The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1856, Page 2

——————— tenffel— Peace Only « Temporary Patch Up of Old Seres —the Struggle Democracy Against Absoiutism Fei to Wem —ostie Tone of the French Press Towards Eng- and—Universal Amucsty to be Granted by Louis Napo- "eon on the Birth of an Heir—England in @ Politicat Orisis, e., de. Peace is certainly nearer tham it ever was since the Maaperor Nicholas first discovered that Turkey was very sie«, and that he was the proper physican to preserite | and his Central American idioa: conclusion ‘fe ber. There may be come equivocation, some attempt te prevaricate and obtain better terms; but the sober as- poet of things does not admit of # doubt that Russia will | alone moke important concessions rather then continue the | cannot war, which aanihilates her commerce, increases her See Ly create ironed not by military overcon. ae weigat of constitutiona: Europe, As to the United tbe most distant idea of joining im a crusade ‘them, and alone will not undertake such an tries, will not is sure to have an cosy triumph over Lord Palmerston é i ‘ i sy MCracias. the of peace, will be in fortedle situation. Shathen be pescs alee: prospect of war, coupled with that ‘she is not equal to the struggle, and that she positive corey count apom her @ conviction not apt to make tor a querre! with the United States, és allies. Au Govt, and diminishes the best and most valuable portion | or for exciting nostile sentiments on our skie of the Great as the saczifices of the allies | water which could not casily ot ber population. i were, those of Russia were not imferior to them. Eng- lewd, by reason of the popular freedom of expresmon which there prevails, aid not underrate her loaves, but be alleyed by reasozable and well timed That of Frgent ee pln agin rh the cond Ser a8 no reputa\ y ja! war, and I doubt much whether it will improve wether boquacio: ‘s than dition by the conclusion of pease, which will not i anerngende eneronten Muinbhed; tam, Back ition army or recover the glory of the flag wal while the cespotism ef Russia was taciturn and never ateempted to emamerate its losses. Russia will no doub: ign an armstico, and the negotiations of peace will not England hes be suffered to be prolonged incefinitely. Russia must ‘wome to terms before thementh of April, or there wil be more fighting, and the war will assume a more genera edaracter. Certain it is that Russia will surrender her protecto wate over the Principalities, that she will give teen of her present territory of Bessarabia, that sho will give the navigation of the Danube free, and that she will ‘egree net to maintain or build a large fleet in the Pontus. | phosed every @a that point, however, she may quibble; for while she Por- | classes and the ‘The batde suffered, and is destined to suffer more, and to be expored to greater trials, unless that cl or rather caste, which has always bean most bitter upreccncilable to Cath ass acing eeie room for = not historically worn used up. but posses: the vigor necessary forthe approachiog crisis, es be Uniess Eogiand make a step tion of the thinking preponderance of capacity ever the mere accident of birth, she will indeed stand ont from all Europe, but not im a condition to be en- vied. The Revolution state’ though ee European State,’ tho not re- yolutionived’ them in the same degree, has de- and resourees which the old feudal the courage to meet it. orward toward the velo} ers: may apply these terms to the Black See, she may exempt | TOR. De"cinnat rival or contend against, Mugian’, fom them the “ca of Azof, which would in no manner e¥her accommodate Turkey or Austria, even if France | combatted the revcaiioe,, Wk at last and England were permitted to station a small flotilla at with superior political institutions, has, up to thie thstiecived Ca and comfort from its latest pring. She caonot stop here; but must either continue on the road of progress, ren- ‘the mouths of the Danube. England will probably insist dered necesanry by the situation, or lose power and influ- on Russia vot ‘ortifying the Atand Islands; but whether the werld. fivery particle of feudal nder Ww she retains over und above the batance of she will obtain that tavor is as yet doubtful. There is Seen dower te Purteent, otia nal a boincnct ylenty of room for backing out all round; but the situs- yr strength and resources, and ¢eprives her of the sym- tion is auch that, if Russia bo sincore and serions, the pro- | pathfes, not enly of her e2tsins in the United States, ont ‘Mminariea will be signed before the first of April—in al, Probedility before the first of March. An armistice wil] certainly be signed forthwith. You will see that the information I gays you from Ger- many—{rom Vienna, t'rankfort-on-the-Msine and Augs’ Durg—was all correct and if not official, certainly next @oor to it. I begg:d the government in Wasniagton mot to be sty, and not tov visibly incliced in fa- ver cf Russiaf because the war in the ast might terminate and leave us alone in the imbroglio. 1 aise stated and always maintained that Austria was sameore in her sttachment to the allied Powers—that sho was 90, perhaps, less from ehoice than from necessity, and that any hope that Austria would ultimately side with Rustia was futile, if not absolutely absurd and ridi- ealous. Austria wanted nothicg but money, a year ago, te draw the sword against Russia, and nothing bat being Dacked by the smaller States of Germany to prevail, etther diplomatically or in the field, against Russia. Aus- twia has for a year past and better been engaged in in ducing the Dict, at Frankfort, to adopt her views as « principle of action, and there is now every probability ‘that she will at last succeed in that extremely difficult terk, in spite of the Russian party in Germany, which extends only to the nobility and the Lieutenants of the Guards, and the King of Prussia, who, being nearly re Jated to the Empercr of Russia, was disposed to uphold ‘fhe eause of the Czar in Central Europe. I was also right in writing you, from Marseilles, that of all the prominent personages in Europe, engaod in media- ‘eg a peace, thero was none more busily employed in larieging matters toa favorable issue than M. Von Manten!- fel, the Prussian Premier, who is far more of a statesmen anda troe Prussian than his royal master of C iquot selebrity. He foresaw that the noutrality of Prussia, 90 Qeweh aimed at and vindieated by the King of Prussis, ‘was untenable if the war continued after the fall of Se- Destopol; and it was for this reason that, thengh dis- king the policy of Austria, he remonstrated with the @aar, ani represented to him the poiitleal proclivities of Germany. Now, tbe Prussian papers would claim the merit of the approaching peace for J’rassia, beesuse it was her representations which at last prevailed with the mr. To this the Austrian organs ve-y properly reply that it was tho Austian policy, approved of by Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtemburg, which rendered it dangerous for Prussian to persevere in her unnatural p sition, and that it was the fear of the conse,nences, for Prus- sia and Germany, of the Prussian policy pursued thue fax, which made Prussia intercede in St. Peterburg | fectonz,c'est bientot trouve, im favor of peace. At last, thon, the sitna- tion was more powerful than the sentiments of weeond hand despotism which animsted the Ki snd his Court, but by no means the Prussian pe Meither the Swedes nor the Sardiaians dislike the giana more than the Prussians, and the same concessions which the King of Sweden made to his people in the re- ently concluded treaty with the allied Powers, Baron Von Manteuilel has, at last, induced his master to make to the Germans in reassuring the posco of Karove. The ‘of Prussia has not positively demanded the adhesion ole. King z ef Rusa to the ultimstum of Austrie as a condition of | plus, ci ce juel droit parler Iie neutrality, bet be has advised it through his minis- ters, and supported that advice by the most cogent argu- ments of State. Thus, then, Russia is really ieolated— she stands alone in her pretensions as revarda the ant; Set the solution of the Kastern proolem is, at the .ame time, as far removed as ever. The that will now be paiehed ap will not laet ‘many years, and there may, beture the lapse of ten years, be another trial of strongth, under difforent