The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1857, Page 4

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BOWERY THEATRE, bowery—4"arnoon—| Maven —Leve sxp Munors, Brening—bine ‘mens43 BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, epposite Bond st Swarm Nios —Bormn ur. ‘WALLACH’S THEATRE Broadway-Ax AWnwaap An- pry a.— Hiawares—COiNe 70 Tun Racus, Box 70 Goon Joum—Po ca: DAVEA KFEWWS THEATRE. €4 Presdway— yon BY Norma Masna wasn 2 GHAMBRRS SYREET THEATRE, (laie Burton’s—Afer- nese—Rinsivo Kes atprsy—Curpnus IN Tue Woons—JOuLy Sennian. hvening—Castin SPReTRR—MINUTE CON 47 Sma ory Maxas ins Mav. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Breadway—Morv- pga oF Mancunsran. AfKernoon and Myening— @BO_CUBIETY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad- way~ Brmorias Paxvouwances—Kew Yeas Csias. BUCKLEY'S FBRENADENS, 665 Broadwey—Ermerman Mabor pws — Cr DERE. ‘ew York, Thursday, January 1, 1857. The News. ‘Phe steamship Niagara arrived at Halifax last wight, with Liverpool dates to the 20th ult. ‘The steamship Fulton, which left Havre on the ‘Web olt., arrived at thie port yesterday afternoon, efter a stormy passage. Our advices by the Fulton gmmoancing the safety of the Hermann wil! bring re- Bef to many an anxious heart. The Hermaan, after @pouuntering some dreadful heavy weather and seas weaning ‘mountains high,” was forced to put beck te Southampton for repairs. All her passengers, ‘wWhth the exception of two, who have remained for ‘the transaction ef private business, were landed mafely from the Fulton. The passengers of the Her- mann, when at Southampton, passed a series of re- solutions approving of the conduct of Captain Hig- imsand his officers. The political news by the Pulton ie vot important. [tis said that Sicily was again quict and that the revolution at Palermo bad Deen suppressed. The would-be sassasdin of the King of Naples was hangeé. The aspect of the re Intions existing between Prussia and Switzerland wae still very gloomy, and farther eomplaints were looked for. Tho English declaration of war against Persia had caused much excitement both in Barope anj Asia. The government proclamation which recapitulates England's causes of eompisiat sgainst the Shah is given, but many of Der best friends regret the step now taken as tend- yrs to ensure the advance of Russia farther east- ward. Queen Vieworia and the roys! family visited ‘Me Arctic discovery ship Resolute at Cowes, and were received by Captain Harteteim in a manner worthy an American officer and gentleman. Rev. By. Livingston had made some highly interesting stotementsin London with respect to the scenes ef his explorations in the interior of Africa. It is thought that another expedition would be sent out de search of Franklin. In England the money market bad improves. Cotton was firm, and bread- staffs lower. ‘The brig Beauty, at Malifax from Jamaica, re porte picking up, on the %th of November, in leti- fade 40, one of the boats of tho unfortunate steamer Agonnais. The boat was bottom up, the starboard whée stove, the oars lashed to the thwarts, and a lug- wai) mest floating alongside. In the boat was a ask of watar, and s life-suoy marked “ Le Lyon- pais;” also a white shirt and a fine cambric hanc+ Berchief marked “1. 2." We have examined the passenger list of the Lyonnais, but find no name eorreaponding with these initials. The Lyonnais was abandoned on the id of November, conse quently but six day- elapsed from the time of her ivaster till the capsized beat alluded to was picked =p by the Beauty. Mr. Moirrier, the agent of the Branco American Stcamship Company, ba received we further intelligence in reference to the captain and passengers of the I.yonnais who were stated to Deve arrived at Dordeaux. ‘The steamship Vigo, which loft Havre on the 10th aR, is now in her twenty-second dey out. We earn by the Fulton that the Rormann, when forced ‘te prt baek, met the Vio two «lays out from the sbeve port; bat owing, doubtless, to the tempest- ‘ene state of the Atlantic, she has heon unable to weach New York ere this. No fears are entertained for her vafety,as she hason board 1,200 tons of eee), sufficient for thirty days, and her commander, @aptain Sharp, is an officer of tried experience. ‘The Vigo is hourly expected. Our correspondent at Warhington -tate- that the Dnited State: Sapreme Court have come to @ de- ion upon the important question: presented in ‘Me cave of Dred Scott, recenily argued before that @ibanal. Jodges Tancy of Maryland, Daniel of Vir- qinia, Wayne of Georgia, Catron of Tenne-sce, Nel- won of New York, end Grier of Ponn«ylvanis, hoki stevery in the Territorie, compromi« is unconstitutional, and therefore of no efiect. Judges MeLean of Uhio, and Curtis of Max gachosetts, hold thet Congress hax power over the (qnestion of slavery in the Territories. The decision wil be formally eunocaced ine few days by Chief Jovtiee Taney. ‘Whoever is eo aufortunate en to be compelled to lusts of the namesof the executive, lewisistive and jedicia) functionaries, tevether with those of the beads of the various subordinate department: ‘Prone who wtudy the Guctaations of the public dealt will find in ovr