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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY @, 1856. NEW YORK HERALD. —_———————— JAMES GORDON BENNET®, PROPRIETOR AND BDITOR. Serie H.W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 873. LY HERALD, 2 cone por copy, 31-67 annum ro BEE OEY HORAED, emo rat Big comes per lon odl 5 the 14 mer ciraretern to hoster raat Britain, or G8 te any part a? the Continent. bo AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, Baoavw. YHEATRR, Srosdwar—Kine Caanwing— as Peer Muvores wig 4 Tigke—Frats ox GAMECOCK OF THE WILDERMES!—JaM PAtoH 1x ~ “s KERNE’® VARIETIES, Broadway—Tue Lavy ee TOR THGERe, <a ge ita WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—B.: Roo rN react Roou— Sux Stoors to Conquer. BROADWAY VARIBMES, 472 Broadway—Tus Natur Queen, oy rae Woop & Mansa Cunpies. D'S MINSTREL’! i ‘Woo! 8, 444 Broadway—irmorian Pex BUGELEY’S BURLESQUE OPKRA HOUSK, 559 Broad- wey Nroxo Mrxeramay—Bornavncis. AGADEMY HALL, 663 Broadway—Payorutc Prorcess ‘we Cuma aNd Jaran. Wew York, Saturday, February 9, 1856. Malls for Kurope. WEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. She wail steamship Fulton, Capt. Wetton, will leave ‘ats port to-day, at noon, for Southampton and Havre. ‘Mee European mails will close in this city at balf-past ‘tem o’sloek this morning. Whe Haury (printed in Englich and French) will be pablished at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, Be wrappers, sixpence. Mudscriptions and adverticements for eny edition of @e New Yous Henin will be received at the following Pimoes in Zurope:— in Spiess Sola soaeen do. do. 7 Romford street. John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. The contents of the European edition ef the HrRaup Will embrace the news received by fini and telegraph at fhe efice during the previous weer, and to the hour ef pablicetion. . News for the Pacific. ‘Teo cteamship Star of the West. Capt. Miner, wil! leave ‘Mais port this afternoon, at 3 o’clock, for Punts Arenas. ‘Tur New York Heratp—Cabfornia edition—containiug all the latest news by mail and te’egraph from all parts of We world, wil be published at eleven o’cl rei this morn- Gag. Agents will pleace send in their orders as early m4 ‘posstele. i The N We are still without news from Europe. Neither the Pacific nor the Persia had arrived olf the Hook a two o’clock this morning. The telegraph brings us the painful intelligence thatthe veteran statesman, Gen. Cass, yesterday SeH upon the steps of the portico of the Patent Office, at Washington, fracturifg one of his arms, and recciving such other serious injury that fora ‘time hie life was despaired of. The latest accounts, hewever, are of a more cheering character. He had partially recovered from the shock he had sustained, and his medical attendants were of opinion that he was out of danger. But the advanced age of the General admonishes us not to be too sanguine of his recovery. A change for the worse may be yeasonably looked for at any moment. And what greater calamity could befal the country, at the present critical juncture of affairs, both foreign and @omestic, than the decease of this able and patriotic Senator? The thought is one too sad to dwell upon. We can but hope that the reports of to-day will be more favorable. In the State Senate yesterday Mr. Sickles gave notice of a bill authorizing improvements in the mew Central Park, and in the Assembly Mr. Mahen gave notice of a bill promding for opening and lay_ img ont Jones’ Wood Park. Let tl bills be push. ed through without delay. Let us have the parks as goon as possible. The Court of Appeals meet at Albany on Monday next. The question of the constitutionality of, the Prohibitory Liquor law will be decided at this term, and it is rumored that the law will be sustained. What then? Will the law be enforced, and will our over-zealous City Judge direct inquisitorial visits to the prem <c. of persons engaged in the liquor traffic? We opine | Jamentable failure of his attempte to cragh out ¢!\¢ vamblers will deter him from makiag any efforts of that sort. The fair thing would be to wait patiently ii! the special committees in the Legislature report upon the question of the repeal of the odious statute. Resolutions complimentary to Grinnell for fitting out the Arctic expeditions, bestowing a gold medal upon Dr. Kane, were introduced in the Assembly yesterday. The Southern Comms m Richmond, Va. adjournment on t! pretty harmonious s pledging delegates to ¢ i, Legislatures and in and out of Cong tion of the following important ma ine or lines of steamers from Europe and other parta of the wo Southern manufactures in the Sonth; repeal of the @uties on railroad iron; a national road to the Pacific, built on the line of 32 degrees North latitude, with others of minor interest. tings of this con’ tion have now been held in the following places:— At Nashville, in 1950; at Nas in 1851; at Bal- timore, in 1852; at Mem 3; at Charleston, iu 1854: at New Or! mond, Va. im 1856. The end 1s not yet, for the next meeting is to be held at Savannah, Ga., in December next. In the Board of Councilman evening @ mes rage was received from the Mayor asking for an ap- propriation for cleaning, the’etreets. This commu- nication was referred to Committee on Streets, with orders to report next Monday evening. A veto was also received from the Mayor of the resolution appointing a special committee of the Board to lobby matters through the Legislature at Albany. The Mayor is altogether opposed to the city employing Jobby members at Albany at the public expense. These two papers from the Mayor, and the other pro. seedings of the Councilmen, will und in another column. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday George Wilson, the colored man, was arraigned for acuttling the schooner Endora Imogene, and his trial postponed unt April next. The bail on gome of the alleged N agua filibusters was re @nced from $5,000 to #1 On Major Hall and Mr. Creighton it was fixed at $2,000. The Grand Jury made a presentment of the necessity of hav- ing a State prison or house of detention in this dis trict for United States prisoners and wiinesses. The document will be found in another column, and we hope wil! claim the attention of the federal author ities. A private letter from Fort Snelling (Minnesota), dated 25th of January, informs us that from 20th of December to ith of January the thermometer ranged from 27 to 93 degrees below zero, and that the troops were completely frozen in. One man of Company I, Tenth regiment of infantry, was frozen to death, and as many as eight or teu other soldiers had their fingers frozen one morning while mount ing guerd. It Appears by letters from Copenhagen of the Gih of January that the United States, whose commer oial treaty with Denmark expires on the 15th of April next, have recently offered 40,000 thalers (about $30,000) a» a compensation in full for all ex- penses incurred by the Danish government for the improvement of the navi cation of the Sound. We Jearn that it is the intention of the Bay State ention, which met its labors by thern ports to the use of Steamboat Company to start the steamer State of | country suffers. Bulwer’s opinion of this gov- | whe Austrian Concordat and the Pope's Al- Maine, which is now tying in the ice at Fall River, and nearly filled with freight, for New York, as soon as Mount Hope Bay and the river can be cleared of ice. She will be despatched outside of Long Island, as the ice in the Sound is so thick that it is impossi- ble for her to make her way through it. Capt. Fields, of the schooner Isaac W. Hughes, arrived yesterday from Port au Prince Jan. 6, re- ports that there were a number of vessels at that port waiting to discharge their cargoes, but in con- sequence of the Emperor having impressed all the male inhabitants into his service, to march against the Dominicans, there was a great scarcity of men to unload them. Capt. F. confirms our previous ac- counts respecting the war, and the execution of some of the nobles of Hayti by order of Soulonque. The British mail from.Toronto, intended to have been despatched by the Africa on Wednesday, did not reach here until yesterday afternoon, in conse. quence of the bad state of the roads. It came in charge of Mr. McGilivray, the British mail officer, and will go ont in the steamer Fulton to-day. Mr. McG. met the agent with the Arabia's mails at Buf- falo on Thursday morning. The price of flourin this market has fallen since the lst of January nearly one dollar per barrel on all descriptions, as will be seen by the following comparative table of prices :—~ ts eyed $7 60 7 62 731 775 8 00 8 news had the effect of checking transactions yes- terday in several branches of trade. The sales of cotton embraced about 800 a 1,000 bales, the market ping firm. Common grades of flour were dall, anf prices easier, while there was rather more doing. A small lot of Tennessee red wheat sold at #1 873; Canada white was at $2 a#2 05. Corn was dull, and sales were unimportant. Rye sold at #1 274 delivered. Pork was unchanged, with sales of mess at $16 a $16 12}, and prime at $14. Sugars were firm, with sales of New Orleans and Porto Rico at rates noticed in another column. Coffee was firm, with moderate sales. Freights were firmer, and to Liverpoe! flour wae pretty freely taken at 2s. 6d. ee eee we The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty—Tre Untted States Government in a Trap. On the 19th of April, 1850, Mr. Clayton, Secretary of State of the United States, and Sir Henry L. Bulwer, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of Great Britain, concluded a treaty, not so much about their own affairs as the concerns of other govern- ments, The first article of that treaty reads fairly enough on its face, but like the cup given by Iago to Cassio, it was “eraftily qualified.” It appertained particularly to Cen- tral America, and simple minded people would understand it as an agreement between Great Britain and the United States that neither Power should exercise any sovereignty over apy part of Central America or its depen- dencies. The treaty was so understood by the Senate, and it was ratified in the same year and month when it was made, by the following vote: Yras—Messrs. Badger, Baldwin, Bell, Berrien, Butler, Care, Chase, Clarke, Cay’, Cooper, Corwin, Davis of Mass., Dawron, Dayton, Dodge of Wis.. Dodge of Iowa, Downs, Felch, Fooie, Gresp, Hale, Houston, Hunter, Jones, King, Mawgum, Mason, Miller, Morton, Norris, Pearce, Pratt, Sebastian, Seward, Shivids, Smith, Sou'é, Speu- ance, Sturgeon, Underwodd, Wales end Webster. —Total, Nays—Mersrs. Atshison, Borland, Bright, Ciemens, Davis of Miss., Douglas, Diskinson, Turney, Walker, Whitcomb and Yuiee.