York theatre, on the site of the Metropolitan Hall, is rapidly approaching completion. Its walls resound with noises mechanical, and from the ener- gy with which Mr. Etynge pushes forward the work in all the departments of the hon: § it seems a’most certain that the house wu be ready to open on the 18th proximo. Everything about the theatre will be of the best kind, and the managers promise to put pieces upon the stage in a style never equalled in this city. The season will be commenced with Miss Julia Dean in & legitimate comedy, a new Italian opera, and a ballet divertiesement, all on the same night, and the price of admission will be fifty cents to all parts of the house. Mr. E. Eddy, Mr. Lewis Mestayer, Mrs. Melinda Jones and Mrs. George Skerrett, are mem- bers of the company. The Italian Opera company includes Salvi ; the other artista were engaged in Evrope by Mrs. Sinclair's agent, for the California theatres. Previous to their departure for San Fran- cisco.they will appear in the Eastern cities, com- mencing next week at the Howard Athenaeum, Bos- ton.—tThe Broadway theatre will be opened for the regular season on Monday, August 21; the opening piece will be “ The School for Sce:ndal,” with Mr. Henry Farren as Sir Peter Teazle, and Miss Louisa Howard as Lady Teazle. Mr. Farren comes to us with a first rate trans-atlantic representation, and he will have a fair hearing in this city. Mis: Howard is said to be a youthful, beautiful, and vi- vacicus actress. She sings, dances, and plays all the high comedy parts. She will also appear in 1 musical burlesque called “Ganem.” The Broadway patrons ase also to be favored with Euglish opera, the principal artista being Mr. William Harrison (tenor,) Mr. Bassini (bass,) and Miss L.. Pyne (s0- prano.) They huve an excellent London reputation. ‘Me. B. Ee Davenport, an American actar, with whose European caretr our readers are already familiar, will play a star engagement early in the season. He wil! be accompanied by Miss Fanny Vining, said to be an excelient leading actress. Mr. George H- Barrett succeeds Mr. Wright in the stage manage ment, the last named gentleman being engaged as he stage manager of the new theatre in Boston. Mr. Bassett has previously filled this responsible post at the Broadway, but was compelled to retire on ac, count of iliness. He is now in full heal:bh. Mr. N. B. Clarke, late of the National theatre, hes been en- gaged as prompter. The stock company will be nearly the came as last season. Mr. Hackett, from the Southern theatres, is engaged to play the parts formerly performed by Mr. Charles Pope. The com- pany ia called to meet on Wednesday. The house has been newly painted, and the proscenium, pillars and chandeliers re-gilt ; the seats in the parquotte and boxes have been newly cushioned, and covered with a rich cloth, presenting a most pleasing ensemble. -—HMr. Burton’s theatre in Chambers street is undergoing extensife alterations aud improrements. The parquet e will be enlarged and the entire front of the house redecorated. The theatre will probe- bly open on the second Monday {n September. Misa Kate Saxon, s pleasing and popular actress, is en- gaged as a member of the stock company. Mr, Fisher, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Johnston, and other favor ites, are re-engaged, and no doubt Burton will bein the front rank, aa he has always been the most pop- ular actor and manager fm New York.——Mr. Wallack’s theatre is also considerable alteration. He will open early in September. It is stated that Mise Featherston, actress and vocalist, from the Hay Market theatre, London, is engag- ed here——Susan Denin is announced for six nights at the Bowery theatre, com- mencing on Wonday, August 2ist.