The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1856, Page 4

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We are stil! without news of the Bi nth day out. m correspondent announces that rday adopted Mr. Marcy's reply to rd Clarendon, and that it, together Crampton to- Hema, She is i 4 confirmatory n of the town of iven on oar first ne of strife state page. Persons direct from the that the townspeople made n> opposition to the ar- wxsta by the Deputy Marshal, but that they refused % deliver up their # 28 required; where- upon § ues, who nmanded the posse, pened fire npon the town with w y. Another geformsnt, however, in ssbitants firel en the attacking part discrepancy is imma. ed to ashes, and the With re- is known, The town been r proalevery party are mast gard to the loss of life no but it is believe The is rapidly nearing Zay wonders. onse of Repre- ments fi uct of both parties friends in thei proba! apecti tes. There {i however, in the manner of im Mov 8 express theiy in™ @ignation m of loud sounding ‘arolina are sub. stimonial of the r affray were granted pow sons and papers. Mr. Weller presented connect California so introduced bills ion of ry roads from the ry of Missouri to Carson Valley, Poso to Fort Yuma. Mr, Pugh, of >cech in opposition to the admission » the Union ander the Topeka consti. as jutroduced designed to protect who may discover Jepssits of guano, sintion was adopted calling for ative to the work on the Capitol and n. Therelappeare§to have been a woful waste of the public money in connection with the expenditures for this work, and an investi- gation will, it is alleged, develope some startling frauds. Mr. Kelly, of this city, obtained leave to print a speech, proving that the soft shells are, as fompared with the hard shells, the orthodox de- moctacy of New York. Mr. Kelly is of opinion that the sofis will be admitted to the Cincinnati Convention. The exoursionists to the Fishing§Banks in the steamer Robert L. Stevens, on Sunday, respecting whose sadety serious apprehensions were entertained, reached the city yesterday by various routes, having sustained no further injury than that occasioned bya severe fright. The steamer also arrived yesterday, in tow ofatug. She was run into by the schooner Francis A. Goodwin, Her damage is estimated at two thousand dollars. The schooner was unharmed We give a graphic account of the accident and its incidents elsewhere. Messrs. Farnsworth, Walters, Lyster, Morrison, Creighton and Hall, who have been dancing at upon the United States authorities for the past month, to answer a charge of filibustering, were yesterday, on motion of counsel, discharged by Judge Betts, the District Attorney being unable to Produce the necessary witnesses. The latest advices from Canada indicate the rea toration of nearly all the recently resigned ministers under the direction of Mr. Tache, who is assigned the Pren: f Sir Allan MeNab. Gout aster Ke of w Orleans, has besa tried on the cb rloining money from let ters, and acquit The following ason Satarday posted on the books of the Baltimore Exchange: —The brig ‘ i ford, bound from Baltimore for Mall J has bee + G4 Point for having a n writes, “that Mr, ard. erts, the pilot of eaid brigNhad been arrest and the crew were lodged in jail ‘xt Hampton.” negro crew on bi Phe ca Ht ed f kn npleee jon of the tory is p sbably incdtect. We 20 law that would justify such iin am, essel was saspefed of having runawKey 1. In that case they would be negrocs on! tained foram examination; er ta the event of the vessel putting; into that place for any puvpese, with a black crew, they would be lodged in jail for aafe ‘keeping vatil she was ready to depart. Qe of our eorrespendents in China, dating at | Shang hae, Foo-chow, and “at sea” along the coast, during the month of January, sends ua three letters sontaining a large amount of matter, which wil | be found highly interesting, entertaining, and really | useful We publish them this morning. The writer | descrites the coast scenery, which is visible when appreeching Shenghae, and also gives au able statis- tical resume beth of {he export trade and genera business importance of thut city. The social en- joymentes which are-within reach of the traveller are also ailaded to, as weil as the rare adventures which are to be met with on one of de luge eactera Steamers. It would appear thet the navigation of the Yang-tze-Kiang is anything bet pleasant in rongh weather, as well as being dangerous at all times, owing 0 the hordes of pirates which infest the waters. Foo-chow is avery ljarge and curims old city, having an immense trade. Ite population is quite extensive. In one of the letters we have aa accountof its ares, iukabitaats, rulers and public bu Idings, which is the result of the re- marks made by three observant sons of “ Young America” when ona tour within its walls. Mer cantile men, young