etativtics of the part year's mortality matter for refiection and specnle tien. Those interested in the progres of our fecean steam marine will find detailed with greot ec- q@uracy the time occupied in cromsing the Atlantic by the vations steamships. The parila! hroriet, en be peruses our record of the doings of the ertminal courts, will lament the degradation that aboonds in our midst, while adi naust reloice at the mereased prosperity of the metropolix, as eabibited Jo the table showing the number of veesols which feave arrived ot this port during the year 156. A tebular statement of the names of those clevet- #2 personages who will exerciee a soverciga power ‘over the people of the w from New Year's day, &» publish: eleewher. Their exeeutive dedigna- ‘tions, with the datos on wh ». sthay mccecded to tice, aro aleo given. Thit payer will be found very usofal for reference, aud in these days of mud «ton dynastic chases may ‘come ‘oportent, for anhough we will start clear o¢ to out knowledge of the royal end Presidential record, we do not know how soon our ideas may Le confused by tho noiae and deposit mdaced by wholesome revoution ary uprisings. the year which ended Jast night many importect chonger have taken place. Two promigent mcr have teen reheved from the cares of office, and wil mon «ek the ewecte of ettrement, * Neree, who wacotes the cher Mr. teehonen wil fill, and ‘George Augustu:, Kine of Mosquito, who ie st aside by the ree wyrate of Eng % \y't) leet hin farther ex ynw Mould produce an Anglo mend the ring the Dyers Franklin reine of office as President pect twelvemuebe, and the fro'ts of bis govern NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1857. ment are yet before ua Senor Ospina has been @eeted Goverser of New Granada, where be will in- augurate a conservative regimé, and Manuel Montt has been chosen for the second time President of Chile, by the friends of order, religious toleration and progress. Santos Guardiola is the new Presi of Honduras; Senor Campo will rule in Ban Salvador, whilst the people of Uraguay seem contented with their choice of Don Gabriel Pereira. Both branches of the Common Council met yes- terday. Ja the Board of Aldermen some unimpor- tant routine business was transacted, and resolutions complimenting the President, the clerks and tne re- porters of the press were adopted. In the Board of Councilmen a message wos received from the Mayor vetoing the tax levy for 1857 because of the omission of an appropriation for the improvement of the Central Park and to pay deficiencies for ser- vices rendered on account of said Park. The Mayor also returned unsigned the resolution giving to the Street Commissioner power to employ a surveyor to make survey of the proposed new grado of Pearl street and the streets that intersect the Bowery ex- tension. These documents may be found in cur re" port of the proceedings. The stereotyped vote of thanks was agreed to, and the Common Council of 1866 expired. May their many sins be forgiven, and may their successors prove more worthy of the im- portant trast confided to their charge. Amen?! The Commissioners of Emigration, in response to the action of the Ten Governors, state that the law forbids them to provide for emigrant lunatics, 2nd they intimate that the Governors are liable to a cri” mina] prosecution if they decline to provide for this unfortunate clase of aliene. The Commissioners give a gentle hint to the tiovernors to beware, or they may become inmates of their own penitentiary. Read the report. Lonis Baker, the herd of the Stanwix Hall tra- gedy, was yesterday released from imprisonment, bail in five thousand dollars having been previously given in his behalf. Patrick McLaughlin and James Turner were included in the order of release, but they are held in custody to answer another charge. Atthe cattle market yesterday there wasa good demand for beeves, but the quality of the stock pre- sented for sale not being above the average, no ad- vance in prices was realized. Prices ranged from The. to 104c. per pound, and e@ few of the best de scription brought lic. Thore was bat a moderate supply on hand. About 90,000 head of beef cattle have been brought to this market during the past year, and the prices have ranged from 7c. to l44o. per pound, according to quality. Cows and calves, veal calves, sheep and lambs, and ewine sold freely at the rates quoted in another column. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced 1500 bales at ful prices, the market closing firm. The Fulton's news was received at too late a period in the day to affect prices, and it was not supposed that is would have any intinence. Flour continued duil,snd common grades were casier, while sales were light. Wheat wae inactive andjsales bmited, fclnding Chicago spring ot $) 40, and Southern white at #1 76. Corn sold to a limited extent at unchanged prices. Pork wes in fair request, while prices were unaltered. Sngare were firm, but quiet. We refer to another column for an sccount of stock. Coffee was quiet, but steady. A notice of stock will be found in another place. Ship owners demanded higher rates to Liverpool, which tended to check engagements, which were moderate, but made at fol! rates, Tar Convictios o» Huxiietox.