The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1854, Page 4

nemo remaa: ren meee ere tt zaMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, QPTICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STs. Bur ian iB WEEKLY HERALD every 9p BE conte rd oo, ‘annum: + i Soiy gr at etn, and 8 to any part of the Con: MLL LETTERS by Math for Subscriptions or with Adver- Partie paid, or Ga ponaae aiilte teed trees m LUN TARY CORRESPONDENCE, por. quarter of the used ". R FORKIon ComnesPonv- eVicumawe TO OEAL ALL ad NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do P. ‘executed with neatness, cheapness, and TISEMENTS renewed ever day. Vetame XXI AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—I Purrrana —Iwere br Lawmenmoon. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Camitis, SOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Equsstaian Paflvonu- ANCES—CATARACT OF THE sone. SNIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Tuxz Syren. BURTON'S, Chambers street—Urrre Tex ann Lowen ‘Swenty—Tace ov a Tus. MATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—EquesTRiay RFORMANCKS—FREROM SPY. WALLACR’S THEA’ Aars—Porrine tire Q METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Huncnsace— Mapzcainr. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon — Ronsen’s Wire— Away wisn Manawcno: Evening—Everacuer, WOOD'S VARIETIES— anica’ Hall, 472 Broadway. WOKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 839 Broadway—Bvox- zer's Erus0vian Opena 7 Pr. Broadway—Barour.on oF son -OvrT ON THE Looex. WOOD'S MINSTRELS 1 Hall, 444 Broadway. aS?LE GARDEN—Eqvestaiay Prrvormance, TONIGHT. CHINESE BUILDINGS, Broadway: Wew York, Sunday, November 26, 1854. To Delinquent Agents. Delinquent agents to this establishment are informed that unless they immediately settle up their accounts, waore suitable persons will be appointed in their places, Persons wishing to become agents of the Nrw Yore Beary will bo supplied from this establishment promptly, and at the usual ratee—twenty-five per cent discount, cash, in advance. Agents in the country, dealing with city agents, will And it to their advantage to send their orders direct to the office of this paper. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT. The News. . The Canada’s mails bring us some im ortant ‘Stems of intelligence which were overlooked in the br.ef summary of her news received by telegrayh. It seems that the Spanish government finds itself so hamp<red, between the evidences of growiag discontent which are manifesting themselves in Cuba, and the measures pressed upon them by British influence with respect to that island, that they have returned a negat.ve answer to Lord How- den’s demand that they shoold declare the slave twade to be piracy. It will be seen, by an extract which we pubjish elsewhere from the Madrid cor- yespondence of tze London Chronicie, that this teply is likely to occasion considerable embarrass- ment to the English government. It will eitzer Dave to abandon entirely the expensive naval ar- Yangements by which it has hitherto sought to k:sp the slave traffic under check, or it willbe com- pelied, for comaistency’s sake, to back iis re- presentaticcs to the Madrid Cabinet by forces. Xk is not to be supposed that it will wil lisgly corsent to the first of these alterastiv 3; wo that we presume strong measures will bs res rid to Wo escure a compliance with its demands. Here ‘then is a fresh complication which may inda‘e the Spanish government to listen more readily to a7 propositions that we may make for the purchase of the jeland. If it caff-rs itself to be bullied by Eazlard into the meneares demanded, it will alienate tie great mass of the Cabau pro rietors, and afford the Slibusteros a promis'vg element to work upon. !f, oy the contrary, it persists in a course consider=i hostile to British policy, i exposes itself to diffizul- tiee which will tous it neaesbome. The dilemm., 58 must be admitte J, is au embarrassing one, but in wha'ever way the Spanis> government may seek to esoepe foom it, we «an only sse advantage to our interests in the reeult. Is another column 7ill be fo2vd an ext, fron the foreign correspondence of tre Loudoa Tine: which throws ome light upon the ambiguous p>licy of Austria upon the Eastern question. After stating that the ill feeling between the Austrians and-Turks $m the Danubias principalities has latterly become so strong, that the allunce, so far as sympathy is concerned, is already virtnaliy dissolved, ths writer proceeds to say th Austria has no intention that the Pi palities s.ou‘d become an integral part of s new and regenerat Ottoman state, or that her own ambitions wa stould be checked forever by treaties having the sanction of united Earope. We have so fro- quently exoressed our 0) m of the imoolicy of ube alites allowing Austria to occupy the Prin si- palities, that we are oot now surprised to find ber conduct, when in possession of them, betraying ev!