The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2%, 1856. NEW YORK HERALD. sauns GORDON BEssETE, nnn grr ICE N. W, CORWER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. ee 2 cents per 1 oe onan metal ¥ a conte THE ong 4 fareat Briain, or wo any ‘parces Contine Piper ge of ‘Con FoRmGm | ERTS AcE FanTCULakLY REQUEATAD TO MBAL alt LEPTERS 4xD Pace peas ED VERTISEMENTS rence crery doy. AMUSRMENTS THIS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUBIC, Fourteenth st —Itauan OPERs— Bonn am ULa. RIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway—La Eswanatpa—M. Do Jourst—Ticnt Kore BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tus Dice or Deate— Pa0K SHEPPAND. pie ae ee in THEATRE. Broadway, opposite Bond ACTRESS -CAVCEING 4 GOVEKROR. WALLACE" 4 i Breadway.—OLOUDS 4xD Sux mmmir—Joux Doves. KEENE’S THAT! mG wey Youx=Weo crake Poases Ot eManey— Yee GBAMPERS STREET. ERMATRE, Gate Barton’) —Ea- rapson—ax Onsecr oF 1 aT Su. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afier- meee ond bvewing—CaMiLue. BROADWAY VARIETIES, (2 Broudway.—bisoe Symp Besas— Ky Neouson's GEO. 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The principal feature in them is the farther rise by the Bank of England of the rate of @scount to seven per cent, followed by a consequent im those capitals was no longer agreeable, and it was believed that they would acton the hint with- out waiting fora more formal dismissal. The re- eeption ot Count Kisseleft, the Russian Ambassa- dor, by the French Emperor, was made the occasion of a great parade of court ceremony, and Louis Napoieon’s reply to his address is variously inter- preted by the friends and enemies of the English al- Hance. It will be found, however, to consist of mere generalities, which may mean much or mean little, according to the fancy of the reader. The re- turn of Reschid Pacha to power has given uni- versal satisfaction to the friends of reform in Tar- key, and it is hoped that Ali Pacha may be induced te reenter the ministry and so strengthen his measures. By this arrival we have accounts of some gigantic frands in the share transfer office of the Great Northern Railway in England, by which the com- Great Northern Railway in France, are attributable solely to the utter sbeence of conscientiousness and imdifference to their respousibilities exhibited by the @irectors of railways. In addition to this, we Jearn that the cashier of one of the branches of the Bank of France had disappeared with 400,000 or 500,000 francs, say $100,000. His family offered to make up the deficiency, but the Bank refused, as he poseessed a fortune of bis own. A violent gale occurred in the Mersey on the 12th imstant, during which three fine American ships— the Samuel M. Fox and Silas Wright, bound for Mew York with emigrants, and the Louisiana, for New Orleans—while being towed to sea, were dri- ven on shore and wrecked. Fortunately, however, no lives were lost. The follow particulars have Deen furnished by the Underwriters :— Sbip Samoe! M_ Fox, 1,200 tons, was built at New York, 1850, owned by Taped: & Co., and was @ superior ship Sbip Silas Wright, 1,425 tone, b it wt New York by W. Fi. Webo, in 18/5, was also a epleadid vessel, owned by ‘Williaa & Goren ‘Veusel worth. Vrewgb'.. Garo, cavimated about Seip Louisiana, 747 tons, built at Bath, 18 by Luston & Thomsos, 0 Lnechewsd Vessel valued nt. Freight... Cargo. éetlmaied about. Advices from Bombay to the 17a ult. say that the Delhi Gazette confirms the fall of Herat by famine. The Governor and his family had been put to death. The Persian army was reinforced to the mamber of one hundred thousand men. Dost Ma- homed hed no supplies, and his troops in Kandahar were ina state of mutiny. The Calcutta journals divcase freely the Euphrates railroad project. They maintain that ite rates of tranaport will be too high. ThejPersia also brings us later news frgn South America. The dates are:--Buenos Ayres 2d, Monte- video Sth, Rio Janeiro 15th, Bahia 1th, and Per- nambuco 2ist of October. At Buenos Ayres there was « brisk general trade in produce, but @ slack ness in the goods market. In Montevideo and the province of Urnguay affairs were going on quietly. A good trade in exports and imports was doing at Montevideo. At Rio Janeiro trade was going on as usnal. At Rio Grande the business in goods was brisk, and the market barely supplied. In Bahia the export and import trades were in a healthy state; the stocks of sugar much ieduced; the new crops coming forward bet slowly. At Pernam- bug the import market was more amply stocked than at Bahia. Raw sugars were beginning to ar- ri % way of England we have news from some of the West India islands. At Demarara the weather was fine, and planters busi!y ocenpied with the crop. ‘The yield is better than was anticipated. The har- bor was crowded with chipping, and sixty vessels were waiting for cargoes. In Trifidad the weather was wet, and the market nearly overstocked with general imports from the United States. We have news from Bermuda to the 12th instant. The