The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1857, Page 3

| e- ow feilon Mondey night in the b- H of "aris, and yesteriay m lect nem ores ep all white. Durivg tho day the etate of the was oxcesdipgly wiatry to the fect, and the ‘etween the temperature then and thst of the ‘orewas very mae, tt bed See Weather made about a for 85°, thn forwarded to you, mone CPR iy, mentions Jan. 6 as on obange to & decidedly colder state of the p> largo veniolee « loge portable v «mp! to convey early hour on Sanday morning at the the Rue Rambuiau, and delivered a in charge of tbe vehicle, in order to quantity given, impradently placed a near the vessel placed ou toe cart, thy pipe which commuatoed with the fire a coumo of fieme shot uo the reofs it that t+ caus d 'be houses om both earthquake and broke nearly al) jount Of damage to the houses was . It was found, oo e ne of the cavities of the Knife, and that the biow had been directed o¢ that the emoroidery of the impediment. The sssassin’s name pot Verges, as [ Orst gave it. He tailor i Sones and being ne @. Mgr. Affor succecied him 840; and then came Mgr Sibour, at, 7 months and 16 dae, ‘ly of the Archbisbdp lay in state yesterday in a i! lente erected ‘mn the grand drawing room of 4 Gloor in the arct episcopal palace. Pane, Jan. 8, 1867. O'Donmelly’s Weather Predictions—The Mor- ramonics af the Archiepiscopal Palace in Paris— if our Correspondent to the Uhapelle Ardente—Des- @ Verger= the Neuchatel Question, dic., dic. bbe O'Donne'ly bide fair Jo become as cele prophet as Mr. Murphy, whose weather prog- ‘{rvenue, and keeping him asa special ba- for Ucolic interests. Just as, however, the riper ing, Mr Murphy kicked down his now- Z by one or two uplucky shots, that cnetic fame was forever aunibilated. Lot us hope twAbbe O'Donnelly’s p.escnt reputation is founded scientific basis. His prediction. so far, has and if, afer a few wooks aip- \ndiea it bas of late years been harboring, bis pro- |} ring and season of abundance shall follow, who nous a messenger of g'ad tidings as the worthy ‘+The vacant Archicpiscopate of Paris is the small yabat should be offered him The oold weather, fmon the day predict:d, January 6, seems \jely to continue, Yesterday every one in the lise wrapped up as if in the midst of winter. A Ee aE: act i i | f ii i ad f i ree lee i F iif iseees inl sit i { = os3 zt 3 ing, | can compare ft to foot Of the deep jot binck drapery was what der oper circumstances won! smordered predecorsor. y ‘avout in aiaoraer. rs 9 full magni ‘of the church's insiga! \ncis, while im the midst, on an imposing catatalque, tm festoone of rich velvet of Genoa, the open of the dead Archbishop late living they surged along over the suppressed exciamations NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1857. eS a5 ER Hele 383 34 Hi Hit Hee j i 5 & i i : 3 se cil cajouning prayers for (he re ” he seys, “are committed, men and tremblioy chestice the earth should 1) not haston by blow walsh impends from tne ter- ighty? Paris! Paris! Mast it be, le series of criamitiss the an- your pontifls s cons to be inurdat the sweat of thelr brow, but by their blood noe! what then is th, sooret? Is it the glory fessore and martyrs that thou intendest to Present asa shining example © thy churoh, or is thy trritated justoo 10 are to fail before our eyes, the innocent victims of our toiquities f* Thave bad the epee, of soeing Verger in his oon- ‘though of course not of speaking to him. fo is ‘8 man about five feet eighi tuches ia hight, weil propor tioned, and his dark , Well devewped brow, and large mouth, give him an aspect of in cilectuailiy not always seen in the Catholic priesthood of France Ho re self-possession aod an imperturbanie oa'm, evi- dently the result of @ thorougo appreciation of the conse- quences be was about te eniailou nis hesd He soswers all questivps witboat the slightwst bosiation aod seems to havea positive satisfaction in dotailiag the most mi- Bute cirowmetances connected wiih ols crins Heem phatically denies the charge of robbery imputed to bim when sixieen years of age, ut the Semiaary of 3. Nicholas, at Gentilly, and says he was ox from the seminary, the ut for paving in bis posse e works of Racine and Molicre which be bad purchased out of a of money (60 francs) Pape him by the Marquise Rochefort to buy booke fur staay and devoilon. He states alo that at Gentilly be obtained tne first prizes for good ocnduct and religious knowledge. Aftor leaving the seminary he succeeded in re establishing bis cnaracter sufficiently to obtatn employ ment as secretary toa priest, and subsequently got ordained It appears that he went , and was admitted by Vardinal of the French priests whom he }, and it was on his retaro from the Koglish capt ‘he was appointed to %. Germain |’Auxerries, in i P. if rh Hy E ite 3 se ‘4 E i if a) ot £44 3 fide 2 [ i Our Vienna Correspondence. ‘Vinnaa, Jan. 6, 1857. The Neuchatel Difficully—Action of Austria—Unpoputari- ty of the King of Prussia’s Proceedings Towards the Swiss— Wholesale Liberation of Political Prisoners in Awitria—Marshal Radetzky not Dead— Departure of the Prince of Servia for Rusia, de., &c Again I commence my letter by giving you some fects relative to