circumstances that of her cousins German on tho ountinent of Ea- rope. If England were a mere island, this species of isola- ton might produce no harm; but Hngiand is a vast can- tinental power in Atia, and the mansgemect of that im. menre empire requires more than the asual governmental farming process, which has kept the wealth uf Rogiand in a few families. ‘Frederick the Great once ho!ped England to conquer India from France, [Louie Napoleon haa helped her to preserve it against Russia; but Fnglaod horself must guard it in fature. F. J. @ How to Make « Paris Letter. Resembtances have often been discovered between the Paris correspondence of certain New York papers aud that ot certain European papers. Most marvellous coio- elcences of idea of expression have been repeatedly raced, and a decidedly French manner of thinking and of writing has been found ia the gentiemen who do ths foreign news of our New York neignbors. One of the most remarkable coincidences of this kind that we have yet seen is that in a certain letter published in the Brus- sela Indépendance Belge of Jan. 12th, and one in the New York Daily Times ot keh. Tih. For the sako of exhibiting this miraculous resemblance in its elearcet light, we rint, side by side, extracts from the two journals, Correspondance particulié- [Speciel Correspondence of Te Ge |’ Independance Bel- the N. Y. Time 5) BL. 11 Janvier.—-Ia bad weather, the win'er société hivernale lente i se society alow to organize it- reconstituer, les thédtres self, the theatres promising promettant beaucoup et no agreat deal and gi‘ing n9- donnant pas gran’ehore— Paris is not very voili ponr le moral. L’en- amusing. But then it is semble ne constitue pas un til! Paris; which is to say Paris trés-amusant; mais thet it takes s nothing, tho que voulez vous,c’est Paris! sunstine, w scandal, no cat Faris, c’est le pays des matter who or what, to ressources de toutes wortes, amuse the whole towa to des changements d vue, des the point of a furore. Parie étonnements, des éblonisse- is the city of resources of ments, des merveilles? Un ail sor's, of sudden changes, s’assiod triste, et se lve of astonishment, ofcharas, gai! On sort Vhumeur of miracles, You sit down noire, on rentre couleur de melancholy, snd you get np rose! (est icique les jours gay. You start our gioomy, se suiventet ne se ressem- and you revurn couleur de blent pas. "est la ville dos rose. is at Paris that the antithiseset desdisparates, days follow, but do not re- des abimes et des cimes,des semble each other. It is floura ct des cluaques, dela the cicy of antitheses, of noce et ae Venterrement du hills and of vaileys, of tlow- blanc et du noir, de toutes ersend off! h, of black and Jes mistres et de tous ies ot white, of all the miseries de toutes les pros- snd all the vices, of all the 5, et Cetoutesles ver- fortunes and alt the vir- tues, of 11 Tf one cannot be satisiied in anch @ bee- bive af teverish existences, where else will he go? De quoi vous parleral.je done aujonra’hei, par ve nas- | mire, ot... Bot of what sheil I talk to you to-dey, with the weather so gloomy that the vapery fog geems to iniil- trate into the brain at tho time when 1; has most need to be onthe qui vive? Ab, areader. A reader is soon found and is soon ready. Mr. Jonos praps himself in sof: arm chair, the back pad oP pag | where the rain potiers down, or the cold wind waistles, the feo: against the fende: whers sparkles a warm fire. and ations! it ie the business of dis-je. Cravelli! i! n’y a the other, that is my bust. plus de Sophie nf de Cra- ness, to’ inform and te veili, #une baronnede amuse him! Bat inform him of what? There is no- thing! Amuse him arout who? Cruvelii is married, There is no Jonger neither a Sophie, nor a Cravel there {4 n Baroness more in the world, and what right have I vo tals of Baron- nestes ¢ It dees not require much knowlede of French to dis- temps si gris, si mou, si enervant que Jes brames du. ciel semblent s’infiltrer dans Je cerveau de celui qui au- rait besoin d’aveir Vesprit vur le qui-vive? Ah! un ot est bientit pret! Mon- sieur s‘accote dacs un bon fauteuil, le dos 4 la fenitre ou cingie la pluie, ies pieds sur les cheneta ou. lo feu 80 allons ! 4 Vautre de Viniormer | de 'amusger! Vinformer de quei? il n’y ation! L’amuser de qui? Cruyelli est marive! Que dea barronnes ! ‘and combinations. This it is which Vogiand has to fear; | Cover the resemblance between the styies of these writers. this it is which Austria has to tear, and this it is which, dma very short timo, wil! make excelien: friends of fag: | fend and Austria. Ii may be, too, that the Purkieh ques- thom, being for the moment postponed, that of Italy may | Iecome more prominent; for ibe States of Italy are | evidently too weak to count inthe baiance of Europe, | and a diversion in that direetion, if managed by states. s. It is not enough for the parpose of ® Russia that material forces of equal weight | should be opposed to her and watch her progress, but the moral strength, too, must be brought ‘nto play, which | eannot be dene without un appeal 10 public opinion, and | gach forms of government as allow that opinion to make | ftaett felt and understood. The war, which has com- | meneed for considerations of material strength, so far as | territory ara phieal condition were concerned, | hhas imperceptibly lod to a reform of public sentiment, nd a disposition on the part of the governments to in- duige @ sentiments to aa extent compauble | with their own eafety. If the continental Powers | somtinued on their road to despoticm, they maust acknowledge the Czar for master; | end practice absolutiam with his icave; if thoy wante! ‘to set up as ind cent rnments, they mast adopt forms which shal! induce the hearty co-operation of their | wabjects, without the expense ant denger of crercion. | ‘This was the moral centre of gravity in Germany, and | this may be‘ore long booome the s‘arting point of the ‘nion; not arter the fashion of Mazvini, but under tthe auspices of I'rance, Sardinia and Ausicia. ‘There is Jittle gained for the chureb, in sbandon- to it the care of the politiea! management of the Pa- States, and there is certainly no gain on the part of ‘the five miliionr of Neorolitans, in eontinning their pre went forma ct government, the weakest, most renselesely ‘and inost unpopular of any in Ecrepe. The go- wernment of Naples is a disgrace to despotixm, and & po- sitive injury to the monarenial form, ek as ‘the type of aN governmental institutions of Kurope., It fmcreases the hatred toward the one and the distrast ‘and dislike toward tho other. You may depend on it l_take that matter into considera- develo, jon or Rome by & vory respectable civision of her army, will give foree and eonsiderasion to any cug. gestion Napoleon IfJ. may judge proper to make in that rection, Let the Oricutel questi zo to sloop to.mor- the European questions will instantly eup- nce. Eng’ eels that, and it ia this whieb accept the pence which ix tmdered her with 4 i fear and suspicion. ‘Phe tone of the I’rench prese, as yourself wil! hayo no- thoed, is by no means trien<ly to England; and if it were mot for the official alliance between the ti ome might doubt whether these are tho wou friendly nation. It is, indesd, not unlikely th: eonctusion of peace, the relations petween France will very intimato—this Is inteod ex- pected by ail Continental diplomaiict—and such aw event might very materially disturb the eatue qvo pro- duced by the war. | The Faperor of tho l’renca, wo has #0 well and po cruélly played of England asiaet Russia 4m the Oriental question, may find it conveaiens to play off Russia, i€ not aguinst England, at leas ant Gar- many and Italy, or enooeed in eonplet Eng- land, as his t uncle did during the time of the intro- nerion of his Continental eyster only with more effect, Because with the voluntary aacont amd ea-rporation of tals Continental neighbors. There is yet another juestionT would allude to, aad I think, will receive a favorabie aiution after the eonelusionot peace. It ie that of che political govern- ment of France. The Rnyeror, 1 have uo doabt what- over, means to grant an wuversal amnesty et the birth of an heir to his ‘broue, aed such wetep would not be ‘connected with serious dange:s, if he could boast of having confined Rarsin to proper limita, end secured the poses of Europe. Thin proposition war, in my humble opinion—end events will prove thet iem nov in error, and not merely indulging in idte polftical epesulation— ‘4h principal lcducemen’s to peace on tbe pact of i'rauce, snd ita consideration not ouly outwoighed the financial yrobiem, w ao n extent ot least, the most inti- mate relations with Englan’. The Poose of Amtens { ‘wan nC? necoreary to hie uncle, though it wae little { rrore than & coy ué Tuatre, and Inpted pearcely the your et. Lbelieve, however, that Loule Napoleon is more | »ecore in tlle revpect them Lis great uncle, aad | | be ‘The quosticn in, doos the Paris correspondent of the New York fimes reside in Paris, New York or Brussels? His letters with a file of the Independance Belge before hie, might be written equal’y well in either olty.