Bermudian of that day says:—The fever bas again teken one of those favorable turns which en courage the hope that it ison the decline. There have been only three or four new cages in Pembroke since thie day week, and well informed persons from ail the other parisbes westward of St. George as yesterday, showing an advance ot 1-16d. in cotton, and that im the face of am advance of one per cent in the rates of discount and loans made by the Bank of England, was considered evidence of a strong market im Liverpool, and hence the market here was firm, with sales of about 1,500 bales, based upon middling uplands at about 12jc., and on middling Or- leans do. at 12jc.a 124¢ The mews depressed the prices of flour, which fell off about 5c.a 10c. per barrel. Common grades of wheat were also easier, while prime to choice lots of white were less buoyant, without change of moment in prices. Corn was firm, with sales of Western mixed at 73c, a 74c., and some Southern yellow was reported at Tic. Rye sold at 90c.for new. Pork was firmer with sales of old mess at $17 81} a $1794 a $18; new was at $18 50 a $18 75. Sugara.were firmer, after the receipt of the foreign news, and some holders withdrew their lots from the market while others demanded j cent advance. The sales were confiued to about 300 hhds. Cuba at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet. Mr. Scott's weekly circular estimates the stock of Rio in this market at 56,046 bags, and a total of mats and bags of all kinds at 86,246. He also reports a dectine on the week of je. per Ib. Freights to Eoglish ports were easier, and grain, ia bulk and bags, was taken for Liverpool at 8d.a 83d., and flour at 28. 2d. To Loadon rates wese at 3s. a 3g. 1)d., and grain at 1ld.a 114d. On the receipt of the foreign rews yesterday excLange on France became easier, with sales reported at $5 20a $5 25, and it was said that considerable lots were left over. We publish elsewhere an important extract from a letter dated Guatemala, Oct. 3. It stale that the allies were preparing to despatch a formidable force to reinforce the army already in the field against Gen. Walker. Two thousand men were to be seatfrom Guateuwala, six hundred from San Salvador, and one thousand from Costa Rica. These contingents, it is said, would increase the number of the invaders to some eight thousand men, all represented to be well equipped for service, and confident of quickly anni- hilating Walker and his partizans. The resuits of the battles at Masaya and Granada doubtless seme- what modified the expeciations of the allies in this respect. Nise Frenchmen, recently political prisoners at Cayenne, but who succeeded in escaping on a raft and reaching Demarara, from whence they were conveyed to Baltimore in an Ameuican vessel, arrived in this city last evening. They are said to have friends here, who received them with open arms. We observe that a Parisian correspondent, ina re- cent number of the Independance Belge, states that about forty French refugees had escaped from their confinement at Cayenne ; but as yet only the nine al- luded to above have been heard from in this quarter. Lieut. John T. Walker, of the Navy, committed suicide by hanging himself yesterday at his lodg- ings in ChamBers street. He was under orders to join the sloop-of-war St. Marys at Panama, and would have proceeded to bis destination in the steamer Wabesh. His family reside at Erie, Pa. No cause has been publicly assigned tor the commission of the ast. From our report of the trial of Louis Baker, at Newburg, it will be seen that they have not as yes been able to procure a jury, although twe days have elapsed since the court opened. It is expected, however, that they will complete the list, and that the examination of witnesses will commence to- day. The seventy-third anniversary of the evacuation of the city of New York by the British troops was celebrated yesterday. There was a fine military pa- rade, and Gov. Myron H. Clark and Mayor Wood re- viewcd the troops in the Park. During the military review, which occurred in Fourteenth street, Gov. Clark was thrown from his horse, but was not hurt, as he landed on his feet. The city was befiagged throughout, and everything passed off quietly. A number of persons of both sexes met yester- day atthe Broadway Tabernacle and inangurated a “Women’s Rights Convention.” The usual as- sertious of the supremacy of the softer sex, and the ordinary unblusbing infidelity, were mixed up with an exposition and advocacy of free love and a new rendering of the Lord’s Prayer. The foreign news by the Persia and other impertant matter crowd Out our report of the proceedings. The introductory lectare before the students of the New York Opthalmic Institution was delivered last evening by Dr. Mark Stephenson, in the Uni- versity Medical College Our report is crowded out. The steamship Marion retarned to port yester- day, after a nine days’ unsuccessful cruise in searoh of the French steamer Le Lyonnais and her boats and aft. The only reasonable hope, therefore, that may e indulged in of the