The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1854, Page 4

on a Governer, who atte p‘ed to establish Moneat Cunzsarrme—MvsicaL Parvouma NEW YORK HERALD. eee JaB BE GORDON SEERET?, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, CPR M. W. CORFER MASEAU AND FULTOW OFS. eS ———————— SS Welume XIX... Ne. 359 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY TEEATRE Broadway—Encnayranse— Maasu ToToR. WERY THEATRE. “Powery—Nonnu Carn aw tine abes Minoniy—Maseacks OF Micuiiimax: HIBLO’S GARDEN, Broad: BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—| Past—Nice Youre Man—Aroi.o 1m New Yo WALLACK’S THEATER, Bre Bentveg-Tas Sisrene— Tus Woomn, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Brosdway—Macosrn— Munest Maurnavens, and Byening—Ros | _focan MUSEUM—Afvernoen pe VARIETIRS— Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Brosdway— BUCKLEY'S by — “HousR, 839 Breadway—Bvox- aar’e Bravorias Orens Tacurs. Mew York, Wednesday, December 27, 1854. Maile Mr Europe. EW YORE BEBALD-—EDITION FOR EUROPE, ‘Fhe Collins mail steamship Pacific, Captain Nye, will Weave this port to-day, at 12 0’cloek, for Liverpool, ‘Tbe European mails will close im this city at half-past ten e’elock this morning. ‘The Hens (printed in French and English) will be padlished at 10 o’clock im the morning. Bingle copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of fhe Naw Youe Hens will be received at the following places in Kurope :— SecamTOce. -Jobn Hunter, No. 2. Paradise street. Edwards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill, “Wim. Thomas & Co., No, 19 Catherine street. -Livingeton, Wella ‘A Co., 8 Place de la Bouree. = Pans, News for the Paeifie. ‘Me steamship Northern Light, Captain Tinklepaugh, will Jeave this port this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for Panta Arepas. ‘The New Youre Henato—California edition—contain- Yng al] the latest news by mail and telegraph from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o}clock ‘Thie morning. Agents will please send in their or ders as carly an ponsible. ‘The News, Ya another colomn will be found an important eommaunication from Mr. Angulo Guridi, late editor and proprietor of the Dominican journal Z? Orden, and an American naturalized citizen, ¢xposing the wnwarrantable interference of the French and Eag- Jieh consuls with the liberty of the press and ths wight of free discussion in the republic. From the perzonal persecution to which Mr. Guridi has beea subjected, and the display of force which has been made by the allied governments to control the free ection and sympathies of the Dominican govera- mest, it is plain that every effort is being used by them to prevent the execution of the treaty of amity gad commercial relations which is now being nego- tiated with this country. Annexed to this commu- nication will be found a copy of General Cazaeau’s energetic protest against these tyranaical proceed imgs, which are at variance with the laws and weagie of a!) civilized nations, The case ia ons that calls for the prompt acd energetic action of oor government, and it is to bs hoped that i: wil) have spiri) enough to resist an. intervention whish pet culy invades tre rights of our citizens, bot aseaile the independen>: and dignity of the country iteelf. In the Senate yesterday a bill epprogriatiag $1,000 from the contingent fund for expeaditures wm Nebraeka, the annual appropriation being una- wailuble, by the death of Gov. Bart, was pasaxd. A yeaclotion was adopted directing inquiry as to the necessity of legislation to secure to seamen their wages in case ef wreck. Under existiag laws.or eusioxe seamen who bave the misfortune t> b: shipwrecked lose whatever money may b2 doe tiem. The merchants ani shipowners, however, by pra dentiy effecting insurance on their property, no ony seve themselves from oss, but frequently pock- @ « bandsome profi; by the wreck of their vessels. Petitions were presented for the relief of the Kave Arcti: expedition, for improvements in Delaware bay, and for the establishment of a polytechnic ia- stitution, The annual report of the Saperiaiendsat of the Coast Survey, and a report relative to the wite of the Marine Hospital in Ohio, were rescive! from the Treasury Department. The House bills providing for a lighthouse on Cap? Race, and rz- exganizing the courts of the Distrist of Colambis ‘were app-opriately referred. The bill granting a\d to the soldiers of 1912 will be taken up nex: week. On the 9th of January the veterans will hold a coa- vention at Washington, to urge upon Congress the justice of granting them relief. Iu the House yesterday the joint resolution re- appointing Rufus Choate and G. H. Hawley regen's of the Smithsonian Institution was adopted. Gaz. Whitiie'd introduced a bill to aid Kansas in con- strocting 6 railroad. Jt created consiierable amus:- ment, and was finally referred to the Commities oa Poblic Lands. The Judiciary Committee w: @sucted to inquirs into the expediency of img by law the iatroductien of fursiga ping ‘to report upon the subject at anearly day. Oorner, renowned in the annals of the pri 5 Jecated on the boundary line between this 3:ate and Mastac\ usette, was formally aunexed to New York Th comprises about eighteen hand:ed acres. y? President was requested to furnish copies of the r tures of consuls and commercial agents, in raply to the Treasury circular of October, 1853. The tary of the Navy was instructed to iaquire into the expediency of establishing a naval depo’ at o New Orkans. Various committees wera directed to make iaqairies upon various sabjects, amos etbere 