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This gentleman reached Chicago last week, and ‘3% was arranged that a meeting should be held on Beturday evening, at which the Senater would ad. @reas his fellow-citizens on the merits of the Ne: braska act, and, also, perhaps, refer to the promi- ment part he sustained in connection with that measure. During the forenoon of Saturday there were exhibited decided demonstrations of opposi- tion to the proposed meeting, and it was evident that attempts would be made to iaterrupt its pro Ceedings. The meeting was held in the open air, ‘and a vast concourse attended; bupas soon as Judge Douglas attempted to speak A terrific din was waised; he was forced to stop/and finally abandoned the attempt. The mob sdcceeded in breaking up the meeting, but comatitted no other violence. We have commented-on this shameful affair in the edi. orial columns. NEWS FROM THE RIO GRANDE. We give elsewhere copious details.of the progress of the revolution in Northern Mexico, The reports recently published of the defeat of the government ‘troops by the insurgents at Matamoras is confirmed, Garvajel is in the field again, and the revolution- ‘iste are in possession of every important point in ‘Tamenlipas, while the force of the disaffected is daily gaining strength. There were ramors that Camargo had been captured by Carvajal or Villa weal, but the statements were not authenticated. ‘There are all sorts of representations as to the dis- @ontent of the people along the Rio Grande. NEWS FROM HAVANA. By the arrival of the Cahawba at New Orleans ‘we have intelligence from Havana two days later ‘than the news brought by the Crescent City, but nothing of importance had occurred. Gen. Pezuela intended to leave the island on the 2d inst., and his @accessor, Gen, Concha, was expected to arrive in about a week. Additional troops had arrived from Bpain to repel the filibusters. FROM NSTHERLANDS INDIA. By the arrival of the Dut-h steamer Maccassar at Singaporp we have news from Batavia (Java) to the 24th of June. Smallpox prevailed, extensively im many portions of Netherlands India. Three hun- dred andtwenty-five persons had died in the two @istricts of the Lamprongs, near Sumatra. In the Moluccas, at Amboyna, Ternate, and Banca, small. poxand other diseases wore very rife. In addition to this @ scarcity of food was dreaded, as people ould not be found to weed the rice fields; and the coffee crop waa very slowly gathered and cured. AFFAIRS IN THE CITY. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after- moon. The only business of interest transacted was the adoption of a resolution confirming the action of the Common Council in voting to pay the balance of the year's salary of the late District Attorney N. B. Blunt. ‘The Board of Aldermen held their first meeting oy the September session last evening. A motion that ‘the regular meetings of the Board be held on Mon- @ays and Thursdays was agreed to. An ordinance Prohibiting the slaughtering of cattle, &c., in this City, south of Fifty-fourth street, was reported. ‘The proceedings were devoid of general interest, ‘nd the Board adjourned till Thursday. Daring ‘the sessivn the Board was left in total darkness, ‘The gas went out, and there was a cessation of ‘Dasiness until few wax lights were provided, but ‘whether the Comptroller will pay for them without ‘a law suit we cannot say. The Board of Councilmen met last evening. A large number of petitions and other pape:s were acted on, but we do not find anything of genera! interest. Our report is crowded out tor want of space. ‘The mutineers of the ship John Ratledge were esterday brought before Commissioner Morton, and, ‘after an examination, committed to prison to an” awer. Captain Charles A. Marshall, of the ship York. shire, who was charged with assaulting two of his trew with dangerous weapons, was yesterday dis charged by Commissioner Morton. The -emarks of She Ocurt may be tound elsewhere, STATE OF THR MARKETS. Flour was inactive yesterday, with an easier ‘Market for common and Western brands, Southorn ‘was unchanged. Genesee new white wheat sold a! $2 20, Southern do, at $1 97, and red do. at $1 87 per Dashel. Indian corn was in better supply, with free sales, amounting in all to over a hundred thou wand bushels. The market opened at 850. a 860. for wound Western mixed, and closed at 830.—a decline of 2)0. a 3c. per bushel. Provisions were unchanged. Whiskey sold at 39¢. a 40¢., inclading both sorts. Cotton sold moderately at the table of quotations given in another colama. Tbe stock of cotton ia {hia market an* om shiptcand not cleared, on the | Moses and the Prophets; voinky they stig- St-t of August, from 1843 10 1853, ha: been a3 fol- jows:— 2.07,675 «++ ofl 967 Th’s exbib ts a good dea) of un'formity in the an- nual rt+k. im this cl y at the closeof each com- mercisl year for estimating the total stocks and receipta foreach year. MISORLLANEOUS. The Grané Iedg of he Order of Odd Fellows of the United States met at Baltinore yesterday morn- ing, n»+a dsofeons hundied members being pre sent, representing thirty-one States and the Dis trict of Columbia. A report of the proceedings is given under the teleg: aphic head. The steam frigate San Jacinto left Nantasket Roa's on Sunday for