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4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1856. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDOS BENNE?PT, FROPRIZTOR AND EDITOR. OPPION ¥. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AXD FULTON OTS $1 ver soma, ED. ery oe aan, % Sy Livaa Briss, 45 6 any part the ONT AY SORBREPOND ENCE. containing vapor peregany,connnerc? esi 3 Forsion OomSmsron Demers 486 Fir Sat Sead tar tar ow Fae toms Buxt Us. Ne. 38 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. KEATRE, Broadway King Onarwina— ene aaeres wee 4 Trosn—GYMyestic PERFORMANCES. BOWSEY THEATRE, Bowery—Heeye tum Hunter, on gs Denon HONsEMAN. 78 THEATR: BURTON'S TH 2. Cae mweet—OunE ror THE LAURA KEENWS VARINRIES, Broadway—Love Cause Sono: von Texxs, WALLAOK’S THRATRE, Bannscx Roou— eS eee DWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Natap Bi sme Woub & Manan Cunousr, ae asheiiall 444 Broadway—Brmoru.x Pus- ‘wooo’s Bau, oe —= SUCELET'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad wag--Hecro ‘MINSEARLST—SONN AMBULA. BIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway—Coscent sx Pav Jouan Amp Avaust Gocxst. AODADEMY HALL, 663 Broadway ~PaNonamo Picrcan om Oma anv Jarax. Hew York, Friday, Febraary 8, 1856. Malls for Kurope. EW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. Fhe mail steamship Fulton, Capt. Worton, will leave le port to-morrow, at noon, for Southampton and Hevre. She Exropean mails will close In this city at half-past tom 2’oloek this morning. ‘The enix (printed in Fnglish and French) will be Published at ten o’clock in the morning. Single copies, im wrappers, sixpence. Sabecriptions and advertisements for any edition of ‘the New Yoru Hurarp will be received at the following places in Burope:— £8 Co., 17 and 18 Cornh#i, Lesnon--An. ee os rhe rite Pane— ‘lace de la Bourse. Earmaroow— do, do. 7 Rumford street. Eevmarco1—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, Hast. Ye contents of the European edition of the Hunan ‘will embrace the news received by maul and telegraph at ‘the office during the previous weok, and to the hour ef pubsesticn. Notice to the Pablic. AD repor's, documents, papers, news, &c., intended for ‘the Nuw York Hzrarp, shonld be addressed to the Fditor and Proprie’or, and sent to the Haar ofiiee. ‘The News. We are still without news from Europe. Neither the Pacific nor the Persia had made their appear- aace up to two o'clock this moraing. The 23d ult. was the day appointed for the departure of the Pa- cific from Liverpool. In case she left on that day whe would now be in her sixteenth day out. The Liverpool Mercury, however, announces by adver- tisement that she would leave on the 30th; and if she did so, she is not yet due here. The Persia, which left on the 26th, is now in her thirteenth day. One of our Washington correspondents states that Gen. Almonte having withdrawn the protest of his government, warrants were issued yesterday for the payment of the three million dollars due certain parties on account of Mexico. Col. French, the Nicaraguan Minister, formally presented his credentials to our government a day or two ago, and Mr. Marcy declined to receive him. ‘The reasons for this course on the part of Mr. Marcy are the same as those previously offered. It is stated that Mr. Buchanan will not return home immediately upon being relieved by Mr. Dallas. He intends making the Continental tour, and will be back just in time for the meeting of the democratic National Convention in June. In the United States Senate yesterday Mr. Cass introduced a resolution directing inquiry as to the expediency of an increase of the navy. The reso- lution directing the Finance Committee to prepare and report appropriation bills was taken up. The object of this innovation upon the established usage of Congress is to prevent important bills, involving frequentiy millions of dollars, being hurriedly acted on at the close of the session, sometimes even with- out being read. Mesers. Seward, Wilson and Sum- ner opposed the resolution, and Messrs. Hunter, Toombs and Toucey supported it. It was finally adopted, and the Senate edjourued till Monday. In the House Mr. Grow announced his intention of ia- troducing 2 Homestead bill. Mr. Millson gave no- tice of a bill repealing the act authorizing the Naval Retiring Board. The Speaker was empowered to appoint the standing committees. Pending the election of printer the House adjowned till Monday. The State Senate yesterday passed the bill pro- hibiting horse racing for money in Queens county. The resolution calling upon the Almshouse Gover- mors and Commissioners of Emigration for infor- mation as to the salaries and general expenses of their departments, was adopted. In the Assembly the bill amending the charter of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company passed to a third reading. Private despatches received by respectable houses fally confirm the fact published by us yesterday morning that the Legislature of Texas had passed the debt bill. This bill accepts from the United States government $7,760,000 in full payment of the Texas debt, and this money goes to the creditors of the State. The payment of so large 4 sum from the treasury of the United States must, to some extent, influence for a time the state of the money market. We have ascertained, on the most unquestionable authority, that this debt is divided about as follows, viz: To creditors resident in Washing’ New Oriean: Other placer. Among the tering lots, small parcels are held in Boston, and at points at the West. Among the leading holders of the debt are the following parties:— New York—J. & R. Milbank & Co,, cee 500,000 G. B, Lamar... 