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NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, KOITOR aND PROPRIRTOR OFFICK N. W. COBNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Veteme «Xl. se 106 : " AMUSECBETS TRIS SVER1A9. BROADWAY TREAYRB, Broedway—Touni'¢ TEE TamtEs | best caysor Yom nu. BOWERY THRATES, Bowery—Caverr or Cums Swiss Corisce—Martmo F ALooME—i INBRIOK 2 OY. ee fears wet ‘ALLAOK’S? THEATRE. Rroadway—O.p Heaps axp weal poo ‘Srasks Frest! KEENW’S THEATRES. @M TRA THEATERS. €M Brostway—-Lovs oF BARKUM'S AMEKIOAR MUSEUM, nemectee Gauer Suave Bveuin{-Wickso Wire an ‘Awnwany ferrin, CHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broac- TaOPLAR PERPORMABCES— ib OLoca. BUCS. BYS EBRENADERS, 683 Broatway.—Eruioriax piisnuscas the Were Doom. MEORANICW MALL, Broadway—Ni Muazovmes, @o.- Suexerenean Bribie a Buranve winsrune Friday, Aprti 17,3657. ‘The News. ‘The steamer Tennessee arrived at this port yes terday. She brings a complete confirmation of the news of Col. Lockridge’s retreat down the San Juan river, and of the explosion of the boiler of the steamer J.N. Scott, involving a deplorable loss of life. We give fall details of these events in another part of to-day’s paper. There is no later inteliigence from Walker's camp by this arrival. Col. Lockridge, with a portion of his command, intend joining Walker at Rivas. The Tennes:ee brougit a num- ber of disabled filibusters. They are in a fortorn eondition—about as badly off, in fact, as were our soldiers on thelr 1eturn from the campaign in Mexico. We have three days later news from Europe by the arrival at this port, yesterday afternoon, of the steamship Arabia which left Liverpool on the 4th instant. In England the elections for borough repre- sentatives were over, and those for the counties were progressing actively. Lord Palmerston would have an effectual working majority in the new House of Commons. Five hundred and thirty-five members had been returned up to noon of the Sd instant, and of this number ‘bree hun- dred and twenty-five were liberals and two bandred end ten conservatives. A good many petitiors against the returns were already lodged. The British revenue returns made up to the end of March show that the increase on the year is two and a half millions, and on the querter £116,074. A decrease in the customs is accounted for by the reduction of the duties on tea and sugar. The Bank of England has advanced the minimum tate of discount from six to six and a half per cent on ali Gescriptions of paper. ‘(he Sardinian and Austrian rupture did not show ® prospect of healing. England had hinted to Count de Cavour that the complaints of Anstria were not without foundation. The Neuchatel Conference was etill in session in Paris, but the negotiations made little progress to- wards « final set#tement. The British war vessels had entirely evacuated the waters of Turkey, and many executive reforms had been undertaken by the Snitaa. Prussia was about to place her ports and coast lire in a state of defence. Rasaia has decreed that all foreign vessels visiting the Kussian ports of the Baltic for the future mast be furnished with a clean bill of health from her port of departare, from the day the Sound dues are abolished. Hitherto the certificate of having paid ‘toll was sufficient as a health warrant. In Spain the elections had resulted very favorably for the existing government. Mr. Dodge, United States Minister, was spoken of as being highly popu- lar. 1t was said that if the Mexican difficulty were ever settled, a Spaniah force must be stationed on the soil of the republic in order to protect the Queen's eubjects. We have Hong Kong dates to the 17th of February. It is stated that 10,000 houses had been destroyed at and near Canton. Chi- nese jooks, amounting to one thousand, had again attempted to eurprise the English forces, but had failed. Orders had been sent to the mandarins to negotiate, when English steamers threatened the towns where they reside. Hostilities had taken place only at Canton. The reports as to the Em- peror having ordered Commissioner Yeh to make a peace ere very contradictory. Yeh had advised the Americans to remove from Canton. By wey of Alexandria we have news from Austra lia dat cd at Sydney on the 11th, and Melbourne on the 16th of February. The Sydoey ministerial crisis contipoed. Trade was fair, but dull. The gold shipped since January amounted to £1,500,000, Flour rated from £178 £18 per toa, Labor was woarce. In Liverpool cotton ard flour were quiet and an- changed. Consols 95j a 03}, We have late and important news from New Gra- nada. The Commissioner sent to Bogota by the United States to negotiate a settlement of the difl- culties springing out of the Panama massacre of the 16th April, 1856, and out of certain recent ton- nage and postage laws of Ntw Granada, has been unable to effect any result. He submitted his ulti- matam, which was rejected. Therefore he broke off the negotiations, and is now on his return to the United States, to be followed immediately by our resident Minister thore, Mr. Bowlin. The Granadian journals seem to expect hostilities between the two countries. We give some ex'ractsa. We also give a translation of the diplomatic note addressed