The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1855, Page 4

e 4 NEW YORK HERALD v ° #aMES G2 avoN BENNETS, POPRIETOR AND EDITOR, SrvwE F. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULIONITS in advance. bag gia ahr er copy oF $8 per annum ike, European tion $4 pe . ypark of reat Britain, oF 960 ‘any partaf the th Lude yy A ‘Subscriptions or soith Adver- oh EBTTERS by Meu fe oatege ll be dotueted from SP ONDENCE, containing impor- ee eee eee marter of hawortdeay aaed ill be liber un Fonsion CORRESFON- es a TO SRAL ALL - 5 NO NOTICE B taken of anonvmeus Communications, We 5% PRINTING coccnted with neatness, cheapness, and Pi tk TISEMENTS renewed every day. ‘Volume XX...... eeerccesoese seeeseeeececeMQ, LGR AMUSEMENTS THIS BYENING, AGADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth t.—fus Danzer or Pave BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—WitL0w Corss— Masus amp Faces. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Pavui tue Poscusn —Honrn Pors—siocopuovnps. MIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Sonnamavra. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Tix Seni0vs Fawiy—Toopias, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Ezorsumers 16 Baow hiva-Sxercnre in [xp1a—Kiss iv THE DARK, MBTROPOLITAN THEATRE. Broadway—Masanisu.o —Usen Ur. MUSEUM—Atternoon—Tua Ov Cuarzav. wong Loneey Max or Tur Oczan. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Mechanios’ Hall—473 Broadway. Y'S OPERA HOUSE, 689 Broadwey—Buox- wee prmorian Orena TRovre, ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 589 Broadway—Faxo- a SBUUNTE ore ano Sines or Stzaerorore PERHAM’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 668 Bresd- way btnorian OrenaTnovre. ———_—_—_—— New York, Friday, vuno 1, 1855. = Notice to Carriers, ‘The carriers of the New Yorx Hexatp must bear im wind that all ‘‘ routes” belong to the proprietor of this eutablishment. None are te be sold. All changes in ‘Che delivery of the Hnatp are made by ourselves, No @thor will be recognized. The News. "Phe democrats had a great time of it last even- ‘eg im and about Tammany Hall. They met to ex- bange congratulations on the recent triumphant @emenstration of power which the party had made im Virginia, in defeating the Know Nothings and electing Henry A. Wise as Governor. Guns and five rockets, and music and illuminations, at once testified to their jubilation, and attracted immense qowds to the Old Wigwam. The attsndance was so immense that only a moiety could gain admittance te the Hall; and a deputation of speakers went e@ut to the street, and harangued the unterrificd eutsiders. It was a grand demonstration. See our yeport thereof. The democrats of Philadelphis held a grand jolll- Moation yesterday, on the island in the Delaware siver cpposite the city, and after eating, drinking, @ancivg and singing, fired one hundred guns in honor of the victory in Virginis. In the evening a meeting was held in Independence square, which ‘was attended by an immense throng. ‘The Connecticut House of Representatives yes- terday defeated, by a majority of twenty votes, the bill extending the right of suffrage to negroes. The Kuow Nothings of that State are not yet completely ~abelitionized. Our Washington despatch contains several items of interest. Theentire abandonment of the Nica wagua colonization scheme is announced on pretty geod authority. The blockading squadron in the Eaat river will, therefore, speedily be relieved'from the arducus duty of watching a steamer manned by three men and two women. The board of officers provided for by the act passed to effect reforms in tthe personnel of the Navy will be appointed to-day. An order from the Post Office Department, direct. that both British and American posteges to Tarka Idlands must be prepaid, will be iseued shortly. ‘The Canadian Parliament adjourned yesterday, after a session of seven months. The proposition 0 donate lands to soldiers enlisting in the foreign legion for the Crimea was not detinitely acted on. A further grant of £5,000 for the Paris Exhibition was voted. . Recently we pubiished an sccount of the re ship- ment to Liverpool, by the Commonwealth of Mas- sachuretis, of alone woman and her infant, whose nly crime was poverty. The cruelty of the ast galled forth, as it merited, universal execration fzom the press of the country. »It was suppossd to be the extreme length to which the peculiar philan- thropy and Americanism of Massachusetts could go; that supposition, however, was not well founded. It ‘OW appears that the same veseel whivh carried the widowed mother and fatherless infant from the espital of New England carried aleo Hugh Carr, who has resided within the State for the past thir teen years, paid his taxes regularly as a good itizen, and taken out his first naturalization papers. Unfortunately, Mr. Carr some six months since, by ene of thefinscrutable dispensations of Divine Provi- @ence, became a lunatic, and his relatives—who are ‘abundantly able and willing to eupport him—piaced him in an asylum, in accordance with the advice of friends. The managers of the asylum would not allow the friends of Carr to visit him, but promised ‘Maat he should be well cared for. Bat the autho ities resolved to get rid of this troublesoms tax upon the public bounty, and eecretly shipped him off 0 Liverpool, thrusting the poor lunatic out apoa the world to perish. The brother of Mr. Carr, it is waid, has threatened to bring an action at law in this matter, and it is understood the unchatitable officials have sent word to Europe to have the un- fortunate victim sent back by the first steamer. This simple act