The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ZDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. SYFICE X. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. MS, cash in advance. Fue Daley HERALD, 2 ents p ; THE WEEKLY every sopy, or $3 per annum; the sition, $4 per ‘annum Great Britain, or $5 to any part of ihe Continent, TRY CORRESPONDENCE, containing Secentslisied fvocn one genie of used, be Fes rant Bar OWK FoR: Uonkmrsutonars preitsaiy inquesraD 0 Saat aut Lxrrens ‘axD Paves (26us SENT Us. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Youne HanGuar ON ram Mreut Rore—Ficako—Rovent anv BERTRAND. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Mésus aND Facks—Biaya or Fxespom. BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Incoman, TAR Baxvanian. JOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermorian Mme euner tus ‘Dovsie BeppeD Room. WELLER’S EMPIRE HALL, 59 Broadway—Parrionio om Mecuianrovs Tasis.0x—Mvsic. DUSSELDORF GALLERY, 497 Broadway—Varvase Paaerines inp StaTUany—MauTYRDOM OF Huss, Se, New York, Monday, July 7, 1856. The News. The steamship Baltic, which left Liverpool on 25th of June, arrived here yesterday morning. The mews by this arrival is not very important. In Eng- Jand the war excitement was nearly-at end, and the enlistment question and the Crampton dismissal ‘were not much spoken of. Central America seemed $0 engage the attention of the Cabinet in a much the rule of the United States in that quarter. The remarks of Mr. Gladstone and Sir John Pakington, im the House of Commons, on the subject, failed to raw Lord Palmerston into a ministerial explana- tion, but it was thought that a thorough discussion on the Central American imbrogiio was at hand. Mr. Buehanan’s nomination for the Presidency had ex- sited some uneasy feeling in consequence of the doc- ‘trines published in the Ostend manifesto and the reit- eration of the Monroe doctrine in the Cincinnati plat- form. The people (working classes) were all ad- verse to war, and peace addresses to the citizens of the United States were circulated and signed im almost every city of the United Kingdom. Advices from Hamburg state that, owing to the me- @iation of Russia, our government consents to pay the Sound dues toll until Jane of 1857. We publish the testimony taken before an English Parlia- mentary committee on the subject. The question of @ regency for France, in the event of the Emperor's death, bad been submitted in form to the Senate. ‘The injury done to the crops by the late inundations ie estimated at 150,000,000f., of which 30,000,000f. are referable to the mulberry trees for silkworms. In that amount are not included the damage dune to houses, the loss in cattle, uteusile, or the injury to yailroads. Prince Napoleon had arrived in Edin- burg, and visited Abbotsford and the scenes made memorable by the genius of Sir Walter Scott. Count George Estertazy, Austrian Minister te Prossia, had died in Berlin. A despatch from Madrid announces that the Queen of Spain had suffered from a miscarriage. Her Majesty had been bled, and was very unwell. The Franklin discovery reward from England, £10,000, had been awarded to Dr. Rae. Troops from the East were pouring into France and Eng- jand. Ten English regiments and 14,000 French re- mained in the Crimea for embarkation, and nearly (he same vumber were in Constantinople. The French police had been withdrawn from Pera, and the consequence was that considerable disorder in ‘the streets followed. Ismael City was being levelled by the Russians. The Czar had formed a new Cabinet with the following personages:—Poreiga Affairs, Prince Gortschakoff; Messrs. de Tolstoi and ‘Osten Sacken, assistants; Home Department, Prince Sergius Lauskoi, &c., &c, In the Portuguese Legis- lature a bill ha®been brought in to extend the ad- mission of foreign grain until the 30th of June, 1857, at a nominal duty of about 1d. per 100 lbs. The ship Marco Polo brought to England from Mel- bourne 70,000 ounces of gold and £46,100 (in sove reigns), in al! about £320,000, She had Melbourne dates to the 26th of March. Some additional news details say that the gold market remained very firm at £3 17s. $d. to sellers, with the usual com- mission. The demand for shipment caused the merchants to give £3 1*s. 6d. to the trade in some cases. Holiday influences still pervaded most branches of trade, and few transactions were re We publish this morning a letter from an Ame- rican shipmaster in relation to the extravagant port ebarges imposed apon American vessels visiting French porta. The only way of putting a stop to such impositions is by the formation of a pew com- mercial treaty between the two countries—the old treaty having becoine obsolete. Le Pays of Jane 19 announces that Spain has accepted the friendly intervention of France, in or- der to remove the difficulties existing between Spain and Mexico. It is to be hoped, says Le Pays, that the good offices of France will settle the difference. ‘The summer vacation of the law courts has com- menced, during which there will be no jury trials, ‘but the Judges will attend chambers and bear spe- cial motions. ‘The Board of Aldermen will commence the basi- wtes of the July session this evening, but there is nothing of any particular in‘erest before them ex- cept the matter of building a new City Hall; aud fs the thermometer stands too high for warm de bating, we presume this subject will be allowed to stand over for the summer. The Board of Councilmen meets at five o'clock, P. M., and will continue to sit every day—Saturday and Sunday excepted until the completion offthe eight sessions required by law. The most important measure which will come before the Board at the present term is the proposal to extend Laurens street through the Washington Parade Ground to Fourth street. This measure is strongly pressed by par- ties interested in procuring a grant for a railroad in Fifth avenne, but we anderstand that a large ma jority of property owners on the line are opposed to the extension, as they no doubt would be to the railroad. We publish elsewhere in our columns a new postal treaty, negotiated with Mexico by our Minuw ter, Gen. Gadsden, together with some other inter. esting intelligence recently received from that port of Boston during the week ending July 4, amounted to #659. 