by the New Granadian Minister at Washington to Mr. Mar- cy. The report of the Granddian Secretary of the ‘Treasary, from which we give extracts, embrace some interesting political and commercial facts. Oar correspondent at Havana, writing on the 10th inet , states that the prevailing opinion was that there would not be a war between Spain and Mexi- co. The trade in slaves, both from China and Africa, was never more active, nor the circum- stances atlending it more melencholy. One thou- sand eight hundred and twenty-two coolies were landed from the 30th of March to the Sth of April, end three hundred and fifty-two others perisxed on the voyage. Since April, 1456, ten thousand five hun- dred and thirty-four Asistics arrived at the island, ‘and the masters of the vessels acknowledge to a mortality at sea of one thousand seven hundre | and eighty vine. The Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon transected a large amonnt of routine business. The bills of the Coroners, amoanting to $5,594 for the quarter ending March 31, were passed, as also bilia amounting to $70 for carriage bire and other incl- dental expenres of the Bardell inquest. The Board of Aldermen met last evening, and ac- complished a good deal of work. A long debate took place on the subject of the new city charter, and & proporaition to appoint a committee of five to toxt its oonstitutionality was referred to a committce to report thereon. An invitation to review the pa- rade of the target compani¢s op the 20th inst. was hocepted. The nomination of Garret H. Adams, as Health Warden of the Eighteeath ward, was on- firmed. In the Court of Sessions yesterday, Peter John- fon, who was jointly indicted with Charles R biasom for breaking into the store of Willard, Wood & Co., Broadway, on the 22d uit, and stealing ten pieces of cloth, vained at £300, was found guilty of felontously receiving the goods He was remanded for sem tenes. lobinson, having been received by the Dis trict Attorney as ® witness, was discharged James HB. Watson and Jaines Wiley, indicted for burglary, ‘were sont to the State prison for two yours and six months. Owen Gannon, indicted for robbvery, leaded gullty to an attempt, and was rentonced to the State prison for three years, James Hartley, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the February teem, was convieted of grand larceny, and sent te Sing Sing for five years. In consequence of stating that the man whom he murdered was caught in his (Hartley's) wife's company, the Recorder suspended judgment, but observed that he had no doubt but he was assassinated. The Legislature had not adjourned at oae o'clock this morning, at which hour everything was in ad- mirableconfusion. A great number of bills were passed yesterday, but we must refer to our reports of the proceedings for the particulars. We publish, in extenso, the Metropotitan Police and Liquor laws, together with the Central Park bill, and a continua- tion of the list of acte passed. No clue has yet been obtained of the murderers of policenain Hardenbrook. A wan named John Scratcbard was examined before Justice Consolly yesterday upon the charge of attempting to effect the release of Charles B. Auntingtcn, the forger, from State prison, by means of a forged pardon. Scratchard, as alleged, hay been endeavoring to obtain money from various par. ties to carry out this obiect. Huntington denics all knowledge of Soratchard and his designs. The affair, whioh is involved in considerable mystery, is to be further investigated. Meantime the ac- cused remains in prison. Kalloch, the Boston clergyman, who was tried for adultery, is quite a lion in certain circles of society of the modern Athenians. On Wednesday night his friends gave him a donation visit, when $1,000 was subsorided to reimburse him for the ex- penses of the recent prosecution. The Burdell-Cunningham will case was continued before the Surrogate yesterday. Several witnesses for the contestants were examined. We give a full report of their testimony in to day's Hamann. The case of the alleged frands upon the Northern Railroad of France was yes‘erday resumed in the United States Commissioner's Court, when Carpen- tier, ore of the accused, pleaded guilty to the charge. He is to be used as State’s evidence by the prosecution. The steamer Arabia having been announced below at ‘an early Feriod im the forenoon, checked transactions in cottom, and after the private letters were delivered it was 20 late in the afternoon that hie was done Tae salce wore confined toa fow hutdred bales, at unchanged prices, taken obiefiy instore by Easierm spioners. The ews was Bot expecied to produce any material effect, ia the face of the latelligence coming to hand from the South. regarding the decline tn receipts and the unfayor. aie weather, with reported injury from trost,&s. The reduced stcck of flour, with a good domestic demand end some inquiry for export, caused prices to be well maintained, and in some descriptions of low asd mediam grades (be market was egain slightly higher. Wheat was fim with aaleagst $1 60 & $1 61 for prime Southern white, and at $1 67 for sightly mized do, and Missouri redat$155 C.rn was held eo firm'y as to check sales. Southern rew yellow sold at 720, and afterwards was beld at 730. Western m'x<d was held at 720. a 730. Pork Wat more active and {irmor, with sales of new mess at $38 8754 2933, chicfiy at the latter figure. Bacon was im good demand for shipment to California, with sales of 1,000 boxes short ribbed middies at 110. Sugars were firm and active, with sales of about 1,500 bhds., 700 do, Molados and 1,000 boxes Havana, at retes givon'im ano- ther colamn, §Coff.e was firmer, with sales 0! 