The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1857, Page 4

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BY Mewnens of ree OniornaL CuRIstyY’s By SSS Rew York, Monday, February 16, 1857. » Deemendous Increase of Cireulation—The New York Herald. 3 ‘The edition of the Hrritp yesterday morning rose to ‘the unprecedented number o! eighty. fine Aousand siz hun- + Gre and forty imprenions (£5,640), Tais 's probably the largest circviation that any cally journal has ever yet eached in Europe or America. Yet if we bad possested fhe machinery capable of throwing of more than one Bupdred or cue hundred and twenty thousand impros. Mone in the enme zpsco of timc, we could have disposed ‘of them. ‘The ncemes ni the printing ard isening department of Bee Beas estadlicdment, for the last fortnight, have ‘Beem of the most exciting character amoug the purchssors of mewspapers, both for city and country. The és!ly Bessy bas now a cireniation larger than the combined issues of al the other morning journeass of New Vork—icrge sad sinal!—and the circulation of the Sunday edition ic nearly twice as large as the aggregate lesues of all the other Sunday papers. mm ibrec weeks we expect that Mecers, Hoe & Oo. will Suteh and pul ip operston our new machinery, con- «Sint g Of tro ten cylinter prestes aod a large walking ‘Deam cieam engine, with their apperienances, costing in wall nearly winely ‘tewand dollars ($96,000), We shall Aber be sbio to rect al) demande, and expect to veaca in a couple of yeart 8 dally circulation of one hun Ared and {fty Cotuand impressions or more. The News. Op Saturday, the laborers employed on the tunnel at Bergen, New Jersey, numbering about one thon- sand strong, engaged ina bloody fight. The inhabi- tants of Jersey City, Hudson, and Hoboken were greasly alarmed. The bell gerents during the fight set fire to &icir -honties, which brought out the firemen. Babseguently several companies of military were erdered ont, and proceeded to the scene of disturb- ance. The firemen dispersed the mob, and the pre- sence of the military prevented any extensive hostile pers tions on the part.o! the rioters, who contented themrclvce with a serice of sharp skirmishes at in- tervals, extending up to a late hour last night. Many of them engaged in the melee were severely beaten; two or three were reported dead last evenirg, and tbe lives ef several others were deapaired of. About seventy were ar- rested ond pot in prison. The rict seems to bave criginated in some confased notions of “sqat- ter sovereignty,’ crowing out of the encroachments of anunber.ofzewly employed iaborers upon the temporary shauty grounds of their companions. To this primary cane of the trouble may be added the hereditary qua between the “Corkonians” and “Fardowners,” stimulated by an excessive supply of whiskey, and numerous congenial disagreements— all tending © provoke the naturelly pugnacions propensities of the parties. The Burdeti tragedy continues to be the excite ment of the hour, Bond street yesterday was filled with people from ly in the morning till dark, all acxious to view the premises where the horrid crime was perpetrated; and throughout the evening erowds passed and repassed, gazing open-mouthed t the house, as though they expected the ghost of the murdered map to appesr, or some other equally extraordinary phenomenon to transpire. The Coro- mers charge to the Jury, the verdict and the closing ecenes at the inquest, together with some aecouat ef the prisoners, are given in our columns this morning. The Coroner will probably to-day trana- fer the privoners to the charge of the prosecuting officer of the county, who will commence proceed- ings before the Grand Jary. Commodore Bigelow, for some time past stationed at the Beooklyn Navy Yard, has resigned his com- tmission. Com. Long sicceeds to the command at Brooklyn. We tranaiate from the Spanish paper La Cronica and pabdlish this morning av extraordinary revela- tion of the plan of our Indien empire and of the purchase of Sonora from Mexico. The writer seems to be well informed on the subject, as we have resson to know, and his letter will be perused with much interest by our readers. The plan proposed isto establish a credit mobilier, jointly of Ameri can and Mexican capitalists, which shall have the exclosive privilere of banking, building railroads, Steamers for internal navigation, mining, col- fecting the revenue, and many other asefal par poser. If this plan should ever be carried ont it will be a complete bar to all filibusterism against Mexico, and consign Walker to the shades. The better states oleo that Mr. Forsyth, without instruc- tions, hae made @ treaty with Mexico for the sale ¢ Sonora to us, and thet Marcy is farious that he wuld have dared to do sucha thing. We think Marey's 07 on on the subject won't go for mach with the country We have later news from California, broaght down on the Pacific he steamer Orizaba, which left San Francisco on the afternoon of the 20tn ult., and arrived at Panama in time to connect with the Georgia Law. in another columa will be found some extracts from the San Francisco Bulletin, the latest market report, and an interesting letter from our correspondent at Sacramento, giving the car- runt political gossip at the State capital. In addition to