2s to the ezection of a custom-bouse at Pesta Amboy, and providing for certa'n persons get now €utitheé to pensions, which doubtless is iatended ty spply to tke widows of naval! «ffivers, ss this class wee excinded from the benefit of the provisions of ‘the invalid Peusion act recently passed. Energetic messures are on foot for the relicf ot the poor of the city. We publish vhere a re yor: of the proveedizgs of the mesting held in te Park yecterday afternoom by tae mechanics and workin gaen. The membere of the Corn Exchang> ed commitices to raise fuads for streesed. At the meeting of ¢ Boord of Ten Govsrnors camble aad regolatio were preses setting ef siarge portion of our population, aud méiding the expenditure of twenty thonssad dollarsia providisg autciciou: food to the deserv ios poor. Js seems, however, that, notwithstanding the great amount of #2ffering in oor midet, there i; reason to Urlieve that the reports are greatly exar gerated. Such indesé is the opision of several of the Almehouse Governors, sud 28 they ought t> ba.| well informed in regard to the matter their opinion fe en: itled to consideration. The resolution elicited am animated deba's, and waa fiaaily iald over till tbe nex’ meeting of the Board. The Board of Alierman met Jest eveoing. A | yesolotion declaring tha: the Board have power to eppoint clerks in civil and police courts, im the ab- wence of the Mayor, he having been previously invited to participate therein, was lozt by a tle vote, end a motion to confirm one of the nomizations of his Honor was laid on the tabi» Thus this knotty smd vetatious question is disposed of for a time. | It will probably be settied defiaitively afte: the inan- | guration of the newly elected city officsrs. The report | from <.e Councilmen in favor of appropriation o! | $750 to defray the expense of the reception of ex- Presidext Piltmore, last summer, was concurred in. | Ot:er reports, relating to streets, were a'so con | curred in. ‘ A large amount of businers was transacted last. | evening by the Board of Councilmen. In our report o” the proceedings we publish at length an ‘woportant communication from the Comptroller in | ptlation appropriations, which we commend to | “Whe earnest attention of cur resiets. vd of Supervisors met yesterday after- AD ing of Importance transpire?. Aan Cetalnlnelten Mn OM eee mse Od mete * been committed by William B. MoGuokis, late pay. ing teller of the Ocean Bank, whereby, as i is charged, the bank suffered to the amount > s: vamty- five thousand dollerr, wa: continued yesterday be- fore Judge Beebe. A fall r:po* of the testimony tak.n «1 be pub‘ished in our nex: ‘ssue. Averys ngwar zposé has ‘aken pace between two German grocers, befo'e Justice Stuart and the Fire Marshal. One is alleged to have made a com fession respecting 'h- aettiog fi. to /hir ownstore, and the otner attempted «assassination by shooting his associate with » pi-tol while ax: ep. The expo- sition presenta a very curious ea’: o' affairs, They are both now in prizom. the proceedi: gs before the magittrats ani their sepapat» statements will be found im another column. The Supreme Court «f Rhoce Island yesterday | decided that the seizure and d>t ntion of liquor, as authorized by the law of that State, is unconstitu- tional. Our latest dates irom New O.Jeins state that tent. It ia stated that Senator Atchiso1 his declined resum'ng his post as P esident of the Senate. A teicgraphic despa'ch from Halifax, reczived by | W.F. Schmidt & Co., states that tre rhip Arcadia, of Warren, Me.—which went azhore on Ssble‘Island bar about the first of th month—together with her cargo, will prove a total low. Sh» passengers and crew had arrived at Halifax, and were forwarded to Boston by the local authorities on the 23d inst. | Capt. Jordan left for this city yesterday. The opinion of Judge Dean, iu regard to the proper administration of fhe naturalization laws, wi we publish to-day, is one of general interest ot this time, and will attract particular attention Cassing M. Clay, of Kentucky, lectured to the antirlavery psople at the Tabernacie last evening, His discourse was a rambling and disvonnected affair, Owivg to the press of more important mat- ter, we are obliged to postpone the printing of oar report. Trade in general domestic produes yesterday ex- hibited a very steady, and, in many articles, fir tone, while not much activity prevailed, nor was expected to, until the holiday week was past. Com: mon brands of State flour were from 12c. to 250. per bbi. higher, while other descriptions were un- changed. Wheat was quiet. Indian cora sold to a faix extent at 96c. a 96}c. for new yellow Soutiern, avd 97c.aQ§c. for We-tern mixed, and 99. for Southern whise. Mess pork closed steady, with light sales, at $12 683 $12 75, and prime at $12, Chicago repacked beef sold at $15. The sales of cotton were conflued to gome 400 a 500 bales, The market closed firm, haviag recovered what it loata week sgo. The stock continued light. Fur quota- tions of middling cotton we refer to another co lum. More of the Forelgn Beauties of our Pierce Administration—Cabinct and Diplomatic Squabbles for the Succession. The secret history of the Cabinet iatrigues, and of the Presidential diplomacy of the ral- ing spirits on both sides of the Atlantic, of this Pierce administration, is az rich in rare and valuable trinkets as a peddler’s knapsack. Read our instruetive special advices from Washington, minute und circumstantial, which we epread before the pubjic to-day. Read the intrinsically authentic letter of one of our London correspondents to the same