2... 2. Philacelphia—Sehott & Drexel & C United Stat Baltimore—W. C. Dawson, Mayhew & Co 5 Wasbington—Corcoran & Riggs (#bo: 309,000 ‘The $7,750,000, divided pro rata among the credit- ors, yields about seventy-seven per cent on the face of the claims. Ata mecting of the Chamber of Commerce held yesterday, a memorial to Congress was adopted, praying for an extension of the provisions of the reciprocity treaty with Cunada, so that all pro- dacts might be exchanged free on the intervening fresh water rivers and lakes. From a report onthe proposed abolition of the neury laws, it appears that out of 2,500 merchants who were addressed on the subject not one favored the present restric tive lawa—the feeling of the mercantile community being generally ia favor of free trade in money. In consequence of several Aldermen being at Albany as a delegation upon the new city charter, there was not a quorum of the Board present last evening, and consequently there was uo business tronsacted. ‘The trial of Justice Bogart on the charge of taking straw bail was concluded in the Court of Seasions yesterday. The jary, after a very brief consultation, rendered a verdict of guilty. We publish in enother column a report of the pro- ceedings of the Superiur Court in the case of John Doran, @ pupil of public school No. 31, against John Anderson, principal teacher of said school. The plaintiff, a boy about fifteen years old, claims five thousand dollars damages for injuries received Goring the infliction of grucl and savage corporal , It appears from the testimony that the boy for many months by exhibited symptome of insanity at the mere M,ntion of the name of the defendant; that his mir.d has become impaired and his memory raine’ from the effects of the beating. There was un immense gathering of the New Hampshire democracy at Concord yesterday. Go- vernor Cobb, of Georgia, General Lane, of Oregon, Colonel Weller, of California, Colonel Orr, of South Carolina, and many other Generals and Colonels were present, and made speeches. But we fear that the Granite State is 80 thoroughly impregnated with the heresy of black republicanism as to render its re- demption an impossibility. The extreme inclemency of the weather yesterday materially interfered with all kinds of out door business. There were indications that the siege of King Frost was about being raised, but the thaw offered nearly as moch interruption to commercial pursuits as the previous barricade of snow and ice. The sales of cotton reached about 2,000.8 2,500 bales, part in transitu, the market closing firm. Flour was heavy, and common grades of State were dall at $7.50, and round hoop Ohio sold at 8. Wheat was quiet, and quotations nominal. Corn sold at S4c. for Jersey yellow, delivered, and at 81c. from stow; Southern yellow was scarce; white was at about 85c. Pork was rather stiffer, with sales at $15 940 $16, and small lots at $16 12, the asking price. Cof- fee and sugars were quiet, sales being checked by the weather. There was a moderate business doing in freighta, without change of moment in rates. About 15,000 bushels of rye were shipped for Bre- men at private terms. The Peace Rumors from Europe—Napoleoa and Palmerston. Now thet} peace rumors fill the ears of the public, it is well, for the sake of under- standing the probabilities and possibilities of their being «founded on facts,” as they used to say about all the literary stories, to look inte the character of these two important person- ages. A very small man can fill a large pub- lie place in this age of smartness, It does not follow that all the good things of the restau- rant are the work of its proprietor—it is not the richest woman who is the most attractive, nor the finest carriage that conveys the noblest occupant. In this respect matters have got sadly mixed, and it will require something more than the sagacity even of the indepen- dent press to get them straightened. Na- poleon and Palmerston are two important European statesmen. The one is the embodi- ment of new and the other of old ideas. In their union, literally, extremes have met for once. Palmerston is the representative of the old English aristocracy--an institution that got the gout about twelve years ago, and was relieved of a vast amount of stagnant blood and put into a terrible sweat by Sir Robert Peel. The patient had become fat, lazy and dropsical—he required depletion and tapping and nursing, a8 a helpless mass of animated corruption. Well, Sir Robert Peel adminis- tered the medicine and used the knife, and his subject revived. Iie had pretty much given up all idea of doing any more business, and hence his immense progeny of Young England —mercantile, trading, manufacturing, money- ed and sbipping Eogland—had undertaken to carry on the old concern. All the world was pleased with the change. A new life was in- fused into British industry; vast works of im- provement were visible in all parts of the king- dom--railroads were multiplied, the commer- cial marine was enlarged, manufactures were stimulated. Instead of the Congress of Vienna, London had its Congress of