—J’silaJei- phos Bustin, ‘Theatres and Exhibitions. Buoavway Tuarre —The great speetacie wf ‘ Herne, the Hunter,” isas popular ae ever. Aside from the merits of thie plece 28 a drame, the Mossrs. Nixon & Myeza’ troupe of equ and their beautiful and thoroughly trained horses, are worth the price of admission, and im some ineagare account for the crowded houses. Nim.o’s Ganpxx.—The entertainments will this evening open with «Ta Fete Chercpétre’’—Francoia Ravel in bit very amusing part of Lourdan. M’ile Robert aad the ballet corps “will follow in the brilliant ttle ballet entitled “Tes Abcilies.” To close with the now sod igbly successful pantomimic spectacle of “ The Sif King.” Bowmrr Tuvarry.—The romantic drama entitled the “ Broken Yow" appears to have created a considerable amount of enthusiasm among the patrons of this popu- lar house. It fs again announced for this evening, to- gether with the successful burlesque of the “ Female Forty Thieves.” Miss Denvil, who has become « decided faves ite here, will take her benefit te-morrow, Bexcon’s Damme —Mrg. C. Howard, who was most enthusiastically received and frequently eailed before the curtain on the oceasion of her first appearance Inst Mon- day, will 10-vight personate the character of Letitia Hardy i comedy of ** The Belle’s Stratagem.”? Tho comedy ‘Sweethearts and Wives” follows—Mr. Burton as Bil: Lackaday. Lavra Keene's Varcerms.—The ever poptlar eumedy called “ Masks and Faces’? will be presented to-night with the same excelent cast that marked its previous repre- sentations, viz.: Miss Keene in her creat [character of Peg Woffington, supported by Miss K. Reignolds, Mra. Hough, Mesers. Jordan, Johnston and othery. To close with the amasing burlesque of “Novelty.” Wiracx’s Trmarry.—Loureicault’s fine comedy, en- titled ‘Love and Moncy,” will be repeated this even- ing in secordance with the request of numerous patrons ot this favorite house. Messrs. Lester, and | Walcot, Mesdames Hoey, Vernen and Brougham in the leading’ parts. To conclude with Mr. Brougnam’s won- derfol wurlesque called ‘ Po-ca-hon-tas.”” Broapw \y Vannes, —That double distived extract of , little George Washingtou Marsh, koeps tae house in a constant roar of Jaughter every night py his admirable delineations of the parts of Schnapps in the * Naiad (Queen? and Jen Baggs in the “ Wandering Minstrel.” The other characters are also filled by ta- lented juveniles. Woow’s Mrvereia present an attractive programme of ne ae for to-night, and the oomicality ofthe “ Happy jan. Bri Sra zumes,—Somgs, dances and the faroo of the “Two Pompeys’? wil aivord ampie food for merri- ment this evening. Javan ovo Cnns,—The panoramic illustrations of these coustries, the ectnoss of which is youcked for by Commodore Perry and other distinguished travellers, will exhibited, this atternoon and evening, at the Athe- pwurn, 654 Broadway. Dr. Noyes, the Uriental travslier, wil deliver the explanatory lecon zen, Wa CORY SPHETUAL@T#.—Professor Epencer's lec- ture and demonstrations In opposition to spiritualtem, mediums, and others making protensiona vo supernatural agenclos, erented an intense sensation among o is tion of lis audience on Mondey evening. He will give another ontertainment this evening, when {t is expected tbe spirttualists will be om hand in strong foroe, with the 4 his developementa, The eleventh annua! benetit of the arciation wil) tako place next Tnes- cay. The piooes selested are “Love's Sasrition” and “The Onnibus.” or NaTourz, MissiserPri-—A census of , just comp |, shows that piace to have fi exelnsive of the public and private rehools, wh in 390 male pupils and teachers, and 448 fernalea, In the first named total are intluded 3,707 eracns, 302 free colored, ard 2,080 saver, Tne sof the year 1860, gave Natches about Tho increase since then ise fair one, considering bow much the south western cities and towne have been aciicted with yolow lover, view of combatt Panis, Jan. 1d—With the | NEW ¥ORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1856. Our Bosten Correspondence. Bosrox, Feb, 22, 1656. Washington's Lirthday—Symptoms of Spring— Nautica; School—Dr. Jones’ New Play=iThe' Harvard Club— Mr. Bell's Lecture—The Twenty-one Fars’ Amendment—Pro- gresof Buckananimn in New Btiyland—Mr. Banks anc the Presidency—The Judgeship=! Ratiroad Fares, ‘We are baving & fine overhead day to get off our super- fiuous patriotism under pretence of @ regard for Washing- ton’s name ard memory. There is, however, aay amount | of slash under foot, and the prospect of land being in aight seon is very good. There is not likely to be so much‘damage done by a thaw as people expected, as the (ground was not frozen whon the first snow fell, so that | em indefinite quantity of water will be absoroed by the earth, which happens just now to be ins very thirsty condition. The wells, springs and streams have seldom deen lower than at this time. They'll soom be ‘‘ getting ? Bowever. The impression is that winter is orer, and that we shall have anearly spring. Avery good movement is going on here, having for its object the estabiiahment of what is to be ealleda ‘‘Frate Nautieal School for Boys.’ Mr. Forbes, so woil known for the interest he takes in all nanticé! and philant pic matters, is among those who lead in the undectaking, ‘and so is Mayor Rice. The merchants approve of it, and are signing petitions to the Legislature, ascing tor the establishment of the proposed school. Thece are in oor State reform school and State almshouses 722 boys of ten years and upwards, most of whom might be placed ia sueh a school, and converted into good saliors. Dr. Jones’s new play, which is to be brought out at the Boston Theatre next Monday evening, is entitled ‘‘/afari, the Bohemian.” Mr. Myzemen Marshall will take toe sider the question ot amending their constitutron at their next meetlog, which is rather fast work, considering that the gentlemen are from the ve classes. ta ip reported that the Wardenship of the stave prison, made vacant by the sudden dea:h of Gen. Jones, will be given to Captsin Haynes, of Waltham, who was at one time expected to be made sheriff of Middlesex. Wal- tham is a good place to hail from im these da: ‘Mr. Bell's Kcture last evening waa on Villeinage. It bie! ry soho Laan) Giseourse, but of a dezidedly anit- slaver; ‘acter. The platform ‘adopted by tho Know Nothing Connell at Philadelphia is looked upon here as being composed in about equal parts of milx and water. The majority mea well, but they can’s get rid of the slavery question. The demoerats think that the action of the “ouccil throug a- out indicates a breaking up of the opposition, wnica is what they desire, and therefore they inay see more than exists, which 1# 3 common ‘ailing wi"h poltical eyes. The nigger worshippers believe that they snall gain a: the expense of the Know Nothings. e proposition to require twenty-one years residenco of joveigners hevore they can beeome citizens, which 19 4: amendment ct the conatitution, has passed tbe Senate by a vote ot 29407. It can hardly pasa the House, where there must be a majority of two-thirds for such measures Even it it should pass the Houre, it must go through tho next Jegisiature, and then be submitted to the peuple tor their ratification; 00 that it will be some time before iv can tecome a law, if ever it shall. The feeling is that twenty-one years is too louga time to require, even o: Irish Cathohes. ‘The most interesting thing in our political world is the steady progress of whet may be cuiled Buchanavism, particularly among demoerais. The manner in which they are becoming convinced of the virtues—that is, ot the ayailability—of