The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1856, Page 6

Inj it Speech of Lord Clarendon on the istment and Central American Ques- tons. In the House of Lords on the The Kari of E1GiN moved for copiee of any despatches tr for the colonies to the Gover: jeneral of Caasde or the Lieutenant Governors of Nova scotia, Branswick and Pring Edward's Leland, on ‘he wiitary esta labment to be maintained in those colonies, of a later dave taan the ceepateb of Bari Grey to tae Earl vo E gia, om tae ld of Maren, 1851; and the copy of the report of the com- malssioners appolated by letve s paiomt under the greet seal ef the province of Ususaa, dated the 27. of October, ‘to favestige’e aad report upon tas best eens re sizing the miutie of Canada an eficient econvmi:al sys'em ot pa oe, amd to report upoa an improved ayst of police for the better preservation of tae paric ace; and ecopy of any act or acts passed by the Par- Kemens of in pursuanes of tais recommendation. ‘The noble Fari observed tnet he did not know whe:her it was the invention ot her Msjesty’s government to grant these returns or not, but ne thougat it wou d bs oaly respectful to the House that he shuuld briefly ata the grounds upm which he submitted the motion to their }. A few weeks ago he nad called the attention of the noble Secretary for War to ceriain ramors which were them current respectiog an alleged in'ention on the part of the governmeat to wakes very ounsideradle {tion to the military force muistaiued im the Btitish North American colonies, end to make that addition with certain unusual! accompaniments of pride and ostee- ‘tation. Be delieved that some of the reports them very exteasively circulated by the press weat the length of stating thats certain pertioa of toe magnifisent feet, at that thme assembled at Spitheet, was vo be employed to convey ten thousand mem from the Crimea to Cena- de. Having had some experience of the stave of fooling in Awerica, he thought that it rumors of this kind were transported seross the Atiantic withou: a single word of. denis, qualifcation or expiaoa:ion, they might produce very uneasy feelings both im the British provinces and in the United Sisces, and they might, perhaps, have the effec: of inducing the Congres of tae United States—which he hoped he might way without sometimes sc'ed s.ner spoon impuise in such matvers—to adopt countervailing messures of presaution yp migh stil farther scarphante, the 98 h ult adiress to the Crowe ¢ Sesretary ot State reports commenced trom the Times:— may Mate with cartaisty that General Evre’s to go direct from daiakiava to Cana- ‘measure Wiil no doubt de variousiy loterpreted. /@ are Bot in the eecret and can Orly discuss it as any Cau: iiclam migt. do. Is will, of course, be at ove a2 a threat, oF at least & we do am see how, just now, it 8 the Conadians (nemselvos in the present temper of the wil nited mouey Ns to the au 9) i not be ‘Bt our sending 10 000 & ort of our loyal iow aa Canude was stripped ot ali her dlaposaaie forocs for the service of this war; and as our reouoiicsa nelga- dora bave taken the opportusity of making a diturosnce, it is ‘& maatier of course iat. as 9002 as Our forces ara re cased w portion of them shou'd retura io ‘he co.ons For our part, we much prefer this solution to another which may sugges itself, hat we are to make arn.e of waiaisinicg «large force in Indeed, ther ys don’t waa tihemse ves. b= ” Ives no yatta TiStder wen declined “We ‘an’ iotned, thet wes up the absurdity of sn immense ard c: unvailable apd uvimprovable form men's over half a hundred ©) vies, There were scme passages cf that extract in which he mort cordially concurred, puts; the same time it mast De acmitved that the article wi ritven ia a vary conciliatory spirit towards ths United Sates. Tae Aneri- ean journal to whish he re erred aiso contained the lowing extract from another metropolitan ne wspaper (the Mornung Chronicle’ No ope is deceived by this deciarat ‘meant, {: would have 2¢e0 a3 well io aav pobiog. Bat firet to'serd a flect, then munttions of war, and then an army, bas certainly no very great appearance of pacific iniealins He thought these reporis, whea they were brought together in such a shape, presen ec @ somewhst formida- ble appearaoce, and ju» ified "he coarse: he had taken {a brivgieg the subj-ct under the considers ion of the go. verntent, and inviting them to give som» explaaa:ion of their intentions. He took the j:nerty ot arverting to this point, because it was of grest importeuos, in thatr Giscussions with Awerica, taat th«y #hoa.d constaotly beer in mind the fast that Gres, Britain aad the Vaited States possessed in the highvet perfec:ion the advantages of a free press. 1: was therefire impossinia, ia either country, to prevent the measures vi the government from being eriticised, and their motives, real or sup- posed, genuine or putative from beiog cucvassed and scrutinized. Moreover, the presses of both countries, being. vastly influential within their own respective spheres, and also—he said it to thar honor— ewicently patriotic, were apt in thelr inter- nations! ciscursions, like the knights in the legend, to look @ little too scrupuloualy to their own side ot the shield. He beileved the intereste of the two countries ‘were #0 closely coonscted that 1t was aimost impossible to promote the rea! interes:s of thw one without advancing the interests of the other. He thought, tneretore, that the great object of public men ought to be to remove any causes of possible misundersta: diag, and that they should not shrink from ruggesting coucihatory measures, altbough such a course might cocestvnally subject them to misrepresentation snd reprosch. 1t was with these views and feelings, au not with azy inteation of ca ising embarrassment to three or foar ds giving wily army, ip the mow ead ingmall detach. Were nothing peared in the Amerioea i rporting to be s copy of une wri: ea vy the U | sod senten of State for eign Affairsin this country, in rep!y toa request from the govenmeat of Costs Risa for a supply ot arms, was genuise or no: He knew that tbia letter, under the cirsumstances of the war now raging between N ‘and Costa Rica, in which a number of citisens of the Caltei States were cogaged, had produced a great cffect ia the States, therefore thougnt it moac iaportant that an opportuni'y shoukl be aiforded to the noble earl of ving to the publics true version of the trensactioa. SS cecansdineanits comment upon the reply waich was given by the pobie Earl wo his inquiry; but he believed the noble Ear)’s sta'enent, that no arms bad been sent to Crata Rica, sfforde3 very genera: satisfaction. He (the Karl of E'gin) might be permitted to say taat, having neon & greatdesl of the peopie of the Caited States dur- ing his residerce ia America, aod baviag had numerous opportunities of intercourse, official and non-official, with the leading men of tnat councry, and speaking snoreover in the interests of th: se North American colo- cafes which would be the iret, and perbaps the greatest sufferers, if hostilities were t» break out vecwsen the two Powers, he deeply regretted and deplored the ex- tent to which an impression was gainicg ground in this coun'ry, that sn unfriendly fe- ing existei_ among the citizens of the United towaras Great Britsin, He deeply regretted the ion aud distrust which that feeiing—e feeling which he baid-vea was tocally erroneous —was imparting to the political relations of the two coun- tries, Thare was, no doubt, a disp sition among sertaia clasres of in the Uni'ec 5 ates--classes com- posed ofa much larger proportion of foreigners then of patives—to view the Broceading- of this coantry witn ua- founded jealousy, and to put eu ucjist construction upon the motives by which it wse influences; but he enter- tained a firm convic.ion tha: the better classes in Ameri- oa, and, incesd, the pesple generally. most desirous that friendly relationa snouid ce maintained with this country, were conscious that aay ia ‘erraptions of those relations would entail upon both countries the most rerious calamities, witnout being accompanied by any compensatory advantages. fie believed there never was 0 tince the Declaration of Independence, whsa the eubs‘ent al inter: whi-b bound the $wo countries ‘together were #0 wanifold and so {m portent (near, hear), and when the differences between them were so trifling aad pueriie as atthe present moment, (‘iear, hear.) Ho believed that, were it not for the polut of national honor, which they believed to be eoxaged because the government told {hem 't was, the people of this countey would not take much interest in any of the pending questions, sud would mot care whether they were settled one way or the other. (Hvar, heer.) He deeply deplored the continuance of angry dissussions between the governments of the two c.untries because he was confident that if the Britisn osopie were once brought to belieye that » colision with ta» United States was roover or later {nevicable, and if the Congress of the United States continued {ts militsry and naval pre- paraticns, tn order to be preparad sgainst such a concin- geney, it would be impossidie much longer 'o matatain peace between the two countries. He ala» deprecated the continuance of these angry ‘lisenasions, because he thought that, with reference to the disputes now pend- ing between the two governmencs, thay ned been led by their controversial zea} to asuume posidons diametrically ° to those which s conaiderstion of tueir real and ermanent interests would have induced them to occupy. ‘t was our interest, for instance, that tne nevtrality laws of the United States. Tecetve wident iaterpreta- tion, that that disposition whion exisiec tn some portions of the population of the United Staves to carry on war on their own acsount rhouid be checked, ani that the gov ernment cf the United States siouid be led to recognize the tions which it owed so she otper coveraments of the world; but in our le:e controversy with ths Uaited Staies we had been led to contend for the narrowest i terpretation of the neutrality iavs—(near, hear). ‘bed deen led to maintain the right of persons resideat 10 the Uni ed States to enter into we se: vive of foraign bel- Higerente at their wil, aod that it van nota thir subject for x that diplomatists of mgb rank sh ald meke themselves partite to such proesediags. nis view cf the ease bad been most Cd pus in the iaat despatsn of the Foreign Secretary wo Mr. Maroy. Tue vole eart said — In Groat Brida the law no on'y orohthis recrat:ing or en Listing meithla the Brii-h vomininns for tbe vers ioe of any for rige inalow of tha soveratga, Dut it gore Linn} 7 of tate without ite perm! Bad prob site any su rjest of har Majesty trom so em Sle where, witb rat 'ne royal vermision ibe he00e apneers to Da by ent British servive of fraim states LrOwD, of toe United her t to be 4 underrtoed. ard that urcerstaneing is confirms ov Bu chanan’s Boe of the ‘ite of July, that the aw of the Vaited tates only forbids a recruiting and contracts or ony y hav: their nasnral right of «uit iag the Univet States, to enliit fato the service of w foreign stare when hey have lat their ows conntry, The sovereign power of the Uvited Biaten might if it choven to do #0, have followed ft. citi zene with ® préthivory saactmect bey md the territory of the United Bt ‘bai ft hes mot taonent fit to do an, and th juet end inevitab e oons.cston is, t wont tt might ba forh'déee. but hor not formioden. !' an dan'gnedly allows ‘that if to ay, fo other words, that {i 18 the poltey of the Uaited Stairs te) ever! toreten eal'supan's wito'n the Voted sales, put thet "te pot the policy of the United Staves ty torbid the crtizenn ot the United sirtes to en'iat, when out of tae Ualted WW sten, into the service ui foreign stairs,’ they hould ehome to do mo. ‘That was a most temperate statament of the cave: but such an argument would have coms more nwtarally from en Ameriona than from « Betdeh Mlaister, (Hear.) Their lordahips would remember. howerer, the iowsred tone and the bated bres'h with whion the noble earl had rao @ portion of @ Graps'ch trom Mr. Macey ia the quuine of the late dlveassion on ‘be marttime ove, Tas nobis nob’s acl on that oceasion read the following quo- tation:— Tits not apprebended chat there will be acy attempt io ust expectation of the Pr Wury to use all the power ace to them. Oem be oli eof cuty @ tke givs as. the fettizeas of the United siaies will mot oom promiag the neutrality of their cvuntry by partic paing tn the copiest in which the principal Powecs of hurope are now ux happily eugaged. He could quite understand that the noble earl felt that ® British minister was placed im a very fais» position by being obliged to emp/oy all his icgewuity t weaken and extepuate the force of the valuabie pledge hich been given by the American government. I: wae aso real interest of this country, in reterouce 10 the o American question tha; the .odependenge of tue Central American States should be prerervec, and cha: n0 ome great Power shoula obwaip an overweeuing influsnce in tbat territory, waich was destained prodaciy to cecome the highway of the commerce of the world. {t was with thia view that the Bulwer-Clayton tr to, and ti was in pursuance of tuis view thet 4 very val assurance was obtalmed frem Mr. About La«reaze om be- balt of the United States, in despatch ‘rom cus; gentie- man to Lora Palmers:on, ted ber Bin, 1849~to the effect that the American ge Veroment bad no ulvericr objects to serve, and that they bad no inwation whatever ot plyirg or colonizing the territory. In our z3al, however, to maintain some rights ia Ceatrai Ansrica— which he felt boand to say he beiirved to be eatirely worth- less—we hac been led to put a most rea richie inte:preta- tion om that treaty, and to extend to che atmos: the imita withia which parties might exercis pover of protectorate, or ® quasi sovereignty ia thet terrivory very tly fearea that tue adie arga mente waich we had employed in this ciscuseion would o# tuned sgsiast us with im wyet more serivas disonssion waica wight arise between us and tne |’. ited states; rat, fa the meantime, all must agree in earnest.y cesiring thet the preeent controversy snould be put anerd vo at the earliest moment. (Hear, hear.) uta few tays ago an American gentleman of great eminence hid expressed to hime his conviction that if Lord Clarendon and Mr. Marcy were half an hour er im some roum, they woukd settle the whole question in a manner most satisfactory to all parties, Now taat the noble earl was reveagad fom the over »war- ing labors whish bad been lately pressing on alo, ne hoped he would turn his great @Diities aad his gest powers of conciliation to this imp rtant subject, aad hat by putting anend to the cissensiona besween America and Fogland he would add another to the many calms which be had upon the gratitude of his country. (Hear.) To revert, however, to tue qaestion of tue transmission ut troops to Canada. The cobie lord the Sesretary of State for War, in reply to the inquiries which he hac ad ‘ressed to him on a former evening, hed stated that ins repora to which he had alluded were exaggera'ed, ani taat the addition which was to be made to he uillitary force tm the North Amerisan provinces was not 40 great as (t was represented te be; and, moreover, that it waa ot intend- ed for aggressive purposes in America, Tost declaration was most expiicit and emphatic, aud {t must nava give great satisfaction to all persons whose coatidence ia the discretion of the goverrment was of thet som-wDat quali- fied mature whion rendered sueh a: ance desire v6, He himself was not one of that number, for it bd never occurred to him to suppose tha’ it was even posridie that the government woula be guilty of the imprazeace of underteking an eggressive muvement in Awerica. He confeased, however, that judging from psat experience, ano a littie influenced also py those rep rts, he had ful a, the time when he pa: the question some little anxiety upon another point, whish was no: wholly removed by the anawer which he had received. He bad tionght it just possible that her maj-sty’s government, couscious that they had a; their disposei one of the most powerful fleets and one of the best appointed armies which this country ever porsensea, mig ar that something in the nature something whieh their admirers migat vaan: aaa display of vigor, might ve serviceabie to them in the negotiations whicn they were toen carrying on with the Uai'ed States. He was giad tc say, however, that the statement meds by the nmebie lord at the head of the gove-ament, in abswer t> an inquiry