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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1856. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPYICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, cash in advance. THE DAILY HERALD. 2 conte per copy, $1 per annurn WEEKLY HERALD, coory Satucilay, at 6%4 o-mih per sopy, or $8 per annum; the Europein edition, $4 per annum, sy ar’ of Great Briain, oF Bo ny: part of the Continent, h ude poms ye. VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, co taining import ond neice, solicital from any quaeter of the worid~if wad will be Kterally paid for @M@P OOK POREGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE PARTICULARLY JOESTED TO SKAL alt LErreRs AND Pack AGES SENT US. NO NOTICE taken ¢f anomymnows communiaations ck return those rejected JOB PRINTING caccuted with neatness, heap ve and vee patch. ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. We do Volume XXI “AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tursrime @are— ‘Pax Last May—Masxs asp Packs. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Twe Focr Lovers— ‘Voun HeNcien on rue Tort Rore—Ponao. BOWERY THEATRE. Kowery—Tue Stace Sracck Bar wpn—l, 2,3, 4, 5—Tue ToopiEs. LAURA KEENE’S VARIETIES, BakLow—SriTALFIELDS WEAVER, BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Six Decuers ov Ciims—By THe Woon & Minsm JuvENiies. Broadway—Cranissa WOOD'S MINGTRELS, 444 Proadway—Ermiorian Mix oruisy—Tur Miscuizvous MovKay KELLER’S EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—Brnuican axD MscELLaNnovs TABLEAUE—VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, DUSSELDORF GALLERY, 497 Broadway—Vatuapuz PaINTINGS AND STATUSRY-—MakTYRKDOM OF Huss, Ac. THIS F NG. APOLLO ROOMS, 410 Broadway—SacreD CoNceRT AND Gonriimentaky Bennyit to Puy Kove. New York, Sunday, June 15, 18356. The News. ‘The American Anti-Fillmore Nominating Conven- tion held its third day's session yesterday in the Apollo Rooms, Broadway. The committee to whom had been referred the communication from the Exe- eutive Committee of the republican party, reported, through George Law, its chairman, resolutions in favor of fusion and union with the republicans, and of appointing a committee to confer with them. ‘Phe report was adopted, and Mr. Law made aspeech on the subject. The Convention subsequently pro- ceeded to vote informally for a candidate for the Presidency, without any person receiving a majority ef votes. The result of the third and last vote was as follows:— - Jobn C. Frement, of California. sesesees 37 votes Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr., of Massachusetts...... po Robert F. Stockwn, of New nef ‘Wm, F. Joknston, of Per John McLean, of Oi0.........sececceesee eres 2 No choice having been made, the Convention, at half-past 6 P.M., adjourned till Monday, at 12 o'clock M. By telegraph from Halifax we are informed of the total wreck of the ship Pallas, bound from Cork for Quebec, dt St. Pauls, She had one hundred and fwenty passengers on board, seventy-two of whom were drowned. According to the report of the City Inspector, the total number of deaths in this city during the past week was 309, viz.,56 men, 51 women, 117 boys and 85 girls, showing a decrease of 28 on the mortality ef the week previous; of the whole number 6 died ef bronchitis, 7 of congestion of the lungs, 35 of eonsumption, 13 of inflammation of the lungs, 6 of ebolera infantum, 5 of diarrhea, 5 of dysentery, 12 of inflammation of the bowels, 4 of congestion of the brain, 12 of dropsy in the head, 4 of inflamma- tion of the brain, 11 of scarlet fever, 5 of typhas fever, 6 of puerperal fever, 4 of typhoid fever, 3 of palsy, 6 of smallpox, 25 of convulsions (infantile), W0 of croup. 6 of debility (infantile), 17 of maras- mus (infantile), 3 ot measles and 3 of teething. There were also 9 premature births, 38 cases of stillborn and 9 deaths from violent causes. The following is the classification of diseases :—Bones, joints, &c., 1; brain and nerves, 33; generative organs, 7; heart and blood vessels, 8 ; lungs, throat, &c., 82; old age, 3; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 22 ; stillborn and premature births, 47 ; etomach, bowels and other di- gestive organs, 56; uncertain seat and general fevers, 25; urimary organs, 1; unknown, 1. The nativity table gives 232 natives of the United States, 46 of Ireland, 14 of England, 11 of Germany, 2 of British America, 1 of Holland, 1 of Portagal, and 2 anknown. Yesterday afternoon, about half-past five o'clock the eteamer Plymouth Rock, hence for Stonington, when opposite the Navy Yard, ran into the steam- tag Three Bells, causing her to sink immediately. It is supposed that no damage occurred to the P., as she proceeded on her voyage. The House of Representatives met yesterday, and, after receiving resolutions from the Legislatures of Maseachusétts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, rela- tive to the Sumner assault and the recent occurren- ces in Kansas, adjourned till Wednesday next. A private letter from San Francisco informs us that Casey ard Cora, the murderers of Mr. King and United States Marshal Richardson, were to be hung by the VigilanceCommittee at eleven o'clock on the morning of the 22d May, the day after the depar- ture of the steamer. The Isabel, from Havana 10th instant, via Key ‘West, has arrived at Charleston. There is nothing important from Cuba. The ship Diadem, from ‘New York for New Orleans, went ashore on Loo Key, but was got off without material damage, and would proceed on her voyage as soon as the wreckers’ claims were satisfied. The steamship Washington sailed from this port yesterday at noon, for Southampton and Bremen. Bhe carried out 193 passengers and $35,800 in specie. Capt. Jordan, of the brig Hobart, arrived at this port yesterday from Jacmel, reports that on the night of the 21st ult., in consequence of heavy rains having fallen almost without cessation during the preceding three days, the stream called the Orange overflowed, inundating a portion of the town of Jac- mel and destroying between twenty and twenty-five houses. A large quantity of coffee was also washed away. Several persons were drowned, while the survivors with great difficulty