effect, upon the leading question involved. Read these curious and suggestive disclosures, and inwardly digest them, oh! ye burrowing out side spoilsmen of this Pierce administration, and then answer, upon your lives, whether ye are for Buchanan or for Marcy for the sacces- sioa! Our Washington despatch gives us a birds- ye view of all our prominent schemes of an- nexation, as they stand. Most conspicuous at precent—completely overshadowing the Caba question—is the Kinney Central American enterprise. We had supposed this scheme t» be a purely confidential arrangement between the Wall Street Cooper Company and the Kitchen Cabinet; but it rises now to the dignity of a diplomatic agreement and interna- tional compromise between Great Britain and the United States upon the political em- barrassments of Central America. The com- plicated issues of the Mosroe doctrine, the Mosquito protectorate, the Clayton Bulwer treaty, and the Rombardment of Greytown, proving too m@@& of a task for the tedious routine «f o:dffisry diplomacy, the happy expedient appears to have been resolved upoa between Mr. Crampton, the Britis Minister at Washington, and the administration, of leaving the solution of these Central American affairs, Mosquito kingdom, Monroe doct ine and all, to the proposed independent colonial expediy tion from the United Srates. Ia other words, it is virtusliy agreed upon between Mr. Cramp- ton and our Cabinet to recognise this expeditio: of Col. Kisney to the Mosquito purchase, and to permit him to settle the. affairs of Central America in his owa way, provided that his con- quests are not to be annexed to the United States. Happy thought! Who coull have dreamed of this felicitous solution of the Monroe doc- trine, and of the balance of power in Central Americs? No wonder the Cabinet organ is in ecstacies. Read its article in another columo, ye valiant workingmen withou: employment, and turn y eur wistfal eyes to the fertile flelds of the forthcoming Kinney republic ef Cen- trol America. Thus have a company of Wall streei speculators and the Kitchen Cabinet an harrasslog diplomatic entanglement, which Marcy bad given upin Thus good is educed out of mischief. sthe Greytown bombardment ripens into an entente cordiqde such as the world has ne- ver seen, resting upon the simple but formida- vle basis of an Anglo-American flibustering armed occupation. In view of this 4appy achievement we are resigned to the temporary abandonment of the negotiations for Cuba. We are the better pre- pared for resignation with the disclosures of our London and Washington correspondents touching the causes for this step by Secretary Maroy. Hirewe have it fully revealed that | the Oetend convention, thoagh apparently con- vened to decide upon the policy of our nego- tiations for Cuba, was really a diplomatic can- ens, headed by Buchanan and managed by Soulé, Sickles and Sanders, for the purpose of putting Buchanan on the inside track for the Presidential election of 1856. The plan wast» crowd upon Gen. Pierce a policy in regard to Cuba so decided and belligerent as to drive Marcy from the Cabinet in diegust, whereupoa | Buchanan was to take the reias as the cham- pion of the Kitchen Cabinet and “ manifest des- tiny” This Ostend plot has failed. Marcy bas proved too strong for them. He holds his ground like the Russians; bat it will be seen that Buchana: and his allies do not abandon the field. Our London correspondent tells us that George Sanders, via the West Indies, | (Cuba and Dominica,) is re urn ng home—that he wil) come in at New Orleans as the avant courier in bebalf of B. chanan, to pot the ball er motion. Forne; and the Kitchen Cabinet | will back him up, and Marcy will be hemmed in upon every side. Uur Wenig 90s.te,cuuens, howercr, the cholera ia prevail ns there to onsiderab‘e ex- | assures us A eae ie pre- pared to fight to the death. He has the Presi- dent Be he hie finger and thub, and can defy the O:tend Holy A'lian:e to do its worst. Considerin:, to», the odds against Marcy, we or: bound to give him a helping hand. Let bim stick to it. If they drive him out of the State Department, he is gone, No hel» for him. He must stand his ground. Let him n fliics at the return of George Sanders; bit le: Tammany Hall come to the rescue, Let them choose at once between Buchanan and Marcy for the succes- sion, and come cut boldly for their man. “So- litary and alone,” Marcy has had to struggle against Cushing and Davis, Forney and the Kitchen Cabinet, Buchanan, Soulé, and the Ostend Convestion; ani though he still holds the whiphand, he must be considerably weakened. We are aware that nothing in the world can be more absurJ, m:re complete'y ridiculous, than these amu ing squabbles among the Pierce | democracy cf the Cavinct, the Kitchen Cabinet and the Pierce diplomatic corps fur the demo- cratic Baltimore nomination of ’56. All the world, except the parties in these silly in- trigues, sees c'early enough that tue Pierce ad- ministration and all concerned are doomed— that the revolut .m commencgd in the late cir- cle of our State elections wil! sweep off the Cabinet, the Kitchen Cabinet, and the Pierce diploinats, and all the old huckstering party maxagers, aspirants and conventions, as a surg- ing wave sweeps the decks of aship. But the Cabinet are credulous, and Buchanan is evi- dently in for it, and we shall iosist upou fair play. If Marcy is incontinently throwo from bis feet by an enemy in the rear, while fighting his enemies in front, we shall endeavor toset him again upcn his pins, and hold him to the work until he is fairly the victor or the