artisans—its great Exhibition of the Iudustry of All Nations; and this was one of the results of the change referred to. Now it happens that Palmerston, the pre- sent representative of the old aristocracy, commenced his recent political career as the friend of Young England. It was the trade interests, in fact, that boosted him iato power. The present league between England and France began under the diplomacy of Wi- koff. Napoleon had secured the alliance of Wellington and the mass of the British aristo- eracy; but he had done nothing to assure the co-operation of the commercial classes. He was sagacious enough to see that there was no safety in such an alliance; that its estates had been actually transferred to trustees for the common benefit of the kingdom. Palmerston wos the very man for the service; neither tus honest to betray the principles he had avowed nor the men who supported him ; vain, ambi- tious, and inherently tyrannical, possessing the confidence of the commercial classes, distrusted by Russell, Aberdeen ard Gladstone, who knew him beiter, he was engaged by Napo- lcon to bring to the French alliance the great trade interests of the British empire; and he succeeded. The first step in this work—this agency— was to overthrow the Russell, Aber- deen and Gladstone politicians, and this was realily effected by the aid which the elevation of Napoleon to the Presidency of France broughtte him, and the strong probabilities resulting from that event that he, Napoleon, would, as soon as possible, restore the empire and assume the imperial estates of his unc! +. All this soon followed. The revival of the Bonaparte dynasty put a new face upon European affairs. Tho past was neither forgotten nor overlooked. A war wita England or Russia was inevitable. The re- ports of a French invasion sounded through all the capitals of the world. The political barometer at the London Exchange indicated the unsettled condition of public opinion in that country. It wasthe nick of time. Pal mersion said it, and urged upon the commer- cial and trade interests the neccssity of an al- liance with France. A war with Ruczia was a political event; wiih France it was a politi- cal and commercfil disaster. He had his agents in Paris, one of whom was Wikoil. At this very point of view we seo the motive which led England to abandon her old con- nections with Germany and Russia, and | which influenced Napoleon to seck an alliance | with the ancient enemy of France. It was a | matter of policy with the latter for the | time being. It would seat him firmly on } the throne, give him precisely the influence | over the German Powers, on the conclusion of | | } | the war, which, before the alliance, had been exerted by the British government, make him predominant in Nurope, and eo of course inde- pendent of England. Was there any other method by which these results could have been | effected? Was it not the exclusive policy of | Napoleon, exercising control in England through Palmerston till he could gain a posi tion to do that business directly? Now, in respect to the present attitude of | affaire, what is the lesson which these events convey tou? They afford the key to the mo- tives of Napoleon, to the position of Fogiand, and to the probabilities of peace on the basis | of the Vienna conditions, They refer to the recent imperial pamphlet looking to a fature | have ended ina bloody row. | fast. The society look to the y | be dicoppointed. | war speech of Seward in the including Rusefa, and to terms for the accommo- dation of the present differences between France (and England) and Russia, which will neither sacrifice the dignity nor the interests of the latter Power. They look to peace; peace op actual conditions which shall utterly set aside British pretensions and interests—that shall shut the doors of Europe against Pal- merston and his co-laborers, and leave Napo- leon the power to rule without an alliance. There are neither political, social or indus- trial ties to bind England and France together. Their systems of goverment are not wider apart than their material and political for- tuner. The former can exercise only fora limited season, and that only on the basis of some overruling necessity, any positive infla- ence over the English mind, and the reverse of this is equally true. Peace, then, means the fall of England’s great power over the conti- nental States, and the substitution of that of France. It means the abrogation of the pre- sent alliance, a new deal of the cards by the diplomatic gamblers by changed partners; it means, ultimately, friendship between France, Prussia, Austria and Russia, the accommoda- tion of the Turkish dispute by a division of the sick Sultan’s estates, giving England the sack, and commanding her to a sharp lookout for her India possessions, and to take care hereaf- ter of her commercial and political rivals in the East. Peace, with such results, will make this an expensive war to England. Her victo- ries of the Crimea will bave been more than balanced by her defeats at Paris--her triumph of arms will be lost in the shameless failures of her diplomacy. Meantime, she has an open- ing by which she may retrieve her fortunes by building up the Mosquito King in Central America. If she has been outwitted in the East, she may try her hand in the West. It will be a good time for Palmerston to test again the friendship of British commerce