—A great and good thing in behalf of justice, public mo- rality, individual honesty and the safety of s0- ciety has been achieved in the conviction and sentence of Huntington, the forger and swindler, to the utmost penalty of the law. Considering he success of New York timanciers, defwaltery, political rowdies, bullics, burglars and assassins, n escaping the penalty of their crimes, through “the law's delay,”’ and the tricks ef artful shysters and corrupt oflicials we had rowson to fear the ac- qnittal of Huntington upon some microscopic flaw, some technical informality or a divided ury. The result, therefore, exceods our highest expectations in behalf of justice, law and order. Woe are disposed to regard it as the inauguration of a new epoch in the prosecution of rogues, ruf- fans and swindling financiers before our courts ‘The conviction and the full sentence of Hanting- ton are particularly gratifying in view of the defence set up for the criminal by his foral insonity ! The impudence of this plea stands out in conspicuous rel 1, gloomy and pecniiar.”” “Moral insani- We have no doubt that the shochiog inso. lence of thie miserable discovery contributed much to give emphasis to the verdict of the jury and tho sentence of the Jndge. But this “moral insanity’ a: the eiminal. One would poison had almoet as soriously the counsel for the prisoner in form,” or that they would gone ont of their way to make war upon the Liberty of the press. We agree that it would bave letter served the cause of the crimi- nal and the wishes of his tounsel, had the public press kept modestly silent upon the subject dar- ing the trial, including a total eupprossion of the proceedings in court; but still, the devunciations uttered againet the press hy prisoner's counsel, because of a diferent line of newspaper policy, were but a waete of breath and displeasure, and to the prisoner were woree than useless. ‘Shore was # logal line of defence which Huntington's counsel might have adopted with better results for their clint and themselves to wit--the miti- gation plea —dhat the forgeries complained of were not in reality perfected, and were not forgeries in the ordinary loyal sone of the word, but financial experiments of @ “confidence man,” of a hold and dashing, and singularly romantic and muc comful charactor. But Jet us, while congratula- ting the commmmnity that the peculiar defeace of thie dashing ewindler has contributed to his con vietion and contence, also express the hope that his case gives the quictus to this inrolent dodge of “mor To Di Poo-Farens axp FPasarict Masscwcanrrs Amn —We p efl eome day aco a ¢ adimunton convontion at Worcester, Massarhusotte, the eignere of the papor pleeding the South Carolina plea that the two rections ar: os widely c-traaged as two separate netiony, and that accordingly it would be best to have the Union diwolvet, an independent Northern and a separat athern confederacy. These Marwehusetts dieunion danatics ere thue consid- erably ahead of the tre-eaters of South Carolina The latter have threatencd dieunion upon thie or mey happening, in which event they Washington, seize the public id not stop with “another not have upor joston and eet ap a Souther confed but these Maaeachusctte and other Northern di»- unioni+ts propose disnnion right away. opon its own inerite, aad this proposed cc n it to leliierate upon the ways and moans for expe the work. We recommend Chevaliers Brooke, Rhett, Toombs, Keltt, Wise, Masov, and other contingent Southern Jisumianiste, to be on hand when this Worcester fint-footed diranion convention comes of. They may, perhaps. Jearn a thing or twe cpon the subject from their bolder Northern diswnion brethrep, euch ae Carrieon PRULipr and D’arker 28686. term “lady,” a@ unbecoming a virtaous wo- ‘The year which has just closed has not been one | man, beeause the Cypriane of King Charlee the of those eventful years which mark histories! | Second were called ladies; and because ihis epochs, Such years as 1812, 1815, 1830, 1848, can only be expected at rare intervals; andno bet- ter test of general prosperity can be found than the rarity of their occurrence. How few strik ing years have marked our own history, Passing over the initial years which witnessed the Decla- ration of Independence, the peace with England, and ihe inauguration of Washington, the succeed- ing annala are dul) till 1812, when the suecesaful vindication of American nationality sheds a brief light over the scene; to be followed by a period of sober, dull fact till—-when shall we say ? Some will protest that the Missouri compromise ought to redeem 1320 from obscurity; othera will have it that Jackson’s election and the fal entemd- ment of the ghost of federalism ought to make us remember 1829, some will sorrowfully reeol- lect 1837, and the same will plead that 1946 should be saved from oblivion by the tariff of that year; all will agree that the campaigns of Scott and the acqnisition of Califernia embalm the dates 1847 and 1848.. The year 1856 has no eneh glories or disasters to keep it in memory, and it will be forgotten, and will claim but little space in history. The