The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1855, Page 3

} aa cmeranaa The Cuban Question in the Spanish Cortes, ‘The Determination of the Spanish Government Not to Sell the Island, &., &., Our Parts Panis, Deo. 28, 1854. Ghristmas and New Year at Paris—Imperial Discourse — Gifts and Gaicties of the Season—A Tiara Sent to the Pope by the Queen of Spain—The Sale of Ouba declar- ed, Ministerially, to ve the Sale of Spanish Honor—Re- ' ception of Mr. Soulé a! Madrid—Sudden Iness of Mr. Mason, dc., d. ‘Thanks, perhaps, to the alliouce of England and France—to the fine organ music at the midnight mass in churches full of jubiilation on account of the recent promulgation of the lmmaculat> Coaception—and, if this may be profanely added, to Strauss’s two hundred musicians at the masked ball of the opera, inaugurating the carnival—merry Christmas has been as merrily wel- comea in Paris as in London, or as happy New Year al- ways is on this side ot the Channel. Christmas gifts will have vied this season with New Year's gifts. Al- though Sebastopol bas not fallen, a brilliant series of festivities will follow the imperial! discourse of the 26th to the members of the Senate and the Legislative body. But will my reader permit me to leave for a while Paris and its winter gaieties, pious and profane, for Madrid, whence the young Queen of Spain has recently sent to his Holiness the Pope, a gift for the season, in the shape of a costly tiara—costly enough, when we con- sider the state of the Spanish finances? Will the Spanish treasury be replenished out of the superabundance of the treasury of the United States» Will the millions of Ameriean dollars which, according to public rumor, were ready to be paid for Cuba, ensure ‘the sale of that island? A categorical answer in the negative seoms to be suggested by an incilent which signalized the session of the Spanish Congress on the 18th inst., and, in European eyes at least, indefinitely postponed the Cuba question. In reply to the interpellations addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs relative to this subject, Luzariaga de- clared, in the name of the government, that ‘the sale of the Island of Cuba would be the sale of Spanish honor itself;’’ and added; ‘We will never consent to it !’’ This declaration was welcomed by three rounds of ap- plause from the benches of tho members, as well as those of the spectators in the public tribunes. Mz. Soulé, who was seated in the front rank of the tribune allotted to the diplomatic corps, ‘ was,” says ‘one letter-writer from Madrid, ‘almost the only specta- tor who did not join in the applause.” Nor, of course, was the American Minister more inclined to applaud the discourse which the Marquis d’Albaida made upon this occasion. ke. The Marquis had been suspected of sympathy with American ideas, on account of his democratic views, and of his alleged intimacy with Mr.Soulé. But the attitude in which he now appeared must be incomprehensible to all those who have lent too credulous an ear to the stories in circulation, which represent Mr. Soulé as hay- ing acted rather as an afiliated revolutionist than as an American Minister, It will be explained, however, when ‘® full and impartial history of Mr. Soulé’s real relation, with men and parties ia Spain shall have been divulged. To return to the Marquis d’Albaida: That gentleman protested ‘‘his personal absolute repugnance, as well as the repugnance of the entire democratic party in Spain, for the policy of a slave republic, whish covets Cuba only for the sake of rendering the servitude of the blacks still more severe. Would you,” he exclaimed, “put an end to American pretensions, abolish slavery in our colonies.”’ D’Albaida’s words, it is said, excited only sympathetic echoes in the assembly, and while De la Sagra and Oloza- ga, who spoke after the Marquishad concluted, suggested prudent counsels in reference to slavery, they earnestly expressed their adhesion to the declaration of the minister against the sale of Cuba. Olozaga proposed a vote, which was passed unanimously, and with enthu- siasm, to the effect ‘‘that all the representatives of Spain ‘united, in will and deed, in the noble and patriotic seati- ments uttered by the minister.”’ The question, then, ‘Will Spain sell Cuba?’ admits, for the present, at least, of but ore answer, and that a very positive no. What the United States government will do in th) premises is another question, which time and the Ameri- can people must help the Cabinet at Washington to solve Meanwhile, there remains another question which is by no means unimportant in a wider than a mere person- al sense, and which has already, by anticipation, occa sioned so many contradictory and erronesus answers that! have taken special pains to inform myself upon it. ‘This question is, or rather was, ‘‘How will the United States Minister to Spain be received upon his returo to Madrid *”” Now, I have learned, and I deem it just to state, that Mr. Soulé has bad reason to congratulate himself upon the reception with which he has been honored at the Spanish capital. He has by no means been disappointed in this respect, however'much he may, or may not be in the result of the negotiations relative to Cuba—a result not yet positively known, notwithstanding the indica- tions so pointedly exhibited at the session of the Cortes on the 18th inst. Mr. Soulé made his official calls upon the new minis- ters on the 6th inst. He found none of them at home, except the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and General Es- partero, by both of whom he was welcomed in the most cordial manner. His visits were promptly returned. Lord Bowden, the British Ambassador, held a long ia- terview with him, after having called upon him while he happened to be out three days in succession previously. In fine, all the malicious reports of hesitation about his reception are utterly unfounded. ‘The incident which occurred in France—the incilent Soulé, as the French papers head their reproduction of the diplomatic correspondence relative to the passage of the American Mimster through this country—has won- @erfully increased the importance of Mr. Soulé in the eyes of the Madrid public. They reason as follows:— “The Emperor ofthe French had never before made a etrograde step; Mr. Soulé must then be a man of im- ‘mense consequence, if, where he was concerned,Napoleon TIT. was induced to yield."” The press of the Spanish capital overwhelmed Mr, Sonlé with abuse during his absence; since his return, it has been as silontas the grave. He exercises, itis said, a moral power among the Spaniaris which no pther foreigner at present possesses. His courage and his intellect, anited to his unimpeachable private charac- tet, have secured him high respect, if they have not gained him popularity. There were people in Spain, as well as elsewhere, silly enough to believe that Mr. Soulé might be deterred from returning to his post, from fear of not being received by the new government, or from apprehensions as to his personal safety. Now it is posi- tive that he never for a moment doubted that the nature of his reception would be as friendly as it has proved; | and furthermore, that he never anticipated any disagreg- able personal consequences whatsoover—even if he had, those who know Mr, Soulé know that the anticipation ‘would not have prevented his return, He now appears everywhere, not only in perfect safety, but Invested with the prestige