3,000,bags Rio, 1,000 do. wrecked St Domingo and 400 mate Java, at prices given elsewhere. The market olosed at an ad- vane of about \o. per ib. Freights were slack, with lm: ongegements. Mr. Buchanan’s Administration and the Suc- cession— Fremont for 1860—Views aud Fears of the Southern Ultras. Awong the newspaper extracts which garnish our columns to-day are two political articles of some significancy. The first is from the Souwh (the new sectional paper of Mr. Pryor issued, from Richmond, Va.) sounding the Southern alarm in reference to our call upon the friends of Col. Fremont to proceed to organize throughout the country in his behalf for 1860. The second is from the Charleston Mercury (secessionist), defining its past and present position on national affairs, and its apprehensions concerning the clements and issues that will enter into the battle for the succession. Tho text of both these ultra Southern papers is drawn from the cditorial columns of this journal, and yet, it will be remarked, that neither the one nor the other has thought it essential to the maia argument that it should be interlarded with dirty personalities or valgar abuse. This exemption from such indecencies has always becn acreditable feature of the Charleston Merrury; avd we are gratified to discover that Mr. Pryor, in bis new experiment, is disposed to adopt the same sensible and respect-inspiring policy. Upon the main iseue of the next Presidential clection, the views of the Sowh aad the Mercury are eubstantially the same, resting as they do upon the common fear that in the next uprising of the black republicans tho South- ern States may be subjugated or driven to the last retort of disunion. The administration of Mr. Buchanan is disous:- ed, especially by the Mercury, a6 an armistice, while our Richmond sectionalist considers that the armistice is already ended, and the war renewed in the call of the Hexatp upon the friends of Fremont to organize. The Mercury is right, but the South flies off at a tangent. We cordially | agree with the former that Mr. Buchanan should be supported. We think that thus far he has pursued a course eminently deserving the public confidence and encouragement. While his ad- ministration stands fast to the policy of the inaa- gural, be will not find this journal backward ia his defence. In this view we expect to support him to the end of his term, and we confidently expect that upon all important iseues, foreign and domestic, his course will meet the approbation of the country. The mass of his politioal enemies are disposed to treat him with liberality; and the intestioe broils and troubles of the democracy cannot seriously affect his independent line of ac- tion, inasmuch aa, having nothing more to ask of cliques or conventions, he has nothing more to fear. “Bat the campaign for 1860 is another and wholly separate iseue. What will be the state of parties in that campaign, if things are por- mitted to go on at the present rate of party demorslization and disruption? It will bo &ttate of chaos and anarchy. Where aro now the loose ends of the late miserable Kaow Nothing party? Nobody cam tell The census takers coald not fiad them. Where is tho onee great democratic party? Gone to seed, falling to pieces, emphatically defunct and decomposing. It escaped ebeolute destruction in 1856 by the terest accident; and its fragments can scarcely now be held together by the “cohesive power of the public plunder.” In fact, the wisest di vision of the spoils will probably be followed by the same rceult oe tho most reckless, viz. ; the Gisivtegration of the disappointed oftice beggars into hostile cliques and factions. The vain efforls of the qanck doctors of Tammany Hull to re- store bealth to the family hore may be taken as tut the beginning of the ending. We appro- hend, in ebort, that by the year of grace 1860, the oroe compact aud terrible democratic party will be reduced to fragmenta, factions and seo- trove entirely beyond the most desperate remo- dies of # pational convention. Io the meantimo, since the suggestive cleo ticns of lest November, the Seward black repub licana of the Fremont party have beon laboring iiduatriously and suocessfully to demoralire & mere Seward antielavery faction. It ia im view of thin disordered ard denidralizing state of things in tho several political parties of the day, that we have thought it expedient to call upon the friends of Fremont—Nortb, South, East ard West-to organize, in his name, in his behalf, and in behalf of the great constitational Unicon and conservative principles with which his past accociations, his pablic carcer and his per- tonal history have been 60 intimately blended We do not desire to havethe couatry thrown into the exoitementa of a Presidential election, with all the political parties, factions