431. The sales of cotton on Saturday were confined to a few bondred bales, at vrices showing the turn of ‘the market in favor of the sell-r. The mail by the Canada brought a number of or lers fur breadetuifs, and the market for flour ao’ groin was excited. Ploar sold at an advance of alout lie. a lic. per barrel, with free sales. Wheat also advanced from 30. t» 4c. por bushel, especially for medium qualities, in condition for export. Corn was also better, and holders higher in their views, while gales were moderate at fall prices. Pork contioned Girm, with sales of mess at $20 50. Sagars contianed | firm, with sales of 600 boxes Havana, 407 hhds. Cova muecovado and a cargo of Port» Rico in bond, at prices given in anc ther column. Coffee w quiet, the sales being restricted to small Laguayra and Rio at steady price oo terms. Freights to British ports advanced, and fncinding the ports of Liverpool, Glasgow and London the aggregate shipments of wheat reached Fuad 10 ly Daemttty dh vikel Bae ABE, vuleby By vag | of Ceylon were bought om speculation, at private | | reve 93d. a 10d. per bushel, and about 15,000 bbls. flour at 28. 6d. a 2s. 9d. for the two former ports, and at 2s. 10)d.a 3s. for London. Rates to Havre were also firm, without change in quotations. Kansas in Congress—Trouble i the Demo- cratic Camp—Pennsylvanta In Danger. We publish this morning, in extenso, the new slave State Kansas bill lately passed by the Senate, and the new free State Kansas bill of the House, as recently passed by that body. We also append to these two bills a letter from an intelligent oc- casional correspondent at Washington, in expla- nation of the secret machinery by which each of these extraordinary measures has been carried through one branch of Congress. First, with regard to the House bill. Our readers will remember that when first brought to the question of its passage, it was lost by one vote—yeas 100, nays 101—very much to the con- sternation of the free State party. The report of the Kansas Investigating Committee, however, at this point fell among the Northern democracy of the House like a bombshell; and, according to our correspondent, Mr. Barclay, of Pennsylvania —a “strong Buchanan man”’—felt the necessity of immediately taking the back track. He had voted against this bill admitting Kansas as a free State, and by his vote the bill had been lost; but with a night’s reflection upon the proceedings going on in the Senate, and upon the astounding facts brought home by the Kansas Committee, Mr. Barclay moved a reconsideration of the final vote upon the House bill. There was an instan- taneous rebellion against this motion by the Southern democrats; but it carried the recon- sideration, and thus the original judgment o° the Honse was reversed, and the bill passed by a vote of 101 to 99. It was Mr. Barclay’s reconsideration that did this busi- ness, although upon the last tria) the democrats lost another vote—Mr. Herbert of California, that chivalric gentlemen in the meantime having been arrested and locked up in jail to await his trial upon the charge of the murder of the poor Irish waiter, Keating. Our Washington correspondent says that Lieu- tenant Governor Roberts, (Buchanan man), of the revolutionary party in Kansas, is of the opinion that “there are fifty thousand democrats in Pennsylvania that will support the free State Constitution, and that the report of the Inves- tigating Committee will sustain them.” Hence the change, in the course of a night's consulta- tions and reflections, of Mr. Barclay’s vote. He had discovered by the next morning that his posi- tion against the free State bill was an endorse- ment of the “border ruffians,” and that the broad back of Mr. Buchanan was neither broad enough nor strong enough to carry them. Hence, too, the bill of the Senate, at the bottom of which we are informed was the finger and thumb of this same Mr. Roberts, of Kansas, whose conciliatory counsels may have had a great deal to do with the material amendments, in behalf of the free State squatters, that were added to the bill on the last night of its consideration in the Senate. This “healing measure’ of the Senate, as re- perted from the Committee on Territories, was, open and above board, a “border ruffian” bill—a bill for a nap judgment upon the absentee free State squatters, They had been expelled by fire and sword, by robbery and confiscation, frem the Territory, under the encouraging anspices of the administration, the United States dragoons, and the Cincinnati Democratic Convention; and we can hardly dismiss the suspicion that the late mission of Gencral Whitfield and Dr. Stringfellow, direct from Kansas to Washington, was fully de veloped in the proyét of Mr. Toombs, as adopt- ed by Mr. Douglas. Putting all these facts, cireumstances and de- duetions together, we are not surprised that there should be a disposition to revolt against