the news reccived by the Earopa which Henatp, we bave ed in yesterda: today come brief but interesting details of the mow ment American squadron at Canton, ‘The Vrensh al it appears, commenced hostile operations agair ¢ Celestinie. The Loa don journals were wrangling over the rumored re comsteuction of the British Cabinet. Verger, the txeassin of the Arebbishop of Paris, was executed on the morning of the Sth. His mple had tound ap imitator in Italy, where a pred to asencsinate the Archbishop of whive be was blessing the populace. The Archbishop was wounded, but one of his assistants, who interposed to protect him, wae shot dead by the assassin. Nuples was in a state of combustion, and arrests were being made incessantly. The Bavopa reached a eve have les of They de We have W to the 3d inst, rmuda paper ntaiy anything of interest. india files deted at Barbados 11th, Anti va 10 ridad Sth, @ eo 24 of Jaan ary, but they contain nothin interest. The re ports contained im the Heraun af the 0th inst. of the prevalence of cholera at lemarara are confirm «4. The Biitish ship Perseverance, which had NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1857. Morr Barnsu Frumvsrerisa.—We learn by the Europa that, after a brief contest, not cost- ing the assailants fifty casualties, the British ex- pedition seized the port of Bushire, in the Per- sian Gulf, and occupied it. It was proclaimed turned to Barbados, having been unable to hnd them on account of the epidemic. Between the 244 De- cember, 1856, and the 24th December, 1856, there were shipped for Demarara 43,881 bhds. sugar and 5,470 pancheons molasses. Our correspondent in Callao, writing on 12th of January, informs us of the actual position, objects, and aims of both the leader of the revolution and head of the government in Pera. Each is a speile- man of the highest grade, but Castilla is preferred to Vivanco, Elsewhere we publish the details of news from Mexicoto the 22d ult. They embrace particulars of the last. diplomatic rupture with Spain, and an ac- count ofthe riot at Tepic, whem the British Consul was attacked by ® mob and an American citizen named Spofford dangerously shet. The irregular transit of the United States mail was much com- plained of. A new impost tarifffor the Tehuantepec istrict was in course of preparation. We have dates from Tampico to the 2d ult. Gen. Garza had en- camped within sight of the city, and was supposed to be arranging his plan of attack. The arrival of Gen. Mareno was anxiously awaited by the inhabi- tants of ‘the city. Meantime business was entirely * suspended. ‘The annexed table shows the temperature of the stmosphere in New York during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of the | wind currents, and the state of the weather #t three periods during each day, viz.: at 9A. ML, amd 2 and bp imate foggy; afternoon cloudy; night it rain. ‘SSunday—Morping light rain and foggy; siterneon clansy: night soggy. , Mendap—lermag clear ond cold; sfternoon and nigit Twceday—Morning clear; afternoon cloudy; might rais, Wednesday—Morning, afternoon and night clear. ‘Thuoreday—Morning clear; aftersoon cloudy; night dark. Friday—Light rain and warmo al! day. Saterday—Clear and pleasant all day. Gn Eaturday the sales of cotton embraced about 4,000 sales, cloring .at the advance previousiy noticed, The ‘anspa’s news came to hand af too iste 8 period in the \ay for its effect upon the market to be devoloped. @ea, however, considered more favorabie than was ex- vecied. It was supposed that notice of continued large reoeipte at our Southern ports, carried out by the Niagara, would bave cacseé some depression in prices. ‘The Atlantic subsequently took out a retrogede move went in receipts, but she had not had time to reach Liverpool when the Daropa ieft Flour was inactive yesterday, while prices were unchanged. Wheat was in ‘alr demand, with eales of Canadian white at $1 79, red Miesouri at £1 51, and common white do. at $1 60; and 13,000 Busbele Senthern white, to arrive, ou private terme. Corn was steady, and salee of Western mixed wore made at 70c. 73¢. from etore and 730. delivered, but closed dull. fork was firmer, with a fair amount of rales. Sagars were in fair demaxd, with moderate sales, cbietly tor reining, while prices were without change of moment. A statement of receipte amd sales since the Gret cf February, will be foumd in another co- tumm, Coffee was more estive and prices steady. Bales ‘ot 8,500 bags Rio, 260 do. Laguyara, 240 do. Si. Domingo 4nd 200 do, Bahia, at pricos sisted im another column. Freight engagements were moderate. To Liverpool 8,000 busnels of corn, in bulk, were taken ai S)¢d. with some flour at 2s, a 38.34, and cottoaat 4d. To Loa- ¢on bacon was taken at 26s. per ton, and somo tierce beef at 6s. per tierce, The Moral of the Bond Street Tragedy. So far as the Coroner and his jury are con- corned, the investigation in the matter of the death of Doctor Burdell has been finished. The verdict of the jury, implicating nearly all the per- sons known to be in the house at the time of the sourder, and a report of the Coroner’s summing up, revised by that officer, are published in aa- other part of this paper. The present position and past history of the parties accused afford a sad record, the moral of which should not be