and sec- tions of the North ad the South, in a state of chaos and auarcby. We ace no peaceful solution to an election of this sort; and hence we do de sire the timely organization of a great Union covmrvative party upon a name, sufficiently po. pular in a fair ficld, to achieve a political revo- Jution ax decisive as that of 1840, We ave sorry that our Richmond cotemporary of the South can discover nothing in this pro. posed Fremont movement but combastion, con- yalsions, and all the horrors to the Southern’ States of a regular siege by a horde of barbarians, We are looking to the salvation of the South from Northern ard Southern traitors, and to the peace of the Union, in thus early beating the rappel for Fremont. He was betrayed in the last election by pretended friends. The people should see to it that he is not again cheated by little plotting cavcuses and central and side-door com- mittees. In the interval, we anticipate a steady support by the Hirap of a steady, well-adjasted and conristent administration. Bat for 1860, re- pudiating old party tricks and machinery, juntas, cliques, and conventions and corruptions, we call upon the people to perfect that spontaneous pop- ular movement which brought out Fremont in 1856, Nothing more. And we would ask the South and the Mercury, would it not be better thus victoriously to elect Fremont by the people in 1860, than to have the three highest of a half dozen wrangling candidates and factions thrown into the fiery furnace of the next Congrees for a choice? She British Elections, The borough elections are over in England, and Lord Palmerston is stronger by many votes; the county elections have begun, and the tenden- cy of public opinion is still in his favor. The news—to which we alluded in our last number— that the Emperor of China had ordered Yeh to make peace, bad endeavored to escape reeponsi- bility for the fighting at Canton, and had sought to make the Governor and the other officials of that province the scapegoats in the matter, seems to be oredited in many quarters in Eag- land, and had doubtless exercised its due effect onthe popular mind. Even the Chinese, say some of the papers, are electioneering for the go- vernment. Atany rate, it is likely that Lord Palmers- ton will open Parilament in May with a majori- ty euch as no Prime Minister has commanded since the iron rule of the Regency. Ninety was the majority with which Sir Robert Peel com- menced public life; and this was thought enor- mous; Lord Palmerston may have a clear over- ; plusof a hundred and more. | At the same time, it must not be assumed that | the new Parliament is likely to share the un- | doubtedly conservative tendencies of the Prime | Minister. Nor must any inference be drawn from the defeat of Cobden, Bright and Gibson, except that they have beoome obsolete, and; like | the various sets of leaders of the Freuch revola- | tion, have been overwhelmed and left behind by the revolutionary tide on whose crest they once | rode. The new Parliament, we are satisfed, will | be one of the most revolutionary of the centary and will not improbably recall reminiscences of some of the famous old Parliaments whose glo- rious career was cotemporaneous with the settle- ment of America. A man who has watched British politics for twenty-five or thirty years, can hardly believe his eyes when he reads the newspapers and the | pamphlets and the books and the periodicals that | were published during the reigns of Canaing | and Castlereagh. Centaries divide that benight- | ed period from our own. The monarchs of Aus- tria and Russia are not more despotic than the | Englich of that day, while the modern English- man is a democrat differing but little practi | cally from the average eitizen of the United | States. Public opinion has traversed a millen- | nial gulf in the space of a generation. So far { as opinions are concerned, with the occasional exception of a puff of the aristocracy, or a sneer at the “lower classes,” the Times, which makes public opinion in Fagiand, might almost be pub- lished in the United States. And every day the cratic for the last quarter of a century, and the old party lincs and party names have been growing lees and lets accurate delineations of | the politicians who bear them. This election | forcibly illustrates this Tho radicals have | isened addresses, which, while calling for | various impracticable reforms, prosent no new or | progressive feature, but harp, in the most tho- | roughly conservative faehion, upon the old | weather-beaten string. The government, and | Lord Palmerston, are os cautious and non-com- mittal as possible; bat the supporters of the go- | vernment took occasion to advocate, each iu his | own way, some new demooratic measure. The | moet progressive of all partice, however, judged by their addresses, were the conservatives, who really seem to bare changed places with the radicals. Sir Henry Bulwer talks like a very cbartist abvat the ballot, and uciversal suffrage; and even Disracli is ready to extend education and political rights to an exteut which, twonty- five years ego, would have horrified Heary Brougham and Earl Grey. Other members of the party, young Lord Stanley for instance, and in general the sons of the nobility, adopt