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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDOS BENNEYT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. BPFICE N. W. CORN’ O# NASSAU AND FULTON STS. D, every & urupean et Great Britain, or $6 t CORRESPON! te ee Sram any quater of paid for. Ray= Ok Fouwien i Requestap ro Seat aut Lerr cnataining import. Li —if used will be liberally Puri ULAuLyY Ags SENT US. 8 AND Pack: NO NOTICE taken of anonymous conimunieations, We do not return thote reed JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and des- Pa DVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Maxy or MAantus— Monsine Cat. Se ¥IBLO’S GARDEN, Breadway—Four Lovnes—Katey— ASPHODET. BOWERY THEATRE, Bor Kus iw Tue Dank. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Senrous FaMiiy ~Tue Toovies. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—hirris Tavasvne— LALATER—F EKEROTION, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Praroruax Prx- POUMANCES. —Mexcuant or Vawice— BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPER? HOUSE, 139 Broad- way—-Bunizsaue Oren AxD Necuo Muxstiuisi. New York, Friduy, December 7, 1855. Mails for the Pacific. au NEW YORK HERALD—CALIFOKNIA NDITION. he United States mail steamship George Law, Capt. Bernden, will leave this port this afternoon at two Polock, for Aspinwall. ‘the mails for California sod other parte of the Pacific ‘4B alose at one o'clock. Whe New Yoru Wxkkiy Hunatp—California edition— soutaining the latest intelligence from all parts ot the worid, will be published at eleven o’clock in the morning. ‘ingle copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, aixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as early as posal- we. The News. We have highly important news from Washing- ton. It is stated in the most positive manner that a despatch has been recetved from Mr. Buchanan, relative the alleged violation of our neutrality laws by British ageots in enlisting men for the Crimea, the tenor of which js that the British government decline giving such explanations as have been demanded by our government. It is also stated that the governments of San Salvador, Hon- duras and Costa Rica, have strongly protested against the action of Minister Wheeler in acknow- lodging .the authority of the Walker administration im Nicaragua. These delicate and intricate ques- tions uow occupy the attention of the Cabinet. How they will extricate themselves from their dilemma remains to be seen. A day or two will doubtless give us more detailed information upon these im- portai.t points. In the United States Senate yosterday Mr. Hale calied up his resolution requesting information rela- tive to the condition of affairs in Kanses, but at the suggestion of Mr. Hunter consented to withdraw it until after the receipt of the President’s message. Nothing farther wasdone. The House went through six ballots for Speaker, and then adjourned. After the adjournment several caucuses were held, with the hope of effecting some arrangement which may Jead to an organization. There are many specula- tions aficat, and sage predictions are ventured on, with regard to the final result, but they are scarcely worth a moment's consideration. The democrats of the House have not flinched as yet, while their oppunents are wavering, and angry and impatient. This is a significant symptom. The committee appointed at the last session of the Legislature to inquire into and report upon the alleged corrupt practices connected with the police courts of this city, have been holding mectinga in the City Hall for the past day ortwo. The testimony elicited, as will be seen by the report given in an- other part of to-day’s papor, is most interesting, and shows theurgent necessity of reform iu the criminal courts ofour city. It is charged by Mayor Wood and ex-Justices Roome and Clarke, that the police- men detailed at the several courts, the keepers of prisons, and others connected with them, havea regular system of black mail, and a well-understood tariff of rates, whereby unfortunate prisonera are fieeced outrageously. Suspicion is also thrown on the magistrates and clerks, who caunot be ignorant of these nefarious proceedings. An interesting pro- cess known as “roping in” is also described by one of the witnesses. The Board of Aldermen met Inst evening. The reading of a communication from the Chief of Police, protesting against the action of the Board in declaring his office vacant, and setting forth the reasons why such action was illegal, was called for, but the President ruled that, owing to its offensive- ness, it could not be received. Upon an appea! from this decision the Chair was sustained by a vote of ten to seven. We, however, print elsewhere tue rejected protest of the Chief, in which he repudiates the charge of alienage, and declares himself able to substantiate his statements whenever the proper time shall arrive for him to doso. There is still work for Briggs and Branch to do. It is stated that s movement is on foot in Texas to induce the Legislature of that State to instruct Senator Sam Houston to resign, on account of his anti-Southern sentiments. The steamship St. Lonis, which left Havre and Southampton on the 21st ult., arrived at this port yesterday, and the European mails of the 24th, brought by the America at Boston, reached this clty ata late hour last nigté. Our files furnish some interesting matter. Thirteen allied officers, inclad- ing an English Deputy Assisvant Commissary Gene- ral, with thirty other men, were killed by the sud- den explosion of a French artillery park near In- kermann, in the Crimea. Two hundred and thirty- seven men were wounded by the same accident. A destructive fire in Paris had consumed a large sup- ply of army food rations on the 18th ult. The most friendly relations existed between the Emperor of Russia and the Shah of ersia. The English jour- nals explain the war feeling of the United States Cabinet on the ground of an electioncering bait to the people. They