lost upon the community. It is the cant of the day to talk wisely about the progress, the learning, the refinement, the edaca- tion of our people, the enlightenment and the superior civilization of the nineteenth century. Scholars philesophize about it—editors turn pretty periods with it-—politicians make its praises share with the American eagle and the star spangled banoer in their fustian harangues. Perhaps it will be well enough to pause for a moment, and see what it all amounts to, Daring what we call the Dark Ages unlimited power was given to the few, while the many were held in bondage. The favored few indulged their passions without check. Did they desire anything to minister to their pride, avarice, lust, malice, hatred or re- venge! They seized it. Did any one stand in their way? The assassin’s knife, the Borgia’s poison was always ready. Exemplary puniah- ments were of no value, because in cases where the accused possessed wealth and position they were the exception, not the rule. That was in the ninth century, when there were no steam engines, telegraphs, newspapers, Brussels carpets, daguerreotypes, glass windows, brown stone front modern improvement houses, patent leather boots, Bible societies, republican institutions, primary elections, revolving pistols, missionary meetings, and many other human izing luxuries of the nineteenth Let us see whether human nature is a bit better for all these things. There were brigands in the ninth century—fellows who went out apon the highways and took your money or your life, There were assarsins—fellows who ¢ame upon you from bebind and introduecd sharp steel to the acquaintance of your heart or your carotid artery. Some of the brigands and assas- sins were men and women of good families, agreeable people, who robbed and sourdered in the pleasantest style—gave soir es dansante—were served on gold and silver—pmid great attention to their religious daties, and were in every re- spect shining lights of polite society. Their rank and position shielded them from panishment. How is it in our day? The barrier of rank no longer existe. Money, or the appearance of mo- ney, is the only passport to what is called good society. No questions are asked as to how he obtained his mouey—if he has it he may enter the sacred circle. Once there,he is safe. It has passed into # proverb that the wealthy criminal may escape the exemplary punishment which the law institutes for the protection of the life and property of the weak against the hatred or avarice of the strong. Civilization only makes acquittal a little more expensive. The feudal baron tried and acquitted himself in five minutes. The magnate of the nineteenth century i¢ sometimes annoyed by forms of law and the criticisms of the pres. What we call civilization, then, is semi-barbar- ism. The namber of criminals is enlarged. Peo- ple are just ro far educated that they can commit and are not #o far civilized og to realize the fact that crime is not to be com- mitted at all. They guard against all the crime seientifieally. chances of detection; but if some accidental cir- cumetance shonid bfing the matter home to their tehee cick tevups Sevan Davlvades te Demacara, ce: | OUR", cy vey upow Gg spoils vi thy grime to j | sands, every bit as bad, and ® great deal more |] men and good women who aesociate with brigaads ] however. ous in attending upon the ladies, and eltogether a very handy thing to have in the house. crime like the murder of Dr. Burdell. We talk about it, write about it, preach about it fora few weeks, and then it is forgotten. But the causes are stili at work—the bricands of society still make their forted levies—and we still boast of our progress, our civilization, our education you and eat you. | man, wants to eee the bonds paid, and proposes +bield them from the legal consequences of com- mitting it. You shal: walk up Broadway with as, and we will show you the brigands and the assassins ef this cultivated epoch—this golden age—thie enlightened nineteenth century, You shal) see that woman, born in poverty, defective-‘ ly educated, allowed to riot in secret lust,' stepping, by the virtue of a few theu- sand dollars, into the domestic circle where virtue, chastity and should alone be permitted to enter. You shall-see her at her devotions loudest in the responses, most fervent in the amen. “You shall see her, as ter money be- gins to vanish, quartering herself upon some wealthy victim, securing him by her woman’s wiles—yon shall see how she makes his house a hell—you shall hear their quarrels as he resists her growing demands upon his purse—you shall ee how she gives grand parties without the re- motest possibility of paying honestly for them— you shall see her finally disposing of her victim by steel, poison, the cord or the pistol bullet. ‘You shall see ber escape punishment, and again ut liberty to prey upon society. You shall see in fashionable hotels and boarding heuses hundreds ‘of men and women who have no occupation, no fortune, no means of support, and who yet Juxo- riate on the fat of the land. They are all bri- British territory, and was declared a free port. population may number 20,000. dangerous, than their unlettered predecessors of the so called Dark Ages. Wo do not mean to say that there are not good unwittingly. Ignorance