of justice, however, does not miti- gate the atrociousness of their conduct in the pre, mises, It will be perceived, by oar Havana correspon- dence, that the Captain-General, by an edict published on the 234 u't., has raised the blockade and state of siege which have been for sone time past in full force. He has also dissolved the mili tary commission. ‘The propelier Arctic and the bark Release, which ‘are about to eail on the expedition in search of Dr. Kane and his compaaions, dropped down the river from the Navy Yard yesterday, and anchored off ‘the Battery. They may go to sea at any moment. Lieutenant Hartstein, who is in command of the expedition, commands in the Release, and Lisut C. C. Simms has charge of the Arctic. ‘The eales of cotton yesterday reached about 4,000 bales. ‘The whole advance since the receipt ‘ofthe steamer’s news has been from dc.aic. Flour ‘was firm, with 6jc. per bbl. advance on common ‘te good grades. Michigan white wheat sold » $360, and Canadian do. at $255 © $162. Corn ‘wasactive and firmer. Pork was also firm, with tair sales. Other provisions were also in good de- mand and rates firm. About 40,000 bushels of orm were engaged for Liverpool, at 3d, in ships’ bags. Gov. Clark has appointed Dr. Swinburne Health ‘Officer for the port of Albany. Complaints of drought are very general through- ut New York and Vermont. Rain has not falien at Albsny for a fortnight. A letter from Salt Lake City says that Col. Step- ‘toe, #0 far from accepting the office of Governor of ‘Utah, conferred upon him Jast winter, has, with Many other military officers, signed a petition to ‘the President to have Brigham Young re-appointed. ‘This, if true, accounts for the Gevernor’s flattery of ‘wee Colonel. ‘The bark Catharine Phillips arrived at Salem yes- ferday fro the West Coast of Africa, bringing » mam from the United States squadron there, a Cezolina View of the Subject, ‘We *,ansfer to our comdnins to-dey a lending article on “the Sonth and Parties,” trom the Charleston Mercury. In its exumeration of Southern wrongs and Nortbera aggressions, and of the evidences of domineering anti- slavery agitation, which threatens to override all other issues in thie section, our Charleston cotewporary hag simply given us a relation of historical facts, with a strong Southern color- ing we admit, but still sabstantially true. The means of relief proposed against this recurring tide of Northern fanaticiem are quite another thing ; and here, we apprehend, our Charleston philosopher falls short of the mark. He tells us that we may expect parties to be patched up again for the Presidency, upon am- biguous platforms, “framed to propitiate the strong and cheat the weak;” that “pledges will be given with no honesty, and accepted with no faith’—that, in short, the campaign, like others which have preceded it, will bea trick, a juggle and a frand upon the South, and nothing more, unless the men of the South shall lock to the dangers of the crisis, and pro- vide promptly and decisively against them. Very well. What next? The Vercury tells us it will not be enough to ignore the slavery question in the coming contest, but that every issue must be made to bow before this para- mount question of slavery; and that to this end the South have the right to demand, and should demand, of any Northern party claiming Sonthern support, that they shall “come up and meet fairly the fagitive law, the Miskouri line and the Kansas questions,’ And this is all. Now, as we understand it, these three tests scarcely break the crust of the main question. The Missouri line is obliterated; and there need be no fear of its restoration. Even if there should be found a fanatical majority in the popular branch of Congress in favor of re- storing it, the scheme will certainly be arrested in the Senate, where the States stand upon an equal footing. The same may be said of the Fugitive Slave law. It cannot be materially disturbed with the Senate prepared to hold ia check any fanatical excesses of the House. As for the Kansas question, ali that can be re- quired of any party upon that subject is an honest acquiescence in the doctrine of “ squat- ter covereignty” established by the vote of South Carolina in both houses. What, then, have the South to depend upon as a positive future security against Northern aggreseions? Nothing else than a positive balance of power in the general government. This balance has been provided for in the constitution in the organization of Con- gress, and rests in the Senate of Unit- ed States. Here the South had st least an equilibrium of power until the admis- sion of California, whereby the North secured a majority of one State, or two Senators. It must be admitted that, if we look at the tem- per and progress of this renewed free soil and abolition agitation it will be unsafe to the South to increase this Northern preponderance in the Senate. Our Southern brethren are jealous of it, and fearfal of the results, and very properly so. The dying declaration of the great statesman of South Carolina upon this subject should not have been so soon for- gotten, at least in South Carolina, as it appears tobe. It was this: that the only security to the South inthe Union, against unconstitutional Northern encroachments, is a positive neutral- izing balance or equilibrium of power in the Senate. And here lies the solution of the whole difficulty. With the Senate secure as a break- water against Northern agitators and disunion- ists, the South are perfectly safe, but all other promises, pledges and compromises will be un- certain and unsatisfactory. The South, then, have the right to require from any Northern