The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1855, Page 4

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BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSR, 680 Brosd- wey—Buncesque Ormna ann Negho Minsteaisy. yew York, Monday, November The News. ‘The steamship Ocean Bird arrived yesterday with Havana dates to the 20th inst., and later news from Nicaragua. A report was current in Hevana that General Concha had been recalled, and that General Zarzila was to be his successor. The dowager ‘Countess Reanion died on the 18th, and was buried the following day, with great pomp. Don Nicolas Vinet had been summoned to answer for the homi- cide of Castenada, the betrayer of General Lopez, The cholera raged with alarming virulence among the negroes on the estates in the neighborhood of Cienfuegos. The news from Nicaragua is very in- teresting. General Corral had carried out the terms of the treaty, and surrendered his force to General Walker. Don Rivas was daly inaugurated, on the 30th ult., as President. 1t was understood that Parker H.French would be Minister of Finance, General Walker was appointed Commander-in-Chief ef the army. Affairs were progressing favorably with Colonel Kinney. His party was rapidly in- creasing in number. So far from there being any rivalry between Kinney and Walker, itis asserted that a cordial understanding exists, and that they will act together in future in advancing the cause in which they are engaged. The Washington Union, by authority of the State department, says that Mr. Buchanan had conferred with Lord Clarendon with regard to the augmenta- tion of the British West India squadron. Lord Cla- rendon stated that the squadron originated in no act unfriendly to the United States. Its object was to NEW YOkK HERA (yp, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1855. British Designs on China—Prospect of a New Chinese War. We commend to the attentive perusal of the public a letter from Paris which we publish in avother column, The source from which it comes entitles it to consideration; and the views it puts forward are equally new and striking. It bas long been known that Great Britain—or rather its agent, the Hast India Company—was pushing its triumphant arms up the valley of the lrwaddy, and reducing the kingdom of Birmah to the condition of the Rajahships and principalities of Hindostan. The fact has been noticed over and over again. in American journals as conclusive evidence that the remonstrances-of the British journals with this country in relation to the acquisition of foreign territory were hypocritical and in- sincere. But it has never been stated to our knowledge that the chiefs of the British Indian empire only looked to Birmah as a means or a road, and that their real aim was the South- western provinces of China. This hypothesis is thrown out in the letter of our correspon- dent; and conjectural as it is, and must be for the present, it appears so plausible that it may well engage discussion. The Chinese empire, as is well known to those who have paid any attention to the books of travellers to China, is in the last stage of decay. Everything Chinese is cor- rupt—the government, the magistracy, the army, the judiciary, the clergy, and society at large. The Imperial government is far too weak to assert control over any distant portion of the empire: and the consequence has been that a band of robbers, organized for purposes of wholesale plunder, have been enabled to overrun the country from south to north, meet- ing with very little resistance from any consti- tuted authorities, and actually leading foreign- ers so far to misapprehend their purpose as to call their foray a native revolution. The Chi- nese army isthe purest farce: numbering several millions of men, it is wholly incapable of mak- ing any head against the smallest disciplined European force, and would no more resist the East India Company’s army than the Creeks would withstand United States troops. Up to oor latest accounts the feeble central authority had not been positively thrown off by any of the Provinces, save the strip of sea coast which the rebel Taeping Waug had subjugated. But the bond was so weak, and the affiaity be tween the northern and southern provinces s0 slender, that several travellers have been struck with astonishment at the duration protect British commerce against Russian privateers eaid to be fitting out at our ports. The case of the Maury, as represented by Mr. Barclay and Mr. Crampton, was cited in justification. As our readers are aware, this humbug exploded long since. One of our Paris correspondents sketches out a of the empire, and have predicted that the moment European energy and restless- ness penetrated the interior, disunion would follow, and the four hundred millions of Chinese would be split up into half a dozen remarkable picture of the coming time when Ger: many is to be denationalized, and the empire of Charlemagne re-established. He shows the popu- larity of Louis Napoleon ia the Catholic countries of Europe, and tells of the existence of a powerfal French partyin Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. His ideas as to the probability of a political union between France and Germany, with Louis Napoleon as Emperor-King, are formulated with so much clearness and precision that it is evident such a union is contemplated as one of