The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1854, Page 4

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Aceordingly ha’ officer pro- ik SABER ALD sory Suter on at conte per | ceeded to execute his missin, and on W.dnesdsy The “equency of complatiuts of losee: 0° letters i | Hie» Yo k Pot Office mis ed ihe Pos'master from tbe mapcuvring hb» « beerved fet justified im | taxiny a night c«rk, named F tzg bbon, into cusy | | dy, in whose posi easion severa! packages of lev fe. | were fourd. “e xotice by our elegraphic des- | patches t’ at a simi'ar arrest has been made’ Bal- | HTS recent election is rot yet over. It } i rdly a week vince we gaertained who al ee | Governor. { The Roce of cflicer 5 however, was only ope of sbe resule of the pot | test. Libel pul’s form snother re ols, The Grand Jury yesterday founda bill of ? 4 1. ment against | two individuals for hbel on J® ne; W. Barker, the Know Nothing candidate for Maser, published ia | the Tribune the day betr ns i will be on referey ce to » letter from ex- Recorder Tallmadge, g'¥ en in another comamn, thet | he has commenced suv a ainst the prop fetora of | the Courier and Engwirer and Tribune tor Weele | published in those papers during the lat: pwWtical | canvass. The Secretarf-of the Board of Public W orks of the State of Virgimia ha: made an interesti ag state- ment. relative to the finances of that Sta ge, which | will be found in the money articl+ of to-d: gs paper. | The 1umors tvat have been aflost regar’ fing the po- sition of the Stste’s finaucisl agents ca’ fed for this ofticial explanation, acd it has been p gemptly far Night, end ia well worth the a'tention ¢ g ®osdholdera end the public generally. Ataong the passengers that sailed‘ mthe America from Boston on Wednesday last * wee Mc. Macrae, lately errived aa special bearer of écopatcnes from the Congress at Ostend, and of the letter of Mr. Bachagan in regard to Cuba. EU 3 mow returns to Europe with anewers from the eéainistration to those des; atches, The vitrio! man was caught } ast night by the po- lice. Am account will be fou sd of his arrest, in another column. ‘The Grand Jury have found pill of indictment against Moves Myer, chargin; ¢ bim with setting fire to bis grocery store, at 505 Grand street, on the night of the 3d instant. A report of the doings of the Board.of Aldermen } last evening, which ia qu Ke int-resting, may be | found on the first page. The Meeting of Congr ese—Last Session—The President’: 5 Message. We are within ten da ys of the meeting of the national legielature— the last session of the Yhirty-tuird Congress., It is the short session, | closing by cons:itut’ onal Ismitation on the 4th By the arrival of the Canada at Halifax we have | foar days later intelligence from Europe. Her} ad: | ‘vices, in lien of specific facta, bring us the consoling | easurance that the siege of Sebastopol is procecd- ing “slowly bat surely.” We have further details by this arrival of the mgagement at Balaklava, which it appears was 2 Mech more serious affair than was at firat repre gented. A despatch, received by way of Marseilles, states tast one thousand of the British troops were pat hors de combat. Thelith regiment of lansers was almost entirely annihilated. General Ceoro- Dert's official despatch deals tenderly with these facta. As regards the progrens of the siege, it is diMoult to glean anything satistactory from the French ana of Maich. Thus tb ree months are oll that is lett to the administration in the House of Re- preeentativee, fir t’ ae next House will be over- whelmingly oppe sed to President, Cabinet, Kitchen Cabinet, and all concerned. Th2 approacbir ig ses-ion, therefore, is the last chance jor the &® Jministration ; and it is proba We that Gen. P ferce will make a desperate ef- fort to recover his legs in tbe recommendation of a bold and : deshing warlike policy to the two houses. Jheiry proceedings wil: open witt the message. W hat will it be? What will it pro- pose to do upon the great issues, domestic and foreign, ca!) dng tor action and settlement? No- body ecem® to know. Nobody seems to care. Never was there such indifference within ten Bogiieh accounts. Tre gist of them, however, is, fast up to the 30th, the cannonading centinaed waremittingly on both sides, and that on the 1st ef November the siege works were so fer advanc- days of tce meeting of Congress, concerning the Presideut’s message. The late elections, the Know Nothings, the Russian war, the high prices portance lations x with France and Spain. But as these issu’. involve a change in the Cabinet and in | President is meter of the Cabinet, to be sure; | OF |; diplomatic conpe, and the experiment of s | but Piereo ‘is weak, and Marcy is obstinate. night b» w'tchd the workirgs of she office, and)" war policy for the administration, it would, | Marcy’® policy is dead against a war, which nished. It places the whole mv'ter fmite proper | it is, of course, difficult to say. our Consul © Paris. I+ will be re selected that-ke | bozh houses a”, in the K tohen Cabinet. Ta tell, expect nothing of general im- an the message, except upon our ré- perhaps, be