and old, will find mach which concerns them in these letters, both as regards the mode of doing business and the currency prevailing amongst our Eastern friends. Captaiu Rrown, of don, who took a valuable o: a a the Per Chipa, and the disappointuents which he met with moda apd Hekodadi are reported. vhe Babamas we have files from Nassau, ‘o the 14th inst. The weather during several had been exceedingly hot, and summer was «tin. Attorney General Hop. G.C. Ander- son, with Rev. Henry Capern, who for many years has presided over the Bapti. arch in the colony, The Royet Stare ing had been don from 189,000 to 2¢ many of the p: s heavy rain itis to be be gathered for the next five or we have dates frm rican prod nt supply tes of cotton yesterday embraced al 1,500 a 1,500 bales, part of which was in tri at unchanged prices. Flour was som active, but closed at about the quotations current ay. Wheat advanced about 2 Southern red brought $1 65; Weste $153 a $1 55,and goolto prime Southern wi $1 £38 $185. Corn was in good demand, fair sales for export, at full prices. Pork ady e from 75c.a $1 per borrel. Lard was firmer, with sales on the spot, and to arrive, at full prices. Sal ofsugars were confined to about 500 bhds. C museovado at steady prices. Transactions in fee were limited, and prices unaltered. A {air } ness wie done in freights to porte in Great Britain. For Liverpool about 5,000 bbls. four were envaged, at 2s., and 15,000 a 20,000 bushels grain, in bulk and bags, at Sd.a dja. Progress of the War—The Price of Peace. The plot thickens. Outrage begets outrage, and every catburst of rage on one side leads to corresponding outburats on the other. If the country were actually ptcaged in civil war the Marguage of the party press could not be more vielent, more incendiary, more cubversive of all law, order, gool geverament and common senee. Yesterday, tue New York Daily Times overflowed with rage ai the “ ruffians,” the “ an- veges” who had resolved ‘ia their vindistive hatred” to “ slanghter” the men of Lawrence: The senior co-laborer of the Zins, the Now York Zyibune, ig still more violent. It positive- ly curree the “myrmidons of border raffianism,” the ‘‘ villain assailants,” whose rumored attack on the city of Lawrence wa» “one of the most execravle crimes recorded in history,” and whose “ gigantic wickedness” caused alf ihia “ devastation and butebery 4 characterizes Southerners as “ base and oratel,” “ fero blackguards,” given to “cowardly, malig: and atrocious conduct,” and inevitably proae to “ atrocities and outrages :” and it considers that no man oan be their friend unless he be willing to “ekulk, to prevaricate and to lie.” Nor are the organs of the nigger drivers one whit behind those of the nigger worshippeie ia violence, bloodthirstiness and rage. The Rich- mond Wiig is “rejoiced” at the savage as eault of Brooks on Sumner; talks of his “slanderous back,” snd hopes that “the ball (i. ¢ personal outrages) may be kept in motion, and that Seward and others may catch if next.” The Richmond Exaniner—~once a moderate able journal—-aays of Senator Somner that, “when caned for cow- ardly vituperation, he falle to the floor an in- anintste lump of incarnate cowardice.” Sach ere ibe lengths of folly and nonrenee and ra. jose violence which the party journals ot this touniry have reached. The leaders are not behind the papers. Their language, their tone, their plans, are as wild and senzeless as the articles we have quoted. They are prepared to go as far as the most rabid editor. Nor is there any differeace arieing from locality. At Richmond and at Boston, at Charlestoa as at New York, the spirit of the politicians is the same. They are al), everywhere, for fighting, and violence, and destruction and bloodshed. If they cannot be muzzied and got out of the wag, we shall all be cutting each other’s thronts before a twelvemonth, because we cannot agree about the best way of treating our negroes. Is thie the wind-up of the republic from which America, from which Anglo Saxons, from which humanity and the world expevied so much? Have we lived eighty years—the only tree republic on the globe—fought our way, in epite of hostility from all Europe, and organic difficulties of our own, toe position not second to any living Power, in order that Dow we may give monarchista the satisfaction of seeing us combine to commit suicide? Have the principles of Jefferson and the maxims of Wash- ington, and the teachings of the fathers and the preachings of the clergy brought forth so little fruit that we are going to war now, in our eightieth year, for as trivial # matter as i prince as the pretext of a war i There is no bypertwle in these inquiries: they are earnest, simple, natural; they issus, apon taneonsly, from the heart of every man who has secn this country grow from the condition of aweak, holf fledged independency to tnat | of one of