- ences of the porely selfish motives by which s'¢ has heen actuated throughont. If we are not taken, this question ofthe Danubian provinces wl de the first political stumbliog block of the ccalition, By these mails we have also received the French version of the Soul difficulty. [t would seem tha! the Frereh Emperor has endeavored to save bis amaur propre ander cover of an ingenious crsuistr7. He has failed, however, in establiabing the distin» tion between an affront offered to the nation aud to the individual. ‘The «teamsbip Baltic is now due at this port from Liver) nol. We publish in her part of wo-day’s womnary of news from the various Repx States of Pacific. It will be found generally ir From Pera we learn that there is every p-obsbility that the revolution will 2059 be brought toa termination by the overthrow of the Echenique admizistration. By way of Callao and Panama we have four weeks later news from Australia, The dates from Melbourne sre to the 16th of September. There 's no political news of imo “tsece, and the miniag ta- telligence is rather mesgre and not very en- coursging. We call attention to an elaborate opinion of At torney-General Cushing on the powers of the United Btates Consuls, and especially as rezurds the 6) Jemnization of marriages in foreign countries. Too au bject is one of no listle importance. Some additional particulars respecting the steam. ship collision near Boston are given elsewhere. From i] we can learn the catastrophe seams ‘o have been unavoidable. The Canada rece'y «de> vious injury in her bow and catwater; the Uceaa was ran on shore and burned tothe water’s ede. Bo far as ascertained but three lives were lost by ‘the disaster. In this city during the week ending yesterday, there were but 359 deaths, as we learn from t.0 @fiicial report of the City Inspector. Of the totsi umber 61 were men, 81 women, 115 boys, and 102 gitle, There were 6 deaths of apoplexy, 57 of co: sumption, 10 of congestion of the brain, 9of dia-- heen, 8 of dysentery, 14 of dropay in the crest, 25 of | fevers, 21 of infismmation of the Inngs, 13 of othr juag complaizte, aud § of congestion of the Ling:. | ‘There were of the children, 31 deaths of convulsions, 8 of crovp, 28 of marasmus, 4 ho ping cough, 7 pro. matare births and 28 cases of stillborn are reports. The numberof deaths from external canses ie uni sualy small, viz.: one auicide, one fatal casualty, and we drowned. The nativity table includes 236 na- ives of the United States, 69 of Sreland, and 39 of ( emmaay. ‘ erm nn ee met OF te ‘We publish im ancthe’ cotuma the decision ef |} Judge Hoffman relative to the lability of the New Haven Reilroad Company, or the rantuleat stock iamued by Robert Schuyle-. In the op:nion of the Judge the holders of such stock are entitled to be admitted as sharebolders in the capital of txe com- pany. : Yesterday there was one of the finest military displays witnes:ed in this city fora long time, in commemoration of the evacuation of New York by the British army, on the 25tho Nov mber, 1783. The entire first division ‘arned out, together with the Ve- teran Corps of 1812. The Veteran Corps of Brooklyn also turned out and paraded through tha: city, in honor of thisevent in American history. Gov. Sey- mour reviewed the troops in ‘he Park. The Board of County Canvass:re met yesterday in the County Clerk’s office, and after examin'ng tae returns trom ons or two districts, adjourn d over till Monday, when probably the labo's of the Board will be brought to a conclusion. The ship Catharine, arrived on Friday from Havre, gers. The Know Nothings—Thelr Cincinnat! Cony vention=Their Principles and Parposes. tional Convention at Cincinnati. They adjoura- ed on Friday, after a session of two weeks. Dis- tinguished leaders of the order from all parts of the Union were present, John M. Clayton, Daniel Ullmann, and Mayor Conrad, of Phila- delphia, among them. I: is understood that important changes were made in their constitu- tion, that a new ritual was adopted, that their pase words, signs, grips, Mc., were completely changed, but that the question of candidates enough for that when the fossil remaias of the old exploded parties shall have shown their hands. We doubt not that a considerable number of the huckstering politicians of the old effete parties were hanging about the doors and win- dows of the Cincinnati Convention during its sittings from day to day, to gather up such crumbs and scraps of information as might be swept out from the table; but it does not ap- pear that any very important discoveries were made. It would be well, however, for the Know Nothings to fight shy of all these old political }ucksters, or the new party may be broken up before the great battle comes on. The experience of the abortive native American experiment of 1844 should not be overlooked. The old party spoils-jobbers crept in on that occasion, and the projected organization was never matured. The present order of the Kaow Nothings has had fourteen ceaths among her steerage passen- | The Know Nothings have been holding a Na- | for the Presidency was not brought up. Time | late number of the former, wherein we find lamentation on the Know Nothing movement, scarcely inferior to Jeremiah, and decidedly | better ofite kind than the native elegiace which | commemorate the misfortunes of the house of | Brian Borrhu. As usual in Mr. Mitchell’s pre- ductions, there is more rhetoric than tact in the performance: ‘he writer is distracted between natural tendency to abuse and a Hibernian propensity to blarney us; and the rival forces rather neutralize each other. Thus we are told | | that the princ ples which ave held by a vast | majority of the American peopl - are “ the pal- triest, meanest, fa'ses', and most ignorant form | of popular delusion:” a slashing slap at us, which Mr. Mitchell clumsily endeavors to atone | for by calling America “ the freest, wisest, | strongest and best country on earth.” The | same struggle is apparent during the whole of | the lamentation: it is easy to see that Mr. Mitch- | ell felt it in-h's heart to say some | retty se- | vere thing of his adopted fellow-countrymen, | but was restrained when he thought of his pocket and the drooping Citizen. We think we may forgive him both the will and the half- accomplished deed. We trample no corpses. If, instead of exciting an absurd rebellion ia his native land, to fail contemptib!y in a potato | field, being tried by his peers, sent abroad as a convict, trusted out of sight of his jailers on his word of honor, and escaping at vast detri- ment to the latter: if instead