eqaaily advanced views, Finding conservatism of the old kind hopeless, and there being no good places for them among the whigs or liberals, these young politicians have acted wiscly and, elepping over the liberal camp, have advanced to the other ex- treme and diepiaced Cobden and Bright The reformers of this stamp who have been returned to Parliament are quite nameroye, They will be fonnd on the day they are needed. There have been two Perliamontery revoiu- tions iv England this centary. The waa the Reform act, or extension of the fravobiee which was necomplished under William IV.: Lord Joho Russell is almost the only surviving great leader of that movement, who ie still in sotive life; he has barely retained his seat in Pariiameat; bis power is goose. The second was thé repral of the corn laws, of which the principal aatbor wae Richerd Cobden; be has lost his seat. Tho thira revoiution will be a blow at the privileges of the arletooracy; It will be aohiewed, probably by the preseu! Parilament; ite chiefs are not yet known, ‘ \ | analogy is growing closer. | Under this pressure, the British mind | me been gradually growing more demo- | HERALD FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 185T. | Che Bow Metropolitan Poltce Law. » We publish to-day the text of the new police Jaw that bes been tinkered up in Albany, acd whiob is now given to the people of thiscity and of Brooklyn as the perfection of all that can be Gceired in the way of a police system. A most ancmalous, confused and—we believe—unconsti- tutioral law it is Nevertheless, if it had been commenced to be carried out in consonance with the rpirit which dictated the measure, we might have been inclined to overlook some of its anoma- lies, and let the thing have a fair trial. But evenio the very inciptency of its excoution, the cloven foot of political partizanship is protruded. The obief reason assigned for the revision of our present police system was that the powers of appoint- ment vested in the Mayor, Recorder and City Judge were too often used for partizan and poll- tical purposes. Probably this charge was in some degree true. If so it was wise to separate the police system from politica, How is that done? Why, the law says the Governor of -the State chall, by and with the consent -of the Senate, appoint five Police Commissioners, who, in conjunotion with the Mayors of Now York and Brooklyn, will form a Board of Metro- politan Police. The idea of the Legialature was that the selections should be made from the ableet and best of our citizens. Well, how does Gov. King reepond to that sentiment? By the appointment of five mere politiclans—one or two of some note, the rest of utter insigaificanco— but ali unscrupulous partizans. And so we set out with our new police bill on a worse footing even than the old eystem was on at its disruption. The consequence will be that before the lapse of many months our police system will sink into & condition of utter demoralization. So much for Gov. King’s share in giving vi- tality to the law. Asto the law itself, taking the opinion of the State Attorney General Cueh- ing as being correct, it is unconstitutional. Some months eince the Legislature, by resolution, directed Mr. Cuehing to farnish his opinion as to the power of the Governor and Senate, or of the Legislature, to make appointments to city offices. In response he quoted the State constitution and declared it as his opinion that under it, ‘‘all city officers wust be appointed by the electors of the city or authorities” (of the city). The attempt to evade this constitutional requirement by blending in with the citics of New York and Brooklyn 8 large part of Long Island and the whole of Staten Island, so as to make up the Metropolitan Police District, might seem a very cute dodge to country lawyers, but it evidently does pot affect at ali the question of constita- tionality. If neither the Governor nor Legisla- ture had the power of appointing officers of the city of New York while the city stood alone, they surely do not acquire that right when it is amalgamated with Brooklyn and the rural dis- tricta, where the objection might not seem™~ to ap- ply so strongly. A perueal of the bill will show some other in- congtuitice, It undertakes, for instance, to le- gislate against Sunday liquor selling, although there was a distinct measure on liquor traffic pending before the eame Legislature, and which is now a law. Its residence qualification for a policeman is far more exacting than that required for a Senator or member of Congress. For the latter a twelvemonths’ residence in the State is ali that is required; bat to qualify a per- eon to act in the exalted capacity of a policeman be must have been a resident of the Metropolitan Police District for five years. Of course that provision was not inserted for any political pur- pose! How could it, when tho object of the bill is to divorce the police from politics? There are many other absurdities in tho bill, particularly in the clamsy efforts made to recon- cile the city system with the rural system. Fow can read it carefully and not pronounce it a legis- lative failure. We wanted no such law for New York. The law we bed was efficacious enough had it been but properly