the Neuchatel allair, this being the moss im- Ministry, or for preducing modifications im the direction Of absolutiom, would mot cease. Narvaes ts pushed on in the road of reaction by forces which he fads almost irresistible, The clergy besiege and surround him with thelr dark machinations, by means of their agents ia the palace. Will Narvaez be sufficiently cunning to avoid the teat be confessed daat toe obits of out governiaom have po ys my ramous ot this moment Ca Fries Cnet ‘Was poor, was accused by his enemecs of selling nis pisharmy. He bas genius and astutencas, with ional great impulses ot valor and of fury, which im sometimes horoic force. Ln means, but be hes iately married a lady wao nas brought him great weslta. His pian i skilfalaud abie lio: sists in uniting the forces of the different faxions, dis tracted under the names of demoxrats, progeesistes, pu ritans, old itberaliats, ko, So, Ho has taken these dit- ferent brapohes of the opposition in hand, ans preieads to make Dimeaeif tue cdicf of the Liveral coalition. Chore oo ao pe ged ts, Long dem crate dis'rus im, aD is what paralyzos, in some degres, bis le bors. General O'Donnell, witn ory army in bis favor, ts aieo & form ever, seei be geting on more steam chief at this moment, and is vitibly drawia, government would be excredingiy glat to the Philippines or to Fernando P°9, bui it foars to al step, and fi that for tne prosent the loan evi keep htm here under the taspecsion of their police. Meantime the Queen calls General 0' Vonnell ev ory three Or four days to her presence, to tell bim how much she tikos ‘bim—that is to gay, how much she a1 that be aod his Vicaloarist gencrals are preparing some blow agsinet ber throne. There aflectionate demonstrations towards O'Donnell are intended also to oooupy the attention of Narvaer'tp that direction, whilet really the danger waioh threatens bim tnsid palsc® comes fro: of the Qaeen ts This poor mse, tas: Ia @ word, Pesuela ts is bis love of makizg bad verses. fool. Nevertheless, there are in Spain other generals aad men of bigh a Secmeet ae te fe Organ severe persecution, and its editor bas been thrown tuto prison. The whole prese {se persecated with uarelentiag ree wuo are fools than Pezu- chief of pay. suffers a activity. In Roa were cries of ‘ Viva Don Tarlos Seste ”’ There were ® gooo many wounded, and the al- calde and the curate were maltreated. On the last day of December the premiums were pub- distributed by the hand of the Queen to the artiste guished themselves in the last expou- Fe Lf they are by the old painters of the bedoham. juished personages. They each pre more, which ts, or ts not, their own. taformed beforehand whose merits she PEZEUSPES2 te EH rH f EEE E i g 3 i # i H A 4 H H il E 2Fs 3 aay Madrid, is oY aged jesty’s orders operate t Buchanan. Others think that every- a it i appointed as the last term for the transactions aad essays of mediation on the part of the European Powers; there fore we Lope that peace will be proclaimed by the 14th inst. Inthe meantime the Switzers are fall of patriotic aad beilicose ardor. Prassia having summoned the South German States, such as Bavaria, Wurtemberg and Bs den, to allow the passage of ber troops in order to attack ‘Switzerland, Austria has declared against a similar hos- (ile demonstration, which might prove disastrens to the trade and the political tranquillity of Germany. A march of Prussian troops through Baden, Wuriemberg or Ba. varia doprives these countries of the quality of being nerter, and gives a right to Switzerland likewise to ask for, or even to obtain by force, a prasage for the Swiss troops. In the latter case the German Confederacy is bound to intervene and wage war egaivst the Helvetic re publics which the other Powers would ha displeased at, and at all events a general European com would be sure to ensue. In order to preven Austria bas proposed to bring the Prussian the German Diet, ) which, as it has ao ABT 3 j | if z Our Madrid Correspondence. Mapas, Jam. 3, 1867, The Recent Disturbances at Barcelona— Activity in the Spa nish Navy Yards—intrigues to Upret the Mimairy of Nar vac General Prim Plotting for Power—Peucla the Pa of the Palace—Perucution of the Prem—The Fine Arts and Literature wm Spain—Spanish Speculations on ie Buchanan Administratvon—American Pashionabies in Madrid. ‘The manufacturing or industrial orisie which has arisen ‘a Barcelona has beon near disturbing seriously the pub- Nie peace of that city, Im spite of military precautions, there are every ay, from one or another cause, disor- dere which keep the government in continual alarm. Toe authorities have arrested various in{iucatial persons inthe ciiy—among them one or two ex-Deputies to the Cortes— who have been thrown into prison, and accused, with or without caure, of being the authors and fomontors of the menacing demonsttations made by the operatives and workmen, These goptiemen had accordingly receive! from the Governor the announcement that they would be held responsible for whatever might coour, With these hostages in thetr potsession, the authorities at the iact datea were confident of being able to preserve tran- quitiity. In the new machine factory at the navy yard of