of doing these various things, Mr. John Mitchell had Jed an or- derly, peaceable, quiet life in some Irish city, and Ireland at that time had been overras by some foreign race such as the Datch: if the lat- ter had refused to mingle with the natives. but insisted the while on full privileges of citizen- ship, bad kept themselves a separate and dis- tinct party with Dutch interests, Dutch flags and Dutch feeliz gs, and furthermore had striven in every way to embarrass their adopted cona- try by seeking to foist upon her their private quarrels and by leading a proverbial'y r'»tous, disorderly turbulent life : and if the Irish, Mr. Mitchell’s countrymen, had not only submitted patiently to these abuses, but had seen their party leaders bow and cringe and sneak to these foreigners, we think that Mr. Mitch=Il would have said to himself: It is time to puta stop to this. That is precisely what quite a number of | Americans have said to them-elves in various | places at various times during the coarse of the | lastyear ortwo. We do not “faar dangers to oar | liberties from a handful” of Irishmen, as Mr. Mitchell supposes ; but we see no reason why we been gotten up with more skill and tact, and | sbouldshare those liberties with strangers, uoless is already a national party, holding s great | we please, and unless the latter are able to make balance of power, if not a commanding popular | a good use of them. A m-n may crush an in- majority over all other parties, North and | sect, though he stand in no fear of his life from South. If this party hold heir present unity | its bite: and we msy decline to grant to Irfeh- in action till 1856, they wil! doubtless achieve | men votes which they will sell at a dollar the most marked, and perhaps t.e most usefal revolution in our political history of the last fifty.years. The leading objection of Mr. Wise, of Vir- ginia, and of the administration ani Seward organs against this new party, is that it is a secret party, and that its proceedivgs ia council, are shut in from the public eye. But this is no ne or extraordinary thing. The Boston Tea Party wag a secret party—yet it washighly instra- mental in the work of the greatest revolution ofmodern times, or of all time. The great Society of the Revolutionary Epoch of tne Cincinnati, from which the Queen City oa the Ohio takes its name, was a seeret society: a: that fuct may bave had something to lo with the selection of the said city for this Know Notbing convention, for all that we kaow. Tov Tammany societies oft»e days of Jefferson. so instrumepta) in the organization of the repuodli- can party of that day,were secret societivs;and ro this day the inside proceediags of Tammany Hall are mysteries to all except the Sachem: The Hickory Clubs of Jackson’s time, the Hard Cider Clubs of 1840, and soo, down to the Pierce and Scott clubs and caucus<es of 1852, were more or Jess secret in their chara: ter and their transactions. Even in our late November canvass, we presume that moneys were collected and disbursed by the Clark «!ihs, avd Bronson und Seymour clubs and central committees and managers, of which the publi> know nothing, and never will know any hing. It would be a pretty piece of business if Jona Cochrane, for example, were required on ail occasions to advertise the amoun: and the spe- cifications of his levies upon the Custom House for the electioncering uses of his party. The simple fact, then, is that all political parties are more or less secret in their orgaui- | zation or operations, or both. The order of Free and Accepted Masons is a secret society; and though not strictly a political one, it has doubtless exerted a great moral influeace iu tne politics of all couutries. Mr. Wise belongs to this society; and yet he repudiates the Kuow- Nothings because their secrets are best known to themselves. We care nothiag for their secrets. We know what their principles are, and what they are driving at ; aad thit is enough for all practical parposes. We lieve they are destined, noder good man ment and discipline, to bring about the pletion of a great and valuavle revolution in our party politics, that they will bucy the rotten earcases of the old defunct whi and democratic parties, and this rotten and impe ‘ile admivistration and its party, and the tre sonable anti-siavery disanion lague of Sew: and his allies. The public mind has been liberated galling shackles of party despotis ad a mighty revolution ie goiag on. It is the work of the general diffasion of indegendent opinions, views and arguments upon pulitical alfa cs through the copious channels of the indepeadeut preas. It has destroyed the despotism aud the prestige of party and cabinet organs. It is a modern thing, the product of the railrowl< telegraphs, steamships and independent jour- nalism of the last twenty years—gradaal at first in its power, but overwhelm ng in its pre sent developements. This Kaow Nothing move- ment is a result of this revolution, The demo ralization and disruption of the old parties, aid the spoils jobbiog corruptions of a coodemued administration, have created aa opening for something new, and the Kaow Nothiags bare stepped in. The movement is yet crude and rough; but its sharp edges will be worn olf ly friction, and eventually the Kaow Novuings will cease to be a scare-crow to Uatholics ard adopted citizens, Who is to be the next Pres'- dent? " John Mitchell and the Know Nothty It is not trne,as many people have enppose !, that the Cetzzen has died out, or that Joi Mitchell fs serving asa slave-driver oa a pias | tation in Alabama. Both, weare happy ¢) say, | are still alive and with us: a little the worse | for wear, but still quite revogniz sble, aud full of Hiberaian pluck. We have procured ai som» trouble, though at small expenes, a