due to his courage and ability. ‘The Cortes is said to present a highly imposing ap- The hall in which the assembly moots is pro- | bably the most elegant legislative hal! in the world, ex. cepting the new houses of Parliament, at London. Thore {sa great deal of dignity in the sessions of the Cortes, and the external decency and propriety woul surprive many foreigners who are aware how little unselish pat- riotiam exists in Spain. The spirit of parties and fac- tions runs higher there than anywhere else, There are | Carlists, moderados, progressistas, and even a fow 10- pubdlicans, but hardly any Spaniards, ‘As in Spain place is the source of every advantage of | fortune and consideration, everybody is struggliag for it. The people, who in many respecte, are socially and In municipal matters the freest in Europe—woary of {n- cessant revolutions at their expeose, which have availed them notbing—are anxious for quiet and order, even if a strong government is requisite to secure these blessings. ‘They remember the time when the crown was a pa- triarchal institution, when the King was only the first Don of a nation of Dons—and the independent in. habitants of Catalonia would now gladly accept from abe throne protection against the locust horde of par- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1855. waves have successively rolled them home again. The exiled Spaniard bas had opportunities for comparing his own fossil civilization with the grand national develope-/ ments of other lands. He has learned just enough to be dissatisfied with things at home—to be willing to des. troy, but not able to reconstract. No confidence is felt in the existing state of things. Revolutions of every political compleaion are daily pre- dicted. But Madrid is not Spain, in the sense that Paris isFrance. Foreigners make grave mistakes on this sub. ject. Witness the late revolution. It was complelely successful, At its conclusion the press of Madrid did not demand the overthrow of the present dynasty as something to be ebtained, but osserted its dowafallas an inevitable result. They proclaimed the proposition that a people had never come in collision with the throne without the throne falling, and they cited, with othor instances, Charles I, in England, Louis XVI., Charles X. and Louis Philippe, in France. But such was not the result, The Cortes assemble and begin their delibora’ tions by an almost unanimous vote that the dynastic question is not to be discussed. The feelings of the people of Madrid are also ex- tremely mercurial. In July they sacked the houses of the ministers, who were themselves obliged to escape in various disguises, Mr. Calderon with the rest. Should these ministers return to Madrid to-day, no one would molest them. Salamanca, who suffered with his colleagues, now walks the Prado every afternoon as openly and boldly as if nothing had@happoned. All these inconsis- tencies are cosas de Espana, as the Spaniards say. You will find a few words about Cuba, as well as the Sandwich Islands, and more and bitterer words about the bembardment of Greytown, in a searching analysis of the Message of President Pierce, in the Journal des De- bats of the 22d instant. The same journal devoted a long statistical article to Cuba, on the 234. It does not attempt to disguise the preponderance of American {n-_ terests on that island. While terminating this letter I am told that Mr. Maun- sell B, Field, who has been acting a8 Secretary of Lega- tion at Paris during the absence of Mr. Piatt, has just returned from Madrid, where he was sent by Mr. Mason, with despatches of imporiance for Mr. Soulé. He has brought back despatches from the American Minister at Madrid, which are doubtless of great ints- rest; but of the naturo of which I am not informed, The government at Washington will receive them by the steamer which leaves Liverpool on Saturday. Mr. Soulé had an audience with the Queen on the even- ing of the 1¢th, when he laid before her Majesty an autograph letter from the President of the United States, The minitter was accompanied, on this occasion, by Mr. Field, for whom he had omitted to make the usual formal request for an introduction. Notwithstanding this omission, which was purely accidental, and the circumstance that Mr. Field was in plain citisen’s dress, and notin uniform, the Queen graciously walved the requirements of etiquette, which are more rigidly ex- acted at her court than, perhaps, at any other on the continent, and both gentlemen were received by her in the kindest and most cordial manner. Nothing could be more friendly than the language of her Majesty to Mr. Soulé in reference to himself, and in reference to the President of the United States. Her expression of a desire to maintain amicable relations with the Ameri- can republic bad all the fervor of heartfelt sin- cerity. A grand court ball, at which all tho members of the Cortes were to be represented, is to be given at the palace on the evening of the 20th. Glowing accounts of its unusual splendor have since reached Paris; and Mr. Field was expressly invited to remain for the occasion. This, however, he did not consider himself at liberty to do, as the public service no longer required his presence at Madrid, and | he Jeft on the 17th for Paris. ‘Mr. Mason, Minister of the United States at Paris, was visited late on Tuesday night by a stroke of apoplexy ; but I am happy to add that immediate and skilful at- tentions have united with his naturally strong recupera- tive powers, to place him beyond all serious danger. This morning his state is so comfortable as to inspire hopes of his speedy and complete recovery. Mr, MeRae, United States Consul at Paris, is also, I re- gret to learn, confined to his house and his bed by sick- ness. His friends, however, are encouraged to bope that his sickness will not be of long duration. FIGARO, Interesting Debate in the Constituent Cortes on the Cuban Question. Sxssion or Decemner 18, 1854. Mr. Mariategul, representative of Santander, asked for information about the negotiations with the United States in relation to the Black Warrior affair. The speaker accused of incrdinate ambition the North Ameri- ean democracy, which supports liberty in theory, but maintains slavery. Mr. Luzuriaga, Minister of Foreign Affairs, answered that the government was determined to maintain the in- tegrity of the Spanish territory, without neglecting the deference due to other nations. In the present case, the principle on which the’government means to act was that selling Cuba would be to sell Spanish honor. (Ap iause Pthe of Public Works observed that the ques- tion of elay was a very delicate one when applied toa country which might have the fate of San Do: if the slaves were hay; spe? impradently and without due precaution. ae ‘s of general ansent. motion from M. Olozaga was thea ane the Cortes to adopt M. Luzw: ’s declaration against the Cuba, and was unanimously to. A letter Des Debats, dated 19th December, says:— sale of from Madrid to the Jou: “The question of the sale or alienation of Cuba is now settled; whatever the United States may make, the Spanish government has only to refer to the motion of M. adopted unanimously by the Cortes yes- terday, to the tion.” " ‘Another letter, dated Madrid, Dec. 21, says:— “The Spanish government has not acquiesced in the proposition made by the British Minister at Madrid, to Spain and England should be enforced. have, however, been sent to ptain-General of Cuba, General José de la Concha, to carry out the stipu- lations entered upon with England, without ceasing to prevent the slave trade.’’ ‘What is Cuba Worth—The Amertean In’ [From the Paris Journal des Debats, Dec. 23.) That which is good to take is to keep, is a pro- verb of not over scrupulous morality. The United States, reversing the terms of this maxim, lusts after the pos- session of Cuba, which naturally for her part. desires larly to keep. We cannot say what will eventos result from this great desire of the confedera- tion to add to its bo ‘one] States this beautiful island, so justly called the Queen of the Antilles. Wo have previously stated the means of financial adopted by the Spanish for the preservation of the colony, and {t is not our in- tention to go back to this part of the sub, but rather to indicate the actual importa: see what she ia worth, by her prodn: ee It will be the object of some comparative sta- intles. A word first on the population: Cuba is the largest isiana of the Colombian archipelago, and it can be also said the most fertile and most seducing by its admirable climate, and, necording to the last census, (1850), has | 945,000’ inhabitants—to say about 400,000’ whites, and 485,000 colored, of which about one quarter were free, the remainder slaves. It bas been 4 that since 1790 the decennial increase of the population in Cubs hi been 29 per cent. A to M. Michel Chevalier, (iter certo den oe de communication aux tats Unis) the increase of ulation in the Union,also decennial, is 26 per cent, TZ) cigsrencn, beiwern the two countries should not then be very great if the im- menre resources that the far West f i offers to immigration are considered ; and we mast add that Cuba could improve for cultivation about one-fifth more of her soil, The slave trade, it is true, notwithstanding official interdiction, in still reeruited too often for the island. We do not know the number of negroes Cuba can introéuce at present clandestinely; however, it is acety Me in 1844 10,000 negroes were Fs du which number gradui lessening, shoul have $000 in tat 2. Pte m reduced to about in stil In_Brazil, the ew a number. ppreasion of the tnd hen been more efficient ‘and rapid. From 66,172 introduced in 1847, the aumber, it is has im 1851, te 9,287. Notwithat the indolence—which is natural, and in some degree excusable, in this Spanish colony, by the éxireme fecundity of her soll and the rich gilts of her | beautiful climate—Cuba ia, to-day, rich im cultural and mat establishments. In were but 610 sugar manufactories; in 1846 there were 1,442. At the first period, the number of farma was but 13,947; and in the second, 25,292. Bs io Fin by 292. The tions of tobacco, increased from 70 coffee’ plantations, 17) 69 cocom must be 6,000 domains, 1, have decreased—there 5 14 cotton tations; 1,754 rural manufactories, brick-kilar, dis tanneries, lime-kilns, ke. We must also calculate 1,627,318 bovine cattle, and 244,727 horses and mules. There —86 of he endl the remainder of coal unfortunately, these sources of the riches of the ter- ory, estimated (without the mines) three hundred and twenty-three millions, we cannot ve a better idea of it showing the amount of Exportation of the whic ‘tiram placemen, who are the ruin of the peninsula. Poor Spain! Poor only because ill-governed, distracted | and divided—actually rich in every kind of uodevelope! | resources, agricultural, mineral, and industrial—a no- ble, generous people, with splendid traditions and not without lofty aspirations. But they enjoy no quiet, no confidence. The troubles of the last half century have sent waves of Spanish emigration to England and France, beartog away the leaders of al parties, amd these same Say imitation of the Spani pas romery ope labels of Havanese manufacturers. Such confidence is marvellous. to the », the coffee, the tobacco, the molasses, ‘we add 25,000 to 30,000 tons of copper ore, 2,000,008 to 8,000,000 of togwood, cedar and mahogany, and 50,000 to 55,00) hectolitres of rum, we have very near all the ex- portations of Cuba, which, altoget . th coffee, ther, excepting the it has been’ shown,’more than ‘doubled th the course of the last twenty years, Let us ace, moreover, the value of the exchanges of the colony. The phat five years between 1826 and 1830, of the exterior commerce of Cuba, concentrated chiefly at the ports of Havana, Matanzas and Santiago, was, in exportations and importations together, 153,000,000 franca. Ten years after—that is to say, the average for 1836 to 1840—it was 217 millions; ten years later, 1845 to 1860, 282 millions. At last, in'1862, it is 309 millions, or about one-fifth of the cummerce of the United States. This, then, is an increase in twenty or twenty-two years of more than double, Is it Spain that receives the ost part of the profit of this commerce? seoit so. Although em | privileges are reserved Yor the national fag, which alone carries on the trade be- tween Cuba and the mother country, or perhaps ‘on ac- count of this colonia! rule, the amount of transactions between them in 1852 was not above 76 millions, Thie is only one quarter of the whole amount, of which the foreigners obtain consequently the threo quarters, The United States head the list : millions in 1861; 95 millions in 1852, of which | two-thirds are in expottations from Cuba; then came England and Germany ; at last ourselves for forty-five to fifty millions; comprising, it is true, Porto Rico, the ae- cond of the Spaniah Antilles, and which without being 80 Important as Cuba is also very rich and very fertile. Cuba ts an excellent market for our wines, our silks, our metallic manufactures, ourgloves, our perfumerios, &c., and we bave in the island 80 to 100 solid eatablish- menta surrounded dy kind of colony of our industrious countrymen, from the departments pajoloieg Spain. But as for commerce and indystry, the United States, it must be admitted, have in Cuba, an undoubted preponderance, It is they who, next to Spain, carry on the major part of the maritime transports. Out of 911,695 tons carried, they have 444,389, nearly one-half, Out of 499 vessels which entered Matanzas, 423 were American, and st Car- denas 380 out of 414. ‘the vessels of the United States carry the ter part of the sugar, coffee and tobacco from the island, and consequently convey to it the greatest quantity of flour, codiish, salt provisions, iron- mongery, machines, mercery, and’ also the most skilful overreers, the most persevering agriculturists, and the best workmen employed in the manufactories and farms in the colony. /( ts also to the American houses estab- lished at Cul ly on the northern shore, that the island és i for its commercial activity, in addi- tion to which t ine Life to the country by giving the ini- tiabive to the Of enterpise, which forms the ground: taplotern the mechanten, the carpeatern,lockeritas, and engineers, the nics, the carpenters, locksmiths, an’ other artisans of the federation, who, thanks to the fre. quency of conveyance, can easily go to island and remain thore for the six cr seven months that the work. ing season Jaste, without having to remove their families, and therefore they content themselves with lower wages. se It is thus, that by ) without cannons, soldiers or di- plomatists, Cuba is, in a manner, invaded by the Ame- rican race—a pacific invasion, but, however, more secure of ts vetgiekethehon the most legitimate of all inva- stons, to be sure, for it 