Perro! they are now makingjmarine engines for the steam fri gate Blanca and the sloop Isabel Francisca; the engines for the steam frigate Borenguela, and the schooner Sta. ‘Tertea, are already completed. The first of these vessels ‘Will be inunched in one of the great tides between the 10th and 94th natant, In the same navy yard the new ship of the tine, King Francis of Asis, \s just ready to be rigget, and ber masta are ocarly Gnished. The store. ship Pinta gets on slowly, The frigate Perla, which ar. rived on the 6th Desember, having sailed from Havana on the lat November, goes into ordinary. The bad state of her bull makes it probable that she will have to be re- boilt almost entirely, like the steamor Narvace and the corvette Luisa Fernanda. The steamship Francie of Aste was expected to ail immediately, The storaship Marte Galante, which had sailed from America with ship tim- bor for the yard, was daly expected. ‘The Cabinet continues in @ state of what we ca! crisis, and ab tweivo o'clook Inst night the questions which me nace tte existence wore net aolved, I told you last week What #0 long as Bonor Mon should not start for his ombarsy @ Rome, the ‘air gues sot 99 Mot to ost the proseny Tord Howcen on ere init} al alreaty left of Spain ‘tays that General Senta Anoa bat ‘not commissioned him to enlist 2,000 officers in bis service, and that people are very about the nature of bis mission. Ip mapor of fixing for a little time the attention of the rid public upon bis important person. ‘The New British Minister to Washington. {From the London Giobe, Jen. 5.} ‘The task of selecting a Minister to roprerent her Majos at Ward! on the renewal of diplomatic relations pited }, Was one of DO ordinary anxioy ‘The differences that existed between the coantrie: were of just auch a character as to render {t most dosira bie that their termiaaiios 1 comes in the person of # pobieman bij some of the most hoaored public men of bis own country. London (Jan. 9) Correspondence of the Liverpool Times. (yond Nope) tment to the nos ves eeoted wif, Ifenoy, be popular on the other side of the Atisatic well as on this It is not merely because he is « lord— that Lisbon, witl go to Hanovir: and it is proba Sir John Crampton will be Napier takes hie departure * {rom the Leadon Globe, Jaa. 9.) rene 'e have an unex; MN; im om e ad tunate selection of Tora Naplor ea her Majeety’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United states. The Datly News ob- Joe 10 Dos 7, why the Daily News objects, some of which are stated. The reason ony ont coptemperar) notices the 1th objectio! : First, Beosase the nomias. ia ample i rary would no doubt require something farther (0p Matic form of reasoning, abd he conaeroende to exclain is @ preface. not let vm be anjast to Lord Ne ‘We arc quite inclined to believe that he isan able and . rising dipiomatiat, as we know him to be a cultivated am intelligent gentioman When charge ot our Legatio at Naples, during the Inte “ir Williara Temple's absence bis conduct was (rank, dignified aed ti Alter thie bave beep pageed over, more eepeciall our presen! Minister at Turia Sir James ‘A most Meritorious public servant and we trust merits will be remembered at come ouher time—net re collected, like those of ‘‘dear deparied,”’ solely when another man indeed, at his regular dpomatio # rvice '¢ do not want a profe sional ree Saoree not at's heat rade correnponding clork—a man of dee : yee The business at Washington te la to be got through as inwyers tn) Waabing'on to attend, on. of @ Gatter Ther BO aoriet; e greet Roropean capitals to oult What there may be of ioral eet in Me 4 Af covers 8 deal of suggemio foles, and pots | ttle mis. ars to the “Tequirene of the post and the ‘We are inrormed that ‘there ton,’ & revelation which we “almansoh de (othe We leays Our Gontemporary wo explain to the Americans on what grounds he gives (bas of thom. For ‘qwn part, we wil bas remark that Pleaipo the Atlantic witb the idea that ne ‘am distinction tm his bebsviour between the respect walok be must pay to courts apd the jiccase which be may al- low bimseti m tbe rey ably mecovocive th ‘tof bis missions, ead would as certainly fail. * He must be abie,’’ anyethe Daily News, ‘to tolerate much that is rough and ungeftaed; and yel be ovgot himeel! to be outiva cd and polished, as well as woaltay aud boeptabie.”’ The americans aré bears, but the new Pighipantery must kuow bow to make them dance ¢ turn given by our tiberal coa- \emporay, But heaven forbid that the now Pienipotoa- tery should set out with spirit in bis heart; aad Lord Nepier, we can safely ‘the last men who en ‘any sud viow oi his mission. If he has gained Ja oourts which in political matters do pre pte contrast to Washington, we are only repealing ‘what othere know, and have said, that his experiences ave not tended to diminied bis reapeos tor |1beral inacitu- tous ‘The Davy News ropeats an old objection waich sumetimes deen expr: seed in the Uniwd states, and Prats tt, Of Cowree, Simply Decause 1; 18 aA OdjeotIOn, Sine It classes very ili with (hose aivinced im the seme paper. While the Unica Niates bave sent us the best men they conld pick ont, we are told—"persons of the gre atert ominence and