safety of her unfortunate passengers and crew, is that they have been picked up by some outward bound vessels and conveyed to Europe. There was a report in town last even- ing that the schooner William L, Burroughs, which arrived yesterday from Bordeaux, had reeened a portion of the crew of the Lyonnais, but on inves- tigation the rumor was ascertained to be entirely devoid of truth. The Forthcomieg Annual Message of Poor Pteree—A Chart for Mr. Buchanan, It seems to be geverally understood that the last annual messege of President Pierce to Con- gress (which re-assembles on the first Monday in December) will be a labored argument to prove his administration a great success, and his fo- reign and domestic measures of policy the secret of Mr. Buchanan's election, and the true policy tor the incoming administration and the democratie party, We have heretofore published some in- formation upon this snbject; aod all our subse- quent advices trom Washington contribute to strengthen our first report— that this closing mes- sage of poor Pierce is not only to be a delibe- rate defence of his own administration, but that it will be laid before Congress aud the de- mocracy as the true chart and sailing directions for Mr. Buchanan. Prominent in this labor of love for the frightened democracy and their President elect, will be a defence of Mr. Pierce's Kansas polic and next in point of importance will be a beau- iful exposition of the skill, dignity, ability, decorum and success with which he has ma- naged our difficult relations with Spain, and the Jate complicated entanglement with England, of Crimean enlistments, Central American squabbles, Northeastern fisheries and Canadian reciprocities. The course pursued and the ro- cults achieved in ail these things, through the | wonderful eagacity, consistency, clemency, firm- nees and fortitude of Mr. Pierce, it will be shown, were crowned, first, with the nomination of Mr. Buchanan, with this whole schedule of Mr. Pierce's acts and measures as bis platform; and, second- ly. with the election of Mr. Buchanan as a gene- ral endorsement of the outgoing administration. Such will be Mr. Pierce’s labor of love in hia last annual message; and we dare say that if he } can make out hie ease and prove it to the satis. foction of the democracy, North and South, the administration whieh ie to come in on the fourth of March will be bot a sickly elongation of that which fe to go ont on the sun day. We have not the slightest suepicton or, ' that any sensible or even haif witted d Northern conservative or Southern ultra, can | energy as the latter is full of cantion and be made to believe that Mr. Buchanan was nomi- nated upon Mr. Pierce’s merits, or elected upon the capital of hie administration. Everybody knows that everything which Mr. Pierce did, and everything that he failed to do, as President timidity. - If the Secretaryship of State should be given to Virginia, we should prefer Hunter to Wise. The latter ie a wild, harum scarum politician, who would blurt out all the secrets of his office in half of the United States and as the official head of } an hour, and would probably culminate by get- the democratic party—that all his public acts and private intrigues, down to the meeting of the Cin- cinnati Convention—were directed to the single object of a re-nomination by the party and another term of office. Everybody knew before the meeting of that Convention that the party would not blindly rush into a certain defeat, and that conse- quently the renomination of Pierce was really as much beyond the range of pos- sibilities as the re-nomination of Martin Van Buren, The very fact that Mr. Pierce was the champion of the disunion slavery propagan- da of the South rendered his case absolutely hopeless in a single Northern State; and hence he was thrown aside—ashe had made his re-elec- tion, and his re-nomination thus utterly impossi- ble, because of the bad measures, the false courses, and the bad faith of his administration, begin- ning with the appointment of his cabinet, and ending in that revolting raffian policy, so blindly adopted and so recklessly pursued for the sub- jugation of Kansas to the institution of elavery. We look over the dead waste.of this Pierce ad- ministration in vain for a redegming landmark of any prominence. Its foreign policy has been a budget of blunders which have made us ridicu- lous, if not contemptible, in the eyes of the world. Commencing with those leather breeches diplomatic circulars ef Marey, we were in a de- gree prepared for all the absurdities and follies which have succeeded. The negotiations tor Cuba, in the hands of that arch filibuster Soul¢, were, it is true, finally arrested with the publica- tion of the Ostend Manifesto; but in the inte- rim Mr. Marcy (whose caution in spite of his stu- pidity has saved us from a general war) was befogged and bedevilled in such a way that one letter of instructions frequently ran foul of ano- ther, while poor Pierce was keeping up all the time, sub rosa, a private and confidential course of instructions