the greatest empires in the wort who has watched cur trade swell year afcor yeer, until now we feed and clothe half the human race, and onr Juxuries give employ- ment to a large part of two great nations; who bas seen our ships increase yeur after year, until now there la not @ sea that does no. reflect back our flag, or a wind that does not swell American canyase; who has felt, in Ea- ) NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, -MAY 27, 1856. rope, that the country to which the eyes and hearts cf all good men turn with fond yearn- ing is the United States, and that that coun- try is his own. There is no question at all—it isa naked truth, that uniees theese upprincipled, infamows denagogues who are doing their best to vet the pecple by the ears and to array the six- teen millions of the North against the nice millions of the South, can be silenced sod crushed, all these bopes will be dashed, all this prosperity will be gone forever, amd young men woo read these lines may live toold ege, and never keow wha’ itis to have a single day cf uobroken peace. It seems an siti prospect; but the voice of history ie Clear; nothing else cau heppen unless the poli- te wis, tee traders in nigger capital, can be entirely conquered and overwhelmed. Unless tae congervative masses are willing fo rouse then=Ives and refuse to pay the least attention to the nigger driving jaggle to come off at Ciscinzati, aud the nigger wor- shipping juggi+ to come off at Philadelphia, nothing can be)p the country. If the people at large—farmere, merchants, manufactarers, every uaa who would love anything by the tuin of the repnolio—choose to bresk dowa with a single hicw the two nigger organiza tiops—the one casiling ite self demograt, the ether republeen- it cam be done; and that simply by the «lection of unpledged electors thia tall. One choroagh, complete, aucompro- mi+ing deteus would crush the two nigger par- ties 20 effectually that the country wonld have peace for ome time aflerwards; aod it might be possible to define terms of general accom- modstion on ihe & queeion. Unless this victory be secured oy the conservatives ia the way we have indicated, the catastrophe at Lawrence abd the anvault on Senator Sanner sre fair symptoms ui what will become every Gay occurrences du the next four years, Saints anp Sowers—A New Pacretcarorn.— We sce thut some of the Know Nothing papers in this civy have been throwa into a state of great excitement by the aunouncement of the ceremonial which is to take place on the let o° done at St. Mary’s church, Hoboken, om the ccowtion of the translation of the relics of St Quietua, martyr, which have been presented to the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Cauvin, by Pepe Pius IX. Of all the saints in or out of the calendar, we should imagine that the holy man vho bore this name would be the least exceptimable to uur con'emporaries, If sainis exercire auy in- fluence ovcr the affaira of this sinfal world, St Quietus i» just the controlling power that we Wabt a¢ Wr present stormy crisis of our affairs, Between sowdyism in the church, roadyisi in the Senute and rowdyiam ia our uotels, we want some more efficient peace preszerversthan our pulpitdrom persons, waiter-slaying senators and eommolent policemen. We, therefore, approve highly of any fresh auxiliaries to the conscrvatism of lav and order —be they the bones of dead saiata, or what we vbonid much preter, the realization of hiving ones. There is more in che philoso phy of the Catholic church in this reapeot than its opponents give it credit for. The in- fluence exercised over the miad through the medium of euch dogmas cau be most usefully employed. There iss poetry and beauty in them which fascinate the imagination aad which prepare it for the reception of more ma- terial truths. The bittcrest enemies of Catho- liciem cannot but edmit that to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was owing the firet elevation of woman in the social scale Until that sublime idea first taught men to ex- amine into all the purposes and bearings of her mission, she was regarded as little better shan e domestic slave, As St Qaietus may possibly exerciee a soothing \inence over some of the angry ele- ments Wid are at work amongst ne, we can bave no pov ble objection to bis translation to cur soil. Wo will even go farther, and say thet if there is any advantage to be derived from the presence of euch mementos, we ought to import them ona larger scele. The Pope, who, we believe, is sadly in want of money, would probably let us have a shipload of them on advantageous terms, Why not raise arvdscription, and do the thing handsomely At the same time, we must cautio: Archbishop Hughes, who is a sensible aad practical man in the maia, not to be led into extremes by the encouragement thus given bim. He must bear in mind that ridicule is a more dangerous weapon