the Baltic. The frigate Colam- bia arrived at Pensacola from St. Domingo on the 26th ult. Central American Questions—Pelisy of the Administrauion. We bave published, in due course, the com- ments of the English press upon the brilliant achivement at San Juan de Nicaragua, and it must be confesred that the British lion has, un- der all the circumstances, ‘ roared as gently as any sucking dove.” apologises tor its own moderation, by represent- ing the act of the American government as sufficiently condemned by the American peo- ple, who, it alleges, have reprobated it with an extrordinary and unparalleled unanimity. The subordinate English presses: have treated the affair much in the eame manner, and witha more or less distinct affectation of the same ¥ motive. They allintimate pretty clearly that, ifthe damage done to British subjects at San Jaan meets with adequate compensation, England will not make the affront offered to her “protectorate” the subject of any serfous complaint. How far the British press may reflect, in this respect, the disposition of the British government, we have, as yet, no means of knowing. It is to be presumed, however, that it affords a pretty clear indication of the policy which the goverrment intends to pursue. Of course there will be what is usually called a “spicy correspondence” between the official Dryasdusts, the usual consumption of foolscap and red tape, and the orthodox amount of “having the honor to be,” on both sidea) The old women of diplomacy will go through all their cabalistic formulas, and the case will pro- bably end in what Dickens’ last hero calls ‘a muddle.” In other words, England will look out for compensation for the property offered up by Captain Hollins asa “burnt sacrifice” to the damaged nose of Borland, and will be virtuously indignant towards the United States for having violated the provisions of that ne plus ultra of diplomatic wisdom, the Clayton and Bulwer treaty—a treaty which. for perspicuity and intelligibility, affords an admirable modern counterpart to the Pythian oracle. But the Times does not spare its rod because it regards Pierce & Co, as sufficiently pum- melled at home. Nor will the British govern- ment shed tears over the violated treaty, and content itself witha “proper indemnity” for any such reagon. The truth is, Great Britain cannot afford to quarrel with the United States at this juncture. ‘ At any other time, my gen- tle masters,” she would have taken a very dif- ferent line of policy. Two gigantic countries, like Russia and the United States, whose iner- tia alone, avan element of power, more than counterbalances the active force of all Europe, and whose vitals can never be reached by a foreign enemy—cannot be placed in a position of open, or quasi hostility at the same time, with any degree of safe- ty. English publicists and English statesmen perfectly comprehend that American sentiment runs rather with Russia than in favor of that halfkneaded and feeble combination called the “Western Powers,” in the existing contest be- tween them. They know that democracy must ne- cessarily have less sympathy with an oligarchy than with a despotism, and that it would be dangerous to bring about a state of things in which, even without a distinct understanding, the United States and Russia might be driven into a real if not avowed co-operation. In one word, Great Britain will pass over the San Juan affair with no more bluster than may be necessary to save appearances. It will not be her fault if the Mosquito protecto- rate, and all of the questions which it involves, be not left to slumber until a more fitting op- portunity than the present 1s afforded for re- aseerting the arrogant pretensions which they involve. Such is the state of the affair, so far as Eng- land is concerned. Here the aspect of the case has much changed, since the government at Washington has found out that Great Britain is indisposed to make the destruction of San Juan a cause of serious quarrel. The adminis- tration has become loud-mouthed and brave in proportion as England seems disposed to be mo- derate. Our rural readers know how valiant certain broad-footed denizens of the barn yard prove themselves, at the heels of whoever hap- pens to turn his back upon them, In this wise the administration organs are vehement in their denunciations of England and English policy, end English pretensions in Central America, for the excellent reason that it is safe, and We have elseviiime, in this day’s issue, reproduced some’ of what the tranecendentalists call “ the wtterances”’ of the government stipendiaries upon,this matter. “ These are brave words;” but there is a large class of people who will only smile when reading them, and perhaps irreverently eja- “Gas!” by’ way of commentary. We should be glad to divest ourselves of the sounds plucky withal. culate suspicion that in raising such a dust about England acd her fantastic pretensions in Central America, the administration was not endeavor- ing to hide the cowardly outrage of which it was guilty at San Juan. It is certainly suspicious, that, when the first news of the destruction of that town -reached the country, the administration sought to throw the responsibility of the act upon the officer to whom it had assigned the