Russell and Cobden and Gladstone, and all the friends of trade and peace, will have an op- portunity to prove their fealty to the interests which sacrificed them on the alternative of war with Russia and alliance with France, or alliance with Russia and war with France. It will now be war with the United States, with- out either continental alliance or sympathy, or retrocession, peace and submission. Our Irish Emigrant Ald Societies—War Manifesto of Robert Tyler—Queer Dotngs at Toronto—The Great Practical Baffalo Convention, We devote a considerable margin of our available space this morning to seve- ral Irish documents, including first, the Manifesto of the Supreme Directory of the American-Irish Emigrant Aid Society recent- ly organized in this city, of which Directory Robert Tyler, Esq., of Philadelphia—son of ex-President Tyler—is President; second, a brief report of the proceedings of an auxiliary or branch society at Providence, R. 1; and third, a report from one of our Canadian ex- changes, of the curious Benevolent Irish Emi- grant Aid meeting lately held in Toronto. Briefly considering these things in their order of compilation, we find:— First, that the object of this American-Irish Emigrant Aid Society is the liberation of Ire- land from the yoke of England; and that this manifesto is a justification of a general Ameri- can-Irish organization, to be in readineas for striking home when “Ireland's opportunity” shall have fully ripened. This movement is also presented to the public as a masterpiece of American policy, in the shape of “a coun- ter check to British aggression and insolence,” enabling us, “with one stroke of the sword, to eut the Gordian knot of Cuban and Central American diplomacy, that years of time and tons of foolscap may fail to bring into a fair way of settlement.” Secord, the speech at Providence of Dr. Mc- Gowan, Secretary of the Supreme Directory, illustrates the present European, Asiatic and American embarrassments of England in a strovg light, as constitutlng “ England's difli- culty” and “Treland’s opportunity; and at the close of the meeting we are informed “a lerge number joined the society to aid in the struggle for Irish independence.” Third, the objects of the Toronto meeting appear to have been of a wholly different character, Mr. O'Neill, President on the occa- sion, said that “the aim of the movement was to aid and encourage the poorer classes of the Irish people at home, who might be so disposed, to emigrate to Canada, (it has the look of a land speculation,) as a country likely to fur- nich them with a desirable and happy home; and also to invite to Canada those who, in the United States, from untoward circumstances, arising from in- judicious political associations, might be dissatisped with their situation in the United States.” To this end the special object of the meeting was to appoint delegates from Toronto to attend the general Irish Amelioration Convention pro- posed to be held in Buffalo on the 12th iast. It thus appeurs that the movement in the United States, at the head of which stands Mr. Robert Tyler, is coufessedly a warlike organi- zation for a rebound upon Ireland, in behalf of her independence, when the “ opportunity” shall be proclaimed in a war between England and the United States; while on the other hand, the Toronto experiment was of a peaceable and benevolent character, one of its priacipal aims being an asylum in Canada for those of our Jrish Catholic fellow-citizens who may feel tufliciently diegusted with the Know Noibings to quit this otherwise desirable country. Strangely enough, too, this belligerent move- ment of Mr. Tyler—since the late clashings among the leaders at the Astor House and the Tabernacle—seems to be getting on quietly ; while the pacific and charitable Toronto expe- riment, between Orangemen and Catholics, would, but for the interposition of the police, A word or two of comment upon each of these movements will, for the present, be su! They are both Irish Emigrant Aid mov ‘ that headed by Mr. Tyler is to aid, when Ir - | land's “ opportunity’ ehall have arrived, all those warlike Irteh-A: teer for a military inyasi of our delicate relations with i “ opportunity ;° but we apprehend they will | Consulting our Cabinet and Wall street almanacs, there will be no wae | with England, at least this sido of next Ohriat- | mae, and the administration docs not intend | that there shall be. We fear, too, that the late | ‘ od States Se nate will prove a mere will-o-the-wisp «to | caich the Irieh vote.”’ Meantime, if with the | experience of the Irish Directory of the “Slieve- | gammon” rebellion, our geucrous and credu- | tribute to the new movement, we hope they will have patience. The other Irish Emigrant Aid movement, which is to culminate at Buffalo, is altogether of a practical character. A very large propor- tion of the Irish Catholic journals ot the United States and Canada are in tavor of it ; and the clergy, we are told, ‘are the natural fathers of the movement.” The St. Louis Leader throws a flood of light upon the subject in the follow ing paragraph. It says :-- Ler ripesr tgs tlle, stan liaqabelalagie rior fepthe energies, thovghts end ‘unpirations of the out ‘ants, one thing seems on by al, and is, that oe great body of the peor Irish who cro’ of our great cities would breathe an atmosphere physi- cally and morally more w if, leaving these wretched