than abuse, and that if he should carry his taste for osteology too far he will run the risk of being styled the Barnum of the Romish church. AND Parso: Potties —The disgraceful scene which has recently been enacted in the Senate chamber et Washington has been eager. ly reized upon by the Beocher class of.par- sons in New York and New England asa text on which to construct inflammatory harangues from the pulpit. Theee parsons are becoming as virulent and foul mouthed asthe very poli- ticians themselves. Indeed, they rather ex. ceed the latter in the coarseness of their poli- tical sermons and in the vituperative and treasouable language in which they indalge. They hove brought the pulpit into disgrace, aid have degraded the temple of the living God into something hardly above the level of Tam- many Hall. Human natare is still human na ture, however much we may try to modify it by conventionalities. Mr. Sumner, in his studied discourse on Kansas, gave gross ot. fence to the State of South Carolina and her venerable Senator. Mr. Brooks, with that over. fervency of disposition which a Southern sua —and perhaps the Irish blood which he is said to have in his veins—impart, acted rashly—in- excusably so. But he was actuated by the same idea as might have Inspired « Rhoderic Dhu in 6 similar case — He rights such wrong where it be given, Although ’iwere in the Cvurt of Heaven, However oppoced to our sense of propricty Mr. Brocke’ conduct in the affair was, we must not forget that there wasa great provocation to one of his temperament In the speech of Mr. Sumner; and ft seems, after all, to be but aaia- significant matter to raise such o grand huilaba- loo about. It seems to us that those very par ‘ons who make it the text of their political eeimone, are themeelves in & great measure re- eponsible for the act, from their systematic of. forts on every Sabbath to fan aud keep alica the epirit of diecord between the North and Scath. The poisoned chalice is commended to their own lips, Like the Pharisece of old, they can sce the mote that is in their brother's *y?, but cannot discern the beam that is ia their own eye. We commend to them the mo ral of the text. Benator James’ New Patent Law—A New Por Senator James, tbe Chairman of the Commit- tee cn Patents, has reported to the Senate and recommended the passage by that body of an ect entirely remodelling the whole system of patents in this country. We have carefally ex- amined this new project, and find it impossible to approve even asipgle suggestion it contains, It is indeed impossivle that the Senate will not regard it ag an attempt to organize another epoils department at Washington, with Limitless meane of making money, of buying up and selling out friends—-in short, another land sys- tem, another Ingian Department. It is only a bill—a project— but it was heralded tothe world by a most singnlar uranimity of endorsement by the newspaper correrpondents at Washing- ton. It was saddeuly approved, and go ear- neetly spproved by al? the news reporters—the telegraph was so liberaliy employed to herald and pggclsim its birth, that to suggest the pos soni Pot ita not being an excellent measure was a epecies of heresy, Now, the bill before as ig perhaps the most curpingly devised acheme by which great pow- er Waa to be concentrated in the Patent Office, and vast means of corruption secured to the Patent Commissioner, which has ever been de- Vised in this country, It starts off in the firat section by giving the Commissioner judicial functione. The second makes an inventor of a man woo steals a work not discovered or pad- lished in thiecountry. The sixth gives to psten- tees and assignees extéasion from five to tweaty years, at tne option of the Commissioner. By the presen’ laws the patentecs alane have tho right cf extension after fourteen years to twebty-one years, on proof that the inventor bas derived no advantage from his patent ‘Lhe sixth sectica cuts off the iaveator eatireiy, and conters the right of extension upon tue assignee. The seventh section examots patents from attachment for debt. This is evi- ently intended to cover the operations of tae speculators, and even to sbicld them against the obligations they may bave incurred to the juventor himself, The Spaniards have o maxim that it is better to be an executor than on heir; so with Mr. James, it is by far better tobe am assignee than aa iuventor. By the ninth section the Commissioner of Patents ia authorized to appoint limitless agenia The power toappoimt draws with it a reasmiable Compensation, Then comes the organic powers of the The eleventh section takes away : the Chief Justice and the Jadges of ihe ( i Courts, and concentrates upoa the Comwmis siover the final decisi.n of all questions relab ing to the granting and extending of patents. It is followed in the succeeding section by an claborate system of fees on the hearing