The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1857, Page 4

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CHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad- way—bhratorias Pearosmances—Werro. ut VS SERENADERS, S86 Broadway—Braroruax Prusousascag—COLORED Pictoas Games MECHANIC'S HALT, 472 Broadway—Neono Meiopres, ac..—Dows INALaNaaa—BY Bavant's MINSTRELA, New York, Monday, ‘April 27, 1657. The News. Our corespondent in Balize, Honduras, writing on the 1st inst., sends us some very important news from Central America, which will be found in his letter, published elsewhere. Mr. Stevenson, the British Superintendent at Baliz-,had left a few days previously. Mr. Seymour, his sacoessor in office, landed from the British brig of war Arab on the 30th ult., and the next day he was sworn into office with much ceremony. On the following day the Arab took him down to Ruatan, where he was acorn in, in the name of Queen Victoria, as “her Majesty's Lieutenant Governor of the Bay Islands.” ‘This fact caused much excitement, as it was be- lieved that England had no real intention of ceding the colony to Hondoras. It is, indeed, a very curious fact, when we take into considera- tien the recently declared policy of Lord Clarendon, as detailed in our London letter, given in another column, and also the retrocession of the Bay Islands to Honduras by the treaty concluded last win- ter. Strong prejudices still existed in Honda- ras and Guatemala against our countrymen. In Guatemale six Americans haa been summarily shot, and others banished frem the country by order of Gen. Carrera. It was reported that the Guatemalan army, under Gen. Savallos, in Nicaragua, had been defeated and entirely dispersed. It is also reported that San Salvador had deslared in favor of General Walker. A good deal of bad feeling was created by the American ship Rawina having been charged extra tonnage dues at Patook bar while loading ‘We have news frem Porto Cabello, Venezuela, to the Ist inst. Onur correspondent writes that that re- public wes never more firmly established, a union of sentiment pervading all classes. Any attempt at revolution would be promptly suppressed, and the conspirators made to feel the utmost rigor of the law. Congress continued in session, busily engaged | im revising s new constitution. Opinions differ as to the effect which this tnstrament will have upon the future political and industrial interests of the country. Porto Cabello was healthy, with rainy weather, ands favorable season for cotton, sugar and tobacco. The markets are reported as very | active, at the following quotations:—Coffee, 12jo. a | Lbc.; hides, 27 jc. a 280.; cocoa, 32s. a 338. per hun- | dred; cotton, 14je.; deer skins, $11 50 per dozen; | fustic, $18 per ton. | Our European files, brought by the America: | were delivered in this city early yesterday morning’ We publish some interesting extracts in addition to | the news which has appeared under our telegraphic | head. The fact of the decline of the population in France, as shown by the last census, engaged the attention of the London press. The Dred Scott de- cision was also much canvassed. The statements of the banks of England and France are published. Late advices from the West Coast of Africa, pub- lished this morning, report that the3British brig Co- lumbine went ashore at Ria Nova, and was taken possession of and plandered by the natives. From ‘Cape Coast we learn that the diflerences between the Ashantees and Fantees had been settled, and hopes were entertained that trade would soon revive. The Governor ef Sierra Leone had concluded several commercial treaties with the neighboring chiefs. ‘The war in Millicour still raged, and basiness was very dull The Kings County Court of Sessions waa con- vened at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, to receive the verdict of the jury in the case of Richard Lewis, tried for rape. The foreman stated that there was no possibility of agreeing, and they were discharged, When they first wert out they stood six for convic. Uon andsix for acquittal. Three subsequently went over to those in favor of acquittal; and in that man- ner they remained until they separated. The value of foreign goods imported at the port of Beston during the week ending 24th instant amoanted to $1,025,541, showing an increase of | £237,399 as compared with the corresponding period | in 1856. | The oorner stone of the St. Mary's church, at Clif- ton, Staten Island, was laid by Archbishop Hughes | yesterday afternoon. From two to three thousand | persons were present. An account of the proceed- ings and ceremonies will be found