dens, \hey would settle down in the great weet- ern tracts of continent, To devise the best means of {footing this most desirable end, is the object of the convent It is not to crganize an emigra‘ion to Cana- da alore—the convention will represent the Westarn States as well as Canada. The great usation is, bow and where shall they ewigrate? iy thlok Canads preferable; but certain it ie that even these must, and we believe do, prefer the West to New York, where, it 1s said, near 50,000 Irishmen live on, not knowing where the next meal is to come fron, to haughty Uhilade!phia or Boston, with their rance, impudence and atheism —with their contempt for the Irish race, its hustory, tra- ditions and religion. And the following, from the same article ia the same paper, shows that this movement for emigration to the West is at sword’s points with the enterprise and the society of the al- leged “filibusters of New York.” Still speak- ing of the Buffalo Convention, the Leader eays:— It wil ly be best to leave the selection of Cansda or the Went to the taste of the emigrant. It thiogs are done well in Buffalo, the convention will redeem the Irish jured by such contemptible cabals as the aay ing aside bio’ and thunder and purple and gold ee, sense and now bdo of the Irish character, and the Irisa position here, act as men with heads to conceive and hearts to feel, and handa to do, what is essential for the good of their fellow ta.’ If they #0 act, then will the Buffulo Convention do more than any other secular body has yet done for the Irish people; for in their re- moval from the viee and dirt and contagion of crowded cities, is their only bope for the future. In this State, in New Jersey, Ohio, Missouri, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Massachusette, M.- chigan, and in various parts of Canada, the prac- tical Irich Catholics have been co-operating in matter-of-fact meetings for solid work at Buf- falo on the 12th ; if we are not mistaken, the great object at heart is the concentration of the suffering Irish from our cities and from Treland in a solid colony in some Western State or Territory, or in Canada, whore, from their numbers they may be able at all times to command their rights as American citizens, both politically and religiously. In this view, the speech of Mr. Dinwoodie, at the Toronto meeting, was @ very foolish thing; for it may possibly defeat at Buffalo what might otherwise be gained to Canada West, ia the acquisition of several hundred thousand working Irish colonists, We hope the delibe- rations of the Buffalo convention in behalf of some settlement West will be crowned with success; for we can imagine no enterprise more deserving of success than this, which contemplates the removal, ina general exodus, of the hundreds and thousands of destitute Trish from the sinks and suburbs of our over- crowded cities, to the fertile laads of the West, and the abundance and substantial hap- piness which they may there secure for them- selves and their posterity. For further information to all parties con- cerned in these two diverse and hostile Emi- grant Aid societies, we await the diplomacy of Marcy and the Buffalo Convention of the 12th instant. Quire 4 Coytrast.—We published yesterday afull and very interesting report from the Liverpool Courier, of the trial trip of the great steamship Persia, the chef d’cuvre of English naval architecture so far. We desire to direct attention to one point. In proposing Mr. Cu- nard’s health, the Chairman said:— He would also allude to the departments of govern- ment with which they had been Nelapacalen A con rected. The first of these departments was the Ad- miralty, and he was happy to soy he was afforded an opportunity of passing a remark or two on the pre- sent Furst Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Charles Wood. He eid so, because he was the first’ in the country—being then Kecretary to the Admiralty—who lent a helping band to this undertakivg; and not to {t only, but also to others, which had been equally beneficial to the country. Sir Charles had said to him, many years ago, ‘I look upon the Peninsular and Oriental Compuny aud your company, as my two children.” Whstever benefits there might have been in carrying out the opera- tions of the company, they would scarcely ever have been accomplished bad it not been for the assistance of the Admiralty and Sir Charles Wood, and a'terwards by the assistance ot Sir Francis Baring, his successor. It was this assistance which ena- bled Mr. Cunard and the prcjectors of the company to Mink the Old World and the New. They had ever since that period experienced the greatest kindness from a'l departments of the British gcvernment—trom the Post- master General down to the lowest oficial. Mr. Row- land Hill bad not been able to attend, but his son was present, and also Mr. Page, of the Post Office, to which department the company owed many thanks for the uni- form kindness extended to them. Verhaps he should not overlook another department. They had received very great kindness from the Treasury, aud without its « tistance he believed they could mot have been there so comfortable that day. Thusit appears that the Canard line owes its success almost entirely to the friendly aid of government, The heads of departments — the Admiralty, the Treasury and the Post Office—have done everything in their power to advance Mr. Cuuard’s interest. How