addreeseito him in snothor plasa, went far to remove the apprehensions woica, in common with cthers, he had ence: ed on this point. foat statement, however, anc the inquiry waich led t> it, went very farto justify the observations wai:h he bad alresdy made, sud to illustrate the advantage which @ government erjoyed, when Parliamen: was sitting, of giving explanations, of seif vindication, of reilestion also, and ot reconsidera'ion. That iliuetration {1 the present cese was the more complete acd the more iastructive, because it contrasted in a very marked manvoer wito what bad occurred in a case almos: exactly x'mi ar not many months ago. Their lorcships could no: have for- gotten the circumstances attecdivg an additin made some short time ago to our naval forces on the West In- dia stadon, At that time Pariiament was not alttiog: no member of Cerne niece rata Pisse t) awk ministry to ex motives of their proceeliage, to undertake® still more thankless office of : them of i s to probable consequences. [he resal’ waa thi ‘the public, both in America aud Engiand, were constr: ed to pat upon that proceeding the construction whi was. put mpor it by the press ot thisteoun'ry—and more particularly by that portion of the prers wiich was sup- posed, universaliy supposed in Ame: ty evjor the confidence of her Msjesty’s governmeat, ‘Their lordships cold hardly nave forgotten the tone in which the people of the United States were reminded that #s their comma- nity comprised many lawless individuals whom their executive was éither unwilling or unable to restrain, it became necessary for our government to guard agsiost the poreible remiraness of the g»vernment of the United States. It was a very sigvificant fact, however, that the pretext for these warnings was furnished, not by the proceedings of native bora Americans, bu: by the idle ravings and the wisd projects of apostate subje:ts of the Queen—of men who bad fied to the Uni e} States to seek & refuge from rea: or fancied oppr-sriop, and whmeacs were a scandal ands reproach rather to the coun‘ry of their birth then of treir adoption. He did not pretend to say that the intentions parece to the government were correct. On the contrary, be thoughti: probable ney, he was confident, thet i! the government had ba | the oppor. turity of explanation which the sitting of Parlia nen’ afforded, they would have been abie to expiaiu away waat appeared offensive in this proceeding. walsh migat have been attended with some appearaucs of tem- peer saccess. Bat, if the governmen: bai been waten- ing the procerdisgs cf the American Corg-ess with due attention, they must have learn’ to appreciaie the cos: at which such success was achieved. I: turnisued withar- guments » perty in the United States, email in numer and contemptible in infiuence, but noity and ac‘ive. who found, in cerouncing the so-called overbearing atuitude of Great Britain, a theme of perpetual ceciama ion; and it aleo furnished with arguments, uabapyily tor America and England, as weil as.or the peace ot the world and all those transcendant interests of fre:dom, etvilizstion and rogrees which were bound up in a good uaderatanding ween these two kindrea nasions, that class of persons in the United S:ates who found their account in the maintenance of an expensive naval ablishment: and those who achieved these triump! therefore, un- consciously 29 doubt, but pot the less surely, conspiring to call into existence that matertal forces ef tae New Worlé which woul realiz: the prediction of a celevrated statesman of this country in @ senae litt!e meant by ite author. fhe noble lord, in the course of his repiy to the question put to him the other night, said tht the addition to be made to the military force sia fonedin B-itish North America was intended only to replace the amount removed since the commencement of the war. It migh: be inferred from that statement thet the redustioa of torce in the North American colonies of late years had been the result of accidental or temporary circumstanses; whereas the returns he now moved for woaid show that it had been the reaait of @ policy deiiberacely ad sted and steadily and consistently out, aad would have taken effect even it the iste war had no: occurrad. The objest of that polisy was twofold. In the first piace, ita object was to relieve the mother country of # portion of the expenses hitnerto borne for the military protes- tion of those colonies. In the second place it was to cali forth in the colonies @ certaia amount of military spirit and material force, which should be avaiiane. in peace for the preservation of inverual tranquillity.aad ia war be of service to the mother country. He did not make the present motioa with any invention whatevar of cocasioning embarrassment te the government or placi any obstacles tp their way in mating suct a Gisposition of the milttary force which on grounds of general policy they a think {t necessary?» main- hment, as they deemed most to the imteres’s of the a of that force should be, and how econvmy and efficleney migh: be recon- tiled in ite composition and distribativn—these were, no doubt, important questions, well deserviog considera ion, but wuich he did not to raise om the present oc- casion. Least of ali was it his intention, in inviting their lordehips to accede to his motion, to say one «ingle syllable calculated to raises dowst among our fellow- subjects in the colonies as to the deep interest thia coun- try took in their wel!are, or ss to ita readiness to supoort them with the whole might of the empire agaioat aggroa- ston; but he did think 1: very important, at the present time more on; Jy, aod in the exisiiag state of onr re lations with Americs, to call thetr lordahips’ atteaton to the elements of strength which this coan:ry posseseed ia the devoted loyalty and perpetually {ocreaslng rea vurcss of the great colonies connected with it—(hear, hear)— to the power and consistemey they we e of late assnming under the influence of a wise administrasion of c rloaisi affairs by successive goveraments, and to implores thelr jordshipa to interpose their high autherity, if 2e209- sary= thong be did mot sesume that it would be—to prevent the adoption of measares waich might have « tendency to arrest the work now in progress, whisa pro- misec, if perseveringly carried out, to render thos colonies in t'me to come a support instead of s burden to the ewpire. (Hear, hear.) He koew how prone individus's were to te the importance o awojec'a to which ‘their attention had been directed, and he was seas(bie in preesirg this matter on their |ordahips’ consideration ne might soem to be ySelding to that infirmity; ont be could not belp think! that the wubject wan one reaily ce- serving the eee of the Parament of this couotry. ( ar.) possessed some tory five colonies. Whether that was so advantage or an evil was not now the question, but he believes it rested with the country to render the possession of ibese cow ies eicner the one or the other. But that the colonies «xiate¢ was certain, and no leas certain was it that their exis.en%° imposed on this country certain cbligations sod reapoosinilities, of which it could not, if it would, dives: it-el. Among them, perhaps the most onsrous, the most delicate, and the most difficult of adjustment, waa this very question of the military protes ion of the colonies. He made boid to may, after an experience of thirteen years in the oointal re.vise, that, watt! a very recent period, this country dealt with this question on & principle which involved the monsteoux absurdity that, in proportion a« the colonies insressed in wealth and extent, so their burden on the mother country ia- oreased. However, with regard to colopial administra- tiom, be believed that che exams of our Nort amer! san colonien waa about to prove coptagious, it was hardly Seven yours sgo since their lordthipx were told, on higa auth: rity, thec the gonetita ion given to thone colonies waa impractioadle sod that the attempt to carry it out would tend to aoat treason, Aiseourags ioyalty, and sacrifice the intereeta of the colonies themselves. Well, that system wae now ‘nm fall and baalthy operation, wad was spreading iteelf over the whole colonial smoira, and he venured to sey that (n erery colony where it had been faithfally appiied and cari °! cut, tt