Mr. Bu- chanan among the ultra Southern democracy, considering, expecially, the closing amendments to the Senate bill, and the significant reconsidera- tion of Mr. Barclay upon the free State bill of the House. The only reliable hope of Mr. Buchanan now is in the devotion of Mr. Pierce to the Cin- cinnati nominations. The Senate bill, as finally pasted, is emooth and fair upon its face. If im- partially executed, Kansas may become a free State; bat there will be not the slightest difficulty in so executing this law (should the bill become a law) as to sccure the election of a pro-slavery convention and the adoption of a pro-slavery constitution. Mr. President Pierce will have the matter entirely at bis diseretion, and we see no reason why the South should hesi- tate to trust him. He has nothing to gain by re- turning to the Northern side of the questioa—he bas nothing to lose by remaining with the South. In fact, there could not be framed a more inge- nious expedient in behalf of Mr. Buchanan, in both sections, than this new Senate bill. In the North the bill will speak for itself—it is smooth and fair; in the South the democracy may rely upon Mr, Pierce to give it the right construction, in the appointment of the commissioners, elec- tion judges, &c. Missouri can furnish any num- ber that may be desired. There is one little difficulty in the Senate bill etillr emaining. touching the foreign vole. Hereto- fore,in the Territories, alien free white male squat- ters over twenty-one years of age have been given the privilege of the elective franchise upon the faith of a declaration of an intention to become citizens of the United States. This ix the law of the original Kansas-Nebraska bill, and is still in force. This new bill of the Senate proposes to limit the right of voting in Kansas to actual citi- zens of the United States; but as this amendment is indiepensable to secure the Know Nothing vote of the House, the democracy must adhere to it or forfeit the bill, On the other haud, there is danger that this compromise between the Fill- more Know Nothings and democrats, if coneum- mated. may alienate from Mr. Buchanan all the free State democratic Germanic vote of the Northwest, and affect somewhat the primitive Dutch districts of Pennsylvania, to say nothing of our anti-Know Nothing Irish fellow citizens. But we are assured that “Douglas and his bill are doomed’ —that we shall soon have a “special joint committee” Of the two houses to report a new compromise; but between the two stools itia highly probable, considering the “reconsidera- tion’ of Mr. Barclay, and the ticklish condition of Pennsylvania, that all compromises for this session will fall to the ground. The Senate bit, even with Mr. Pierce to carry it out, is as mach as the South can safely risk; the How South ean be expected to accept. |W therefore, we think, still remain open lave State or a free State?” w! battle goes on, it will, up- isene, be narrowed ¢ n to Bu. nh or Frome It ie too late t half-way expedients, under the pressure of the treme wiionar ments set on foot again Pierce adn and the corrupt @ Woalerd party pldged vo perpetuate it, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1856. ‘The 'mpression in England and the Effect in Europe. T® the papers which arrived in the Canada and Baltic, dating from London to the 25th, we per- ceive that the sober resignation which first marked the tore of the press some ten before, has now tecome a settled feeling. Everybody's wind is made up to sacrifice Crampton and the Consuls; not that allare satisfied that Crampton was wrong—the admissions on this head are vague and guarded—but on a fair balance between Crampton and war on the one side, and peace and no Crampton on the other, the British nation have promptly decided in favor of the latter. Satisfied as we all are here that Crampton was rightly dismissed—that his acts, whether undertaken of his own mere motion, or under private instructions from his government, constituted a palpable vio- lation of our law—we cannot but congratulate the world on this result. Further examination of the papers will doubtless confirm the British government in the course which popular senti- ment has forced upon them, though it is plain enough that that sentiment did not wait for the evidence to decide against the culprit. In this point of view, the Crampton case may certainly be regarded as one of the maost impor- tant recent events in our history and in that of the world. Great Britain has, in the lan- guage of the Times, “ submitted to the gravest affront that one nation can offer to another;” and that, not from a general conviction that the af- front was merited—for the decision was arrived at before the grounds of the step were fully known—but from a general aversion to engage in war, and that a war with the United States, Of course, it is not pretended by any one that England has given way from any fear of a war, or any suspicion of military inferiority. The im- menre disproportion existing between the forces of Great Britain and those of the United States— the unquestioned power of the former to inflict dreadful losses on the latter before any substan- tial preparation for war could be made here—the prestige of a successful war just brought toa close, and the possession of the finest naval ar- mament ever scen, a fine well disciplined army and powerful allies, while this country has, so to speak, neither experience, nor army, nor navy, nor allies—all these show at a glance that neither did America press her point from any wish to bully, nor did England yield from any feeling but one that reflects