endeavor to throw ridicule on the statements made by our countrymen who bad tray- ciled in the Crimea as to the actual state of affairs existing there. By way of New Orleans we have later news from Havana. There was no politicalintelligence. Busi- nees was brisk. Sugar and molasses had advanced, but the market was unsettled. The talee of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, at about je. decline, though the market Was somewhat unsettled, as dealers were waiting for tis receipt of the America's letters. Flour was he avy,and prices easier for common and medinm ge ades. Wheat was 2c. a Se. per bashel lower, with udioderate gales. Corn was also dull, and sold at ¢1 a $1 Ol, closing at $1. Rye was active, with a good demand for Germany, and for export to which 25, 000 bushels were purchased, at $1 31a $1 Pork was doll at $20 60 $21 for mesa, and $18 75 for prime. Beef woe quiet, while lard was active aud firm, with free enles at full prices. Coffee was firm but quiet. Sugars were inactive—dealera were waiting eteamer's letters, Room for Liverpool was reduced, while rates were firmer, with more offer- ing. Rates to Havre were also higher, being $1 for flour, 26¢. for grain and Je. for cotton. There were two chorters to Havre and one to Liverpool. Telegraphic despatches from numerous points along the line of the Erie canal, give us the gratify- ing intelligence that inland navigation continues un- jnterrupted. The weather was mild, with every prospect of its continuing #0 for some days to come. In view of these facts, the Canal Commissioners will in all probability, conclude to «till further oxtond the period for closing the canals. The Jeast oxton- Sion is of vast importance just now, Congress—Fourth Day upon the Spzaker—No Go—The President ‘on the A@ulrs of Kansas. The philosoyhers of Congress have wasted another day in their vain efforts to elect a Speaker by a majority upon such a divison of parti¢s as can only command a plurality. Their several experimental votes yesterday differ from } those of the three preceding days in no very material particulars, We find the name of Mar- shall, of Kentucky, withdrawnras the candidate of the Southera Know Nothbings, and that of Smith, of Alabama, substituted, but with no greater promise of an election. There are three ways by which a Speaker may readily he elected—by ballot, by a plu- rality, or by @ rule knocking off at every vote-—~never to come on again—all those last voted for having less than twenty votes, and the next lowest candidate. By bal- lot the opposition elements could come to a fusion, perhaps; whereas, by the viva voce sys- tem, the vote of every man has to be blabbed out, without the slightest regard to the deli- cacy of such members as would prefer to do the thing more quietly and confidentially. We fear, however, that it is too late for the ballot, and that if it were tried, the more ferocious of the black republicans would unite with the de- mocrats to defeat it. The plurality system, by which Mr. Cobb was elected in 1849, may next be resorted to; but if the democrats and na- tional Know Nothings will persist in a majori- ty election, they may accomplish it by the dropping system. Finally, a Speaker may be elected by keeping at it as they stand, and trusting to lack. Sebastopol was not taken in aweek; but it was taken, after a fashion, by keeping at it, Mr. Hale’s resolution calling upon the Pre- sident for a copy, if any, of his despatch to Governor Shannon of Kansas, concerniag his demand for United States troops to restore Jaw and order in the Territory, lies over till Menday. In the meantime the President has caused to be published the correspondence in question, from which it appears that he can’t give a definite answer to the Governor till he re- ceives his letter in the regular way by mail, all the way from Kansas, including the irregu- larities and mishaps of the running machinery of the Post Office Department. But, war or no war in Kansas, the President cannot under- take to interfere by telegraph. It is not ac- cording to routine ; and besides, he desires to be mixed up as little with this Kansas busi- ness as possible—always has desired it. There is one poiat gained, however, in the publica- tion of his telegraphic correspondence with Governor Shannon. It does away the ne- cessity of Hale’s resolution, and prevents the tender-footed Northern democrats of the House from entertaining uncomfortable suspi- cions and notions of rebellion. We are informed that Senators Jones, of Tevnessee ; Benjamin, of Louisiana ; Toombs, of Georgia, and Pratt, of Maryland—hereto- fore among the “live whigs”—may all of them henceforward be counted among the living democracy, of the hard shell type. Mr. Fish, our Senatorial colleague of Mr. Seward, has given out that he belongs to no party at pre- sent, and must be counted in the appointment of the committees of the Senate as an out- sider. Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, avd Mr. Bell, of Tennessee, having gone over to the Keow Nothings, meanwhile, we may expect a very interesting organization of the Senate committees by the democratic caucus which will settle that business, Finally, let us “have no fears of the morrow. Sufficient for he day is the evil thereof.” Tur Stavery Aciration—Toe Exrreues Mrerina—Norrnern ABOLITIONISM VERSUS Sovrurrn Retatiarioy.—The bill passed by the last Massachusetts Legislature, nullifying the l'ugitive Slave law and providing pains and penalties against all such State officers as shali presume to take any part in the business of restoring a runaway slave to his master, and other proceedings in other Northern Le- gislatures directed against the institution of slavery, are working out their natural conse- quences in the South. The Southern retaliatory movements, of which we have already informed our readers, are:-- 1, The annual message of the Governor of Georgia, and the bill of “garnishments” intro- duced into the Legislature for the confiscation of certain Northern claims as an offset for kid- napped negroes hereafter. 