had produced am abundant revarn of loyalty aad attachment to the motber country, and of proaperity happinses and eon. tentment among the inhabitanta of the cvoay. (Asar, hear) But on thir question cf military ororact! mn the exaviple (fhe Norvh Americana colonies a9 cal lated ty ing at NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 15; 1856: ‘be eapectally instructive, because, owing to the contiguity of the Unives States, it had presentea digeaities froce whioh {t could pot carry with itewewhere, Therefore, thare loréshyps aigh: be sure tantific those eoioules the difficulties bad oven aurmochted, the same diffisulties evewbere works mot be tosuperac'e, aod pernaye not formeidavie, He did not presume to speakon these smDd- jects wi ampthing like authority, bat pecoaps ha t be listened to whea, as a witness, he cetailed simply the rorait of bis own experience im Canada. When he went these ip 1846 he fourd some 8, 000 troops stationed im that colony alore. They were ecaitered in small de'ach- ments all over ths colony, end therefore, as ‘ther of course. ne du'ies of police Cevolved on them. Under cireumstances it was quite imposaib! for the local Legulature 10 co apything towards tho esiablisbment of a local force, and the mi itary force was viewed mixed feclicgs by the colonies—with g eat fa- vor on account of the expense incurred by tne wother count'y, wi bgreataod nt unfoundea jealously, be cause itwas auppvsea ty be maintained for imperial, cistinct frcm colonial interests, and thet iw uence was use+ for the support of that ty which had the favor of the home govera- mect for the time. Consequently there was liitie disposition oo tt of the loca: admmistreation to a> anything to relieve mother touatry from any portion ot ‘he burder on this account, and he found cha: it was actually the praetioe to charge wita cuties ar-ialas par- chased by the money of this coantry and imp rte: tnto maiatained there. the ootony for the use of toe troops He aomet'mes mi thonght tt so ex: Y iy of them to believe {t {In 1864 the number of troops fa Careda emounad 000 mea, who were scattered ove: the country, while st present there were only 1,880, who were concentraed in two or three garrisons; aad tho consequence was that the seeponsiriifty of mein'ataing the internal trsaquldity of the province dsvoives u30n the inbabetants ana upon the euthorisies ta diftereat 10. calities. A commission of four most able meo, at tha head otwhich war Sir Allan M’Nab, had beea occapied 10 preparing @ plan for ths establishment of @ looal f roe, and he oad moved for the zeport of those sommissioa- ers, because he waa anxious that {t should be generally known that measures of economy in matters of military protection had been carried out im such @ way as to increase, and not impair, the defonsiy: of the colony. Thore messures of concentration were car- ried out. he waa bound to aay, under the ins*rus.ions of the Seeretaion of State, under whom he was servi the noble Farl below him (Karl Grey), and the no Deke; bat at the rare time, notwithstanding those in- et uctions, he bad feit thst a considerable amount of re- sponsibility rested upon himeelf personally, becense he was wellaware that if any icjary bad hapoered wo British imtererts, or if there had been any oisturbence of the internal trevquillity of the coloay, the blame would bave been laid upon the local governor; for it would have been sais that ft was his duty to have fore- warned the heme goveroment of the davger which at- teode? carryirg their instructions into execution. Toe eminent men who preceded aim held views wita respect to the condition of thé colony, and the state of fee.ing which existed among the colovists, which, if they were sound opinions, woud have rendered any material reduction of the military foree ia the colony an ac’ of insani*y on tha part of the governmen: of this country, Now, be eutertained the highest posible re- spect tor that dlstinguissai prrionage, but be could not aurent to bis views af to the foeling of the coloniss. He believed, ani bad always bei-v+d, that the ucmost r lisnee could be piased upon the loyalty and good feeling of the people of Can end tiersfore he hai no doubt as to the propriety of carryirg out the insiruc‘ions of the Secretary of Stave, and o: adopting the polisy of placing the government of tbe erlony to a considerable ex:ent in the nands of the coloutsts thema That was a policy which waa not oaly, he thought, a jus: policy, but it was actually essential fo: the developemert of ® round moral condition among the col-nists tuemselves. He waa pre- pared to admit ‘bet in a state of war the respoasibill:y of country wth rey to her colonies was much more ex- tensive, and that was one good reason, even if there were no other, why Epgland should always, if possible, keep cut Of war; but be was speaking of @ state of peace. Ina deepateh which be lac wi odie friend near him Le bad expreared bis views upon the sv tyeet, and he would trouble their lordabipy with @ short extract from it, becauce it entirely expressed his preeen: views. In that deapatch he said :— Altbongh T hold that #0 Jomg asthe colovists have no volee in the tmper’a: councils they are entitled tolcok to the impe- Fial nuibortiea ter protect'on against hostilities which they had no share ip prcveting, und that i: is therefore fitiing that !mpe rial garricoua toould be mal. tained at certain imi milita- Ty siations—aved 93 Querec—aa a plecge that this proteciioa. the contingency Occurs, will pot he invoked in vain [ fm confidect thai nothing will more effectually tend to the Wecuiity of the empire, or to the estabii-hment of a high standard of paiienai end waolv morels among the colonirta, then the ataur piion by themielves of some portion of the responaibuty ia respect of sait-detence and the preservation 0% internal fraquillity which has hersiofore bean cat upoa the mother comutry He gould only now ear, in con:lusion, that if the faten- tion ef the gcvernment in renZing troops to the North Amerizez Colt a1ea were to inc:ease the garrisons there, in order to give to the colonists the pledge and the assur avce of fu'ure protection, he should not oppose it, ont on the contrary, he would be prepared to defend the measure to the utmost. I’, upon the other hand, the object were en account of the contiguity or the aalapri'y of tho North American eoloni-s, or for some motive of eso- nowy to couvevient'y maintain a portion of our standing srmy in that colony, provided that it was done on the uncerstandirg that tes charge should be borne on ac sount of the gererai inte ests of the emoire, nvither ‘would he then oppcese such a course; but he should oe @ixposea to the very utmost of bia abili'y to protest gainst and to oppore avy policy which would tend to re- ‘verse the work which bad been in operation during the Isat few years, because he thought it would be unjust on part of the mother country, and also because, although {t might be # boon in the firs: instanca, it wou'd ‘bes boon followed by a rpeecy reaction and it would put an argument in the hands of those who were disposed to denounce our colories as burdens. Gua Boats and Troops for Canada, {From the Mortresl Adverticer, June 10 } The gun boat fleet is to be immedistely fitted with masta snd spars, end made ready for ® voyags across the eee nndez ‘Their destioation is the Canadian 8. A ierge addition to the s'x regiments ordered to Cana 6a sas ccntempla'2d at the rating of the last steamer, and the cews of the dismirra! of the British Mlois‘er to the Uxited States. and the acknowledgment of Walker’s joverpment by the latter after » solemn sasuranse of fis isavowal of the expedition, and desire to cooperate with England to put it down, will ceuse the Bri forces io Canada to be put on the war footing. ipoten'‘iexies who will most speedily ard per- nf settle all existing and prodable causes of cia- the United States sre fiee's, gunboats, and nd Lord Palmersion 1s just the man woo un- derstands the rigat way of bricging the Amerisan goverr mext to zeaaon. A large rumber of heavy guns and mortars of the Cri- wean siege train, and the reserve smunition from Belaklavia, are ordered for shioment to Cavada. The regiments on the wey. and those uoder orders, beicg with them ail their wagons and eamp equipage. Avotner batteiy of artilery, Mr. Gilmour, of Gilmour & Co.. Captain. and Mr. Kyte, Lientenazt, ia now form- ing. Four others are also apoken of. e@ are rurprise’ that some of our military cltizeus have not thought of organizing a troop of mounted rifle- men, the most valuable force for the country. manen' put City Inteliigence. Tag Pontic Cartsmy’s Ustrsp BENgVOLENT AND PRo- rectrve SocteTy held & meeting at No. 76 Prince street on Wecnesday evening jast, to maxe preperations for their actus! procession. The first Monday cf this month being the day in which they generally turn out having passed by, th ety came to the cons/usicn to turn out on the 4sh of Jaly next. The ¢ifferent committees were appointed to carry out the measure. Mr. John McGrath recom- menced such measures as be thought would secure to them the reputation and good name which thar porpired on former ocessions. Afier some other busindss being transacted, the soolety adjouroed to Wednerday evening next, in order to finizh their arrangements, and select the warrbals, &o Exsupimio iv Waro Scnoor No. 6.