the contingencies that may result from the pre. ent state of affiirs. Another of our correspondents from the same capital—apropos of Canrobert’s mission to Sweden —gives a curious and interesting history of the Bo. Maparte and Bernadotte families, and of the mutual influence which they have exercised on cach other from the day when the petit copora! proposed to the lady who subsequently became Madame Bernadotte and Queen of Sweden, and was refused, to the pre- sent moment when King Oscar, the son of Berna- dotte, holds in his hands the balance of power be- tween Russia and her enemies. Another communication from the same pen, graphically describes the closing scenes of the Paris Exhibition, and gives an idea of the sentiments which will pervade Louis Napoleon's great speech in distributing the prizes; and still another reports a remark uttered by the Emperor at a private soiree on the subject of the dispute between England and the United States, to the effect that a war bet reen these two countries was a thing not to be dreamed of. Our correspondence contains much that is very interesting. One of our Vieuna correspondents discusses the commercial and other relations which ought to bind more closely the connexion between the United States and Austria ; and gives the reasons why it is the interest of both countries to cultivate these re- Jations. Another correspondent from the same capital gives us an epitome of the latest war, polit- ical, personal and other news of interest. Among the letters of our correspondents to-day will be found one from Matamoros giving an ac- eount of the condition of things in that part of Mexico. It appears that custom houses have been established at Reynosa, Camargo and Mier, and that the movement has been so unfavorably received by tho people that they refused to allow the new Collector to take charge of his oftice. There was great rejoicing in Matamoros for the election of Alvarez. But, per- haps, the most important feature of the news is the rumored invasion of the country by twelve or fifteen hundred Texans—a report which has created, as may be supposed, a great excitement. Prepara- tions were making to give them a warm reception, and it is said that the country will rise to a man against them. The trial of Louis Baker, indicted with several others for the homicide of Bill Poole, will be called on to-day in the Court of Oyer and Terminer; bat irom the numerous causes of challenge which exist under the present law, it is thought there will be great diffienlty in finding twelve jurors who have not read the transaction, and formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt of the accused, or the justification of the assault which terminated in the death of one of the desperate characters engaged in the affray. The value of foreign goods imported into the port of Boston during the week ending 24th inst., wmbounted to $934,854. nations, warring against each other, and ready to fall an easy prey to any active and unscru- pulons invader. Such is the country on which the insatiable statesmen of Great Britain have set their eye. If they had followed the policy pursued in 1846, and picked a quarrel with the Chinese at one of the five ports, and waged it by sea, it would have been impossible to hinder the United States and France from sharing in the spoils. At most, England could only have hoped to obtain one third of the rich booty. Whereas, by pushing her arms gradually north- west and westward through Birmah, the ob- ject of the government is attained as speedily and without attracting any attention. The British soldiers may penetrate to the heart of China by the southwest flank—may espouse the quarrel of this party against that party, and secure the victory to whichever they please on condition of subserviency to British interests—may, in short, reduce half of the Empire to the condition of a British protecto- rate, before the world is half aware of their designs, Whether the Emperor of the French is wholly ignorant of this scheme, or whether he is willing to shut his eyes to British ag- grandisement in the East, in return for alike complacency on the part of England when he proceeds to extend the frontiers of France in Europe, and the area of her colonies in Africa—cannot be stated with anything lik» certainty. The schemes which are on foot ap- parently for the spread of intelligence and thought, but in reality for the diffusion of Bri- tish and French influence, are absolutely etu- pendous. Only to mention one of them—a telegraph line is in process of construction that will stretch from London to Canton, and Mel- bourne, Australia, passing through France to Corsica and Sardinia, from Sardinia to Algiers, from Algiers along the north shore of Africa to Cairo and Suez, from thence along the shore of Asia to Hindostan, which it will cross; from Calcutta through Birmah, on the one side to Canton, and on the other along the coast to Polynesia and Australia, What is most won- erful perhaps in this remarkable enterprise is the fact that in the whole line from London to Melbourne, and from London to Canton, there will only be 400 miles of submarine wire in any one place. The canal across the Isthmus of Suez is another enterprise of the same kind and with the same purpose. Now, if the United States do not intend tobe left far behind in the race for supremacy, these proceedings should