events of the year, so far as the United States are concerned, have evidently been the contest in Kansas, and the sqnabbies with England. How important these matters seemed to us at ihe time, yet how trivial they will appear to the historian! What shall he ray of Kansas? That this Territory, prepared for education by a sound organic act, was overrun by settlers from Now England on the one side and from Missouri and some Southern States on the other, each desirous of establishing their own pecutiar form of labor there, and excladiag all others; that these two sets of settlers growled at each other, and even came to hard knocks, as became their sincerity and their stalwart, carnest Anglo-Saxon lineage; that, therenpon, @ poor man named Pierce, who wanted to purchase Southern ‘support, unlawfully interfered and tried to establish a military despotism in the Territory, whereat the whole strong heart of the North rebelled ; but that Pierce, losing his e of re-election, gave up his unlawful and left the men of Kansas to their own devices; upon which the whole hubbab subsided, and people forgot al) about Kaneas. What shall he say of our disputes with England? Thata foolish minister of hers, under foolish instruc- tions from Lord Palmerston, broke our laws, and was sent about his business, as he deserved, and thas the English made up their minds to it; that after being led to the brink of a quarrel about Central America by the knavish schomes ef politicians, the people of the two nations in @ frank manly way, agreed that there was nothing to fight about, and forced their di- plomatists to make terms of settlement; and that after all the noiee, the dispute ended in smoke. Here are elender materials for history. ~ Europe will remember yearly the treaty of peace. When the year opened the horizon looked gloomy enough for Rusia. Her finances wore exhausted, she was beaten in the ducl at Sebastopol, her fleets were sunk, her ports block- aded, and there was a very clear prospect that in the season of 1856, Cronstadt would be made to follow Sebastopol, and peace might be dictated in the palace at Si. Petersburg. Austria was on the poimt of joining the Western Powers, and. so far as human foresight could go, it seomed cer- tain that Russia would be crashed. According- ly, Alexander saved himself by making peace, at some cost of territory, and imore cost of prestige. Since the treaty, the year has been consumed ‘n petty bickcrings touching its fulfilment. France has bickered with England, and England bas bickered with Russia; at the time we write, preparations are being made for a new confer- ence, out of which almost anything may grow. Naples has continued to be the prey of one of the most intolerable despots in the world. Spain hae takes « retrograde step, and trembles on the verge of the usual quadrennial revolution. ersia, instigated by Russia, has broken the treaty with Eogland and laid siege to Herat; thus provoking a war, the beauty of which is that the antagonist cannot possibly get at each other, Commercially, the year has been an eminently prosperous one. The cessation of the drain for the war hae greatly relieved the commercial world. But from the fact that that drain was mostly supplied by bypoihccationa of the futnre, the severity of the pressure bas not been yet withdrawn. Hut it has been concealed. The French government, which is really on the verge of bankruptcy, hes made strenuous efforts to con- ecal its condition, and has thu: teen led into fa voring variour financial bubbles. which, in a sounder state, it would not Layo countenanced fo: amoment. {na eimilar manner, the remarkable prosperity and wenderful exuberance of this country have encouraged the formetion of cor porate institutions. on » basis eurnetimes quite ins dejunte, and on principles at war with sound financial policy. The railroad eystem, which has teceived an extension commensurate with the cx- tent of oer country and the speculative and en- terpriking genius of our people, has been pushed to limits which place it beyond a doubt that the futare agricultural and induetrial derelopeme:t of this country will be without example, bnt also thai nearly all our rallroade, having acct ike’ their purpose as inetrumente of developement, will bo failures, at epeculations for @ profit. ‘The modern term of “lady” ie not to be found in the Bible, nor im Piutarch’e Lives, nor in Benton’s Thirty Years in the Senate—the three great books of the three great epochs of the world. Finally, it is most interesting of all to fina “OW Bullion” caught napping on 3 matter of Seripture. He must give us his Bible translation in whieh the term “lady” is not to be found, or confess the corn that his “Thirty Years’ View” on this subject goes for nothing; for in at least one po- pular translation of the Bible bas the venerable linguist been cornered, ehapter and verse, ina dozen different places, by a “ lady.” We hope thas “ Old Bullion” will keep up his present active career for four or five years to come, and then give us his ‘'Ten Years Out of the Senate.” It will be a great book. Meantime, in consideration of his patent right stamp speech for saving the Union, at two bundred doilars