the illus:rious Pennsy:venian, is de lightful to vehold, as giving one yeason to hope that the Gays of the preceot admimistration are numbered, and that Gen. Pierce will soon be at liverty to retire to Coos, which wi'l be converted into another Yuste, or Solona, for the benefit of a Yankee Charlea or Diocletian, whi:h- ever you may choose to consicer him. Common sense is the great merit of the demoer and they are enabled to come to the segacious conclaiom that it would be a sort cf suicide to attempt 0 make a tight under the Pierve Danner, which has knowo nothing but defeat during two Years, and whieh has been dragged through the dust of évery State from New Hampshire to California. Even the cefeat of the aisger worrhippers in Maine was accom- lished only through the democrats pointed)y refuring to identify themselves with tne administration, that being a Joad altegether too much for mortal shoulders. Ba cbananism is all the rage with the Maine demec.asy, and it wal be fourd quite as strong all over New England be- fore the meetiog of the Cincwmnati Convention. fhose gentlemen who think that the vote of this State will be given as ‘a urit” in that conventi for ‘en. Pierce, may find reason for changing their opiviim throe months from this time. The democrats look for success, and labor for it— the great difference between them’ and other nartics being that they always adapt means to cnds, and do not stick to impracticable thirgs. There is no sueh word as imposible in their cictionary, because they never think of asking men to attempt impossibilities. That perverse pig beadecness that was wont to actuate the whige, and which thore worthy creatures used to dignify with an unlimited number of tine names—euch as firm- ness, contistency, honesty, and #0 forth—nevor has had a. place amorg tho democrats, who, while every bit as hon: ert as their foer, have had sense to guide their action, ‘The behef is becoming every day more prevalent that Mr. Buchanan is the man io get the party out of any difficul- ties into which it may bave been betrayed through the Presicent’s want of tact, and it is not umprobable that it may become the all but universal democratic sentiment before the middle of June. As to any chivalrous senti- ment stancing in the way of the Provident’s nomination for a second term, I should really like to know if there is apy one so insane as to suppose he ts the sort of man to inspire that sort of feeling that leads a party to go all lengtbs in support of a chief in whom it seos i velf imper- sorated? To ask the question ie to answer it. He hasnot asolitary element of the kind; and aa the democrats have not nomirated # man tor re-election but once in twenty. four years—Mr. Van Buren, in 1840, im_whish in- stance it carnot be said they were so particularly rucecas- ful asto warrant e repetitin«{ the experiment—they can hardly be expected to change their polieg-@a the case of Gen. Pleree, who no high quality whatever, though he aay be avery smiable gentieman; but parties don’t relith leaders on the score of their amiabliity. Jam not prepared to belicve that ‘en. Cushing wrote the article which recently appeared in the Prarelicr, ne- minating himself for the Presidency, and giving a tie)». ed estalegue of bis many virtues and qualifications f + the cftice. The Geners!,to be sure, has written be: flown puffs of himself, and had them published as evi toria) articles in the nowspapers—but that was thirty years ago, in the very morxirg of his Consul Plancus ‘ays, when he rasy be supposed ‘o have had the ingenn- curness of youth stilelinging about him. He bas al- ways, 1 admit, had » sort of fondness for writing for the papers, which originated, I verily bolieve, in a de- sire to ebow that he could even have been an cditor, if he had pleased. The best articles in fayor of our coa- ition of free soilers and democrats were writ- ten by him, and were published as editorial articles in the Boston Daily Times and other de mocratic journals. Still, I den’t believe he wrote the puff that appeared in the Zravetler, It was the work of somo friend, who labors uncer the detusion that the Gen » would te ¢lec ed President; whereas the only elecwral vote he could carry would be that of Newburyport— end that does not consiitate an absolu'e majority of the @ectoral colleges, and an amendment to the constitution roviding that it should be sufficient to elect a candidate 's hardly to be looked for at this tune, It is wondorful to +ee what p reas Mr. Banks is mani towards the Presidential c! John Randolph at the Ypeaker of the Liouce of Revreseniatives ‘was inferior only to the Presilont, and Mr. Banke is in a fate way to show that the distance between tho two places ta not au impasseble one. There is mo stopping » wan when once he geta a ronof luck in his favor, and Mr.Papks has been the most fortunate of politicians during the last six yeste-—not «nly winning every battlo that he has fought, but winning them all under circum stances calenJated’ pocniinrly to gratity bim. Ho har won them over ersonal enemies an well a8 over political opponents. The Pox faction, which wore atways bis im- placable foes, lie in the dust bofore bim; and he has omy ‘one m¢re step to take to put his toot on their necks, and them rend those necks to be operated on by the gentleinan who manages the metaphorical guillotine. Thie world, av cousin Feenix would say, ynoting Shakespere, in reference to the queer dodges thas ocear in it, is the mere shadow of a dresm. ‘The vacant Justiceship on the Commen Pleas ber -h is not yet tilled. A very strong recommendation in o-half cf Hon. Jobn J. Clark, an emiment member of the No. lk county bar. has been zot up. It is signed by Mr. Choate, Mr. Dapa, ifr. 0. T, Russell, and other eminent whigs, Mr. Clark is a conservative whig. Mr. Kerth, State At- iorney for the mi¢dle dvtriet, (Norfolk and Plymouth), in also spoken of for the ofiice. ‘The contest about rafiroad fares in still going on. The advancers will not give way, and thetr opponente will ul- tiuately avandon the contest. It is bard contending with corporations, It bas been proposed that a law shoold be parsed ‘compelling the companies to give xix months’ notice of an intention to raise fares. ALOMA, Obituary. Mra. Fuzcerrh DeMUMBRANE, ot Nashville, Tean., died on the 6th umstent, aged 115 years, The Bath Tribune announces the death, at Waldoboro’, Me., cn the 19th inst.. of Conran Hiyxn, at the reroarkable age of of 100 years, 10 months, and 19 days, Mr. Hoyer’e parents were from Germany, and he was the first enild, ot the white race, born in the town of Waldoboro’, in which he alweys continued to reeide. He ponsessed re- warkable health, having nover till this winter boen cen- fined s day by sickness. J’or three yoars be served in the war of tho Kevolution, and wan a pensioner. He voted atevegy Presidential jon since the establishment of the national government. iis employment waa that of & farmer. Eecapr oy Staves ON TAR ice.—The freezing of the Ohio river offer such fine factlitien of eseape from slavery, that negroos are constantly crossing from Ken- tucky into Onlo. The Cincinnati Cate Uhinke ‘be treering of the river nneonstitntional on that account. It 1s cortainly « breach of the Fugitive Alave law. Man Bonnep To Drare.—-On the 17th instant, the dweling house of Colonel Calvin G. Howe, in Rutlaed, Mass., war destroyed a, fire, and leniel Seun- dere, & non compus, perished Inthe tiamex. He was once rescued, bat went back to get*bia bat. There waa in sutra noe on the property for $900. ‘Twix AnD TRIPLETS. A few dayy since, the wife of Rov. Horace Jaanes, of this city, gavo birth to two children at one time, and since then tho wife of Rav. George Bashnoll, ulso of this city, hax given birth to three children, ail at ono tirne.— Worcesier Spy. Divorces IN ALABAMA.—-Daring the present ses elon cf the Alabama Jegislature, says the -elma Sentinel, there have been sbout one handrod cases of divorce granted, Duning the ladt seasion ot the ssme body there was abeut the same number granted. Superter Court—Genere) Term. Bekre Hon. Judges Duer, Bos trth, and diosson. A LONG PENDING SUIT 40 INer TAR ASTORS. Fes 26.—Sanuck @. Administrator of Nickioas @. Ogden, deceased. vs. Wi Bh, Asior and the Execu- tors of John Jacob Astor, deceased.