of all questions before the. Commiesioner—and these may be enlarged trom the sum of about thirty dollars under existing laws, to near three hundred and fifty dollara, It is easy to sec that patent differences would be wonderfally multiplied ander suck an arrangement, and that the Commissioner would be exposed to terrible temptatious to prolong disputes. The thirteenth section takes from the Courts the power of determining the validity of patents and confers it upon the Commissioner ; and the eighteenth section gives to that functionary a million a year of printing patronage, which, if we con- sider che immense power proposed to be con- ferred upon him otherwise in the Lill, we can- not regard as too much. Now, here is a echeme of magnificent propor- tions. Under it the office of Commissioner of Patents will be worth, in the hands of any first rate politician, five hundred thou:and dollars eyear. An honest man could not fail to get rich out of it—that is if his honesty was con- venticnal only, and he was willing to take “ali the law allows.” The literal of the bili is this —that it proposes to act up a patent fraud ma- chine, by which fortunes are to be ground out of spy conceivable height, dep’: and breadth. Pass it, and Colt and Goouyear, and all the patent men at Washington—the whole “ five thousand assignees”’—will be at once the friends of the Commissioner. five thousand assignees, with millions of value ex- empt from execution! They can afford to be liberal—they will be liberal. Tea to one they are liberal now even, in antivipation of the pareage of Mr. James’ bill. The Committee on Patents, then, think it well enough to enlarge the number of inveu- tors--to increase the eum total of American geniuees—by special enactments, They make & man a discoverer of everything not invented or published in this country! That is ceriain- Jy an original way of rewarding merit—ths most expert thief is not only protected by the Jaw, but all the people are to be required to pay him a tax for twenty years, as a reward fer the enterprise he manifested in importiag an invention before somebody else. If we refer to the simple fact that the city of Washington maintains thousands of agents -land agents, claim agents, patent agente, pension agents, corporation and railroad agente—an army of mercenary leeches, suck- ing at the treasury, besieging Congress for ‘be paseage of laws by which the treasury is to Le tapped—bribing, corrupting and demoralising members—we shell be eble better to under- stand the object and ecope of the new Patent bill. It is @ species of passport to commit legal fraud upon the people. It is a rival effort to make the Patent Office what the Land and Indian offices have ever boen:~a slak of iniquity—a ecene of plunder—a disgrace to the Union. Bat is it necessary thus to put up the in- ventive genius of the country at auctivn? What else is the purpose of the Senate bili? The rights of every inventor by it are lodged in the hands of a Commissioner, without ap- peal; and that functionary, besides posscasing the exclusive power of assigning rewards, is backed by a printing disbursement fund of o milion e year. Vinaista and Mr. Prorce The organ of the Kitchen Cabinet in Washingtoa, in an- nouncing the election in Virginia of two or three delegates for Cincinneti, asserts that the delegation from that State will be against Buchanaa, and adds:—- In thie case the New Youk HeRai, aad olber in'ones travion proseos, have been misceprenaat. ir, political eficet; and fa so dolag they hare injured the cause they have at henrt—the prevention of the re-nomination of Prericemt Perce. The organ is mistaken; it misrepresents our position entirely. We are in favor of the no. mination of Mr. Pierce by the Cincinnati Con- vention. We ere desirous that he should have one more chence to run for the White House, We bave no fears of the result. It the Con- vention willnominste lim, we shall consider it a favor rot tobe crerlecked, Grants ror RariRoaps AND FOR INTERNAL Iu- rRovEMENTS.-—Under the high pressure opera- tions of the omnipotent lobby at Washington, Congress has passed this seesion some four bills donating several millions of acres of the pub- lic land to aid in the construction of railroads im the West and Southwest. Forced through without debate and in defiance of everything like propriety or decency, they have received the approval and signature of the President and have become Jaws. The grant for one State alone—Iowa—absorbs between four and five million acres, and the consequence ia that the public lands there have had to be closed to private entry until the rapacious speculators shall have had their claims satisfied. Two bills of an internal improvement character—for deepening the channel over the St. Clair flats, Michigan, ana for removing obstructions ia the month of the Mississippi—have been also pase- ed thie session, They