party asking Southern sup- port that hereafter, upon the admission of avy free State into the Union, there shall be con- ceded to the South the counterbalancing equi- valent in the Senate of another slaveholding State. They have the right to ask this from the pressure and seditious tenden- cies of the anti-slavery agitation, and from the necessities of celf-preservation. The North may acceptor reject the proposition; but we apprehend that when the power of the North shall be confessed as hostile to the concession of any principle of equality to the South in the government, that the charm of this Union will be broken and beyond the reach of remedy. Between the conflicting extremos of Massa- chusetts and South Carolina there is a safe middle ground and a substantial conservative people, ready for all reasonable concessions for the sake of union, peace and harmony. In the meantime, while the South are sure of the Se- nate they need have no fear of the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law or the restoration of the Missouri line. Ovr Waruike ADMINISTRATION—BLOCKADE OF Cou. Kiyyey.~-There are two things which ex- cite our admiration, and a third which is per- fectly astounding. The first is the submission of the oyster house critics to the Opera adminis- tration of the Chevalier Wikoff; the second is the indomitable energy of Alderman Briggs con- cerning the nativity of the Chief of Police and the mysterious disappearance of that “black trunk,” that “piece of cloth,” and those per- quisites of the dog pound; and the third is the government blockade of the Kinney expedition in the East river. Widely mistaken are those who haye supposed this Pierce establishment to be a pacific administration--all milk and water. It is the most warlike administration we have ever had, Look at the schedule of its bellige- rent operations:— 1, The ficet to the northeastern fishing grounds, 2, The expedition in pursuit of Col. Walker, to Lower California, and other expeditions in pursuit of the Cuban liberators. $. The military operations on the Mexican frontier against the Indians and filibusters in that quarter. 4, The bombardment of Greytown. 5. The expedition of Com. McCauley to the island of Cuba, and the Sioux expedition. 6, The blockade of the Kinney expedition in the East River. To be sure all these warlike operations have not resulted in any very wonderful victories or tmuch bloodshed ; and so much the better. But in this Kinney blockade the government is pretty cure of » prize. The supposed filibus- tering steamer, the United States, with a crew consisting cf the purser, two fat colored stew- ardesses and the storekeeper, is enfiladed by four war steamers in the water, and a host of United States officers and policemen on the land side. She is in a tight place, and Col. jndiciously keeps aloof. Now, thie is the way Partios a0% Politics of the Day—A South { SEW YORK HERALD, ree . to takt SS astopol. Bring a superior weight © sicam and artillery against it, and iavest it on all sides, and it must cave in, Who says new that we have not a warlike administra- tion? How could it be anything else than warlike with three or four Brigadier-Generals in the Cabinet, thirsting tor glory? Col. Kin- ney had better give it up. He is not compe- tent to cope with the naval and military forces of the United States, under General Pierce, Commander-in-Chief. Migh Art and Low Art—ihe Touchrone of Musical Criticism, It is edifying to note the inflences which sway the “high art” critigams of some of our cotemporaries, To a pedsntry too transparent to impose upon the mest ignorant they unite an affectation of purism which sits about as naturally upon them as the spasmodic morality of the Joseph Surface and Mawworm tribe. To judge them by their own professions, they are the only impartial judges of art, and the only true friends of the artist. To judge them by their actions, they are the worst enemies of both. When they are not swayed by corrupt influences, their conduct is almost invariably governed by personal partialities or dislikes. The consequence is, they can never rise to the level of a correct standard of criticism. ‘We have had some curious illustrations of this cort lately. For the gratification of per- sonal pique, or it may he from the love of sin- gularity, we have recently seen the columns of one of the daily papers made the vehicle of a series of savage onslaughts upon an actor who, whatever may be his faults, has, it must be ac- knowledged, been more generally endorsed by public opinion than any artist of his day. The length ard elaborateneas of these criticisms, or more properly speaking, philippics, at first drew attention to them, but their purpose soon became so apparent through their flimsy disguise of critical pretension that they only served to confirm still more the popularity of the object of their venom. The same paltry and contemptible influences manifested them- selves throughout the whole of the recent ar- tistical difficulties at the Academy of Music. Because the directing committee, in the exercise ofa sound judgment, did not choose to allow themselves to be swamped by the vanity and egotism of the composer ofan untried work, who sought to render the interests and convenience of the establishment subservient to his own, these impartial critics and friends of art com- menced @ war @ J’outrance against them. That their efforts to injure the house did not succeed must be a mortifying proof to them of the lit- tle estimation in which their opinions are held by the public. The arrival of the Lagrange troupe threw these malcontent critics into extacies of de- light. They