—A large and re- spec'aole audience asserabled on Fridey in Ward schoo! No, 5, to witness an exhibition of the pupils. The ex- ercises consisted of recitations and singing by the »cholars, and tae performance of a piece representing the ecthronement of the Queen cf May. This pisce was got cp with admirable taste, and was most sncoessfully car. vird out, Then there was the humorous cislogue called “Fappy Grey,” in which the part of th» iruant lover was given with an expression by Master O'Donnell, that provoked repeated laughter. Adcresses were made by mr, NeJeon, Mr. Green and Mr. Boose, at the close of the exercises. ‘The seuool bouse will be clored afser to- Gay, aa it is to undergo considerable alterations and {m- Provemesta, It will, however, be re-opesed in the tall. Sryovnar Case.—Scrrosep CLus To a Mor- ban Iv 1840.—It will be recollected that on the 9:n of March sucereding the inavgaration ot Presideot Taylor, the dead body of # man was found on the towpath of the \lexanona Canal, near Arlington, and an inquest held n the ocession jeaulted in the verdict that the deceased came to Lis death by tae inflicting of two wounda on the neok by 4 knite or degger in the hands of some person or persons unknown. The was @ man apparently 36 or 40 yrars of age, Jight complexion, brown hair, and bad cue drab rack coat and dark as. Thrust in bis bosom wae a large knife stalned wita blood; bat nothing was found to indicate his name or residence. Soom after tw arrivel here the body wae reooguized oy & relative (who fainted on seeing the corpse) a that of T. W. Hove, of Nottinghaw, Md. Notice was seat to the fawily of Mr, Hoye, and a telegraphis deapates re:arned as telows:—Mr, Allen hes just re-urned from Not- ting Mr, Hoye at homs ant well.” and finds y afte ards it was recognized bod that bs, to numbers wh) came on to attecd the insuguration it was at tat suppored that some obscure indivicuel bad me untimely fate; and after san 8 unencceful jf quiries—no © missing man” being heard of auy rhere— Mr, J. Grubb toom ap sconrate cegcerrentyve of the body, and the deceased wae interred on Ponoy Hi, where he bas slumsered now for seven years. Oo Moniay « gentleman named Harbecker arrived in thin city, in search of information of one Chrutiaa Hershey. who lett Manor townsbip Lancaster county, !’a , to attend the ine angvration of Tayler. and has not since been beard of, Sala Hershey wae about 21 jears of age and of in'en- perate havite but what strongly connects the murdered mon with the one missing i the tact that bis brotnor, who accempaniva Mr. Herbecker, ia simont identisal in fea‘uree wiih the body found, Ae estate has besn left, of which ‘he miwwiog man ina bereficiary, aod the search for bim hay thus ihrowp some light on @ mystery which fur her inves igation may rerve to unfold more clearly,— Alizantria (Va ) Sentinel Pranmva Mitt Borwep —The extensive planing mL et Gibson, Steaben eounty, boooging to Jonn Gip- on, of A*bony, wae burned down on tae 6t fost, Lone about $46,010. No insurance. Affairs in Kansas. (From the St. Louis Republican, June 10. We yeeverday received the following inteiligence from this Tertiicry, by the steamer Martha Je rett :—~ INDEPENDENCE, June 6, 1856, Rumore of ail corts ore afivat We learved yesterday afernoon that United S:ates Marshal Doni end tour ot his men, in discoarge of official duty, were kilied ou Tuesday, near Hickory Poiat. I pelieve he was ia the act or bad arrested dome men who attacked « party 0 men uncer charge ot Pate, who had gone out from the ‘hreatened with destruc: line to detend rome property : tion, After their capture of Pave’s men, of which you pave doubtless heard, the aboiitionists increased con- sideaadiy in numbers, ead yest morzing were des- trosing houses ‘and criving men, women and obildren vom their habitations, or neer Bull Creek, A mi who had been just served in this way, and whe nad his ta nily evcreted. arrived at the settlement near New pay erga company the rd under ctarge of Cpt " awmediately ia pursuit of the ma wit bear from thee th We this evening or to- reat assured that it will be no child's play with them in this matter, If the strong arm of ihe government will not interfere, the people will take the metter in hand ard prosecute it with vigor, The Ccmmittee of Invectigation are at Westport, pre- tenci.g to take evidence, favoring as far aa they can Keoder’s party. They had Rev, Thomas Johnson before tpem, acd whea he had completed his evicence, they coolly told bim they had evidene before which coatre- diced er _ ‘ould not meeere ta pty tand parcel of ibsir whole proceedings. a. Kood C wwgress will derive from such investigaiion ts best knowa to those acquainted witn euch proceedings, Tne committee are evidently amxious to receive some abuse from the Mistourians, 60 as to make political capital out of it; but the citizens of this State will forbear witn them as they have in other matters, until forbearance cesses to be & virtue and no longer. Another report, which’ ceems to be later, says that Fravklin bas not been taken aithong the Lawreaceites attacked it ard cangerously wounced one maa. The aboiitionis‘s beat, however, a hasty retreat. The force at Fravklin at the ‘1m- is represen‘éd as having been very smal, their assailants more than quadruplieg them ia numbers. One wae was kiled in Franklin whose name wae Tisbmaker. He was shot through the lungs and died next morning. Governor “hsnoon bas issued a proclamation which looks somewhat like taking the proper steps towards the kettiewert ot difficulides. Captain Pate and his command had been set at liberty by Colonel Sumner, who arrived at Black Jack Potnt just in time to prevent a conflict between those woo held Pave sud bis company prisoners and a party uncer Captain Reid, who were goicg to rescue tnem. Ths following is Governor Shannvun’s proclamation-— PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE TERBI- TOBY OF KANSAS. Whereas, information hes been received by us that armed bodies of men exist in different paris of this lerritory, who lenoe on ble covers, donpolling them of thelr preperty, aad great personal viole sce - It appearing also hat armed combinations have been formed for the avowed purpore cf resisting the exeoution of tne ferri- torial laws, acd preventing the execution of any process by the officers of this 1erritory— It appearing turiher that individuals, as well as associated bodies o: men, have aseumed to themselves the power of not. fying cltzens of the Lerriiory t lesve ihele ebodes, aud. in some instaroee to quit the country, under threats ot {inflicting aevere penalties on tboie who do rot eomply— Dow, therefore, I, Wi'sou shannon, Governor of the Terri. tory of Kaneaa, do issue this my prociamaton, to command all persons belosging to military izations within this Territory , uot au'horized bv the laws thereof, to di retize to tho'r respective abodes, and to wara all persons that thees military organizstions for such purpores are lilegal avd, if e-essary, will ba dispersed by the mill ary fores ol by the Presicent of the Unived sates at my disposal for the purpcre of prererving the the laws of the ‘ferritory; thatstevs nave been taken to ai-peree all ua- Javtu mi itary org «5jzarions which are threa:ening the peace of the country and the good order of sooiety, and to disarm them shouid they reawemb!e Ail civil officers of tue government are required to be vigt- Jant in enforcing the Iaws aginst such offenders, and in pro tecting the cit'zens bothin thelr persons and property against ail violence and wrong. 