involved a drain upon the public treasury of perhaps one-twentieth the amount of that which it will require to satisfy one of those villanous railroad grants ; but Mr. Pierce—consistent man that he is— vetoed them on the ground of “constitutional impediments to the progecution of. a system of internal improvements by means of appropria- tions from the United States treasury.” Now, it would require the acuteness of a Philedelphialuwyer to discover how it is that it is unconstitutional to Improve the tracks of commerce by the aid of the géneral govern- ment, and not unconstitutional to donate the public domain in aid of the building of railroads. The mouth of the Mississippi is aa much a highway of national commerce asia the Gulf of Mexico, and the value of the products that annualiy cross the St. Clair flats has been estimated at some hunéred mitlions of dollars, Yet the national government, with Mr. Pierce at its head, has no power to make appropriations for the deepen- ing of these channels, and can, nevertheless, recklessly alienate the public property for the benefit of few unprincipied railroad corpora- tions. The one may be necousary for the secu- rity of life and property, for faciliiating cow- merce, for benefiting the farmers, tho manu- facturere, the producers, and the mercantile classes of those sections of country more inti- mately affected thercsy; put such considera tions have wo weight comparable to the in. ftuence exercised by » corrupting lobby when set in action by schemers, plunderers and mo- nopolists. Therefore, the internal improve- ment bills are vetoed, and the landjobbing railroad bills approved and signed. Now, can any rational, clear-headed man discover the shadow of a reason which could have honestly operated on the President in making this odious discrimination? We can- not believe so. If the constitutional objec- tions tothe one were, in Mr. Pierce’s mind, insurmountable, those same objections applic? with ten times more force to the other. The mode, too, in which the railroad swindles were effected was not unknown to him. It was ne secret in Washington. The speculators and their agents were there in full forca; and the few honest men left in Congress were, under the operation of the new geg law, deharred from the opportunity of exposing the nefarious- nees ofthe schemes. That factalone would have constituted a good ground for vetoing them. But with the full knowledge of the enormity of these swindling measures, end of the mode in which they were passed-—at least in the Houee of Representatives—ihe President ap- proves and signs them, and the land, which is the property of the people, is handed over— in quantities larger than some German princi- Ppalities—to speculators, who regard the gene- ral government as but a1mere institution to be pluodered by such cheats ag themselves. The creation by such means of a system of landed monopolies in this country is sincerely to be deprecated. It will iv time lead to de- plorable results, Bat perhaps the worst effect of this overshadowing cloud of corruption at Washington is, that it cannot but react upon the moral atmosphere of the country at large. Tbe example of our public men must sooner or later spread its contagion through the peo- ple; and when that effect is once produced, then farewell republicanism and liberty; for without public and private morality a republic cannot exist. Let our citizens see to it that the great governmental fabric raised by our fathers, cemented by their blood, and rendered sacred by their virtees, be not undermined aud demolished by the dishonesty and corrap- tion which taint the very atmosphere of the national capital. Mr. Crampton’s Dismissau.—It is detizitely understood that Mr. Crampton is to receive his paseporis to-day at noon, and that a most coo- ciliatory letier to the British government will explain at the same time that the Minister is dismissed on personal grounds alone, and that this government secka no rupture with that of England. There will be none, certainly : there is no animosity in either country, save in tho bosom of a few politicians whose national prejudices are their stock in trade ; and under no circumstances would the dismissal of a Minister, on no contested view of principle lead to any interruption of the amicable relations exigsing between countries so closely allied as Great Britain and the United States. At the same time, it is clear that it is not the fault of the administration that we ure not at war with England. The manner in which the contreversy has been carried on, the lawyer- like special pleading of Mr. Marcy, the grossly insulting articles of the President’s special organ, show that it was the hope and the calculation of Franklin Pierce to obtain a second term as Mr Madison did by declaring war on England. Had Mr. Marcy behaved as Mr. Clayton did, when he dismissed Mr. Pous- sin for supposed Insolence, there would have been no trouble at all. The English would have received Mr. Crampton coolly, and would have sent a new Minister without a word of contention. Pierce tried to embitter while Marcy tried to lengthen out the dispute; be- tween them and Clarendon aud Palmerston it almost aeeumed national proportions, The last despatch of Lord Clarendon, however, pre- cludes the posribility of any rupture; and the only effect of Mr. Crawptou’s dismistal will probably be tooverthrow the Palmerston go- yernment in England, Syxaror Sumver.