disgraceful task of bombarding and burning an abandoned and defenceloss village. The general censure which that act elicited prevented even the most servile and obsequious of the supporters of ihe government from attempting more than én apology in its behalf, They sought to direct sympathy from the satferers at San Juan by libels on their character; they endeavored to magnify a very natural, if not, under the circumstauces, per- feetly proper, manifestation of popular feeling at San Juan into a national insult, and took upon themsclves to vindicate a bad case of homicide, if not of deliberate murder. But it was in vain that they invested Borland’s noso with the traditional sanctity of the beard of The London Times half matized the people of Sam Juan as “pirates, niggere and Englishmen;” and vainly they sought to deny the suthrrity of a manicipal government which the United S05 had not only recognized, ont directed its officers to support. The facts of the case came for- ward too rapidly to permit these false- hoods and misrepresentations to produce even a temporary effect. The destruction of San Juan came to be regarded, at once, and with a unanimity as remarkable as decisive, as a cowardly outrage, disgraceful to the coun- try and the age. Its wickedness was only equalled by its stupidity, for it turns out after all that it was chiefly American property which went to make the Hollins bonfire. And by way of grand climax, the instrument—we hope an unwilling one—in this marvellous feat of arms, is finally marched through the streets of New York, in charge of the police, under ar- rest for destroying the houses and goods of his countrymen! From the humiliation and disgrace of the na- tional verdict, the caution of England affords the administration a timely relief. The destruction of San Juan is no longer justified as a propitiation to. Borland’s outraged nose. Itis invested with a higher dignity; and had, it seems, a grander object, even, than that. It was a measure determined on to bring all foreign, and especially British, pretensions in Central America to an issue. It was a measure conceived in wisdom and secrecy by this great and patriotic admin- istration, for the sole and only purpose of vin- dicating the Monroe doctrine—that grand and glorious principle which the fathers of the re- public enunciated, which every administration has avowed, but which it has been left for Pierce to inaugurate in a brilliant and impres- sive manner! Such is the coloring which the government now seeks to give to an actof egregious folly and wickedness; and hence the simultaneous outbreak of the government or- gans on the Central American question. Upon its face the “dedge”—for we can scarce- ly dignify it with the ditle of a “move”—seems not impolitic. But it is a question how far it will prove successful. If the government of this country really wishes to settle what is called the Central American question, a fair and favorable opportunity is now offered. A modicum of intelligence and foresight, and a reasonable amount of firmness, are all that is necessary. Let the outrage at San Juan be promptly and fully repaired to the extent of a just indemnity to the suf- ferers there of all nations. This must be done | sooner or later, and should be done with a good grace. It is neither manly nor reputable to talk longer about the insult to Borland; the abeurd claims of the Nicaragua Transit Company, or any other of the ridiculous pre- tences got up as a justification for the destruc- tion of San Juan. The world knows their utter fallacy, and their reiteration can only disgust without convincing. Thus much accomplished, the government.of the United States can consistently and justly require the adjustment of every question new in dispute in Central America. The af- fair of San Juan was, in one sense, a defi- ance of the alleged British protectorate, and offers a direct issue upon which to test its validity, not only as concerns the single port of San Juan, but of the entire Mos quito shore. It brings up, also, the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, and the question whether that wonderful document terminates British pretensions, as Clayton asserts, or confirms them, as Clarendon as stoutly maintains. The position of the Heraup upon all these questions is well known. We regard the al- leged Britich protectorate on the Mosquito shore as a fraud in itself, and a gross outrage upon the sovereign rights of Nicaragua and Honduras, which it is the province and duty of the United States, as the “head of the great American family,” to see redressed at every hazard. It involves principles which cannot be admitted without danger nor with- out the grossest stultification of our avowed and true policy. Without discussing the ques- tion whether the Clayton and Bulwer treaty recognises or abolishes the assumed protecto- Tate, we require the abandonment of that pro- tectorate on the high grounds of justice to Cen- tral America, and safety to ourselves, We were the first to arouse the slumbering sense of the country to the unwarranted seizure of the islands in the Bay of Honduras belonging to Hondures, and to their organization as a colony, in gross violation of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, as well as of