vanquished. So let Tammany Hall choose be- tween Marcy and Buchanan for the succession. Our readers, meantime, will be amused with the developements of th's violent and compli- cated contest for the had in the next Baltimore Convention. They will also be interested and edified by the in- side disclosures of our Washington correspon- dence*telative to the practical objects and bearings of the mission o. Mrs..Cazenau to Do- minica, and of the Sandwich Islands and other schemes of annexation. Tne evidences before us justify the conclusion that we shall annex nothing to th- Union during this imbecile and wrangling administration, excepting, perhaps, another slice of Gadsden territory, for the spe- cial relief of Santa Anca. Great satisfaction, however, must follow the announcement of the Kinney solution of the Central American imbroglio ; and considerable pleasure will be tel; among all lovers of fair play, in our highly interesting disclosures of this morning, that Marcy, in reference to the campaign of ’56, has not. yet been crowd:d off the track by Buchanan and his extensive Kitchen Cabinet and trans-Atlantic opposition coalition. Whea an administration is dying out in the midst of a revolution, and when all sorts of intrigues, plots and counterplois a:e going 01 among spoilsmen and politicians, to supplant each other for the succession, there is nothing like a ylimpse behind the sceaea. Let the reader digest our London and Washington corre:pondence in this day’s Henan, and then, glancing at the terrible multiplication of the Know Nothings, tell us what are the chamves of Buchanan versus Marcy for the next Presi- dency. Lora Elgin’s Administration in Cannda. The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, late Go vernor General of the British North American Provinces, is at present staying at the St. Ni- cholas Hotel, and will leave to-day in the steamer Pacific for England. He has beea too intimately connected with negotiations in which the United States are as deeply concern- ed as Canada for his departure from the conti- nent te pass wholly unnoticed: ang the task of referring to his career in America is the more grateful to usas party passions and personal prejudice hav. in general prevented his owa people doing him justice. A successful government of eight years over a highly enlightened and prosperous peo- ple is alone a guarantee of Lor i Elgin’s states- manship. Great Britain seldom allows her go- vernors io retain office over five; it was the knowledge of Lord Eigin’s capacity and the peculiar difficulties of the Oanadian question which induced the free traders in 1851 to pro- long his term of office, though he owed his ap- pointment and firet start in life to their oppo- nents, The trust then reposed in him he had fully justified. Among all her gons, Scotland can point to none who, in his spheze, has exhi- bited more true courage, firm will, and un- swerving honesty of purpose than James Bruce of Elgin and Kincardine. To appreciate the trying nature of his position, it must be borne in mind that he accepted office in Canada shortly after the grant of the constitution, and that when he set foot in the Province, parties were still fighting about the meaning and effect of that document. The question was whether the French Canadians of the east should be admitted to equal rights with the English or not. Tbose who koow John Ball will readily understand both how vehemently he eustained the negative, and how obstinately he declaimed against the very principles he would have fought for in England. The British residents of Canada swore to a man that the French should have no rights at all: that they and they only should rale in the ‘conquered Canada.” With this creed they met Lord El- gin on his arrival. The Governor calmly point- ed ont the clear language of the constitution, and stated his intention of carrying i‘ out, The Jobn Bulls were incredulous, and when a Par- lament was elected favorable to the doctrines of the constitution, and directly opposed to the tory theory, they called upon Lord Eigin to dissolve it. Further, the; requested him to dis- miss his Cabine: ani to take “real Englishmen, staunsh to the backbone,” and to have nothing to say to Frenchmen cr the like. This pro- ceeding, which will at once be recognized as In the true John Bull style, brought matters to a crisis, Lord E'gin declined the dictation of the minority, and deciared that in all matters concerning Canadian interests alone, he would be wholly governed by the majority of Parlia- ment. Then the ‘orfes exploded. There was nothing too harsh to be said of the Governor who wouldn’t tramp'e the constitution under foot, and crush out young freedom in the province. He was “a iasca'ly Scotchman,” a “mean, scurvy doz,’’ a ‘traitor to bis country,” @ “disgrace to she name 6. Brace,” a “villaia:” his impeachment was loudly called for; his life was threatened, his carrisge attacked, his Tesidence only preserved ‘rom destruction by a guard of soldiers, The descendants of Hampden dele djs he eee Ge Gall fwe Vengeance nes Se ee Sa way of showing that Englishmen would have none of liberty, unless ther fellow country- men, of another race, were slaves. To be brief, Lord Elgin‘was for » time the mést un- popular man in the’ British colonies; and though the bulk of his enemies have since come to their senses, the old hatred still clings tomany. This is the price which Canada pays for freedom. It is beyond our province to refe- ‘o the do- mestic reforms introduced by Lord Elgin into the colony. The most important measure, however, with which his name is