p sition tu their respos Ive spheres in the United Stavea"'—oe nave not revaraes the compit ment. Sir Houry Bulwer is mentioued ws ihe slagle ox- ception The writer might nave atded tne names of Fox apd Pasonbam, no vodistiogytshed mmo, and evea Me Orempton, who was selectid tor the oftice because of the fitness which be showed for that particular post, and tho great popularity which ho bad owrned from ult perties in toe States while be was chargé d'affaires Io ihe pre Sent ingtance, however, our g ment ha; most ovi jeutly regarded the appoini: at Warbiogton as 8 rst class post, and bas relected ore of the vory bost men ebom it could avpoixt forthe duty. We did not know that there was aoy reason to romove Mir Janes Hucson from « quarter where bis utility is #0 forcibiy ac- knowledged; but we do perceive that to suleot a you and vistog man of admitted ability, * frank, digitded au liberal,’ was exactly the shoice reuired’ Our contem- jer even takes @ certal: led excepiion to Lord japter’s rank. Our repubi allies aoross tho Atlantic, we conceive, will not quibdie upon points of this kind, Dut will be rather inolinec to aocevt Lord Napler’s rank as ® provi that we hoid the mission to America one of the heat in the gift of the crown, fe could imagine other appointments which might have given greater eatis‘ac:ion to our contemporary; out whatever may b ught on this ride respootiag the judgment of the Daily News on American subjects, across the Atlantic, unquemionabiy the journal fe not regarded as an American organ, ani ts not considered to reflect ‘the op'nions of the Union. If our contemporary had ap proved of the appoin ment |t migtt pernaps have orrated some mistrust asross the water; bat we ere quite sure that he need labor under no anxiety least his observa. tions should, as be fears, prejudice Lord Napier by aa Uotpations in tho estimations of the Amerioans, or deprive him of consideration at Washington. {From the Liverpoot Times, Jan. 10 ‘The appointment of Lord Napier as the representative of the British crown at Washington. has given rive to considerabie controversy. Not that o a wok about the desirability of renewing diplomatic relations with the United States, but that in the appomtment of a man of commanding position and flee talents, we should have the best seourity against the repition of the unfor tumate misunderstanding between the two countries ‘which arose out of the dismissal of Mr. Crampton. It was felt at the time tbat dir Crampton was not strong enavgh, eocially or mentally, to bear the woight which Foard! him when he was left at the head of the jashipgton embassy, and the direussion in which some of the leading organs of opinion in this country are now i \the important fact, that the Wishingtom emb say must hercatter be regarded as Bot interior in importance to any in the whole range of ambassadorial duties. In fact, unless sead a first clase man to represent us in the United States, it would be better to be without any representative at all. Tho fiat bas gone forth, and for bettor or for worse, Lord Na- pler is deatined to represeut England in the Legisiative capital of the States. He will have sense enongh we think to ere by the blunders of his predecessor, and the excellent advice tendered to hin in the newsp aper Wil) act as very wholesome ballast. Michel Chevalier on Central America, {From the Paris Journal ¢es Dapars | If, setting aside for a moment the geographical position of the leading nations of the present tine, we stand before a chart of she earth, and, consider- ing civilization as yet to begin, ask ourselves where we ought to place ‘the capital of the world —the city in which the Amphictyons of a universal confederacy should meet in council—what &) would pre- sent itself as offering the highest claims to the general suffrage? Mr. Squier unhesita- tingly answers, Central nies and he has good reasons to offer in support of his ion. Ceutral America, in fact, is wonderfally ‘tuated; on the east its ports open to Europe end Africa—on the west to Asia, Austraiia and Poly- nesia; it rests upon the two great oceans, within reach of the most beautiful archipelagoes, and, while affording a safficient extent of terrivory for a great and populous empire, it is, at some points, so narrow that it may be crossed from o.can to ocean ic the space of four or five hours. Over a great part of its extent the climate is mild, pot- withstanding the name of torrid borne by the geo- graphical zone to which it belongs; for, by one of thore arrangements in which we so clearly trace the care of Providence for the welfare of man, the fierce ardour of the san is here counterbalanced by the elevation of the land above the level of the sea, and by the regularity of the winds. Were it not for the volcanoes, which send forth successively fire, ashes and water, and recall man to the consciousness of his feebleness, one might be tempted to believe it an enchanted land—the Eden in which our first father, Adam, passed the happy days of his early innocence. There is a Spanish saying which ex- preases’ the delightful character of these beautiful and fertile regions, while, at the same time, indicat- ing the mysterious danger which threatene man