of his own. In the whole history of modern diplomacy there is perhaps nochapter of negotiations so abounding in blunders, ignorance, duplicity, private treachery, and public bad faith as this humiliating chapter of Mr. Pierce’s fillibustering diplomacy for Cuba. Our difficulties with England in those Cramp- ton enlistments, the Northeastern fisheries and Central American affairs, have been brought thus far toa pacific solution, rather from accidents and outside influences than from the wisdom, capacity or foresight of this Pierce administration. In the first place, in sending Mr. Buchanan to England Mr. Marcy reserved the nice and easy little job of the fishery question and Canadian reciproci- ties to himself, and in the treaty which fol- Jowed he certianly did a good thing for the Cana- dians, for they rightfully boast that all the advantages of these reciprocities are on their side. Thus relieved of the make-weight, which he might otherwise have turned to good account, Mr. Buchanan could do nothing in London upon Central American affairs ; and so, finally, throwing up his commission in disgust, he came home to make his arrangements for the Cinciunati nomivation. Nothing to this day would have been done upon Central Ameri- can affairs, most likely, but for the happy inter- vention of Mr. E. George Squier, who, with Senor Herran, Minister to London from the State of Honduras, successfully untied the Gordian knot of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and British colo- nization in the Central American Siates. ‘The only proceedings in Central American affairs towhich Mr. Pierce and his Cabinet have any ex- clusive title are the bombardment of Greytown and his slippery diplomacy with General Walker, aod we presume that by this time; even Governor Wise of Virginia will have concluded that General Watker is bardly a fitting protege for Mr. Bu- chanan, even for the great enterprise of an over- shadowing Southern confederacy based upon niggers and “military principles.” Nor will the paltry game of “bo-peep” which Mr. Pierce has been playing with bis minister, Mr. Wheeler, in Nicaragua, answer as a chart for the guidance of Mr. Buchanan, But the great and all-absorbing issue upon which Mr. Buchanan will have to administer is the Kan- tas iene; and here not all the sophistries of all the pettifoggers in the country will avail to shake the great principle of the organic law of Kansas, or the terrible chapter of atrocities which have marked its persistent violation by poor Pierce. The question of slavery or no slavery in Kansas the law declares shall be left free to the people thereof, “subject only to the constitution of the United States.” But Mr. Pierce has superseded the law end the constitution by a reiga of bloody terrorism against the free State settlers; and through fraudulent legislatures and their infam- ons Jawe— through ruffian oMicials and ruffian mer- cenaries—has labored (for Southern party in- fluence) to foree slavery upon Kansas by fire and sword. It was the infamous notoriety of poor Pierce ond his agents in this business that drove the democracy to Mr. Buchanan, a man whose hands were clean of any responsibility in the premises, excepting his endorsement of the prin- ciple of popular sovereignty. The Kansas policy, then, of poor Pierce, which General Cass has de- clared a policy “disgraceful to the civilization of the age,” can hardly be the policy of Mr. Bu- chanan. Mr. Buchanan owes his election, first, to the abandonment by the democracy of Pierce and his administration, because of an emphatic con- demnation from the people, in several successive series of popular elections; secondly, to the iucky accident of a division of the opposition forces vpon two candidates—Fremont and Fill- more, The President elect thus slips in over an avgregate opposition popular majority of three hundred and fifty thousand votes. His election, in reality, as confessed by~ some of our demo- cratic organs, “is a moral defeat;” and he can- not fail to perceive that the popular revolution thus developed upon the issues of the late cam- paign, is full of warnings and admonitions against the wretehed policy—foreign and do- mestic--of poor Pierce. We predict, therefore, that between the last annual message of Mr. Pierce and the inaugural of Mr. Buchanan there will be a margin as wide, at least, as the difference between the rejection | of the one and the nomination of the other at Civeinnati. Mr. Buchanan will not set out upon Mr. Pierce’s road to ruin. Govenxon Wise Nowrearen ror tim Capt- xet—The New Orleans Delix, the organ of Jeffer- son Davis, nominates Governor Wise for the Secretaryship of State, in an article which we republish elsewhere, The reason why Gov. Wise is Cligible in the eyer of the Delia is thet he is such a contrast to Mr. Buchanan: as fall of fire and ting us into a war with France or England. Hunter is more prudent, more sensible, more con- servative; the better man by far. No doubt Jeff. Davis knows this, and knows the small chances of Wise for the post; wherefore he