—Total, 10, it should be noticed here thit Great Britain holds certain possessions in Honduras which she claims are not within, or depeadencies of, Centra) America. Sir H. Bulwer was notified by his government that the treaty was not satisfactory, and simultaneously with the ex- Wehange of ratifications which took plhece in June, 1850, the English diplemat wrote to Me. Clayton as follows In proceeding to the e: cations of the 19th of Britannic Mlejesty and ¢ » relative to the establahag: canal he enge her Majos' 20th dey of Jane, 1860, Hi. L, BULATR, Mr. Ciaytow wrote that Sir H. L. Bulw construction was right. h made to apply tothe R near to the coast of I correspondence was cone eh Honduras, Th's d from the publi at the time, « hanged, When it wa ators who voted for the treaty—Cass, Weller, Downs, Chase and oth said that they would not have so voted bad’they been aware of Sir H. Bulwer’s construction. So it never would have been ratified, Mr. Chase said it would have heen impossible to have eccured its ratification. Mr. Weller said th be was not surprised at Mr. Clayton's Sir H. L. Bulwer.) “1 never (said Mr. Weller) knew him (Mr. Clayton) to have any connec- tion with any public affair in which he did not ehow himself to be excessively stupid, at leas|.”: The gist of the debate hat the Senate had been victimised by \ m, and that Mr. Ciayton had been victimised by Sir Heary L. Babver. This occurred in revert to the couree of the Jinnaup on this sub, ject. We have always looked upon the treaty as a humbug, and denounced it as ench as early as the 2d of April, of April, 1851, we said:— }, apd we have now to On the 16th H. 1.. Bulwer) b talked of a com inter ‘eat Britain, was godly an ery 'umble’—and Clayton, whore nabite are not ea ated to vharpen his wits, rea ly hought Le had got hold of a man ‘green, bat honest.” d when Urich talked of a treaty and’ mutnal guaran hat other msavure ® treaty—and such a treat 4% paper puzzis, a h Mr. Clayton reaily 1 besls out of Central su ppore Asmeries, he United State tional felony w uito shore, in E. We called of the people of this country to British intriguos ia Central America before Taylor was elected; aty would do the Uniled.s 1, the H ton and Rall be the new On the 18th of October, of the enme year, wo reviewed the whole subject, and charge d the British government with stealing the Ruata Islands, os it had previously stolen Malta, A ihe fonian Islands and flindoetan. Sey times during the same year we urged upon the government the proposition that the treaty was never good for anything, and should be annul led. Throughout the next year we held the tame language, and repeatedly callod upon ou government to prevent British aeurpation in Central America. What we then predicted has now come to pass, Sir H. L. Bulwer outwitted Clayton, and the 'y (in being overreached by 4 | rules enough, if they were faithfully o ernment, derived from Taylor’s administration —Clayton as Premier—was that it “was weak and inefficient.” Washe not right? This Bul- WEE wrote to his confidential agent, Chatfield, and we published a copy of the letter.Feb. 10, 1851, Mr. Clayton afterwards said that Mr. Bulwer denied its authorship to him; but we still have the original, and can produce it when called for. The debate now going on in the Senate is ovly are-bash of the Heratp editorials since 1851; they are changed, however, and over- loaded with bombast, fustian and froth. They will end in nothing at all. On the whole, it may be worthy of conside- ration whether the true course in respect to this treaty would not be to annul and abrogate it, after the fashion adopted in relation to the Missouri Compromise, and on the ground that it is disgraceful to both governments, being merely a pledge of honor that neither will steal in Central America, with a codicil declar- ing that the pledge is not to amoutit to any- thing, The fear of British colonization isa bugbear, for in a quarter of a century the Bri- tish colonists will set up for themselves, with the aid of our filibustcroa, and establish a new Anglo-Saxon and American republic. Our Fresh Water Seaporte and thelr Icy Blockade. Dangers of War. Our fresh water seaport of Philadelphia aud the “ ’alf-and-’alf”’ harbor of Baltimore, (as will be seen from the newspaper extracts whieh we publish this morning from our exchanges of those unfortunate cities,) are under a rigid blockade by Jack Frost, tighter than would be the lock and key of a hundred hostile war steamers, Let our readers peruse the report of the Philadelphia meeting in another column, and we dare say they will be amused at the follow- ing bit of ship news, especially when sand- wiched with the despatch from the Capes of Delaware Bay, over a hundred miles below the Quaker City:— PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Cleared—Bark Pennsylvania (Sardinian), Guerello, Lon- donderry, Outerbridge, Harvey & Co, Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exshange. Lawns, Del., Feb. 6, 1856, The fieet still romain at the harbor. ‘The bay is still fall of ico, and prevents all communication with the ship- ing. No err The weather continues very cold, N.W. WM. M. HICKMAN. “Cleared,” and ior Londonderry; and from the fresh water