2. The messoge of the Governor of Alaba- ma, and the corresponding resolutions intro- duced into the Acrembly of that State. 3. The message of the Governor of South Carolina upon the subject. , 4. The message of the Governor of Vir- ginia—some extracts from which we published yesterday. Our letter from-Richmond, in this paper, shows that the General Assembly of the Old Dominion are even wore intensely excited than the Governor. They propose a series of re- taliations against Massachueetts and her abo- lition tisterhood; and the active reorganization of the whole Virginia mititia force, in view of the dreaded ultimatum of an appeal to arms in defence of Southern rights, Southera property and Southern social institutions, against North- ern fanaticiem and Northern aggressions, No doubt these retaliatory examples will be followed up, more or less, by every Southern State in the Union; and their immediate effect will be to widen the breach in Congress between the Southern members of both houses, and the Northern free roilers that have been thrown in among them, on account of the fee- blenes# of Mr. Pierce’s administration, and the furore ond hubbub raised throughout the North upon the heels of the Nebraska bill. We see, too, in the resolution introduced by Mr. Hale into the Senate at Washington, that the black republicans are resolved that this renewed and threatening agitation should not lack the com- bustible necessary to keep the fire hotly burn- ing. With such symptoms before us of a vio- lent Fectional struggle in 1856, we are passing out of the present year into the active ex- citemente of the Presidential campaign. What is to be the end of all this we know not; but we know enough to perceive that slavery Will be the ruling question upon the Presiden- cy, and that men and parties will be elevated or destroyed according to their merits or draw- backs upon this paramount question of slavery. Meantime the indignation of the South against such eeditious acts of Northern legis jation as the “Personal Liberty bill’ of Mas sachusetts, and agaiust the parties conceraed in it, is perfectly natural and justifiable; and whatever may be the extremities to which the Southern States may go in their acts of reta- liation, they will have at least the merit of self-defence against impudent intermeddlers in the affairs of their neighbors, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1859. en Contested Seats tm Congress=The Case of Judge Trumbull. The proceedings of Congress present several questions in a branch of parliamentary law that is assuming an unwonted importance. Or- dinarily contestants base their cla ws on ill judged practices of party zealots, an. the con- teet does not rise above a squabble of potiti- cians; but a case has arisen in the Senate of the United States which it has been feared may lead to a conflict between State and na- tioval authority; and hence we may briefly re- view its positions. The constitution of the State of Iinois pro- vides that the Judges of the Supreme and Cir- cuit Courts chall not be eligible to any other office of public trust or profit in that State, or the United States, during the term for which they were elected, nor for one year thereafter; and all votes given for either of them for any elective office, except that of Judge of the Su- preme or Circuit Courts, shall be void. The Ho- norable Lyman Trumbull, who has just taken his seat in the United States Senate, was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and was commissioned for nine years from the 24th day of June, 1852, and thirteen Senators and twenty-four Representatives in the Legisla- ture of that State argued that all votes cast for that gentleman for the office of United States Senator were therefore null and void, If this be the true construction of the constitutional provision, we have the fact presented that a legislative ma- jority openly violated the organic law under which their government exists; and to the Se- nate of the United States the appeal is made by a minority to interpose its power to prevent the consummation of so great a wrong. But can the United States government thus control the government of a State? Itis true that the government of Illinois has refused to arm Mr. Trumbull with a certificate of his election, but he has been supplied with evidence of his election by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the other branch of the Legislature. The Governor was the opposing candidate, and received all the votes that were not given for Mr. Trumbull; and nence suspicion has been excited that he is too deeply interested to issue credentials for Mr. Trumbull, or to see clearly that the same constitution renders nis own votes for Senator null and void while he sits in the chair of Gov- ernor of the State. That the opposition to Mr. Trumbull is simply one of partizanship is inferred, also, because the Hon. S. S. Marshall occupies a seat in the House of Representa- tives without objection, although he, a Circuit Judge, under the same provision of the consti- tution, was nominated for Congress while he was on the bench, and waselected within three months after his resignation; whereas, Mr. Trumbull resigned his office of Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and was succeeded on the bench by another, as early as the month of July, 1853. He had been out of office nearly two years when he was elected to the Senate; yet many signers of the protest against him were the supporters of Judge Marshall. These, however, as personal, are an inferior aspect of the case. The right of the Senate to dispossess Mr. Trumbull may be doubted, inasmuch as the Senate repudiated it so recently as the last session, when the Hon. Augustus Cesar Dodge was confirmed in the office of Ambassador to the Court of Spain, to which he was appoiat- ed before theexpiration of the term for which he was elected to the United States Senate, al- though a similar constitutional provision ap- plied both to