4s that of intelligence and labor. ‘Killogramme (Fr.) is two lbs. and two-fifths English measure, Lord Raglan, his Staff, and the British Army. CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND AND THE CRIMEA, ., [Ffom the London Thos, Doe. 23.) ; * England will have her holidays, and seoms to think that if net nature, at least the world, will stand atill, while she returns to her Lares and Penates, and forgets & while her dreams of power, her dominion of the sea, and her high calling of universal arbitration. we are to believe the omen of coun incidents ia all histories, it has ever been at such that the doom of nations and of men has been sounded, and careless generations have been surprised by those ‘disasters that are only just short of the final catastrophe. And who such a disaster may not be impending-—may not have actually happened as we write? We never could make out how it is that the English nation are thought so peculiarly sensible, matter-of fact and calculating. Certain it is that none ready to busy themselves in the illusion of the hour, and to spert on the verge of ruin. ‘The morcantile classes of moxt o hor countries, much as they love wealth, dread poverty still and will not ke their allon one die. The m ces down to his country seat, surrounds himself with flis neighbors, or falls Releep'at his fireside, with the | rounds of music and mirth all round him, at the very | time that he knows an adverse win}, a change in the some mere political accident, will consign him to instant ruln or disgrace, We need not single out private in- | stances of this madness. It is a national folly, and | never was it so strongly, so fearfully exhi>ited, as at this moment. What remains of more than 50,000 men, the best blood of this country, which now represents, 3,000 miles, from prea the tag eae ee} xd etd, and the ability of our race? ‘ngland istory now the We have defied thi largest army in the wor rid, and, if we bave pot backed TN ey oteiery uite sumbiont strength or ptitude, we ve at feast made an effort beyond all formerexample. At this moment it would be rash even to jecture the fate of those hardy survivors of the 54,000 men. Do they atill peo a unequal fight—chilled, drenched, — coe — or a few noe inches of pala azs. | ™m altogether, scarce enough for a pers retreat? Or may we dare to hope that desperation itself bas urged the iter alternative of a dash at the city, with a somewhat less cost of life than would attend another month of inaction? After the dreary, and ever stil dresrier, history of this siege, we cannot re asmuch. Yet, if that has not been done, what is other alternative? It is that the army worse condition than ever it was. We sa} rately. The reinforcements and au; been rent out would up to this, December 23, only kee the army numerically at the inadequate force at whic! ith setting the certain drain by death and sick- ness against the reinforcements, and the eonsumption of food and material the supplies. But if that army is numerically no larger, it is physically and mo- rally much worse, * * « * . . . There is no use disguising the matter. are not speaking from our Owa correspondence We are not oa, what we think alone. We say, on the evi- dence of every letter that has been received in this coun. , and we echo the ion of almost every experienced eo] or well infe gentleman, when we say that lethe noblest army England ever sent from these shores | has been sacrificed to the groseest miamanagement. In- | competency, lethargy, aristocratic hauteur, official in- axvierence, favor, routine, perverseness and stupidity , revel and riot in the camp before Sebastopol, in the harbor of Balaklava, in the hospitals of Scutari, ‘and bow much nearer home we do not venture to say. We say fam- ut lect sd? a slight aggravation of sot Ara drop of the teesontiotie nome | temperature, an unacconntabdle fall in the market, or | | | | | it withthe extremest reluctance—no one sees or hears | | anything of the Commander-in-Chief, Officers who | landed on the 14th of September, and have been inces: santly engaged in all the operations of the siege, are not | even acquainted with the face of their commander. It has always been imagined that the Duke of Wel- Mngten’s personal appearance was familiar thing to every soldier in hisarmy. He in related to have | man was fit to commind an army who could n well cross-country. People talk of his eagle eye, | energetic voice, his calm manner, as if he were | ally nd personally known throughout hi | Is all this a myth, or has war so changed th: paign, or even a battle, can Office ‘by means of aides-de-camp staff itself made up for the invisibility of the commander, we abould not complainof a military fiction bearing a strong resemblance to the privacy and inviolability of the Crown. But, unfortunately, the staff is said to con nist of young gentlemen whose ‘honor and coarage no body can doubt, but who are devoid of experience, with- sympathy for the distresses of such inferior regimental officers nce. Unfortunately, too, all the results agree too nearly | with the fact of an invisible commander. Had the eye of general fallen on the confusion in the harbor «f Ba- Jaklava, on the impassable state of the road from that place tothe cemp, on the miserable condition of the | eainp, on the ntate of the trenches, on the unprotected state of the right fank before the battle of Inkermann, and, before that, on the circumstances ander which the | fatal charge of Ualaklava took place, we can hanily + 0p pore but thst oc ablea maa ae Lord agian undoubtedly Is would have prevented such errors and neglects, Wo only echo the fe of every letier from the seat of war, In the officer and the private alike we find a quiet, resigne! untmpassioned conviction that the whole affair is bung!- hopeless and horrible manor. Every | body perceives it ia his own state, in the fate of his cam- | rades, in the condition of the camp, an! in the progrost of the siege. Young gentlemen, in every luxury, and with on ample store of every military comfort, were till at the last date ak and night nothing bat the threadbare clothes and worn out boots in which da on the 14th of September. They had no tting up the things le(t bebind in the trans- What becomes of everthing sent to Balaciars , thousands ly can point there is noboly }, and 50,000 men, or what now re mains of them, are drifting with their eyes open, bot hand bound, spell bound, towards destraction. [Do any of the jetters, or any of the officers returned from te 9 ve a Cn it account f ao trar, it rot onme everybody's knowledye, boon tn ours, that the letters handed | e¢ in the most 110 | nearon tothe alies in the | know, quiteas well provisioned. The new works thrown } } Yet, it | chant of the boasted Anglo-Saxon race, as itis called, | he is thought to be, and ly hh courage, his perfect coolness, and his great ability in his former employments—he better instruments, wants better coadjutors and stafi—men who will ply that ubiquity of whieh the cbief @ incapatle, tel! hin everything, eouvey tho wants of the army, take orde seo thatthey are excanted, Bend out men who will save the army, ust flees the Ri sians, though they are formidable enough, but from des- | pair, which is weighing down the spirits of every one, | and an utter distrust in the arrangement of the expedi- tion, It will be of Little use to send out reinforeainents by thousands unless we take steps for their better man- agement. As it ix, they