seaport of Philadelphia, oa the Delaware, over which, perhaps, the whole allied Crimean army, with all the spoils of Sebastopol, 6,000 pieces of artillery included, might march below the city for fifty, sixty, or seventy miles, with perfect safety? “Cleared,” has she? But let mot the consignees at Londonderry give her up, should they hear nothing further of her for a month or two to come. She must wait for a “glow and a flow,” and a freshet. Professor Hare’s plan of blow- ing ap the ice for fifty, sixty or seventy miles, ig rather expensive, and Mr. Wm. S. Pierce's plan of removing the port of Philadelphia a considerable distance down the stream, isa heavy job, and it will take some time to com- plete it. Nor are we satisfied that the ice boat proposition of Mr. Wia. B. Thomas will result in opening a passage to the sea short of a general thaw. Indeed, there is dauger that these ice boats themselves may be frozen fast, should they venture out without full authority from Professor Meriam that the last great cir- cle of this cold cycle of upwards of a thou- sand hours is ended. y Somuch for Philadelphia. Hot water is their only chance, short of a general freshet. They have coal enough to heat a sufficient quantity of water to open a single track all the way down totheCapes, We recommend hot water, Baltimore is pretty mach in the same fix, and Chesapeake Bay, being nothiug more than the estuary of the Susquehanna, is natarally enough as solid as a plate of iron. The Balti- more American assures us that “ an observation (a bird’s eye view) was made from the cupole of the capitol st Annapolis, (some twenty or thirty miles below Baliimore) by means of a large telescope, and that for a distance of probably seventy nffles the bay presented an unbroken field of ice.” Glorious spectacle for aJamaijca skipper. But then we are told that “the ice in Baltimore harbor is not go thick as is generally supposed,” being found to be no more than “thirteen inches by actual mea. sureme! Mercutio, when run through with arapier, said tbat the opening was “not as big as a bara door, but it will do.” And thir teen inches of solid ice will do for all puc- pores of overland transportation. Think of the “old thirteen.” We congratulate our neighbors of Philadel- phia and Baltimore upon the great fact (for it isa great fact) that we are at peace at this crisis “with all the world and the rest of maa- kind,” except Billy Bowlegs and the “border ruffians.”” Suppose- suppose--our, admin- istration had brought our relations with Eag- land to the fighting point by this time, where would be our Baltimore aud Philadelphia friends—oh! where? Shut in from the ene- my aug and tight, as far as water navigation is concerned; but open to him by a march over the ice--artillery, horse, foot and dragoovs. “Think of that, Master Brook,” and be thank- ful that the eaving discretion of Marcy has kept the lion and the unicorn from a field pa- rade on the Chesapeake and the Delaware! One of our Philadelphia cotemporaries, in a spasmodic effort ata little cold comfort, says, “The severe cold bas shut up the North river, Now York, so that persons now cross on the ice to Jersey City.” News, that, to the Jersey forry boats. “Misery loves company,” but this will not do, We must class Philadelphia and Dai- timore wilt Alexandria, Georgetown and Washington, ou the Potomac; witb St. Louis, on the Mississippi; with Pittsburg, on the Ohio; and with Aivany, away up the Hudson; and we shall probably hear from them all when the ice comes down in the spring. RAILROAD Rew ¢ have bef as a pam- phiet entitled “Codification of the Rules and Regulations for Running Railway Trains in the State of New York.” It ia the offspring of the combined labors of the Railway Commis- sionere, and is gratifying in one sense, inas. much as it proves that they are not 5 ide. It would no doubt be an advantage all the railways to be governed by one set of tulee; though most of them now have good ried The Commissioners propose aleo to set up an observatory clock, by which all the roads in the State shall run; then, if the co; ductors will only run according to orders, col- lisions will be impossible. If we have a board of Railway Commissioners, at a cost of $7,500 a year, we ought to have something in return | out. for the expense, looutions=State of Religious Feeling in Europe. On its appearance in this country we pub- lished the recent concordat concluded between the Pope andthe Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. We now lay before our rcaders two allocutions from the Pope—one on the rela- tions subsisting between the Austrian govern- ment and the Holy See, on the basis of the compact referred to—and a proclamation from the Patriarch of Venice to the booksellers of that city and diocess, These are remarkable and most significant documents, especially the Pope’s allocution under date of November last. It will be seen by this paper how far the Emperor of Austria has consented to convey to the ecclesias§oal tribunals temporal and civil power. While Mexico is confessedly struggling to maintain a government, and is continually foiled in her efforts to doso by the exercise’ of temporal authority by the Catholic Church, ‘Francis Jo- seph, by a treaty, has conveyed’ to a foreign tribunal many of the essential jurisdictions of the civil