not the slightest shadow on her honor or her courage. Yet there is no doubt she did yield, without examination, without struggle; chopped suddenly round from an atti- tude of marked hostility and asperity to one of conciliation and concession. It is plain that it was her commercial inte- rests which dictated her course. It sprang from cotton and corn. She could not afford to rua the risk of going to war with us, because by so doing she would, on the one side, have deprived her factories of the material they require to keep them going, and, on the other, raised the cost of living to her poorer classes by enhancing the va- lue of bread. This is the most useful lesson that has been tiught the world for a great many years, The European nations can go to war with each other whenever their aims or their spites require, because they are independent of each other, and can subsist in a state of comparative isolation without marked suffering. But—with the ex- ception, perhaps, of Russia and Austria—none of them could afford to go to war with the United States, because the first effect of such a war would be to produce such suffering among their working classes as would be likely to precipitate a revolution. Prussia, for instance, and Spain would suffer severely from it. France would probably be revolutionized by such an event. And England, wifh her dense population, her un- equal distribution of property, her immense trade and immense manufacturing intereste, her low rates of wages and close sailing of nine-tenths of her people—England, with all this, combined with a strong democratic spirit among the masses, could not go to war with us, Our great staples, therefore—our cotton and our corn—not only feed and enrich, but shield and protect us. They have become such necessities that we are in some sort the bankers of the world, which is necessarily civil to us lest we should close our doors in their face. Nor is there any imminent prospect of our los- ing this eminently advantageous position. Many, many years ago the British government made fruitless endeavors to obtain a supply of cotton from India. The scheme failed, as was clear it wonld: in times of peace Indian cotton never could compete with American, and man is too careless an animal to expect a war before it comes. We have got the market now, and with- out geeat mismagement and great misfortune on cur part, we shall never lose it. And so long as we grow the cotton and one half the breadstuffs that are consumed in the western countries of Europe, we may rest aseured that they will not run the risk of going to war with us without some tangible and pressing reason. At the same time—plain as this seems to think- ers, «0 plain that it seems almost superfluous to mention it—it is hy no means clear that it will be understood in Europe. It is more likely that a view will be taken of the affair less complimen- tary to England than the true one, Democrats on the one band, whose land of promise is the United States, and who cannot praise them suffi- ciently, are likely to say that they have insulted England, who dared not resent it, so great was the strength and prowess of the youthful republic; while, on the other hand, those sovereigns and abeolutiste who are already scheming to get rid of England, so as to curb the press of Belginm, re- tain foreign garrisons in the Papal legations, crush out liberty in Sardinia, and keep a tighter hand on Germany, will hardly lose the oppor- tunity of taunting their hated rival with having evinced a craven spirit. We must expect to hear much folly of thie kind; for the world ie not cha- ritable, and the English have somehow but few friends. We, who know the truth, mast remem- ber that the accidental advantage imparted by the poreession of a few corn and cotton fields gives us no right to brag: and that the proper course for every right-minded American under the preeent circumstances is to show the English hat Anglo-Saxons on thie, as on that side the At- lantic, are capable of generosity, fairness and magnanimity Pentyp tHe Aor. —The Augusta (Maine) Age The last New York Olverver ¢ eays je behind the age. The beginning of the end oc dd some time aco. bat the end wll not jake p aye Sor some time yet to come, Woe are lengthy and interesting report of a meeting of the | Comelatn oCungrepiot wehes in Rhode | Island. held at Providence, which resulted in a vote to dissolve the union heretofore oxistiag th the Presbyterian General Assembly, on ac- count of slavery;* and our Maine cotemporary | calle thi » beginning of the end.” The Age not yet, North or South, quite ready to set twen- five millions of free white people to cutting each others’ throats on account of three millions of niggers, who happen to be slaves. Bab! TurNews by THe Bauric.—Itwould appear from the tone of newspapers and statesmen in England, that a strong effort will be made by the govern- ment to settle the Central American difficulty with Mr. Dallas, from a conviction that it would be much harder to setile with a negotiator of Mr, Buchanan’s appointing. The impression gains ground in England that it will not be safe to leave any room for a quarrel with the principal hero of the Ostend Conference ; and that if the Cen- tral American question be not settled before Mr. Pierce goes out, it may, after all, lead to a war. In these sentiments we need not say we concur, Mr. Buchanan is personally a respectable man, who 8 as averse to a war as any of us; but Forney and Sickles and Saunders and Soulé and the cthers who are likely to have the keeping of his cfiicial conscience, are more likely to involve this