different is the case of Mr. Collins and his coadjutors of the splendid American line! They have encountered the itterest enmity from the United States executive. No Secretary of th: Treasury has ever given his assistance—iv head of the Navy Department has endeavored to forward this great American interest, and ine Portmaster General uses every effort to defeat and break up the line. But Mr. Collins has carried it through, even ia the face of opposi- tion, where his rivals on the ocean received aid end comfort. The Collins line will short ly havea steamer to rival the Persia—we Adriatic—which will be four thousand three hundred ions Custom House measurement. The Persia measures three thousand six han dred tors. The tonnage of the Atlantic was stated by our Liverpool cotomporary as two thousand two hundred and eighty, when her actual measurement is two thousand eight hundred and rixty tons. Not the least pleasant feature in the report of the Persia's trial trip is the kindly feeling which is manifested to exist between the rival lines, Collins and Cunard are high toned gen- tlemen engaged in friendly competition. They aleo rival each other in courtesy and po- litences, and were glad to see it. Cunard has the best of the bargain, as his govern- ment fecle apride in sustaining him, while our cficials would he glad to pul Collins dowa if they dared to brave the etorm of public opin- jon which euch an act would bring upon their heads. We consider—and so do the American people-—thet the Collins steamers are great evidences of the progress of the Americau mind in the exact sciences, and we think that the owner of these noble vessels should at least receive as tair treatment from us ag Mr. Cunord gets from the British govern- ment. It is a matter of national pride and profit at the same time. England has lost no- thing ly supporting the ocean steamers, and every dollar we spend Sa his way will he re- congirdange vl wii the Bywivs of the Cuntioens, | lous lried fullow-citiaeus ary disposed to con | turned te us temivid, ‘Tus Brick Onurcey Prorsrry— How Tae Mat- Ter Stanps.—The eale of the plot of ground at the head of Beekman street, belonging to the Brick Church, bas been frequently she sab- ject of remark in the public prints. The Mayor hog, in bis message, called théattention of the Common Council to the maticr,*and we have taken the trouble to examine the facts in the case. In February, 1766, the Corporation, for a valuable consideration, granted to the late Rev. Dr. John Rodgers and his associatee this plot of ground, and to their beira and assigrs forever, to their only proper use aad behoof forever, but “under the conditions thereinaf- ter particularly mentioned.” The conditions expressed in the subsequent portions are the payment of the annual ground rent, aad that the grantees shall, “ witbin ten years from the date of the grant, enclose the said tract of land within » good and sufficlent fence, and either erect an edifice or church thereon, or on a part thereof, for the worship of Almighty God, or use the same ora part thereof fora cemetery or church yard for the burial or in- terment of tbe dead, and shall not appropriate, apply or convert the same at any time forever thereafter to private secular uses.’ The grantees, within the ten years not only bui! achurch onthe premises, but also appropri- ated part of the premises as a cemetery for ihe purpose of interments. The grantees having completed the house of worship, were happy and prosperous in its enjoyment, when the Re- volutionary war broke out, and the Euglish officers demolished the whole interfor of the beautiful place of worship, and converted it into barracks tor their troops. When peace wasrestored, the church, at great expense, was refitted for Divine service, aud shortly after the Corporation, probably id view of the great losses the congregation had experienced, reduced the annual rent to the pre- sent sum of $5312. The “Old Brick,” as it is called, continued under the charge of the ven- erable Dr. Rodgers from 1766 to 1811, when he died. He was succeeded by the Rev. Dr Spring, its present pastor, A)most a century has passed since the grant was made, At that time the site was on the outer verge of popula- tion, and the land not very valuable; and since the beginning of the present century lots on Broadway, south of Canal street, we are told, could be bought for a mere trifle, Withia a few years great changes have taken place, and this congregation has not been exempt from them. Most of the families have removed to the upper part of the city, and the congrega- tion are desirous of removing to amore con- venient location, and erecting a new charch out of the proceeds of the sale of their present church propesty. With this in view, the church two yeess ago proposed to the Curpo- ration to unite with them in the salé of the property, and to allow the Corporation one full quarter of the proceeds, fixing the min‘- mum price at $225,000, which would yield to the Corporation at least the sum of $55,250, and subject the whole to future taxation. On the recommendation of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund this proposal passed the Board of Aldermen, and hitherto the Board of Councilmen bave not concurred, The church having waited patiently for the final action of the Corporation, and being disappointed in the delay, applied to several gentlemen of high legal