his case and to that of Mr. Hum- phrey Marshall, who, at an earlier period, was commissioned as Minister to China. The Senate of the United States will deem it a delicate duty to look behind an election of the State Legis] sture, for the State authorities are to be supposed capable of maintaining the inviolability of the State constitution. To the State Legislature the franchise is given, and they have elected Mr. Trumball in the ex- ercise ot unquestioned power. The power is given to the State Legisleture to elect a Unit- ed States Senator by the constitution of the United States. The power is not conferred by the State constitution; and as the people them- selves cannot elect, no instrament that they can make can govern this question, or pre- scribe to the constitutional elective body any qualifications for the elected. This case, then, is readily divested of the dangerous features with which it bas been invested, and no ha- zordous intermeddling of one government with the rights of another can possibly occur. When the constitution of the United States provides that no Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elect- ed, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time— as in the cases of Messrs, Dodge and Marshall —it moy not be cordially received as unques tionable doctrine that the time for which an officer may have been elected shall be termt- pated by his resignation; but the decision hav- ing been made, the United States Senate is not likely to rush into a conflict with the Le- gislature of a sovereign State, and at the same time stultify itself. Tue Inrsn Liperators 1x Amertca—Aop RESS or Tue IntsH Extgrant Ain Coxventioy.—The convention of the Irish Emigrant Aid Society adjourned yesterday, after a session of three days, and after the adoption of a series ofreso- lutions and an address containing the prin- ciples of their platform, so far as their plat- form may be said to have any principles, We ere not informed precisely what this move- ment is intended to effect, although its object is of course proclaimed to be the liberation of Ircland from the English yoke. How this ia to be done hasnot been made known, for the society is pertially a secret one; but it is said to be by arme, and we catfhot well conceive how it could be otherwise accomplished. There is a ru- mor that an agent of the Russian government is one of the principal leaders in the affair, and that he has promised them the support of the Czar in any hostile movement which they may make upon England. How- ever this may be, we are pleased to see that in their address and resolutions they ignore any intention to violate our neutrality laws; and as long as they keep their word, they may meet as often as they please and protest as much as they like against English tyranny. The freedom of Ireland is a matter which is left for the people of that country to decide upon, Should they be willing to dght for it, and require assistance, the Association will give it; but should they, on the contrary, con- elude to remain as they are, then the Associa- tion, like the Cuban Janta, will wait until they are willing and ready for arevolution. How ong they may have to wait, time must deter- w ne, Meantime, would it not be well for them to appoint an investigating committee to in- quire what has become of the forty thousaud dollars collected some seven years ago for the emancipation of Ireland ? Tne American Party Banquet To-Nicut.— The banquet of the Ninth Ward National American Club, in honor of the triumph of the Headley State ticket in our late election, comes off at Niblo’s to-night. We are inform- ed that it will be a grand American set-out, and that nothing Roman Catholic or foreign will be admitted to the table, except the Irish waiters, imported liquors, and other such in- dispensable articles. We are also assured that at least three first class American national candidates for the Presidency will be present, and may be expected to speak on the occasion, to wit:—Hon. J. J. Crittenden, of Ky.; Hon. Jobn Minor Botts, of Va.; and, large as life, that “steamboat candidate,” as he is facetious- ly called by his enemies, “Live Oak George Law.” It is also probable that the candidate of the navy and the Camden and Amboy line— Commodore Stockton—will be “on deck,” and witty and entertaining as usual. Lastly, that genial and faithful advocate of the New York Mint in Congress, Hon. George Briggs, will preside, and will explain to the meeting the party divisions of the House, and who is to be the Speaker. Vote early. Free TrApe wit Canapa.—A letter appears in the Canadian papers from the Hon. Ha- milton Merritt of Canada on the subject of extending the present system of Canadian reciprocity to manufactures, and abolishing the Custom Houses in the interior both on the Canadian and United States side. The letter, though mainly written for Canadian readers, deserves perusal in this country, as well from the well known authority of the writer as from the force of his reasoning. It is incontes- tible that the abolition of tlfe Custom Houses on the Canadian line—which now cost more than they produce—would be an unmixed ben- efit to this country. We should supply Cana- da with every species of manufactured goods, and when the time came for Canadians to man- ufacture successfully, why if they could make cottons and saws cheaper than we could, it would be to our advantage to buy them free of duty. The subject ought to engage the atten- tion of Congress, and especially of the North- ern delegations. The present reciprocity sys- tem has worked well: why not carry it out to its natural extent? THE LATEST SEWE BY ELECTAK AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Important Commercial News from Havana. New Dec. 6, 1855. ‘The steamer Cahawba has arrived here with later dates from Havana, but the news is unimportant. Business ‘was good and sugar had advanced. The market was ex- cited and unsettled. Molasses was also better. News from Texas. * New Onzeans, Dec. 6, 1855. We have received