country in a war to further schemes of their own than to do any thing clse we can jhink of, Of the probabilities of an early settlement of the question it is not easy to speak. Already British statesmen evince a strong desire to get rid of the whole business, That the Mosquitoes will be given up on the first fair pretence, there is no reason at all to doubt, But the case of Ruatan is not co clear. On the one side the tories say they are so ashamed of hay- ing sclzed it that Sir John Pakington, the late Colonial Secretary, actually apologises for having signed the commission for erecting the Pay Islands into a colony, and throws the re- sponsibility of the act on his predecessor in office; but on the other, the tone of the liberal press is decidedly adverse to their surrender, The chances are that in the present sympathetic frame of mind of the two peoples, some compromise will be devised which can satisfy both; as, for instance, a cession by England of the Bay Islands to Honduras. We suggested thisas the most sen- sible course to follow many months since; and we trust Mr. Dallas will not be backward to press the idea on the mind of the British government. At the same time it is well, now that we are all throwing our hats in the air, to remember that the Central American question is not settled; that it is not easy to settle; that the people of England have not been rendered more concilia- tory by their forced concessions on the enlistment business; that the bulk of the people here hold very decided opinions on the subject of British en- croachment on Central America; and that if the dispute be not speedily brought to a close, it may soon be left toa filibuster cabinet on the one side, and an irritated government, egged on by an insidious and jealous Emperor, on the other. An important feature of the news is the pros- pect of an excellent harvest in Russia. This may neutralize the evil effects of the inundations in France; but it will cheapen breadstuffs, and will not therefore be regarded as a boon to our producing interests, It is already surmised that we may sce flour down to $4 and $5 a barrel again, before many months—an excellent pros- pect for householders, but a serious loss to the country at large. Tux New Postat Treaty wir Mextco.—We are enabled, this morning, to lay before our read- ers the text of the postal treaty just concluded by Hon, Jas. Gadsden, on behalf of the United States, with the government of Mexico. It is a valuable and useful document, and will be read with satis- faction. It provides for the establishment of a weekly line of steamers to run between Vera Cruz and New Orleans, touching at intermediate ports. Part of these steamers are to be Mexican and part American, each sailing under its na- tional flag. They are to pay no dues in Mexican ports, and out of the proceeds of the customs duties levied on the goods they carry into Mexi- co, they are to be allowed to retain an annual sum of $75,000 by way of indemnity for carry- ing the mail. The United States are also to pay $75,000, or more, if they think fit. The price of postage for a half-ounce letter between Vera Cruz and New Orleans, or vice versa, is to be 7 cents; the same rate being charged for letters to all intermediate ports, Ounce letters are tu pay 15 cents; newspapers or periodicals 2 cents cach, Perhaps the most original feature of the treaty is the clause which provides that the mail line thus to be established shall not be interrupted by the oceurrence of a war between the two coun- tries. The steamers will run as usual for the conveyance of letters, in such an event: being inhibited only from carrying articles contraband of war, Among our Mexican intelligence there will be found a letter signed by various American citi- zens resident in Mexico, and addressed to the Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, on the sub'oct of the alleged neglect of American interests by Mr. Gadsden. It has reference to the case of Barron, Forbes & Co., with which the public is already familiar. Mr. Fintmore axp Mr. Dickxexs.—The late speeches of Mr. Fillmore on his homeward tour from New York to Buffalo, remind us very much of Mr. Charles Dickens’ “Notes for American Circulation.” When the imigortal “ Boz” visited us he was the lion of the lio From the grand opening fifteen-dollars-a-tick® “ Boz’ ball, at the old Park theatre, to the end @ the wonderful ad-. ventares of Mr. Dickens in country, he was overwhelmed with the kindl pathies and hos pitalities of the American He went home and wrote a scandalous book it them, fall of misrepresentations, malicious caricatures, exag- gerations and abuse. ‘To come extent, however, we have at last given the Old World a Roland for an Oliver. Mr. ex- President Fillmore has made the tour 0. Barope. We all know that everywhere throughout this interesting pilgrimage, he was welcomed by kings, princes, priests and people, with the most flatter- ing receptions. The Holy Father at Rome was eo much pleased with him, and went so far to ox- hibit his reepect for our amiable ex-President, as to exempt him from the customary duty of kissing the Pope's toe. The Cardinals were charmed to find the prince of the American Know Nothings the prince of American gentlemen. The shrewdest of the keen old Jesuits of the Eternal City treated Mr. Fillmore as cordially aa brother, Every- where in Burope, cepecially in Italy, he was the favorite of courte, the envy of courtiers, and the admiration of the ladies. He comes home, takes the stump fnstanter, and from New York, oll the way to Buffalo, he pours out his gratitude at his happy return to the