as we'l for the financiers éf Wall street to prepare fo: war. It may bea fizzle, but it may be war. It is certainly the safest policy to prepare for war. Lord Palmerston’s Secret Mission to Parts— ‘What's in the Wind? The most important and significant feature in the news brought by the Canada is the atate- ment that Lord Palmerston had started for Paris on a secret political m'saion, the object of which has naturally given rise to a good deal of speculation. Such a movement at sucha | time on the part of a Cabinet minister, and one too, whose views are understood te concur on | most important points of European policy with those of thé French Emperor, must have been influenced by grave considerations, Whetber they have reference to the growing disposition suppored to be menifested on the part of our government, through the acts of its representa- tives abroad, tomake its influence felt in the adjustment of the political affairs of the Conti: nent, or whether they are to be attributed to the embarrassment arising from the still doubtful attitude of the German Powers, There | is @ third motive which suggests itself, | which, from recent information that has reached us, seems to us to have had ; Some share in determining this unusual and sigvifloant proceeding. The uneasiness excited in the English ‘mind by the slow progres: which the allied forces are making in the Cri- mea, is again reviving the storm of unpopulari- | ty which the dilatoriness and alleged luke- warmnese of the Aberdeen cabinet raised some months since against its chief. The prospect of the campaign assuming an unfavorable turn, has ;robably induced Lord Aberdeen to hasten his contemplated retirement before the results of his inexplicable inaction in the earlier stages of the war driveshim in disgrace from his ;ost. The general voice of the Eng- lish people has long indicated Lord Palmerston as the only man fit to pilot the bark of State through the sea of difficultiesin which the Eastern question has involved it. It is probable, therefere, that previous to his as sumption of the direction of the government, he feels it necessary to come to some clear and definite understanding with the French Emperor as to the programme of policy which it may be necessary to pursue, not only with regard to the political complications of Europe, but also.as to the probable action of this country in reference to Cuba. Should this supposition prove correct, we may leok for an entire reconstruction of the English Cabinet, for it is no‘ to be supposed that Lord Palmerston will be satisfied to retain in the new admipvistration any of the elements which baye hitherto proved a drag upoa his ardent and impetuous tendencies, A new government, to snit the present impatient and fretful temper of the public mind of England, must be emphatically one of action, divested of all suspicions of Russian leaniags, and pre- pared to act withthe vigor and determination necessary to carry the war to a successful ter- ed that the third parallel was opened. {twas to| of preadstuffs ond anthracite coal, the tight- tainetion, or, at all events. to relieve tht ®e completed in eigh: or teu days. Prince Menect ikoff, in his offisial-Gespatches, ‘which date to the evening of the 3d November, gives quite a different account. He states that the dam- age done to the Rossian works was trifling, and had been immedia'ely repaired. Thetire from the English batteries haa become weaker, an d, in fact, nothing likea result had been attained. Which of ‘these covflicting statements are we to-teli eve? A blockade of-el! the Rassian ports in the Biack Bea, Sea of Azef,end the Baltic and White Seas, Ihas been decided apon, and will be enferced early in Bprivg. The Baltic fleet was still in Kiel Bay, no sailing orders having been received. All corts of ramors had been circuleted with re- gard tothe condition and feelings of the besieged. ‘The inhabitants are said to be disposed to surrender, and a disturbance is reported to have taken place on the partof themalcontents. ‘The Gand Dake Con- stantine was thought to be in thetewn. All these matemesta are, however, to be taken with tho usual ugalification. ‘The Austro Prussian question remeins as much a matter of doubt.as ever. The German Powers wil probably make up:their minds when the war arrives a8 a conc'usion. < The. Boglish .fieet is not to be again tried befo~ ‘the walls of Sebastopol. The fact ie « siguificaut ene. Before the receip' of the Canada’s news yesterday flour slightly improved with pretty free sales, Af- terwarde holders demanded from 25c. to 50c. per Darrel advance ; but no movement was expected cf faaportarce until after the receipt of. private letters. Indian corn teld freely .at 90c. a 91c., but after the mews came to bang it was held at 95c.a.100c. White Pennsylvania wheat sold at-$2 15; Gonesee was, af ter the news, beld at an advance. Only.about 500 ales of cotton were sold, at irregular prices, The market closed quiet, as dealera were disposed t> await the receipt of the Canada’s letters. Pork ‘wes lower, and closed at $12 50 for mess. Lard and ‘tallow were bcth firm. Prime mess beef