copy of « com- + ora the apiece, though we are not in the least afraid of | them. Nor is it “ia a servile spirit of imitation | of England,” as Mr. Mitchell says, that we in- | tend to keep the Irish in order in future. Bog | land is not the only country which is governed | on the principle that power should not be en- | trusted to disorderly ignorant foreigners, aad | that men should not be allowed to keep up a | perpetual Donnybrook Fair in civilized regioas. | These may be, for aught we know, principles unknowns to the jurisprudence of Ireland; pat we take leave to inform Mr, Mitchell that ia such countries es Germany, France and Soa° | ns well as England, they have long been ei | garded as fandamental doctrines. Mr. Mitchell | is again in error when he calls the Know No hing movement “ an ignorant crusade avainst | Catbolicism.”” The Know Nothings have no concern with religion. A man may pray wher. | he pleases, as he pleases, and as often as he pleases, or not at all, without interference from the new party. What they object to is tie | polity, not the faith, of the Roman Catho'ic church. It is John Hughes, thé political agi- tator, bargaining for votes, addressing the mob + at Carroll Hall, and driving up his flock in a mass io the polls—not John Hughes the ec- | clesisstical, performing the duties of religion | in his church--who has roused heir bile. In fact, Mr. Mitchell, assailing the Kiow Nothings, bears no slight resembl: > Don | Quixote charging the windmill. Le: iim try | firet, to make out the shape. fo m and figure of | his antagonist. He is welcome to whatever in- | formation we can furnish on the point | Know Nothingism or native Ameri::.ism has been ronséd int» existence by jus’ such men as John Mitchs!!. People of his stamp have come here, and before they knew the names of our public men or the tenor of our constitution have impudently thrust themselves before the public and undertaken to direct the American mind according to an Irish rate. | Another of the same class, as Archbishop. bad used hie hierarchical dignity as a lever in our | party politics. Both have quarrelled with ea h | other publicly and had a sort of shillolah cour test, to which each endeavored to attract as much attention as possible. Now, these things are not consonant with the spirit of the Ameri- can people. We do not care about shillelah matches; and are apt to set down their pro- moters as bad company. We will always wel- come politics] exiles aad have no cbjection to receive escayed convicts under certain restric- tions; but we do not think the one or the other have a right to trot themselves out as heroes, when they are nothing but refugees, Nos; of all, we are sick of the vile humbug and tying tbat hae been going on this many 2 year about this class of individuals, in the name of ‘be American people. We have borne long ‘nough tbe ridiculous imposture of ae Irish club or a German target company assuming to represent the American people, and offering public honors to disgraced countrymen of their | own: we mean to iry to let the world know | what we really think on the subject. And when we are at it, we mean to se right the whole state of our relations with foreign immi- grants aod party political leaders. The task, according to Mr. Mitchell, is paltry and meen: perkaps we may do it 80 thoroughly as to give | to it a national and imposing character. | Tre Sovte Arratr ano Lovrs Naroreon— | The letters which we publish today from oar correspondents at Paris, throw considerable a1- ditional light upon the Soulé difficulty, and the Precise ground occupied by the French govera ment on that subject. It appears that that go- vernment has fully understood from the firs: that there were two Soulés to deal with—one the Ambassador of the United States to Spain. the other the Frecch refugee in bis private ca pacity. The fact, however, appears to hav been overlooked by Louis Nap s!eon, in the firs instance, that the exclusion of the revolutionar: refugee incladed the Ambassador, the pair o th m having, in the same pair of breeches, tra velied together all the way trom Washingtoa We presume, notwithstanding this, that th» a- ministration will be satistied with the fiaai compromise allowed by Louis Napoleon, to wit :—that Seulé, the American Minister, mey pase through France, provided that the revolu- tionary Soulé accompanying the Minister, does uot stop over aday or so in Paris and other | points slong the road. On his return to Madrid the minister will | probably give way to the filibuster. We ex- pect trouble. The first thing will probably be — a belligerent demand for a satisfactory repara- | tion upon the Black Warrior case, and other outrages committed by the authorities of Cuba against our commerce and our citizens; per- haps, as on a recent occasion, the Spanish ca- binet will be allowed twelve hours for an answer. Should this be done, and should the Spanish cabinet answer unsatisfactorily, or refuse to answer at all, we may expect soon to hear of the fical departure of all the Soulés from Madrid, with their passports and their baggage, en route through France (they must go through France for :he sake of Paris) with all reasonable despatch for Washington. If there is a speck of war in the President’s meseage, we shall yet have a casus elli at Madrid. Mark it, and prepare for war. Nor Quite so Fast—The Washington hand organ of the administration having declared that General Cass had given up all deas of the Presidency, the Detroit Times thus talks back to the Kitchen Cabinet:— ‘The assumption that General Cass has laid aside all aspirations for the Presidency is entirely gratuitous on the part of our Washington cotemporary, Here at home his friends protest against thus coldly despatching him with a single stroke