a reading, we wish Old Bullion “A Happy New Year.” Russian Diplomacy. Almost simultaneously with our annonnec- ment that the Russian embassy at Washington was laboring to effect the appointment of Mr. Cass a9 Mr. Buchanan’s Secretary of State, we perceive a confirmation of the lately prevalent rumors regarding the diplomatic intrigues of Russia in Aria, and learn that the Caar is really about to give effective support to the Shah of Persia. To make the case of the war in Persia clear in a few words, we may say that for nearly s century the Persians have endeavored at regu- lar intervals to conquer the independent Princi- pality of Herat Theo English try to prevent them because Herat is the key to Affghanisian, and consequently to the northwestern proviness of British India; the Russians encourage them, because Herat is within arm’s length of the Russian possessions on the Caspian, coald be taken from Persia by Russia at a moment's notice, and could serve as a basia for Russian military operations against British India To secure their point, the English, after the famous siege of 1838, made the Shah sign a treaty binding bimeelf and bis successors not to molest Herat. To carry bis point, the Emperor of Rassia made a treaty offensive and defensive with Persia, promising to supply the Shah with men whenever he went to war, Such wes the position of the two rivais during the ten yeara 1840-1850; and alternately Russian and Britieh influence prepondersted at Teheran. The con- test was finally terminated by the superior ciplo- matic skill of the Russian envoys. Colonel Sheil, who represented England in Percia before Mr. Murray, was a very good cavalry officer, bat & very bad diplomatist; the Russians got the better of him, and made themselves the real sovereigns of Persia. The vest followed natc- rally. The English struggled feebly for awhile; then struck their flag and ehut up their emhaery. Left masters of the field, the Russians excited the new invasion of the territory of Herat, and promised a reinforcement of fifty thousand men. With such a force, nothing could prevent the Russians from subjugating the whole flank of British India from Khiva to Candabar and Cabal. ‘The mind loses itself in the attempt to follow the Russians through the multiplicity of their in- trigaes’ The Jesuits were fools to them. They have their emissarica at every Council board throughout the world, and their peculiar policy on questions apparently the most foreign to their interests, and the most indifferent to their wel- fare. A Jong war has hardly emancipated tie Court of the Sultan from Russian supervision. Even now, the best isf{rmed writers insinuate that the recent change iffhe Turkish ministry has been eifected by Russian intrigue, and that the Eng- lish must prepare for a decline in their inftnonce, While this is the case at the capital, one-half the Sultan's subjects in the Provinces are nursed by Russian emissaries to a state of chronic insur- rection. Tho Armenians pray for the day of Rus- sian conquest. The Greek cities of the empire very naturally sigh for the same event. (reece, now temporarily ander Western tute- lage, has hardly ever risen above the rank of a Russian province. History docs not contain an- otber such lamentable tale as that of Russian in- trigue in Greece. Catherine, rousing the unhappy Greeks to rebellion by false promises, and faith- leas pledges of eupport, deserts them as soon as ever the day of danger comes; and writes to Vol- taire that the people whom she has betrayed to their ruin and death, are a race of rogues. Al- exander, detailing his aldesde-camp on spocial daty to stir up rebellion in Greece, procuring for his friend and counsellor Ipsilanti the leadership of the Grock revolutionary society, turns his back on Greece as soon as the Turks show fight, and Burope warms with eympathy; for five years he lets the Greeks be masmcred. Nicholas, forced to interfere, does certainly help to make Greece free: but it is on condition that his tool Capo dIstrias shall be Prosident. Him dead, the eame Nicholas will still befriend Groece; but he must have aaotber tool the Bavarian Otho--on tho ridiculous Greek throne. And from that day the Greeks have mever had leave from Russia to say their souls were their own. But for the French garrison, they would have been Wullied into the late war. At Vienna, the Russian party is in the shade country can well afford te loee them in view of | at prevent; it hae been in the ascendant for the enormously increased wealt) which they will have been the means of eroating. Ou Berssox.