is no excuse for them, In a certain sort of society—we do net say the best, because all the cliques claim to be tue best, and all the claims may be good enough--it is considered as te on» thing needful to have a great circle of acquaintances—to give jammed parties, to which every one that the giver has ever heard of is invited. Mrs. Plash wishes to say that her lal costume was @ greater jam than a-similar affair given by Mrs. Blank Jast year, 20 Mrs. Plash drums up all her acquain- tancee, however slight. Mrs. Plash met Madam< Dagger and the Demoiselles Dagger ai Sura- toga last year. They seemed to be nice, quiet, ladylike people, and cards are sent them. Now, Dagger mere is an accomplished brigand, and the Demoieelles Dagger having no mouey, acd being above sewing machines, are in training for the same line of business, Once their feet cross the thresbhold of Mrs. Plesh’s first class house, their pesition is safe. They have the Archimedian lever with which they can move the cheque books of the heaviest men in Wall street. And they do it. The male brigand is generally a ian of pleas- ing a@drese, who pimps for gambling bonuses and other disreputable places, and who takes in young men to ruin on the most reasonable terms. He always comes late to the party, but he is a great man to lead the German, very assidu- of poor quality. concern ourselves about the matier. except on the Japanese system without benetiting the whole, we ought perhaps to feel glad that our British cousins have pocketed their cou- science, and gone to work to filibuster Bushire into civilization and commercial prosperity. Their ways are not our ways. We should object to entrust Mr. Pierce with the right of tilibustering. We could vot suffer our govern- He makes it pay. The course of these brigands’ life—their hand- to-routh existence—their constant familiarity with crime in its most subtle essence—steels their nerves for any act, however desperate. Let their victim once rebel, you shall hear of a mysterious disappearance, but you shall see no stain of blood upon the brigand’s delicate fiagers. He did not do it. She did not strike the blow. A great city always has its lower order of mur- derers, who make away with a bank president with no more compunction than they would feel in knocking on the head a vagabond dog. Such is the picture which is ever and anon presented when the veil that covers our ianer life is suddenly torn away by some shocking are behind the age. territory. not much addicted to the worship of Terpsichore ; we are not accomplished in the mysteries of the polka. To us the iatricacies of the German are woree than the labyrinth of Crete. We are not in the habit of eating indigestible suppers at 2 o’clock in the morning and going home at day- break; we are, however, inundated with iavita- tations and tickets to all kinds of soir’es, which efforts of the engraver’s art are entirely thrown away upon us. We were, therefore, a little sur- prised to hear that we had entered into this line of busines. Oue of the minor evening papers states that the committee having in charge the grand ball at the Academy, in aid of the stock- holders’ fund, omitted the names of the editors from the list of managers at the dictation of Dennett, Up to the time when this accusation was published, we did not know that any ball of the kind was to be given. The names of and our enlightenment. We are really worse than the barbarians we affect to despise. Your Feejee cannibal tells you that he is going to kill Your New York eavage tor- tures you stealthily, year by year—profanes your domestic, hearth—robs you of your substance— deprives you of your self-respect; and, when you sre no longer valuable, ruins your character or murders you in your bed. Mark : The cannibal of the Feejee Islands is a oa Ln gata gett WE Lk, co barbarian. He has heard of the dispensa- as — je hed \ * oye leancateloerey ” read them. We now find that the tion of our Saviour; he cannot read the Bible; he is a naked, dirty envage. You send to him your theologians, with raiment for the mind and the body. The savage of Mauhattan Island is civilized, clean, we!l clothed and enlightened. Let us returr to first principles, and have some missionaries for se barbarians of New York. ball is under the direction of the most fashioaa ble and wealthiest of our citizens and citizen- esses resident in the Fifth avenue and other aris- tocratic precincts. The list of managers contains the name of oply one person who is connected with the press in any way—-that fortunate iadi- vidual is M. de Trobriand, who coniributes the weekly feuilleton to the Courrier des Etate Unis. All this, says the small paper, bas been done at our dictation. Why we should have selected De Trobriand to represent the entire press we can- not imagine, unless it be bécause he is a gentle- manly, well bred person, who pays the bills of his boot maker, tailor, butcher, grocer, laun- dress, &c., &e., thereby differing from some of the ornamental journalists who neglect tae little ceremony of disbursing for their food and rai- ment. Bat, however fit we may be for the position, we did not select the accomplished Baron. We disclaim any power over people's heels. If we canhave any influence over their heads it is quite eufficient. It is wonderful to