land of bis birth, from the miserable, degraded and priest ridden poo ple. banditti and beggars of ltaly, from whom he has been rescued as by a mitacle, In deed, wpon reading Mr. Filimore’s iate Know Nothing epeeches, we, too, are astonished at his prerervation. Jn Italy, however, last winter, we were wider the impression that the happiest of all American travellers in those classic regions was Mr. Fillmore. He certainly appeared to enjoy himself amazingly there, and the Italian hogpita- lities of which he was the honored recipient. At all events, he reminds ws forcibly of Dickens, in these stump speeches, and the American notes of Dickens after his triumphal tour through the United States. The true policy upon returning home from the kindly greetings, entertainments and partings of a strange people, is to Be to their faults a little blind; Be to their virtues very klad, But our amiable ex-President appears to have forgotten al? this in his anxiety to cater to the morbid appetite of the Jesuit-hating Know No- things. What a character to play for Buncombe! Who could have believed it? Let Mr. Dickens pass, Tury Want ay OrGax.—We understand that Mr. John W. Forney and the Pennsylvania State Central Committee are very much exercised in reference to the New York democracy and the great want of an orthodox democratic organ in this city. The objection to the News and the Day Book is that they are too feeble, too obscure and too small. The Journal of Commerce has volunteered to fill the desideratum; but here there are two objections offered—first, that the style of that paper is too heavy and dull for the popular taste; second, that it has no circulation. Tn this dilemma, we are further informed that Col. Forney has resolved, in the first place, to enter into negotiations for the purchase of the New York Times, upon the reasonable presump- tion that that paper isin the market, and with the idea, likewise, that if the 7%mes can be secured it will be very useful to Mr. Buchanan, from the fact that, as a deserter from the republican camp, it will know exactly where to strike. Failing in the purchase of the Times, we understand that, in the second place, contributions are to be levied upon our Custom House and the Boston Custom House, and the federal olfices at Washington, for the necessary capital upon which to start a new democratic daily paper here for the cam- paign, with a large cireulation from the very be- ginning. This plan will require a great deal of money, for in order to have a large circulation to a regular democratic party organ in this city, new or old, the bulk of every day’s issue must be circulated free of cost and postage. Surely the great democratic party is to be pitied—a party which, in this great metropolis, with three or four papers zealously “ going it blind” for Buchanan, is sti}] without an organ. Tre Late Steamboat Accwent Iv CaNnapa.— We are very happy to be able to announce that the coroner's jury empanelled at Montreal to in- quire into the explosion of the boiler of the Grand Trunk Railway Company's steamboat at Lon- gueil, and the destruction of life occasioned. thereby, have rendered a verdict censuring the company in the most emphatic terms, and to mark their sense of their outrageous carelessness, have decreed that a deodand of £2,500 be levied on the remains of the boat, tackle, apparel and machinery. This most wholesome sentence can- not but be followed by salutary resulta, The Grand Trunk Railway were to blame for adopt- ing an inefficient and careless system; for using boilers that were unsuitable; for obliging or allowing their engineer to leave the boat with steam up, to get his meals; and generally, for providing more carefully for their own profit than for the safety of the lives entrusted to their care. They are now righteously punished. Two thousand five hundred pounds fine in the first place, to the Queen; then all the damages, which are sure to be heavy, to the persons injured or the relatives of the parties killed. That com- pany will be careful in future. We cannot help contrasting this sensible and vigorous course of action with that of our own juries and courts in similar cases. With the ex- ception of the Norwalk accident, which is said to have cost the New Haven company something like half a million of dollars, no accident bappen- ing here is ever followed by just retribution. At the time there is an explosion of fury against the company, but it oon cools off, and matters go on as before, negligence, carelessness and wilful par- simamy mursing fresh accidents. Life, it seems, is tf wore value in Canada than in the United States, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. GOVERNOR SHANNON NOT KESIGNED—MR. BUCHANAN’S PRIVATE SKCKETAKY—MILITAKY MATTERS, ETC. Wastuxerox, July 6, 1856. The administration lave received no official notice 0” the revignation of Goy. Shannon, and the letter which has appeared intimating such decision on his part is Bot credited here. A gentleman from Virginia, who has recently visited Wheatland, and arrived here this morning, has disco: ‘vered another of Forney’s mover, and it is thim—Mr. Buchanan bas appointed, at the instance of Forney, as bis private secretary, a man by the name of McKean, who is nothing more than a mere lackey of Forney’s, and has acted in that capacity for gome time. The democrate are up in arms about t, and a move will be made ina few days to have him ousted. Persifer F. Smith has been appointed to succeed Prigadier General Clark im charge of the Military Depart ment West. The headquarters will be removed from st Lovie to Fort Leavenworth. Col. Summer