hoped to find in this company the means of wreaking their vengeance upon a body of gentlemen who understood the inte- rests of art too well to permit themselves to be dictated to or overawed by the contemptible press cabal that had been raised against them. In this expectation the oyster house clique were again. signally disappointed. The committee of the Academy haying but one purpose in view, the establishment of the Opera on a stable and permanent footing,were not long in pears Sx the course to be pursued. Hap- pening to be present at the first rehearsal of this troupe at Niblo’s, and recognizing at once the certainty that s growing interest, thus almost equally divided between two companies of sterling talent, must be seriously compro- mised, we believe that we were the first to throw out the suggestion that an effort should be made to combine them. The expediency of this couree was immediately acknowledged and acted upon by the committee, and if they did not succeed in effecting the arrangement in the manner and form at first contemplated, it arose rather from obstacles occasioned by the peculiar character of the contracts made with the new troupe, and the diversity of interests existing between the speculators connected with it, than from any want of sincerity of purpose or libe- rality on the part of the committee of the Academy. It is but fair towards that adroit diplomatist, the Chevalier Wikoff, whose con- duct has been so frequently attacked in connec- tion with these negotiations, to say that no one manifested a greater desire, or took a more active part in reconciling the difficulties which opposed themselves to the fusion of the two companies, In the same spirit that influenced all their previous proceedings, the oyster house critics have been glorifying themselves upon the suc- ceases of the Lagrange troupe as upon so many triumphs gained over the direction of the Aca- demy. These long-eared scribblers forget, al- though the public do not, that the committee have on all occasions acknowledged the great merit of this company, and in fact the terms which they agreed to in their preliminary con- tract evinced a sufficiently high appreciation of them. They forget, too, that, although through no fault of the committee, that arrangement failed, the existing one, under which the troupe is now performing, is but a modification of it, adopted to remove the difficulties to which we have already referred. Mm their conduct to- wards them we believe that all the members of the troupe are ready to acknowledge that the actions of the committee have been invariably marked by courtesy, liberality, and a desire to eousult their interests, even to the prejudice of their own. In this, as we have said before, they have been animated but by one motive— the desire to establish this delightful and refin- ing amusement on a permanent basis amongst us. As regards ourselves, we may fairly claim credit for having done all in our power to farther the same object. When we saw an es- tablishment uniting with talent and financial resources the popular conditions that were es- sential to success, we gave it our cordial and un- wavering support. Unlike some of our contem- poraries, we did not stop to balance between the personal motives that should induce us to give the preference to one set of artists over the other. Lovers of art, in the true sense of the word, we have been as ready to applaud the talent and the successes of the Lagrange as those of the Academy troupe. Can the oyster house critics eay the same ? Tus TamMany Hawt Gronirication over THE Vineinta Evection.—The resuscitated demo- cracy had a rousing glorification in the Old Wigwam and in the Park last night. Road our reporters’ report. It is an agreeable change— it is positively refreshing thus to see the “an- terrified” coming into life and action again. A remarkble feature of this jubilee was, that it was less a congratulation of the administra- tion at Washington and its partizans than a rejoicing over the decisive defeat administered FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1855. by Henfy A. Wisé and the infallible democrats’ of the Olid Dominion to the hitherto invincible Know Nothings, It wasasort of demooratic reunion for a night over the fall of a common enemy, leaving the administration an open question. We apprehend that this is the exact construction, put upon it by these intracta- ble ant}.gdministratien hardshelle who partiei- pated in the frolic. It thus appears that there is no prospect of a reunion of the democracy upon Mr. Pierce or any of his Cabinet, and that all attempts to re- orgenize the party upon any such basis will signally fail. Itis believed that Mr. Wise ear- ried Virginia in spite of the administration, and that the reunion of the democracy of the nation ean only be effested by setting aside Pierce, Marcy, and all concerned, as having been tried and proved a democratic failure. We may now expect pretty soon to ascertain which way the wind is blowing the reawaken- ing democracy. The course is open to all en- tries except the administration nags and the old fogies. Bring out your horses. The French Feeling on the Subject of the United States. Our eorrespondent’s letter from Paris, pub- lished yesterday, contained valuable intorma- tion on the subject of the French feeling in re- ference to the United States. It is much more likely in fact that, as he states, the French— and especially those in concert with the govern- ment—should seek by every means in their power to conciliate this country, than that they should, as some unthinking persons have sup- posed, burst into transports of rage at the