see how our amiable cotemporaries insist upon tracing all things terrestrialto our influence. Bennett, they say is “Satan,” “Caliban,” “Mephistopheles,” aad various other hatd and wicked things. But it is only of late thatthey have attempted to make us an imitator of Beau Nash, an arbiter in mat- ters of etiquette. It is rather late to begin now. Thirty years ogo, we remember, when the old City Hotel, then kept by Jennings, was in ite glory, they gave a series of bachelors’ parties, very brilliant, very select, and all that sort of summated, or more completely effuced when the | thing. We were always placed upon the Com- work was done. Nor will either past or present | milice of Management, although we md no cer- generations applaud the silence with which Go | tifleate from a doncing master to prove our fit- vernor Johneon treats the authors of the unau- | Dees for the post. and notwithstanding the fact thorized bonds. If the Vigilance Committes | that we did not dance. Since that time we have was censurable, how mach more were they? had nothing whatever to do with balls in any However, passing over bygones, wo. are glad | Way. Our tastes do not run in that direction. If to see that Governor Jobneon, like every honest | 80y of the minor dancing editors have been omitted from the list of managers we tender them our deepest sympathy, at the same time asserting that we “didn’t do it.” We have no doubt that they have great talent in this way, and are all capable of “doing the deport- ment” in a most killing and overpowering manner. We apprehend that the bail may be successful without them. As we hear that it will be the greatest affair of the kind ever known in this city, the world of fashion will come ont in fall forgm The names of the managers show that ell Mussace 0} ‘ne Governor ov Cacivonnia — The message of the Governor of California, Which is contcined in the San Francisco papecs received by last mail, possesses more importance than such documents do usualiy, inasmuch as it refers to the two questions of the Vigilance Com- mittee end the State debt. The former affords the Governor material for regret; but he has not a word fo say in blame of the circumstances which rendered it necessary for bim to make claborate allusion to the latter. This appears to be an error, though, perhaps. an error justifiable in Gov. Jobnson. In fact, the Vigilance Cormmittee and the unauthorized bonds were homogeneous effects of the same set of causes. Both sprang from the reckleseness and foolishness of the people of California. It was because they clected bad men or allowed bad men to be elected to office that the illegal bonds were issued; and the very same reason placed the people in the dilemma between anarchy and revolution, which they solved by re- sorting to the Vigilance Committee. Posterity will not concar with Governor Johnson, we fear, in his censures of the Vigilance Committee: never was a revolution more necessary, more energetically carried out, more righteously con- practical ways of paying them. Besides various economies in the government, te proposes in- creased taxation of real and personal property throughout the State, a modification of the miner's tax, an income tax, anda stamp tax. Some or all of these suggestions are likely to be adopted by the Legislature. The whole amount to be provided for is after all only $3,264,649, which {fs not » ruinous sum fora State which exports fifty millions of one article alone per Oni We hayy £0 fear for Vuliforsia, ‘There has been in one or two quarters a sort of denial on the part of the English that they ia- tended to retain Bushire as part of the Queen’s dominions. We can only say that, if they do vnot, it will be a startling departure from the eet- ‘tied rule of British policy. England has never been known to relinquish, willingly, her grasp -of: any territory that was or ever might be werth keeping, when the fortune of war had placed it witbin her reach. Nor is Bushire by any means a wind fall to be despised. Though it has tallen far from the high estate which belonged to it in the days of Chaldean and Babylonish magaiti- cence, it is still quite a large seaport for the paci of the world in which it stands, and the outlet of e fair agricultural and industrial region. The The town is poor; bit not more so than all Persian towns, in- cluding the capital: and its fortifications are by bo means.as dilapidated as those of ihe larger Persian cities, It exports, mostly to Britizh In- dia, the usual Persian products, silk, woul, shaw!s, carpets, dried fruita, precious stones, drugs, and horses; and it consumes a large quantity of British cottons and hardware, besides sagar and rice from Madras and Calentte, It is moreover the entrep't for a large share of the Mokha coffee trade, Were the harbor deepened, 80 that large meschant vessels could sail to the wharves, aud a stable government and a fair tariff established, no doubt Bushire would become a place of great trade. It isnot unhealthy, though the water is We repeat, if the English, having& laid their hands on this place, hoisted the Union Jack on the wall, and.declared it a free port, freely aud pleasantly make it.a present to its own master, the Shad, and retire with bag and baggage, they will open a new page in the history of John Bull. For