will remain in Kansas, subordinate to Gen. Smith. Severe Storm In Boston. Bowrox, July 6, 1856. A storm of rain and hall, with vivid lightning, paseod over this city thie afternoon. Two or three vessels were wpeet in the harbor, and some lives are reported lost. The steamer Menemon, Captain Sandtor!, ran ashore on Thatcher's island, and although nearly fall of water, efiorts are being made to float her off. ily 5, 1888, 4 moderate 000 Ibs. 9 piveos, Our Washiugton Correspondence. Wasmsotox, July 2, 1896, The Tarif and the Committee of Waye and Means—The Sugar Culture at the South, 1 informed you that the Committee of Ways and Means bad agreed upon no “ free list’? for the tariff bill Tkaow that the committee has not so much as held a consultation on the subject since my degpatel of sore weeks eines, in whieh Estated the committee had deter mined to increase the free list, but had not considered the Vrinting eteth>— al Rorean as to the best y of ceed sugar cane in is proposed that an apy Sresnoate DeerRore oN te Weetees Rivers. —Up. wards of thirty steamboats have been dostroyed by fire, fifteen demolichod by the ice, and twelve rendered ase cotorn pivere ! Algiers, Louisiane and 8. Louis, » Missouri, Our Havana Correspondence, Tlayana, June 30, 1886, The Threatened Invasion (f Merico~Miliiary ard Newad Movements— Bursting of a Balloon, de. Ihave seen it stated in some of the American paperg that Genera) Concha would be absent a few days in Puerto Principe. This is not so. It is true that the General pro- wised these gcod people te be present at the inauguration: ot their fair, but subsequent events have prevented hig taking this little jaunt, The conquest of Mexico is too great a consideration to allow him time for ease. The ex+ pected arrival of naval reinforcements from Spain, om their way to Vera Cruz, has obliged him to devote all hig to the mighty task, Report says that Pezuela’a history of Cuba is daily consulted by our magnates to try end find out the true cause of Barradas’ defeat by Genera} Fanta Anna, T will not youch for the truth of this, but would recommend the perusal of the chapter dedicated to those chivalrous soldiers who sailed from thts port to reconquer Mexico, What is suld of Gene) al Barradas may apply to the present supposed ‘chief’ who is to take the command of the “Zouayes of America.’’ Notwithstanding he convincing articles of our journals on maintaining the dignity of the “race”? and opposing a great barrier, of which Spain is to be the foundation, against the barba- rians, modern Vandals of the North, Mexico has never ‘been coaxed into that much solicited love for the land of the Cortez and the Pizarros. The hatred is deep r ond ten thousand such articles, assisted by men of Vivo’s calibre, will never induce these ‘d¢ generate sons” tolove Le es dy parent. ie whole proceedings of Spain against poor Mexico remind te very much of the parable related by Christ’ of the steward who had been forgiven a large debt by bis master, and yet imprisoned a man for a farthing. owes a great amount of money to England, and has never yet paid a cent to the parties who furnishe! her with the means of carrying on the government. Her credit ig lost in Europe; so much go, that sheis to mortgage: the revenues of Cuba to raise even a small sum for her more pressing wants. 1 do not know what will become of this new force when it arrives, for the treasury ts just now. No later than last week the government bor. rowed $500,000 of several large Spanish honses. Our * Zouayes,”’ hewever, are very patriotic, and made offors- of all their fortunes during the late conspiracy, conse. quently we may expect to see the money tiow in rapidly . particolarly if Comonfort proves unmanageable. in good circles, that the army will consist of 6,000 vete- rans and 4,000 ‘ Zouaves,’’ which will be more than suffi. cient to capture Yucatan, from whence we shall be enablede to procure 100,000 Indian slaves. We will take the silver: mines of Potosi, and such other desirable points as may be» advantageous to our exhausted exchequer. This is all very pretty on paper, but I in advise the » “Zouaves”’ to read the history of Barradas’ lsading at Tam- pico, and subsequent disgraceful surrender. These ‘‘cow- ardly and degenerate Mexicans’ have been whipped by” both the French and Americans, but hive always mana- ged to get the better of their cousins on the other side of © the Atlantic. The captain of the mounted police, who shot a prisoner * he was leading, bound hand and foot, has been sentenced . to one year’s umprisonment in a fortress. You may re- - member this circumstance, which I communicated to tho+ readers 0’ the Hxkatp gome three months ago. The un- fortunate man was the overseer on Madame Scull’s coffee + estate, The court martial has also tried @ captain in the - artillery corps, accused of having been a defaulter to bie » regiment of $8,000. This poor fellow was disgrated the + service, prohibited from ever again being attached to the - army, ‘and gentenced to four years’ imprisonment in the + public jail. The difference between the two offences is + such as to produce these widely difterent results. I guess, _ as all Yankees do, that the défensor of the police officer * stood high in repute wita “the powers that be,’ and. eflected a)} that could be effected by eloquent appeals to past ¥ervices. Last Tuesday was a great feast day—the church cele- brated the nativity of #t. John the Baptist. Thousands of: the Habareros went 10 Guapabacoa, where there were ai] sorts of amusements in the aiternoon, terminating the + day with a grand ball. ‘On inquiry