Galveston dates to the 1st instant. A Dill was before the Legislature, proposing a loan oi $5,000 for each mile of railroad built in the State—the State to retain a mortgage on the road. Several papers are urging the Legislature to instruct Senator Houston to resign, on account of his anti- Southern sentiments. ‘The weather was favorable for securing the cotton and sugar crops. Navigation of the Canal. Burra, Dec. 6, 1365. The canal is open. Weather mild and wet, Wind west, Lockport, Des. 6, 1855. There is no ice on the canal, and nothing doing on it. Weather cold. There has been a slight fall of snow to-day. Aumion, Dee. 6, 1855. The canal is free from ice and the water low. Weather warm and cloudy. Rocugstmr, Des. 6, 1855. ‘The weather here is mild and pleasant. There is no ice in the canal, and boats are moving along. There aro in store and being received about 600,000 bushels of wheat, against 200,000 last year. Lyons, Des. 6, 1855. Tce formed in the canaf last night half an inch thick. Weather cloudy. A voat went cast this morning ligatly loaded. 3 Crype, Des. 6, 1855. ‘The ice in the canal at this point, aninch thick, is breaking up. Weather cloudy, and commencing to rain. The water is a foot lower than yesterday. The boat North Star, bouni for Utica, loaded with beef, pavsod down last night. Port Bynon, Dec. 6, 1855, The canal is free from ice, and the water up to the av- erage level. Weather clear and cool. Syracuse, Dec. 6, 1855. Weather cloudy, but warm. The canal is free trom ice. Unica, Dec. 6, 1855. There is no ice in the canal here, and the water isup to the usual level. The weather is mild and cloudy. Caxasomanir, Dec. 6, 1855. The canal is free from ice, and crowded with boats, which are passing along freely, with good prospects of getting through. United States Supreme Court. Wasmxcton, Dee. 6, 1855. Case No. 6.—Steamer Harmer, Cozzens, master, and others va. Frisbee, owner of the steamer Arkansas,—Ap- peal from the United States Circuit Court of the Eastern district of Louisiana. The appellants were called, but failed to appear, and the cause was dismissed with costs. Case Nc. 6.—Piffin’s executor, vs. Mattison, was ar- gued by Mr. Downing for plaintiff, and by Mr, Willams for defendant, From Baltimore. SERIOUS ACCIDENT—ARRIVAL OF MAIL. Baumwons, Dec. 6, 1856. Four men engaged in painting St. Alphonso’s church, in this city, fell to the ground to-day, in consequence of fhe breaking of the platform on which they were. All were seriously and perhaps mortally injared. Chief Justice Taney has sold his residence in Baltimore, and intends living permanently at Washington. ‘The New Orleans mail of Friday is received. Fire at Beardstown, Ul. Brarpsrows, Ill., Dec. 6, 1855, The foundry and machine shop in this plice, owned by John Webb, was destroyed by fire last night. Loss eati- mated at $8,000. No insurance. The books only were raved. THE SOUTHERN Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, Partapmuraia, Deo. 6, 1865, Railvoad Nar tang land, 123g. Morr” Catal tant road, 44; hi ; Morr , 18K; Pennrylvania Rallrosd, 4237. es BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Baurimorx, Dec. 6, 1855. At our cattle market to-day 1,600 head of beeves wore offered, of which 100 were driven to Philadelphia, 127 to Read: and 1,100 were sold at prices ranging from $6 a $020 visxtee brought S40 $4.75 on the hoof. Hogs were in supply, and sligatly lower. Sales at $8 a $8 75 per 1001 New Ontnans, Deo. 5, 1855. The’ rales of cotton to-day have been ver; amounting to 17,000 bales, at yesterday's ra‘es. rTM » awe Berraro, Deo. —12.90 P. M. i Flour drooptng--Saley alen ot $8.00 8 $9, for good. to extra, ed Indiana . Corn, Bie, Prime State bar- ley, $1 800 81 91," Oats 40c. Rye 61 05. ‘ —. Marine Affatrs, We are requested to state that the steamer Union, R. Adame, ecmroander, will leave for Havee via Southamp- ton, with the Upited States mails, on Saturday, the 15th Dec., at 12 o’clock, in place of the steamer St. Louis, which vessel has been withdrawn, rw! “| and five Important to the Travelling Community. A REVOLUTION IN THE MEANS OF FUBLIC GON- VEY ANCE. ‘the Common Council have at present under considera- tion a subject which {1 of conaiderable importance to the travelling potion of the community. Some wesks ago a momoriel was presented iv that body, signed by seveval gentlemen doing business ia New York, asking for the passage ofan ordinance authorizing the Mayor to issue icenses to a company which has been organized under the tite of “The New York Passenger and Boggage Line,” to keep and run omnibures, not to exceed the number of fifty, for the conveyance and transportation of passen. gers and theic baggage to and from and between railroad depots, steamboat landings, and hotels, and sudjesting the coaches or omnibuses so lcensedto the rules and regulations now applicable to hackney coaches and car- ringer. A committee of the Board of Councilmen have already reported favorably on the subject, but it has not, #0 far, been finally acted upon by either board. There 1s no doubt whatever that the project will be suecessful, as it has been already carried into practical operation in Buffalo, Philadelphis, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cleveland and other cities, In addition to the important consieration that the new means of conveyance will be much cheaper than the present hack system, it will alto put a stop to the impositions of thore employod in that buriness, if it should not drive them out ofit al- together. ‘The fare to be charged by the new company, which is to be composed, we understand, of Mr. Leland, formerly of the Metropolitan, and several other hotel pro- prietors, in twenty-five cents per passenger, and for this he will be carried to any one of the hotels from any of the steamboat landings. Should the Common Council grant the privilege, the company will commence business at once with fifty ompibuses, the number to be increased as the wants of the travelling community may require, ‘The Harlem Railrond Company