—“Old Bullion” is » brick] Should he survive four or five years longer, hie Ten Yeare Out of the Senate. will make a much more graphic and interesting book than hi« “Thirty Years in the Senate.” Look at the raw Js. His stumping campaign: in Mixouri; tion to the Hous ; his failure tesccure « p-leetion ; hie eupport of Buchanan Presi. dent in epite of the “ipecac” democratic plat orm, in opposition to Old Bullion’s favorite con- nlaw, because of the republican platform What Koman firmness, and what Bentonian con- tency were there! Brutue racrificing bis sun tu juetion and for Rome was 9 emall potato cir cumstance compared with Old Bullion’s sacrifice of Col. Fremont for the rake of the Union, ant the chancce of fix years more in the 5 t What © glorious theme for the historian! And then, that famous copyrighted stump apcech for eaving the Union, when the danger is ail over! Dontonlan, out-and-out, ineluding the refisal to + receive a compensation for speaking it , !ut con | .coting to sooept two hundred in the way of a | compliment. |, And then hie lecture on the Pilgrims in New | York what an interveting discourse on the | { i marvellous virtnes and the wouderful adven- tures of Old Ballion. Next, bie rejection of the years, and no doubt soon will be again. The King of Pruwia, a prudent, sagacious man, al- ways used to sey thathe found his best coun- eellor in Nicholas of Russia; and certainly, the Emperor was not sparing of counsel. At Paris, all the correepondents my that the efforts which arc being made by the Kustians to produce an impression, create a party, and exercise political influence, are prodigious; it is openly asserted that the cround they have gained since the treaty, of Paris will be geen when the Conference is re- opened. Jn the Scandinavian kingdoms, political partioe are usually called the Ruseian party, and the Swedish or the Danish party, a the cose may be; the Rusiens have alwaye about as mach to do with the government of those conntrics as the people themeciver, At Napics, it ie the Russian ambassador who embokens Verdinand to stand out against the maritime Powers and the liberals of his own kingdom. fame story evetywhere. The Emperor cf Breail dorives the greatest comfort and ncmict ance from the friendly advice end sympathy of tho Russian diplomati«t# accredited to his court: ‘The Emperor of China declares to his people that the Vinglish, French and Americans are mach | more to be feared than the Noesians “*"—n is ready to grant fo Ruesia greater favors than she coneedes toany other nation. Thore is no part of the world, in fact, where you will not find Rus¢an inthueree actively at work, ewekipg to adrance the special intereste of Russia by means of diplo- macy, bribery, cloquence and adroit manage ment, Hitherto, the Russians have let the United States alene. But, now, we see, they are at work here as elsewhere, echeming, contriving and in- trigning to form Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet on a purely Muscovite basis—their rival, England, being by her own act, excluded from the field, and powerless to oppose them. ‘The Penny Press in England. Nearly two years have clapeed since the newe- paper tax was repealed in England, and the effects of that measure have had time to be fully tested. Soveral newspapers have beca started at low prices, and considerable efforts have been made to force them into general circulation. Some of these have died, Others still survive ; but if we may jndge frem their appearance and the general tener of the reports concerning them, they are not in a healthy condition. Io a word, so far as appears at present, the experi- ment of cheap newspapers in the British capital hes been a failure. Yet it is quite certain that cheap literary food and news are a commodity for which a Jarge demand exists in London and the whole of England. It follows that the cause of the failure of the penny papers has been, not the wrongness of the basis upon which they have been started, but some errors in the mode and manger in which they have been conducted. In examining the principal penny papers of London, such a the Sur, and the Telegraph, the first thing which strikes the eye of one accus- tomed to the New York press is that thty are miniature copies of the Time. They have the same heavy editorial, about the same heavy Parliamentary subject, writ- ten in the same conventional Britieh newspaper slang, and intended for the private reading of a seleci circle of politicians. Again they have the same heavy Parliamentary de bates, whole columns of solid small type about Maynooth grants, or the rights of the Bishops, filling up one side of the paper. Their news is on the same plan. Their foreign correspondents en- tertain them with grave and strictly gentlemanly conjectures about the probable designs of certain foreign eouris. Their domestic reporters acquaint them with the fact that there was an eclipse viei- Die from the dome of St. Panl’s, and that H.R. HH. P. Albert went out shooting, attended by di- vers lords and colonels in livery. Their adver- tisements, even, are cut in the same solid block, and penned with the same strict eye to British propriety. We have serious announcements that the Typhus Assurance Company is prepared to take lives at the shortest notice and on the low- est terms; that the ship Enterprise will sail for Calentta on such aday; that Mr. Robins sells a Paradise on Tuesday, and a phacton and pair (the property of a gentleman removed ta the Continent) on Wednesday, at teri. Now, we cannot speak confidently for our trans-Atlantic neighbors, but we strongly suspect that thie sort of reading is not more interest- ing to them than it would be to us, The clase of society whieh enjoys elaborate keading articles, full of double entendres and delicate allusions, Maynooth