—Much parade ix made about this gentleman just now, and the repubti- cans are straining every nerve to make a real martyr of him, It ia with real sorrow that the Tribune is forced to admit he is getting better. Fle is described ac being the most wonderful scholer, the most eloquent orator, and the mort finished gentlumen ever produced in this gourtry. Tet, sovebow, bis speech, which hag } xix! been pretty extensively circulated throughout the country, herdly bears out these eulogies: It is @ very singular compound, in which vio-. lent personalities and very coarse, ungentle. manly lergusge occur quite frequently. To realize this, let us suppose a foreign case: let us suppore that M. de Lamar- tine were to ca!) M Troplong or M. de Persigny a “skupk;” end talk of his “ filling the Senate chamber witb stench when he switched hia tongue;” thie would not be very gentlemanly, would it? Or let us suppose that some suck member of the Britisn House of Peers se Lord Derby or Lora E:ieuborough were to take am opportunity when the aged and venerable Lord Lyndhurst were absnt, to say that he couldn't open his mouth without lying, to insult the in- firmities or his age by ulluding to the “loose ex- pectoration of his speech,” and to sneer gene rally at tbe oid mao, st his birthplace, and his country; this would not appexr on this sida the water to be soy very striking proof of good manvers, or delicacy, or scholarship, Yet these were the words Mr. Sumner applie® to Senators Douglas and Butler. There is 20 ex:use, of courae, for the bratal.. ity of Brooks, whose assault on a Senator im the Senate chamber, in the manner and way described, cannot he too severely reprohateds. But all the wrovg waa not on his cide, aud the truth ough not to be concealed because hie offence was the more glaring and shocking. . Both men, avd bein outrages—for in soma: sense Mr. Sumrer’s speech was an outrage—avg typesof the pur'ies to which they belong. Burton's T'ncatre—Ur. rey. | ‘The eppearsnee of an ciaborace oriticism, of nearly t7q eolumni in lento, in one of our daily contemporaries, the authorshiy of worch esm hardly be mistake, rather: Prejaciowd as be orehsnd against the new piece by Mra Bouiciean't, now playing at this house, The ausplclousie enthuyiaso sod exaggviated cuaracter of the excomiung paceed upon the auth raud ‘he actor—for Mr, Bourcloaulé corjuing these two individusities in hia own person—« togetber with certuia poetical and high down santimentaile ties in regard to the beroine or tuat piece, in which newse Paper critice xre not ia tne hadit of indulgieg, reminded Us Of gome Old famuior tricks attributed to the Londom playwrigh's, and in which, we belisve, the anthor of “Lone, don Assuraacs’’ iv no! altogether unskilled, We felt jus~ tifled in the concissiin thet so much trumpeting betokened auything bu’ s etrong cenviction of the merit, of the new 6, end we wont prepared to give eur vere ict accordingly. Fowonte wo have cone Mr. Bourcicanit, or rather ha. haa done bimseif, grea: injus.ice. His last creation does not require any iacticions aids to recommend ft to the, favor of tho play going paolie, Sarcastic ag beia in Itt against the versity o he p ess, it is surprising that ha should make inch free nee of itasa weepon against hig own interes's, He mus: have been strusk with the folly of this effort to aoticipaie the judgment of the publia. by the thinness of his audience last might. AU the. finesre, the delicate self laudation, axd the poetical gal lantry cf bis uewapaper clog, failed to muster the Heges in any iorce. The lesacn was a marked oe, and we hopg he will profit by it. And now let us speak of the piece itrelf, Candidly: and witbout prejudice, {t is the best and most artisticallys constructed crame that has been produced om our boarés for many along dey. The plot is ingenious, an@. for onoe original, the sicuations new and effective, the Gialogue spaikiing ond full of sapital hits, and the tran- sitions trom tho pa hetic to the humorous so easy and naturel that one’s feelings are kept in continual! excite- ment. The charac’er of Grimaldi, round whom the in- terest of the who-e piece centres, is one of those fine conceptions like Gracdiather Whitehead and Monsieur Jacques, which but few dramatic authors are happy enough to givo birth to, It has, however, in fimitclg more force