march to thorr graves, and begin to yerish by scores from the hour they land. Misrule re- ecives them on the beach, and weavies them, worries them, drencbes them, fahivers them, and so ‘destroys them, tili a fe eotral figures aro all that remain, The soldiers of the Pen'neula, when they raw the Duke of eeeaatir an absence, used to exclaim that his face them more good than the arrival of ten regi ments, Such a hond, or coadjutors equivgient to it, is what we want for the Crimea. [From the London Times. Dec. 26.) | ‘We believe we have fallen into considerable disgrace | seoaens ell fed gentlemen, in well warmed hoi nd wel beds, for taking up what they are pleased to calla “croaking’’ tone about the state of affairs in the East, We ought to confined ourselys just now, at all events, to. transmittir a compliments of the | mea, and thelr anxious friends athome. Indeed, if the war can be conducted xactly as one pleases, it must be oa paper. | , there need be no fary of the winds or the skies—no “chaos of mud’—no mid- night or morning surprises. If tbe placid, well-favoret ary of writers, compositors and printers are good for anything, bond can at least make it all pleasant, and Christmas carol, even out of such mat as the letters of our correspondents in the ‘That is the feeling in high quarters; and we cannot bo surprised that gentlemen who are now scattered. tn the | four quariers o! tLo social and politizal horizon, makin; a merry Chi as of the'r own, should wish Sebastopo to be made safe till the end of the holidays. * * * * * * * » | Dreadful an it must be to reflect on the possibility of 70,000 Pritish and French soldiers and some 30,000 Turks suddenly let loove upon a city that has so long delied their efforts, and for the poswssion of which they have | gone through so much suffering, yet wo must desire it as the choice of evils. We denire it,indeed, and it it | natural we should desire, at any sacrifice, th of a «tate of things which costs ux every wee death and sickness as a pitched battle, without t) ry, and, still more, without soy result, Neyertheless, we are obliged to confess that we have very little ox: | pectation that any such event has Rapnened, or is likely to happen at present. We bear in mind the unpleasant fact that febastopol is very much stroncer than it was | when the allies first found themselves before it, It is better fortified, better garrisoned, and, for aught wo ilo. up for the protection of the town on every side excite tho astonishment of the besiegera, not merely for theirextent, | their scale, and their completeness, but for the fastidious nestness with which they have been executed. ‘They in- dicate an abundance of hands anda veal for the work presenting a strange contrast to the operations of our own overworked army. From the first day of the siege iNhas always been thought quite posaible to take the lace by assault, at a certain large sacrifice of men; and question is, whether the generals who did not feel naibility of such a step in | September should have got over their scruples now, | when the ods are evidently so much more against us. | In fact, the price of the Sy ere rises like that of the Sybille books, and Lord Raglan, if he would ever see | the inride of Sebastopol, must make up his mind to fol- low the example of the King of Rome, and give three | times as mary men for the city now as he would have had to pay at first. For our part, there iy hardly any resent cost that we should think too great for it nom, ‘ere. the immediate capture of the place to cost the | allies 10,000 men in killed and wounded, we are persuaded | that three months more of such work as we have bad | would cost as m , and leave the work still to bo done. Done, however, it must be. unless we would | make ourselves the OT ieee ofthe world,and enable Russia to say that we had done our worst, and that she | feared na no longer, * r) | | | | . * * « ‘ | It is head—head—bead that {# wanted, as well as the limbs of the rude, Lelpless soldier. sending regiments perpetually onwards to th war, to perish by scores from the yer val, if we do not send out men whe care of them? The regiments advanced from Gibraltar, Malta, | and Corfu, and even the 60 strong, healthy policemen, | sent from this metropolis, sicken and die, where thoy have to live, to work, to walk, to sit, towat and drink, and sleep, in wet clothos and wet boots, under wet tents, on the wet ground, in watery trenches, under rainy skies. The human frame was not made for this sort of work, and since the work has doubled, the food been re. duced to half-rations, and the tents been blown away the pest has stalced’ triumphant tyrougt the samp What, too, can be use of sending for more of tho unfortunate Turks, when they bring no food with them, | are di nt on yj short allowance of biscuit, | from British stores, and, like Irish laborers on four: | pesmeley, do nothing for nothing’ It is head that | as been wanted throughout. There is no denying it. | A plain proof is found in the fact that nothing whatever has perrenes im the siege that was pot known before. hand, and t could not have been provided for, This was not the case of a fortress or a position in the into- rior, some hundreds of miles from the coast, attacked after a long and destructive march, presenting are pected obstacles, to be encounteret by an | nished oo computation. This was a f the | sea, which we call our own, filled with our ships, within forty-eight hours’ sail of friendly shores and citien, the ing army being all the time within aight, an even within sound of surge. was nothing | whatever that could not have been provided against. | We knew the size and wide-spread position of Sebas- toy The very upon our walls are bey 8 that in this Soeatey. ong before the niege in. Weknew that the siege might be protract- ed into heart of winter, and that the latter months | of the year would be rainy and stormy. We knew that soldiers would infallibly perish without sufficient food, | clothing, and covering over their heads, We knew the | sort of distances and roada we should have to traverse in the event of our having to establish ourselves out- side the walls, We knew perfectly well the nature of the soil round Sebastopol, and that while we were ham mering in vain at the exterior defences, it would be in the power of the Russians to construct an inner line, We that whatever could be done would be done. Yet we had foreseen nothing; snd, possessing the | most ingenious as well as the richest people in the world, we have really shown no more skill or artifice | in the siege of Sebastopol than our ancestors would | have done bay gre ae HB ago. rom | time we are surpassed over, ly, and only a no | superiority ‘exer, the ‘urks, whom, accordingly, mA | abuse very freely. The French in their roads, ‘a heir ects im Sone hy clothing, it bowpitals, in ning te 100k om our helplessness thuch ‘Ga we look on | that of our barbarous allies, The Russians sur, all | three—French, British and Turks—{n everything, j cept in mere physical strength and courage. There wo come off the bert. Yet how disgraceful that England, so | wealthy, so mechanical, and with such infinity of ‘re- eources, should, after all, depend on the rawest material | the British soldler—and should be reduced to | imaway by wholesale in order to make up for t of mil science, not to say common sense | ‘That has been the case hithorto, though we cannot thiak that it will last much longer. Letter