gonnected— the Reciprocity Treaty—is oxe with which we may claim some acquaintanc:. Of thie great scheme, Canada will feel the benefits for many years to come, in the demand which it will secure for her graio, farm and forest produce. Formerly, a reverse in the British commercial world necessarily paralyzed Canada: now the action must be equally felt over the whole of the United States as well to deprive the Canadian producer of hia market. Nor will the effect of the treaty be less signally felt in @ political point of view, in assimilating the Canadians to their neighbors, and @radicating by contrast old British notions incompatible with prosperity on this continent. Ise Cuna- dians are a thriving and prosperous people; but it is plain, from their Legislative Councils, aud Baronets, and “Lord Bishops,” and ‘ gal- lant Knights,” that they have a thing or two yet to learn; and thie Lord Elgin has put them in the way of acquiring. Altogether, no former Governor of Canada compares with him for @ moment. Lord Met- calfe was too bull-headed to see where the right lay. Sydenham was totally devoid of principle; believed mankind required to be governed by force and corruption in equal pests. Bagot was a simpleton; Gosford an abzolute fool; Colborne and others mere sol- diers. The only man of intellect comparable to Lord Elgin’s—Lord Durham—failed in every thing he tried, roused the worst passions of the Canadians without trying to calm them, alarm- ed the mother country without suggesting a remedy, and finally broke his word and his heart by flying from the storm which Lord El- gin bas surmounted. Central and South American Affairs—Impor~ tant Crisis In thelr History. The accounts that we published yesterday from Central and South America give a de- plorable aspect to the political affairs of those portions of our continent. Nearly every re- public in the former, and several of those in the latter, are more or less in 9 state of revolution and anarchy. Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, San Salvador, Guatemala, Niceragaa, Bolivia, New Granada and Pern have all contributed their chapter of events to the revolutionary his- tory of the day. Ia some the struggle is occa- sioned by efforts to centralize the administrative functions of government in the hands of individ- ual rolers, and to approximate its forms to the old and corrapt monarchical systems—in others, by a dogged resistance to the reformation of abuses which are eating up. the resources of the respective States, and retarding their ad- vancement in a moral as well as in a material point of view. Thus, for instance, in Guate- mala, the principal State of the old federation of Central America, we find Carrera following the example of thaf arch-traiser, Santa Anna, and converting the dictatorship, which he has maintained for several years, into a hereditary monarchy, qualified only by the mockery of a republican title. In Nicaragua there is a fierce contest waging between the partisans of Cha- morro and Castellon, the one chief being the pet of the hidalgos and the moneyed aristocracy and the advocate’ of commercial monopolies and high tariffs, and the o‘ter the represeata- tive of the principle of yrogress, at least so far as the question of free trade is con- cerned. But whatever may be ths ostensible motives which in each case sway these movements, their causes lie much deeper, and are to be traced to a common source—the absence of ali political knowledge and the incapacity for self govern- ment which have always been the distinguish- ing characteristics of the popula ions of the Spanish American States. They are, in fact, the natural results of the absord attempt to blend in one common condition of equality a strange mixture of different races—white, black and red. Wherever’ we see this fusion exist there we may mark constitational indolence, the absence of all patriotic spirit, and a conse- quent indifference to progress. It is fatal, in short, to the march of civilization, and to the extension of material prosperity. Even religion exerts no influence over it. The evil isbred in the flesh and in the bone, and can never, we fear, be eradicated. Hence itis that we so frequently see those vagrant States, amongst which for a similar reason may be classed the Sandwich Islands, Cuba and Dominica, casting longing eyes towards this country in the desire to be rescued from the consequences of their owa inherent weakness and political incapacity. The same ethnological cause which has re- duced the goveroments we have named to such a condition of helplessness and political des- titution should make us pause before we admit into the bosom of our Union such doubtful and dangerous elements. Here the Anglo-Saxon has, by a clear-sighted and justifiable policy, considering the examples we have noted, been kept carefully apart from the Indian and African, He has been taught that mixture with races differing so widely in their physical and mental conformation endan- gered the perpetuation of those high physical and moral qualities upon which he so justly prides himsel’, and our institutions have been framed so as to en courage this idea. The consequence is that the Anglo-Saxon race on this continent have preserved undiminished all the constitutional vigor and energy of their forefathers—qualities that have already conducted them to splendid results, and that will yet enable them to build up one of the grandest empires that the suo has ever shone upon. Whatever, therefore, may be the issue of the conflicts now waging in the Central and South American republics, we will be slow to profit by any apparent advantage that volun- tary demands for annexation may afford us. The desire of swelling the extent of our terri- tory, natural to an ambitious and enterprising people, will, when each individual case presents itself for our decision, be held in some degree subordinate to the considerations we have pointed ont. Unless the difficulties in every instance can be reconciled with the require- ments of our institations, we will prefer to wait for opportunities which will enable us to im- pore our own couditioum —Smvevian Rusvits or Recgst Orsnatic Srac- vLaTiows.