administration. He has annulled the privilege of exercising authority of any kind over the church. He has, in fact, established the church as 2 government within his do- minions, trusting himself to its awards, and building up in his empire a power behind the throne greater than the throne itself. The lesson is to be learned in Europe that in matters of government there can be no partnership. Division of the authority of the State is in itself weakness and decay. It is this principle which has prevented the people of Mexico, and of all Spanish States, from consolidating the political elements into a living, energetic rule. The reason of the failure.is obvious in the conflict between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities which is sure to follow such @ connection. Spain is a noted example of this species of compromise, which seems to cast a blight over all the in- terests subjected to its dominion. But these extraordinary proceediugs be- tween Francis Joseph and the Pope, and the allocution of his Holiness, dated the seventi of December last, appointing three eminent prelates to be Cardinal- of the Holy Roman Church—the first avows, to please his “very dear con in Francis Joseph, Emperor. of Austria, and Apostolic King;” the second because it was “singularly agreeable to our very dear son in Jesus Christ, Maximillian, the illustrious King of Bavaria; and the third to gratify “our very dear son in Jesus Christ, Louis Napoleon, the illustrious and celebrated Emperor of the French, who has so well merited of us and the Holy See”’—we say these events indicate something besides a de- sire to propagate the doctrines of the church in the dominions of the Austrian empire. The church is a Power in Europe, not by virtue of the Roman government, but by the inocculation of its dogmas in the hearts of the people. Asa corporation, as an embodied go- vernment at Rome, with Pius IX. at its head it amounts to nothing. It isa prisoner amongst nations—a weaibercock to indicate the course of the wind. But in the people of Earope isa great Catholic power, the most efficient aud united of any of the elements of Earopean tule. Napoleon Bonaparte saw this, and his successor is now building upon it. He will convey no jurisdiction to the Pope—license no foreign tribunals in France—compromise none of his authority; but he will uphold the Pope, get his endorsements, enlarge his ecclesiastical powers in all the other continental States. He will make use of his position to combine the Catholic elements of the Continent, taking care tohold the means of crushiug any effort at encroachment upon his own privileges. All this certainly adds nothing to the alliance bo- tween England and France. It indicates, in- deed, that Napoleon’s eyes are turaed to the Germanic Northern and Central European Powers which England dismissed for the French alliance, It would be folly to suppose that there are not immediate connectioas between the reli- gious and the social and political affairs of na- tions. Continenel governments, with rare ex- ceptions, hold a kind of exequator from the church, They ere, toa great extent, in fact the governments of the charch. The state of religious feeling on the Continent, with the masses, is cold, cruel and sceptical. It is the fame as in China, as described by Hnc—it isan Asiatic, immobile sentiment, rather than ¢ modern rationalism. There is in it an utter absence of individuality and responsibility—-a morbid selfishness—a listleas dependence and slavery. It has no vitality, no energy, no be- nevyolence, no philanthropy, no goodness or humanity. It is altogether professional. form complied with without interest or tec as any civil statute or decree is obeyed. All this is indicative of the political and social state of Europe, which cannot fail to be influenced by it. A lively rational religion i the precedent of all social excellence and of all wise decisions in government. Where the public mind is frigid, cruel and sceptical in matters of religious feeling, itis sure to be cold and indifferent in the other relations of life. The fierce fvrore of Cromwell and his fanatical adherents exercised a powerful infla- ence in advancing the cause of popular liberty. They might have been hateful bigots, but vey were the very central fires of human passion and action. The Puritans of this country were austere zealots, as tyrannical as the ox tremest adherents of the Romish church in those days; but they were men of ce e: energy. Their religious fanaticism bad a g& vernment init. It was the sonl of self-reliance and at the same time of responsibility. Ii was full of errors; but so much mental action could not fail ultimately to fan away the chaff and leave the trne seed of humanity unencumbered, That the present mind has been altogether re lieved of the extreme ideas of the Paritan age, we have no belief. There is a phase of self-righteousness In it, a complacent convic- tion that it is elt which iadicates {ta origin, and shows that much remains to be done to effect ite complete regeneration. A noted philosopher has asserted that each of our leading conceptions passes successively through three theoretical conditions—the theo- logical or fictitious; the metaphysical or ab- stract; and the scientific or positive. If we adopt this classification or gradation of pro gress, it is