was being taben pretty freely for export on English account, The Hamburg bark Johannes, arrived yesterday from Hamburg, with three hundred and nine pas | asengers, reports twenty-two deaths om the passage. A general convention of Presidents of various rail- reads in the United States assembled last night a: ‘the Astor House, to adopt some salutary measures for their general benefit. An address was delivered By the President of the Convention, vetting forth the abuses which needed remedy; avd several .im- portant resolutions were passed, all ¢f whict wili de found in another column of t1-day’s icsue. nessof the money market, the collapsing among the rotten banks and shinplaster shops, and the critical state of our commercial and finan- cial affairs, haye absorbed, and continue to ab- sorb, the public attention. The people don’t carea brass farthing for the message. The ad- ministration is condemned and powerless, It is supposed that i has done all the mischief it can do; ani v hat is the odds? Still, the Pres dent’s message may be as full of evils as Pandora’s box; or it may possibly be remarkable for some good things in the ad- justment of our foreign and domestic affairs. We have been admoriehed to prepare for war. It is supposed that, touching «ur complicated relations with France ani Spain, including the Soulé imbrog'io, such a ccurs: of aetion wil) be recommended as, if cirried out, must resu! in war. Webave bern promised Cuba in less than six months; and how we are to get it within that interval, ahort of a tilibustering de- scent upon and seizure of the island, we are at @ loss :o imagine. and diplomatic corps, and that these pro- posed changes are to turn upon a bold and slashing war policy, to wuich Marcy is inflexibly opposed. A war policy, thep, in securing Marcy’s resignation, will open the way for the whole schedule of Calinet and diplomatic changes proposed. It all depends upon a dashing war po'icy, and upon Marcy. We shonld not b: surprised, therefore, if, con- sidering bie desperate situation, our unfortu- nate Presi-ent should make a plone into the Spain, as the on'y expedicnt which can revall the countiy to bis sna; port. Upon the infamous Greytown affair we ex. pect nothing but a cock-and-bull story in the way of an explanation. Santa Anna will be handied cautiously, and the Sandwich Islands must wait alittle longer. We shall have some clap-trap concerning the treaty with Japan, country from the consciousness of wasted op- portunities. In presence of these all-important #nd vital considerations old party differences and feelings of personal animosity must be overlooked; and in these respects Lord Pal- merston bas the advantage of having, in the course of his long political career, co-operated, in ture, with almost every party, and thus, necessarily, on more than one occasion, ren- dered bis feelings subservient: to his political interests. He will probably call in to his aid Lords Derby and Grey, who, notwithstanding their antagonism on questions of dom-stic policy, are not likely to hesitate in joining an administration formed under the pressure of such critical circumstances. These are ali men Black Warr‘or case, and other cases, and the of high intellectual stamp, great administr uive ability, and unquestionable patriotism and 1 | CBerey- If Lord Palmerston succeedsin brins- ing about such a coalition, we may calculate on seeing frcsh vitality and vigor iufased into all the operations of the war. It is questionable, however, whether, even with all the advantages that such a combina- 7 tion would possess, it would succeed in re- It is understood that the great resolve of the if President, just mow, is a change in his Cabinet | ‘Tleving the errors committed by its predeces- sors. The opportunities have been lost which might have been turned to profitable aecount, by men actuated by asterner sense of duty and warmer feelings of patriotism than seem to have animated the present Cabinet. Those who succeed them will take upon themselves an anxious and trying responsibility. Tus Recossrrvcrion oF THE CaBineT.—The newspapers, we perceive, are beginning to dis- cuss the reported intentions of the President touching the reconstruction of his Cabinet. desperate alternative of a war with France and | The press of all parties, and the mass of the people, are unquestionably in favor of a change. Things may, upon a change of the Cabinet, change for the better. They cannot be made worse, Any thing for a change. One of our cotemporaries argues that when the elections in England go against the M'nis- try, the ministry go out, considering the result equivalent to their discharge; and that the rqme allusion, perhaps, to the affairs of China, | ministry of General Pierce ought to follow this | to the neutrality treaty with Russia, and a | practice upon the very broad hints they have | little puffing of the reciprocity treaty with the | recefved in the round of our State elections of A mecting of the Committee of the Board of | Canadas and the contiguous provinces. We | the last twelve months. But, on the other ‘Ovuncilmen appointed to hear the arguments in the matter of opering Albany stre*t was held yesterday afternoon in the chamber of the Board of Alder- men, Mestrs. Frye, Wild and Purdy being present. Ms. Cutler sppeared in opposition to the propvsed opening, and Mr. Rodgers also appesred im behalf of ‘the ownera of real entate who are opposed to the a!