1 turther deciare that al: notices given to citizens or persons founo in she Territory fo leave the same or their houres, or Soy Darticuler locall:y, are unsuhorized by Jaw and highly Teprehepsible, as tending to breaches of the peace and violence and cisorder lfurther declare that al’ law-abiding citizens of the Terri- tory, without to party, names or cisinciions must be pro‘ected in persone acd property and the: all militery orgwn izations to resiat the execution ot txe laws of the Territory, or to disturb the thereof, must be dispersed; and iB ‘be repelled; the axesu- without ‘the Territory must force placed under the control of is amply eufiicient to eaforce the laws tizenaia their rights. 1 sursher 4 thet in careving ont this proclamation no distinction or inquiry is to be made sto party, but all parsons Of all parties are to be treated ake under ike circumstances. “Obedience to the Iawa and consequent © zor # ot Kaneas sre primary objects; and a’ within the Jeri bat mut be represses.” and the preo'am atfon of 1 the United States of the 1ith of Februsry isi «{ J be strictly enforced; ard» requisition has been made oo Col Summor for 8 sufficient military foree to easure obedience to the proc ams- 1 onl om all goo? at'tzens fo aid and astist in preserving Deuce, repreeeing violence, and in bringing otlenders to jus: ce, and in matnisinisg she nugremesy Of the Jaw. Us 8 } Ju testimony wh T heve hereunto ret my hand ‘And caused the seal of the Territory to be aflixed. this fourth day ot June, 1866. WILSON SHANNON, By the Governor: Danze: Woopson, Seere'ary. The St. Louts Democrat of the 10th inst. vate letter, received ia this city, dated Westport, stater that ‘upwards of six hundred within ten miles of that place, and will (6th) to meet the free soll party.” We another scurce that reports prevailed of the murdering cf men, both free soil and pro-nlavery, and that active Dreparstiona were making for contucting the affeir on a more extenatve plan than has here:ofore been adopted. and to provect the “Albany Beet” Along the Hudson —The Si con 8. (From the Albany Statesman, June 6.) Albany, as a city, bas many peculiarities, but we do not think it stands alone in this respect. We will not top to discuxa this question, but merely call to mind fact that smong the many epithets bestowed upon her and her eitizens, is cne of which she may justly be preud, when spoken of as # multitu pecaliarity with respect to the latter. We refer to the e; it sometimes applied to our citizens while in otber locall- tes, as ie eesti Sent € ponsige Leer ” or are “Sturgeonites,”’ that they have re + ap on “Albony beef,” &3. oe Now itis of this ‘Albany beef’ that we propose to speak in devail, so that cutsi¢ers—those ‘not tothe manor born’’—can, if they choose, enlighten themselves some- what wich regard to this luxury, with which the people reriding cn the banks of the Hudson do regale themucives from year to year. In looking over the natural history of this great State, we find there recordes as a fact that there are dis- tinct and separa’e kinds of sturgeons, viz :— One called the laze sturgem, which measures from tvo to tour feet, and is fonndfio the waters of Lakes On- terio ana Ere, aa well as in all the upper lakes; and the other the sharp nore sturgeon, whieh is mvstly found in the wa'ers of the Hudson, thovgh some of the 28 are cocasionally caught as far East as Maine. ‘The sbarp nored sturgeon, as caught fa the Hudson, is from four weight seet in length and varies ta weight from 100 to 450 pounds. We believe the largest ever seen ip Albepy was caught some five years ago and weighed 486 Ibs. But our object in writing this article was and is simply to show how winch Albavy is annually benefitted by the “cach” and eale of this fish—and to show that the peo- ple ofa city can stand a little ridicule on a subject that brings money to their puree. Tee catch urually commences about the middle of April, and continues untii nearly the 1st of Septem ber. They are cangot at almost all of the fishing stctions from Troy to New York bay, bot the Ircatities that yleld ihe greatest number are flyde Park and Low Port, & little below Newburg, on the opposite ride. The number disposed of in Albany and vicinity, daily, 889 trom April 15 to June 1, is about 20, From that time antil the midcle of August, the number disposed of in the city and vicinity will average 150 weekly, say durirgtre whole season 2,500. These, at an average weigh; of 250 lbs, gross. will amount to 625,060 Iba. gross, Allow that one half of this weight is offal, and you bave 312000 ibs., which retalls onan average at 6 cents per 1b., which makes the total amount realized $18,750 There is yearly extracted from the This fs not all. offe! of thea: fish, ofl to the amount of nearly 100 bbls. At Newburg, Isst year, the fishermen extracted the sucent of 500 barrels.’ It ia as good as any sperm oil for the purposes of light, and is highty esteemed bj many as a oorative agent for cuts. bruises, &3. This of sells by che barrel for $1 26 per galion. Thus, it wil be perceived, that the sturgeon yields to those engeged in the tande and belonging to this city, at least $20,000 an- nually, of whieh over $12.000 is clear profit. Degrrvctive Fire AND Loss or Lirz.—The New Port, Fia., Wakulla Tymes of the 4th inst. says:—Wo5 are pained w have to record the entire des'ruction by fire, on Friday last, of the oi! warka and turpentine sitll of Mr. E. C, Hclbrook, of this place, with the loss of the Jif of Mr. Patrick Collins, formerly of Brookiyn, N. Y., but for tbe last six months an industrious and valuadle citizen of our town. Mr. Colina, who was employed to tuperiniend the works, waa, at about ten o’clock on that moroing, engaged in making bright varniab, and while mixing naptha with hot rosin, the gas ignited, causi Teport similar ecape of steam from the aa‘ety valve of a 8 cam boiler. The flamex spread alcaost ins cantly toevery part of the building, (egnty by ono bandred feet), whicn was entirely destroyed, with ail the ma. binery, tegether with all ‘he outouildings on the pre- miner, and over two hundred barrels oil ready matar aod a large quantity of rew material. afr. Cellias, cove with flames, raa for the river, some two handred feet distant, and pluoged in. The unfortunate man was taken trom the water an carried home, where he ifagered about thirty houre in the moat excruciating pain. I: is thought that he ut bave inhaled the flane, Mr. Uolitns hes ¢ft.a wife and five ebiidren to mourn his death. The aa ual lose by this fire is some fifteen thousand dollars, but the tacirect Joss to oux town and surrounding coun- ry oan hardly be estimated 1: is ® public ealamity— the -avervat bustness one which has visited our towa ince irs set'lement in 1813 Many of our citizens were directly or indirectly interested im the prosperity of this eeteblishment for the warefectare of tarpentine and resin olj from the crude ariicie, svicripe In NewPort belo an inquest, yesterday, @ick, which was found hangi Wibam street, avout tes o's The decoased was a eon cf the late Elder Burdick f thie clty, was about Thirty-two years old, and @ + u-n or by trate. From appearances, he probably sto | = wheelbarrow, and, having adjusted, swavg bimeett oii On the typ of his nl enast, whish stood rear by, tuv fullowing was weit thenaik fo bas ro charm. T heve not wep! (or ten nighia. now T broughton by tov) neglect my work ocd job: "Poor mother. f cvst ey t no children, (26 Inst neon of bie wae on Taescay night, abour hal «+t nine clock, uring Taesdsy be complained of bei y vary nervous, and enid that he had taken opinin @ncuch to kill tow meh. He could not have been bangiog 7, as the body was "atm when found, but Mfe was 6 ot Newport News, June 12. 1.