from the volcano:—“Gantemala,” says this prover, “has Paradise on the one hand, and hell on the One of these days, perhaps, the genias of man, the conflict of his passions, and the irresistible im pulse which he has received from the hand of (God, will lead to the erection of a ‘ul State in these countries, and cause them to be chosen as the seat of & permanent Congress, in which will meet the repre- sentatives of all the nations of the earth; but, in the meantime, they are far from ing an important rt in the affairs of the world. Nature, indeed, ia ere rioh and imposing, and (on the Pacific side, at least,) smiles upon man, without hiding a poisoned dart in the flowers which she presenta to him; for it ia not bere, as in many other regions admirably gifted in other respects, that man finds as his ene- mies, not merely volcanoes threatening at dis ant intervals, bat m; of insects, venomous reptiles, and fatal epidemics, like the yellow fever of the Antilles, and the cholera of the banks of the Ganges. But man, in Central America, is mean, worthless, pitiable; the fine country of Guatemala, for instance, is in the hands of s rude, ignorant and barbarous lation, from whom nothing is to be yg 7. bas proposed to himself the task of mak’ countries kaown to Europe. He nas all requisites for such an undertaking. He has resided in the country for a considerable 5 distinguished position, as C! dal of the United States, and he has traversed it in all directions. Of a high and bold spirit, @ clear sighted observer, and indefatigable even susong those transatlantic Anglo-Saxons whom noth ug tires, he isat once his torian, her, archwoiogict, nataralist, political economist, politician, man of business, negotiator, mineralogist, physiologist; when necessary, he is even an engiveer. He hav lly surveyed a portion of the line of railway of which we shall presently speak He presents, in fact, a fine — men of the most remark able type of the North American--one who is fit fer everything and ready for everything, uniting flea.vility ot mind with force of will. Under these circumstances, Mr. Squier has been enabled to present os with a most in teresting picture of Central America, in which he displays its various resources, astonish- ing in heir variety. Almost every kind of cultrvation is found there, and ali in close proximity, since the count rises rapidly, till it forms plateaux 600, 1,000, 1,200, and 1,500 metres above the level of the sea,and upon these plains, like etatues on their la, tower peaks crowned with perpetual snow. Ttere is thas a series of terraces, presenting in succession the aifferent climates of the world, with the productions pecalia: to each; nor do the mineral resources 4) pear to be less. I read, for instance, in Mr. Squier's “Notes,” that Honduras abonnds in mines of copper of extraordinary productiveness, that those of iron are not lesa numerous; there are even a few foun- dries established in the coma which, however, does not prevent iron being sold, a few leagues off, at the rate of 1,000 franes per ton of 1,000 kilo- ames, three times the price it bears with us, al- though this articie of pi bps f is enhanced in price in France by what the people are to call “the protective system,” a system whic! it protects anything or anybody, rtainly does protect the public interest. Gold an¢ silver mines are also found in Central America, and were worked long before the arrival of the Spaniards. Central America, composed of five States, unfor- tunately for themselves, distinct and isol Gantemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, San Salvador an Costa Rica—offers a surtace of forty millions of hectares, one-third more than the British Isles, and one-fourth leas than France. Ina space so conside- rable there are only abont ° 000,000 of inhabitants which is very little, and what is worse still, the ality does not make up for the lack of quantity. White race scarcely fotns more, according to Mr. Squier, than a tenth of the entire population. In Mexico it a fourth, and tote propertion is aiready found inenficient to permit civilzation to maintain its progross in the empire of Montezama. In Central America, consequently, It recedes in- stead of advancing. : Bquier examines 4 delicate and di Mout hat of astertainiy.; why the rétempt aitor it had attained political ins quest made by Spanish A trerica independence, to copy the of the United State ve Com; led. The fact ia indisputable, that unuer the ¢yctem which has anc ceeded so well up te the present day, sitoug the | Angie Americans, their cig © oF loss re- a moved, have almost all become the prey of anaroby, | offering the aad spectacle of doony, aisnough 4 wanting in either energy or intelligeace. The repamtio of Chili alone forms an exception to this melan- cboly rule, and rivals, in we progress it has made, the best mulated Sta'es “Che expla- nation veually given of this phenomeaon is, or seems to be, simple enough; it is tha; the vational charac tor and antecedents of the Span not suited to that great development of politioai lib- erty of which the auglo Amerivaos have taken sach important advantage. It is a4 if, in Europe, we should pretend to govern the Iberian peninsita, or