not be overlooked. If we do not want to wake up some fine morning and find the whole of Asia British, and the whole of Europe and North Africa French, some notice should be taken of these schemes of annexation and aggrandisement. A commissioner should be sent at once to Birmah, and the British gov- ernment should be notified that if it adds an- other province to its already enormous empire ‘\ desperate fight occurred on Saturday night in New Haven between a party of Irishmen and a couple of policemen. One of the policemen, named Cummings, was so savagely beaten ,that he died in a few hours after the battle, and his companion was yesterday at the point of death. Dr. F.8. Zemp, of Camden, 8. C., has received a verdict forthe sum of ten thousand dollars damages for injuries sustained on the Wilmington and Man chester Railroad about two years ago. Such ver dicta will do more towards the prevention of railroad accidents than all the laws in existence, ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday were limited tp 500 a 600 bales, at about 9fc. for middling Uplands, dealers preferring to await the receipt of private ad- vices hy the Canada before doing much. Flour was less active, and common State brands were slightly easier. Wheat continued firm, with moderate transactions. Indian corn was again firmer, and roles were made of fair to prime Western mixed at prices ranging from $1 05 a $1 08. Rye sold at ¥1:26 to $127. Pork and beef continued heavy. There was an increased activity in coffee, owing ‘% the favorable reports from Europe by the Canada, at Boston, and sales of Rio were freely made at about jc. advance. Sugars were firm, but quiet: Freights were steady bat engagements were light, ‘The clipper ship Flying Scud was chartered fer Marseiller to oad with grain at I5c, in the East, the United States will, for their own protection, take what measures they dcem needful for extending their area on this conti nent. To sleep, to be negligent in this age of telegraphs and railroads, is to die. A Pretty Piece ov Besixess.—A Mrs, Fonda is making speeches in !}linois against Senator Douglas. What has the Senator done, we should like to know? He has probably been seconding the Virginia demand for the nomi- nation of that terrible slaveholder, Henry A Wise, for tho Presidency. Anything to defeat the old fogies. Dos ue Grve 17 Ur is said that Mr. Fill- more has made arrangements for epending the winter in Italy. How is this? The Know Nothings will probably meet in national con- vention in February. Has Mr. Fillmore heard that @eorge Law is abcad in New York, or does our amiable ex-President give it up? Tuk Mexican Treaty Monry.~-Report says that Mr. Cushing is of the opinion, as a lawyer, that the three millions unpaid of the Mexican treaty money should be handed over to Santa Anna’s bond holders, Very likely. The Fate of Mexico a Question of "456 ana sok Tt is a oarelees ob eryer that does not see in the position of these States matters of peculiar interest to the American people and govera- ment. In nothing are politicians, of whatever country, more remarkable than for concealing the operation of the laws of popnlation, and wiisrepresenting the tendency of those lawa. A little more than a year ago and the Tark- ish Empire, threatened by the colossal power of Russia, excited in the minds of all men the liveliest interest and the deepest solicitude for its safety. Subsequent events have gone far to prove that the Turkish people possess few of the true elements of civilization—that in al- most every respect they are inferior to nearly all the nations by which they are surrounded, and that their decline bas been fixed by the contact in which they have been brought with their superior neighbors At this day it must be apparent that the Saltan’s government is destined heréatter to be a dependence of some of the great States of Europe, and ultimately his territories partitioned between them. The history of the settlement and subsequent con- quest of Texas, the settlement and conquest of California, now constituting two prosperous agricultural and commercial States of the Union, aud intimately identified with the gene- ral prosperity of the country, bear a striking analogy to the present position and the proba- ble future of the Turkish empire. The ditfer- ence between the two countries, in their popa- lations, in their habits of life, their pursuits, and their ability to become great producing com- munities, arise from the radical difference be- tween the American and European mind. It is, however, only one of degrees, the superior acting upon the inferior there, as here. In re- ference to the absorption of Texas, it will be remembered, a large portion of the people of the United States were utterly opposed to it. Our government again and again avowed its purpose to prevent it. A large majority were hostile to its acquisition, Meantime it was rapidly settled by our rare —its institutions were formed on the model of our States—its civil polity was essenti American. Its intercourse, its local instita- tions, iis commeree, its general industry, aad above all, its thoughts and feelings were Ame- rican. The laws of population had accom- plished all this; they had done more—they had settled the question of its annexation to this country, and sooner or later, with or with- out war, Texas was destined to come into the federal