alleged sympathy between the United States and Russia, At all events, those who have the destinies of the nation in charge are pretty gure to use their influence to counteract the Russian feeling now spreading in our midst. We cannot doubt—even if the character and position of our correspondent left room to question his statements—but that the membera of the imperial family and such leading men as Girardin express the sentiments which the letter placed in their mouths. The United States are growing daily more formidable to foreign Powers. Their maritime power is on the increase. They, and they only can hope to compete with Great Britain for the empire of the seas. Very partially de- veloped as yet, their marine gives a promise of strength far greater than that of any former nation. In the ordinary course of things that developement will not take place for many years; but the stimulus of a war, the hothouse pressure of a foreign invasion might condense those years into months and weeks. What more natural in view of this, than the concern felt by French statesmen at the opening of a war which promises to last a generation, in re- ference to the attitude in which the United States may be expected to be found? Again, on the other hand, the moral influ- ence of the United States on the European masses is enormous. For years and years, sovereigns have warned their subjects that re- publics were a Utopia, and that the fall of the United States with an awful crash was an event to be constantly expected. Instead of this being the case, however, the people of France and Germany have seen this country increase in wealth and strength from year to year. Hence a pretty general conviction that the sovereigns were wrong in their opinion; and anequally general respect paid to the policy of the United States. These things have been de- nied by British writers, and by some Americans; but they are not the less true, as every one who travels in Germany and France can testify. Nothing is more probable than that the lake- warmness of the people of Germany in refer- ence to the war has been caused in some degree by the prevailing impression that the demo- crats of the United States—to whom the Ger- mans have been accustomed to look for example —were disposed to side with Russia. Does it not follow from this that the French leaders—unlers totally devoid of sense—are certain to seek to cultivate friendly relations with the United States in order to counteract the existing Russian tendency? It must not be forgotten that the more intelligent among the politicians of France are quite convinced of the blunder they have made in allying themselves with the aristocracy and court party in Eng- land. They see as clearly as can be that they are now used by the tottering aristocracy of Great Britain as a bugbear to frighten the magses into quietude. Nor are they likely to be content with thus playing the tool for a purpose foreign to their own theories. In the depths of her imperialism, France is republican still, and the French people are sure to sympa- thice not with the Palmerston clique but with the people of England. Why should their gov- ernment, by maintaining an alliance pregnant with nothing but injury, bolster up the British House of Lords ? Whereas between this country and France there is every groundwork for a rational al- liance. The Americans resemble the French in many particulars. fhey borrow their dress, their fashions, their manner of living, their customs, their philosophy from Paris. When they go abroad, they find a home in France when England only repels them with her foreign usages, aristocratic pride, and middle clazs snobbery. France helped them during the struggle for independence, and though misunderstandings did afterwards arise, it was only when France was in the full intoxication of republican victory, and was controlled by unprincipled usurpers. American democracy is a transplantation from France, engrafted on British liberty. Naturally, the people of this country wish well to France; just as naturally as they are ill disposed toward England. The government of Napoleon III. is in the right track. The United States are not to be dragooned into a Western alliance; but neither are they prepared to join Russia, The miecbief done by the Tripartite alliance can be undone, by diecretion, liberality and tact, A Puwasant Baverace,—Every traveller and reader of Oriental literature will be glad to learn that the plea- sant Eastern drink, Persian sherbet, cam now be had in New York, as refreshing as if imbibed in the gardens of Iepaban or in the streets of Constantinople, It tsa drink in which the most devout follower of the Prophet or the strictest devotee of total abstinence pn hee indulge, and is seld in bottles at twenty-five cents each. ‘Try it, Naval In CO. ‘The frigate Cumberland artived at Genoa May 8, from Spezzia, and sailed 10th, for home, The following is a list of her officers: — Commander—A, A. eevee Le ty a ea Randolph Tucker, John im, Roncken- Francis Bi Nensh Marchand, ww, John 1. ‘Worden, Jonnsten ‘Lewis B Hunter. Par- A THE L4gEesT NEWS.| BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGPaPHs, From Ws LAND ABRANTS—FOSTAL ARRANGEMENTS—THE pu aay EXPEDITION ABANDONED—BEFORM IN THB “AVY. ‘Washincrom, May 81, 1855. To-morrow the Pensien Office will issue two thousand land warrants under the new law, and two hundred per day thereafter. The brokers report the warrants worth $1 128 $1 14 per acre, but are holdiag back fora new issue, in anticipation of a lower price. An order will be issued by the Postmaster-General to- morrow, that both posteges, British and American, must be prepaid on all letters to Turks Islands. Mr, Phillips, Colonel Kinney’s secretary, is here, and says the expedition is entirely abandoned. ‘The Board for Retiring Navy Officers will be appoiuted to-morrow. Additional Hews from Mexico. Barrimors, May 31, 1355. New Orleans papers of Friday are received, containing details of Mexican news to the 22d inet. It in stated that after Santa anms left Morclis in pursuit of the insurgents, no official accounts of his progress were received, Reports were everywhere current, however, concerning his movements, which cauced hie partisaus to feel the greatest alarm. It is also stated that ths insurgents were prepared to offer the most energetic resistance. The Connecticut Legisiatare. Hanrrorp, May 31, 1855. In the House of Representatives to-day the bill fer the extension of the right of suffrage to negroes was de- feated by a majority of twenty vetes, the De: of Philadel; aan the Virginia Eiection. wanes PHiLapEtPas, May 31, 1855. ‘The democrats fired one hundred guns this afternoon in honor of Virginia. This evening they held a meetiog in Independence square, at which the Hoa. John Robins presided, Proceasions came from every quarter of the city with music, lanterns and banners, to join in the proceedi The multitude were addressed from two stand! ‘at opposite ends of the aq) by Messrs. Forenee, Hobias, Cadwalader, Tyler, Casigpe, Wits and others. From Canada. THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE PROROGUED. The Provincial Legislati ger ge 1e rovi inlature was 01 as ent after the unprecedented long session of seven months, The a) of the Col Secretary, that a of Canafian crown land should be ven to the sol en- reserved for future listing in the foreign legion, has consifangsie The House of Assembly has before signi- fied disapproval of the proposed grant, From Massachusetts, DESTRUCTIVE FIRES—FATAL AOCIDENT. Bostox, May 81, 1955, ‘The eotton mill in Winchenden, Mars., was destroyed by fre last night. ‘The mili was principally owned "by les srs, Upbam, Tucker & Co., of this city, 1. W. Gilli of Nashua, asd John Smith, of Leicester. Probable Jona, $75,000—insured for $30,000. ‘A fire in North Leominster, last night, destroyed the paper mill of William T. Parker, with a large amount of stock. Insured. On the New York Central Railroad, this forenoon, Na tban Laurens, an, was crushed to death between two cars; and Nelaon Gorden, switch tender, was run over and killed. Explosion of a Locomotive. ‘Havre ve Grace, (Md.) May 31, 1855. The locomotive of the freight train on Philadel- phia and Baltimore Railroad exploded at Aberdeen, Ma- Hyland, this morning, in consequence of the ineer wing the water to get too low and then suddenly putting on the pumps. The fireman was killed, and the engixeer and two others seriously, but it is hoped not fatally injured. Some of the cars were da: but ineer injured, subsequently died. was named Henry Seltmyer. The men injured it is supposed will recover. Accident to the Steamboat George Law. Port Curse, N. ¥., May 31, 1865. The steamboat George Law ran on a rock this evening atthe meuth of the harbor at this place, starting a ee but at high tide was got off and continued on her ip. Suicide of the Murderer Parks. CLEVELAND, May 31, 1855. Parka, the murderer, cut his throat to-day, and there are hardly any hopes that his fife can be saved. Arrival of Southern Steamsht; ‘CHARLESTON, May 38, 1855. The United States mail steamship James Adger, Capt. ao cam arrived here, from New York, at 7 o'clock is (Monday) evening. ? SavannaH, May 28, 1855. The Knoxville arrived at her wharf at 8 o’clock this (Monday) evening, making the quickest rum ever made Sween New York and Se’ 5 "Markets. Aunany, May 31—12:20 P, M. Flour —Common brands are 12}<c, higher. Wheat — Sales of 500 bushels Canadian mixed at $2 65. Cora steady. Sales of 16,000 bushels, afloat, Western mixed at $1 68; 10,060 bushels for delivery in July sold at $1. Gata, 60s, for Canadian and State, measure. Whiskey, 37d. Received by canal, 4,497 bbls, flour, 795 bl pork, 9,809 bashels barley, 2,049 bushels oats, "ALO, May 31—12:80 P. M. The demand for flour is more moderate this morning, but prices are without, change, Sales 400 bbls at $976 for fancy Wisconsin. t.—For wheat there is @ fair Cemand and prices are steady. bushels Upper Lake, spring, at 61 95, an4'1,000 bushels red Wisconsin, winter, at $216. Corn is in good de- mand at steady rates. Sa’en 35,000 bushels at 903. Oats —For oats there is a very active inquiry, and with few offering on the spot. The market is firmer. Sales 25,000 busheis to arrive and now afloat at 63¢; 7,000 bushels, from Ohio, to arrive to-morrow, at 6dc., if heavy, and 6Ge. if light; amd 5,000 bushels afoat and on the apct, at Oe. Whiskey ts dull and held at S70. Ce- nal freights are firmer—oats 63¢c, and corn llc. to Albany. Burrato, hay fee P.M. Flour is in moderate demand to-day. ‘ket ste: and holders firm. Good les Wisconsin ares le better. Sales of 1,200 at $9 25 tor common to g20d Wisconsin; $9 6214 a $9 75 for choice to fancy do. ; and $10 1234 a $10 76 for fancy and extra do. much wheat offering. Inquiry good, and market steady. Sales of 7,000 bushels upper fake 8] 1 $1 95; inferior white Milwaukie at $2 15, and 1,000 red Wis- consin winter at the game. Corn in good requost. Sales of 40,C00 bushels at 90c., with leas offering at the close, and holders firm. Oats active and higher. Sales of 25,000 bushels to arrive, and now afloat, at 63c.; 7,000 bushels Ohio now afloat, and to arrive to-morrow, at Ofc. if,heavy, and 66c, if light; amd 12,000 on the spot afloat at bbe. Nothing domg im whiskey, Canal its firmer, but not active. Oats 634c. to 10}¢c, to Albany; flour, 87c. to New York. Receipts for the twenty-four hours name, at noon to-day: Flour, 4.898 bbls.; wheat, 22,106 pushels; corn, ¥3,111 do. oats, 27,898 do. 31—7 P. Me ; Oswrao, May Flour.