— During the past six months we have been called upon to record the arrival of three musical expeditions from Europe, The first j was the Italian opera company, with Grisi and Mario, under Mr. Hackett; the second was the Pyne and Harrison English opera company, under Mr. Barry, and the last was asort of Av- glo-French troupe, under Mr. Niblo. We have no doubt that each of these parties expected to reach the same pitch of success as | that achieved by Jenny Lind, whose path from city to city, and from town to town, was paved with gold. But things have changed since Jen- ny Lind’s time. Those halcyon days will come nomore. There has been a revulsion of popa- lar feeling in musical as well as other mattere. In fact, in this country, we are always going through some sort of revolution in politics, society, business, music, fashion, and everything else. The times have become very hard lately, and there is not so much of a rush for seats at the opera, kid gloves, bou- quets, and attendant luxuries. The probable results of the late musics] spe- culations will be extremely curious, and will go far to show the Earopean artists what they | must expect in America. The first of th:se | results is the entire and complete failure of | Grisi and Mario—those great. artists whom all Europe was delighted to honor. We under- stand that Grisi and Mario are very much dis- gusted with this glorious country and with th: indifference that is manifested by the people, who should, as they think, rally to their sup: | port. They are desolate—nobody comes to | bear them—nobody cares anything abont them —and they are preparing to leave the country, in which they have failed to make a profitable sensation. The barbarians of the Fifth avenae will not pay for Grisi’s notes; and even Mario’s title of Marquis of something or other fails to bring out the Mrs. Potiphars in sufficient num- | bers to pay the Academy’s expenses. The en- chanting Mies Coutts alone sticks to him. In this respect it must be acknowledged that | our musical people—our first circles, or our cod- fish aristocracy, are utterly destitute of taste, and Grisi_ and Mario will go back to Europe circulating the utter ignorance of the higher classes of this country, and thus put an end to the contemptible cant which we have heard of the appreciation of high art by the wealthy parvenues of New York. Another singular.result of the musical season is found in the remarkable fact that of the three companies, the English opera troupe—known as the Pyne and Harrison troupe—is the only one that has the remotest chance of making any money. This company came here entirely unheralded—their prin. cipal singers had never been heard of on this side of the Atlantic, and although they have been for the last three or four years at the head of their profession in England, they were altogether unknown to the New York public. They never hada lawsuit, as Jenny Lind did—they never ran away, breaking an engagement and making e tremendous excite- ment—they never committed a faur pas, the deiicgte details of which were eagerly snapped up by voracious penny-e-liners, and duly digest- ed asa portion of the dear public’s breakfast. Of course they were never heard of ! Notwithstanding all these drawbacks, we find that the Pyne and Harrison troupe have thus far, in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, achieved a degree of success unprece- dented since the furore created by the Woods. The music of their English operas goes direct to the heart, and brings out the people of the great middle class who do not affect to be pleased with that which they cannot un- derstand, and who are always ready to pay for that which pleases, excites, refines and amuses them. This is the true secret of the success of the Pyne and Harrison troupe—a success which is owing to the merit of the prin- cipal singers, and the popular character of the music which they give. But let all the European artists who intend coming here with the expectation of receiving the applause, the support and the dollars of the codfish aristocracy take due notice of this fact. No matter how great they may be in their par- ticular réle, they cannot hope to be successful unless they are notorious for some little faur pas—some elopement—some passage-at-arms with a manager—some great sensation created by them outside of professional triumphs. The single exception of the Pyne and Harrison troupe owes its existence to circumstances which will not probably occur again, and all gteat eccentric artists despise the people and devote their talents to the amusement ofgthe aristocracy. Now our aristocracy pays for no- toriety—not talent ; and managers know very well that the article of modest merit is not one of those commodities which “are precious on account of their rarity. The European artists have now the benefit of our experience, gratis. Let them beware how they neglect such good counsel. Foor Incuzs or Mup 1n Broapway.