every principle of right and of international law. We believe, and have slways maintained, that the English establish- ment at Belize is a usurpation of territory, in disregard of solemn treaties, and equally vio- lative of the spirit and letter of the Clayton and Bulwer convention. We are, therefore, willing to accept the new-light zeal of the administration organs on the same truly American and national side of all these questions. We only regret that this zeal is not manifested under less suspicious circumstances. But whatever the motives of the administration, we hope that it will not sneak away, cur-like, from the issue which it now presents, at the firet stern growl of the British lion. We are willing to deny ourselves the luxury oflaughter over the victory of San Juan, if General Pierce will bring the questions which we have enu- merated toa prompt and final issue. Intelligence, but ahove all, deciaion, is requisite to this result. Does this unfortunate administration possess either or both, in adegree adequate to the emer- gency? We shall eee, Meantime, while the government organs are in such brave mood, we commend to them the following passage from the despatch of Lord Clarendon, dated May 27, 1853, and beg to remind them that the only re- sult of the achievement at San Juan has been to put that interesting locality under British martial law. Says Lord Clarendon:— A great ption to not only among the people Mine United Statee” but also among persons placed in high and responsible situations in the government of that Fry Aa regard to the true na- tare of ihe ita into which Great Britain enter- ed by the Convention of Was! in, of A) 19, 1850, with respect to her t and futare relations with the Mosquito and the other nations of Central America. * * Grest Briiain hes nowhere, in the treaty of April, 1850, rae Se fe ene =. — to renounce, the ull apd al 1 wi 1@ posseases over her own jewfal territories in Central America, such as that desig nation was distinctly understood and declared by those negotiations of the treaty Nor has Great Britain ro. nounced by the treaty the right by which the has for cen turies past afforded and affords protection to the Mos. arid territory, with « view to relieve the question of the lorquito territory, or whatever there may be of indefi- nite about it, and to place i: upon a clear and stable foot- ing which will be equally advantegeoas to Mosgulto it- seaf, and to all the powers which are in any way connect: ed with or concerned in it, Another significant fact connected with this question is the departure of the line-of-battle- ship Boscawen from England for San Juan. What she will do after she gots there remains to be seen. It would be a pity if her arrival out should put an end to the wordy of the Administration organs. W , Jupos Dovetss ar Homs —The telegraph in- forms us that a meeting convened for the pur- pose of h-.rmy Judge Dongiss speak on the ‘nebraska bill ot Chicago, on Saturday, was broken up by the abolitionists, and the Senator from Iinois was thus prevented from address- ing an audience of his constituents. This dis- turbance does not speak well for Chicago, which has hereto%ore had the reputation of being one of the most quiet and orderly, as well as one of the most thriving, cities of the West. It is probable, however—and for the credit of the citizens, we are willing to believe it to be the fact—that the disturbance was the work ofa few insane fanatics. A small minority can suc- ceed in an endeavor to prevent the accomplieh- ing of avy business by a meeting convened in the open air, and however great the majority may be, it cannot succeed in silencing 9 noisy clique without resorting to personal violence, By the adoption of the latter course, the ma- jority would forfeit its own self-respect, and, by being guilty of a breach of the peace, place iteelf upon a level with those who set at defi- ance the constitution and the law. The demonstration at Chicago shows very clearly the inconsistency of the abolitionists. Here we find the members of a party which has inscribed on its banners the motto, “free speech—free labor—free men,” uniting to put down the exercise of a right guaranteed by the constitution, and adopted as one of their own cardinal points of faith. They have been allow- ed torave for years against the constitution and the law—to revile the citizens of the South- ern States and cast reproaches upon indepen- dent members of Congress—they have enjoyed their boasted freedom of speech almost to the uttermost bounds of licentiousness. But now they prove that all their tirades have not even the merit of sincerity. They are hypocrites, trading upon the sympathies of weak-backed men and strong-minded women—vagabonds, who traffic in treason, and have the audacity to call in the sacred name of freedom by way of a shield to cover their nefarious designs. It is to be hoped that the eyes of many well meaning people at the North, who have been misled by these fanatics, will be opened, and that they will eventually see things in their proper light. They will be aware ef the fact that the country is disgraced abread and de- graded at home by such demonstrations as that at Chicago. The popular sentiment of a sec- ‘tion of the country may be misguided for a time, but it is always certain te be right at last. When the reaction comes, the fanatics will find themselves cast into a pit of oblivion 80 deep that the light of day will visit them never more. Judge Douglas is too well versed.in popular Politics not to be acquainted with all these facts. He is yet comparatively a young man, and may possibly live long enough to receive justice at the hands of all men, all parties, and in all sections of the country. At all events, he cannot be put down by abolition mob law. Tae Great Ratroap Mistaxe.