have determined on te- moving the large passenger and freight cars from the track below Twenty-seventh street, and to make the depot there the terminus of the road in the city. In this move they have been influenced by considerations of economy, as the new arrangement will save them abont fifty thousand dollars a year. Independent of this fact, in which the company only are interested, it wilt be » great benefit to all whose business leads them along the route of their track. The cara, while they were little or no accommodation to passergers, were a perfect nuisance and an obstruction to our city travel, and not unfre- quently were the cause of accident and loss of life. Per- sone travelling by the city cars were often subject w much TIncénvenience and loss of time by the delay caused by their blocking up or running off the track, whish occurred somewhat too often to be quietly tolerated. Persons travelling by the Harm or New Haven Railroads can get to the depot with as much, if not more, facility by our omnibusés or city cars. To accommodate the increased travel, twelve new city cars, constructed on an oxtirely different principle from any now running, will be placed on the track from Park row to Twenty-reventh street. These are each to be drawn by three horses, and will be provided with seats on the top fox such as may like a more elevated posilion, Hee eae may induige, with unrestrained freedom, in the luxury of smoking, with no one to molest or make them afraid. It will be @ novel sight to see these oars sweeping through our streets, with a long line of smoke trailing behind, like the tail of a comet—only a litile diifer- ent. , There is one benefit which will be derived from the change—there will be less accidents to record. Obitaary. LADY EMELINE STUART WORTLEY. The steamship America, arrived at Boston yesterday, brings the announcement of the death of Emeline Charlotte Elizabeth. second daughter of the Duke of Rut- Jand, and widow of the late Hon. Charles Stuart Wortley, brother of the late Lord Wharncliffe. Lady Wortley ‘was very well known and very popular in this country. She visited the United States twice, and in 1851 published @ volume of travels; and a very pleasant book it is, too, Lady Wortley travelled throughout North America, and afterward went 10 Havana, the British Weat Indies, and extended her trip to Panama, surmounting the perils which environed the isthmus transit at that time, with much more cheerfulness than many of the sterner sex. Lady Wortley afterwards made an extend- ed tour in Asia and throughout Southern Europe. With the exception of Mme, Pfieffer she was the greatest female traveller of the age. In adiition to her volumes of travels she has published her poems, Tae travels in the United States contain some absurdities, but she was very good natured and made the best of every- thing. She was a woman of extensive information, ani was familiar with all the leading statesmen, authors, artiste, &., &c., both in England, on the Continent, and in the United States. No English lady of rank wao has visited us was 50 bir aed a4 Lady Wortley. Daring the latter part of her life che lived at Petrut, in Syria, where the died on the 29th of October, aged about forty yeara, She was rather eccentric in her habits, and for the past two or three years has lived a sort of hermit-like exist- ece. She leaves a son and # daughter. Police Inteillyence. THE LATE BURGLARY IN THE DOWERY. Fdwara F. Dart, said to have been an accomplice with two men, already in custody, in the recent burglary upon the store of Garl G. Gross, No. 162 Bowory, was yerterday arrested by officer Bumstead, of the Fasex mar- ket Police Court, and locked up for examination. Win- fred Kind, the keeper of the house in which $400 worth of the etolen goods were found secreted, was also arrest- ed as being receiver of stolen goods, and the magistrate committed her to prison. : CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY. Hiram Woodruff, a laborer, was yesterday arrested by officer Jones, charged with stealing $105 from the store of Wm, Patting, 105 Thompson street. It 1s alleged that Mr. P. took off his coat containing the money and laid it down in the store, and as there was no person in but himself and the accused from that time to the moment he missed the money, be is led to believe that the ac- cused is the thief. He further states that Woodruff got one of the stolen bills changed at the store No. 77 Sulll- van street. Justice Fearey committed the axcused for examination. ROBBERY RY A FEMALE. A young woman, named Mary Hays, residing at No. 28 Thomas street, was arrested yesterday, sharged with stesling @ gold watch, valued nt $100, from James Huteh- inson of Ninth street. ‘The complatnant, it appears, was met by the accused in the street, and accompanied her home, where she attempted to-rob him of his wateh, and managed to get the chain detached from it, but was prevented from procecding further by his threats to call the police. They soon afier, left the house together, and while walkin, Church street, she snatched the watch from his poe was alded’ by some thieves ‘to es- cape. er arrest she was identified, and locked up for examivation, The wateb, however, was not recovered, THE CASE OF JAMES BLOOMER—OCORRECTION, Some reflection was cast upon the Chief of Police in cur edition of yesterdsy, in relation to a telegraphic Gespatch to the Chief, announcing the arrest of Jamos Bloomer, to which he responded by a reply that he was not wanted in the city. This proves to be the casa, as ® nolle presegui had been entered in relation to the c! against him, but his bondsman, who bad caused his arrest, was not swore of this fact, nor was the police- man who took him into custody. The return despatch of tod was, therefore, ccrrec!, as Bloomer was not waxted. ey ences Personal Intelligence. ARRIVALS. At the Metropolitan House—Hon. Georze W. Lay, Nn. T, Playford, Stamford, Ut ; 8. W. 6, B. st ton; U. M. Ward and family, Boston;’ Hon. T. M. Secore, Tex- as; Bon. LM. i