— Mr. Hackett announces that Grisi aud Mario will appear at Castle Garden, on Monday, September 4th- ‘The above summary gives but a partial glance at the rich dramatic and musical treats whica will be set before the peeple during the coming aatantu and winter. We shall have the best artista and the most comfortable theaizes in the world, and all at lower prices than were paid tea years ago for mediocca entertainments. Traly these are the “palmy days” of the drama. The thestres do not opan 89 early this season as they did lust, om account of tho fact that a great many people, citizens as roll as stran- gers, will keep away from New York until we are- blessed with cool September breezes, and no cholera ceses reported, The present isannounced as the last week of the Ttalian Opera a6 Castle Garden. The “Puritani’’ will be given this evening, with Beraldi, Graziani, Cul lettiand Mme. Maretzsk, Castle Gurdenis the pleacantest place of amasement in ton, and it ought to be full this evening. At Niblo’s, thie evening, the Ravels appear in the favorite pantomime, ‘‘ Magulm.” M’le. Mathias also appears, On Tuesdey, Mr. Burton, who com- menced an engagement at this house last Tucsdsy evening, and was enthusiastically received by a fall house, appears in comedy and farce. ‘At the Bowery theatre, “The Courier of Lyons” & drama somewhat in the style of “The Corsican Brothers,” will be produced this evening, Mr. Pope playing the principal part. This piece was produced lost winter at the Guiété, Paris, and bas lately been produced “by Charles Kean at the Princess's, London, it has never yet beon played in America. On Wednesday Mr. Robert Joinstoa, who haa been a popular member of the stock cont pany during the past tbree seasons, takes his fare- well benefit, previous to his departure for Cincia- nati, where be is engaged to lead the basiness at Bate-’s theatre. Tae plays on this oocasioa will be “ Virginius” and “The Sargeon of Paris.” Mr. Leffingwell, Mr. C. W. end Mr. Macdonald, bave volunteered their At the Nations! theatre, Mr. John BR. = ae the bur- é i E i E together on this o-casion, and they willbe by E. Hors and T. F. Briggs. Mesers. Home, Bryant, and others, will sail for California on the! Slat proximo. The attractions at the Hippodrome ave still kep6 up. Mr. Franconi appears with his horse Bayard) this evening. A good bill is announced by Wood's Minstrels] this evening, and severat novelties are in preparac| tion. ‘The “Bobemian Girl” has been 80 sucoeasfal Buckley’s that it is announced for every night week. A Mamuwors Cincus.—The migratory towards fields and groves during the summer so] stice, and the universal fondness for amu: in| the open air during the dogcays, have been’ seized by Messrs Spalding & Rogers, the ¢ircug| managers. They sre known in the West and| South as the proprietors of tae Floatiag Palace and| its attendant circus fiset, and in New York New England as tte proprietors of the North Ame-| rican Circus, Substituttng Van Amburgh’s menae| gerie this year for the equestrian troupe on the » (wbich, by the way, is a floating eatre. a8 capacious, elegant and lux: urious as metrepolital theatres,) they hava brought the troupe North, and, constructing a huge! moveable maequée, have pitted their Northern and Southern companies against each other, in a daily friendly strife in the same ring, in the presence the assembie@ spectators, to the delight of the Nev! Englanders, where they are exhibiting just now. Aa| the pavilion is as near (ut of dvors, and as little like! brick ond mortar (for woich people entertain a sala- tary abhorrence in this bot weather) a8 possible, multitudes flock 10 witness this unusual contest. Aseach company cov-ists of picked men of the equestrian pgofessiov, Noth and South, it is not strange that sectional, but good natured, rivalry exists between the two part es,and lesa strange that the rpectators should unconsciously espouse the cause of one or the other of the troupes. Quite a! partisan spirit is said to be invarishly excited amongst the audience during the trial for mastery in the ring. There are other peculiaritica abont the donble establishment worthy of note, suck asa duplication of everytving involved in-the busi. nese. Two orchestras (one led by Ned Kendall, the bugler); two setaof clowns and ring horses, ay well as performers; 4 complete damati- corps for the production of spectacles and pantomimes ; a triumphal procession *hrough te streets every day, of the bands, in a car, drawn by forty horses,drivem by one man; and the appointments generally upona commensurate scale; but the curiosity these things naturally produce at other times, seems to be en- grossed by the paramoun: interest excited by thig trial of skill between Northern and Southern athel, Ag the show is peripatetic’ aud en roule for the principal Atlantic cities, the people herea- bouts will have an opportanity of becoming inoou« Jated with the prevail.ng entausiaam. fais great show arrived at Saratoga Spriogs on the 11th. Boston.