—We are asked daily | by stockholders in the Erie and other sinking railroads whether they should sell their stock at the present low prices, or hold it for.arise. No mancan answer such a question for.another. But one piece of advice we may venture to give to holders of railroad stocks generally. No railroad should be built on an expectation that it will pay interest on its cost from its receipts from freight and pas- sengers: for in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, it cannot do se. We livein the cheap travelling era; and it is utterly impossible for any railroad to obtain for carrying passengers and freight such a remuneration as will afford its builders seven per cent or even five on their investment. A very few roads in this country —short lines between large cities, and one or two lines in the West—have paid fair dividends for achort time; but as rival roads are built— and we are building them daily—these will fall off, and the receipts decline. It is folly to complain of this, or to infer that railroads are a mistake. These wonderful channels for com- munieation and traffie pay their ewn cost—not in dividends—but in enhancing the value of the country through which they pass; and we ought to be satisfied with the latter reward. If the Erie Railroad falls into the hands of the bondholders, as it probably will, it will still have been geod operation: for the thirty or forty millions of dollars that it has cost will be represented by an additional value of perhaps a hundred millions given to the country through which it runs. To expect that we shall get double interest for our money—viz., interest in enhanced values given to property, and interest in cash from the earnings of the road—is ridiculous. Tae Sour anp THE AFRICAN Stave TRADE. —The venerable Dr. Cartwright, of New Or- leans, has writtena lengthy communication, published by the De/ta, on Northern abolitionism and Southern slavery, in which this remarkable paseage occurs:— If British abolitionism, on its first advent into our peg ig mdgeo ‘ton stern account for its mis- negro race almost from the face of the earth wronge it inflicted on humanity in Ireland, every where else in the range of now have seen & Connecticut, rebellion sachusetts, Western New York and the Ohio Rescrve will contiaue to be the dupes of British polisy, and force upon the oountey a dissolution of the Union, it is bat right nod proper that one of the consequences of disunion, which their blind fanaticism has disquahfied them from should be made known to them in advance; and that is, that the South would be compelled, om self to revive and more extensive the Africam slave trade on a scale than the world has ever , Thisis threatened as one of the consequences of disunion, When disunion shall have taken place we shall be prepared to discuss the proposition of the learned doctor ; but as the African slave trade is not to be revived till after the dissolu- tion of the Union, the agitation of the ques- tion may be safely postponed. Let us first settle the issue of squatter sovereignty in Kan- sas and Nebraska. TMOSPHERIC PreseurE.—Last Sabbath was aremarkably hot day. The night was close and sultry, although that thick haze which obscured the setting sun was followed by bril- liant starlight. Yet such was the peculiar state of the atmosphere, that notwithstanding the application of the most jnflammablp materials, the furnaces in the engine room of the Herat could not be got fairly under way till five o'clock in the morning. We should have attri- buted the circumstance to some accidental ob- struction in the chimney, had not one of our cotemporaries, suffering from the same impedi- ment, called over for information npon the subject. At about five o’clock the flames kin- dled under the boiler into a roaring fire, show- ing that the peculiar atmosphere of the night had undergone an instantaneous revolation by the rising sun, Onn Professor Espy, or any of our minor metecrologists, tell us whether this ia indicative of continued dry weather, or the | SPProech of the rainy season? Surely there foust be something in the wind. PALER RECESSES te Guarewaa Sraam Navication ComPaxy.