escaped in boats that went to their assistance. Owing to this calamity many of the inhabitants were ina state of com- plete destitution. The damage by the flood, not only in the city bat in the interior, was very great. All the banana trees were uprooted, and, together with animals, &c., were washed into the river. The higtfroads had been almost obliterated, and inland travel suspended. As the storm in all probability extended thronghout the island, disastrous accounts from the interior are apprehended. There was considerable excitement in the cotton market yesterday, and the sales embraced about 5,000 bales, and prices closed at about jc.a jc. ad- vanceon some descriptions. Flour was again heavy, ‘and sales were made at a decline of 10c.a 15c., the heaviest falling off being in common grades. Wheat ‘was more active, and the lower qualities were cheaper. Prime to choice Canada white was sold at $1 76 a $1 78; common do. at $1 30 a $1 35, and fair do. at $1 45. Upper Lake epring was at $1 20 a $1 25, and Milwaukie at #1 30. Corn was active, with poor and distilling Western mixed at 44c. a 46c., and good at 49¢. a 53c.,and fair Southern yellow at bby o 57c., and choice at 58c. a 59c., which was an outside price. Rye sold for export at 40c. a 820, Pork was firmer and more active, with free sales of mess at $19 a $19 25, and prime at $1626. Lard was firm, with sales of barrel at lle. Sugars were active and firm, with sales of 1,800 a 2,000 hogs- heads, incladed in which were 400 hogsheads Porto Rico old, at full prices, and 5,000 bags Manila, to arrive, at 8¢., six months. Coffee was in fair re- quest, with good sales of Java and Lagnayra at firm prices. Freights were quite steady to Liver- poo), and firmer for grain to London, with fair en- gw gements 1 botb places, President Pterce and his Future. The defeat of Mr. Pierce at the @incinnati Convention closes his political career, and throws him into a position commanding the sympathy and commisseration of every generous mind. Had he been a greater statesman, a man of more in- tiexible will, and more strongly imbued with the ereential elements of fixed integrity and moral courage, he might have distanced all his compe- titors for the democratic nomination, and receiv- ed even our support im the same disinterested manner as in the campaign of 1852. Although an amiable man, and, no doubt, meaning well, yet having been educated in the political school of Martin Van Buren and Marcy —a school of paltry intrigues, corruption, trea- chery and trickery—he has very naturally, like “his illustrious predecessor,” overreached himself and fallen to the ground. A peculiar weakness of Mr. Pierce has been his great amiability and gencrous inclinations, often leading him into pro- mises of this thing, that thing, and everything for the moment, without thinking of the difficul- ties of performance, under the pressure of the muititudinous and hungry spoilsmen that have swarmed around him. In fact, there are points in his character too amiable and too good for the hard and heartless school'to which he beloags—a school of deliberate and unserupulous hypocrisy, and of the most profligate and terrible corrup- tion. In this, asin some other political schools of this epoch of party. demoralization, honesty, integrity and truthfulness, so necessary in all the relations of social and private life, are utterly abandoned and ignored. We know Sena- tors of the United States who in their i conversations have freely denounced Mr. Pierce as faithless, treacherous and truthless, and who are now making great speeches about the country in glorification of this same unfortu- nate man. The object with these double-tongued orators is doubtless a litile political capital for the exigencies of some future day. And much geod may it do them. We have no further contest with Mr. Pierce as a politician. When, on reaching the White House, he abandoned those principles and that policy upon which we had supported him, we could support him 10 Yonger. We opposed his policy, we opposed his ruinous appointments, we opposed his administration, and we opposed his re-pomination. We have triumphed, and we are content. Mr. Pierce, we trust, in retiring to pri- vate life will retire a better and a wiser man. We hope, too, that with hie past experience his efforts for the remnant of his term in the admin- istration of the government will be of a higher, purer and more beneficent order than those little partisan and sectional expedients which have con- troHed his foreign and domestic policy during the last three years. There are hints and rumors afloat, of a very plausible shape, that since the Cincinnati Con- vention has taken the scales from the eyes of our late infatuated Executive, and brought him to his right mind, he begins to exhibit a decided incli- nation to act like an independent man in his high offi tricks for Buncombe which have taken up so much of his attention heretofore. It is even said that, abandoning his first Kansas policy of con- ciliating the free soilers of the North through the appointment of Governor Reeder and his land speculators, and repudiating, also, his later policy of conciliating the land specu- ators and nigger drivers of the Southwest, Mr. Pierce has resolved to administer the law in Kansas * without fear, favor or affection,” but with strict justice, as between the belligerent parties. This is good news. Let him assume high and independent ground, according to the constitution and the law—the intent and honest meaning of the law in Kansas—and he will soon discover that he lacks neither the power nor the means for ending these border feuds, and restor- ing tranquillity, law and order to the Territory. Let the law of Kansas be honestly enforced, and | latest authentic sources, let the decision of the question of slavery or no slavery be fairly secured to the bona fide settlers of the Territory, and whether they shall decid® for slavery or against it in the organization of a State government there need be no fear of their admission into the Union. With the same patriotic purposes of justice, peace and harmony let Mr. Pierce resume the consideration of our delicate foreign relations, and we think that there will be no difficulty in their pa- cific solution. Mr. Marcy and Mr. Buchanan, during three years of diplomatic correspondence, exhaust- ing reams of foolscap, bottles of ink, and all the diplomatic precedents, wisdom and double deal- ing of the last three centuries, have only compli- cated the troubles under discussion, and excited aspirit of crimination and recrimination which are rapidly at length drifting us to war. Let Mr. Pierce now take Marcy quietly aside, and admonish him that, as the Cincinnati Convention has spoken, this pettifogging in our foreign affairs must be stopped, that Buncombe has ceased to be the game, and that now is the time to act for the country and the American people, irrespec- tive of sections, parties or party conventions. 