—This was an applice- tion ct Wm. B, Astor fer the correction and a nendment | of the decree heretofore made by the Superior Court in this cace. It appears, trem the printed ease, which oc- ouziecs several bound volumes, thatia the Is ot 1816 Joha ‘ented the Surrogate of New York to Mary G teen, wee oe by rensag ag fag arent er, & Ne] Ww ode La io . J. Astor ‘ Se Fake min! Beco! of the eppear that Nichows G. thers, on the Slat July, Rens equentiy, as he hea was apparently insolvent. sidon untit 1840, when G. Ogden, who is en on); goon, ‘was indebted to his co- 18.4, in the sum of $9,620 16. no other Lateef hus estate Matters remained in thie po- present complainant, samuel brother of Nicholas G. Ogden, ond was at the ded toa reaidenc of Bordeaux, France, but subsequently becoma a resident of New York, having reason to believe that the accounts rencered by the defendants to the administraters of his brother’s estate were incorrect, determined upon making an investigation into the affairs of the copartnersbip, 90 far, at least, as could be dome from the accounts renaered by the defendants. Application was made to the Surro and the adm'nistration formerly granted to G. Ogden and George Enninger was revoked. On the or Japuary, 1841, new leiters of administration, de bonis non, were granted to the complainants. who ealled shortly atterwarcs on both the cetendants—John Jacob Astor and Willam B. Astor—produced to each his authority as so:e, admuistrator, propored an amicable investigation of the aceounts relating to his brother’s estate, and requested that he might pe permitted to inspect the books and & Accounts, in their “possession, to all of which, aa, is alle complainant @ peremptory negative Par yy both _ parties. Subsequent invos- by tigation Feil npr i tke complainant that the ac counts which haa been rendered by the Messrs. Astor tu the former administrators were incorrect, in the legal acceptance of the term, the prevent bill of ecmplaints was fled before the Chancellor of this State in the month of January, 1842, demanding redress in the Court of Chancery. A demurrer to this bill was interpused by the defendants, who alleged that if all that was ciaimed ia the bil! were true, sti, from the time that had elapsea since their accounts had been renderod, all euch ciaims were then effectually barred by the statute of limitations. ‘The cemurrer was argued before Vico Chancelior M’Conn, and ¢arly in Ii js decision was given, by waica the demurrer was dismissed and the dotencants ordered t » answer, Issue was juined, and in 1844 an examination o! witneeses was commenced pefore an Examiner ia Cha: cery, which was continued to the month of June, 1847, when the cause was placed on the calendar of the Court ot Chancery tor trial. The court having shortly afier wards ceased to exist, 1t was transferred to the Su- preme Court, whence it was again transferred to the Superior Court ot this In 1850 the cause finally came on fer trial at we Decomber term of that court, when it was argued before the honorable Judges Duer and Mason, by George Wood and Charles O’Conor on tke part of the complainant, and by Danie: Lord and Benjamin J. Butler on the part vt the defead- ants, who sain interpored their tormer plea of the sta- vate of limitations as their main detence. A decree was made by the above named Judges, wherein certa n of the allegations made by the complainant were contirined, and the accounts formerly renaered by the ccieadants were ordered to be opened, reformed ana re-stated, under the cireotion of Bepjamin W. Bonney, who was appointed referee, sd peers xo ie eam vouchers and docu ments of either party, relating to the co-partnership honingen! warescheareh Wolke! pretuasl,. - After some gee limizary wahions at the office of the referee, in Wal) street, & meotirg of the referees was held on the 20th of November, 186%, at the office of W. B. Astor, in rrince street; the booxs ef both pariies were produced ana placea under the control of the referee. At this time it ‘was agreed between W. B, Astor and the complainant that the latter should be authorized to make upand re sta ¢ ibe accounts of copartnersbip, in conformity wito the provisicns of the deeree, wih the assistance and un éer the immeciate supervision of Phillip Kissam, tne olerk of Mr. Astor. It was at the same time understood that if peints ot difference rhould arise between them, tbe accounts should nevertheless be continued t, their ecmpletion, wren those points should be brought before the reteree for his decision. Under this arrange- went the entire accounts of the copartnership were mae up and celivered to the éefencants in March, 1854, e: bibiting @ balance in tavor of the estate ot Nicholas Ogeen ct $278,785 67, including interest to 16th of No- veruber, 1853. Mr. ‘Kissam subsequently demurred to many oi the items contained m the accounts, in conse- ner ce of which a mecting of the reterence was called 6 vhe 29th ot May, 1855, for the purpose of submittiog the whole matter at issue to the decision of the referee. At this meeting both parties, together with their respeetive counte), were present, but instead of procceaipg with the reference, the defendants’ counsel asked for an acjouru- ment to the 13th June, which was granted by the refereo Op the 12th of June, 1865, an application ‘was made by Wiuism B. Astor to the Judges or tue Superior Court, tor the ecrreetion and amendment <f the decree mado in this cause more than thiee years previously. A stay of pro- ceedings before the referee was ordered by the ecurt, ani, +ftor several adjourpments, the hearing of this apptica- tion was set down for to-dsy, whem counsel proceeded to read frem printed books the facts of which the above is 2 brie! abstract. On this (Wednesday) morning. the a: t of eoun- e1 will be commenced tor the settlement of tae decreo, iperlor Court—Part Second. Betore Hon. Judge Slosson. GREAT MERCANTILE SUIT. Yxn, 46.— Win. Hielinan vs, Marshall 0. Roberts. —Vhis is sn action to recover about $30,000, which plaintiff alleges to have lost in the sale of the steamboat Columbus, through misinformation, or withholding of information by the ce fondant. The plaintiff o ened six-twentieths of the Colum bus, which wae employed in tradiog and carryicg par sengers on the Pacific Ocean. The defendant was agen sor her ownere, and, itis alleged, witnheld trom plaintifi« correct statement of her earnings, which induced the plaintift to part with his interest in her for $22 000, an: his share of her earnings for $13,000, which was eou ticerably below its vase, it being alleged that (corge Law and others, who assumed to be owners of the vessel bad, pricr to the plaintuff baving parted with his share her. agreed to sell her for $120,000. The case has occupied the Court uver two weeke. The testimony, oral and documentary, was yoluminous, Counsel for defendant mcved for ® non-snit, and this mornirg Judge Slorson granted the motion. After reviewing the case at very great Jeng h, he said: ~The evidence, as it now stands, does not in'my judg- ment ecnsti ute # sufiicient prima facie ease to zo to the jnry on the esgentia! point of misrepresentation or con- cealment on the part of the defenauot ; giving to the ‘plaintiff the full benefit of that stand ard of obligation im respect to disclosure ariw- ing from the fiduciary ielarion, which woald be recograzed in ® court of equity; nor even if this wers not 50, does it show the plain:iff to have been in that. con- dition of ‘ignore nee and want of opportunity and means of igyestigation on his own part which woula make the in- ‘sition practise] upon him, if one had beon practised, wholly the fault of the other, mor does it show thet ‘in fast the plaintit was deceived, or that he closed his bargain in actual ignorance of all tax defendant himseif knew of the state of the accounts 4 of the actual existence of the contract with the Steamship Company tor the transfer of the ship. {say the evidence does not prima facie eptablish the affirma tive of these propositions, nd it is only by the aid of presumptions, which cannot be entertained in an ac‘ion at law, that snch an affirmative case can 00 said to bave been made out. um the contrary, the evidenco does aflirmatively establish that the detendant was possessed of great deal of information In respect to the accounts, and that he was in actual controveri d dispute with the defondent in respect to their eondi- tion; and in respect to the sale of the yossel to the Steam- hip Company, it does