the kingdom of Naples, in tae sane manner a3 Scot land. One nation, by its education aud iatellizense, aud still more by its national qualities, is well dis- posed for seli government; witu another, self-gov- ernment is 4 cangerous chimera. Here, people res- pect the law because it is the law; there, the law to be respected, must be suppor'ed by the force ot bayonets. In one country, authority may, with- out inconvenience, exhibit itself divested of all external pomp; in another, it must be con. | btantly surrourded with @ balo of power and | spiendor ut, according to Me Squier, this | explanation is vot sufficient; be has ventured | to give ove more precise, more material—one whieh he has deduced from physiolog cal <ceace. According to him, it is an unquestionable fact that nature does net permit the mixture of races too widely separated in character. Whore two rsces very unlike, such as tie yed man and the | white, come together and intermix ona linge seale | the final result of the interbiending—of the amalga- | mation, as tbey aay in the ited Stares—is, chat one of the two will disappear, becoming absorbed by the other, so that, in the end, there will remaia but asingle race. The half-caste isatype which haa not the power of perpetuating itselt: Another proposition, not less true, according to Mr. Squier, is this: nations cannot, wita imounis: violate, on a great scale, the law of nature whic’ forbids the crossing of races too widely differing in character. The most deplorable results spring from this Scaler cing of types. The popa- lation becomes morally enfeebled and degene- rate, the intellect is weakened, even tne physival owers are weakened - thence arise all sorts of disor- ers, and me ree political anarchy. In Central America, what we call the patie of color, and what Mr. Squier terms the violation of the nataral law of the distinction of races, does not exist, at all events at the f gov time. The consequence has been a laxity of morals which has produced a resuit easily conceivable, if we admit the two aphorisms advocated by Mr. Squier; the white race of pure blood, which was never oumerous in Central America, for the Spanish conquerors did not hesitate to contract marriages with native women, has gone on diminishiag in numerical importance; on the other hand, the numerical superiority of the red men is constantly on the increase, and the level of civilization has become proportionally lowered. ‘These magnificent regions are consequently threat- ened with a condition of things like that of Hayti, though, however, with the difference between the red and the black, a difference very sensibly in favor of the former, 1 do not mean to contest absolutely, for all tines and places, these'applications of. physiology to poli- tics, although if we press them ever 80 tenderly it would be easy to deduce from them the system of castes; but it would be rash, it would be deplocable, it seems to me, to assert tha the human family, after it hss received centuries of education will not be every- where tolerably on a level, as regards politics and mo- rality, whatever may be the color of the skin, and that then all races of men may not live under one sys- tem and one law. Ido not see what would become of the arguments of the learned in favor of the unity of the human race, if the ideas advocated by Mr. Squier were rigorously truo,I can understand how, on the banks of the Ganges, similar ideas can exist in conjunction with received opinions; but I do not see how they can be maintained among a Chris- tian le, nor how Christianity could subsist in- tact by the side of such doctrines, erec ed into a principle, for the law of Christ teaches us that men are chiidren of one God, and all brothers, whica is a very different matter from the creed of Vishau and Brahma. At present, indeed, experience would seem to justify, rather thaa contradict, the views of Mr. Squier; bat, in this order of facts, muy not the great truths of morality assume transient arrange- ments? But however this may be, having laid down his principles, Mr. Squier, like a consist. ent and practical man, a8 he is, concludes that the most imperative want of Central America is to receive a salutary influx of population which shall increase there the white race. On this point [ entirely agree with him. According to his views. however, we must mind what we are about. These new colonists will spoil everything if they beloug not to a variety which repels intermixture with inferior races. This consideration limits our choice ex- tremely, In fact, to speak the plain truth, among the many races which ¢ compos the posterity of the eldest of the three sons of Noab, the only type tnat wil! really suit Mr. Squier's pogramme ts the Anglo- xon. Thus it must be the English, or the people of the United States, who must transport themselves to Central america: and, conjoining superiority of numbers with the rscendancy of intellect aud enter- prise, rule there with a high band. at here s diffi culty’ presents itself; what isto become of the actual populations? Are they, on grounds of pubiic utility, w be deprived of ail political rights, of all soe: influence’ Are we to have repartimientos ot dians, as at