grant debates, and cozy soporifics about the designs of the Conrt of Berlin or Austria, can afford to pay ten cents for the Timer, and rather piques itself on subscribing to the most expensive newspaper. To attempt to wean the sturdy British commoner, the man of acres or bank stock, from his Times, is certainly to lose on-’s pains. ‘On the other hand, the class which would be glad of a penny puper dos not care for any of these heavy matters. It wants-news, but light, agreeable, popular news; not stupid political speculations; but accidenis and murders, and battles and shipwrecks, and ronawey matches, and the like. Then it wants editorials not about the private squabbles of lords, but about the high price of fish and the Sunday music, and ihe great spread of scarlet fever, aud the reasons why the marines haven't got their prize money, and the convequences of emigrating to America, and ihe tight of everybody who can read to vote, and to on, through all the range of subjects which form the ordinary conversation of the intelligent poor. It should not do violence to these peopte’s minds, by attempting to cram down their throate things they don’t lite: but should lead thom, gently, luring them by a promive of familiar to « know- ledge of better things. So for domestic news. A paragraph is all that Parliament deserves. The rest of the dome-tic news columns should be de- voted to the reporiing of such mectings as we always give in full bere, and they never notice in Eaigiand, and to a record of the “hort but sitaple annals of the poor.’ A paper framed on this model would, we think, be likely to succeed in England at the price of a penny: and in the course of ten years it might have «# revenue of £10,000 to £12,000, and would he a power in the realm greater than the or the House of Lords. Bat the idea, hitherto, socms to heve fallen upon stony ground. Sast Act of the Stanwix Hall Trageds— Raker and Others Admitted to Hall, SUPREME COUBIT—#PRUTAL TERM. Before Hon. Jadge Davies. Dw. 31.—The People ce. Looe Baer, Patrick Molouon- te, Jomen Torwr, Joan Pyle, and Cornelia Linn ‘The prisoner, Raker, who was twice tried for the mar- der of William Poole te Slanwix Hall—the jury on esch cocasion being unable to agree—was this day brought np on @ writ of habeas corpus, and his discharge on ball Gemanded by his counsel, Mr. Jas. T. Brady. A similar application was made on behalf of the other prisoners. Jodge Devies made the toilowing order —The prisoner, Lewis Baker, boing brought before ine, it's retnrnod that he is held ta ecstedy hy virine of commitments upon an indietment charging him aud Patrick Mc! augblin, ana James Turner, and John Hylér, avd Corneltvs Jinn Jolin. JF with homicide, The Matrict Atiorney for the people. on 82 ap tication now mado to ball the prisoners. con frente to tho tame (and consenta that the oint defeniants be considered an personally prosont with Lewis Baker), “nd by agreement | find the bail to be given in the erm Of 85.000 each, in cood and eufliciont anrety ; and there- Getendanta. Lewis Raker. Mc! augh- from enstody. samen McCros, of Seventh avenve, became bail ii of $5,000, Turner and bio. orare’l bondsmen at the rising 0! thie they bad they would ne! havo boon tot at liberty, a the District Attorney ba another ot mt thein arising out of another case, ‘ime 4 Theatre—A New Ptere, ¢ line che: ova Mere, under the tite of “1 Vine with my Mother,’’ was piayod here for the ‘Arat timo Isst evening, 11 eas lle me act comedy, orme4 by the ciaboration of @ #ngie incident, Sophie Armonld ( Miss Laura Keene), « popular pona denna, hae ordered & capital ‘inner for New Year's Jay, expecting somo of bor friends to dine with her. Thay al! decline, even to Ler torrets, om the plea “"! dine with my methor.”” nally come: an artih whom Sophia hae Haown before she locame distinguished, and who bae painte! the portralt of her mother, ile (nvites Sophie to dine with his mother, which invitation ahe at frst ac- copia, ant changes hor dre to come down to the h*?'t of the lourgeois, A wsoond thon ght onaices hor do” dino with Ler own mother, and she site dows uppostte the portrait, whieb |) the end of the play, To Ken is very cleverly worked up by Mise Neene, Mie. C, Joiter- ton atd Mr, Wheatloigh, Mise Keene's acting is expo. cially oxcelient, and the piece wae reosived with appro- bation by a very good house. Mr Charles Meaghan ts the aythor of the hinglieh version. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AMD MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHE, nn Anether Boat ef we Lyonnais Picked up at Bea. * Hauvax, Deo, 31, 1886, The brig Bearty, from Jemnica, arrived at Halifax on Saturday night, reports thet on rer outward voyage, om Nov. 9, in Jat, 40, she pleked up & whale boat, betiom up, starboard sido stove and ears iasheato thwarts, wih a Yagsat] mast floatiog aloneride The boa\ contained a ensix of water, and a life buoy marked ‘Le Lyonnais, Havre;’* also a whito abirt and a fine cawnbric handkompief marked “FEL? Important rrem Washington, DECISION OF THE SUPREME COULT IN THE Damp \, HOOTT CASE—PRMERCUTION OF GEN, BOOTY, Wastincrom, Dad. 81, 1856. 