establish affirmatively that he had ¢ ixformation, that he was put directly upon inquiry that he was invited to a fuil and searching investigation and that he had an opportunity of at least ten days :° sonal eel before he closed bis sale to defendani, during which there is not a particle of evidence to show tha’ he did not fully poarcas himself of all that was io bo known in regard to both subjects. The complaint must be dismissed. A Nxexo Sruauer Cavent m Kextoory— karly yester¢ay morning a negro woman bel wo Mr. Jos, Newland, a merchant, well and invorably known in this city, decamped from the premises of her master, and. by @ previous understanding, mot a misereant aboli- Uonist nated Elisha Hylier, from New York, on Main street, at the Portland Railroad depot and the twain took ame ee nna to Portland, and thence across to New A + The woman was moat gorgeously atti being frees § in @ rich biack silk Tobe, Hung with pres meiable floating flounces. A magnificent sct of furs graced her shoulders and neck; while over ber interesting phyriognomy hung a thick green vell. Thus equipped, no one ever suspectec her of being of litbiopian extraction; but the pair were foiled in their endeavors to escapo by a slight indiscretion on the part of the man, After the boat had reached tho Indiana side, and when the paseen yers’ had gone axbore, the party in question was about to ve also, when the New York gent concluded that he wonld steal a delectable kiss from ber ruby lips: and in order to 40 this, the thick veil was raised, which display. cil to the view of the Collector om the boat the color of the weman’s face—whereupen he called upon her for free papers, and they not belng forthcoming, ho instent- ly brought her back to Kentucky and put her in possess- fon of an officer, who brought her up te tho city to the cfico of 1 ry Matlack, who affer @ full heartng of the cave, had her commuted to jail to await an order from her master, Mr. Newland up to that ‘poriod was not aware that sho had loft hin furnily residenee, At the critical juncture when the woman was tieved on tho forry, her valiant and enamored modern Now York Don Quixote suddenly disappeared; but vigtlant and efficient officers were dispatched in quest of him, who after a short but digentsearch,'found him in New Albany, and brought hita to this city and lo¢gedbim in jall, whore he will remein un- til @ speedy course of law thallvond himupto Frank- fort to serve the State for afew yearn.—Zawisville Demo- crat, Feb. 20. Cornea ory Deap Hmaps.—A bil! has been in trodaeed into the Senate of New Jersey, which renders it ondawfal to pase the members of the Legislature free. Grand Banquet at Melbourne te Mr. G, ‘Train, am Merchant, {irom tie Malbourse hge, Nov. ©] THE Deri OF ME. YRAIN. ‘One cf the most Phases of rociety in this et*y, is that of the mercantile community setting ta day from the bury of business, to 40 honor to the public services and private worth of = man who, perbape, more then gcd else, has exerted himself HS aatanco the mercantile tterests and the commercial importance of the colony in which his lot has for the last few years beea cast. Yesterday, » number of the merchant of the city, understanding that Mr. G. F. of the firm ct Nain & Co., the agenta for the ‘White Star Lave of ships, contemplated his Geparture from the colony fer awhile, determined) 2 ing that gentleman a 2- jemcur i the Criterion Hotel, a3 = ‘spect and bi por in which hel the establiabment of tho port, &., and esa manards citizen. About to # splendidly Iaid out dejeuneur in the Crirerton Hotel, which was peridea cyver by William Hammi:, ., the Vice erg bene! ne =. bay nis, Wiliam Weatj A 5 ong company pieent, the Hon. the Collsctor of Customs we noteed the American Consul, J. Tarleton, ; the Hon. the Surveyor General; Messrs, Furlonge. Gceeemwan and A’Beckett. M. J. C.’s; and the principal merehants of the sift. After tbe usual loyal toasts hac been and duly carried, the band playing the naticna) s1rs— ‘The Cuaimman taid he had the honor to propose to them the President of a mighty nation, who had a wortby re- preventative in that assembly. the President of the United Band—‘ Yankee Doodle.” » the American Consul, who was ged cheering, ssic he was always very much gratified to hear his country toasted. but on the present occasion it afforded him a peculiar pleasure. ‘They were there for a special put todv honor Benen Homan eae oleh to eee fj Saat tae fs among them the repreren' of every great interes! ip the colony. The Le engored was there; members of the Legislaivvo Council were there; Lael ppacien com- petent to be members of the Jegislative Council wore among them. They had reprerentatives of the squatting interest, and, he suppored, of the ay ee rae inter- est; a large portion of the members of the Chamber of Commerce, a bedy which had a great deal to do with the terest ard progress of the colcny, and they had als: mall interest, a very emali one of, Uncle 3am. (Cheer much obliged to them for the complimentary ip which the toast, President had proposed ic paauer in whit it had been re- ceived. It was e7 gratifyicg to him thar the political head of his country should be received in so wndacwe a manner in an Englich colony, and he could assure them that he could see no good reasons why take place to disturb the amicabie relations which existed between them. (Cheers.) He trusted to Ged he should never see the day when fricndiy telaticns between the two great countries of Kogland and America. would ever be interrupted, but as their ‘ume was precious, and the ‘Train’ about to leave, he would not cecupy their time with any further odseuri- ties. (Cheers, The Cua:Rnvan next pi wed the health of his Fxcel- lency the Governor of Victoria, which was drunk in atlence, not so much asa cheer havirg been raised. ‘Tbe tcast of the “Army ond Navy” was responded to on the part ot the army by Captain Crarke, ft, FE, Sur- veyor General, the band strikinggup ‘‘ Rule, Britannia.” Tre Surveyor General returned inks on behall of the allied a: mies, who had sealed with their blood iheir de- vetion to their country. Although the allied armies had not accomplished ail that was expected they would have done, ke felt perfect'y sure that before long they wou'd overeowe all obstacles which lay im their path. (Cheers. ) They woud pardon him tor entering more fully into this question, ashe bad ove brother already fallen m the war now yoging with Russia, and another on the spot, and if such had not been the case he would have estered with much more freedom into an acknowledgment of tho grace'ul comphment which had veon paid to the alhed armics. (Cheers.) Captain Matrnxws, R. N., late of the Great Britain, re- turned thanks on bebalf of the navy. ‘The Caaiwv raia it now became his pleasing duty to propore to them the toast of the day, and in doing so be must claim their patience for s minute or two. (Cheers. ) Although the genmvleman in whore honor they had met, and who was aoont to leave them, was an American, he was sure they would interpret aright the feelings which pervaded the mind of every Fuglish merchant in the city, when they expressod their desire to co-operate in tho mereantile booy of that nation, and that they could no’ have chosen ary gen- tleman whore ecnduct and career was calculated to re- flect more rubstantia! eredit on the country to which he belonged than Mr. G. F. Train. (Great cheering.) Whether tbey referred to his career as a merchant, or to his sgreesble qualities as a citizen, he was sure there ‘Was not a man anywhere who did not sincerely and heart- ily regret his ceparture. (Ctecrs.) He did aot desire to uiter any falsome compliments on Mr. Train, or on Ame- rican eitizens, but be was assured that a certain dash of An erican enterprise, combined with Laglish capital and solidity, would bui d up a strong and vi nation in the colony. Mr. ‘Iruin had been hia feliow laborer in the duties which devolved upon the Chamber cf Commerce, and had asristed in every conceivable way in the esta- biishment of the permanent interests of the colony, and he much feared they conld ill afford to part with a gentleman who had done ge mueh, and who had devoted so much time to the interests of the colony at large. This much he would observe cf the tiiend who was leaving them, that whether in Aurtralia erin the United States, he was destined to sct no inconsiderable figure in the