—The principal thoroughfare of the city has not often been so dirty asit is now. It sadly needs a dose of hoes and brooms. From the Battery to Union place the pavement is covered with an oeean of filth. The matter has been men- tioned several times at the City Hall, but we are told that Flagg says, “The city’s olean enough.’ The contractors get their money. Look @ Broadway, and think of Flagg. Where’s Glazier? We hope that Wood will stir up the contractors with a sharp stick. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Great News from Washington. & BLAZE OF LIGHT ON THE KINNEY EXPEDITION—AN UP BY MARCY—AWFUL PRESIDENTIAL INTRIGUING OF THE OSTEND DIPLOMATS—MARCY VICTORIOUS— THE BANDWICH ISLANDS NO GO—OOLOR TOO DARK— MES. CAZENEAU’S MISSION TO DOMINICA A DRY JOKE OF MARCY—GALLAPAGOS 4 HUMBUG—~PROS— PECT OF ANOTHER GADSDEN TREATY—THE MEDIA- ‘oii ‘Wasnrveton, Dec. 26, 1864, Ablaze of light, within the last few days, has been ‘thrown upon the Kinfey expedition, The Heranp bas correctly said that the administration is party to the enterprise; but as the Queen of Sheba said of King Solo- mon, «0 we may say of this grand colonization acheme. ‘You have not heard one half of the glorious facta in the case. Itis stated on the authority of the leading men of this adventure that Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, has agreed, in behalf of his government, not to inter- pose any objections to the practical carrying out of this Kinney speculation, provided always, that it shall ex- clude the contingency of the ultimate annexation of the new colony to the United States. It is also stated as a fact that the admintstration bas consented to this un/ derstanding, in behalf of Cost Johnson, Cooper, Kinney & Co, And this is the solution of the Monroe doctrine on our [side, and of the Mosquito protectorate on the side of the British. The controversy is adjnsted: Dy an smternational ormpromion wpon AD fap | Im; Raockou sim eae ee eee TEETER RNa Senna nem ONS ONT MCLEAN SOM SIN NSN MMII UDI =r Tint > S509 08 STIS 0 Uh cin gpa ee dependent filibustering expedition. We recognise the claims of the Mesquito King in endorsing the validity of the Cooper purchase; and England consents to the supreme doctrine of ‘squatter sovereignty,” with the condition that this Central American offshoot of Yankee. enterprise shall not be annexed to our glorious Union. ‘Hurrah! Peautifal arrangement of Kitchen Cabinet and Wall street diplomacy ! Charming compromise! How nicely balanced ! We give up the Monroe doctrine, and ac- knowledge the validity of the Mosquito King; and Eng- land agrees rot only to ratify the purchase of Cooper & Co., but to abandon the entire Mosquito kingdom and the surrounding Central American States to the mercy of Col. Kinney’s Anglo-Saxon Yankee colonists, provided we don’tannex them. Pierce looks at Marcy, and Marcy says, “Yes, so be it, then!” Col. Kinmey says, “Yes, and so let it be.’’ Crampton rubs his hands, ruminating upon the prospective developement of the rich resources of Central America by Yankee go-ahead industry, and the market which will thus be opened to British free trade; while Cooper & Company are in ecstacies at the promising chances for golden sales of their land scrip te actual settlers armed with George Law’s second hand muskets. But there are two sides to every question; and there are three or four to this. It is ssid that not only does this Cooper purshase disregard the-claim of Nicaragua, ‘but that it touches upon soil claimed by Costa Rica op the south and Guatemal@ on the north—that Molina, the Minister from these last two named States, hae em tered a protestto our Cabinet against this Kinney ex- pedition; and that Nicaragua will consider ite landing in the said Mosquito purchase as a piratical invasion upon false pretences, and will use her best endeavors to ex terminate or expel the colonists by force of arms. I think you mey rely upon this, notwithstanding the Unicn, the Cabinet organ, still continues to misrepre sent this adventure as a peaceable colonial operation. Not so. It is like the invasion of the Normans into England—it ie a Col. Walker liberating enterprise—and Col, Kinney undoubtedly aspires to make it the re an nexation of Texas. Crampton is to be hunbugged, for how.can Col. Kinney or Gen. Pierce ferestall the su- preme will of the sovereign people, if thy should call for annexation? Such are the magnificent proportions of the Kinney expedition. A complicated and vexing question, which the diplomacy of England and the United States bas failed to settle, is to be turned over by the mutual con- sent of the bigh contracting parties to Col. Kinney and his volunteers. John Bull is beginning to open his eyes, with a vengeance, bad the propagandism of ‘“ manifest destiny.” Next, we have to inform you that Marcy has succeeded in quashing the Cuba platform of the Ostend Contention, That platform waa expressly intended to shelve Marcy, and to put Buchanan forward as the democratic Cubs candidate for 1856. But Marcy has proved more than @ match for the whole conspiracy. against him. He has smothered their scheme in onions, likes tainted turkey. Nothing is to be done ppon Cuba except the settlement of some secondary incidental diplomatic issues. Cush- ing is ferocious, Jeff. Davis indignant, Fecney some- what excited; but the President thinks it best to submit to Marcy for the present. Marcy grits his teeth when he speaks of Buchanan. He has evidently discovered that his former Cabinet associate is heading the Soulé aud Sicklees conspiracy to supplant ‘him, ani lay him upon the shelf, notwithstanding all the reports to the contrary. Mark you, Marcy will fight