oar part, we see no reason why we should As for the Shah of Persia, we have no motive either to fight his battles, or sympathise in his distress: he is an odious tyrant, at the head.of one of the most des- potic, corrupt, imbecile, and miserable govera- ments in the world. Unquestionably, so far as Bushire is concerned, the paternal tyranny of the East India Company, and the enlightened despot- ism of British officials would be a vast imnrove- ment on the effete, mongrel, semi-Persian, semi- Arab institutions under which it has vegetated hitherto. And asno part of the world can thrive ment to go to and reize Panama, Aspiawall or Greytown. Perhaps it is the old Puritanical conscientiousness that is left in us. Perhaps we At any rate, we have no right to foree our notions down other nations’ throats: the English will be filibusters, every- where and always, and the only thing we can do is to prevent their filibustering away any of our Tue Heratp w rue Baut. Room.—We are that wealth and social position ean do to make | such a thing magnificent in detail will be done. ‘The Academy ie the finest bat! room on this con- tinent, and ite beauty will be heightened by artistic and original decorations, The scenic artists and machinists are at work night and day to perfect the plans of the committee. There is a little metropolitan pride about this affair, as the inba- bitants of Philadelphia, a small town in the inte- rior, have lately built an Opera House, for which they have no singers, and inaugurated it with a grand ball, which they—in the simplicity of their rustic soule—think was the greatest affair of the kind that ever took place anywhere in the world. It is now purposed to show them that we can do better in the metropolis at a week’s notice than they can do in four or five years, So the ball at the Academy on Thursday next will be a grand affair, notwithstanding the melancholy fact that ADDITIONAL FROM EUROPE. | ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA AY BALIFAX. Operations of the American Forces at Canton. REIGN OF TERROR IN NAPLES, Attempt to Assassinate an Archbishop ja italy, &., ae., ko. By Awmmcay Pauvrmo Tauscrars Lines, 21 Wart St. Baurax, Feb, 14, 1857. ‘The royal mail steamship Eoropa, Oaptaia Lelion, am rived here at an early hour this (Saturday) morning, anc’ ‘will be due at Boston on Sanday evening. Bhe left Liverpool on Saturday the Stet ult. Her news 1s consequently three days later than that received byy the City of Baltimore at New York. the editors of the minor papers have been left off AFFAIRS aT CANTON. from the list of managers. On with the dance! The London Times Hocg Kong corresponderte, daiza’ Lec. 28, nays:— Recorver Surrn on Burcuary.—We see that his Honor Recorder Smith has taken a leaf oat of the brilliant example of Judge Russell, as given him by the latter functionary in the first month of bis official existence. The Recorder is waking up in his latter days, if we are to judge from the symptoms exhibited by him in the pun- ishment of rogues just as his official term is draw- ing toa close. Last week he sentenced several On the 18th November, Captain Foote, of the Untied States ship Portsmouth, was oa tno way fom Woampos to Ospton, ip the ahip’s pivnace, tor the pi spoee of with. drawing the Amorican marines atetioned {u the foreign Jactories, when, in passing the Barrier Forts she boats were fired at by the Chinese, aud he was obiig-d 20 pub back to Whampoa, notwithstanding that the American flag was flying at the tlme and was also waved from tne bost so that ibore might be no mistake, Ihe American moe. men-of-war Portsmouth and Levant moved up the river and bombarded the forts, which the Chinese dofonded, bravely. replying with a well directed fre, killing. two: men and wounding others, and doing some damage (5 the’ vesrels, Commodore Armstrong then wrote to the Vise» ; demand! logy witain ; ; burglars to twelve and fourteen yenrs in the peni- Therepiy poy Unestielanory, the foam eh pone tentiary each, besides making a speech describing | proceeded ‘0 take the foris, which they have since de~ atroyed. Jn this service I fives wero lost. ‘Since thie took place, Goverifor Yeb has written to the American autboriticsa to say that their fiag shall be re- apected, and that it was octtrely » mistake that ied to the: misunderstanding. Thero aro yet 010 or twosmail at issue, but we understand that the Americace cept thie apology and wiindraw from Oanion The Plenipotentiaries aud Ni Com mander-to Cnlef o#* Great Britain and Americs eld a conference on. Osnton, bat there have been no results of importance ar. rived at, ‘The China Mail of the llth November, ssys that the. Amoricans met with a fatal accident im completing the: destruciion of ihe Barrier Forta—one of thy mines- exploded through the careleseress of a seaman, kiliing. im and two of his shipmates, and wounding nix others. ‘The Portsmouth and Levant had returned to Wrampoa, Adespatch says the Frénch had destroyed rome forts. GREAT BRITAIN. The Tondon Morning Herald persists in ‘te ristements of an attemp*ed re-construction of the Cabinet by ex in- fusion of the Aberdeen party. ‘The London Po.t, the government organ, aeverts thet ‘the statements of the Herald are unfounded, aod that it bas gone bopeiessty mad. It was, however, generally