—One of our reperters recently visited the new theatre on Washington and Mason streets, So far as the stage arrangements go, it is undoubte edly the finest theatre iu the United States, probably in the world. The machinery and all the carpen ter’s work are unequalled, wile many“improvementa have been introduced. There is pleaty of room for the workings of tke stage, aud the accommodations for the actors are superb. The building has evi+ dently been put up in the most solid and substantia} manuer, The front of the hoase was not sufficiently advanced for a posiiive expression of opinion. The @rrangemente for ventilation, aud otherwise secur. ing the comfort of tie sudience, seemed ta ye excellent. The theate will be opened early i September, but not with Miss Dean, 294 AMounced. The compavy inelndes several 2ct0g and astresses unkauwn to fame on this side of th water. Among them so Mr. Jameg Ben- nett, wading trsged sn; Mr. Pauncefort, light comedix; Mr. Wood, low eomedian; Mrs, Wood, comedire and vocalist; Mr Biddles, Mra, Biddles and Miss¥iddles, Mrs. Kirby, Mrs. Barrow aby Bennett) fra. W. H. Sith, Mr. Fiske, Mrs, J. (. Gilhert, ‘f, Gilbert, Mr. Dal. (late of the Maseum), Mr. Fis, Mr. W.F.Joumson, Mr. 8, D. Johnson, Mr. Mois, Mr. Comer (leader of the orchestra), Mr. J. Howe, Mr. N. T. Davenport, Mr. Donald. Fon, MLebr (scenic artist). Mc. J. A. Johnson. (machbt), and Mr. Jeffe-s (oroperties), are alsa engage Mr. Barry isthe manager, aud Mr. J. B. Wrightage director. The Museum opened last. Mondayith “ All that Glitters is not Gold,” the principparts being played by Miss Anoa Cruise~ end XKeach. The company is nearly the fame Yast season. The National will open on Mondsjhe 28th. A list of the company has bee Publishinthe Herauy. After the opers season the Hod Athenwum will be for rent, as Mr. Willards given up the lease. Signora Garbato ia the pritfonna of the opera troupe. Puitarata—Mr. B ougham bas been relied Génut street theatre. Mr. H. a hook beengaged as the leading tragedian at ‘Walnut 96 theatre. 26 ve Bavrim—The Holliday street theatre, under Mr. Wala will open this evening. ‘The comy is said to be an exeellent ane. DsrR0tMiss Elize Logan was playing hore last. De Vriee’s opera troupe gave. the “ Daughter of the Regiment’’ ‘There were two theatres open on the L1thtply—the Metropolitan, where Mr. Mardoch Waaying a farewell engagement, aud the Union, % Tom Taylor's diama, “Plot and Passion,” hayen produced. Mr. C. Wheatlelgh.. had atrived; ‘joined the company. Kate Hayes sailed for Auta in the bark Fanny Major, om the Sth. A magont gold bros b, valued at $1,100,. wes presented the Oriental Hotel, to thia Indy, asa tribute ofpect from a few of her maay per. sonal friends. ©.R, Thorne, Mra. Thorne, Mies Emily Thorne,) Kate Denin, Mr. James Vinton: and Mr. James). aky also sailed in the@ame vea* sel. Madame 4 Bishop, Herr Mengis, and Mr. Leach were givioncerta. Tne Batemans were to thocity, doing mg, In the caseof Bateman, who aseaulted Boule, paitor of she Chronicle, Jadge Lr delivered opinion, which closes ae fok A person who } res! or fac rel must not seek naw on a anette ho for this we pure de cndaut, and, sentence him 0 4 fine of $300,’ We want it an- derstood that, coving the provocation, we fine the defendant foring the qu: on the strect, en, an aocera Pana ey cone ID jeopardy the ioe actee weations an Ba Lonpon-—Sitmees has: as “Massani- ello,” at Drary Le, Tre list of artista who have either sailed for Asrpor are about to do so, im cludes the names Gi, Mario, G. L. Davenport, Mrs. Gibbs, Mra, Kirby, Miss Fanny Vinitg, Miss therstone, Miss Emms Fitzpatrick, Mr. Bet, ar. Wood, Mra, Stirling. Charles Mathews Whal\ very fine benefit. Tho “Courier of Lyop%as bing played at the Ly- ceum and the Ad@i. dhe last novelty at the Hoymatket is colle+\e O14 Chateau, or The | Night of Peril.” It \ n original, bat is founded | ona clever and neart3} tten French melo deama, : called “La Jeune Feme The chief parts are by Miss Reynolds, Mr. ‘tWliam, Mr. Howe, Mr. Bucketcne, and Mr. H Backstone appear edosa national guard nG.grooor of Paris. A company of Bpanish danety giso making a sen sation at the same howelavenport and Mise Vining played their fare t at the Marylebone. Grisi’s farew4as announced for the 7th, in “Lacrezia Borgia. Parts, &o—A eer te keeping back that Meyer. his ‘Lh 4a Nord” tn they