the period of the Spanish conquest? ‘These are questions not easily solved ,the moment we set aside the violent and certainly impracticable solu- tion of pure sla’ and what may be called tus rubordination of by man. But let us pass from these problems, whatever may be their impor- tance, whatever fibres they may cause to shrift in the hearts of thoee who set any value on humanity. I shall be told that civilization, in its onward march, has more than once crushed entire nations under its chariot wheels, and that human wisdom, recognizing its impotence, has only to bow to these decrees of fate, however ri y may be. Ido not secept this answer, and, asit is not given in Mr. Squier’s work, I need not insiaton the matter. Still 1am far from being at the end of my difficul- ties. I have just said that in following the path traced out by Mr. Squier, we arrive at the conelu- sion that the Anglo-Saxon race is the sole re! of civilization in Central America. Very well. From this noble trank have sprung two oote, whica are constantly becoming more and more distinct. There is the British branch and the American branch; which of the two is to establish its empire in Central America? What would be best of all, as- suredly, would be for of them both to meet there, and abju all exclusive pretensions unite their ef- Jorta. Combining their courage, their intelligence, their during energy, they would soon establish a flourishing civilization. Under their auspices Cen- tral America, freed all exclusive influence, would become for the human race a commercial fo- rom, a market to which all would resort. They woald establish there secure and expeditious com- munications by canals and railroads trom ocean to ocean, and thns make it the channel for the great stream of travellers and merchandize between Purope and Atricaon the one hand, and Polynesia, Asia, and Australia on the other, as well as between the two coasts of the great continent of America iteclf. Thos made neutral and independent ind, Central America would achieve the highest » to the great advantage of the entire human family. ‘This would be ene of the noblest monuments to greatne<s of the AngloSaxon race. A convention was lately concinded, in this spirit, between the two overpments, and the friends of progress in both mis rejoiced at it. This was the tresty known by the names of the negociators, Mesers. Bulwer and Clayton. Unfortunately, at the moment I write, the English and Americans are brothers at enmity; an- lucky hands have sown discord between them. The Cleyton-Bulwer Treaty is in great danger ot be- amy | ‘& dead letter, and these two great nations seem, for the moment, on the point of rushing into a martial conflict. Were it not for the wisdom acd moderation of the British government, war would robably soon te kindled between these hestile Erethren, to the injury of the entire world. It will be worthy of a man distinguished as Mr. Squier to apply tne resources of his fertile mind and indefatigable activity to curb the bad passions which have been bronght into play to destroy Ay ua- derstanding between Engiand an the Un States, Nevertheless, he has the fault-—the only one I Gnd in his book—of being American to such a as to seem to have a positive antipathy to the lish nation. As if it were not the daty of a man so enlightened and 80 well disposed in favor of general progreas to be above natioual antipathies, leave them to the multitude, and the flatterers who court and intexicate it with their adolation, in order te advantage of ita credulity. The few words in h Mr. Squier has ere his hostility to Eng- ., which tormerly, i . followed a narrow and cifish policy, but for many years has adopted a very broad and generous one are ishes in his excellent work which might be easily remedied, and which [ would eornestly urge him to cancel. The applaase which be may lose hy the withdrawal ot these ex- pressions of jealousy and hatred is not of a kind to which a man of his merit ought to attach the slight est value, ‘The democracy ot America is young, and, like the young, it hasan impetaous temperament. Tt does not see thatthe best proof which @ nation, as well acan individual, can give of its power is to kaow how to regmate ite preteusions aud its desires; but, like the young also, the American democracy is ready to listen to wholesome advice, and will be sare to take jn good part c nunesels offered by one ao em- phattcally patriotic as Mr. Squier. In conjunction with an experienced officer of the American nevy, Lieut, Jeffers, and some other dix tinguished citizens of the United States, inc on Dr. Wooohouse, Mr. Squier made a survey of a rail- way which is to ero-# Central America, entirely vith o the Stote of Hondarns. This rord will pass thronch a remorkpile depression which Mr. Sqnier discovered in the chain of (he Cordillera, acd ty means of which an elevation wy, treme vertical height which mounted in an extent of 260 equally divided between escent an traverse a region whioh, according ty. COLD. ul eold, . Uonaid, offers great facilities of all kcinds;able woman, and th» pies there will be no difficulty in obMmg family, woo it is well knowa that, Panama line, it was necessary, at a grey nee, to