nominates him, in order to secure hie alliance in the war he is preparing to wage againgt the administration. ‘The Nicaragua a ang American Indian impire. ‘The full developements published in the Hetatp in relation to Nicaraguan affairs, and the course and policy of General Walker, continue to at- tgact in a large degree public attention here, as they mast aleo do in Europe when the late reve- lations become known there. We receive daily, from reliable sources, further information upon many points bearing on these questions, and are now able to throw some new light upon the trae origin and causes of the Walker movement. Al- though it seems in itself to have been at first no- thing but a wild filibustering foray, ite impulses have a deeper philosopby and spring from more permanent and wide-spread causes than a mere love of adventure and spoil. It is founded, in fact, in that instinct that characterizes not only our people, but the Saxon race in every part of the world—an instinct that has marked its career on every continent and in every sea for ages— the instinct of territorial extension. The dere- lopement of this instinct, in the present instance, has grown out of, and has been stimulated by, the sudden rise of our Pacific empire. The sudden rush of emigration to Cali- fornia on the occasion of the gold disco- veries there, and the increasing demand for means of transit between the Atlantic and Pacific shores of the Union, drew public attention to the several routes across the American Isthmus; and among others the Nica- ragua route was opened, under the auspices of the Nicaragua Transit Company. To the direc- tors and agents managing the transportation on this route, the enterprise was. profitable pecu- niarily, whatever it might have been to the stockholders of the company. But Nicaragua was torn by civil dissensions and internecine war, and the property of the company on the line of transit across the Isthmus was continually in a precarious condition. This stimulated some of the parties concerned in the enterprise to fur- nish Walker with the means of taking a small party of adventurous spirits to that country, in order that by siding with one or other of the native parties a preponderance might be se- cured and peace restored. The original fifty-six were accordingly sent down from San Francisco ; and from the mutual accusations of the President and California agent of the Nicaragua Transit Company, published in the Heratp some time since, we learn that reinforcements for Walker received subsequently free passages from San Francisco to San Juan del Sur. Whether the parties to the movement had at that time any ulterior views can only be known to themselves. But soon a new view broke upon them. Walker, as Commander-in-Chief of the army, soon contrelled the feeble government of Nica- ragua and was in a position to assist his friends. A plan for a grand stock jobbing operation was formed, the game of which was to be played in Wall street, where Nicaragua stock was one of the fancies. The coup d'état on the Nicaragua Transit Compavy’s property in Nicaragua was prepared, and the parties in the secret sold stock largely for delivery at a future day. The seizure by the government of Nicaragua of the boats and transit route, under color of a violation of contract by the company, was then made, and the stock suddenly declined to a nominal figure. It is said that the profits to the parties in the secret were sufficient to enable them to purchase of Gen, Walker the property of the old company on the Isthmus, and the ocean steamships necessary for re-opening the route. This has since been effected, and if it can be preserved promises to become one of the most profitable of the lines of transportation to California. These revelations explain the sudden and seem- ingly unaccountable seizure of the transit route by Walker, and the withdrawal of the ocean steamships of Com. Vanderbilt. This gentleman had not been let into the secret, and be at once began a war upon the other parties. There is little reason to doubt that Goicouria was sent by this gentleman to Nicaragua, and not succeeding in getting Walker round to his views, that the pretended expedition of Goicouria against Cuba was, in reality, intended to over- throw Walker. At this stage of the game, which was becoming interesting, a third party takes a hand, and our old friend, George Law, strikes in. Goicouria had nearly succeeded in chartering one of Law’s former boats, which are still under the control of his old partner, Roberts. This was stopped, and an application of Goicouria to Law for one thousand muskets was refused. Bat Law went further. He was now in his old element, and felt more at home than he has felt in his re- cent political intriguing. Colonel Henningsen, who has for several years been Law's right haod man in muskets and hardware generally, was des- patched to Nicaragua with several pieces of ar- tillery and other much neeeded supplies, and he now ranks as a General in Walker's army. But the matter in hand, obeying those general laws