Union. The dogma of manifest des- tiny concealed the immutable law of progress. It had decreed what timid statesmen felt must take place, but what they dare not avow. Though exciting questions of internal dis- cord and strife now weigh upon the country, the time is not distant when the fate of both Mex- ico and Cuba must be settled by the American people. Asin the case of Texas, the public mind is straining itself to put them off. Com- merce and capital, ever cautious and fearing war, is avowing hostility to any further annex- ation. They tell the American people that we already have enough, that this goverament is extended until its parts no longer feel its central authority ; until antagonisms are war- ring upon its harmony, fretting its councils and threatening its stability. Meantime, the an- swer to a)l this is apparent; the States added to the Union are firmest in their attachment to the Constitution, and among its most success- ful in every branch of industry. Population is rapidly advancing its frontier limits, and political power as rapidly transferred from the Fast to the West. The influence of this trans” formation upon the general policy of the Union will soon be felt in a bolder and more fearless expression of the purposes of the na- tion in reference to contiguous states ; giving effect to the superior industry and enter- prise which has already subjected Louisiana, Florida, Texas and California to its dominion, ond will in the end absorb both Mexico aad Cuba. , This question, it is evident, has an interna- tional bearing as well asa local interest to the American people. It is important to see that Mexico and Spain are in a rapid and cer- tain decline ; that all the conservatisms in the world of the balance of power and the status quo cannot save them. . They are, like Turkey, falling piece by piece into the hands of poli- tical administrators. Vitality in their sys- tems isno longer visible ; their extremities are paralyzed. They can interpose no resis- tance of themselves to whatever may be re- quired by their neighbors. While this is uo- deniably £0, it isnot strange that their heirs, or those that claim the inheritance of their estates, are particularly active in looking after their concerns. The governments of Europe, perhaps with no view of securing benefits to themselves and with the sole purpose of crippling the power or preventing the extension of the United States, have determined that Caba and Mexico shall not be absorbed by the American Union. They have undertaken, in the lan- guage of Lord Clarendon, to regulate affairs on this continent ; which means that they have combined to prevent the further progress of the free institutions of our system over any more territory. This is the question, It is a question which must be decided in the United States, for we have the right and the undoubted abi- lity to determine what course we will parsue, and whether we will or will not acquire both Mexico and Cuba. This is a problem rising above all filibustering expeditions and projects —a great national interest, to be settled by enlarged and comprehensive views, not of the present alone, but of the future, As a practical question of the day, one in- yolving in fact the ways and means of accom. plishing our object in the end, but at the same time wiscly considerate of the course that should be pursued by our government, it may be proper to withhold from the European Ca. binets an expression of our views on the imme- Clate subject o} nexation. But when those Cabinets shall d¥ow a purpose to force a pro- tectorate over either Cuba or Meaico, or in any manner to attempt to exerome control and supervision over American affades, we hold it to be the duty of our government to meet them hy a prompt declaration that we will not sub- mit to it. We would go farther ; and when our transatlantic opponents come on this side of the water to attend to the affairs of either Spain or Mexico, we would promptly avow to them that no exertion of our power shall be wanting to transfer to ourselves all such territories as may be thus brought into dispute, and relieve them at once of the necessity of intervention. We must come to this, Itisall before us, [¢ will be forced upon uscven in self-defence, The attitude of Earope | isunmistakeable. Her governments will under- take to decide how far we shall go; they will declare a purpose to set limits to our industry and to our enterprise, to fence in our frontiers, to circumecribe our relations, in truth to place us in political dependence to monarchy. Our great strength lies in the freedom of the Jaws ot population, as well as in the freedom of our political system. It is the former which are the subject of attraction, and which have drawn to our shores millions from the other side of the water, It is what has peopled our new States, what has raised up an army pf inde- pendent proprietors and hardy citizens, which the combined aristocrats of the world cannot conquer. _ These are the real filibusteroes of America. It is they who have conqnered Texas, subdued California, peopled Louisiana and Florida—who have invested Mexico and Cuba, and who ultimately will poxsces both those countries. : This class it is who, in fact, stand ready to meet the intrigues of the London cabinet, to answer Lord Clarendon and the London Times, to put arguments and resolution into our gov- ernment, and