bring workmen m the U. Ristes. ‘The investigations which Mr. Sqaior h. ers, while ne way th 1 4 made have brough to light the fact that Apata, in ey the sixteentn century, as early as 1540, when the spirit of enterprise animated the Peninsula, bad jorwed a plan of opening a communication between the two oceans by means of this very roate; and the city of Comayagua, the capital of Honduras, was founded in this intention u oa @ beauciful plan midway between the two oceans. Mc. Squier enters into a Comparison, which seems to me impartial and | free trom mndividual bias, ia order to show thas, to go from the United States to San Francisco and Oregon, this route is preferable to all others, to that of Panama, to shat by Lake Nicaragua, to tas) of Tehuantepec, and sll more so to that of strato. He deduces ita superiority not merely from its shortening the time of the journey relatively to most of the others, but also from the great healthi ness of the country traversed, and especially from the excellence of the ports at the two extre- mities of the line, Puerto Cabello on one side, and the admirable bay of weca on the otber. Mr. Squier has set to work to carry out this enterprise. He has a concession, io regular form, from the State of Honduras, and has taken care that its terms shali be advantageous. ‘The calculations presented py Mr Squier carry the expenses of this railway to seven millions of do lara, and the probable groas revenue, daring the first years, to two millions. It is, therefore, a speculation which will meet with support. The importamce which California has assumed, and the impulse which carries the Anglo-Americans towards the differeat shores of the Pacific, would alone be decisive reasoas in favor of this railroad. But they are not the only ones. Communications like this, executed in a country where nothing of the kind has previously exi have a necessary tendency to produce numerous rami- fications in all directions ; and these soon become se many arteries through which civilization itself cirou- lates. A system of good communications is the necessary condition for the peopliug of these imp xt- ant regions with advanced races. It is a misfortune and a race to modern civilization that counties so remarkable, so advant: usly situated, so favored by nature, should ie waste and useless to mankind. In this respect, Mr. Squier deserves at credit for the plan of this railroad, for his la- rs on the spot, for the ccnce-sion he has ob- tained. If the peace of the world be not dissarbed— # point which depends in a great measure upon the people of America, and the attitade they assume to- wards England, commerce and international rela- tions will, a few years hence, receive an extension of which people have formed no idea. Central America will become a route extremely begs moon Under these fortanate circumstances, the Honduras railway will infallibly be constructed, as well as the other lines with which Mr. Squier has compared it, for ench of (hese routes has its advantages and its par- tisans. These are reasons which | would recommend to his enlightened censideration, in order that he may give the support of his influence to the party, a large one in the Gaited Stales, which is anxious for harmony with England, and, through . barmouy, for the peace of the world. He will do Himself honor by marching over, with arms and baggage, and aang himself ander the banners of opinion. He will congratulate himself for the ara | in the ead, for here it is that victory must ultimately settle, be- cause bere is the progreas of the haman race, sinoe here is peace. House Brown vr iN ToronTo.—Miracucous Fecara or Tax 1poaTRs —Grest excitsmont wae vooasloned mor in the vicinity of the Grand fravk . Thy utrost anxtety fo’ o trope, which © ry one in that peighoorhood ed taken piace. It appears thay ‘A gardener, occupied a house on Front stroet tmmudiatety opposite the works. Owing tothe severity of tne washer, the gas pe ich was laid immediately under the drain leeding house, hed busst, aud the om reo Olled bis cetiar, whion had — made sir heal for = rpose Of securing vegetables ant ovaer provisions, Rieut Sovclock in the morning, Mr Gorman wih a iigns ip bis hand, opened the trap coor into the cellar, imue- diately the eecaped gas ignited and « foarf pl took place. Mr Gorman was violeaily thro hin face was burned very severely. The blown into atoma, and the terrible elivote of the explodea of from the fact that Mr, Gormen’s other been very seriously buroed. Their osoape from iavtams Ceath 19 quite miraculous. Tho very bed p sts, the oasira, ‘o fact all the furniture in the house, was epi't aria ior.— Toronto (Canada) Glebe, Jan. 90. Weekly Keport of Deaths, in the city and county of New Yorn, from the \7th dap eo January, to the 24th day of January, 1867 omen, 73; boys, ‘la, 183—T Femldrea, ot haied tet: females, 208" co ‘Abcess of tho throat...” ‘Alpuminaria sad Bright's if fl i Under 1 year.... 40 to 0 years. lt S years. © Wo 00 pears Sto 6 years. 60 to 70 years. ‘16 to 99 years. 90 to 100 years. be to 60 youre Avstria,... ‘Rngiand. pS Ireland ‘Total vesee at 1. (inetaden B19 Wow'ty.oF " . roe TIN, “Ky Mahector ag Lampoctor’s Dopartmans, See Trek, san 64, 18%