manifest that the Faropean mind is still in the incipient stage of developement, while that of New England, with its endless abstractions, has advanced to the “sag ndary formation.” While under the Anstrian Concordat the Pope ie laying the foundation not only for the edugation of thy Aussie people, and aiwiag St the utter obliteration of all freedom of the press, in Mexico he is proposing the establish- ment of imperial forms, and laying down as an organic principle that the Catholic church alone shal] be tolerated. While we are no bigots, and have no earthly fear of Catholicism in this country or else- where—no belief in its consolidation into a dangerous power over the States of Christen- dom—no fuith tn its unity to control, for any long period, tke human mind, or to contend successfully with the apparatus of edacation, especially in this country and in England-- while we regard the church itself as a respect- able old woman, to be extensively indulged in all sorts of caprices, it must be confessed these frigid, freezing ceremonials do little credit to the nineteenth century. Viewed as intellectual or strategical operations, they are failures— and mortifying failures. The wise are neither deceived nor misled; the ignorant only have had the privilege of swallowing another won- der. Francis Joseph an@ Louis Napoleon (sus pected of-loser than political relationship,) have some grand Continental scheme to pro- mote--some axe to grind, as the woodsman says-—and it is necessary, in the prosecution of the design, to make use of the Pope and the Persuasive powers of the church. The Con- cordat is concluded—s convention with the Pope, a power without an army, a government by proxy—and it may be revoked, and doubt- lees will be, just before the machinery is ready for operation. The Staten Ueland Ferry. The reports we give elsewhere, on the condi tion of the Staten Island ferry and the boats employed on that route, abundantly justify the strictures published some days ago in the Heratp, Indeed, the facts stated by Mr. Lowe, the inspector, and by the committee, war- rant any severity of language in speaking of the Verry Company. No language can be too strong to reprobate the conduct of those who, for the cake of a few hundred dollars, daily ardise as many hundred lives. There is nothing left now for the partners in the Staten Island Ferry Company but de- cently to cover their faces and withdraw, so that other and better purveyors for the public wants may take their place. The time for ne- gotiation and compromise has past. The com- pany may beg and promise, and talk of new boats, and decent ferry houes, and regular trips: but no one will pay the least attention to these symptoms of agony; for who could trust a concern which refuses either to be bound by its contracts or to relinquish the rights they conveyed? A new ferry must be established. There need be no diffi- culty about boats, or landings, or ferry rights. The former may be built before spring. Landings can be obtained for the asking. The Comptroller is about to sell at auction the lease of the slip occupied by the present company. It is stated in the report ot the committee, published elsewhere, that the profits of @he ferry are from sixty to seventy per cent on the capital actually invested; and this statement rests on the very best authority. Even were they one-half less, the enterprise would be one of the best offering. Indeed, there is reason to believe that arrange- ments have already been made for the forma- tion of a new ferry corporation. However this may be, whenever the company is formed it will be the business of the Comptroller to lay upon it such restrictions as will wholly pre- clude the possibility of a recurrence of the present difficulties, It must be bound, firstly, to furnieh safe boats. Secondly, to run at least hourly trips during the day, and say two-hourly trips up to midnight, all the year round; there is no physical objection to night boats, and the comfort of the islanders, and a proper sense of relief to the city, require them: the want of them has, in fact, kept away from the island the very people who would go there in greatest number, men of small incomes. Thirdly, to provide the boats with proper life saving apparatus in case of accidegg Fourthly, to build conve- nient ferry houg@#’at all the landings, so that women and children need not stand in the rain when waiting for the boats. Meanwhile, now that the facts are known, a heavy responsibility is thrown upon those whose business it isto watch over the public safety. There is no questioning the calm business like reasoning by which Mr. Low proves the boats now running to be unsaf2. Mr. Charles H. Haswell, another marine in- spector, reports in the same sense. He says:—— There boats are unprovided with independent steam bilge pumps, and thelr boilers are not very accurely fas- tened in thefr beds. In the erent, therofore, of a colli- sion of one of them with another, or with a vessel, their experiencing any of the concussions imsepa from rupuing in fogs and an obscured atmosphere, they would be much expoted to sinking, from Insafcte means to free them from water; and if their boilers were to be started, they would be, by the rupture of the steam pipe, deprived of the steam necessery to free them by their bilge injections, and to work them mto shoal water. There may or may uot be truth ia the state- ment of Judge Cropsey, in the letter we pub- lished yesterday, “that a much stronger boat than the Columbus would have shared her fate under the same circumstances.” But what- ever might have become of stronger boats —about which, unhappily, there is yet no question—it is plain that weaker boats would have gone down where the Columvus sunk; and as the Hunchback, Staten Islander ond Huguenot are understood to be weaker boats, and frailer in build, the learned Judge's letter will not console people much, The danger is indeed imminent, If a box ehould go down, and o hundred people be drowned in the bay, we at all events shali have done our duty. Tue Srrvets, tne SNow anp tue THaw— COMMUNICATION FROM THE Mayor.