1 am iwformed this cveatng saat tbe Sopreme Cours Bave core to a decisioa in tho Jred Scott case, recemtly argued before them.” Al! the jaoges but two hold that Oou- grees bas no power over tbe question of slavery ta the Ter- toriries, and that tho Missou-i compromise is uneonstitu- tonal, consequently null and void. Judges McLane and Curtas disgenting from the m.jority, hold that Oogress bas power to prohibit slevery in the Torritories. Chie Justice Tansy will promonce tu decision in a few days. A Dditter and uorelenting #sr will be made inthe Semate to k ll the House resolution giving Gen. Scots hin back pay. J understand +) oay that a number of Sens. tors bavo been furnished certain information by one of the secrolaries against the beveral, It is rather jate in, the day to tramp up charges, the only purpose of which can bo to defeat ine bill now pending before the Senate. John Appleton, of Maine, who has been sponding some time with Mr. Buchaner, te expected this evontng. Mr. Ward, one of Mr. Buebanan’s conildential iriends, ar- rived here to-day. Mr, Sumner is expected to lcave Boston fer bere om Monday next. United States Supreme Court, Wasinncros, Deo. Si, 1864. Josios 4. Brown, of New York, was admitted to the Dar. Caro No. 2.—Benjamin F, Morning ve. Alfrod 8, Gup- temos ct al, Caneo submtitet to the Court, om record, and a pricted argument by Mr. Washburn for plaintiff. , No. 36.—William K. Post os al , claimants of the cargo of tho sbip Richmond, vs Jona H. Jonesetal, Argued by Mr. ©’Conor for appellants, and Mr. Lord for appellees. Adjourned ull Friday. ‘The Missour! Legislature—Arrest for Forgery. Br. Lows, Deo. 31, 1856, The M'rsour! | egislature organixea permanently yeetor- day, W. D MoCracker, democrat, was chosen Secretary Of the Sonate, aed Robert Harrison, democratio whig, Speaker o! the House. The Bentonitcs and Americans fored in opposition to the ¢emocrats. B, C. Davis, late Saperintendent of Public check, has been arrested horo for forgeries on various persens ead Daaking honses, aimounting to $17,0¢0. ee | eal Fatal Raluoad Casualty. Naw Haven, Dee. 31, 1906. ‘The seven o'clock train trom New York this morning strock s covered wagon, pear Milford, in which were Wa. Kelsey and Gilbert Not. joton, instantly Killing Keleoy and moarty killing Nettleton. Buth belonged in Milford. “Confagrations Threughout the Country. YIRE AT PATERSON, N. J. Paraason, Deo, 31, 1656, A destrocitve fire cocurred bere last night, om the cor- ner of diain and Van Houten streets, Higat stores were totally consumed, together whh the entiro contents. The steres of Vandervoort & Soyder, dry goode; A. Stou- tenberough, dry goods; W Tualeon, dry goode; McHirk, bakery, a shoe store adjoiaiog; ©. Aller, tobacconias; James Dunn, confectioner; Mrs. Kelly, variety store; Beam & Taylor, shoes and boots, were considerably damaged by water. Alsoseveral other butidings acrom the street were moro or less damaged by fre and ‘water. ‘She total loss te estimated at $09,000. The origin of the fre is unknown. FIRE AT AKRON, OHIO. Buvravo, Doc. 32, 2896. The 5caron office, at Akron, Onio, was burned on Mor- day morning, together wih Messrs. Bocbe and \dker's bookstore, Welmore & Co,’s agricultural store, aud Bow- en & Barber's grocery store, Several adjoining buliinge ‘were also greatly injured. ¥TRE AT MILAN, ODIO. OumvEtasy, Dec. Jt, 1896. ‘The grist mil! and saw mil! of Mesere. Merry & Gay, at Milas, Oblo, together with Moeker & Skinuers’ block actory, were burnt yesterday morning. ‘Pho former's logs is catimated at from $12,000 to $15,000; the latter's at $5,000. No Insurance. FIRE AT LOUISVILLE, KY. Lovisvnae, Dee. 31, 1866. ‘The Medical Department of the Caiverstty ef iotisvule was destroyed by fire this morning. The less s coveret by insurance, and enough of the apparatus wae sevoi to enable the lectures to bo continaed in the Law Depart ment adjoining. Departure of the Steamship Canade. Boston, Deo, 31, 1806, ‘The royal mail steamship Canada sailed for Hal'far and Liverpeol at twelvo o'clock today, with eleven Passengers fer the former and thirty. iwe for the latter port. Among the passengers for Halifax wae Gyrus W. Ficld, Yeq., of Now York, whe gom to Newioundiand to make arrangements ‘> counes- Mon with the proposed transstiantic telegraphs cable. ‘Mr, Tield will retarn probably in about two weeks. The Canada takes ont about $27£,000 tn epecie. Movements of Southern Steams ra, THE ALABAMA AP BAVANNAB. Bavamman, Deo. 36, 1806. ‘The steamer Alabama, from New York, arrived here THM @PRAMER XASHVILLD AT CHABLESSOX. Cramtavron, Deo. 98, 1856. ‘The (mited States mal] stoameh'p Naabvile arrived Fy 5 i Bs i ie ie sos lis Sie i565 Tho bearing of thi onco @ tho panJing electiona t= Ivenia is very important Tho re- padlioans have the ‘Senate 0° lndiana by four or #i meorty, and that of Fonneytyania by three. Phe elen- tion in nob Etaie attmnets entch anzious gol'citode, Mr ai ae Fs AY CoA For. 3 Ir ui of the Sonate, and a pay vy Gy tor the Prosidene: of the Onton mates, te favorite Of bis pariy for tho succcesten hiw-olf. ibe republicans tn both Etater contemplate re toring to aid total gm 4 Opponents to fil! either of the three vac 7 going into oonvention with thom, them the advantage i: isl