Horton, J.B. Guizlat, China; Store, Ohio; ie Ht uneral, Toledo, Ohio; 8. i Ce family, Conv. From BR ehmond &c., In the steams nard, C Forber, Hit Taylor, Capt) MB Law ‘and? daughters, Jamestown—f. #4 Dott, Mra 'M 4 Crockett, L D Rockwell and lady, law iar Se gene: Fae . a a h , Pierce, J Welsh, J F Gillen, and ‘Btn rage, rei : From Havre, in steamshio &t Louls—Rey P M But ', Vie- tor Crevat, L Legendre, Chas Aubry, J Eguiguren, J P Kel- Toharn and inally, Beak, M Spoleaay Mt Leston atoesiethe a 5 ul, Rener Berre ‘cheerman, G Haut, M Lacr sches! rand eh’ Mrs. Pon hod acehy, Ms Trouin, Mics A Bourser, Miss Couner, Miss Miguante * ="* ait 4 se ate DEPA! Mabe ag or Lverpoot, in eteamship Cauada, from Boston— Warner, Moves k ebore, C Donale aad wie ate Boston Chas Morton, of Kewton Upper Fails; A eee of London, tw r and Drew, amt J Bl ‘ot Ki Gi ad at a word Gilman, of Simooe, 0 ban, ©. anon, wi y Compbell, of Malta; Wa: Tapior, and 7 Wit pon, resi ven—127. For Halifax—Mesers W fami Pete, M Carroll, of rediey, sod Wm Bi Mian TeX hates’ Of Tot al, 182, Rextony Halifax; THE LEGISLATIVE POLICE COMMITTEE. The Evidence of Pearcy, Ex-Justice Hoome, and Ex-Justice Clarke—The Opera- trons of Straw Bail, Batl Masters and Skinning. A meeting of the Legislative Committee on Criminal Matters was held yesterday, in the City Library room. Present, Messrs, Senators Crosby (Chairman), and Hop- kins, and Assemblymen Baker, Stuyvesant and 0’Keefe. ‘The first witness placed upon the stand was— Mr. Justice Pearcy, who testified as follows:—I am @ police magistrate since January, ’55; I cannot state the number of complaints for felonies and misdemeanors rade befere me, nor the proportion of convictions and’ dismissals, without reference to the records; all the facts of the cases are recorded in a minute book; on the nature of the crime depends the time of examination, some caxe9 requiring time to produce the proper evidence; i! is pos- sible that somo cases are not disposed of for twenty-foar hours, owing to pressure of Business. These examina- thons are taken by the Clerk, the magistrate being pre- sent; I generally take the teatimemy of witnesses myself; l cannot speak ae to the custom of other magistrates; I remember no instance of prisoners spplying to me fur, or do I know that I ever informed them of their right to appear by counsel; in cases of felonies, abandonmenta,. and frequently in petty larcanics, they do se appar; it would be very difficult for me to distinguish as to whe- her they are lawyers or not; how prisoners get at the counsel Ido not know; but I presume it is through the. officers that make the arrest, or through the keeper o the prison, or men whom they call “‘ropers in;”? these ar@und si men are @ class that are uch places as police Gravis; there ate-olierd ches Hosp ee Perey lames some of them are lawyers, but I presume that some of them sre on “sheep skin’? practice; Iam not @ lawyer, but have studied iaw; 1 have not yet been admitted, an do not expect to be. In canes of acsault and battery we always require « wit- ness aside fromthe complainant, the witness testifying: a ptocramiate Nis due to th megistrates that they Ir, Stuyvesant— It is due y a that one be informed brea —— spoon pe by Mayor yesterday was the prac! an un~ erstanding with counsel, to take or refuse ¢@take com plaints, largest portion of cases with which we deal are arreeted without warrants. In some heavy cases, I suppose that persons Lave been kept in jail some days, By working up «case! mean to procure the full identi- fication. No magistrates are on actual duty during the night, and they cecasionally open court at the pohoe sta- Ihave goue to station houses to oradmitto sve understood that ihe Mayor sent an order to pe captains not to discharge, prisoners unless the mogistrate duly opened court; [ Believe it was stared that none but the city judge and Recorder should dis- chxrge without appearance; I believe it has been the practice for magistrates, without seeing the person under arrest, to discharge by sencing an order; I do not know of wy own knowledge, for 1 bave always examined the case to show whether or not ihere was sufficient evi~ dence or not to warrant holding to bail or discharging: Question—This is only done in cases where the parties tre reepensiole and ble to Fey T auppose? ‘Witness—I do not know; I have lately dismissed a very. poor man because his wife was sick; such is as far ag possible my practice; there are five en detailed as at my court; the warrants are ibuted to these officers in rotatfon, and equally; I have understood that the Mayor has discharged several prisoners from the District the sta- tion houses; all recor Attor- ney’e offi Hf peace are kept at the District Court; I can’t say any ec inc eraices prosecuted; fines are im; for drunkenness and offences. which are to the clerk, who pays to the Chamberlain for the coupty: all m collected in the city prison are paid oveF to the dipdoan Commisaton- ers; we have a right to admit to bail at discretion, and judge by circumstances as to the amount to be required. Q. What proceedings do you take about the compe- tency of bail? A. The man’s oath and collateral evi- dence; we never require wi'nesses to identify the persons Spear rometimes we send an officer to ascertain about e parties. Q. You havea bail called straw bail, have you not ? A, Inever had any experience in that, and can’t give you apy tion, Q. Do you know whether it exists to any extent? A. Not to my knowledge. Q. Have eon ever known of police officers having ani- mosity against a woman, which bas led them to make complaints of vagrancy? <A. I never heard of any such case. Q. Do officers an examination ever retain cus- tody of a prisoner? A. That may have been done; I think it hag been done; but it dare not be done so with- out the conrent of the pages. Q. Suppose an escape, who would be responsible? A. ‘The magistrate. Q To whom? A. To the Grand Jury; I have never known of an escape, however, under these circum- stances. Direct testimony resumed—I have