— By private letters received from Guatemala, we learn that some gentlemen have organized @ company under the above title, with a view of navigating the rivers Motagua, Polochic and the lake of Dulce by steam, and also of placing one or more steamships between New York, Havana, Belize (British Honduras), and the ports of the Republic of Guatemala. We learn that the Belgian company of Santa Tomas has failed to complete its en- gegements—a company which enjoyed by their charter, the exclusive privilege of navi- gating the above named waters. This has led to the organization of the new company, and it is more than likely that a call will be made upon some of our capitalists here to embark in the enterprise. The movement will no doubt be the means of opening up a commercial in- tercourse between this city and Guatemala. We learn further that the proposals for a char- ter have been submitted, and are in course of final settlement. a Governor SzyMour—We understand that Governor Seymour will, in no event, be a can- didate for re-election. This decision was form- ed long since, and promulgated through the prees, He still adheres to this determination. His course would have been the same had the democratic party been united. Italian Opera, Castie Garden—Debut of Ma. rio and Grist. One of the most numerous and brilliant audiences thet has for many years graced Castle Gardes—the scene of #0 many operatic successes and failures—assembied last evening to witness the debut of the two great European singers who have so long occupied the first rank on the Italian lyrical stage. To say that they justified all the anticipations that had been formed of them would, per- haps, be going too far; but to pronounce the impression which they made on an audience, entirely new to them in acquaintance and sympathy as eminently suc- cessful is stating no more than the result justi- fies, Whatever differences of opinion may prevail amongst musical connossieurs as te the precise degree of their merits, it was impossible that their reception could be otherwise than favorable. Artists who have #0 lofig held the first place in the estimation of the musical dilettanti of the great European capitals could not have achieved their reputation upon light grounds; but at the same time we have been exposed to such fre- qent disappointments from either the failure of the an- ticipations founded upon imported criticisms,or from the exaggerations of an enthusiasm worked up by the hire- ling aid of @ portion of our own press, that it must have been at once evident to the debutants, from the general character and bearing of the audience of last evening, that they had a more severe erdeal to pass through than they were perhaps led to expect. Al. though their reception was cordial, there,was nothing of that fanatic excitement whish we have witnessed on s0 many former occasions; but as in the progress of the piece the splendid and highly cultivated qualities of the Principal singers developed themselves, the enthusiastic applause that was awarded-to them evinced not only an equally well-schooled taste and judgment on their part, but evidently gratified the debutants more than a pro- digal and irdiscriminating lavishment of their favors. Before we proceed to state the impression left upon us by the performances of the eveningjwe must not omit noticing, by way of episode, curiosity manifested by the male portion of the audience to get a view of the fortunate fair one to whom the first seat was jknocked down at the sale on Friday last. Before the curtain rose she might literally be said to have been the “‘cynesure of neighboring eyes;’’ but her embarrassing position did not appear at all to disconcert her. Our readers equpst, of course, expect that we should compromise og gal- lantry by entering into any impertinent description of her personal attractions. It is sufficient to say that Signor Mario must be made of sterner stuff than most people would be inclined to give him credit for, to have remained so long obdurately inasnsible to their power. It would be carrying our admiration of the qualities displayed by Madame Grisi to an extrame unwarranted by theevidences of yesterday evening’s performance, ‘were we to say that she has lost nothing of her former freshness and purity of voice. The hand of Time, which deals so unsparingly with all the rest of the world, makes no exception in the case of those favored c'xil- aren of song whose rich andowmenta of physical gifts open the way for them to reputation and fortune. Still the traces of its inroads are only obvious to those who have had the opportunity of comparing the dif. ferent stages of a career pre-eminently successful in all its phases. Her figure has assumed a fullness ands heaviness not quite consistent with our notions of classical grace; but her features are still noble, commanding and expressive. If she is wanting somewhat in the facility and precision ef execution for which she was formerly remarkable, her voice still pos. senses & power and richness that it does not often fall to our lot to hear, and that leave her still equal, in this re- spect, to almost any of her cotemporaries. For those great parts which she has made peculiarly her own, and which none of her rivals have been able to approach her in, such as Norma, Lucresia Borgia, Anne Bolena and Donna Ants, her vocal and histrionic powers are still in sufficient vigor and perfection to enable her to give her accustomed effecttothem. Although itis not improbable that we may yet see those parts filled by greater singers, it is scarcely possible to find combined with so much ‘vocal excollence so much of dramatic force and expres sion. Grisi, in fact, owes as much of her reputation to the latter quality as to the former; and although in the one those who have heard her at an earlier period of her operatic career