of the pen, and will, by his consent, bring his name forward {n their own time. We say dis- tinctly that General Cass wil! be a candidate before the National Convention, and nothing is more calculated to sharpen that determination than just such paragraphs as the above, and the occasional blows which he re- ceives from @ large portion of the Southern press. Be- sides, the idea of Western Cass men being transferred over to Douglas is too silly to be commented upon. Genera) Cass will be there, and Douglas must wait a little longer. The General is not to be read out, nor driven out, of Baltimor+. Rain or ehine, he intends to be there. Let the Kitchen Cabine; take a smoke on it. What’s to be cone ? THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From the British Provinces. MEETING OF THE NOVA SCOTIA LEGISLATURE. Boston, Nov. 25, 1854. The Nova Scotia Legislature has been summoned to meet on the 2d of December next, for the despatch of business. The session bas been convened at this early day to take into consideration the Reciprocity treaty, which must be acted upon before the Sth of next month if the Province wishes to participate in the benefits to be derived from the treaty. ACTS OF THE CANADIAN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. Quxnec, Nov. 25, 1854. Last night the feudal tenure abolition bill was read for the third time, in the Legislative Assembly, as were also the bills to increase the capital stock of the Montreal City, the Upper Canada, the Commercial and the Quebec banks, and also the Banque du Peuple, amounting in the aggre- gate to nearly seven millions of dollars, besides extend- ing their charters till the year eighteen hundred and seventy. ‘The Inspector General's tariff resolutions were adopted without important change, except as regards sugars, for which the ‘following rates areto be charged : Refined two dollars and fifty cents, bastard one dollar and sixty- five cents, and raw one dollar and thirty-five cents per ewt. From Washington. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FIRM OF MESSRS. SELDEN, wirners & co. WASmNatos, Nov. 25, 1854. Messrs, Selden, Withers & Co. announced to-day that their firm has qepired by limitation, and that their un- settled business will be closed by their assignees. They exonerate Mr. Selden from all ability for the debts of the firm, further than the law will hold him respon- sible From Cincinnat!. RISING OF THE OHIO RIVER—THE MONEY MARKET. * Civcinvaml, Nov, 25, 1854. The Ohio river is rising, and there is now four feet of water inthe channel. The various landings are crowded with boats receiving freight. The money market is quiet. Exchange is drooping. On New York we quote it at one to one and a half per cent premium, and for gold the same rates are asked. Hogs are averaging four dollars, and the tendency is upwards From Utica. SALE OF THE GLOBR MILLS COTTON MANT > \CTORY. Unica, Nov. 20, 1854. The Globe Mills Cotton Manufactory of this city was sold to-day at auction for forty thousand dollars, and was bought in by J.C. Bailey, Bsq., formerly one of its directors, These mills were built five years ago at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars. We understand that a new company fs to be formed, for the purpose of car- rying them on. ‘Thera being still a tie in the City Board of Supervisors, they have been unable to effect an organization for the transaction of business. Death of Timothy Tibbetts. Bostox, Nov. 25, 1854. Timothy Tibbetts, for many years the noted proprietor of the billiard saloon in Devonshire street, in this eity, died to-day. The Beale Case. Pauapetrera, Nov. 25, 1854. seing of sentence upon Beale, the dentit, has been postponed uniil next week. The Southern Mail. Barmworn, Noy. 25, 1554. We have received no mail here south of Richmon ! this evening. Markets. New Orieans, Nov. 24, 1854. There is « large export demand for cotton to. rf and the sales amount to 9,000 bales. We quote middling at 834 a 840. Corn, 900, Mess pork, $25. Molasaea, 18¢. per gallon. Rice dull at 6c. Rio coffee—sales for tho week have been 5,500 bags, at 914 a9}c. Cotton freights to Liverpool 3ths of a penny. Moptre, Nov. 24, 1854. Oar cotton market fs unchanged. The sales’ for the week sum up 13,000 bales, Middling, Ste. Freights on cotton to Liverpool have declined to five sixteenths pence; and to New York to @ 3g cent. per Ib. Caartestox, Nov, 24 ‘The sales of cotton tovday have been 2,300 prices ranging from 7c. to 9340, Burrato, Nov. 25—11 A. M. A severe gale has been raging here this morning, ac: companied with rain, which has prevented out door mov ments, and the market is bictrag 4 sie Flour—The receipts of flour are ee. to-day, but three-fourths of them are consigned through by railroad; sales of 2)) bbls. fancy Michigan, at $8 873g. Wheat and corn—In wheat and corn, as yet, there has scarcely been any quiry, and we no sales to report; and in oats rye ihe samo inactivity prevails. Whiskey—Whiskoy is unchanged sales of 40 Dbls. at 38c. Canal freigbts are 16¢. for corn to New York. Receipts this morn. ing: flour, 7,845 bbis.; wheat, 22,643 bushels; corn, 22, bushels; barley, 400 bushels; rye, 312 bushels. 1854, bales, at DELPHIA, Nov. 25, 1854. Oar stock market was steady this morning, and pri rather better. Sales were made of Reading Railroad at 38; Morris ae 10x; Pennsylvania State fives, 791; ; Pennsylvania 49%; Long Island Railroad, 111;. In money there is no change to notice. Marine Affairs. | Derartonss oF Sreawens.