- muy aleo be favored with eome explauation of | the mission of Mr.and Mrs. Gen. Cazeneau to | Saint Domingo, and in reference 1o the pro- gress of “manifest destiny” in that quarter of the wrld. But all these things will amount to little or nothing. The interest, hand, it is argued that our own Cabinet and the English ministry are two different things. The latter are the British executive government, the Queen being practically cipher, though the chief of the State. Our Cabinet, on the contrary, constitute the cipher, practically Reged improvement. Without anything beiog done | the pith aud policy of the message, will | speaking, the President being their absolute mas- im the matter, the committee adjourned til) Friday next at 2 o'clock. ‘The Board of Supervisors last evening passed re- relations in favor of sdop'ing the report of the committee recommending the increase of the sala- ries of the clerke and chief officer of the Supreme Court $200 each. As this merely plaves these offi- cere om the same athndard of psy with tife clerks of the other law courts, it must be considered bat rea- sonable apd just to those gentiemen. The Board of Councilmen met at five o’clock last evening, and immediately commenced a long deba‘e on the question of the extra appropriation required for the sup port of the Board of Education for the year 1864. Mr. Benedict, President of the Board of Education, ‘orwarded a reply to the late com- mmnicaticn of the Councilmen, in which he shows the reasons which induce that Board toask asom of over $196,000for support. Phe question was settles, vor the present by a resolution of Councilman Ken- siéy- The communication of Mr, Becedict and centre in the Cuban question, and our intri- cate and critical relations with France and Spain. And upon there we may. perhaps, have war, if Congres: is disposed to take the respon- sibility, for the relief of the administration We are not prepared for much in our domes- tic affaire. The session is so very short that a)) the time not taken up by the two houses upon Cuba and Soulé and the regular appro- priation bills, will probebly be devoted to tne spoils—parent extensions, land jobbing, Gal- phin and Gardiner claims, and such things. We may have recommendations to strengthes the army and navy for the possible contingen- cies of war--to revise the tariff according to the plan of Guthrie—to increase the pottages after the plan of Dr. Olds, &e. As for the sur pins revenue, there will very likely be none ter. A change ofour Cabinet, therefore, under fie same President, is but the appointment of a new set of men to do the same work as the old set. Our executive government can only be changed in a change of the President. Butif the will of the people is regarded by Mr. Pierce as the supreme law, he ought to resign. En- phaticelly condemned in all the Jate elections, he ought to retire. He has been rather re- markable far resigning and declining hereto- fore. He resigned his seat in the Senate; he resigned his commission in the Mexican war; and now, after baving hada fair trial, and made a dead failure, why should he not bow to the expressed will of the people, resign the net, even of the old materials, we Se term aie ye nee ment, and Marcy sent off *,, Yepan, we might obtain the most WoD“erfo’, results for the bent- fit of the etmitstre“ion, the party, and the | Monroe doctrine nq manifest destiny. The mig: resalt in a new batch of military bief ‘tains, who would lay all the old fogies on the shelf. We repeat, then, that if Mr. Pierce does not intend to reeigm, self-respect, and respect for public opinion, require that he should give us a new Cabi-aet, or at least a new Premier, a new Secretary; of the Treasury, and anew Post- master-Genegal. Anything for a change. Rallway Mecidents and Shipwrecks—Reck- Seas Destruction of Life. The a* ident which took place on Wednesday mornin gon the Harlem railroad, seriously ia- jaring: some twenty persons, has once more <drawa public attention to the state of the laws for the preservation and protection of life. Within the last few weeks, two cases of ship- wreck, both involving immense lossot life, have ‘been recorded in the newspapers; and though it was quite clear that in both a large share of the disaster was due to the negligence, coward- fce or dereliction of duty displayed by the lart have beem course, a captaid ie always at Wberte—nay ba ime g ay sly for freight. Sales deeb more—he ie hunni, bo sheet Fonaneg ie urbels at €0 70. mo ly at gaa te, kre on the spot, if hia fight may endanger the y| Sate Any Detaled bide 1. | Whisker of the ship or the passengers: but we refer to | Whiskey is firm and scarce ot tte retells ONow York, the cae where ‘the sailor succeeds th making his escane, and the passengers are lost. We | consider, for instance, that, had a just Provi- | dence