trom St. Petersburg. [From the New Bedford Mercury of Jan. 9.) We publish to day the following 4 interesting letter from our esteemed correspondent at Ht Petersburg. It | ppears the informaton current in Kuasia, ri war, is by no means as copious as that which we but Mr. Evans's impressions of the state of foelu f ia the capital are very valuable, and throw no little light upon the future pros of European affaires, Mr. Evans's return home will be a weloome announcement to | his many friends and well wishers Sr. Perrnmnena, Nov. 1, 1854. Devs. Laxpexr, Eaq.i—My Dear Sir—I am now making | arongements for my pos having accomplished my Losiness wuccersfully, 1 regret exceedingly that | have not been able to give you interesting accounts, from time to time, as the war progrensed. lore In Re we are not permitted to know what is tramspiring st the | seat of war until it is well known in France and Eng land. All important news ix known in the United Stater quite a* #00n as it is known in this city. Yesterday we had a little bulletin from the Emperor people ofa grent battle on the witb. The give their lone as 8,600 wounded ‘and as many kil! they aleo say that the invaders’ lows {« still gree ‘er. ‘There is intense excitement im this city, and as the news arrives from the Crimea the war gains popularity among the Russians, from the highest in rank down to the serf. All the troops that have been quartered in this city, Rigs, Reval, and along the coart of Finland, are now in full mareh for the Crimes and the Austrian frontier, The Russian army now in the Crimea is about 120,00 | rong, oni lam fea that it will be [nereared to 290,000 by the Ist of Jaguary, Ali the arsenals aod foundries Velonging to the government, as well a4 all the private fe cndries on4 wad ine shops. are in full operation day od pight, manufacturing larje cannon, mnall arms, marine eteam Ae. = fact, the minis of the Noniane are in the war, they think of no- thing else, talls a oth ng else. They are aroused and determined to prosecute the war to the full extent of their resources, with all thelr No doubt the allies will fod @ more formidable foe than they antic! pated, bat they will not yield until they scoomplish their o! - Austria still bolts to her unsettled poxition proposition to the Wester: make @ half twee one link of obi and Proedla: 20,009 Rars\ frowning on phe will be Flag oi her f coming out bol! for the | her be ‘will bee) rom ont jor Wertern Powers, Col. Colt is here, be hiss had aa inter she may were but 8 comnectel view with the Emperor, and will soon make arrange | meots to masofacture his revolver in this country. I feel confident that we shall have peace by the Int of April comet ded Ruropesn war, If peace is not the eam ya. ill be continued by ee, 601 © may expect to oe armies in Bt Vetorsbarg sed | wil show & good front, bat ell Rerope, or even the Freork they should put their wuole foros | another batore | leave this | aan, Journ Sealy aRNRY BY Ak. | maids of honor, the people vivas. | mated a | ewetit of emigre | tow Affairs in Brazil. OUR BIO DK JANEIRO COBRESPONDENCK. Rio, Dee. 5, 1854. Coal Discovery Near the City of Rio Grande—Death of Jacques Arago— Mission to France—Birthday of Pedro 1 —Ship News. ‘The ship Grey Eagle, Captain Kinsman, will sail for Philadelphia to-merrow, and! seize the opportunity of writing you a line. A very interesting report of the discovery of coal in the Province of Rio Grande, near the city of that aame, has been made. These mines were actually discoverod some time since, and have been under the direction of Mr. James Johnston. From sundry experiments at the foundry of Pontad’ Area, and the navy yard, this coal has been proved to be of exeellont yuality, and will nodoubt be of great value. Owing to limited mrans, as well as from the fact that the country has so many great enter prises on foot, the full advantages of this discovery will be slowly developed. For two months past Ihave occasionally met with a tall, genteel looking old gentleman, with long silver locks turned up gracefully under hie hat. He way b and was escorted through the streets by his niece, a charming young lady. His name was Jacques Arago brother to the astronomer. Some days ayo he wa attachedtwith a fit of apoplexy, and died on the 27th Inst, Ho was known a the author of several successful dramaa and works, and as a distinguished traveller through India, China, and South America, It is currently rumored that his Excellency ex Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulino Jose Loares de Lousa, goes to France to settle the boundary question between French Guiana and this Empire, but no official announcement of myn the mission bas yet appeared. It iy eoutradicted that the French and Baghsh object tothe Brox) ans chastising Lopez and aguay for thelr conduct towards this country. The second of December was the birth Jay of Don Pedro II., who is twenty-nine yearo of age. The day wo lebrat @ usual biyle, About 6,000 troops, including the National Guard, ched through tne streets, and were reviewed in «0 or Largo do Pa co, The day in private families was vs with balls and festivities. Hi esty promoted a large num ber of officers of the arm: d navy—the first time this has been done for five years, On this day, too, the Opera troupe performed ‘ Hobertro o Diablo” before lula Majesty. ‘The tickets were all bought up by apeculatora and sold at an immense pre} Oo the Emperor's arrival, accompanied by tt ty jum, The Opera company then sang a hytan prep: for the occasion, and an appropriate oration was de livered ‘There is no ship ws of any importance Ralubow will leave to-morrow, American ves plentiful and keep coming in, The United States (rigato Savannah, arrived after ten we 4s cruise to Montey reports that thero is danger } vot a rev tion, The United States raz: from New York, arrived yesterday T learn that the six or olght steamers of the Imperial navy willsail for Paraguay ecrly next month, The English are also to rend two or three corvetes there, Branl, by fen] moe strongly supports Mr. Hopkina, our late Consul at Paraguay. Yours, PW. 8, Postscript.—News from Buenos Ayres to the 18th of November hae reached us. rior have revelled against Buenos Ayres, and nurmbered 1,700 strong. Captain Tufts, of the bark Isabel, which left that port on the 18th, and arrived here on the Ixt Dec., informs me that the government troops had met the insurrectionists abont forty leagues in the interior, A battle ensued, in which « Tange number had been killed, The inaurrectionists were worsted, aad their victors had a t indepen euce, 49 ¢ recetved orders to kill every prisoner taken in arma. A Spanish merchant was arrested ia the city of Buenos Ayres for having been engaged in the revolt. The eit ithelf was quiet, and no danger for it was apprehended. The coflee market during the past month has been regular, About 45,000 bags were shipped to different parts of the United States during November. Prices aro now, for good qualitios, 4$100 a 48000 per aroba of 82 lbs., showing a slight decline. (From the New Orleans Pleayune, Jan. 2] By the arrival of the ship Maria, Captain Green, we have intelligence from Rio de Janeiro to the 20th of | November, The papers contain no general news whatever of in- | torent. From the reports of the Correo Mercantil, of the 19th of November, we perceive that the Maria cleared with 4,501 bags of coffee, and that the bark Zen), with 380 bays, and the ship Northwood, with 2,000 bags, had loft or were soon to leave for this port; the ship Main Law, 1,000 bags, for New York, and the ships IMuntingtom, with 1,000 bags, and Partlilan, with 2,000 bags, for Bal: timore. ‘The following report of the markets is from the circu. lar of Messrs, Maxwell, Wright & Co., of tho Lith of | November, Rxeapsrvrrs—Our stock in all hands may be est 4,000 bbls., of which quantity 14,492 bbls, first, composed of 11,2 Ri mills, 408 bbls. country Virginia, and % nik of the vessels ka be ow the way with ve arrived, we expect our present quotations to be maintained. Sales of new Ric A have not yet openod, and our quotation for tha ription is con sequently nominal one. We quote Richmond city mills 24/ a 244500; country Virginia, 21) m 22); Balti more, 1 20}; Ohili, 18] w°19f/ and Trieste, 26) a 26 F000 Coyrer.