believed tuat some such re- construction was being negotiated anong the party. The princtpa! merctants of Liverpoo! heave precented an address to Sir John MoNell and Col. Tulloch, delng the. only acknowledgment yet given for thelr report upon the Crimea miemauage moot. ‘The first meeting of the Moresntile Law Reform Con~ ference took place in London. Lord Brougham presided, and delegates from the principal cities attended. A de- putation was appoiri«d to ce'l upon Lord Palmerston re- Specting the Bankrupt laws, Tne subject of « Trtbuca> of Commerce was referred toa committee. The working men of London have formed emigration companies on s large acaie, o Capada and Ausiratia ‘The ticket ef leave convicts had held a pudiic meeting im London on the cali of Henry Mayhew. Toe meeting ‘was favorable to tickets of leave beiog good only in the colonics. All the prisoners {9 the case of the recent mutiny op. board the abip Bogor: have been Nberated, except Camp- bell, the second maie, who is beld on the charge of abooting. ’ ‘he bad government we have ia the city, and conveying the idea that the whole of onr mani- cipal organization, including the Police Depart- ment itself, has been in a dilapidated condition for some time past. Noone has had faller op- portanitics of becoming acquainted with these facts than his Honor the Recorder, and it iswell that he is beginning to wake upto them. In this as in most other things, we say, better late than never. If the Recorder had only exhibited a similar disposition in carrying out the extreme meusures of the law against offenders when Mayor Wood commenced his social reforms, we are satisfied that something might have been effected" before this for the better administration of justice, ‘The burglars of the street undoubtedly deserve the severest punishment they can ge!, and the Recorder has done his duty in at last giving it to them; but the burglars of the gambling houses are worse and more disastrous to society, aud they save hitherto managed to escape the meshes of the law, owing to the extraordinary and beau- tiful technicalities of the reasoning which the Recorder has discovered in our criminal statutes, The spirit of firmness, segacity and decision ex- hibited by Judge Russell during the first month of his term, has certainly bad a wonderful effect sn waking up Recorder Smith. TrovpLes or Tammany.—Tammaoy Hall isin an uproar. The democracy is convulsed from centre to circumference. The princ'ple of regu- lar nominations has received a black eye from the bogus democracy of the oyster cellars. Two committees are knockiog for admission at Tam- many Hall, and the Council of Sachems forbids the present entrance of either until their own po- sition and prospects of spoils are ascertained. All the troubles of Tammany are in fact nothing more than a miserable scramble for place and plunder under the incoming admin stration. The regular committee, of which Wilson Small is the chairman, has the undoubted honorary title to admission. The committee over which Savage presides isa mere bogus concern, and hes no- thing to put forward to sustain its preteasions worthy of the slightest notice, The most amus- ing feature of ail this is the superlative assurance of the Council of Sachems, who, after neglecting their duties under the lease to Howard of Tam- many Hall, now jump up and constitute them- selves judges o! ‘ow and fact, without the least right todo 80. Lie whole of this kick up and trouble in Tammaay Hall is, we repeat, nothing more than a scramble for position and place. ITALY. From Naples accounts are deplorsdie. Terror reigos Abroughout the capital and king¢éom. Arrerts continue moeasantly. A pricst bas attempted 10 aseae:inate the Archbishop of Matera while he was giving bie tie. ‘don to the people. The Archbishop was wounded, end a Canon, who attempted to protect him, was pol dead by the assassin. THE LATEST NEWS. BY TELBGRAPA TO LIVERYOOL, The inquiry instituted by the Board of Trade in regard. to the loss of the West lucia mati sicamer Tyne nas re- auited in the finding of @ report strorgiy consuring the captain of the veese! for not constantly using the lead oo approaching land, and for the total absence of other pre cantions necessary to insure the safety of the ship. STAT OF 9HE MONEY MARKET. {From the London Times, (City Artiole,) Jan. 20, P. M. ‘The English funde opened with @ tendency to mesdi | neas this morning, but the market soon relspsed, ani } ultimately exhibited great heaviness, There was no. political news, and the market was infueaced solely by pressure for money, which was increased by the ar- rangements in connection with foreign settiements, and by the India Houde having withdrawn a sum whioh they bad temporarily jont upon stock. Tho rate for loans on g00d securities was ix and «@ half per cent, and ad- ‘Vanoos were obiained trom the bank on those terms, Ie the discount market taore was undiminished activity. Applications at the bauk were numerous, The amount of gold taken from the bank today for exportation was only about £10,000. It ts eatimated that the amount te. be taker out by the stenmer Ripon to India and China, f on the 4th of February, will bo between £700,000 and | ,2800,000—nearly all inaiiver, The closing quotation of French three per cents this evening was 670.0 