which guide the national tendencies of every people, far above individual direction, soon as sumed much greater proportions than those it had originally posseseed. Soulé and a host of other disappointed politicians tarned their wistfal gaze to Walker, and now dream of a great South- ern military confederacy. At this moment thousands of filibusters look to Central America and Mexico as the theatre of adventure and for- tune; and if the means can be provided, General Walker can have all the blood and muscle he may desire. This looming future has alarmed the imbecile Pierce administration, and Marcy is already preparing his batterics against it. But he government is now passing through the con- dition of an adm'nistrative interregnum, and its power to act efficiently is very questionable. Buchanan and the Ostend Manifesto are in the ascendant, and nobody cares much what Pierce or Marey may do. The Saxon instinct, that we have spoken 6f ia | the opening of this article, is aroused among us, and Nicaragua is the probable commencement of our Indian Empire. Granada is our Fort St George, and whether Walker will become the American Olive time only can tell, If he dos not, there are hundreds in the teeming ranks of Young America who are fully equal to the oo casion, and jnst as loyal to the Saxon instinct, ready to piteh in at any moment, The present little fight between Vanderbilt, Heiss, Randolph Goicouria and a host in the back ground, ismere- ly the scramble for posta in the New York Di- rectory of our new Indian Empire. Come onwith your revelations, gentlemen—our columns are open to all—and let us see what else is behind the curtain. Remember, however, that our Fort St. George is in @ critical position at this mo- ment, and the next news from W: may over- throw all your fine hopes. Financial Frauds in Europe. By the mails which arrived yesterday we learn that the Northern Railroad of England has just been defrauded somewhat in the same manner 08 the New York and New Haven Company was by Robert Schuyler. The transfer agent of the Nortbern road to have appropriated property belonging to the directors and share- holders to an amount not less than $750,000, and to have made good his escape with the same. We have frequently had oceasion to indicate the strong probability existing that several trus- tees and persons in authority in the larger finan- cial institutions of Europe would, if the truth were known, be found heavily in debt to the in- stitutions whose funds they have in charge. When a man holds large amounts of other people’s money in his hands, he can only be re- strained from appropriating it either by principle, or by precautions taken by the owners, or by want of temptation to steal. ~None of these hindrances can be at present relied upon in Europe. The men who fill responsible stations connected with moneyed institutions are too often creatures of such financiers as De Morny and Hudson, much more reiarkable for fidelity to their private patrons than for honesty. As to precautions, there are absolutely none. Any President, a transfer agent of a railroad com- pany here, in Great Britain or on the European continent can steal if he chooses, and can keep up the theft without its being discovered, for a long period of time. The best of all safe- guards—the removal of temptation—is wanting like the others. In ordinary times, a man who is paid adequately, and who has a prospect of a permanent position, is not likely, unless he be a great fool, to throw away his chances of a calm and quiet old age by pilfering; but when times alter, when speculation begins, when beggars go outofa morning and return men of fortune at night, when a few dollars or pounds staked on the right color may make a millionaire of a petty clerk, then, indeed, does it become hard for a fiduciary of small means and large trust to remain true to his employers and his honor. This is the present condition of France and of England. Speculation is rife, and fortunes are constantly made and lost of a morning. What a terrible temptation for those who, having money under their control, and being unfettered by restraints, see that perhaps, with the use of a few thousands that will never be missed, and are sure to be restored, they may secure a compe- tency for life! ‘The defalcation in the London Crystal Palace Company, the fraud in the Northern Railway, the robbery in the Chemin du Nord of France and the late embezzlementa in Denmark are all indices of a state of things which must some day come to light and shake the spheres, Frauds, defalcations, robberies abound. For every one that is discovered a hundred escape, some in one way, some in another, but not one to be permanently covered up. When the great crash in France comes the world will be as- tonished by the magnitude of the frauds that will come to light. The lesson is not without a moral for our use. Deeply as France and England are immersed in speculations, they are not more deeply involved than we are. The United States have to refer to the single article of railways, more miles in ope- ration than all the rest of the world together. All this has been done on credit, and the bulk of these railways have never paid any adequate re- turn on the outlay. Their stocks, like all other stocks, put on the market at a high price, have slowly fallen downwards, downwards till but few of them are within thirty or forty per cent or their prime cost. Yet notwithstanding the enormous losses this depreciation must have in- volved, we hear of no failures and no stoppages. How have the directors and managers of our great railroads contrived to stand the damage? A Great Mestcat Svccnss—Tiarsera’s Con- certs.