—Coroner Vanzandt tae body of Wiiliac Bar. > ® beam in a barnin Personal Inteligence, Mr. and Mrs, Dallas and Mr. Philip Dallas attended at the Queen's Orawizg room Mrs. Howland Shaw, of Boa- ton, was © presented’’ by Mrs, Dalles, and Mr, Howland Shaw and Arthur Lyman, of Boston, by Mr. Duilas. _M. Maroole'a departs by the steamer of the 18th, the Niagara, for London, Paris and Madrid, where his friends in Sieeruane continae to be recogsized as the govern- ment of that Ste’e.. His amiable and accomplished lady will scoompapy bim Ths A>bé Coquereau has been summoned to Bordeaux toewait the arrival of the Legate, who is to hold the Imperial Prit ce the font. The Abbé is the same who accompanied the Prince de Joinville to St. Helena to bring home the remaixa of Napoleon I. The Turf, KENTUORY. Lexincroy Trorma Cuvn—Frmet Day, June 4.—Purse $1°0, mile heats, best three in five, in barnes, tor horsts that never beat three minutes ia public, Wm. M jen’ g. g. Van Pearoe.. 1 E. Skeiling’s a Buly MoCrecken, oo 222 me. 5 00 —2 160 36 2:59. Sxconp Day.—Match for $200, mile beat, best three in five, in barnes, to be dry, and Van Pearce to sary 25 los. ex'ra. . M. Yates’ g. g. Van Pearce... rec'd forfeit. J.B. Clay ” beg Tom Taumd... i Set ‘Same Dar.— , mule beats, to go aa the; : L, Hers’s ch. ft. Ellen Switt, under saddle is J. B. Clay’s br. g. Tom Thumb, in haro A Time, 2:61}. The winner carrying 125 ibs. Tae CanaLs—First ABRIVAL FROM BUFPALO.— ‘The caval boat Seneca reached this city at 9 o’clock last evening. Unusual demonstration was manifested on the occasion, When the Seneca reached West Troy she was met by a party who obtained a band to accompany her to this city. On her way down the eanal, while the band ‘was ofscoursing music, the party were engaged io cec>- Fa ing the boat with fags and streamers, Her arrival ‘was spnounced by the booming of cannon, and the firing was kept up umtil the boat was safely moored at the Wertern C:sosportation Company’s dock, when the band playeo *« Yankee Doodle,” wi caused a large gatner- ing of boatmen and sailors on the boat. Cneers upon cheers were given, and, after » hearty congratulation with the captain, the party retired. It ua singular fact, but nevertheless true, that the same boat and the same captain came througt last season, and was the first to reach this eity from Buffalo, This was followed by a further demonstration to-day, in which forwarders, com- iniasion houses end the trade pariicipated. The sbipping in our harbor presented a very handsome sppearance—colors were flying at masthead upon nearly every vessel at the docks and piers, from the South ferry to the extreme end of the Lumber district. [t was @ gala day, and one that will long be remembered, for the Seneca was just a month in coming from Buffalo to this city.—Aloany Journal, June 12. a FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. MARKET. Saturpar, June 14—6 P. M ‘There was rather a blue stock market at the first board to-day. With a little more activity than we have noticed for some days, lower prices ruled throughout. Illinois Central Bonds fell off 34 per cent; Canton Company, 4, Cumberland, 44; New York Central Railroad, 34; Erie, %; Reading, 54; Chicago and Rock Island, 34; Michigan Cen- tral Railroad, 4; Michigan Southern, 34; Cleveland and Toledo, 34; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 3%. Wisconsin Lake Shore Railroad advanced 34 per cent. After the board the market was very dull, and a further decline was realized. At the second board the market touched lower points. Erie declined 44 per cent; Cumberland, 34; Canton Com- veland and Toledo, 34; Panama, ; Milwau- ippi, 3; Harlem, 4%. New York Central Railroad closed at the morning's price: ‘The Assistant Treasurer reports to- Paid on Treasu} Received on Treasury accoun Balance on Treasury account, Paid for Assay Off Paid on Disbursing : Balance credit on all accoun! The warrants entered at the Treasury Department, Washington, on the 12th inst., were as follows:— For the redemption of Texas debt $34,219 76 For the Treasury Department + 540 87 For Customs. + 15,317 60 For the Interior Departm 5 nt War warrants received and entered £153,413 91 War repay warrants received and entered...) ‘403 91 ‘The steamship Washington, from this port for South- ampton and Bremen to-day, carried out $85,800 in specie. Thasteamship_Arabia, at,this port from Liverpool, brought $70,000 in specie on freight. These movements about offset each other. There are indications of a greatrush of breadstuffs from the West towards tide water. Holders of grain, despairing of a rise, are crowding it into market. The shipments from Chicago last week were 485,560 bushels corn, 105,514 bushels wheat, $1,506 bushels oats, and 8,230 barrels flour. The upper lakes are crowded with vessels laden with grain and flour. Between fifty and sixty vessels are on the way to Oswego, with 700,000 bushels grain. The f.llowing is a statement of the buciness of the New Orieans mint for May, 1866:— Gold deposits— California gold........ Gold from other sowrees. Total gold doportte.......cc.c.sccssevss $60,106 68 Bliver éepori'«— ae seperated from California silver fron Total silver deposits.........c0sesees+ +9848, 786 12 Toral gold and silver deposits.......... 698,982 75 Geld coinsge— other sources 9,000 COgIO8.....cseeeerececceeeteeeresess 90,000 00 Silver ecinage— 500,000 half dollars.....ssesssseeeseeeseee 250,000 00 Total gold and silver coinage.. ‘The annval report ofthe Morris and peny for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1856, gives the following fisancial exhibit:— MORRIS 4ND Essex RAILROAD, Total receipts from all sources. $220,441 33 Total expen606.....scceeeseer ee 133,073 51 Net earnings... 2 eeeereees $06,367 82 Two semi annual dividends were dont during the year amounting to $77,454 94. Also interest on funded and floating debt, $24,584 66. The equipment of the road consists in 10 locomotive eny ; 16 passenger cars; 62 freight and cattle cars, a1 ‘baggage, gravel and hand cara, The ere sheet is as follows:— , Newconnection with N. J. road....... 121,759 pa! aru account. 1,200 N. Y. fr’t buildings d wharf,...... Steck in Bloomfield re 409 15,760 Bills receivable and . Total......+++, $2,722,085 Total....... . $1,722,086 ‘The compary paid $46,605 55 for passengers and freight between New York and Newark to the New Jersey Rail- vad Com: ie compa of the footings of the weekly bank statement of the Boston banks with those of the state- went for the previews’ week, exhibits the following re B jac, sulte:— . 69, Deo.174,175 Due from other Ine. 383,795 Due to other banss 4 7,180,786 Ine. 302,040 ‘the shipments of ooal from the Frostourg and Western regions for the week ending June 7, we learn trom the Cumberland Miners’ Journal, amount to 20,385.10 tons, and for the year 216,802.28 tons, Thore were 76 boats descended the canal for the week ending June 7, carr, | ‘mg 8,170.07 tons of coal. Total smount shipped by canal since the resumption of navigation, 07,445.13 tons, ‘The rennsylvanis Railroed continues to present a mes B flattering exhibit. The receipts of last month are much the largest ever known for May, and the aggrogate re- evipte for the first five months of this year are $633,000 over those of the first five months of 1865. The following is the official monthly statement:— Reosipts of the road fer the month ending iny 31.. 586 25 Same month last year. $463, 326,711 94 Rectip's from Jan. 1, 1866, to Jane 1, 1866,.82,181,295 61 Same period last yOar..... 6... 664 ++ 1,548,285 68 “Inerenee: $633,010 03 The Lackawanne Company have entered into a contract with the Delaware, Lackawaena and Western Ratlroad for twenty years to convey their coal from Greenville to E’izabethport, N. J., at a fixed rate ot freight—160,000 tons per annum for the next two or three years, and then 300,000 tons per annum thereafter, It is oaloulated to send to market betore January, 1857, 100,000 tons of cosl, and more then 20,000 tons ate now etcoked at the mines and ready to come forward to New York, a The Delawaze, Lackawaava avd Werters Main ed Com. pay give notice that the irterest divilend uy the capital stock heretofore dectared ‘or the a’x months end. ing Decerober 31, 185i, will be paid oo the 16tt inst. In terest at the rate ef seven per cent pe: um will Ke eliowed and psid ee above uprn said trom Jenuary 20 toJune 15, trom waick last mentioned date the eame wil ova:e, The earnings of the Ogdecaburg Railzoad Company for the year ending March 31 were aa follows:— Pasrengers, mails and expres: 18,824 66 Freight... 01,638 45 Miscolsnsous te 6,207 48 Total earnings.... 