4 In a word, let Mr. Pierce turn a short cornerin the management of our foreign affairs, and adopt a policy with a strict regard to the responsible duties thus devolving upon him, leaving sectional agitators and filibusters out of view, and it will yet pay expenses. We are quite sure that, in- stead of leaving the White House with the exc- crations and contempt of an offended people, he may thus retire with much of forgiveness for the past, with something of applause, and not with- out the hope of a much higher niche in history than that to which his follies and blunders of the last three years will entitle him. He has had the necessary warnings of the shoals and breakers and the requisite experience, and has a sufficient margin of time yet accorded him for closing up his administration largely to the satisfaction of the country. So let it be. Mow Britannia Rules the Waves. We gave on Tuesday an account of the last wonder in English naval architecture—the independent of the little cliques and little | 121 9 180 veeeela were of no use in the Mexican porte, where the water is shallow, and govern- ment titted out four coasting schooners a3 bomb brigs, each carrying ® Paizhan which would throw shot and shell a distance of three miles, Several small steamers were likewise armed in the same manner, and all the real work done in the war on the part of the navy was accomplished by these snappers, This little equadron was called the Mosquito fleet. Their Night draught enabled them to rum almost avy- where; and as they presented but a narrow strip over the water line, they could not be readily hit either by shore batteries or heavier veseele, The English fleet is an improvement upon the suggestion thrown out here ten years ago, end the descriptive article we give else- where is full of hints for our naval con- structors, While upon this subject, it may be interest- ing to see with what Britannia rules the waves, and we have prepared the following tabular ttatement of the VESSELS IN THE ERITISH NAVY. —STRAMERS—, SAIL YE ——TOTAL—, Guns. Ves. = Guns, Guns, Ves. Guns. 1 1 1 1 50 28 56 30 H 42 462 uz #8 30 i 18 - a Lil wawrl | wel wegeel Salemel seesesstSeascsxssiy i 11 BESSE) | $8281 3811 81 s28ee 111 8Fsel | sti seSsi sai stel l oecbebHeasassosunsesoNnodcasaeuwaumsme ae TE Deel |b ommod wlio 3,418 3 & Total... Carrying 110 10guns,.207 896 237 1,071 to 30 609 @1 1,130 to 60 « m1 29 L413 Blto 90 42) 19 1,537 9110130 1.13 1,300 21 2208 Total..........271 8,936 963,418 967 7,854 Besides the above, there are of STEAMERS, SAILING VESSELS. Screw steamers. «. 2 Receiving and sioreships. 5 Steam storeships 3 Tenders... 6 Steam tugs... 2 Prison sbip vd Steam tenders. 5 Other vessels........... 3 Steam yachts. . 3 = Total.... see ee ee oS The effective force of the British navy is— Steamers ..... lag vessels. This statement has been compiled from the From it it will be seen that the active naval force of Great Britain consists of 271 steamers and 96 sailerse— inall 367 yessele—mounting 7,354 guns. Besides these there are in use as store ships, receiving ships, tugs, tenders, yachts, &c., 25 steamers and 15 sailers, making in round numbers, 407 veesele, of which 296 are steamers, The last mentioned—25 steamers and 15 sailere—aro catalogued as without an armament; and among them is the monster screw steam er Himalaya, of over 5,000 ¢ na, and at one time in the Cri- mean war used to transport at asingle trip , 2,300 men and 800 horses. It is popular belief that there are in the Britich navy over 600 vessels; butif so, the balance must be transports or useless hulks, that are not wortby of mention in an official catalogue. Our list is the entire number up to the month of April, 1856, as given in the offi- ciel records, There were added to the navy between April 1, 1855, and April 1, 1856, 135 steamers, Of these, one mounted 101 guns, one 90, and there were one each of 51, 32, 31, 30 and 20 guns, eix of 6 guns, one hundred and two of 4 guns, and twenty of 2 guns. These emall veesels are the steam gunboats alluded to above. Of the 271 steamers it will be seen that 207 carry less than 11 gune—nearly all belong- ing to the clase of gun boats ing four and six gunseach. Itis @ little curious that that formidable affair, a “Britieh seventy- four,” so much talked about, has not an exis- tence—not one single vessel in the English navy having an armament of 74 guns. Of large vessels, the favorite sizes seem to be those of 60, 90, 91 and 120 guns. The largest of all is the Duke of Wellington, (screw) mounting 130 gons. Those who happen to know the exact emount of our naval force can amuse themselves by mak’ng a calculation fof the uumber of hours it would be seen above water if attacked by the 367 effective vessels of the British navy, with their united broad- sides of 7,354 guns, But it is encouraging to know that although we have no navy worth mentioning, yet that the disparity was just as steamship Great Eastern, pow being built at | great forty years ago, when we whipped Bri- London’ To-day, by way of contrast, we give tannia inevery fair fight on the seas, And an account of what the English paperscall | we know that in case of s war, right or the mosquito fleet—a good name. The moe | wrong, that the vessels would be found, the quito may sting « giant to death; and these little epitfires, with their long sixty-eights and their fleet keels, if they did not capture a frigate, would, as they say down east, “worry” her almost to death. They are like some of officers would be at their poste, the