to direct its future action, They are not abstractionists, agitators and counter- feit moralists. Not from them have come pro- jects of disunion. To Massachusetts, Vermont and South Carolina are such honors reserved, Hor.ann’s Deatine wire Jaran,—We trans- fer to our columns this morning the translation of a report presented by the Colonial Minister of the Netherlands to the King, on the subject of Japan. It will be found to be a highly in- teresting document. It is a narrative which commences in 1845, at which time the King of Holland addregsed the late Emperor of Japan, recommending the abandonment of the old ex- clusive policy of the empire, and treats of the events that have since occurred there, embrac- ing the visit of Commodore-Perry, of the Rus- sian Admiral Pontiatine, and of the Dutch man-of-war Soembing. It also comprises the draft of a' treaty proposed between the Nether- lands and Japan, with the explanatory notes and suggestions belonging to the subject. It would appear from this report that the Japanese themselves have begun to recognize the benefits that would result to them from an abandonment of their historic exclusiveism, and the consequent cultivation of the arts of Earo- pean civilization. At the urgent solicitation of the Governor of Nangasaki, some hundreds of the native youths were daily—during the stay of the Soembing—exercised in military and naval tatics, the science of engineering, &c., while others had commenced to learn European languages, particularly Datch. Furthermore, a special commission of five members of the high government were sent from Jeddo to Nan- gasaki for the purpose of inspecting the man- of-war, and of acquiring information on ship- building and engiacering. All this goes to prove very satisfactorily that the old barriers of prejudice and barbarism are beginning to give way in the empire of Japan before the engines of modern civilization, as first brought to bear by Commodore Perry and the Ameri- can squadron which he commanded, Read the report. Tux “ Niacer” a Great “ Ixstirution.”--The New Orleans Crescent throws off the following pointed paragraph concerning the slavery sys- tem of the Sonth:— ‘The “nigger” is a great, in fact, « stupendous institu. tion. He answers a three-fold purpose, and that is more than wany white men are capable of. In the first place he sows, hoes, and gathers in a product which clothes a world; which has made Massachusetts rich aod saucy— better than her neighbors; which enables England to lies France carry on the war against Russia; which su; with the sinews of conflict, and which helps Christian na- tions to cut each other’s throats, by furnixhing the raw material indispensable to the prosecution of multiiarious branches of iudustry. Secondly, our cotemporary says, the nigger serves the purposes of the abolition agitators of the North; and thirdly, the secession fire eaters of the South, which is true. We must admit it. Dispense with the “ nigger,” and the stock in trade of these ultras of both sections is gone. Common charity, therefore, to the abolitionists and the secessionists, requires that the institu- tion should be kept up. Thousands of philan- thropic demagogues in the North, who live upon the eufferings of “ Uncle Tom,” and the credulity of benevolent political women and sickly fanatics, would be thrown out to starve or to steal if the “ nigger” were abolished. He is, in fact, a great “ institution,” and he must be kept up to regulate the currency. Keep Cuffso in the cotton field. We can’t do without him, Mr. Dickrxson Deciixes.—We publish to-day a letter from Hon, Daniel S. Dickinson, decli- ning the invitation to lecture to the Abolition Philosophical Society of Boston. And yet he lectures them pretty roundly in his brief refa- sal of their generous offer to give him a heariag on the subject of slavery. Mr. Dickinson's posi- tion on this subject is so smooth and easy that it fits him like an old night cap. Why don’t this Boston committee apply to John Van Buren? Revivat or tuk Esony Live Prosect.—We published yesterday an interesting communt- cation from Mr. Thomas N. Carr, formerly our Consul at Tangiers, urging the establishment of a line of steamers bet ween the United States and Africa, as a commercial and philaatbropic speculation. This is substantially the old project of George Sanders, of some years ago, a project, which at the instance of Mr. Clay, then President of the American Liberian Co lonization Society, was adopted by that socie- ty and recommended to Congress. But it scarcely had a hearing,and we presume that the presént mixed up House of Representatives will have too many other fish to fry to attend to the subject this session. One ebony steam- er, however, by way of experiment, would be no great sacrifice should it fail; but if sncces- ul, it may open up a prolific trafic with the rich but unappropriated resources of Africa, to say nothing of the benevolent object of the quick, cheap and comfortable transportation of “ free colored Americans” to the thrifty color- ed republic of Liberia. We turn over the whole matter to the fortheoming Naval Com- mittee of the House. A Jan Amxoxe tHe Wasninctos Orgays,— The Washington Sentinel (hard shell) is giviag the Union (Cabinet soft shell organ) a merciless hauling over the coals in reference to its affini- ties and partialities to the free soil wing of the New York democratic party. Apropos des bottes, they say that the Union, having no show in the House, is pipe-laying and undermining to aheuse the Sentinel out of the Senate printing. The Sentinel has accordingly thrown a camouflet, as the French at Sebastopol call it, or a stink- le as it is more bluntly denominated by tho inglish, into the pit of the Cabinet organ, and if its sappers and miners are not smoked out, it will be apt at least to sicken them considera- bly. What a blessed thing it is for men and brethren to dwell together in unity! We hope it will nov be a hard winter for the poor. Orexiya or ae Stavery Lecrmess W| THE LATEST KEW Se Bosrox—Wurrtrer’s Apotition Porms.