at the Regia Railroad . otiice I was informed that no fewer than 7,000 negroes alone had passed over the road on that day! It was» quite amusing to stand on the “Plaza” and see the - fashions among the dark Cera Some of the dandies + looked like newly imy risians. The bdlackest.; ladies all wore white gloves. No accident marred the leasures of the day, it we except the bursting of Mr. udria’s balloon, and his tremendous fall trom the height of 3,000 feet. Luckily for him, he managed to throw» out all bis ballast and climb up into the network. Hig + boat was emashed into a thousand picces, and, except the» fright pon ge by his fall, he arrived on terra firmas safe an . The porter of Woolcott’s American and Earopean House bad his throat cut the other night My a negro. The as- Fallant was captured and lodged in i The yellow fever is still very futal to strangers from a) countrics, and it is not eafe for them to vis.t us now, Dramatic and Musical Matters... The several places of amusement, now oper, have beer. well patronized during the past week. Mr. Brougham. bas had what the sporting men call an exceedingly good “send off? at the Bowery, and the same amount of en- ergy, tact and taste he bas shown so far will, uf kept up,, make this house the best theatrical property in the city. ‘The bill for tonight i “asks and Faces,” with Mr. Fisher as Triplet—a superb piece of acting—and ther drama called the “Birth of Freelom,” in waich Mr. Brougham enacts @ patriotic Irishman. Several pew" dramas are in reaearsal. At Ninto’s Gakvey the Ravels are still the main at~ traction, They appear to-night in two pieces, and Mr. Hevgler gives his tight rope feate. Mies Emma Stanley. will give her first entertainment on Tuesday. At the Broapway Vanuerims the juvenile comediang- give “ Ingomar’? for the first time this eveniog. Thad will be worth going to sve. The Coroxep Orrna, at Wood's Hall, 444 Broadway, | stands ai) sorts of weather. There is a good b!)) for to- night. MANAGERS IN TowN.—Mr. De Mar, of the St. Chartes, News| Orleans; Mr. Criep, of Gaiety, in the same city; Mr. 8. B. Duffield, of the Mobile theatre; and Mr. Charles King, of the Sacramento theatre, were in town last week. Miss Fanta Stcstey.—This accomplished artict ‘gave & private repreentation of the entertainment, +The Seven Ages of Woman,” the latest novelty at Nible’s. Tho select audience in attendance were loud in applause, and the verdict will doubtless be confirmed by the paying pul lic, which will have an opportunity to sce Miso. on Tueadey evening, ‘The OveRa aT THR ACADEMY,—Max Maretzek is cooling. off at Staten Ieland, waiting for the Academy owners to) do something. Max's last proposal has been rejected, and things remain in statu quo until an answer is reveived to the following communication, which has been sent each stockholder. Naw Youn, June 2°, 1966. committee appointed for this pur. resolutions, and request you: Of the proportion to pay the or rejection pay the ne- mnt for the relief of the row debt. lly, &e., K. Ly CUTTING, ¥. DELAUNAY, { Committee.| NH. WOLFE, Sperone, precootings are about to be taken by credit heiding ber of this yy, secured by mortgage, which Interest is, and since the Ist day of May, 1805, baw in arrear. to soreelove and sel) the same ; theresore, ay That Rebs , Vielor Delaunay re hereby appointed a com. ae the interema. of thet stom: may, it Swhether's sale by ile" whether a ‘ a , will not be the moet expedition ine. members of the committe Tur Orrna ix Mexico,—Signorina Vestvali’s agent sail from Boston for Europe on the 2d of June, to engage first class opera company for the Nationa) theatre, elty of Mexico, of which ertablishment Sigeorina Vi vali is the emprenario, The season will extend October, 1856, til] April, 1857. Vestvali has beew very cerful in Mexico, and with a first rate company—whicl she utends to have—she will undoubtedly achieve great trionph next winter. Ton Wan at rim Vantermes.—There is no troth in any the statements put forth by the papers of any arr: ment made between Burton and Miss Keene, or Mi lafarge. Miss Keene's employés still hold po ond a long course of litigation seoms probable. ‘Toe Fresct Drawer. Gustave Dedos bas final arranged his programme for a series of representat! of the best French plays, and he commences t#-night, Burton's theatre, with “Georges et Marie’ and “I Corde Sensible.’ The proceeds of to-night will be give! to the fund for the relief of the sufferers by vee reo pundations in France, Tuk Oceax Tersorarn axo Damp 8k Sovxeen—Th nited States propeller Arctic, now fitting out for thy purpoee at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, leaves t's po carly next week, in charge of Lieut. Commander Berr: man, to complete (he deep sea soundings betweew No foondland and Ireland, which were commenced time eince by him while in command of the Dolphin. Lieut. Strain, by whose energy ond endurance exploring party on the Isthmus of Darien were resowe: alco accompanies the expedition, with the nevessary con plement of offcient officers and men, who are siread ted to this important servis, W b an orga under such leaders, this work is resumed with te most favorable prospects of success, With the skill, energy and experience now eniistod this expedition, with all the appurtenances requigite the practical demonstration of the problem sought to ¥ solved, and with the means at command to secure all UM appointments necessary for the equipment and oatfit 4 deep eon surveys, «lence certainly has mach to hope f from ite reeaite, And the business world, who are dewp! wbver ested in (his submar we geography, bag much