6.6. seereeeee seeee ee ee ++ 8516, 216 40 Expenci ures:— sivtenaace of wi $127,489 20 Motive power., 11202 08 ‘tation. 2) ihm ——— 348 008 15 Not earatogtesss ssc css seers s -8167,907 34 Asccmpared with the yer previous, the gross sara: ngs fell off $32,312 44, apd the expenses were cedure 53,686 61, showing a gain in net incomes of $21,678 07 The road and equipment sre represented to be ia good rder throughout, This result is certainly encouraging, tho wing aa it does upon diminished grosa earnings » nv; income equal tothe entire interest on First Mortgage bonds and more than two per cent on the Sesond Mort. age. . ‘The Boston Traveller gives the following facta relative to the sugar and mvlasses trace of that city: ~ This city 1a one of the largest molasses and suger mar- kets in the Union, New Yurk may exoel Boston in the Istter article, and particularly in the sale of h-gshsad sugar, but in bex and beg sugars and molasses Boa- ton bas the superiority. Besides our direct imports of molasses, @ large portion of that imported inw Port. lend and Gloucester finds its way hither for distilliog PRsporee. It is even cent bere from Bristol and N port, Rhode Is'and. Our usual import until last year, of molsases, is about 70000 hhds.; of sugar, 20, bhds., 80,000 boxes, and 100,000 bags, compriaing ebout 350 cargoes each year. Tbis vast quantity is taxen.by our market for retailing and manufacturing. Boston hee the most extersive distillation of ram in the United Btates, and ita sugar refineries require great supplies of crude sugar. Our coastwise and toreign shipments of zefined sugars sre very large, nearly a ing Now York in importance. The Chilian ant Califorais markete take thousands of barrels trom Boston annusily. Our own demestic trade requires ten times as much refined 8 a6 it did some few years ago. With thee , which are constantly increasing, for sugar aad mo- Jessen, our receipts have fallen cff aince 1854 enormously, Smail'as the quantity of molssses received at this port last year was, thus far this season we have only received one half as much. There seems to be a great scarcity at all tpe Cuda and other West India ports of fair quality: Melasses is now worth 40 cents per gallon in this market, and ro stock of consequence on jee Sugar is also very high, common grades being worth 9 cents, and refined 10 to 1d cents. The prospects are now favorable for a still advanced price for both sugar and molasses, an the qaan- tity coming to Boston is known to be very small, The annexed statement exhibits the quantities (im pounds) of cotton exported from the United States to the principal commercial countries of the world, and the an- pUAi average amount thereof, for a period of five years :— Countries fo which ezported, 1861. 1862, 1868, Great Britain ....670,045,122 762,673.780 708,606,408 08 1391164572 186'214,270 189,226,013 + 84,272 625 20,301,028 26/851, 042 16,716,571 22 138,228 22,671,782 . 16,339,018 27,157,800 16,494,442 Austria... 2 17,809)154 —23,048'434 17,008,642 Sardivia and Tialy 10,320,406 17'934,268 17,487,984 Russi ~ 10,008,448 10,476,168 21,286,643 Mi . 846,960 6,700,091 7,468,851 Holland, + 5,608/670 10,259,042 7,688,094 Swedenand Nor’y. 6,160,974 6,939,025 6,009,617 British North Ame- rican Possess’ns 23,525 Denmark = 118,572 : 122,478 To all countries.927,237,080 1,093,220,639 1864. «696,447,047 1866. 673 498,259 1144,428;360 210,113 809 Sweden & Norwa: Br. N, A. Pos, To all countries.987,833,106 1,008,424,601 1,025,659,156 ‘The report of the Secretary of State to Congress giving the above table, contains the following remarks relative to the cotton trade of Great Britain :— The avnusl aversge importation of cotton from all countries into England the iast five years has been 838,- 185,984 pounds, of which amount, according to British authorities, 661,529,220 pounds, or more than fourtbs, were from the United Stater. The anaual ave- rage exportation to the Contizent and elsewhere has been 110,688 pounce, or abzut one-sixth of tae te- tal quantity imported, leaving 715,625 296 pounds for vhe annus! average consumption. About one-sixth of the whole amount imported was from British posses- sions. In 1781 Great Britain commenced the re exportation af cotton to the Continent acd eleewhere, In 1816 the quan- tity thus re-exported has risen from an annual ave! of one million pounds to that of six million pounds. 1853, the aggregate amount exported ex: 148 mil- lon pounds, of which early eighty-three million punda were derived from the United S:ates, and more theasixty tillion pounds from the Esat Incies. The quantity of American cotton re-exported by Great Britain to the dif- ferent markets of Europe, when compared with the quen- tity imported, is muon less thao of that imporced from some other count fact which suggests the supe- riotity of the American article ard its better adapta- tion % purposes of fabrile industry. For example : about’ one-tenth of the cotton imported from the United States is reexported, against nearly one- half of that imported from the East Indies. A com- parisom between American and East Indian cotton shows 8 difference of 100 per cent in favor of the former—the cotton of the Fast Indies containicg twenty-five cont of waste, while that of the United States con! only twelve and a halt per cent. The fibre also of the latter excels that of the former. In 1788 the efforta of the East India Company com- mexoed for the promotion of the growth of cotton and for he improvement of ite quality in British Ind‘a; aad the exportation of the article to England was made the year. In 1814 the exportation amounted to 4,000,- 000 pounds, It now aversgea some 165,000,000 pounda perannum. An of about 8.000 square miles 1s said to be cevoted to the culture. Liverpool is the great mart of the cotton trade of Great Britain, and of Europe generally. Thus, while the total into the United Ki ses imports of that artic accord ing to British authorities, in 1852, amounted to 2,367,338 beles, the quantity at this port reached 2,206,738 bales. About six-sevenths of the cotton received at Liverpool comes trom the United States, and of this four-fifths is estimated to be imported for the factories of Lancashire and Yorbahire, Since Maroh, 1845, cottons have been admitted iato British ports free of dutr. Prier to that period, the duty wee of and from British possessions 8 cents, from other places 70 cente per 112 pounds, The number of spindles in operation in England is esti- mated at more than twen‘y miiions. ied by the United States to value of cotton sup] Great Britain, in 1866, was $67,616,749, being about the each the laa average t four, ‘The quantity of cotton exported from the United States to England, in eleven monthe of the fiscal year 1856, ia estimated at 2,756,000 baior. It sppears from ‘‘ Commerce and Navigation’ that the importation of raw cotton from the British West Indies into the United States has increased for some Bios past ine ratio eee, to the decrease of such: tm- portation into Great Britain. Thus the importations of cotton into 4 United states and Great Brit im, TOS] tively, ih Wont Indies, from 1861 to 1865, inclusive, were as — United States. Greal Britain. 1861, Ibs, 29,353, 446,529 1852. 6,756 103,606 The average price per of cotton, from 1861 to 1866, ineluatro, im the Uisitod Staton and Greet Britais, respectively, ts shown as follows:— AVERAGE Prick or Corton PER Pounp. Unit ited States, Stock Exchange. Satcxpay, June 14, 1856, £18000 Mo. 6’s...... RBA 6shs Sixth Ay RR 89 2000 NY Cen RR 6's 8814 200 Roading RR...., 9016 9000 Tl Cen RR Bds, 87 900 do .. 86% 7 2000 do... 7 do 7000 kricRR Bis,i876 91%; 100 do 1000 do... eee. 914g 100 do, JOOORFICRROnvt.1871 84% do \% 200 18 BankofCommerce 109 5 Wis LS RR. 5 Metropolitan Bnk 11034 150 Chic & RI RI 10 Ohio Life&TrstCo, 96 810 Mich Cen RR 150 Canton Company. 22 300 do 150 do..... 21% 100 do. 10 Nie Transit Co. 1136 100 200 do, i ae | 60 do.. 5 441 Penn Coal Co, 50 . 200 Cum Coal Co, 100 do. 50 do 157 Mic So & N 10 Panama RR.. 4 207 do... 3 60 Tit Cen RR. 100 400 Clev: 100 do 116 i 62 170 Erie Ratiroad. 250 do... 0 Gal &Chic RRGBO 110; 5 OOhs atv een Bee 3850 do... 450 do... 3 630 Cley & Tol RR. 200 do j 100 do.. 100 dO... 815 100 do. 100 G05555 a5 900 do. 400 do... ..b60 50 650 do, ves 500 200 do 30 200 100 Harlem Raiirowd,