not known person- ally of the police fevying black mail upon the houres of prostitution for election purposes or for exeur- sions; the usual course is to send parties complaining to the court of their own disteict, but it fr want pens that the magistrates are not so pantic + ror bas no right to give any metructions; if ho sends officers to the courts we sball use them; but we have tho right to deliver process to any man and so authorize him t> terve. Q. Have you ever known of officers in their wards re- fusing to rerve aeere A. Yes, rir, repeatedly; that ia the difficulty; they consider themselves respunsidle to the Commissioners. Q. Is there no way of punishing them without the board? A. We have no power. \ Q. Did you ever complain ? A. No, sir; what is the use; if I was remaining in of- fice I would detail my own men, and not accept those furnished by the Mayor; for of the inconve- niences of the present system, there is a regulation that no officer shall go out of town without the order of the Mayor, and it may in any case defeat the ends of public Saskies todas any one know even of the of the officer, Ex-Jastice Roome was next calied, andsaid—I served three years, from 1845, and was Appointed by the Com- mon Council under the old xyatem; I have, from observa- tion only, s knowledge of th» way in which the police. courts 1s conducted; fromJoutward appearance they are conducted as they have usuaily been, Q. Do you know how are supplied to prisonera? A. Shave been applied to by officers, but more frequent- bhp es od ptm accused. " 4 fm ). Do you know brokerage being w= yers to Keepers of Bonini wiing rtm se thant oxamee ‘A. Iknow thatsach payments have been made to both of thore parties; I have paid it myself; I have not, how- ever, done #0 duringjthe past eighteen months, Q,’ This brokerage that was paid, what was its oyject P A. It was considered as a compensation to be given to the officer for giving one person a preference over an- other; it consisted of a per centage on the fees a in “the case; it was not paid under a specific agreement, but seemed {0 be by a tacit ‘aderandlag the amount’ paid by the lawyers on these cases was thirty-three per cent; is has been done by detailed as well as by ward officers, Q. What is the nt practice? A. Ido not know what {s the practice now, for Lnever go intoa court unless I have business; Iam thet this practice still exists, but believe that it is still car- ried on; because I see police officers im company with eyes and then they having the caso im their hands for cefence, Q. Do you know of any instances where the Court has selected counsel? A. No, sir; the only thing that I have known is for the court to provide counsel when parties were charged with serious charges and very poor. Q, Do you know if this system of brokerage exists now? A. I think I may enfely say that it is so; it is gane- rally known. $ Q. How is the thing done eo as to evade the law? A. No money has ever been paid; it is a loan to be paid when called for; I bave lent these amounts of money and aye never yet seen fit to call for thelr return. Q. When you say you loaned them money, is it to in- troduce business to yout A. Yes, sir, without doubt. Q. What is the mode of examination alopted? A. ‘The general practice, *o ‘far as I have been’ able to observe, 1s for the magistrate to be pre- rent durirg examinations; Judge Stuart almost always at Tay a IE it dui is it ns that where ¢ is but one Judge in court, with» large amount of business, that he is continually called in and out of the recom, and that in the meanwhile the Clerk conducts the investigation. Q. Have you known an examination to be held di the abseneé of the pris mer charged with the offence? I bave heard of such cares, bat of my own knowladge I do not know ofsuch a thing; I have never seen an examina- tion of that kind. ; Q. Did you ever know of the case of a German, or other person, tem ily committed asking fora certain cour- sellor, and refured to see him until they rhould ber a the favored man_of the officer? A. No, tir, Ido Mr. O’Keefe—I myse)f know cf sech a case, Mr. Crosby—In there not a } amount of what is called straw bail taken at the ce courte? A. Not to my knowledge. Q. What co you understand by straw bail? A. It fr pibemring ster worth little or nothing deceives the ms- gistrate by a false oath, to the effect that he is worth @n amount covering the bon‘ free of all liabilities, Fe an tear ror class of men that go abont the ‘omit ice courts to bec money considerations? "A. Yes sr tite! ). Are there no cares in which men worth one or thoueamd, or pethape hundreds of dollars, are tall Lee great mang cases, and through these means swear tha they are worth as much as 900, taking into accoun bp: whee number of their cases! A. 1 presume that 80. Q. How long are prisoners 6: a: po meng — have known ison as long as four weeks belore ( - Meiced; this was on. accont ul io awenee ee She prorocutors or material witnesscs: |. is véry unusua’ for this to ceeur, aa far as T can by my own ox perience; it frequently happens tht Sey are detainet r several days; in some cases it is impousible to avoid this detention {/t more generally arises ok the part of the me was . lope tworn, He testified ay fol- . Is it within your knowled, how prison mnedl of crime get counsel at the Tombe? A Yes, the first thiag ene, when o prisoner is arrested, if he has is to “telegraph” to the favored lawyer, or to that one fined before exa- persens to be ja which the largest cont, rover te ’brought up before the, maglatnnta iy Ps rey fe uently takes into ® room, called in slang is previous to his’ being take: the magistrate; the officer then holds tis eed Cae favorite lawyer comes, prisoner is taken beforo the Jedge; when oy. sre arrested and temporarily com. mitted before the lawyer is sent (or, then they ont who understand the ways of the keoper of the prigen ez Haonoan him; the man h of the hee sec them unless they eae not let « ‘aw be favorites; tiny won't let any Inwyer see @ toner, upton it Is apy wes