en- sign of the republic would be nailed to the peak, and thousands of stout fel- lows, trained in the best school of the sailor— the mercantile marine—would spring to the our Western steamers, and will run wherever | guns when the drums beat to quarters, In the itisdamp. They were constructed last winter last war with England the difficulty was not to operate in the Baltic, where vessels of | how to raise men for thenavy, but how todis- heavy draught were of no use. These vessels | pose of the gallant volunteers who burned to number more than the entire United States enroll their names by the side of Decatur, navy, and in case of a war with us they could | Hull and Stewart, The strength of this coun- devastate our Atlantic coast from Maine to the try in time of war, both on the land and on Gulf. The idea of their armament—a long | the ocean, consiets in our ability to turn the heavy Paixhan, mounted ona pivot so as to implements of peace into weapons of war—to sweep the horizon—was borrowed from us. | make the ploughehare into a sword, and impro- During the Mezican war it wae found that our ) vie » war vessel owt of a mall etonmer or a coasting packet. If we did not lack guns, we never should lack vessels or men; for in the waters of New York, Philadelphia and Boston we could raise hundreds of steamers at a month’s notice, with plenty of volunteers eager and ready to man them. : The British navy in time of peace coats, in round numbers, fifty million dollars a year, being two-thirds as much as our entire nation- al expenses under the profligate administra- tion of Pierce and Marcy, THE LATHST NEWS. BV MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Wreck of the Ship Pallas—Seventy-two Lives Lost. Haurax, June 14, 1856, The ehip Pallas, Capt. Spillane, from Cork to Quebec, with one hundred and twenty passengers, sighted the coast of Cape Breton on the morning of the 30th of May. In the afternoon it was discovered that the compasses va- ried from one another, and the course of the vessel was hen shaped between Cape North and St. Paul’s, At 10 1’. M., she struck on the breakers at St. Pgul’s and bilged, the sea washing over her. The passengers became panic- stricken, and rushed into the boats, which sunk almost immediately.” Seventy-two persons were thus drowned. nthe morning the Superintendent of the Island sent off oats and rescued the remaining passengers. A vessel had Jeft Sydney to conyey them to Quebec. The ship is a total loss. From Washington. ARRIVAL OF DR. STRINGFELLOW—HIS VIEWS OF AF- FAIRS IN KANSAS—DESPATCHES FROM MR. DALLAS —MR. MARCY QUITE FEVERISH, ETC. ‘Wasmeton, June 14, 1856. Dr. Stringfellow arrived here to-day direct from Kan- sas. He says the reports from there are greatly exag- gerated; that before he Jeft the free State men, who were the principal agitators, were leaving in large numbers, and that peace and quict would very soon be restored. He says, further, that there had been some disturbances, in which afew y@rsons had been killed, but that the re- ports of flerce conflicts, in which large parties were en- gaged on each side, were utterlyguntrue. He comes here on business, and will remain but a short time. He called on the President and narrated to him the existing state of things there. Dr. Stringfellow is of opinion that they will settle their difficulties, provided they can keep out the outsiders, who, the moment they come into the Terri- tory, invariably create an excitement. The official despatches received to-day from Mr. Dallas are unimportant, and smack not of war. The outside news, however, has alarmed Mr. Marcy, who complained this evening of the administration dismissing Mr. Cramp- ton over his head. He says he trembles for the conse- quences. Judge Douglas returned this afternoon to Washington. ‘THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. House of Representatives. Wasmxeton, June 14, 1856. Mr. Tacrstox, of Rhode Island; Mr. Dray, of Connecti- cut, and Mr. Trarron, of Massachusetts, severally pre- sented the resolutions of those States in relation to recent occurrences in Congress and Kansas. Adjourned, to Wednesday. News from Havana and Key West. Cuarteston, June 13, 1856. ‘The steamer Isabel, from Havana and Key West, on the 10th inet., has arrived at this port. Her advices are un- important. The ship Diadem, from New York for New Orleans, run on Loo Key during the night, but was got off by wreckers and requires no repairs. She would sail when the salyage was paid, Buchanan Meeting at Lancaster, Pa. Paapenpma, June 14, 1856. ‘A Buchanan ratification meeting was held at Lancaster, Pa., to-day. About one thousand people and two brass bands were in attendance. Speeches were made by Col. Richardson, of Mlinois; Mr. Preston, of Kentucky, and Goy. Brown, of Mississippi; but there was nething new in them. The weather was hot, and the people enthu- jastic. * Republican Meeting at Easton, Pa. Fastoy, Pa., June 14, 1856. ‘The republicans held a very large ahd enthusiastic meeting at the Court House here last night. Col. Abraham: Miller presided. Speeches were made by G. P. Lowry, of Kansas ; H. Green, §. C. Cook, and W. H. Armstrong. Resolutions were adopted expressive of a determination to t, by every legal means, the aggressions of slavery ; tility to the national administration ; condemning in the strongest terms the assault on Mr. Suraner, and for appointing delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, Wm. McLee offered the following :— Resolved, That in the present distracted state of the country it behooves every man of eminence to define his position in reference to the questions which are now agi- tating the minds of the people of this great nation, and we therefore, as the neighbors and personal friends of ex- Governor Reeder, call upon him to say whether he adopts the Cincinnati platform as his political creed, or will unite with those who oppose that platform in his future politi- cal action. The resolution was opposed by several friends of Mr. Reeder, and finally withdrawn. Governor Clark at Honesdale. Hoxrspate, Pa., June 13, 1856. Governor Clark, of New York, arrived here this morn- ing. Health of Gencral Houston. Batrivorn, June 14, 1856. ‘The Iatest accounts from Texas stated that General