will recognize a sensible falling off, in the other her powers seem to have matured rather than diminished. There could have been no more striking proof of this than the intensity of passion which she dis- played throughout almost the whole of last night’s per- formance. Her defiance of the taunting nobles, her de- spair at the poisoning of Gennaro, and her anguish at his death, were all expressed with a depth and grandeur ef emotion that carried away the soul with it, and left that profound impression upon the spectators which nothing but genius of the first order can create. The reputation that preceded Signor Mario to this country received full confirmation in the verdict passed by the public on his performance of last evening. He is ‘unquestionably the finest tenor that has ever visited us. and we have the advantage of hearing him in the full ma- turity of his powers. When we compare him now with the descriptions given of him on his first appearance at the Grand Opera in Peris, in 1839, we cannot but admire the perseverance which has enabled him to conquer the bashfulness and awkwardness which then marred all his efforts, Itis impossible to give an idea by descriptian of the delicious qualities of his voice, his perfect style of phrasing, and the exquisite delicacy and refinement of his execution. When we combine with these-qualitios finely formed and expressive features, a slight and grace- ful figure, and considerable dramatic power—tho result of careful study—some notion may bo formed of the effect produced by his performance on the audience. Where the roles of both these distin- guished artiste offered only a succession of new beau- ties, each equalling the others in the perfection of its rendering, it would be difficult to particularise those pas- sages that pleased the audience most. Suffice it tosay that all the gems of the opera were encored, and that at the close of ‘each act Madame Grisi and her husband were called before the curtain, and greeted with the most enthusiastic applause. Of the other debutants we can only speak favorably of the new basso, Signor Susini. He has fine voice, some-" what wanting in flexibility, perhaps, but betraying care- ful cultivation. His style and action are both excellent, and, altogether, he is a most valuable acquisition to the company. Governor Seymour and his family had intended to be Present, but were prevented from coming by unexpected causes, explained in a letter of apology to the lessee. ‘The tickets for the next , will be redaced to three dollars to all parte of the house, and will be dis- posed of by auction, as before, Marine Affatrs. ‘Tum Sreansmre Prommrmace, Captain Turner, sailed yes. torday afternoon for San Juan, Nicaragua, with passen- Snr. Opening a Letter,—Joba Legan was of opening a letter belong- from Bold to never. ‘This favorite house opened lest night for the regular peep ‘There was s fall audience in attendance. Dur- wammer recess severa) important imprevements have been made im tie front of the house. A new pur- quetts ‘nas been constructed. It extends under the first tier, and wil accommodate seven hundred people. The Parquette has a separate entrance from Chambers street, in addition to that from the first tier. The stage has been lowered eighteen inches, and the seats in the first tier materially improved. The proscenium has been newly decorated, and the box fronts beautified in artistic. style. The opening pieces were ‘Tne Serious Family,” played with the excellent cast of last season, including Mrs. Hughes, Miss E. Raymond, Mr. Burton, Mr. Fisher, ang Mr. Jordan, and the pretty little bagatelle “ ” introducing two new candidates for public favor, Miss Annie Lee as Carlo, and Mr. Marchant as Don Raphael. Miss Lee acta like s novice—an unfortunate fealt in a. | part like Carlo, which depends for success on quict, — artistic acting, and a thorough knowledge of what iscalled “stage business.” Miss Lee has also a bed: | figure for this style of part, and does not sing, or, at least did not at the time when it was most important she should do so, namely, in her first scene, wherethe foundation of the plot is laid by the interest suddenly awakened in the mind of the King by Carlo’s song. Miss ‘Lee has talent for the stage, but will not be in parts like Carlo. Mr. Marchant’s Don Raphael wasa respectable performance, and he will doubtless be q- useful member of the company. Mr. Burton hasbeen ‘Judicious in retaining the favorite artists of the last two seasons, as was proven by the enthusiastic receptions given to each of them as they appeared. After the fallof the curtain on the first piece, the mageger was called before the curtain, and he briefly addressed the audience, promising them that the at- tractions to be presented during the coming season should be equal, if not superior, to those of previous years. Altogether the opening of Burton’s theatre was. ® most successful and pleasing theatrical event. Srara Exzorions.—Two. States held their general clec- tions to-day, vis., Vermont and Califernia. The former will elect a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Trea- surer and three members of Congress, which are to be- i = elected from the following tickets:— Den. 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