—The —— course of lectures on slavery in Boston} BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS. arranged for this winter, (and to which so LOBD CLARENDON’S EXPLANATIONS TO MB. BU many of our distinguished statesmen and poli- ticians, North and South, have been solicited to contribute), commenced on Thursday even- ing last at the Tremont Temple, with an ad- dress from Horace Mann, (that bitter enemy of Daniel Webster), his theme being the signi@- cant one of “ Equal Liberty to all Men.” After this address, an out-and-out abolition affair, a poem by that meek and charitable abolition Quaker poet, John G. Whittier, was read, of the staple of which our Southern readers may judge by the following extract. The abolition poet is describing a Southern village :—- A village straggling in looso disarray, Vulgar and new, in premature decay, A tavern crasy with its whiskey braws, With slaves at auction garnishing is walls; Without surrounded by » motley crowd; The shrewd eyed salesman, ga’rulous and loud, ‘The squire or Colonel in his pride of place Known at free fights, the caucus and the race, Prompt to proclaim his honor without blot, And silence doubters with a ten-paze shot, Mingling the negro-driving bully’s rant With pious Bprese and demooratie cant, Yet never scfupling with a filthy jest To sell the infant from its mother's breast. But the following ferocious description of that class of men known among’our Seward organs as “ Northern dough faces” is quite as complimentary to the parties concerned, The flery nullification orator of South Carolina, McDuffie, said in one of his nullification speeches, “When I hear a Northern man cry, ‘the Union,’ the glorious ‘Union,’ methinks I hear the bugle blast of the robber band ; bat when I hear a Southern man cry ‘the Union,’ the glorious ‘Union,’ methinks I snuff treason in the tainted gale!” Whittier’s abolition poetry eclipses McDuffie’s nullification elo- quence. Think of a Southero man smashing through every obstacle like “a cannon ball ;” think of the “ mean traitor ” of the North with a “nasal speech,” and the “ mud turile living with his head chopped off!” Listen to the gentle muse of the saintly Whittier, oh! ye “dough-faces” of the recreant North. Hear him :— ‘Whom shall we strike—who most deserve our blame— The braggart Southron, open in his aim And bold as wicked, crushfag straight through all ‘That bars his purpose, like & cannon ball? Or the mean traitor, breathing Northern air, With pasal speech and Puritanic aie; Whose cant the loss of principle survives, 4s the mud-turtle even tts head outlivest SQUADRON, ETC. Wasutseroy, Nov. 25, 1855, The Union has been authorized by the State Depart mont to say that Mr. Buchanan has had two eanfereace: with Lord Clarendon in relation to the West India squad ron, at which Lord Clarenton had stated the aquedron originated in no purpose unfavorable to the United States, but that ite object was to protect British cor. ‘merce against Kussian privateers, three or four of which, according to particulars which had been reosived, be (Lord Clarendon) understood were fitting outin Now York, one being nearly ready for sea, and one said to be a very large and fast vessel, vpecially intended to inter- cept British ships conveying Australian gold—wich the Purpose first, however, to capture one of the Cunard steamers. In justification of the statement, Lord Clarea don made reference to the case of the bark Maury, a: represented in affidaviis sent to him, and communica'ed by Mr. Barclay, the British Consul in New York, to Me Crampton, and by him transmittel to the British govern- ment, and at the same time laid before our goveramea’ My former despatch having been, without authority contra ‘feted, I repeat, on the best of information, that: President’s message for distant newspapers, as heretofore, in advance of its delivery to Congress, It may not even. ‘be printed til) that time. ABRIVAL OF DESPATOHES FROM MR. BUCHANAN Wasmixorox, Nov. 25, 1855. The S‘ate Department has received despatches brought by the Canada, The Cabinet meets to-morrow, whea the news, whatever {t may be, will be disposed of, Hon, Samuel A, Smith, of Tennessee, arrived to-day, and is stopping at Willad’s. D. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE READY. Wasuinetox, Nov. 22, 1855. ‘the Prefident’s message was completed yesterday, and will be submitted to the Cabinet to-morrow. The present determination of the President is not to send out copie: for the preas in advance. This determination, however, may be changed. gE Bioody Fracas at New flaveu. MURDER OF A POLICE OFFICER BY A GANG@ TRISHMEN. Naw Havay, Noy. 25, 1855. Ashooking affair took place in this efty last night. ‘Two policemen, named Thomas Cummings and William Grant, attempted to arrest a drunken man in an Irish groggery in Morocco street, when the gang preseat blew out the lights and fell upon the officers, beating them so severely that Cummings has died of his injuries, and Grant is not expected to recover. Cummings was sexton of St. Paul’s church, He reached that building after the affray, began to make his fires for Sanday, and was found dead near the furnaces this morming. His skull had been fractured by a slung dot. Serious Miness of Rachel. PrrapEurmia, Noy. 25, 1855. Rachel is very ill indeed, and there is no prospect at oF * Men of the Nortb! Beneath your very eyes, By hearth and home your real danger lies, Still day by day some hold cf freedom falls Thro’ home-bred traitors fed within your walls; Men who yourselves with vote and purse sustain At posts of honor, influence and gain, The right of slavery to your sons to teach, And South-side gorpels in your pulpit preach! Such were the opening services of these abo- lition lectures in Tremont Temple, Mr. Henry A. Wise has declared that he would rather fight such vicious fanatics than reason with them; prerent of her being able to continue her performauces here. Her physicians have advised her to make a trip to Havana for thé recovery of her health. The Southern Mall. Bartmmorr, Noy. 25, 1855. New Orleans papers of We Inesday, the 14*h, and Mon- day, the 19th inst., are at hand, A new contract has been made for the conveyance of the mails from Montgomery to Mobile, and the hope is held out{that they will be regularly received hereafter. Markets. Proviprnce, Nov. 24, 1855. The sales of cotton for the past week add up about 2,000 bales, the ma:ket closing firm at an advance of xe. above the rates of lastaweek. The stock on hand is ht. Wool—The market continues quiet, without change in prices; sales 69,100 Ibs, Printiag elot x— Sales of the week, 44,000 pleces. but Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, has promised to give them a piece of his mind, face to face. Considering this flattering poetry to the South, we think the least that Mr. Toombs can ask of the Tremont Committee is, that they shall pro- mise to open the proceedings on the evening of his lecture with a repetition of this highly conciliatory poem of Whittier, the affable and amiable Quaker poet aforesaid. It would serve to warm up the Georgia orator toa spirited discussion of his theme. We submit the sug- gestion to the consideration of Mr. Toombs. [= Dramatic and Musical Matters, At the Broapway Taxatre, Mra. Julia Deane Hiyne has finished the second week of her highly sucecessful Knowles’ play, ‘The Wrecker's Daughter,’’ supported by Mr. Fisher as Robert. A new pieze, ‘The Bankrupt,’ is in rehearsal. The scene ix laid in New York, and greenroom report speaks highly of the play. Tre CeLxysTIats IN AvsTRALIA.—The same sentiment of hostility towards Chinese emi- grants which has manifested itself in California, has also sprung up and become even more fully developed in Australia. The principal cause ee hostility is that the Celestials in Cali- fofnia, as in Australia, do nothing to promote the prosperity of the country they come to, their sole aim being to extract just enough of the precious metal to enable them to return ia comparative wealth to the Flowery Kingdom. The Provincial Parliament of Victoria has taken up the matter, and enacted a stringent bill to put a stop to Chinese emigration. One of the clauses ot this bill is to make it a misdemeanor for the captain of any vessel to bring more than two emigrant passengers for each ten tons’ measurement; and anofMer is the levying of a capitation tax of ten pounds (fifty dollars) on each of these emigrants. This bill will cer- tainly, if rigidly enforced, have the effect of putting a stop entirely to the emigration of John Chinaman. the highly successful piece of “The Little Treasure,” ‘To Parents and Guardians,”’ and “Turning the Tables.’* The new five act comedy will be done next week. Burton is as attractive as ever, and drawing large auliencos. At Watrack’sTreates “The Little Treasure’ has also made quite a hit, and it will be repeated this week. On Saturday Mr. Lester took # benefit, playing Leon, ip “Rule a Wife and Have a Wife,’ toa crowded house. This comedy will be given again to-nigh*, with the farce “(A Pretty Piece of Business.”’ At Nmto’s Garpex the Ravels open this evening in three pieces, “Robert and Bertrand,” “ Katey the Vivan- dire,” and ‘‘Asphodel.”’ M’llo Robert, of the Academy Paris, will make her débu/ in the second plece. At the Bowxay Twxarne, the bill for this evening in cludes two popular dramas, ‘Sixteen String Jack” and the “ Forty Thieves.”” At the Acapruy or Music M’lle Nantier Didice has play- ed Arsace, in the ‘Semiramide,” twice. She made hit, but the house was not full on the second night. “The Prophet” is snnounced for this evening. Me Racim, made her début in Philadelphia, at the Walnut street theatre, on Monday last toa full houas. She has not played sinee, on account of illness. We have received the following official statement of the re eipts at her performances in New York and Poston. Moavine Affatrs. New Sreamemp Ling 10 Mosiie.