Houston had been dangerously ill, but had recovered. Marketi PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pintapetria, June 14, 1856. Stocks heavy. Vania State 6's, 2334; Reading Railroad, 4524; Long Island Railroad, 1234; Morris Canal, 105; Peuneylvania Railroad, 4634. Arpany, June 14—12:30 P. M. Markets dull. Western mixed corn, 47c. a 48c., for un- sound. Sules of 6,000 bushels, Oats—Sales of 4,000 bushels. Burraro, June 14—12 30 P. M. Flour lower. Sales 1,400 bbis., at $6 for good. Illinois in shipping parcels; $5 25 2 $5 50 for common to good Obio and Indiana, and $5 75 a $6 26 for choice to extra do. Wheat inactive. Sales 4,000 bushels red Ohio at $1. Corn lower. Sales 12,000 bushels sound from store at Suec., and heated at 80c., and 28c. afloat. Rye and cats dull. Canal ‘freights—Corn 18c., and wheat 17c. to New York. Receipts yesterday—80,861 bushels corn; 48,605 bushels wheat; 16,900 bushels oat Personal Intelligence. The Philadelphia Club gave a magnificent entertainment at their club house,fon Thursday last, to Mr. Mathew, ex- British Consul, on the occasion of his approaching depar- ture from that city. Gen. George Cadwalader ably iilled the chair, supported by George Boker, Fsq., as Vice Pre- sident. This entertainment by the Club is considered a high mark of respect, as this was the first occasion on which such a compliment had been paid, We understand that addresses, expressive of regret, will be presented to Mr. Mathew previous to his departare for Europe. City Intelligence. Fast Traves.—We yesterday met a gentleman of our acquaintance, well known to the Eastern travelling community, who arrived in the afternoon, at four o'clock from St. Paul, Minnesota, which place he left on Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock. He came from St. Paul to Dunleith by steamer, distance 3871 miles, tm 23 hours; thence by Galena and Chicago Railroad to Chicago, where he was detained be- tween four and five hours: thence by Michigan Southern, lake Shore, New York and Erie Railroad to this city. Fntire distance, 1,526 miles; time, 3 days and 6 hours—a shorter time than any before reported, and shorter by 10 hours than the famous trip of Gov. Gorman, of Minnesota, during the last spring. The railroad connections, after leaving Chicago, are complete, giving passengers ample time for obtaining necessary refreshments; and the roads in their management, appointments and employeee, are excelled by none in our country AnavaL Festival or THe German Saxcernenp,—This festive «ene will take place on Monday next, 16th inst., atthe Bellevue Gardens,'foot of Fighty-first street, ast river. Thofprocession will set out from the foot of Grand street, and the amusements will commence at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon. The programme is excel Jent. The steamboat fare is only 634 cente., and the ad mission fee 26 cents, It will be a joyous time. Partiou- Jars in advertisement, New York Hosritat.—The following is the weekly re. port of this institution for the week ending June 13, 1856— * Remaining on June 6, Surgical. 198 Medical. Total. 85 278 Admitted to June 13........ 20 iS Discharged, cured or relieved 21 hf = 4 { 190 8@ 270 date Males, 221; females, 49. ee ""} DARRAGH, Superintendput, THE MOSQUITO FLEET OF ENGLAND. ‘The Naval Power of Great Britain—The New Gun Boat System—Its Value as a Mcans of Attack. (From the Quarterly Review, March, 1856.] Contemporancously (speaking of the mammoth steamer Great Eastern} with the remarkable tendency to an in- crease of size in our merchant vessels, the thoughts of sci- entific men have been turned in an opposite direction with respect to vessels of war. AS we stand on the deck of the Great Eastern, and look across to Deptford, we see riding atanchor one of that famous fleet of gun boats, called forth by exigencies of Baltic warfare. She is scarce- ly bigger than the screw boats which the vessel under our feet will carry on each side of her paddle boxes. By referring to the diagram, it will be seen that she looks like a cockboat in comparison with the great Duke of Welling- ton, The idea of any number of such little Davids attack- ing Goliath would appear to be preposterous. An ex- amination of the subject, however, makes it seem probable that mm fighting ships size is a great element of danger, and diminutiveness of safety. The sacre of Sinope—the first blow of the present war—gave us evidence of the effects of a new order of projectile, which will, in the opinion of those versed in gunnery, very much modify our ideas with respect to building such enormous mer-of-war as we haye done lately. Sir How- ard Douglas, in his admirable work on the ** Art of Naval Gunnery,” takes this view of the case, in the most decid- ed manier, and quotes with applause a letter by General ixhans, published inthe Moniteur of February, 1854, entitled, ** Observations on the Burning of the Turkish Frigates by the Russian Fleet the Black Sea.”’ From the report of the Russian admiral, the writer shows that the almost instant destruction of the frigates of our ally was caused by Paixhans’ shells, fired from the Paixhans? guns on the jower decks of the Russian ships. These shells, according to the Turkish official report, first fire to the ships, and then blew them up.’ the proved destructivences of these projectiles, the in- ventor of them draws the following conclusions :— Guns which fire shells horigontally will destroy any vessel, and will do this with a greater certainty in proportion as the vessels are large ; because tbe circulation of powder and pro- jectiles during an action being more multiplied tor the service of ‘a greater number of these guns will multiply the chances of an entire explosion of the ship.’ From thie fact results the import- ‘ant question, whether, instead of concentrating in a single ship of Sor 130 gunsand 1,000 men, and exposing that large quan- tity of military and financial) power, and that amountof lives to perish suddenly, jt would not be better from motives of hu- manity and consideration of economy, to lay out the same sam of money in constructing two or three much smaller vessels, which might together carry the same amount of armament, and the same number of men? Our principal ships being then far lesa enormous, and drawing lesa water, may enter a great- er number of our ‘ports, which at present’ are limited to five, accessible to large ships. ‘The construction of three smaller vessels would neither require so much time nor timber, nor pate Reg Our Lage prod then ei) pee a gue colonies, more ports e accessible to them ; ai ‘would find more points ‘accesalbie to attack on the coasts of the enemy. The battery of a frigate may, as well as the battery of a large ship, carry the means of keeping at a distance, or of destroying, an’ enemy. In the combat of two or three’ such ships against one adversary of colossal magnitude, the latter may doubtless, if near, be able to destroy either of ‘the others singly; but these might concentrate upon him at a distance mortal blows, and remain masters of a tield of battle, from. which the greater ship will have disappeared. With an arm, the effect of which is very destructive, the advantage will evidently be in favor of those who know best how to give it length of .range and accuracy; thus, both in our actual armaments and in the progress to be made, these two conditions, together with the superiorty of calibre, should above all others be. ratiefied: to this I thall ndd that if the same effects would be produced by lighter pieces of artil- lery of the same description, which do not require vessels of such great draught of water, nor expose 80 many men, we should have resolved a problem which, together with great speed in our steamers, and greater number of them, would give to France a system of naval economy which suits her in the highest degree. May we not carry General Paixhans’ idea of a subdivi- sion of force still farther, and ask whether a cloud of swift and powerful gun boats would not often be still more effective than large frigates? Let us imagine even the Duke of Wellington, of 131 guns, attacked by a score of these Cossacks of the sea, each armed with 68-pound- ers, placed fore and aft, firing Paixhans’ shells, would she not be very much in the position of a parish beadle stoned by a mob of mischievous boys? A broadside such as hers, towering high above the water, would present a target which it would be difficult to miss; whikt she would have as little chance of shooting swallows with her long guns, as these nimble gun boats, for ever warily keeping their sterns on, at a respectful distance, and pre- senting a mark not more than twenty-two feet to her gunners, The difficulty of hitting such mere specks ‘would be immense; and even the turning of these min- nows on the water would expose them to little harm, as the experience of the attack on Sweaborg proved; for the gun boats which kept moving about on that occasion were never once struck. If this view is correct, and the concentrated fire of a few gun boats is likely to overpower the radiating fire of three-deckers, and if the dire effects of a single shell bursting on a ship’s side, be, indeed, so great as General Paixhans affirms, it may be that the necessity of building a peculiar class of vessels for shallow seas will open our eyes to the glaring mis- take we have committed in building such enormous ships of war. It isa maxim among military engineers that no for- tification is’st: onger than, its weakest place. Now, ifa Paix- hans shell, striking a three decker near the water line, and exploding in the side, as it is most likely to do, from its extreme thickness, is capable of smashing the timbers for many feet around it, her very size’and weight will only the more speedily cause her to disappear under the waicr. The tremendous batteries of such a ship would have but little effect upon these boats, which by the use f Lancaster guns could fight at 4,000 yards distance, at which range they would not appear to the huge liner much bigger than floating tubs; whilst they would be able to destroy their big antagonist with as much certainty as Gordon Cumming brought down an elephant at his leisure with his resistless ‘* Purday.’? * Four divisions of gun-boats now collecting in the Channel are living proofs of the energy of our pri- vate enterprise, and of the strength which England s capable of putting forth at the shortest notice. Of the 200 gun-boats, more or less, which are now, like dogs of war, straining at the leash off the Mo- her Bank, more than two-thirds were not even laid down hree mouths ago. Not an engine had been wrought out (f the shapeless nes of iron; not a boiler of the ten score which now lace the leaden sky with their thin, white wreaths of steam had been put together. If we can be proud of anything during the late war be- side the gallantry of soldiers and the magnificence of our transport system, it must be of our manufacturing ener- £Y, Which has created a host of armed ships, moved by complicated machinery, almost as quickly as Cadmus created legions of armed men out of the ground. No other nation could by any possibility have accomplished the same task, for the simple reason that they have neither the tools nor the skill to direct them. The Messrs. Pern. of Greenwich, for instance, received an order three months since to complete, by the beginning of April, marine engines of sixty horse power each; the en- set eigh tire moving power, in short, of nearly balf the Mosquito fleet. If such an order had been given to any continental engineer, he would have treated it as a joke; but the Mesers. Penn have not only completed it within the spe- cified time, but have put them in working order on board the fleat. Of course, so enormous a task could not have been accomplished’ by one house. A pattern engine once agreed upon, the contracting firm sent duplicate patterns to all’ the principal engineers through- out the islind, ordering s0 inany different portions to be delivered on a certainday. In this manner the whole force of the country was put upon the work; and cylinders, connecting-beams, stuffing-boxes, piston-rods, &c., from a dozen different factories, have been steaming for weeks past across the island, towards the Messrs, u's fitting shops, where they met and were put toge- ther for the first time. The major portion of the gun- boats themselves have been furnished Pye private shipyards, From balf-a-dozen points of the mes these handy little craft, sometimes in twos and threes, ready rigged and with engines on board, took the water during last ix weeks, At Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle, erland, Northam, Southampton and Cowes, this tiny has been fashioned through the long winter nights by the light of gas twinkling between their ribs. Al- though in outward appearance the boats are all precisely alike, their tonnage, draught and propelling powers are widely different, as we see in the following table :-— aught of Water Horse o No. Tons. “(light,) power. Speed. Fi. In. Brat Snapper claess..... 