—Sales' to day 1,000 bbls. at $960 a $10 for common to State. Wheat.—Sales 7,000 bushels at $2 07 a $210 for Upper @, and $2 20 a $2 22 for ried Canadi 1 Lak ian. Corn.—Sales 20,000 bushels at 98¢. & The receipts to- 1,000 bbis.; wheat, Oate.—Some sales were made at 68c. up as follows:—Flour, ey add up 20,000 bushels; Corn, 11,000 do, Musical Movements, The Opera in Boston continues to be highly sucsess- ful. The ‘Trovatore” was produced on Monday, tos crcwded house, and was announced to be repeated on Wednesday and Friday evenings. The troupe will re- main in Boston through next week, and then return to the Academy. Paul Julien, the wonderful juvenile violin artist, with August Gockel, the pianist, is giving concerts in the “provinces.” His next soirée is at Bridgeport, Conn., on the 5th June, afler which he will give entertain- ments in Poughkeepsie, Newburg, on the Hudson, and other places. The opera ‘‘Belisario’’ will be given at the Academy in the course of two or three weeks, to introduce to the public a new tenor, Signor Rossetti. The performance will be under the control and for the benefit of this ar. tist, who comes here with fisttering commendations from the Italien and Spanish journals, extracts from which have already been published in the Hmratp, ‘The ‘Barber of Seville” is announced for this even- ing at the Academy. Mme. de la Grange’s execution of Rossini’s music ie superb, Our readers will be glad to wee by an advertisement that Signor Marini will be able to take the réle of Don Basilio, “Ti Trovatore’”’ has just been produced at Covent Garden, London, with M’lle Jonny Ney as Leonora; Graziani as the Count di Luna, and Tamberlik as Man. rico, Mme, Viardet Garcia seems to have carried off the honors by her acting and singing in “ Aye- cupa.”? The critic ¢f the Time says that the opera will be very popular, but that the libratto is shock- ing, and that the music will not raise the composer “in the estimation of real judges.” The Queen and Prince Albert attended the first performance on the 13th of May. Miss Rosalie Durand, said to be @ vocalist of ‘merit, will make her d@ut at the Broadway theatre, to-mor- row evening, for the benefit of Signor La Manna, the populer chef dorchestre, MATROPOLITAN THEATRE.—“‘Masaniello,’’ Auber’s popu- lar ballet opera, was produced at the Metropolitan, en Tuesday. It will be represented again this evening. The » City Inte! A RUSSIAN VESSEL THAT WAS CAPTURED BY TES BRITISH AND SOLD a8 A PRIZE, IN THE PORT OF NEW YORE. A few days ago 4 fine looking ship came sailing wp the’ bay, and finally moored herself at pier No. 31 East river, at the foot of Oliver street. This ship was named the Fgyptian Queen, and was built at some port om the Baltis, within the dominions of the Czar, While on ber first voyage eutside the Categat she was captured by & British privateer, and condemned and soli as a war prize. This capture was maéo about @ year age, in the North Ses, just off the coast of Hull, No reaistance ‘was made by the Egyptian Queen whem overhauled by the enemy, and without striaing » blow she strack the Russian and gave herself s prize. She was towed ‘into Hull son aiterwarce tasen to Lo where she was sold to Pothienier & Co,, who paid for her £1,200. ‘The Fgyptian Queen is between four and five hundred tons burtben, aud by her officers is reputed to be a fast sailing veerel. In rg she is what sailors term ‘“Jack- 858 - ip,”? bn Cyr | geaed a bark and full rigged ship. The seen is strengly built, ps there in not Hs in the port of New York a ‘vesss) capable of more endarance or weathering @ sever- er . This &: ‘6 well for the capabilities of Russia in Ss building, a trede taught her by her illustrious. Peter the Great. Since the tian Queen has been under the Britisit flag and ay eats of Potbienter & Co., she has made one voyage from London to Alexandris, in ) Te ‘urning from Alexandria to Liverpool with a cargo of cotton and beane. She next made another voyage Liverpool to Alexandria, carrying out her & cargo of coal. At this time, while 1a Alexandria, she was newly ofticered, bemg given io the command of Captsin Benaer, who is her firet officer at the present time, Shi es cargo of rags, she act sail from Alexandria for of New Yor! Grky ‘vp have aeons) ad prlrel ee a few daysago. Her entire cargo rage ‘deen pur- chared’ by” Monsrs. Peisse re Brooks, and will soon be manufactured ints paper for the New York Heratp, ‘The Egyptian Queen will sail from here to Londen. BRUTAL ATTACK ON A FRENCH DOCTOR. Dr. Petitjean, of this city, om returning from a visit to a patient im Hoboken, was accosted by a young female in one of the waiks leading to the Elysian Fields, who- asked him the hour, and on his taking the watch from his pocket she seized it, and, before he could reeover hia self: » he wag attacked by several men from behind, who knocked bim down and beat him dreadfully.. A handsome gold watch, valued at $114, $27 in and bis care of surgical instruments, was taken taka fe the Hovel Nepoleon by, some peasere by, where taken fot je poleon some 5 he was found to be cceudtully injured. ‘The authorities of Hoboken are om the track of the assailants. MILITARY VISIT. The New Haven Blues will visit New York about the 15th of June. They will be the guests of the Highwood Guards, of Hoboken, SERENADE TO CovonxL Van BOREN, OF THE ELEVENTH Rrcment.