—The steamship Qua- ker City arrived here yesterday morning from Philadel- phia, making the passage from dock to dock in eighteen anda balfhours. The Quaker City was built at Phila- delphia for the Charleston trade from that port, but had Heceip's. $5,016 3,731 4,117 recently been purchased by a company in Mobile, and : hs will commence her trips from this port to Havana and 3,675 Mobile about the 3d proximo. The qualities of this fine a steamer were fully tested during the time «he was on the 505 Charleston route, and established the reputation of a 3048 steamer of the first class, The ship is built in the most + 3838 substantial manner, and her powerful engine enadles her | October 4 ‘aaa i 4 to atiaina high rate of speed with perfect safety, Hor & aoe, 825. interior arrangements combine neatness, good taste and comfort. Captain Robert W. Sdufelit, the late popular commander of the steamers Black Warrior and Cahawaba, will command the Quaker City, My. J. Gideon, late pur- ser of the Black Warrior and Cahawba, will ceoupy the vame position in the Quaker City. $2 50.myon0.m cons Sane PERE EEE} = Personal Intelligence, Governor Myron H. Clark will be at the Avtor House to-day. The Hon. Geo, E. Pugh, United States Senator elect from Ohio, who takes his seat at the opening of the mest Congress, was married yesterday to Miss Terese Chalfaut, who was universally recognized as the belle of the Queen City. She will be the reigning belle at the capital this winter, too, as she ix one of the most beautiful women ia nd consequently, in all the world, Charles Roweeroft, the British Consul at Cincinwati, says that the letters of Attorney General Cushing to the United States Attorney at Philadelphia, in the Herts cass: are the roots of all the difficulty tetween Engisnd aad ‘Adrien? Lecouvreur {Vieginie, la NEW YORK. Advienne Lecouvreur this country. This view of the matter he expressed vefore the arrival of the Pacifle gave that interprotation to the ridiculous war talk of the Times. Mr. Roweerofi ix uncer indictment for aiding in the enlistment of Crimean teeruits here, bat the principal witness against hia has «ied since the indictment was fuund. The Jackson Mississippian, of the 16th iast., thus no- ices the arrival of Gen. Quitman at the State capital :— ‘The distirguished member elect to Congress from ths Fifth district reache} our city yesterday evening. The de wegen welcomed his arrival by a salute of guns, in honor of his visit and his recent giorfous triumph.” In the pleamsbtp Oosan Birdy from. New 0: jn leans and Havang=J P Abrams, Jr, Capt Bower, on Job del. Geo MACansiand, “Mea J W Kebinson aed shild,: Don Ricarde Ponce de Leon, Dim Rr 1, Pablo ¢ o iat Ueven, Avtonlo M Yenaga’ Vale ‘deca ine eb Pictaa Bon Vues Bue Daa oa Aguera, Angusie a Tea, Don irger, 111) Rochabron, Abraham Sirasburger,, Belifurio Salinas, Remple, Eeq, Paul A Aleman, Joazn Mn Brsizal eShecksrman, Ricard Darby, 0 W Bradford, Alans) Silvo, Mrs PL Vouslaven. Tn the steams ¢, from Peters! and Noriolk,— James VM Ab Howard, J J Gib HE Cook, CH Morris, Wm 8, J ve, rim, Mrs SA Tubbs, John RLentalr, Wie B Joboson, James ©’ Colwell, Jady ane two chidres; Mre A P Moore, Richard Blick, daniel B Onger, Jady nnd three enlidrens T Palmer, Geo Mer vort, BF’ Jarvis, Mrs BO Dent the TETARTURES, For Savannab, in the steamshio Alavama—Jobo R Clark, 1D BR Monte HR Ames, J Jr, Tha ue Pekan ae arti Vis Pecans ira Bart, \wo Mies Mi unaree, and servant; Thomas F rh vant vom Sy pam aos obit eerveah;, Bion, ‘om f'R'weade, TL Bilichsll, Mrs Davis, Mra MG Aithae’ Meotayt two children, © © Gerbam, Dan; ‘Joexoh ae |. BSanber, Miss Abby Whiney, Miee Mery W ..D Snedeker, G A Simmons, Mre Sweat Pitney. J Dalps, and 130 in we seerage: y baved & TOU... seseceseeee Oe seveseieeesatteeeeseee Mr, Guoncr H. Banner's farewell benefit took place at the Academy on Tuesday, and was a very succoaeful af fair, netting, we hear, about $2,000, ‘The Hamar Nrowt on Tuesday, at the Academy, maker © grent deal of chat in advance. There ix, we hear, a” {00d prospect for the pecuniary success ofthe aflair. M. Buny, the Belgian giant, who has lately been qyiet- ly pursuing the study and Practice of agriculture on Long Inland, teaves for Cuba to-day, to astonish the natives at Havana and Matanzas. M. Bibin, is a magnificent speci- men of the genus homo, and is so large that two state rooms haé to be knocked into one to give him room to tretch fn. , Moweren Comrrrant, well known here as @ pianist and composer, will give a grand vocal and instramental con cert at the Metropolitan theatre to-norrew evening, when he will be assisted hy a Jarge number of cininent artists, Tho feature of the performances will Uo the ap- pearance of Senor Narciso Lopes, the eldest sv of the unfortunate General. Senor Lopez, we hear, i# «ready an accomplislied pianist, and we haye no doubt he will reeelve from the Cubans, and the friends of Cuba, « hearty reception. Awmnicas Brasane Fexp Asocunos,—The following gentiemen have been elected Airectors, to All the vacancio, caused by the absence of Messrs, Daviige, Monroe, Bellamy and Thorne, namely: Messre. Dyott, George Christy, A. B, Phillips, and Wardle Corin. ty are in @ prosperous eow/lition, and thirty memners have been adder since May last. The afuirs of the sorte Boerow—eMr, Forrest ie ctill at the Boston theatre CHANAN RESPECTING THE BRITISH WHST INDIA © the present determination is not to forward copies of the) | engagement. This evening sho will appear in Sheridan I At Burtoy’s Tuxatne, the bill for this evening includes {