—Tho U. 8. mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed at her usual hour yesterday, for Livetpool, with sixty-three passengers and $262,854 in specie, Tho British screw steamship Alps, for Havro, and the steamship Cahawba, Capt, Shufeldt, for Hava- na and New Orleans, also sailed yesterday. The Cahawba had a good quantity of passengers. The Alps only carries cargo. TELEGRAPHIC. ~ LOSS OF THE BRIG ST. JULIEN. Baumuone, Nov. 25, 1854. A despatch received at Norfolk, from New Orleans, announces the loss of the brig St. Julien, owned by Mesars, Wiison & Gyer, of Portsmouth. She is insured in the Mutual Insurance Company, of New York, ani also in a Virginia company. Her cargo was fully in- sured, ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER NASHVILLE. Cuanteston, Nov. 25, 1854. The steamship Nashville, from New York, arrived here 81 10 o’clock last night. Superior Court—Special Term. Before Hon. Judge Hoffman. DECISION OF JUDGB HOFFMAN THAT THE COMPANY | ARS LIABLE POR THE FRAUDULENT STOCK ISSUED. Morris Ketchum, Thomas Rogers and Edward Bemen’ ve. John A. Stevens, President of the Bank of Commerce,of New York.—This action was brought to recover from the defendants the sum of $26,000, with interest, paid by the plaintiffs upon o transfer of 370 shares of stock of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company. This stock had been pledged to the Bank of Commerce by the firm | of R. & G. L. Schuyler. Various grounds for the de- mand are ret up in the complaint ; but the main ques- tion depends upon the alleged illegality and valucless character of the stock, as having been fraudulently and falsely issued. We merely give a general outline of the care, as the facts and materia! details are minutely stat- ed in the opinion of the Judge, which is very elaborate and will be ready for publication in a few days. _ Horraan, Justice.—Abstract of Opinion.—The course adopted in adducing the evidence, and the arguments of counsel in this cause, have led to the consideration of the validity of the stock of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, issued by the late transfer agent, to an amount exceeding one million seven hundred thou- | sand dollars, Iam now satisfied that it cannot be de- | cided without passing upon that question. { approach it with anxiety and distrust. The interests involved are of startling magnitude, and the questions grave and novel. An obscure and untrodden field is before me, and there are no hghts kindled by the wislom and labors of former Judges to mark out the path. Such | considerations urge me to a protracted and deliberate | examination; but I shall fulfil a higher duty to the com- | munity, by a prompt decision, which will speed the cause upon its way for the matured determination o the general term of this court. I shall consider the case under the following heads — First—The position and rights of the parties growing out of the preeentment and refusal of the check of $10,000, and the ground assumed by the Bank of Conr merce for such refusal. Second—The facts attending the possession and trans- fer of the securities held by the bank to the plaiutiifs, and the nature and evidence of the apparent title to the 370 shares of stock made over to them. Third—The ground of the proposition of the defendants, that in point of fact the transfer made to the plaintills did cover and represent undoubted stock. Fourth—Whvther the action to recover back the price can be maintained upon the assumption that the stock acquired was utterly yoid, and yested the plaintiffs with no right er interest whatever, } Fifth—If such action can be maintained, then what | are the true rights and position of the holders of such | spurious or fabricated stock in relation to the company? Sixth, and lastly—Whether the pla‘ntiffs are charge- | able with any such notice of the character of the stock as will vary any righte which innocent holders of spu- rious stock may possess. Upon the first point of examination the decision is in substance as follows:—That no right attached to thy the plaintiffs by Yeason of the check of R. and G. L. Schuyler for $10,000 upon the deposit made after the pre- sentment and refusal of payment of such check. That the right of the bank to retain the funds on deposit ac crued on the 30th of June, 1854, amd could not be at- fected by a re-demand of the check on the morning of the Ist July. That this right was not affected or impaired by reason of the stock notes given upon the loan by the bank being on demand, and that no express demand was proven, nor by the fact of the bank being in possession ofthe stock as collateral, as well as baying the money iu hand. Under the second head, the facts attending the posses- sion and tranefer of the securities to the plaintiffs, and the nature and extent of their apparent title to the three hundred and seventy shares of stock, the subject of the action, are stated at length, and are of great importance in determining the rights of the parties in this particular respect, but not necessarily so upon the general and and great questions in the cause. A conclusion is, how- ever, stated that, in no event could the plaintiffs recover without allowing the bank to deduct the $10,000—the amount of the check paid upon the arrangement. The principle of rescision upon which the plaintiffs proceed involves the principle of restitution. After reviewing the case elaborately, the Judge says; “The result, then, is, that the plaintiffeare entitled un- der the certificate and power taken by tiem from Mr. Stevens, the president pf the ¢ompany, to be admitted as shareholders in che capital of the company, in common with all other shareholders whose righ‘s are admitted, or shall be established; and that their right fs in proportion ¢o such whole number of holders allotted upon a capital of three million of dollars, “It will be seen that this view of the rights of the par- ties excludes any right to sue for damages or to sustain any action, except upon the groun] of common owner- ship, unless, indeed, the company refuse admission. Whether in such 2 cage a suit for damages or a manda- mus is proper, I do not consider.’