—The officers of the Eleventh Regiment of the State militia, last night complimented their Colonel wit aserenade at his residence im Fourteenth street, neat Fifth avenue. Shel'on’s band was ged for the oc- caston, and st 19% o'clock drew up beloes the masmsignr of the t Colome], and atonce awakened the neigh- edt on their evarming music, The Kr piven 3 the band was made up of selections 6 of “Rynani,”? “Don Pasquale,” “La Favorite,” ‘“Lueretia Borgia,” &c. When the programme was ended the cem- ny, about one hunired strong, were invited into the jouse of Colonel Van Buren and escorted to well spread table, loaded with ail the luxuries that am epicure could wish—wine flowed in abundance, and the first “The death Coen et Sel with lo applause. The Colonel made antappropziate epee his friends for the compliment tendered hiss’ Other speeches were mede, and good humor and firmy friendship lingered around the tempting tables till twa o’clock in the morning, when the company dispersed. Colonel Van Buren was Kept in ignorance inten- tion to serenade him, and was taken entirely by sur- prise. No commander connected with our State militia, perhaps, bas a greater hold upon the affections and esteem of his nv than ‘Van Boren. The serenade was well managed last night, and was no doubt ratifying complimen: to the rec; who unites tn. himself the qualities of the gentleman and the soldier. Toe Mormon EmiGRration.—There has been an error in the published accounts of the number of Mormens who have come to northern ports, The following is o correct statement of the ships and passengers who have arrived up to the present tee ‘the port of at niladelphia— Mornon passengers, present at this rate the population of Utah would receive an acoea- sion of thirty sand in s year. Fata. Accipents.—James Brown, forty-seven yoars of age, residing at No. 10 Roosevelt street, felldown the hold of the sbip Sir Robert Peel, Wednesday, and died on being taken to the City Hospital from the effect of bis Sore bard Lichtenfeli was ran over by a railroad car; in Jersey City, and was so injured that he scon died. Inquests were held at the New York Hospital on the above: carer. BREACH IN THE DsLawaRe 4ND HUDSON CANAL.—We earn that a serious breach has occurred in the Dela; ware and Hudson Canal, near the mouth of the Lacka- waren river, by which navigation will be interrupted several days. Return of Emigrants to Europe, We called attention a few days ayo to the large num- ber of emigrants who had returned to their homes in the Old World, during the past two months. The great in- crease in this respect is particularly deserving of notice, in view of the great decrease which has taken place ip the emigration, when compared with the same period last year. This will be seen from the following table :— Apri 10105 May. 22,482 Total....sscseee++.- 85,226 32,677 From this it appears that there was a deeroase of 62,649 in the number of emigrants who arrived at this port during the montbs of May and April of the present yesr, when compared with the corresponding period of 1854; and if to this we add those who we will have a total of over ey We have said that this is attributable to depression im business here, and the feelisg of judic® created a ae by, the Know Nothing movement throughout the courtry; but there is which is more powerful than either of these causes, is to be found in the improved condition of things in. Ireland, and the great demand which exists in that coun- try for labor. Since the sale of encumbered estates a revolution has taken place there, and men are not Fon rsioge bagel employ ment, Bat =. ane much: etter wages than formerly, one time they were con- tent to receive their dail ‘food in com a services, and mapy could not even obtain work on suck terma; but so great has been the change, that able bo- died laborers have no difficulty in ge’ twelve and fourteen ¢! Ks a weer, whch, cont the cheap: rate of provisions in Ireland, is equal to about seven or. dollars a week here. When these facts are con- be ya ce hang mid wonder at the geri e emigration, or so large s number si re turn to the Jand of their birth, 4 themed iniacihclsteimete Coroners’ Inquests, Svicipe OF 4 G1at BY TAKING ARSENIC.—Yesterday Co. roner O’Donnell held an inquest at No. 848 Water street, upon the body of a beautiful German girl, about 19° years of age, named Pauline Robe, who committed sui- cide by administering to herself » dose of arsenic, From the testimony taken on the inquest it appeared that the: deceased, a poor, but virtuous girl, was a stranger in a foreign land, without either friends or relati and withal was crippled in the use of her t hand, there being two of her fingers cut off by accident di her out She had some slight acquaintance ‘with “use, joitz of this place, who, baving compassion on her des- titute and forlorn condition, consented to give her board and lodgings for the Jat five weeks. Pauline, however, was very unhappy in her new place of habitation, and determined on committing suicide; purchased an of arsenic for that purpose which she pyre and agony. mortem pon the body of The’ deceased by Dr. O'Hanlon, who found the stomach in a highly ~* congested ree still containing particles of arse- nic undissolved. l'eath, in the opinion of the physician, was caused he taking of arsenis. The jury in thig case rendered a verdict of ‘death by auicide.”” Fracrorr or tar Lea —Coroner O’Donnell held an in- quest at the New York Hospital, upon the body of James. ‘ Brown, a hand on board the ship Robert Peel, lying at Pler 20East river, who came to his death from fracture - of the leg, received to the hold of this ship. Treland, and was about 47 years of age. Svurcrpa sy Snoormna Huusety.—Coroner Wilhelm held