enforced. If the District Attorney had but seconded the determined course pursued by City Judge Russell, we would bave had leas complaints of garotters and barglars and gam- blers going unpunished. Hundreds of indict- ments were allowed to bluemoald on the ehelves of the District Attorney; bat ‘a criminal ie oy to be victed before Judge Russell there was no esc: or mitigation of punishment to be expected. It was a secondiog of such efforts that we wanted, and uot this clamsy Metropolitan Police bill, Rorrune Betwren tue Unrrep Sratrs ANp New Graxana—Mr. Morse, the special com- missioner sent by the Pierce administration to Bogota, charged with the settlement of the diffi- culties arising out of the Panama massacre of 15th April, 4856, and out of the new laws of that republic in reference to tonnage duties and increased impost on mail matter passing through the Istbmas, has been completely un- eucocesfal in his mission. The New Granadian Cabinet disclaims all responsibility for the loss ot life and the pillage occasioned by the Panama riot, and distinctly avers that that unfortunate event aroee out of the improper conduct and vio- lence of Americans. As to the other matters, the Cabinet declined to discuss them, probably on the ground that it could not interfere with the of Congress. Mr. Morse and our resident Minister there, Mr. Bowlin, then sub- mitted an ultimatum that the New Granadian government psy an indemnification of $400,000 for tho affair of Panama, and grant certain concessions as to the right of inter- vention by the United States in the police gov- ernment of the Isthmus. What the concessions were bad not transpired in Bogota at the time of the departure of the mails, The ultimatum how- ever was peremptorily rejected. Thereupon Mr. Mérse broke off the negotiation and announced that Mr. Bewlin would also withdraw. Tho for- mer wes on his return to the United States, The question now comes direct home to the sdminietzation of Mr. Bachanan, what course tbell be taken to exact reparation and idomnity from New Gransda for the wholesale assassina- tion and pillage of American citizens at Panama, nnd to sflord protection to our citizens crossing the Isthmus against ® recurrence of such scenes? The course recommended by Mr. Corwine, the Commirsiocer who was sent to investigate tho clreumetancee, would seem to be the simplest aud moet efotaal for the accomplishment of both those otjecta. That is that our government chowld seize snd hold military occupation of tee Isthmus ontil reparation be: made for the pest and seoarity given for the futare. TheNew Grevaciens evidently expect the adoption of that couree, ‘Their journals clearly intimate as mach, and appesl to the patriotiam of the people to prepere to rerist the expected aggression. They appear to think that it is the only course left to wor goverument, anless indeed we bik down from our demands and acknowledge that we were wrong aod New Granada right. It would ap- pear, too, as If the administration took the same viow of Ite duty and polloy, for the war steamer we This looks like aotion. has been ordered to Avpinwall, acd | Sickice and-Hart, with the indomitable other na'ional veese’s are to follow the Wakash. Ryaders, want to control the new Captain Collector in alll his pppoiatmente, and in order to do this they ia It does not appear that in tho negotiations | tend to get possesdion of the’ Council of Sacheem which took place any proposition wes made on | at the Tammany Society election on either side to eubmit the matter to arbitration, | next, On the other hand the invincible John One of the Panama journals, however, properly | Key and bis compatriots intend to dispute thie suggests that as an escape from the difficalty. In view of the relative etrength and weakness of the two nations, and of the amicable relations that have hitherto subsisted between them, Mr. Buchanan may still deem it an act of mingled generosity and policy to propose the submission of the matter to arbitration. The course of our administration in this delicate matter becomes a most important question. ‘Fee New Liquor Law. The bill for the suppression of intemperance by the regulation of the gale of intoxicating liquors bas parsed both branches of our State Le- gielature, and requises only the signature of the | Governor to become a law. It is a remarkable | document, and will create an excitement among liquor dealers avd liquor consumers hardly less — intense than that which followed the passage of the Maine Liquor law. The bili will be found in another part of to-day's Herat, but for those whose time will not allow them to give much at- tention to ite details, we preseat a review of its principal features, } It provides, in the first place, for the appoint- | ment by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court and the preeiding Judge of the Court of Common Pieas and Recorder of the city and county of New York, of three reputable freeholders, resi- dents of the county, who are to consti- | tute a Board of Excise Commiseioners, Each county in the State is to be provided with one of these Boards, the members of which are to be appointed by the County Judge and two Justices of the Sessions. The Excise Boards of the rural districts are to meet