attainments to ascertain their precise rights, and have been advised by all of them that the words in the condition do not prohibit the appropriation of the premises to any pri- vate uze which is not secular, nor to any secular use which is not private, and that they might be sold for a post office, custom house, court house, &c. The church is advised, also, that they can sel] the ground in fee simple, discharged of any burden imposed by the grant, except the an- ual rent, provided the proceeds of the sale be applied to the same uses as those specified in the grant. If this be so, the church do not wish to exaet their fall legal rights; they are yet willing to carry out the above proposition for asale. Tbose who differ with the church in theee views contend that the church having enjoyed the property so long at so moderate a rent, should now be willing to relinquish it upon more favorable terms than those offered. The church reply that they only wish to be re- established in a respectable mamner in another and more convenient location, where they pro- pore to erect a new church edifice, which shall be a public ornament to the city. This seems to be the reul state of the case. As it is, the city can never acquire a greater interest in these premises than the annual rent of $53 12 without the consent of the church, The rights of the church are fixed, and the pro- portion which it asks on a sale will only ena- ble it to purchase new ground and ereci a new church and lecture room, and give to the pre- sent pew holders the seme rights in the new church. On a review of the case, it seems to ua that it will be for the fnterest of the city to accede to this offer. If what we hear is true, the pro- portion which the city will receive on asale will probably be more than $100,000 cash, and all the property when improved will become taxable, and be worth not far from a million of dollars. The ground has been considered as a favorable site for the new post office, and the mattcr should be settled in some way at once, Grant Tiorsvry on Concress.—The follow- ing curioas memorandum from that quaint and loquacious cctogenarian, Grant Thorburn, we find in the New Haven Courter: Apxcnore op Aanoy Berr.—When be returned from carey whither he i with Tawilton, he Boyt bis law Bice near rT . Be- ing of no use thrown aside like & withered bra 1. Davis and Jacob Barker alone #t vervily. Conversing with bia pbout th ress in 1901, waen Jeifarson and Burr ha ual number of votes for Presidea’, tne Hovee contizving to vote through many weeks, (altar the warner of the Speker-roakers of the preaoat day,) 1» cloring their sitting permanent, and baving their beds sae up i: the lobby end their food brought from the hotela-— and thus they continued eating and drinking aud taking morry, ard ‘charging the rovereiga people adout fif.y thovssnd dollars per day for the sport—Burr remarksd, that at that moment of disorder, when tho government was without a head, with Sve hundred trusty solilers he could have seized on the govgnment end prociaimed him- self protector. ‘Jt was tl ” he continued, “ that Oli- ver Croruwel’ drove out the Knglish Parliament, and de- clared himself Protestor; it wes thus that Nepoloop fio- naparte, with a company of grenadiers, drove out the Council of Five Huncred. proclaiming hitaself Fimperor. Tt ip thus,’’ said ho, ‘ that atl popular governments hayo periehe?, and thus will perish the American.” Whoa we look on the cotegs of Congress since the third of Decon ber last. we may fear the fulfment of Burr’s presiction. Nuw Haves, Jan, 1866, GRANT THORBURN. Wonder if the Washington Union, in its late warnings to Congress of an impending Execu tive coup d'(tot, provided they did not hurry up a Speaker, had any reference to such @ coup aa that suggested by Aaron Burr! We believe there are four or five hundred United States warines in the barracks at Washington, subject to the orders of the President. Who knows, then, but that the vencrable Grant Thorburn mey bavo bit the nail upog the head? Mz, Pierce threatening a coup 3 la Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte! What a narrow escape we have had! Don’t tell this to the marines. Tue Way w Wuicu Taxes on PERSONAL Estare are Cottectep—Over One Huxprep anp Frrry Tuovsanp Doriars Lost To THE Crry iy Ove Yean--The Mayor, in bis last annual message, cails particular attention to the defective system of tax collection, and to. the fact that under the mode now pursued over six hundred thousand dollars have been lost to the city during the past ten years, From a. detailed statement of unpaid personal taxes from 1844 to 1854, which was made out in ac- cordance with a resolution adopted last year by the Board of Supervisors, it appears that a. large number of incorporated companies, and the owners of a great amount of personal pro- perty, have mansged, through the neglect of the Receiver of Taxes and his subordinates, to escape taxation for several years. The ac- counts for the year 1854 show a balance un- paid in the First ward of $55,607; im the Third ward of $13,641 83; in the Fifteenth ward of $10,799; in the Eighteenth ward of $18,391, and in the Twenty-first ward of $16,410. We would advise some of the residents on the Fifth: avenue to get a copy of this statement for their own particular edification, as we see the names of a considerable number on this black list. Among those who have neglected