—An art success in this country and with our mercantile community is sometimes a very singular and mysterious fact. Jenny Lind achieved a triumph—she made the tour of the United States, and acquired fame and money. Almost every one supported that her triamph was owing in a great degree to the absurd mancu- vres and extraordinary antics ot Barnum, her showman. Barnum certainly did make very ela- borate preparations for the arrival of Jenny Lind —he made a prodigious noise, and concocted all sorts of schemes to keep the public mind excited during the interval between her departure from Europe and her dituw in America. We rather think, however, that the fact that Jenny Lind was a novelty in herself,and peculiar in her qualities and surroundings, aided more in giving her great success than the fireworks set off by the great showman who exhibited her. Since the success of Jenny Lind nothing in the art world has assumed similar lineaments until the present time, and the /urore excited by the concerts of Thalberg, the great pianist. We have had Grisi, Mario, Alboni, and we really don’t know how many more great artists, under various managers, all of whom have attempted to imitate the tricks of Barnum. But the public mind revolted—the people stayed away, and the artists went home, with shrugs and sighs, and comparatively empty pockets, Thalberg, on the contrary, came with no preliminary puff*— no unnecessary noise was made about his arrival—there was no fuss about the pre- parations for his concerts. He found the country in an awfal state of excitement about the election of the next President; he went away quietly—saw Niagara Falls —waited uatil the contest was all over—then proceeded to announce his concerts, as if they were private, social, gentlemanly parties. THe selected outa very large house, and simply announced himself in the bills, as himeclf—just as one would ad- vertice fresh shad from Savannah or the first salmon of the season from the Kennebec. The result of this cystem—entirely the opposite of the absurd tactics of Barnum, and putting in the place of vulgar tricks a quiet, easy, gentlemanly demeanor in every respect--is that M, Thalverg has commenced a greatly successfnl career—a career which promises to rival even that of Jenny Lind. It is a singular and remarkable if the concerts of M. Thalberg shall produce #8 much during the next year as they bave nelted since they commenced, he will moke nearly two buadred thoneand dollars Every night, whenever he bas appeared, bis con | fact that | certs have beem crowded, and there have been but very few free tickets. He has been ‘istenod to with the greatest delight, and the enthusiaam of the public has not been manifested by those noisy, vulgar demonstrations which have injured some others of the great artists who have visited us, but rather by that quiet, deep responsive feeling with which a cultivated audience rewards the efiorts of genius, About Thalberg there is No noise, no claptrap, no show, no humbug; im his appearance he has the quiet, easy demeanor of @ true artist; cool, collected, conservative, with @ benevolent appreciation of the rights of his auditors, he is perfectly the master of his posi- tion, his audience and his music. The career of Sigismund Thalberg in the United States bids fair not only to exceed in brilliancy that of any artist in the instrumental way—DeMeyer, Ole Bull or the rest—but to rival, if not outstrip, that of Jenny Lind and Malibran, One singular feature in Thalberg’s career is contained in the remarkable fact that the whole religious society of the city has been struck by him as with a shock ef electricity, crowding to his concerts every night. Allthe clergymen of all denominations, with all the lights of the church, the brethren and sisters, who never go to the theatre—who abominate the opera—who hold up their hands in holy horror at the quar- rels between the managers and the stockholders— who detest the squabbles of the tenors and the prima donnas—all these were stirred up as with the sharp end of a streak of lightning by the appearance of M. Thalberg and his wonderful performance. One of the principal features that gave éclat to the concerts of Jenny Lind was that she roused up the enthusiasm of the religious community—-a numerous, wealthy, intelligent, powerful, cultivated and refined community, in- cluding thousands who, though they never visit the opera or plays, have still the warmest admi- ration, the highest appreciation and the deepest sympathy for music of a high order. Such, therefore, may be considered the musical and philosophical interpretation of the great suc- cess which has attended the first series of Thal- berg’s concerts, Hecommences to-morrow a new series, with a new and celebrated cantutrice, Ma~ dame d’Angri, who is a native of Greece ; and, for all that we know io the contrary, may have the blood of Leonides or Pericles running in her veins. Shehad the finest musical education in Naples, and has achieved the greatest success in London and Paris. No doubt the career of M. Thalberg will continue as brilliantly as it has commenced, and that Mme. d’Angri will repeat here her triumphs abroad. Senator Doverss on His Travets.