forborne to punish the wretched based who ebandoned the ill-fated Arctic, we should have been justified in punishing them here; } and that » law which would have condemaed | every tenth man to be hanged would have been but just and proper. Differences of opinion may exist, however, on the subject of the punishment due to such an offence. That some punishment should be fixed will be denied by none. If we wish to | rescue our navy from becoming the scorn of the world; if we wish to prevent the recurrénee of | such scenes as those which occurred on board the Arctic and the New Era, the Legislature mus’ take in hand the case of cowardly seamen, and mete out a fit penalty for their cow- | ardice. SaaEnnaianEaestaameoa | A New Sensation rv Watt, Srreer—Fancy | Srocks aNp THE Banxs—The mysterious die- | appearance of Candee, the paying teller of the | American Exchange Bank of this city, upoa the | heels of the trifling defalcation one hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars, | crews of the lost versels, no steps have been takep, DO proposal made to bring the guilty men to trial. We are bound to infer that the law is such that a seaman can desert his ship in the hour of danger, leaving the helpless be- ings entrusted to his care to perish, without ex; posing himeelf tolegalretribation. It has long been a settled principle of jurisprudence in this country that directors, superintendents and engineers of railways are not criminally respon- sible for accidents heppening on their line, Parties injured have a civil claim on the com pavy for damages; and if they happen to be possessed of time, patience, and money enough to conduct a protracted lawsuit to aclose, they may occasionally obtain three or four thousavd dollars in exchange for a leg, or by way of re- compense for a broken constitution. But both on sea and on land, the principle is tacitly re- cognized in our law that the State is not con- cerned in protecting the lives of its citizens from any injuries but those which proceed from malice and a few other special cases. This prin- ciple is nowhere laid down in the bSoks. Oa the contrary, the civil writers as well as the commentators on the common law and ou: own jurists distinctly enunciate the doctrine that in- dividuals are criminally liable for injuries com- mitted through negligence, though without malice. Homicide, committed by accident, and carelessness, has always been held a crimiaal offence. But, by @ singular inconsistency, while the principle is maintained in minor cases, it is forgotten in those of greater magni- tude. The law punishes the man who reckless- ly fires @ pistol out of his window and shoots his neighbor ; but it holds harmless the rail- way managers who negligently cause the death of forty people by collision, and the sailors who deprive passengers of their only hope of salva- tion by running away with the boats. Io the belief that this construction of th: law is correct, and that our law officers are inno- cent of negligence in the premises, we wish to draw the attention of the new Legislature which will shortly meet at Albany to t he abso- lute necessity of making provision for the casus omissus. It is clear, for instance, that it was wrong in the employés of the Harlem Railroad not to notify the Whiteplains train of the obstruction that barred the track, as they might easily have done by sending lights to meet it: and the wrong is eminently one of those which it is the duty of the law to punish by way of warning. Had the Harlem Raitroad people felt that in case of accidents happening, they would have been sent to the penitentiary no reasonable man can doubt but they would have adopted this or some analogous precau- tion, and the mutilated persons now lyiag at the New York Hospital would have been at their work as usual. Nor is this e solitary in- stance. * Time after time have we pointed out in these columns how directly railway accidents were due to the ‘nadequate responsibility imposed upon directors, managers, and conductors. We have contrasted over and over again the slaughter which takes place on our roads with the security that exists on foreign lines, and shown conclusively that the difference was caused by the imperfections of our law. We have called for a single argument to prove that a criminal responsibility should not attach to railroad managers : not the shadow of a rea- son has been given. Some have talked of the harshness of the proceeding towards conductors and engineers: bat harshness which saves scores of lives at the cost of one man’s comiort is the essence of charity. Others have argued that if railway directors were rendered pevso- nally liable for accidents, no one would serve asadirector. It would be doubtless » serious injury to Wall street to lose the services of such men as Schuyler: but less, we opine, than the total destruction of hundreds of haman beings whose lives were endangered by their management. Depend upon it, railways will never lack managers, Men will be found to accept the office, though they know that ao accident will doom them to the State prison : The only difference will be that