? The complaint dismissed, with costs, The Collision in Boston Bay. THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER OCEAN, AND LOSS OF LIVES. < [From the Boston Advertiser, Nov. 25.] The steamer Ocean, Captain Donovan, left bor wharf in this city yesterday afternoon about five o’cleck for the Kenneb c river, having about eighy ngere. About half Ma five, nea’ tae wer part of the Lower Middle, about a half « aile south of Deer Island, she was ran into by the Brit- ish steamsh'!p Canads, from Liverzool, which struck the Ocean abaft the larboard wheelhouss, cutting her down to the water’sedge. The Ocesa took fire almost immediately, p:obably from some of her stoves having been thrown over in the coa- cussion. The steame:s Forest City, for Portland, and Boston, for Bangor, and other vessels, were io }, and immediately sent boats to her as sistance; notwit ‘ing several lives were lost. The engize of the Ocean appeared to have re- Maines in good order, as she was rum ashoie 00 Deer Island, about a quarter of @ mile south of the oe deg She continued burning for several hours, and at last accounts the fire had reavhed the pt eiee, maktng the destru:tion of the vessel The Capads was backed atter the Ocean, end anchored near Long ey aang where she remained a:a late honr last night. We uadersta:d eemall steamer was sent down by S. 8, Lewis, Esq., eaheeat of the Cunard steamers, to bring up her 8. The Forest City, after rendering whet assistance she could, returned to the city ith sbout twenty- five passengers, the dead bodies of 4 man, 8 womaa, anda child, who apparently died in the water, and several wounded persons. Among the last named were Hiram L. g,of Bath, the express messen- Carpenter & Co., who was badly barned or Charles Pope, a colored man, who had his en, and his wife, who is hart in the reast. The wounded were taken to the Massachu- setts Hospital. At the time of the collision many were seen to Jump overboard, and itianot yet kaown "iGapt. Berry” of the boat Quaran‘iag, ‘apt ITY, Of oat Quarantl brought to the city thirty five or forty male asseogers, wh) were picked hed the boats of the Canada, One of the men bad his arm broken. Hight or tey ladies acd a little boy, about four years old, remain on boa-i inthe bodies of the man and woman brought up b; the Forest City, were those of passengers, an prs parently young persons. The Poston, it is presumed, rescued many, and at last accounts was a: anchor below. Those who were taken up by boats from small vesssle, are p:obabl, in the vicinity. Capt. Donovan, who came to the city in the Foret City, had one of his legs hurt, but this did not pro- vent his returning to scene of the disaster, to do what Le could for the relief of his ere. te : TELEGRAPHIC. THE COLLISION BETWEEN THR STBAMERS CANADA AND OOBAN. Bosrox, Nov. 25, 1854. The steamship Canada reached her dock at half past 8 o'clock this morning. Her mails were brought up last night by the Neptune, and forwarded in the 9 o’clock train for New York, where they will be due at 6 o’slock this afternoon. The Canada had her figure head and bowsprit carried away, and her cutwater and bow somewhat injured, but in every other respect she shows no signs of pelled, by the proximity of these boats, to attempt to cross the Canada’s bows. The Canada promptly backed, water, but wax so close to the Ocean that the cullision! was unavoidable, and a large hole was knocked in the Ocean’s side, abaft the wheelhouse. The coacussi caused great consternation on board the Ocean, which wi increased by the flames bursting out from the upset of the stoves, and many of the passengers leaped o board. Boats from the Canaja, Forest City, Boston ship Western Ho, and others, immediately put off to tl rescue, and so faras known all the passengers exci the three before reported drowned were saved. The: dead have not yet beem identified. The man ix about thirty years old, the woman thirty-five, and the girl six. They jumped overboard at the time of the collision. I is thought the wounded will all recover. The Boston, with many of the rescued passengers om) board, anchored below last night, and all the pesseny returned to this city this morning. The Ocean was a side wheel steamer with wide guards, | and in every respect a well appointed and substan: sea going steamer. She was of 600 or 700 tons burthen, aboutfour years ld, and owned by Rufus K. Page, o! Hallowell, Capt. Nathaniel Kimball, of this eity, the owners of the old John Marshall, and cost about $75,000. Bosrox, Nov. 25, 6 P.M. Hiram L. Wing, Carpenter’s Express Messenger, died this afternoon from the effets of the injuries he recei | while on board the “‘ Ocean,’? i It is reported that a Miss Holman, who was on board] of the‘ Ocean,” is missing. There are still at the hos- pital five persons, whose injuries are such, that it ig considered doubtful if they can recover. Theatres and Exhibitions. ACADEMY OF MuUsIC.—Mario is to appear, for the fi time in this city, as Edgardo, in “Lucia di Lam. moor,” to-morrow eveuing. Madame Grisi ana Fadiali and Susini in the first two acts iPari Broapway TieaTre.—Miss J. M. Davenport will appear on Monday evening, as * Camille,” in the very successful play of that name. The piece is cast in thé same man- | ner as during the last engagement of this distinguished artiste, and cannot fail to draw a crowded how: Bowery Turatre.—A fine programme of drama! <questrian performances is announced for to- evening. = The grand spectacle of ‘The Catara Ganges,” with new scenery and decorations, represented, Mr. G. J, Arnold plays the part of arra, Nip1o’s GaRrvEy.—Auber’s comic opera, in three acts, gah poy ba pene will be repeated, ane ven-| ing. ‘Lucy of Lammermoor’? is in rehearsal, aad shortly be produced. ty aaa Burton’s TheatRe.