—Senator Douglas, with his young and beantifu) bride, has been spending some days of his honeymoon among the varied attractions of this great metro- polis of commerce, amusements and politics, He is enjoying himself in the two-fold capacity of a happy bridegroom and a rejoicing democrat. In the former capacity we wish him continued joy; in the latter capacity we would admonish him to be prudent and moderate in his exultation. The year 1860 is some distance off, and perhaps the democratic nomination then may be worth less than the cost price to him that gets it. Had Mr. Douglas played his cards with a little more saga- city and circumepection, he might have had the nomination and the election of 1856; but he fell, in 1852, into the hands of an unscrupulous set of suckers; and reckless party adventurers of the same sort have stuck to him and followed him from that day to this. Now, with the brightened future before him let him strike for higher game. We understand that quite a lot of desperate spoilemen are gathering about him already; bat let him not be deluded by them. His best course, fer the next two or three years, will be to * > ignore the Presidency, and devote himself to his domestic affairs and his duties in the Senate; or, if he aspires to a seat in the Cabinet, let it come of itself. The democracy are in a minority of 28,000 in Iinois; but the State has gone for Bu- chanan, and that’s enongh. Let that speak for Mr. Douglas and Mr. Fillmore. Coronet Benton.—It is well that Colonel Ben- ton has thought of copyrighting his lecture about the dangers to the Union? Had he not done so all the newspapers in the country would natural- ly have crowded everything else out to publish it. They always do so, of course, with every- thing Mr. Benton speaks or writes. He is one of the most remarkable men of our country, Mr. Benton. He has written one of the most re- markable books ever written in this or avy other country—three volumes, did we say, of a thou- sand pages apiece, all to show how Tom Benton wanted to save the country long ago, but didn’t. He is now writing a still more remarkable book, @ condensed collection of his speeches from the Globe, with a few others thrown in to elucidate them, to make, say, forty octavos of large size. He also makes remarkable speeches, in a stern Roman manner, in which he refuses to be cor- rupted by ties of relationship, or to be seduced by gold; and in Missouri these are considered the highest effort of humaneloquence. But with all his remarkable qualities, old Mr. Benton can- not carry his own State, or get elected Governor, or obtain a seat in the Senate, or in Congress, or get any administration even to listen to him; so that perhaps, he is excusable in appealing to the public of other States, He is a queer old man: sometimes he reminds one of Caius Gracchus; and again, he looks like Pecksniff ; as he grows older, the latter predominates, Pranovy’s Gour.—We are glad to be able to inform the public in general, and the friends of Mr. Peabody in particular, that that eminent financier is ing from his attack of gout, and is again al enjoy his dinner. The air of this country has proved rather unfavorable to him in asanitary point of view. Tae Cerpercs or New Yor«.—Comptroller Flagg, a8 we have frequently noticed, is exceed- ingly liberal in the payment of large sums, bat where small debts are justly due he cavils and kicks at the disbursement like a miser. Judge Strong, of Kings county, who occasionally obliges the judges, lawyers and litigants of our courts by leaving his own district to fill a va- cancy, has pointedly refused to come to the General Term in the place of Judge Peabody, who is presiding at the Baker trial in Newburg. The veteran Judge has transmitted to the pre- siding Justice of the General Term a letter, which will be found in our legal intelligence, and in which he gives his reasons for not putting himeelf ont of his way to come here. He re- marks, amongst other things, that while the Comptroller (Flagg) voluntarily paid the ex- penees allowed by the statute to the Jndge who , presided at his trial in this city (Giles vs. Flagg), he (Flagg) refuses to pay the expenses of Judge Strong for judicial serviors, although his secount has been duly audited by the Board of Supervisors. Verily Mr, Flagg is a great