instead of en- joying their ease, and speculating in stocks, they will be vigilant and active in the duties of their office. It should be made a penal offence on the part of the directors, and superintendent of a rail- way and the conductor of the train, to sufferan accident causing loss of life to occur on their line, The burthen of disproving negligence should reat upon them : in all cases of accideat, the law should presume mismanagement. If they failed to exculpate themselves, thag should all be sent together to the State prison for a term of years. This would put an end to rail- way accidents. Analogous legislation is required for ships. In the first place fresh attempts should be made to enforce the navigation law which requires that a majority of the seamen on board Ameri- can ehips should be citizens. We are only re- peating what has deen said at every street cor- ner when we express @ doubt whether the pas- sengers of the Arctic would have been lost had the firemen and crew been Americans, instead of Irishmen. But if it be impossible in practice to carry out this law steictly, provision should be made specially for the ease of sailors desert- ig their abip. The position of a sailor at a shipwreck is precisely avalggous to that of a soldier on the battle-field. If the latter rans away, he is shot, by the rules of war. It is no has stirred up quite a little breeze in Wall street. The official report says, that he +as leit behind him good securities, exceeding by ten thourand dollars his deficit in the bank; and the bank is quite welcome to the comfort which these securities will afford. They per- haps consist, to a great extent, in the certified checks of brokers and stockjobbers in the fan- cies and other kite flying vouchers. One evening last week, this fine gentleman, Mr. Candee, gave a splendid soirée in his twen- ty-five thourand dollar house at Yonkers, and all the aristocracy of Yonkerdom were there. Following closely upon this grand blow-out, the | said teller quietly seld out his twenty-five thou- | ‘The ubiquitous ‘‘ Américan gentleman” who: is con® tinually turning up at our theatres has written a Ave act comedy for Wallack’s. The comedy is entitle “Weeds Among the Flowers,”’ and it has been played times. It is said to be the first effort, (at dramatia literature,) of a young author. Youth is not a ples im extenuation; tor, be it remembered, Congreve and Sheri- dan were both very young when they produced the finest, comedies in the language. ‘‘ Weeds Among the Flowers,’® then, stands upon its own meritas If the plot, such aa it is, decerved it, we should detail it; such, howevers is not the cave. We are introduced in the.first act tom pleasant English country house, (a capital “set”” seen it is, too,) inhabited by its ancient proprietor, Mr. Myr- tle, (Blake,) and bis grand-daughtere, Caroline (Miss Bennett) and Maud (Mrs. Hoey.) The first named of these young women is supposed to be a gay and jovial: personage, and the last a philosopher in petticoats—@ bore in private life and a nuisance ou the stage. Viv siters in the shape of two gentlemen—Marstyn (Bland) and Singleton (Stewart)—arrive at Myrtle Hall, and the young people fall in love. Maretyn is rerious, and affects Maud; Singleton, a gay and reckless individual: that makes bad jokes, gets up a flirtation with: Caroline, But, as the @ispositions of the lovers assimilate with each other, they soon become bored, and a general exchange is made all around. In the last act they are duly married. This is all the plot that can be discovered. Other characters, and good ones, ate intro- duced to Gill up the remaining acts; there ia a Mr. Crawley. ‘Webb (Lester), who is continually called a villain, for no- possible reason that we can see. He is attorney for Myrtle, and it is supposed that he intends to ruin the old gentleman; but he makes no attempt so.to do. Pipes, (Vincent,) an English tiger, makes himself busy. im eberybody’s affairs, in which he is assisted by « soubretie (Mrs. Brougham) supposed to have originated in la bellé France. Then there is Mr. Smythe, (Brougham,) at exquisite, who is mado-the victim of several practice jokes got up by the tiger and the fille de chambre. Margaret Rawney, (Mrs. Cramer,) a gin drinking house- keeper, completes the list of characters. We can s@ nothing original in either of them, andthe plot is bes neath criticism. The language is smooth, and sometimes: sand dollar house, and now, with the deficiency | pritiant. The first act is good enough for us to hope in the bank against him above mentioned, he 4 that the author will try again. Hehas ideas enough to has left “ for Cowes and a market” or, perad- | make a good play, “but fails in several essential points, venture, he may have gone in pursuit of Robert Schuyler, or Meiggs of San Francisco. Who | knows? The directors of our banks, | who give a paying teller some three or four thousand dollars a year salary, may, perhaps, feel proud of the financier who can upon such a revenue purchase and equip a twenty-five thousand dollar house, and live at the rate of twenty thousand a year. Other plain, hum-drum sort of