—-A coimiu- nication from the Mayor was received last evenivg in the Board of Councilmen, calling the attention of that body to the present con- dition of the streets, and the urgent nocossity of taking immediate steps to prevent damage to property from the thaw. Ie says he has no power to take a single dollar from the treasury for that purpose, and unless the Common Coun- cil adopt come measures at once, the base- ments in many of tha streets ia the lower part of the city will be footed, public travel toa great extent obstructed, a large amount of property lost, and cerious tujury inflicted upon the health of persous residiug in those localities, This communication Is well timed, and it now depends entirely upon the Board of Coun- cilmen whether the streets shall remafa in their present condition or be freed from the snow Whatever they intend doing should lost may cause 8 of dollars worth rred to with ty and ice. be done at once, as every the dvetruction of thou of property. The matt she Committee oa ls L ning structions to report on Monday evening. When it comes up it should be acted upon at once, that the Board of Aldermen may have an opportunity of concurring on the same evening, so that the work may be commenced on the following day. Tue Iniso American Burrano CONVENTION AND ITs Onsects.—We publish to-day a compi- lation of the proceedings of quite a namber of public meetings of Irish Catholics, in the Unit- ed States and the Canadas, in reference to the Buffalo Irish Emigrant Aid Convention of the 12th instant, From these proceedings it will appear, first, that the general plan of action in behalf of Trish emigration, which is to come before this convention, combines the important essentials of benevolence, common sense and practica- bility. It proposes to provide comfortable and permanent homes in the West for the: numeyous destitute Irish of our Eastern towns and cities, and to make the movement. at the same time a profitable thing to the s0- ciety in the end. In other words, the enter- prize contemplates nothing less than the ap- propriation of an immense amount of solid but idle capital, in the “form of unemployed and destitute Irish—men, women and chil- dren—to a practical purpose, in the active de- velopement of the dormant riches of the great West. In this light, the movement commends itself as a work of humanity, as a profitable pecuniary investment, and as a public mea- sure adding thus much to the substantial wealth and strength of the country. Let the work be carried out, and it will be like the draining of .a pestilential marsh, and its con- version into green fields, gardens and vine- yards, Our readers will also observe that while the Catholic clergy in numerons other places: aretaking a leading hand in behalf of this. Buffalo Convention, our venerable Archbishop Hughes is among the missing, Why so? Can. it be that his inclinations arerather of a mili- tary than of an agricultural type? His organ is singularly quiet upon the subject. Can it be that our worthy Archbishop is fearfol that thie Western emigration scheme will #0 far dimin- ish his flock upon this island as to affect the interests of the church in this quarter? We cannot believe it. We are rather disposed to» think that our distinguished prelate has ccn- cluded to withdraw entirely, not only frou all political, but from all secular move- ments of an Irish Catholic eharacter, in order to escape the wrath of the Know No- things. At all events, he is @ neutral, when. he should be up and doing. Weare sorry for it, THis name “would be a tower of: strength” to his brethren of the hierarchy at Buffalo; for his immediate flock, of all others, will be most benefitted should this Buffalo: scheme be reduced to a working system of practical Irish Catholic amelioration. Per- haps he may, however, while heartily but quietly co-operating with his brethren in be- half of this Western colonization project, pre- fer to keep in the shade, from considerations of wise discretion. Be this as it may, we are inclined to bo- lieve, from the distinguished character of tha: leading delegates from all quarters, that the deliberations of this Buffalo Convention will be crowned withimportant and desirable re- sults. Believing that its objects are entirely good, we are free to repeat our wishes for its uccess. The American and Foreign Bible Soctety. The'stated mcnthly meetirg of the Board of Managers was held at the Bible House, 115 and 117 Nasean street, on Thursday, at 4 P.M, In the absence of Rev. Dr.. Welch, the venerable President of the