54 ig pete Lied ‘ 410 40 84; Cheerful ; «3 4 7 Dispateh boats s— : a Flying-tish clase, rom 950) abont « Wrangler class 94 180 sa Vigilant class , tolZ 2 ts. Mohawk class. 2 267 {feet 80) Kno These vessels, together with those already in commis- sion which did serve in the Sea of Azoff and Baltic last season, bring this stinging little cloud of mosquitoes up to the’ round number of two hundred, mentioned by Sir Charles Wood in his speech in the House of Commons. ‘The armament of all the gun-boats is alike, namely, two sixty-eight pounders, made to fight fore and aft, with pivots to fire broadside if required. When not in action, the guns, of 9,600 weight each, are housed in the middle of the deck, Fach yessel will be a separate command, and the whole will be formed into four squadrons. The ships of the line, in which the commanders of squadrons will hoist their flags, will serve as nursing mothers to this light artillery of the sea, which will scour the ocean on every side, returning ever and anon to the parent ship, a8 chickens return to the maternal wing, fo warmth and support, in the shape of coals, f and ammunition. ‘The great diversity of power, and the difference of draught in these ves- sels, varying as they do from 20 to 360 horses, and from 6 to 12 feet of water, will make them free of the shallows and inlets of any sea in which their services may be required. Against’ this ubiquitous and resistloss force the Russiang had, in the early portion of the year, nothing but row. boats to oppoee: and we heard with won- der that the crews of these inefficient craft were armod with lances, and with a curious kind of mace studded with epikes, such as the Scandinavians used when the heroes of the Niebelungentied were in the flesh. The dispatch bouts differ materially from the gun-boat asmuch as they are built of iron, with very fine lines, and are de- tigned for peed as well as for fighting; hence they are classed as the light squadron. ‘The swiftest of them are capable of running fifteen miles an hour, and are armed with two lancaster guns and four 68-pounders, and are not much smaller than the old 36-gun frigates of, the last war, In 1860, Mesers. Laird of Liverpool and Mr. Scott Russel of Blackwall built powerful iron vessels, of a light draught, for the Russian and Prustian governments. Their capabilities were reported upon to the Admiralty before they le{t this country; nevertheless, the war found us en- tirely destitute, and we entered the Baltic with our huge liners, which Were about as well adapted to tho shallow waters of that sea as the Life Guards would be to pursue Catfres in the bush. The whole country bas witnessed, with mingled feelings of shame and’ indignation, the paltry attempts of Sir James Graham to throw upon the shoulders of Sir Charles Napier the whole blame of our ignoble promenade in the Baltic inthe year 1854. What better could he have done with the means at his com- mand? And whose fault was i that be had no better means? As early as the month of May, in that year, the attention of the Admiralty was drawn by Captain Claxton tothe fact that Mr. Scott Russel would engage to turn out of hand any number of light-draught gun-boats in ten weeks from the date of the order, That offer was diegracefully refused, on the plea that iron was not ap: proved of as a ship building material. Why, as a naval authority has well observed, they should’ have built paper bopip if they could haye managed to bring our Arguing from " bi, Liga guns and mortars to bear uy the fortresses of the enemy. Dispatch was the one 1g needful. Had Sir James Graham closed with Mr. Scott Russel’s propagi- tion, Sir Charles Napier would have got the weapons he wanted, and would not, we predict, have come “boot less home and weather-beaten back’? from the campaign of 1854, If there was euch an ine superable objection to iron vessels, why, we ack, did Sir James Graham exchange the Thetia frighte with the Prussian government for the gun- boats ‘Nix’? and “‘Salamander,’’ both of this obnoxioug material? Farly in 1855, the Aberdeen Admiralty wag partially forced out of its disgraceful inactivity by the Joud calls of the public press for gun-boats; and in order to quiet the storm, one of its members stated in the House of Commons that several bad at last *been laid down. When the firet was launched, in the summer of 1855, te was found to draw twelve feet of water—a draught which would render it as incapable of running up the shallows of the Baltic as acamel would be of going through the eye of ancedle. By the autumn of the same year, the Admiralty managed to build sixteen gun-boats of a more: suitable size, and sixteen old dockyard lighters were fit- ted up as mortar vessels, and sent out to Admiral Dundag.. With these, together with the aid of a few mortars and light steamers furnished by the French, the vast stores. contained in the arsenal of Sweaborg, together with the: greater part of the town and naval buildings, were: destroyed. We have only to learn the performance: of this insignificant and hastily-fitted force to read the utter condemnation of Sir James Graham’s Admiralty. The mortar-boats, moored at 3,700 yards: distance, with 400 fathom of cable t veer upon in caze the enemy should get their range, threw, 3,099 13- neh shells into the Russian stronghold, each shell falli with a force of 75 tons; whilst the sixteen gunboats, at 300 yards distance, with perfect impunity to themselves, threw into the arsenal 11,200 shot and shell. Under such am nferval rain of jronas our own and the French vessela projected, no wonder that the whole place on the secon® day was one vast sheet of fire. If with