—The aules since the Int inat. amount to about 100,000 bags, at prices varying from 4{080a 4] 260; priveipally at 4/150 « 4)200 for United States lots. The packet from Southampton arrived at., ond the bulk of the abave mentioned I, and are princi vited States, from which quarter de eartoes ip be regularly at 4{100 a 4/160 for lots, firsts and superiors. » Buropean lows may be quoted (900 a 44100 per arrobe. gfe is Good coffees continue to maintain their relative value, — 4/460 having been refused for a lot of superiors within , held at 4p Shipments, the firrt four months of this crop, have been 744,561 bags, against 600,362 bage in 18b% and 669,066 Bags in 1h02; showing ‘an, exceas in 1864, a1 compared wit same in 1868, of 78,104 bags, and a deficit, as sontaet athe that of 1852, ‘of 61,204 bags. To Europe, the excess in 1854 is 108,663 hays oyer shipments of 1863, red 190,496 bags over those of 2. Hipws.—Stock of Rio Grande, 6,000. We quote light and medium weights, 360 » S70, and heavy 360 per pound nominal. Funcirs.—Several charters have been effected for the United States at $80 » $90 and 5 per cent per bag. Small vessels of 3,000 bags are in demand, while large unes are neglected. We quote $404 $00 and 6 per cent por bag for the United States, for «mall “nels, and £2 ba. £2168. per ton forthurope, #ay to channol for orders, Tue amount of unengaged American shipping in port mall. P. $.—Our advices from Pernambuco are to the Sst ult. Stock of flour about 2,600 bbls.. retailing at 20) for Trieste, and 25] 0 26] 600 for Baltimore, Bal stant, stock little over a mouth’: | test and still quoted 28) for Baltimore, and 26{500 for Richmond City ile At Rio Grande, 24 instant, stock moatly“old Haxall. Quotations, 26/500 27{ for Maxal and Gallego, nnd 24) 500825 for Balti more. At Montevideo, Ist instant, flour quotel $11 on board. At Buenos Ayres, 31st uit, flour quoted $8 50 0 9 on board, The Swiss Emigrants. TO THR EDITOR OF THK HERALD, £in—In your paper of yorterday I have read an articl® which might be consilered asa stigma on my country. Thus I feel bound to answer it The Mity-four Swiss citizens who sailed from Antwerp for New York on board the ship Arcadia, and were ship | wrecked at Sable Island, and from thence taken to Hall fax, where they were treated in the most ly aad generous manner by the Britikh authorities, and from | thence sent to New York by way of Boston, arrived in Now York some days ago, \t is tra, in the mort dexti tute condition, having Wet all their effects and little pro perty by the shipwreck, but as there ia mo Swiss olficia, either at Halifax or at Boston, it I* wrongly mentioned | that the expenses to bring them to New Yort from Bos ton were paid by some official of the government of Switrertand; and as for myself, I hare not pald, aor or dered to be pai cent for that purpose. These unfortun: ople are now in New York, and 7 the care of the Commiseloners of Kanigration, who, will forward them t the (aterlor of the United Btates, where they way they have friends, and our fwies Benevolent Hoclety has decided to assist them n that matter These people vey tn thelr Ween sent to New York by the Mayor of their village, which tx porsible, though [ have no ktowledee of it. but | must observe that by the enstoms of 4 iteorl tien has some rights im the common property of or village to which he beloogs, su1- of which be sa burgher. This is called Gemeinde recht, and the» by receiving from oryoration of 7 oF village the means toe they, im fact, recwlved part of thelr own progerty I take this opportonit from fwitserland to the burthen to thie country und no doubt Marit, that they have emigration being © it brings ad generally good aot bard brooms gol cttinene of te the Cymmiaelonet paid st the utmost. Palance,..... whieh, of conrer Taleo bog to found from t € i he tae countrymen as |i was in their power to grant hy lonet een letter lo your veloabie pier, ya Will, viz, much obLge your mort obetient 4. TH. UB LOTR, Coneel ot Owitanclaal lg New York. Maw Yous, Jam 12, 105 The inhabitants of the inte- | 91 Supreme Court. THE SUITS AGAINST C. VANDERBILT FOR BREAOE OF Cowrnact. Jan, 12.—Dantel Van Vlack vs. Cornelius Vandertiit, | Bighteen other plaintif(e in cightoen other suits ageinet | the same.—The following opinion of Judge Mitchell com> cure in the main points with that of the Superior Gourt Judges, published in yesterday's Hxnaty. Judge “, however, thinks that some rights should be left opea te the plaintiffs:— The defendant shows that ninety nine actions are b t against him by ninety-nine different plaintitt, h for causes of action so precisely alike that the printed forma of complaint are used in cach case, int containa six counts, each al ‘8 c0a- ry the plaintiff, either from New to Sam bor rey (ibe Sonein dans t & breac! N Juan del Sue and om the way and furabae 1 paadequate food end seeneremmate sens: anlone of the counts also alleges that featend, these 9 line for Ca itorn was agent for U tickets to passengers for © of this line, which the defe “Vancerbilt's line for Ca he devies that he was an « which passengera were (o Sur to Ban Franc He that line, engaged the 8. 8. Lawl t in March, 1852, to go to Han Jun nengers from theace to wae delayed in going round Cape Horn, and ia consequence the passengora were detained at San Juan del Sur, obligett to betake themeclves to a nailing vessel, Mead & Co. were agonts, to take them to San F and alleges that Mead & Co. recetved in pay pastage on board their vearel, the tlekets bm y Allen for the #8. He also alleges that three of the plaintiffs are dead; that three of the complaints, not turpish the full Christian nemes of the plalat but only the inittels of such nw and that the piaim- tits’ attorney being called upon for his authority to commence these suits, destined to exhibit any ae jearegua,’’ and that ‘and it may be i hrapeises, at thi J from San hat a 0 na the pamenger tickets for the 8 8, Lewis, tnx Allon. Mead & Co, rewtde at San Juan del dur, and one of the firm being casually here, made affidavit that they authorised theve suits, and that they did so by virtue of 4 verbel and written power of attorney from each of the plaintifiy, whieb written power was burnt, Phe right of the Court to compel aa attorney of the court to exaihte Lin authority to nue, arises from the control which tt exercises over all its process nnd proceedings, and over ite officers, to prevent abuse. It arises from wo statute, anates from Che breast of the Court, and from tte desire to cause justice to be done, and as it emanates fi the Court, fo it is to be exercised only on suey terme and conditions, and im such manner ax