not more than ten days in the year for the purpose of granting licenses, while the Board for the city of New York are allowed fifty days for the same purpose. The license granted to storekeepers refuses permission to sell liquor to be drank on avy part of the premises. Each violation of the terms of the license is punishable with a fine of not lees than thirty, and wot more than one hun- dred dollars. Applicants for licenses are obliged to produee proofs of goed moral character, and that they are able to keep all the necessary accommoda- tions for travellers, which consist, in the language of the bill itself, of “three separate beds, with good ard sufficient bedding’”’—“ good and sufficient stabling and provender of hay in winter and | pasturage in summer, with grain for four horses.” The abeence of any of the articles enumerated in the bill as necessary for the “accommodation of travellers” is punished, on conviction, by a fine of ten dollars. This provision does not of couree apply to storekeepers. The sale of liquors to minors, without the | consent of the master or mistress, is punished by a fine of ten dollars, and every case of intoxica- tion by a fine of twenty-five. Every person ap- plying for a license is required to have-his peti- tion signed by not less than twenty respectable freeholders. The applicant must also produce a bond to the amouut of two hundred and fifty dollars, executed and delivered with sufficient sureties in the sum of five hundred dollars, to be approved by the Excise Board. No dealer is allowed to sell liquor tos man whose wife may have entered acomplaint against him of babitual drunkenness, under a penalty of fifty dollars. The eame provision applies in the case of a complaint against the wife by the hus- band. There is also a provision prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sundays, The law goes into effect immediately after its signature by the Governor. Tae Democracy ww Trovere—A Hesavs wy Tammany Hitt.—Ever since the Custom House appointmente of this city the democracy of Tam- many Hall have been in the most effervescent state, endeavoring to concillate their own turbu- aecumption of power by Sanders and Hart, be- licving that under the banner of Augustus Sobel they havo all the respectability, honcety and im “tegrity of the democracy of New York; while the opposite party, headed by Sanders and termal- uated by Rynders, may have all the other nega- tive qualities which have been too much exhibit- ed in our primary elections of late years. ‘Theeo are the incipient steps fora new division of the glorious, unterrified democracy on a new question—bonesty and dishonesty, peace ead doubled up fists, regularity and irregularity, character and want of character, correctly settled public accounts at the end of their term of offiee and defalcations to the amount of several hua- dred thousand dollars, Fernando Wood is out ef the field and will resign in the course of a few days. . Tax CenTrat Park.—We pubilsh elsewhere the,law which hos just passed the State Logivim- ture at Albany constituting @ board of eleven | commissioners to have charge of the establish- ment of the Central Park in this city. It isa law simple in its provisions and apparently wall adapted to carry out the design of the Logtdla- ture and the wishes of the people of this metre- polis on the subject of the park. We are pleased to see that persons have beem appointed commissioners several of whom have correct notions on the eubject which they have in charge. A great deal now depends upea thelr taste, their far-sightedness, their energy. This Central park to which they are called to give form and beauty will do more than perhaps ang other attraction that the city possesses to make New York the permanent abode of the It will induce persons of taste, refinement aad wealth from elsewhere to visit the olty oftener and remain longer than they otherwise would; and it will also induce retired millionaires to take up their residences-here. It must, there- fore, be secn to that the park be not converted into a resort for drunken loafers, fast young mom, or other loose elements of our society; but that it be kept as aplace of health, beauty and re | creation for the hundreds of thousands of decemé respectable people from all quarters of the oity, who will daily avail themselves of tho pleasares it may afford. The Commiscioners are empowered, we be- lieve, to expend not over $200,000 year in the formation of the Park until the whole is com- pleted. With thissum a great deal can be ae- complished; and if they only set to work with o will they might have a portion of the enclosare dreseed up and in good order daring the ap- proaching summer. From the character of some of the men on the board, we are inclined to believe that euch progress can be made; aad we trust it will be made. Go to work, gentle- men, and give us the Ocntral Park even ia tm- stalments, LaymG tax Txtxorara Caste—We ae that Mr. Toucey, the Secretary of the Navy, has requested Captain Hudson of tho ‘Niagara, te receive on board, and convey during his vey- age to England and back, two officers of the Ras- slan Navy now in this country. We are very touch rejoiced at this; it is well that these Ras- sian gentlemen should