people might be sus- picious; but our Wall street financiers are fast men, and do not stick at trifles. They set the example on Fifth avenue, and Candee has only been trying it on at Yonkers. He has left his securities, such as they are; and if the bank is satisfied, whose business is it, we should like to know, whether these assets are genuine or bogus, so that the bank is still good? But this question suggests that the bank, and perhaps half a dozen other banks in Wall street, may rest, to a great degree, upon the flimsy foundation of the certified checks of stock- jobbers in the fancies, sharing with the teller, or cashier, or somebody, the profits of his Schuyler endorsements. Read our money ar- ticle of this morning. Keep an eye on Wall and his first effort has met with a comparative failure because it lacks sustained ability. The acting was all good. Mr. Blake’s Myrtle was another triumph to be added to his long list. Mr. Vin- cent was the beau ideal of o smart ‘‘ tiger,” and Mra, Brougham’s Annette was as jolly and piquant as ou@ could wish. Miss Bennett, Mrs. Hoey, Mr. Lester, Mr. Bland, and Mr. Brougham, made everything tell in theig respective parts. As we have said above, the piece does not contain the elements of vitality. Niblo’s Garden—The Opera. Since Monday night ‘The Syren” has been played to good houses, and there is visible a marked improvement, in its rendition, The troubles of a first night im @ new country, and before a strange audience, are now over, and the consequence is that bdotie principals and subordinates are easier in the parts en} trusted to them. Last night the performance was ia many respects excellent. Everybody was perfect im the words, and the music was very well given. Mlle Nau stirred up the enthusiasm of the house by the capi+ tal style in which she displayed her great wealth of voice. Her execution belongs to the modern French school, and is ornate in the extreme. We advise all of our readers to see the ‘‘Syren,”? and at once, as it wild not be played after this week. ‘Lavncu or A Pacuer Sarp,—Mr. Wm. Perrine willlauncls, from his yard at Green Point to-day, at twelve o'clock, the packet ship Guttenbarg, of New Orleans. She street, Oandy is rising. ST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAHPS, From Quebec. ACQUITTAL OF CAPT. PSRICE—THE CLERGY RESERVRS SECULARIZATION BILL. Qursee, Nov. 2%, 1854. Capt,,Price, of the brig Sylva Rhea, has boon acqaitted on the trial for shooting two men, who came to his yes:el in a boat, using violent language towards him, and whom he looked upon as thieves. The third reading of the Clergy Reserves Secularization bill was carried this afternoon, in the Legislative Assem- bly, by a vote of 69 against 32. The minority consisted of High Church tories and extreme reformers, the lattcr voting against the bill because it allows the stipendaries to commute their life claims, ‘The Defaleation by Ex-Collector Russell. CuxvELann, Nov. 23, 1854. The investigation by the agent of the Treasury De- partment, shows a defalcation by ex-Collector Russell, of this port, to the extent of $100,000, in duties not ac- counted for. Russell was indicted for this embezzlement last spring, and recently deposited with the United States District Attorney securities to the éxtent of about $80,000. “ Dreadful Accident at Troy. Troy, Nov. 23, 1854, A young man named John Canolly met with an acci- dent te-day, at Taylor’s chair factory, which will pro- bably prove fatal. He fell from the first story of the driven into a bench, with such force that it fran clear through his body until it struck the collar bone. He was taken immediately to the city hospital, but it is very doubtful if he can recover. The Watertown Incendiary Case. Warerrown, Nov. 23, 1864, Robert Wilson is the name of the man who was caught in the act of firing an unoccupied building in W. Benedict. He bas confessed the act, saying he set fire to the building to prevent the occupation of it by women of bad character. His house wes searched, and large quantities of stolen goods were found in the pos- session of his wife. Himself, wife and son are now under arrest, A Railroad Conductor Killed, PHILADELPUIA, Nov. 23, i864. James Hall, conductor of a freight train on the Penn- sylvania Railroad, had one of his legs torn off yesterday morning, near Lewistown, as he was in the act of Ae- taching a portion of the train while it was in motion. He died last night. His remains will be brought home to-day, Markets. Cuantsstox, Nov. 22, 1854. sciscarets ataieses it igh hats Ke. 9c. Middling and the higher grades have a ‘gc. per Ib. Our quotations are ss foliows:—tood middling, 8¢.; middl fair, 9c.a 9140. The receipts ) bales; the stock on hand 26, New Ontxasa, Nov. 23, 1554, The cotton market ia unchanged in every respect. The sales to-day are 5,500 bales. increased re- ceipts at this port over last year at this time amount to 33,000 bales, @re quoted at 101, cents, ‘Mess Pork is $23. Rio coffee—2,500 ° bags were nold to- day atOigc. per Ib. hts—Cotton to Liverpool is Zine penny. Seating exthangs is 9 a 034 per cont. pre- ium, for the week are 11, 8. and more ition on the of buyers to meet the views of Flour is peleet it; for ship- ment to the interior. 