centimes for money and accounts, showing a remewed decline of searly { per ccot. Lotiors from Paris to-day mention a» current report that M. Minus, finding bie Spanish joan of Ubree million pounds proceeding exceeding beavy, in- tended to visit Lendon next week tooffer terme to holders 0D Cortificates of contecated coupons, {rom the London News (City Article,) Jan 90, P.M.) ‘The funds show «fresh fall of about one qcarter per ent, owing to the lwcreased tightness of the money mar- Ket, which 1s gradually breaking down outetandiag epeco- lation for bigher prices. Eogileh railway shares wore capecially weil supported, in face of the continoed down- : ward movement of the funds, The demand for money to-day was oxtraordina: {ly active in the discount market, ‘M4 the Bank, aod in all other quarters, and considerable Lightness was experienced. FRANCE. Pasa, Jan, 30, 2867, ‘The Court of Cassation having rejected Verge’s appea? Yosterday, the assassin was executed this morning. He wan greatly distressed, and {1 wae found necessary to carry him to the sosffol. ‘The Court of Caseation has pronounced judgment to- day upom the appeal from the decision of the Imperial: Court of Lyous, with reference to the illegality of distr}. TaE LATEST NEWS. SY PAINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPES, ae From Washington. RENOKATION OF COMMODORE BIGELOW~THE COR- sUVSION COMMITTRE’S REPORT—DESPERATE POSI- TOM OF THE PATENT CLAIMS BEFORE CONGERAS. Wasuisotom, Feb. 16, 1867. Commodore Bigelow, who has been in command at the Brockiyn Navy Yard, bas resigned bis commission in she navy, aul Commodore Long Pas been appointed in in piace. Mr. Campbcil will attempt to close the debate on tho lari to morrow, and bring his proposition t & direct yote, but i is doubifal whether he will be successfal, wa there are a pumDer Of geailomen who desire to speak on it. Mr. Kelsey, Chairman of the Corruption Commitee, informed me to day that their report would be submitted on Tuesday. They intend to get through with the wit. peeses to mm Oot. Orr is preparing the majority repert, and I undersemd It is awfaily severe upon certain members. Mr. Payne, of the House Patent Committee, baa made a winority report in the Hayward rubber case, whisb ron ders the paaenge of the bi. perfectly bopeless, etcher n°w or hereafter. The feeling in Congress is utterly opposed to this clags of legislation, unless in cases of extreme oardship, or where the partice have not realized « (air rewuneration for their inventions, The Goodyear patents tet share the seme fate with the MoCormick, Colt, Woodworth and other patents, where the parties have al- ready realized large fortunes. ‘Thurlow Weod arrived yesterday. Tho lobby is again full, and te influence is sought in favor of the Oceanic Telegraph bill, which parties refuse to touch unicss well paid, snd cash in hand, The bili, I think, is entombed. ‘The friends of the Submarine Telegraph bill will make their Inst effort to-morrow to pase thetr bil. News from Tampico—The Biack Warrior Aground. New Oniaane, Fob. 18, 1867, Y. The steamer Riack Warrior i# aground noar tho Balise. Narume, sam 90, 1867 Hor passengers bavo arrived a2 yet wo have not A period fixed withia which poilticel prise. nere most they will implore the g0t ettber ber mails or papers. a roya) Adviocs from Tampico of tho 24 inst. represent bust. bgt Sex iene . lies tens there as completely stagnant. The insurgent leader deeree issued effecting certain Garza had established bis outponte within sight of the city, and an aesnult was daily expected, The citizens ‘were anxiously looking for the arrival of Gon, Mareno. Arrival of the Europa at Boston. Bostow, Feb, 16, 1887, ‘We steamship Kuropa arrived hore at halt-past eight FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. o’olock this evening, and Rer mails will be forwarded in divert tothe Liverpeot market more Unan the woeel Pree the carly train to morrow morning, duo in Now York po SETS The continued porchases by about 6P.M. Tho papers contain nothing of tatereet ad. are ae eer tks taprevee, quali of tas envy ‘tional to the Haltfax deepateh, sre iakacetymoderske prices, a, Compared with Amma, ricam, Raving induced speculators to contract for covton aa From the South. saptor FF us liane pear tae ‘HERN MAIL—THE FIRE AT MOBIL - | before GATION AT BALTIMORE. ‘The Brokers’ Circular reports that the market opened. 857 firm, but fell off at the close. Prices of the week were: Barritons, Fob. 15, 1857, | somewhat stiffer, but quotatins were unchanged, Hold. Now Orleans mails offfaturday, 7th inet., and Sunday, | ere offered their , but at the ame time have been recetved. a a LL a aw] The sales of the The fire wt Mobile on the Oh destroyed the Momigeme: | TORN Sen naa exportirs 6400." The unneas oe Femee ty, Pianter’s and West's warehouses, with 14,000 bales | was about 7,000 |, the market closing quie’ at tho Of cotton, valved at $60,000, of which $250,000 aro in- § following quotations:— on hi fared in Mobile, $180,000 abroad, and the remainder un Ineored, It wae the largest fire in Movite since the yoar 1989, ‘Tho steaming Atiantic arrived up to day, she towed ap the ship William Tell, to Pataxent, and brought up seve ral veeseia from Ansapolls. The channel ie now fally ‘ ppen, Several vessels have oome up under sad,