such a limited force we managed to deal so disastrous a blow to the enemy, What might we not have done with, the flect of gunboats now collected together, in addition te the eighty odd mortar vessels, mostly constructed, by the bye, fron? We venture'to say that neither Revel nor Cron- stadt would have reared their granite fronts above the water twelve hours after they had been bombarded by such a force. We will go further, and assert, with litt fear of contradiction, that if a score of these gunboata had entered, in the autumn of 1854, the Sea of Azof, the Russian army would not have been able to haye main- tained itself ‘in the Crimea through the ensuing winter; and, as a consequence, the flower of our army Ww have escaped destruction. The first great blow aimed at the power of the enemy was dealt by sg Lyons; and the most successful of his little fleet was unboat Re- cruit, alias the Nix, which the Prussians had built on the Thames as a jmttern for us to go by as early as 1850, and was the identical vessel pointed out by Captain Chxton as an example to be followed im May, 1854. This admirable iron boat destroyed all the military stores at Taganrog, at 1,400 yards distance, without the slightest injury ‘to herself.” Why, we ask, was this pattern vessel negiected for four years, at a time when all the world knew that by such vessels only the naval warfare we were engaged in could be carried on? Posterity will sternly ask this qu¢stion; and Sir James crates ua not be considered to have answered it by miserable tu quogue arguments against a bluster - old Admiral. Now it is too late and the horse is Rae an admirably constructed lock is placed upon the stale door; now that the just war we have been waging hag been’ strangled by diplomacy, the Channel is covered with a flying artillery, which is paraded before the eyes of Europe—just in time to fire a salute in bonor of the proclamation of peace. Religious Intelligence. Rev. Dr. Cheever will repeat, by request, his discourse on ‘The Freedom of the Pulpit, the Senate and the Press,” this evening, in the Tabernacle church, The Rey. Pr. MacMenamy’s lectures on Romanism and - Christianity will in?future be conducted in Spring Street - Hall, 185 Spring street, between Sullivan and Thomp- eon streets. A discourse on freo Kansas and its martyrs will be de- livered in the Union Congregational church, Fourth - street, between avenues Band C, this evening, by Rev. L. C. Lockwood. ORDINATIONS. Rey. C.C. Wallace was ordained and installed, by @ - commission of the Third Presbytery of New York, pas- tor of the Presbyterian church in Fremont, (Morrisania,) - on the 4th inst. Rey. D. B. Coe preached the sermon, Rey. Dr. Skinner delivered the charge to the pastor, Rev. 'W. Roosevelt to the people; ordaining prayer by Rev. 7. R. Smith. Rey. Rufus W. Emerson was ordained and installed at « Morton, Me., on the 28th ult. Mr. Oscar Biss of the Fast Windsor Seminary, was ordained and installed at Westmorcland, N. H., on + the 14th ult. Rey. John R. Dow was ordained and installed over pi ae School church in St. John’s Island, §. C., on the « w INVITATIONS. Rey. Albert Worthington, of Fairview, Pa., has accepted ~ a call to the Presbyterian church in Panama, Chatauque - county, N. Y. Rev. Thomas Hastings, Jun., has received a call to the pastorate of the Carmine street Presbyterian church, of © which Rey. Mr. Skinner was recently pastor. Rev. Mr. Nichole, of Barre, Mass., has accepted a call from the Central Presbyterian church of Newark, N. J., and will enter upon his duties in July. Rey. Edward Everett Hale, of Worcester, has received a call from the South Congregational church, of Boston, over which Professor Huntington was recently settled. Rev, O. P. Conklin, for several years pastor at Berkshire, N has accepted a call to the Presbyterian chureh in + Ovid, N. ¥., and entered upon his labors. This church are expecting to build their house of worship during the present season. Rey. A. Johnston has accepted a cal) to the Presbyte- rian church in Eastmanville, Mich. Dr. Babcock, of Philadelphia, has accepted a call from the Baptist church at Paterson, N. J. ‘The Espenschetd Cassimere and Drab Bea= - < ver summer hat for 1856 is one of the richest and most highly finished fabrics ever produced by a New York hatter. Its pro- portions are classical; its shape distingue. ESP! CHEID, 118 Nassau street. Panama Hats.—A Small Lot of Uncommon fineness, just received, and warranted the genuine Panama, which will ontwear any other straw hat, st prices ranging from $1010 $80 each. ‘A. LELAND & CO., 180 Broadway. White, the Hatter, still Continues to take the Jead in his neat and tasty summer hats of aH descriptiors, from a@ cheap straw to a splendid beaver hat. His stores are at 210 Broadway, corner of Fulton street, and also at 148 Fulton. The Quaker’s Plot-an Original Story, by Laura J. Curtis.—Look for it in the NEW YORK SUN of Mon- day, June 16. Price one cent per copy. Ambrotypes, Ambrotype: Size, In fine ease, 75 cents; enamelled daguerreotypes, colored and in fine case, £0 cents, ‘These pictures cannot he surpassed in 4 the city, at any price. Call and sce us. HUNTER’S new first clase gallery, 473 Broadway. Pianofortes and Melodeons 25 per cent cheaper than the Broadway prices.—The most decided bar- paint in the eily may he found at the warehouse of JOHN P. 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Summer Stock—Our Large and Elegant stock of summer clothing is now ready and for sale, embraec- ing many specialities and styles to be found nowhere else, forming altogether the largest stock of fashionable and desi Fable summer clothing we have ever got up. at very moderate and fixed prices. D. DEVLIN & CO., 28, 269 and 260 Rrondway, corner of Warren st. ‘The Immense Stock of Boys’ at P. L. Rogers’ te altraeting a large amount of fam®y custom. ‘The variety of styles and sizex ix unequaled; the prices cheap beyond All the summer fashions are out. all exemple. P. L. ROGERS, corner of Fulton and Nassau sts. Thin Summer Coats, §1 to $4; Black Alpaca conte, $2 60 to $5: summer pants, linen, $1 to $3: Marseilles venis, $1 to £4 60, nt EVANS’ clothing warebouse, Nos. 66 and 68 Fulton street, N. ¥. 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