see the cable laid, as it will help teach them to lay cables in the waters of their own country; and besides, it is desl rable that they should be imprewsed with the idea that we ere a polite obliging people. But wo hope that the friends of these Russians will keep the newspapers out of their way, aad not let them know that the favor granted te them has been refused to the press of this comm- try. For it would natarally impress them ea favorably to hear that the Navy Department ia- tended to make a hole and corner arrangement of the greatest scientific experiment of the ages lent section, and to produce barmony ont of the | gud they could not but form a mean opinien ef most inharmonious materials on this side of Mr. Toucey if they knew that he had been mere Pandemonium. Meetings have beon held on anxious to curry favor with tho Court of Ramis meetings—ram has been consumed by tho barrel than to discharge a plain duty to the people of —ourses have been sworn that would sink the Holy City iteelf—doubled up flats have been ex- hibited that would have intimidated the savages of the South Sea; but all bave as yet produced no harmony, no conciliation, no peace. One of the most singular features of this new his own country. acseneretren THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON, movement is the fact that Fernando Wood, that | The Home and Pacific Squadrons 0.dered Granada. mighty Goth, is now out of the field—never thought of —produces no sensation—is placed oa the shelf, and is preparing to visit Earope, go up the Mediterranean, and kneel in the Holy Sepul- chre for the next two years of his life. The split is now altogether of o different character, The new appointees who came from Wash- ington as few weeks ago, with their pockets stuffed with power—Mr. Surveyor Hart, George N. Sanders, Capt. Rynders, Daniel E. Sickles and Mr. Fowler—bave ewallowed up Fernando to New Hiltary Occupation of the sthmas of Panama bee. de, on Wood, and have been endeavoring to garrote | trate on the Isthmus of Panama. Should tt) be seam even the new Collector, the indomitable Mr, | #*7, mea will be landed om both sides, and tho soatreml- Schell. As yet the great contest who shall have ty of the trangh guareatecd to all the world, ‘The Britioh and French Ministers have been advised @ the commit'ces and who sha'l have the Council | sn determination Orders will be sont to Mr, Bowtie te of Sachems is undecided. reture at ones, if ihe acw administration at Bogote bap We understand that both cliques have issued | aot offered to open favorablo megotiations. The edmtuts manifestoes for private mectingr to-night in dif. | tration is ¢ctormized that the rights of our citizens chal ferent parts of the city. Hart, Sanders, Rynders & Co. are to have a meeting at the Westchester be respected. An agent ot (he Pasama Raiirosd Company arrives bere to day, to urge the government to energetic aetien, House, in the Bowery, this evening, toagree upon | wr, Reed a bere, consulting bout bis insirections, a ticket for a new Council of Sachems to be pre- | The suggestion of the Mansin, that he go by way of sented at the Tammany Socicty election on Mon- | England, meets with much favor by the Cabinet. day next. The other party have called a similar meeting, also to agree upon a ticket, at the Chi- | ing sube gable, dose not, I wen a jarine cable, pot, Se ae nese Building, No, 637 Broadway, this evening, at baif-paat eeven o'clock precisely, But hore is their manifesto:— TAMMANY SOCLETY FLECTION—REFORM, CONSOLI- DATION, 8000888 Brorwana—Lo\ the Union movemeot #9 happily oom mended, ve Cort nad eee . teropulore 80 calles republican orgen's ston Let past ¢ineeosione ve forgotten and With late div ltowe be forover obliterated Lot on (hme honored end revered tnstitrtion be now, fe iv (mes pas\, the mother of a harmovions end consol: dated cemoormey Will the Cemocrate of this olty contines a euiotdal war | Patama, are to remela oe fare, whilst the gommon eromy a the & fastening upon (Bem inws tbe coat 09 al we pct rerher Combine and orgamns, sons to sweep from power thet unprincipies party? ‘In th's eptrit, ene to secomplie there gr: Becretary Toscey's course ia refusing the liseae’s Tequeet to send a correspondent om the expedition te tay ever im Cabinet Council—at tae obargee made by Meerre. Herrick and Donaldson acatuat tration. Tt is tebe thoreugtly invretgnied. "Roca aU sympathy | VSS4RL0 ORDERED TO NRW GRANADA—MINNRSOWA— APPOLNTURNTS, PTO. 14, 1808. ‘arwincrom, April ‘The United Bintoe vorecis And Droacur, Bow on the odjoote, the Ddersigned, bro he @ of I ote man veld incet htm at the Chircee Batdings, No. 600 areadway, "% ob Fridey, "be 17h cay of Ap fl tnetent, at half past o'er k P OM for the porpree of tek we inte comatderation Ube beat iMieresis of the Pooley wHd the di moorsie party and to spree open & ike) to be supported at the exaciog wecten| Beoneme, whiot spall truly ropresoat tne han mn opt Avgee’ od erie, Jeb Key, Jacod Rroeb, Henry 0, Morphy, Anson Herriow, Pepyen B, Pret. Jebn 0 4 Reser B Cwenciiy, Jevepd Reve Jr, © Godivey Ga ther, Giron J. a genen D Preach, Wiitem MeVorrey, 0. Witte, Alexander F. Vi Witiem @ stukia, na. - — Mew You, April 14, 1881,

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