pra- ceedings of the country in which his lot was cast. He Depgea to propere to them the heaith of Mr. Train and hia epeedy return; should he not return—then prosperity wherever he goes. (Creat cheering.) Band—‘Cheer, boys cheer |” Mr. G. FP, Tram was received with loud and prolonged cheering. He said he coulo not make a speech tbat day. for at last he found himrelf in a position in which his tongue refared to act. The words came crowding to bis lips, but the emotions which he experienced choked ther ance. His thoughts woud not out. They all knew workings of the heart, and thorcfore would know how to make allowance for him at a timo when his tucughts lay too deep for utterance. (Cheers.) His bosom swell- ed with bonest pride at the fect that sueh a body of friends had rallied round him on his departure from tl shores to grees him with their good wishes, apd to bid him Ged speed on bis journey home. His had been bat a short sejourn among them, but sufficiently Jong for him to succeed in obvaining their earnest good wishes, and to carry home with him the rospeet and confidenc® of the community among whom ho had especially mixed. (Cheers ) It was scarcely three short years ago wher. ho bade good-bye to kind friends in his native eountry, aud set out for a distant Iard which had an indistioct place upon the chart, ard the in’ormation about which was as barren as ary cne of their inJand towns. As he landed on the whart, the whole sspoet was of the most chcerless netare, and bis teoughts were that he had at last ar- rived at that us@iscovered country— ‘The bourne from which no traveller returns. (Laughter.) ‘True, ho met with people who spoke the same language. and who worshipped the same Creator, but be felt himself # stranger on a strange soil. It was not lorg, however, before he was made to feel that the sympathies of hit hind were extended tu the strangor; end the kindness be had since received had boen almost universal. There was only one place that he was aware of where Amcnican citizens were not received, and that was at Toorak. The American Consu! was the only ene of their nation recttvea there, the other mombors o* that country having to be satisfied with leaving their cards. With this exception he had been treated since he came into tne colony with the utmost kindness and good feel- ing; in re.ain for which he had endeavored to pe a use- ful citizen and a good Australian. (Cheers.) He bad never interfored in ikeir political affairs, but in all mat- tera of commercial reform he had never been backward, and it wos most tifying to him that his humble ef- forts had met with their kind spproval, and that his name would continue to live in their memory. Cheers.) No matter to what country or clime his fortune or his {ate directed him, ho should always tako a deep interest in tho prosperity of the colony of Vic- toria—a colony which he entered when there were no wharves, railroads, telegraphs or anything commen- surate with its greatness, but which now Lad wharves Gown the Yarra; warehouses lining the streots; rain planted in the soil, and gas works ready to throw igh over them all. Mr. ‘Irain concluded agapeech, which was marked throvghout with much ce of words and style, by predicting that Victoria would shine as a star of the first magnitude under the auspices of the new consti- tution. He thanked them most heartily and sincerely for the honor they bad dono him in giving him so substantial a mark of their approbation, and assured ‘them that it woud be the pride of his life to refer ta the hearty enthu- slaem with which bis friends in Victoria had greeted hia departure from among them. Mr. Train resumod his seat amid great and long-continued chocring. The Hon. tho CuzixcTor ov Customs proposed—The commercial prosperity of the eolony of Victoria,” and re- ferred to the importance of the port of Molbourne as be- ipg scecnd cnly to those of London and liverpool. Ho bezged to coupie with the tcast the name of the Vice-Pre- rigent, Mr. Westgarth, | (Obesrs:) Mr. Weercarts was recorved with cheers. After paying a high compliment to the Cellector of Customs for his ur- banity and the readiness ho had always shown to give the fullest information concerning his department, Mr. Wost- rth remarbed on the eommercial importance of the co. my, acd elaimod for Victoria the honor of being the first eolovy in tho British empire. Mr. A’BecKET, M.J..C., in a short but pithy speech, proposed the toast of ‘The Press.” He enlarged upon the yalao and importance of an independent press, and stated ft to be bis opinion that the press the colony was honest and indepenaent, (Choers.) Mr. Mackinnon, in returning thanks, said they wo. v iu- debied to American boys for the introduction ot the prac- tice of shouting “Morning’s 4y,’’ *‘Morning’s Herald,” and “Morning's Argus.” ‘fhe press was also much in- éebted for its clrenlation on the diggings to American conveyance ; and he could soarcely look on that braneb of industry or mercantile pursuit which had not been im- proved by Amerfean enterprise and American exaraple, Tho Vict Cuainax proposed the hoalth of the Chair- man, Wm. Hammill, Fsq., as resident of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hamar, the Chairman, briefly responded. Mr, D.&. Cauvuirs, proposed the health of the gentle. men who was about to take charge of their guest—Capt. Fiske, of the ‘Dashing Wave.”” Captain Vicker, in reply, mace a most entertaining rpeech, He bad heard a great deal that eveming about +verything colonial, but be had not heard a word about Yonkeo enterprise and clipper ships. He wished to know what they would be without these, which ht them their letters from their wivee and sweethourts?—without Yenkeo tars and Yankee akippers to woke them go? (Cheers and laughter). IIe was proud to moet the rep- rorentatives of the 0/4 country, from whese stock be orginally came; and he prayed that never might thowe two countrier, England and America, come into collision, tor “When Greek meets Grook, then comos the tug of war.’ He was surprised to find that having done go much as they hed for the towns, they had done no more for the shipping, and the fault he had to find with Englishmon in th to ia respect was that they put for generations ceme, In America they built only to arawor the 0 of the generation in which they lived, and Re thought if they were to follow this plan and build cob wharves which would last fifty years, they would raise onovgh revenue cut of there to extend their scope and ‘ueefuiness when they were required for the fntare, (Cheers). ‘The Cuumaan conearred with all that had failea from Mr. Wer, Castors. Bat it was jeawng task to propose the teastofa pales Es among them as an Sess pete sek oS moan that term. General ed 'o be de'ermined that existed i be witbout couse, that there wee alreacy ‘-uniocked’”’ a requied by the people, times theft number. [A voico—This ever beard thet.) He believed it had been mainly to the surveyor 1a] that this bad been accom! He boped the government would turn their the wants of the colony in the eonstrucuoa as de believed they would be the means good. (Cheers. ) ‘The SurvaYOR GENERAL said he believed that every t- entity to posseas ibe lavds had been given to the colonists, who cculé have ax mach Jand as they fairly could desire: He bad dene his utmost to ley the fullest info: concerning } le cepartment betore the eolony. and abou! do all in his power to estavlish a network of interna) ecmmunication ty. means of railways. Unless steps were taken to ertablieb railways in this colony it must inevi- «a tke for he i tably deciine. (Cheers.) Mr. Traiy pro) “Mr DS Coacie as the Presi- dent of the Cricket Ciub,’’ which was drank with musical: tenors. Mr. Camrnzi. haying responded, proposed the health of “Mrs, Train, che titt . frains aud the expres Trains,” witbe, Tass ef "The Ladies” waa teaponned $0 by toast of + ns”? was Tei tr. A’Bechet?, M. L..C. “Mr. Cruikebank, the Prince of the Squatters,”’ was: ~he next toast. Mr. Cruixsuank ssid be cid not know why bo was de-- signated the *‘Prince of the Squa‘tera,’? bat all be wanted for the aq Ghee. hereyiod was falGlment of engegemente. If the procle cid not wish that those ea- segements shovld be fulfilled ‘they ought to be pre to pey compepsa'ion, If the: 4 to have the Co civioed among them, why 15 say, but let vim have bis rharo. had, sh and mage Jand worth nothing native: aad bare ing done 50 he th:.ught they were entit'ed toa fee simple. But since their interests had been ee ac'ed as good coionists and paid the sume had” been levied on them. The press of the ¢ Hed been, runping a race for popularity; the member: the press did not care for the pecple—it was popularity they wanted ; bad cn the squatting question they had ail been one- sided. The AwFRican Coxsvt. proposed the banking Interest, which was retponded to by Mr. NcArchur soa Mr, Bab- cock, the aie pet ‘men observing that not the least: gratefal of Mr. acis ainco he came among thew i age leaving « checque for £20for the Metbourne Hoa~ Pit ‘being now about half-past 5 o'clock, the meeting broke up. Arrest oF THE TSLLER OF THE WASHINGTON Bayk, N, FOR EMARZZLEMENT.