aod takes a wider grap of _our sympathies than either of those charasters. <All ¢) merit of the lattercen res in a tow peculiarities. Tha! Grimaldi lies im its exquisite combination of all the deileate susceptibtitties which we find in the others, with: O greater breadth of design. He is at onse slinple-mind- ed, yet deeply versed inthe ways of the world; tender- hearted, yet firm and uncompromising in the hour ep ‘rial, The peculiar construction of its plot haa enabled Mr. Bourcicault to unite with these characteristics some artistic features which impart to it additional interest. Thus, in the scene with-Jalia, and in the dramatic les- sons ot the old man to hi adopted daughter, we see ,the dignity of art vincisated against the vile and grovelling impulses by whieh it {a too frequently trammelied. In @ word, in bie conception of this cheracter Mr. Bourcicault: has soared far above any of his previous efforts, Hed he written but this one pleoe, i: would have been sufficient: to give him @ high place smongat English dramatie authors, Ot hia personation of the part we havo to speak in the tame terms of unqualified praise, In writing i:, he hed evidently adapted it to his own strength, and ha has bad the judgment to make eailent only there fes- tures to which he was conscious of being able to do Justice. The reau't is a delicate and finished per- formance, eked oct by imperceptible shades rather than [by bold effects, but yet complete aud satisfactory: asa whole. Mr, Bourcisault has taken his ideal from tbe I’rencn rather than from the English stage, and the consequence {3 that in the ‘ew parte which he has created tor himself he has the advantage of standing alone. So Complete s success of euthor and actor as we witnessed last wight bss but few precedents in the annals of tha atage. Tue Violet of Miss Agnes Robertsom can hardly be said to bo adopted to her powers, although, as in every- thing tuat she does, ehe fascinated the sudience by the a weetuoss and grace ofher action and the tenderness of ex- pression which she fofured into some of the touching pas rages with which !tabounds. Her husband, we think, hes acted rather @ selfish part in fitting himaelf so well, and in creating for her part which slo iscks stresgth to fill tatisfactorily, Notwithstanding this drawback, the piece is a great success, and will do more for the fame of its author than any of his previews creations. Mr. Bourcicault is traly remarkable man. He not only writes good plays, but acts them well; and, to crown his achievements, literally guides the public to an appreciation of their merits, Bourcicaalt’s; New Lauaa Keene's Varietics=The New Play of «Jane Eyre.” “Jane Eyre,” an adaptation, by John Brougham, from the novel of that mame, which has been underlined for some time, was produced at this cstablishment last night, and was grested by an overflowing and indulgent aug dlence. The same piece, in three acts, was produced at the Bowery theatre some four years sinee, and was deemed a success. It has since been revised, pruned and amplified into five sets, and in this form was presented to the pub- lie last night, . The plot, which only varies from the story sufficiently to give it dramatic interest, rans as follows :—Jane Eyre (iiss Laura Keene) is an orphan, and teacher ina cha- rity school at Lowood, a semi-philanthropio institution, where the pupils are starved and the instructress sab- jected to the most degrading wervituder Jane Byre be- ing @ young Jedy of high spirit and intense aspirations, ia, of course, disgusted, and advertises for # situation se ,overners, She receives an answer from Mise Fairfax, the housekeeper of a mysterious mansion some two miles distant, owned by «& mysterious gentleman named Rochester, (G. W. Jordan); here she is installed, though for what purpose it is difficult to tell, as her principal business seoms to be to ‘‘oblige’”’ an old dowager Lady Ingram (Miss Mery Wells), to “faint” at the idea ef coming in contact with a ‘governess,’ and take moon- ght walks’ in the grounds, where she encounters the fous Mr. Reebester for the first time, on his re- © from ® journey. An intense, mysterious and mutual efinity is [instantly formed, notwithstanding © in the house of Lacy Blanche Ingram (Mise. ix), to whom he ia understood to be batroth- is & good ceal of by-play betwen James: B, Jobnaton), Rochester’s inquiattive servant, 1 (Myre, Carpenter), who constantly walks about, ng beer, esting bread and chedie and talk- ing in myntericus mononyllabies, and seems to be the reporitory of all the secrete of the mysterious mansion. In the meantime Jane Fyre suffers from the Insolence of the enobtirh visiters, the Lady Dowager and her daughter, Lady Blanche, and her dandy son, [ord The- dove [xgram, (@. ¥. Dickineon,) to whom she has ad- ministered & wholesome lesson. Rochester arrives ata alc. the ipewomtanon of sone leshiomadle te ‘