the Court ehall perceive will contribute to justice between the ‘ties, The defendant cannot insist on {ts exercise “ polute right, without submitting to such terms as rt may impose. ile cannot {nsint that the action wed beeanve the power is not produced, nor vit be stayed furever unless it be produced, but fm ik for thy reine of the discretion of the urt, and submit accordingly to such terms as the y choose to Impone as a condition welre of much that the knowledge of t never seen them, never had any authority from them to sue except such as was given to &Co, What the extent of that authority was is left quite um certain. Mead & Co, do not state even ite substance; al- though it iy burnt, they can state, and should state, ae~ tording to their best recollection and their best moana of obtaining information, in precise words it was written, en the Court can jadge whether it was om authority to sue merely for the consideration money paid for the py from San Juan del Sur to San Frem- elseo, or for th ni also for the low aud injury to the plaintiffs, caused by the delay to which they were #ab- jected and for the inadequate food and accommodations, ‘These last grievances were personal to the passen and probably could ot be ansignod-—the Arst etalteod of being aselgned, The possession of the tickets by Mesa & Co. leads to the presumption that they recelved the tickets (aa the defendant alleges) in payment of pas- sages furnished by them In their brig to the passengers, and verbal anthority to recover from whor as nbs the amount paid for such tiekets, Thus far Mead & Go, show a prima facie authority to nue in that limited way, and if they chone to coring their actions to auch « claim there is no reason for staying their proceodi defendant shows no defence to the action, but alleges facts from which it in to be inferred that he held hime self out to passengers ay furnishing to them tekete which woukl carry them through the whole distance from New York to San Francisco, and that ropreseuta- tation he should make good, and if Mead & Co., to save his honor, have fornished passengers whom ‘he com- tracted to forward, but by accident could not for he shoul! without delay fully reimburse them, at b all that he received for the tickets for the part of the voyage which they completed in his plage, Yet he hae allowed wore than three years to elapse and has not yet id the money thus spent by Mead & Co. for vin benefit and for the sus ining of bis honerase merchant. Ile therefore should submt to suele terms as justice will require, and as will prevent the power of the Court to stay the plaintiffs’ proceedings free Being abu The power originates prevent abuse on one side, and must be exerclaed with such Uimitetions as will prevent abuse on the other side. He seers to consider it a defence that the 4. 8. Lewie left no shortly before those passengers left New York, that they ought to have known that they could not by it. Thi uld alow that he knew they could not go it, and o that he contracted to do what he knew hie, not do—but the passengers cannot be presumed to kaow: any such matters, There ix no fraud (mputable to Mead & Co., or thelr attorney, but thelr a Mday ts do not show with certainty Whether the leetramect executed te them wasan ment or a law power of a! aor what theantentof the er wae, Cod.entll thas barioun the, not be allowed to use the names of these la! » IC it in & mere power to on the ey have no right to retain all the counts these complainte—they should show how the fact to that; and then bo Myatt nO power to sue james for who an could pars by words of the instrament containing | stated as b= ny Sr practicable. The court would attemp) in this interlocutory ge eey Meads from ming in thelr own acti nor from suing in the names anything which the plaintiff many it i Fis. & r § oFe fis seis sue for-—but It bas the same show thelr authority for using @ third which it has to compel an attorney of this it. The attorney is called on for his authority fers to the Meads aa his immediate constitaen' showing no authority from the plaintits, Mends show how far they are authorized by tiffs to act. If it should oppose that the ine’ the Meads was an action should be in their names, might impose as a condition of any the defendant should stipalate not to raise thatasen jection, the Court reguatiing the matter of conte ae be deemed just, it might aleo require the defendan' edmit the facta aa to his connection with this Hoe, » require him to expedite the trial of the cause, and putin an anewer promptly, and consent w the lanu! comimissions and examine witnesses without pre) to the present motion and to the order to etay the tial and also consent not to object at the trial toe vordaned between the complaint as alleged sud as if may proved. One necessity for the numerous counts in the | complaint le the uncertainty whether the proof show the contract to be to carry (rom Man Juan del Sor to San Francisco, or direetly through all the divtance from New York to fan Francisco, and yet the differease dese not affect the rights of the parties, and should not there- fore be objected at the trial, If, ax has been lntimated, the defendant ls ready to do what is just, the whole mat- ter may now, perhaps, be adjusted. There are other matters moved for as to which it |\ unnecessary now to pare: the draft of an order for staying ings will bo rolmitted to the counsel, that the plaiatills’ attorney S,Fs Ae seeeieitesstl ¢ asics ¥ é may ruggent euch conditions aa be may deem ted the defendant's attorney may eubmlt amyniments thereto, The stay is to be until the further order of the Court, #0 a to be under the control of the Court, Court of General Sessions. Before Hon. Jadge Btaart Jam, 12-—Lareeny.—Vrank Rabriguer, aliat Laces, © Coban, was indicted for stealing « wateh chain and yocke! book coatelning $16, from one Manecl Domin- guer, & Portuguese. The evidence against the prisonee was his own admission of guilt before the police magia- trate. Verdict guilty of petit larceny. Sentenced te four mouths in the penitentiary Coat Stealing. George Mulloy sod William Haseos were indicted for stealing three overcoats, from the hall of Me, Francs Mesbess *house, 16 Irving place, om the ‘Tith December last le ofieat who arrested the prise- ners found the coats in thelr possession, and Mr. Mar- Yur tifed them. Verdict, guilty of petit larceny. Rach sonionced to ots, monthnterabe praitentiory, Omitiing @ labd Potsoncue Drags. —Peter Pr s chemist, keeping & 4 store In (ule olty, wee under that see’ ot Matate which makes It» ambe- demeanor for any apothecary or other person Vo sali ae veule, or acy pelsonous sulstance, without the wore polvon Velng written on the lave!, and subjecting such K on Conviction, tos fadeot ex tlw, The connected with this case were that Aomerua of one Henry Liseki went to Dr. Pretere's store for endl clo®, om the 70h of July leet; that the sttemdent gsve her the medirian—« relation of oplum —but omitted te label it “polson,”’ For this omission the defendant wee Indicted, Mr, Bewteet, for the delence, cootente® it oytum wee not poison within the messing of | ute and this seemed to be main point ot wien of the jury, Verdi«t Kethery 6m the Pires Degree fewer Tun Stave Cage 1» Bowrox.—We Sears from the Rovtom Jowrnal of the 1%» leat thot 0 Guang preted WT the peewatiy 200) oy om py J sem aidane's ss eo warrant dawn isoved for A a lugitive sieve. 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