—Un Saturday after- noon, Deputy Chief Ham was oalled upon by the direo- tors of the Washington Bankto arrest Caled B, Atkins, teller of that institution, on #1 zled $14,000 of the funds of the vank. Tt will be remem- dered that in December last packeges of money from the Soffelx Banx v the Warhwgton and one other bank of this city were muirsing. the former package con‘aning the svm cf $7,000, This package the officers of the Sufolkc Bonk were potitive they had dehvered to the officers of the Washington; 2ut wis was cemed, and up to time it bas not been found. Suspicion fell upon Mr. At- kine, and a watch was kept upon his proceodiags, Om Monday lust he seemed to be aware that the eye ef the cosbier was upon him, and was in an excited and ner- vous state, The circumsianee most suspicions was tho finding $2,800 m pills of the Boylston Bank among hie baJances, which tbe President of the bank ascertained on Satur dey had been borrowed by Atkins of the teller of the Boylstop Bank, in order to make bis account. He then chargeo Atkins with borrowing this money, which he cevieo. when officer Ham was sent for. It was then noticed that Atkins had moved his overcoat from creend of the reom to the other. Am examination showed cirectly under the place where the coat first hurg bogus checks to the amount of $7,300, and it is supposed that there checks were intended to make up & Ceticiency of $7,000, whi on examiuation, appeared ta existin Atkins’ accounts. He was arrested ‘aud bis resi- dence at Chelrta rearched, but nothing was found there- ota suspicious character. Yesterday, after being in custody for nesrly twenty-four hours, he confessed that he hod been a ¢efaulter to the bank to the-amount of $7,298 10, which sum he said he had loaned to a brother, expecting to make {t good before bis accounts were ex- amined in April. As to the $7,000 package which was missed in December last, he denies all knowledge of the matter. He is but 24 ofage. Mr. Ham a will to-day make a complaint sgainst bim for the em! 5 Wo are informed thst the $7,240 which Atkins took from the bank to lend his brother has all been taken within a montb past, wita bis brother’s promise that it should be returned early in March.—Boston Yraveller, .Feb. 25. Census or Sr. Louis.—According. to the censua just taken, the population of St. Louis is aa follows:— Winte 119, 054 Copital invested in same. Number of hands empl. Phyficiana, Clergymen. No occupation. Bowne Ur rue Ice at Prrrspure.—Yesterday, ors James Atkin on, agent for tho underwriters, as- sited by Mr. John Rogers, a gentleman who has had considerable experience lasting ice, was engaged om the Monon; river, meking experiments in the blow- ing up of the {ce field there, The experiments hereto- fore at this place and other points, were made with stone or glass jugs, but yesterday, wrought! iron jars, such as are used for the transportation of q ver, were employed, and with much better suescss. Hack explosion made s hole thirteen in diameter, through» ice thirteen inches thick, and causing a shock that could be felt one hundred and fifty fect. It is balievod that with there jars, the ice, from the dam to the point, cam readily remove; en the river ecmmences to break up.—Pitsbury Post. Feb. 21, sa Victm or THe Srorm in Matnr.--Mr. Alvin Kittredge, the man who was buried up by the saow storm of Sundny night, died during the nigat on Monday, not- withstanding all the efforts of some of our best phys/elang tomave his Ifo, Ibis, in fact, only qanderfal duet he survived the terrible exposure at all. While coming in iron Pusbaw Pond, om Sunday evoning in the storm, he become exhausted when near the railroad track at Camp- dell Hil: and his companion Grover, was obligad to leave him, and reached his own house, two milos from the city, about Ho clock at night, almost ia a porishing condition? Whether from the exhausted state of Mr. Grover, or from the ifbpossibility of getting aid at that time of night, or from soine other reason, it appeara that no alarm was raized in regard to Kittredge’s situation, unti! Monday morning, when a force was raised, and an attempt made to break through the drifts and reach the spot where he was left. About noon, the distance was accomplished; but: hod it not been for ‘Kitteedge’s dog, who faithfully ree mained by his master through the whole time, he would not bave been found—buried as he was in the snow, with: the excepticn of his face, which, we understand, the dog had kept uncovered. He was placed on a locomotive aa soon as possible, and brought to the city, and the at- tendanee of Drs. Hamlin, lield and Rich, and other aid, rocured at once, He lingered about twelve hours, but is sife could not bo saved. The snow prevented ghis being frozen, but his vital energies wore entiroly exhaust- ed. Mr. Kittredge was a respectable wheelwright, and ate wife and one or two \dren.—Bangor Courizr, SurerpE OF A SPIRITUALIST AND INVENTOR—A. man named Thomas R. Williamson committed suicide im the city prison esterday morning, between 8 and 90’elock. Tle had boen arrested the day before for inecent ex- posure of his person. He was a spiritualist and # has been supposed by some that he was partially insane, and and that tho excitement causod by his belief in that doctrine, together with his arrost, induced him to close his life in such an untimcly menner. He hed tried to bleed bimself to death Ly opening the veins in both arius, tut probably thinkiag it too slow a process, took his shawl and ete himeelf, by suspending it to the S tail of the bedstead. When found by the keeper hi ay wns warm, and en ineffectual attempt was made to recuscitate it. ‘oroner held an injuest snd rend- ered a yentiet inaccordance with the above facta. He wae about 40 years old, and lived at 67 Frankfort street. His family consisted of a wife and child. A note was found in bis overcoat pocket, which contained the followieg:— “1am abused—misreprosented. Oh do love you, my (iood bye, vi we meet again. vw. something ofa mechavie, and had invented a ‘and a short time since @ now coal crate, His family oro loft in deep atiliction by the sad ov Clava. land Plaindeder, Fb, 2. Rallread in Broadway. 10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, Taw in some of the New York papors last week, that some speculators were pushing at Albany to get # grant for a rallrond in Broadway. Happening the otner day to be in one of the Huson River Railroad cars, I beard @ gentleman tolking vory loud about a railron? in Broad way, and | guossod who it was—an Honorable, as they call him, from the ward in which I live. Upenone of hit friends saying that be was opposed to a rattroad fa Droadway, this Honora ole asked ine loud volee, * who is opposing 8 raitroad ia Uroadway i?’ And then he an- awored himsolf in this way—“‘The aristoceats, who Sive ty town and ride in their own carriugos, thoy we the oues.’? J thonk bo wns baif right, for J am one ot a vary largo. and a* wo think ouso.ves, very reepectatlo class, who drive our own carriogos every day—up and dewa Hrosdway, and from riyor to river, joaded with fiour, beef and pork, dry goods, forelgn and omostie, taa, colfeeand ugars, and now and then a cast: of brandy. ‘We are opposed ta any moro city railroads. Oar going iv enough obstructed new. Arailroadon Broadway, uhe back sone of New York, would ase ns wp entirely, We could never got across in going from river to rivor, I think that the speculators, who are so fast after a railroad which will y Greatly interfore with those whe are trying to get a next living. would be better employod in pushing romething honest, than in pushing afters ‘railroad iz Broadway”? A CARMAN.