600 Bois, st 90 00 for 7 Ilinois, $8 75 for choice Michigan and Iowa, and $8 81 a $0 for extra Indiana. Wheat in active demand, suj good; white. trifle higher. Bales of 4,000 puakela Cae. Re ted $1 48, and 8,000 bushels white Michigan at $2.0 $2 01, mostly at the outside figare. Corn—' receipts herwise there is no of 16,000 bushels at . Whi firm, with small sales at 39¢. Freights i; corn to New York quoted at 16c, The following have heen the receipts tnis morning:—Flour, 2,966 bbis.; wheat, 90,644 bushels: corn, 84,211 bushels; rye, 48,130 bushels. dt Flouy.—In flour the ressigte oath ne Tigh fai ar.—In ir continue and fal one-half of ‘which are consigned thi i ion Holders are firm. Sales, 1,000bbIs. at yeaterday’s rates, and Presidency, and let his constitational substitute | excuse for him to say that life was as eweet to try his band? him as to those who were sitting quietly at Bot if he is resolved to stick it ont to the end | bome: he is paid-to fight, and forfeits his life | left % trouble as after the fourth of March. | of bie term, we must be content with a change | if he breake hie bargain. We can see no differ- tb revolution of Mr. Kennedy ape given elsewhere. ' Ibe epvilemen will, at all events, be there to ' of the Cobinet, if we can get it. A new Cabi- | ence between the soldier and the sailor, Of usted at $7 873; for Black Rock, $626 $8 50 Lake, and 98 626 98 87 for ordinary to ioe A Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, and $9 25 n $9 60 for extras. Wheat.—The ly of wheat is and the demand for milling fair at unc! rates, 6,500 bushels Wisconsin mixed, at $148; 2,600 bi white Michi- at $1 98; 1: Soe Dorbals Fa ichigan, diate superintendence of Capt. Sagory, expressly for the New Orleans and Havre trade, and will be commanded by Capt. Townsend Weeks, of thia‘port. ‘Tur Savanxam Sreamuns will hereafter leave their dock at pier 8 North River every Wednesday and Saturday at 3 o'clock, P. M., instead of at 4, commencing to-morrow with the Knoxville, Thanksgiving Day. - TTS OBSERVANCE IN JERSEY CITY. Yesterday being Thankagiving Day, business was to = considerable extentwuspended, and the churches at which services were held were well attended. A large peozme of the popalesion of Jersey City being in observed in" the usual styis. Fauliy' eunoee baerenigl features of the day—were by no means for- TELEGRAPHIC, TRE CELEBRATION IN PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23, 1854. Thanksgiving Day is being celebrated here with agreat. deal of sp rit. Numerous volunteer companies are out on parade, making # fine show. Business in’ generally suspended, The Board of Brokers have adjourned over until to-morrow. THE DAY IN BALTIMORE. was Somien chain, in all at about $150. taken the cellar ents Jones, of Bushwick, The woman was com- Jersey City News. A Panx 4xp 4 Fountar.—It has been determined to» There is talk of running in Mr. Banke” district. —<$<<_<$____. The Reformation of Ireland. Last evening Dr. Heath, Secretary of the “ Home Mission,” connected with the Primitive Wesleyan Me- thodiste in Ireland, preached in St. Luke’s Hall, corner of Hudson and Grove streets. The audience was very small. The gentleman took his text from the last chap- ter of the Book of Revelations, verse 17—‘ And the spirit and the bride séy come; and lét him that heareth say come; and let him that is athirst come; and whosoe- ver will, let him come and take of the water of life freely.”” In a sermon of an hour’s duration the speaker expounded the text, and in an eloquent manner dwelt upon the atonement represented in it by the ‘ water of life,”” and the priceless blessings purchased for the hu- man race by the death of Jesus Christ. At the close of the service Dr. Heath gave a brief his- tory of the reformation and state of Ireland generally. The following ina sketch of his remarka:—The atone- ment of Jesus Christ has been preached with mach effect in Ireland during the last two or three years, where previously there was nothing but superstition. In one district alone, where a short time ago there was scarcely Loch Murker, to which pilgrims were accustomed to tra- ‘vel to be cured of their diseases, there is scarcely « pi)- now. The lakes and holy wells are closed, gtim and, be- sides this, God is acting upon thousands of the peasa: in their cabins. The “aissionaries are. often teoupie from ten in the until half past one, the to crowds of people, They meet with great pe tholic clergy, and there is a parish in which they are not denounced. We, rte not, tha the priests are angry, but liget ‘are ob- they to hurl their denunciations agai from Americans, with their free oseetite fon do bef understand what is ‘land—how the ry is farcetened; and Bow Bets itleman going on in Ire! life of from qi , aod litle town at the foot of the Alpine Rijs, bail asuhug ing me to go down there and nd. ud in'a small Presbyterian church I told the people, . Treceived from that smalt recewedl in any it in smmati, ings. One nee qj ! measures 1,100 tons, and has been built under the imme-_