—The s uccess of ‘‘ Upper Ten and ib | Lower Twenty” has induced the manager to anvounce it for representation to-morrow evening, The musi drama of the ‘ Poor Soldier’? will follow, Namiovat TakstKs.—A combination of equestrian and dramatic entertainments will be given to-morrow even- ing. The whole of the performances will be terminated] by the ‘French Spy.” WaALLack’s Tuxatre.—‘‘A Bachelor of Arts,’? th comedietta of “Popping the Questien,”” and the last new | farce, “Out on the Loose”—three fine pieces—will b enacted to-morrow evening. Mr. Lester's Harry Jasp is a capital piece of acting. Merroroutan TukaTRe.—The selections for to-morrot evening, at this theatre, are very attractive. Mrs. Farren, an actress of great merit, will eppear as Griseld in the play of that name. Mr. Eddy sustains the c racter of Sir Percival. ‘Charles II.” concludes amusements of the evening. AMERICAN MusEUM.—The dramatic pieces selected for the afternoon and (hog: re such as cannot fai draw large audiences. The “ Robber’s Wife,” and the farce of “ Away with Melancholy,” in the afternoo ,and the drama of ‘‘ Eustache” in the evening. | Woon’s Missraets.—The ‘‘ Mummy,’’ with a variety of negro melodies, are the particular features "for to- morro’ evening. BUCKLEY’s SFRENADERS.—Planche's edition of +: Beaut: and the Beast” will be given to-morrow evening—@. 8. Buckley, R. Buckley and Miss Eleanor in the princi parts. Woop’s Varreres.—The programme for to-movro evening consists of negro melodios, ‘‘ Break Down’? by W. Birch, and Doctor Valentine in his freaks and fuib Cuixesk Burtpincs.—The second Sunday concert o yocal and instrumental music will be given this cvenin, Mile. Martini D’Ormy and Mons. Lejeune are the princi- pal vocalists. Map. Iswors CLARKE gives her last concert in Brooklyz to-morrow evening. BROOKLYN. MusetM.—The benefit of Mr. McGregor} comes off on Tuesday evening. Mr. Hamilton appears Pizarro, $3. Srepury’s Cuurcn.—A grand vocal and instrumen-[ tal concei! \ 1.1 be given at the eet M g Thursday evening, Dec. 14, for the liquidation of the ex-| penses of the choir and organ of the church in Twenty: eighth street. Superior Court—Part Second. Before Hon. Judge Campbell. and 2 Jury. Clinton W. Conger and others vs. the Hudson Rive Kailrcad.—In this case, already reported in the Hera the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintit's for $780 damages, subject to the opinion of the Court. | Personal Intelligence. T.C. A. Moras, Esq., bearer of despatches to London aud Brussels, sailed for Liverpool yesterday, in th steamship Atlantic. | j i Major General Tillow arrived in Memphis, Tenn., om he 16th inst. The Gencral was in the enjoyment of ex- cellerthealth, and looked remarkably well. He was on hie way to his plantation in Arkansas, and was to loa ina few days. ARRIVALS. At the Union Place Hotel—Thomas Gippe, N. Y.; Daniel] mp, no D, Dale, Phiadelphia; James ‘I. Joes, N.Y.; J. Gardin 4 C.J. Cam J. Davis, Norwi Monson, Philadelphia: pbell, Union Coil ling,” Boston: J.C" San Francisc; lion, ‘H. Ram, Jun Phi, ah, in steamship Florida—C L Arnold, W: Hone, JR Tohmon, Miss La Stevens, Ms Lin the steerage. From Charleston, in steamship Marino—Mise Hendrix, Master Hendrix, J’ t, 0 Ellsworth, Whieeii = : 8, B. B theron ‘sud family, R. 1.; John A Rodgers, Capt Fell Mrs Skiff and child, ‘Miss C Clifton, Mrs Renkin Mise Homplirey, M Burke—il in the steerage. From Buonos ‘Ayres, in bark Mary Elisabeth—N C E Sacd. ling, midshipman, USN; Mrs W M Jones, child and eervaat,| ‘Atlantio—Don Jose Ja4 For Liverpool, 4 ter Stuart, J McDougall, jady ‘and Miss Chay ‘A Charvet A a; Henry RT Crawford, Capt Jobn Lait foleno and servant, TU A Moras, J eth ee | 605 ey, eds, lady and ron, E Hartbe, jn Frd Beyteld, J Serim, Toronto; E i. Leth, 3) Sobn A Taylor, Wm Murray, us ‘Mr Coriliard, SP—| For Charles ts i pte tea: in the steerage: For Richmond, &o, in the steamship Roanoke—Joln Knox, H Reed, J Whitehouse, M Grotten, tine Finn, Arthur: qenes, 3 William’ Williams, Wm Hi My: Mies BR Barker and lady, "Mrs Lents and! iok, child} Robert Stuyve-| rt, Sun: ish and Indy, Mrs f ; He M Wallis, n, John W Macni ‘John B Perkins, Miss) Ghtewood, Wm G P Edgar. A M Bockee, H Haight, NP Post and indy, Wm Steves, John Brush, James Cook: 08 F Cook: Ellis, JP Gardner, $ Pino and Fitehell, James 1, Bod ‘d, Migs J Stoddari, Mra and tw Miss Si! rd, Bright and three servants, Miss Jenkins, Mrs PB Gilbert and HL Gard: 7H D servant, R 'r., Indy and two servants: H Weed, lad: nd servants, Geo Gord: Rote iruteli omuingy ‘lady, twp chilacen a4 Micbe Mait."S nervand, Geo Gi t, 3 H Jackson, \t chia, Wm Oiltem: M and child, s LW Thomas, Coptain Joh Reeve, 1 A’ Whipplo, ¥D Seat lett, Mise J Parland: Miss F Pariand, Mrs Muneord, Mis Whipple Miss RM Whipple, Mra Eliza Whipple and son, ieloea nar aad baS | Hineh, ri Maria Clineb, Mrs i, Coldin, Mrs “ ‘¢ D Indy an Spooner, D J'Day, Indy, Jobn Murphy, Joseph Helven’ Demuis, Mrs De rs Shermanf Miss Mre Teaac Stillwell, Albert Lovejoy and and child, Mre Nathans and ¥ Chas A Vi ” by the poner, mt; price 38 cents, “Little Nellle's Sleeping,” wong and chorus, by BO, 2 x 08 A prices from $40 to $150, Se ald fer second-hand SS Pianos to rent. Horace Waters, No. 333 Broad- ‘Trade.—We will Offer on a large stock of rich silks, merinoes, cashmeres, ie Big | shawls, bombazines, blankets, quilts, Hay pu our en for cash, at the late sales, are enabled to sell at lower prices than her collision with the steamer Ocean last night. 1 50; five cases of plaid and striped ditto, trom 48. to The Ocean in going down the bay, with the Forres | 00 case rich plaids, 3 Varun worth x 247 Broadway, corner of trees, City and Boston im company, seems to have been com-