society, the chair was filled by Rev. Dr. Lathrop, of this city, Interesting reports from the Committees on Colportage- and Special Correspondence, on Publication and Finance, on Agencies, and on Real Estate, were presented andh adopted. From the Treasure:’> raport it appeared that eash ap- propriations, to the omount of $6,000, bad been paid during the past month, of which cash acceptancs of $2,500 bad been sont to (be Baptist Mission Rooms of Boston, to wid the Divie wos’ of this sogiety in Asta, un- der the direction of that body, and $2,000 more had beer remitted to Rev. J. G. Oncken, for the colportage of the American and Foreign Bible Society in Germany, under his direction, leaving something lees than $1,006 of the $10,000 appropriated to Brother Oncken, for’ the year, now due. ‘The cash receipts of the rociety, though’ con siderably in ndvance of thone of any former year at this period, hve nevertheless not kept pace with the in- creased expenditures, and the treasury was reported as cverdrawn sboat $2,000. The receipts for Janury were» but a it:e over $4,000. An interesting communication from Rev. J. @. Oncken was read, ‘‘terdering his warmest thanks to the Board for thew 'prempt and cordial rospone on behalf of the colporters of the society in Germany,” and asking an appropriation of $11,800 for the year 1866, to sustain the thirteen colporters of the Américan and Foreign Bible Society under his direction, and to publish Sitty ve thou- sand copies of the sacred Scriptures for their distribution. ‘The Secretary gave also, from a large file of exrreapon- dence, abstracts from letiers of Rev. Dr. Sears, of Brown University; Rey. Dr. Pattison, of Waterville College; Rev ¥. C, Lord, Ningpo, China; Rey. Edward Kingsford, Alex- andria, D.’C. (thanking the Board for an appropriation of Seriptares he had received for the colored population of that city) v. Dr. Thomas, of Calcutta, and Rey. Fred. Trerbait, Secretary of tue Baptist Missionary Soeie- ty, London, ion sa appropriation of $1,500, to aid that society in-translating the sacred Ssriptures into Ranserit and Hind, 4 India. mn ae An abstract of ‘twenty-five colporter reports, for the month of January, gavs the following sumumsry:—6,374 virite to fmtiies ‘for preaching the Gorpel from house to house; 822 families found destitate of the Scriptures 8i2 persons indnoed to attend church; 218 sermons prenched; 210 children brought into Sabbath schools; 7 prayer meetings held; 210 visits to vessels for seamen - wade; 62 hopefal converslons, and 17 baptised. An ‘application was received from Rev. Dr. Maclay, Presiden: of the ible Union, asking this society to grant + him, of their Seriptures in the English language, three Toys} octevo Bibles and tweuty-rix royal octavo New Tes- taments, with Pralms, all in the commonly received ver- sion, for the use of his children and grandebildren. Tne request waa granted. The distribution for January of the soslety’s Reriptures when all the returns are receiy- ed, will not falt short of 10,000 volumes, es City Intelligence, ‘Tne Missinc YounG Max,—No elue to the disappearance of young Mr. Pierce yet. It becomes necessary to mon- tion this, in consequence of the rumora which are sus- cesaively put in cireulotion to the effect that he has beer found, which, if left uncontradicted, tend toa relaxation of vigilance on the part of citizens and the polise. One of the rumors fn cireulation was that he hrd asiled in the Baltic for Furope, It was reported that Mrs. Comstock, wife of ihe commander of the Be'tis, states that she was atthe party given at Mr. Peckham’s, in Twenty-first street, and during the evening Mr. Pierce informed her of bis intention of acoompanying her bustand in the Beltic, on the following day; and this statement is con- firmed by the namé of Ed. Perce, Jr., occurring among the list of parsengors published in the Heracy as having sailed in thot steamer. Mr. Plerce, senlor, ferls sare, however, that the passenger in the Baltic was a young gentleman of Providence, R. J Horr St, Greswaw.—This hotel was thrown open yer: terday for the reception of guests, It is built in the French style, and of Caen stone, and forms qnite « novel and unique feattre at the junction of our two great thorough/ares, Broadway and fifth avenue. 1t presente three facaées of the Comperito order, and kas somewhat the appenranco of the bulldiogs im the French capital in the epoch of Leuis XIV. A staireuae of white marble leads to the rotunca or gront hall on the bel aga Fron this beant{tul salle, which ix adorned with enormous pil- lnsters anc a richly freccoed domo, diverge the prinsipat apartments, each of which has its parlor, ehambers baths, &e. ‘The culinary department and laundries ox. tena onde entire side. » The furniture is in ace coréave © general it) '¢ of the hovel, which is un. vehip of 6 ncis Rider, so favorably the host of the Wert Point Hotel for many tely of the Hath House, Schooley's Mona to keep it on the combined American OUNGLMAN Roment 8, Dixox.<-The fane- 8, Dixon, Councilman, and foreman of Hook and Tadder Company No, 14, who died on tho Sth tnat., eceived Inst Chrietmas day when proceeding k pleee yesterday, at noon, from the City » was A large attendance of firemen, ofic'ais snd citizens to pay their last tribute of resnect to the Dae) Ve ree ni ernives eae eres ereinanl My -