to pay their taxes there is quite a large force of lawyers, and of these not s few who hold a high posi- tion at the New York bar. Connected with the office of Tax Receiver ~ is “ the office of Arrears of Taxes,” which is entirely unknown to the law, and which was treated by the constable appointed by the Re- ceiver. All the arrears on personal tax are collected by this officer, who has in many in-- stances charged five, ten and even twelve per cent upon the suts collected. To such an extent bas this system been carried, that it has during some years amounted annually to ten thousand do)lars, But this is not” ell, for there is, it appears, no means of ascertaining correctly, from the manner in which the accounts are kept, what has and - what has not been collected. The law in re- gard to this subject is so very clear and defi- nite that itcan be umderstood by all, and it invests the Receiver with the most absolute power for its enforcement. After the 15thday: of January in each year, he is authorized to issue his warrant to a constable, who can dis- train and cell the “goods and chattels” of the delinquents, including even those which may be found in his possession. In the event of the failure of the officer to find any property be- longing to them, they can’ be fined and pun- ished by imprisonment. And yet, although all the powers of the law have been given to the Receiver, we find that through the improper and careless performance of his duties, over one-fifteenth of the whole amount of personal» Property in New York has escaped taxation. In the year 1854 the loss to the city through this dereliction of duty exceeded one hundred - and sixty-five thousand dollars, and as this de- ficiency in the tax levy must be made up, it has to be paid by the honest taxpaying portion of the community. The only remedy for this is to hold the Re- ceiver to a strict accountability for every dol- lar that is thus lost to the city. Thieis a mat- ter which calls for the immediate action of our State Legislature, and we trust that body will not adjourn before making a law that can be applied with the same force to the Receiver as o the payers of taxes, SomzTuing Wrong Anovt Ir.—We perceive that the trial of Messrs. Hall, Malé, Lyster Walters, Farnsworth and others, indicted tor attempting to colonize Nicaragua, has beem< further postponed till the April term of the Circuit Court. Meanwhile the defendants are put to great personal inconvenience. They were arrested on the 24th of December, and they will have to wait four months for their trials, Itis stated in well informed quarters - that the government does not really intend to - try the cases at all. It is also stated by the- defendants that they have asked for a trial over and over again. The United States is now punishing them before they have been found: guilty of any overt act. Some of them are to- tally destitute, and cannot get employment with a criminal indictment hanging over their heads, They have a right toa speedy trial, and we cannot but think that the United: States District Attorney has carried the mat- ter far enough. It is no longer law and jus- tice. It is mean and petty persecution. Give: the men their trials or discharge them upon: their own recognizances. Tne Tuaw Has Come.—We made a few re- marks yesterday about the condition of the streets. Our anticipations have been realized... The heavy rain of yesterday has made our- public highways almost impassable. The con- dition of Broadway isa disgrace to the city government, and we fear that the matter will not be mended till private enterprise takes- hold of it. We waited for some time to have the etreets around our buildings pot into a- decent condition, but finally had to turn out our ewn force, when the work was done up. handsomely. Things are in such a bad state in the Street Department at present that we’ do not suppose anything will be done, and we therefore appeal tothe citizens to keep their gutters clear and sidewalks clean. Then, if the Mayor does not do something for us, we-, shall be obliged to make another call upon. Genin. Con’t the Mayor give us a short, strong special message about the streets? Local trade suffers severely from their woful condition, It can’t be worse in Timbuctoo. Misprexctep Lerrers to Casuters.—It ap- pears that there is kept at the New York Post Office, undar the supervision of Mr. William B, Taylor, a list of the cashiers of banks in the- United States, When letters are found direct- ed to this city to cashiers who do not reside here, this list is consulted, the error corrected,. and the letter duly forwarded to its propor des- tination, TVrom en inspection of this list it ap- pears that no less that 583 letters for cashiers: have been misdirected to this city since Jan 1, 1864, all of which were re-directed and for- warded to their proper address, What a com- mentary on the orreleseness of correspondents * EULD FOR HIS REVELS. We understand that some rich developemunts may be expected ma euit which has been commenced in the Marine Court, by Mr. William W. Bowles, who keeps a restaurant in Broadway, againgt Mr. James W. Barker, and twenty-eight otkers, the committee of the Know No- ? thing celebration at the Academy of Music, on the 8th of Jonumy last, The suit is for $500 for a eapper firnished to the committee and tueir, invited guests. [ne case comes up next Saturday, and vais mink merce emongat the ‘