them to the death, and break up this Ostend league of diplomats before they are done with him. He seldom smiles in the White House, Itis war with him, and he is as dogged and sa- vage as the Russian bear. His lower jaw is rigid and fixed; and there is a devilin him which only a miracle can cast out. He has the settled and awfa) expression, even in repose, of an unsatisfied bulldog. You may bet on Marcy. The old Premier knows all about it—that Buchanan is the chief of the Ostend conspiracy, of which Soulé was the manager—that Old Buck upholds Sickles and San- ders in al] their doings; but Marcy having sworn that Cuba shall not serve them, look out for the return of Soulé'from Spain witn a flea in his ear. O14 Buck, too, ‘would surprise nobody in the kitchen if he should return Defore the adjournment of Congress. The President has been enfeebled and rendered pliable in the hands of Marcy, om account of the Nebraska excitement; and the Know Nothing uproar has left nothing to poor Pierce but resignation to Marcy’s unshaken resolution to fight it out with the Ostend conspiracy, rain or shine, and in spite of thunder and lightning. There will bes precious row in the Cabinet before they agree upon the annexation of the Ssadwich Islands. They propose to come in as a sovereign State. Jeff. Da. vis is reported as saying, “that this would be but @ sop to the infernal abolitionists, for it would be going half way to the recognition of the political equality of the black with the white races.” No, sir, the copper complexion of the royal family of King Kamehameha puts a dead atop to the eating of those sandwiches. W can’t digest them. The same may be said of Dominica. Mre. Cazeneau has been buying a seaport down there for another Kinney expedition ; but the liberation of the island of Hayti in that way will amount to nothing, for Cushizg, if 1 am not mistaken, says, “It would be the d——dest folly in God’s world to think of annexing that bloody island with its swarms of free niggers and mulattoes.’® Cushing is a Southern-ultra on niggers. It was feared, however, that Mrs. Cazenean, if permitted to remain about New York and Washington, would make misshief upon the Cuba business; and so the Cabinet judiciously agreed to give this accomplished diplomatic lady the amusement of a carteblanche in the republic of Domi- nica. Good idea. Marcy is relieved by a low chuckle whenever her mission is referred to. It is one of his dry jokes, in a quiet and confidential way, after a libe- ral dinner, to drink—'‘Success to the mission to Domi- nica.’’ The Galapagos islands, lying in the Pacific, to the west of Ecuador, are the latest card of annexation: They will be sold cheap; but itis no go. Guthrie has only twenty millions surplus. He expects to have another call from Santa Anna before long, and very flatly says that, while SantafAnna is admissible, we can’t accommodate all these ‘outside barbarians.” It will impoverish the treasury to take care sf them. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs have re- solved to act upon Mr. Clingman’s reAolution in behalf of a mediatorial peace commission to the European bel- ligerents, This resolution, of course, is taken by and with the advice and consent of the Cabinet, and is, per- haps, due to some extent to the entente cordiale between our government and England, as we have described it in the Central American compromise of the Kinney ex- pedition. Old Galileo was mght: It is the world that goes round, and not the sun, THE NAVY AGENT AND THE EXCHANGE BANK, ETC. ‘Wasntnetox, Dec. 26, 1854. It ie said the Exchange Bank have secured Mr. Allen the late Navy Agent, from loss by the tranafer of respon- sible liabilities, which he in turn has turned over to the government, Mr. Churchwell, of Tennessee, and Mr. Withers, of Alexandria, are the principal sureties. The Star of this city says that Mr. Bright offered to resign the Presidency of the Senate to Mr. Atchison, if he wished to resume it again, but that the latter de- clined. ‘The resignation of Lieut. Col. Rufus L. Backer, of the Ordnance Department, U. 8. Army, has bean accepted by the President, The resignation is Yo take effect from the Bist December. From the South. HP SOUTHERN MAIL—RMALTH AND MORTALITY OF NEW ORLEANS, BTO. Ba Dec, 26, 1854, By the arrival of the Southern mail this evening, as late as due, we have received New Orleans papers of Tuesday and Wednesday. The city of New Orleans continues still unhealthy. The deaths there for the week ending the 19th inst. were two hundred and twenty-nine. Cholera was prevailing to a considerable extent. W. H. Wilder, formerly a member of the Louisiana Legislature, convicted for perpetrating false pension claims, escaped from the Marshal after the delivery of the verdict against him. The mail poweh which left New York om the 16th inst. for this city, and which has been’ missing for some days, arrived here to-day, after having travelled all the way to Montgomery, Alabama, ‘ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND MURDER— LEGAL DECISION OF THR LIQUOR LAW—RAILROAD- m 244 Provipence, Deo. 26, 1854. Amost atrocious and singular crime was perpetrated hore yesterday evening. Charles Scott, a colored man about thirty years of age, and a barber by trade, called in the morning at the clothing store of John H. Springer, in North Main street, and selected a suit of clothes, say- ing he would call for them, with the money, at six "clock in the evening. He came st 90, Me, Sorina was closin ‘he more, afd gad to lan that be would ‘ghee fy water ned w Sringe een bib Gown, oe tues tous Sarat pnd wre 1 hte