in another colamn. The career of the Broadway Tabernacle as a place | of divine worship was wound up last evening with | appropriate exercises, a full account of which, to gether with a brief history of this famous edifice, is given in oar colamns this morning, ‘The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of the wind currents, and the state of the weather at three pe- riods during each day, viz: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P.M: — e I> | N. W. |.28) | 5 File | N. K [20 66 | N. Ripe SF lwo | N. We. [NW } Rem ARK | aturday Morning, clear, afternoon, ci night, | ‘Suntny—Alpeningyetoudy, with light showers all day; | rogbt, heavy Tain. “Morning, beary rain; y ay —Morning, cloudy , afte fresh dny—Morning, clear ir; wight, orwiay—Mogming, clear; afternoon, clear; night, Friday Morning, Clear; afternoon, cloudy; night, clear. suerua; =Morning, clad y The euler of cotton on Saturday embraced about 3,000 Dales, withowl change in prices; @ large portion of the wales were, however, anid to have been based apon mid dling wpiands ®@ about 15%ye. aide. We give in another column comes Of four telegraphic despatebes received on satarday by merchants from New Orleans, giving accounts of receiys, sales, exports, prices, e., and representing ® very firm market’ Flour was again active and higher. The common grades advanced from 66. © 106. per barrel, aud med fod extra grades frem 100. @ lée. per barrel. Wheat was firm, and prime to choice fete eearce and wanted for milling. Corn waa higher, with sales of Western mined at Tre © 180. in more and Golierred, and at the clone 800, was asked Souther yellow was ald ab T5Sc. firm and in good demand, with « fair amount of sales, which embraced about 1,000 bids. and 100 boxes at prices given in another cotwma. Coffee was firm, with fair sales ‘at firm prices, Tho transactions embraced about 1,200 bags Rio and 200 bags Maracaibo, at prices gives eise- where. ‘Tho sale of green teas was well attended. Tho quality wa good. The bidding was spirited, and full prious wore obtained. No biacks were offered. Freights Were dull, and shippers as well as shipownors were waiting the receipt of private letters due by the America, En. gagements were light aod quotations in a measure were nominal Significant News from Kansas—Arting Gover nor Stanton's First Manifesto—A Slave State the Game of the Trading Politicians on Both Sides. We published on Saturday and yesterday a brief despatch from Kansas, giving us the salient points of the first official manifesto of the new acting Governor, Stanton; but in another part of this paper the reader will find a much more com- plete, interesting and important report upon the subject. We find it in the form of a letter from Kansas to the South, the new fireeater’s organ eet up by Mr. Pryor, of Richmond, Virginia. The writer says that this report is the sum and substance of Mr. Stanton’s address to three bun- dred paceengers on the steamer New Lucy, bound up the Missouri from St. Louis to Leavenworth; | and we have no doubt that it is exaotly in eub- stance the address subsequently issued by Mr. Stanton to the people of the Territory. Here, then, we have the practical starting point of the new administration in the govern- ment of Kansas; and all doubts as to the policy we may expect are at anend. The bogus laws of Kansas are to be enforced; the June election of delegates to a State Convention is to be held; and the local laws relating to said election are to be carried out, What else could Mr. Buchanan dot It devolves upon Congress or the Supreme Court to pronounce upon the validity of territorial legislation, and not upon the President. But Congress baving done oothing upon the sub- ject, the President, in the recess, must accept the local government de facto as he finds it, This fact, however, though it relieves the President from the direct responsibility of the consequences, does not secure peace to the Territory nor to the country. We regard the policy proclaimed by the acting Governor as equivalent to the inaugu- ration of Kansas as a slave State; but so far from contemplating this solution as a settlement of the controversy, we look upon it as the initial movement of both Robert J. Walker and his Southern party, and W. H. Seward and his Northern party, for the great and momentous Presidential slavery agitation of 1860. Mr. Stanton says, “we would consider it unfor- tunate if any considerable portion of the people should refuse to co-operate in this movement (the June election) upon the idea that any aa- thority could prevail against the legitimate go- vernmeut of the Territory,” This is at onoe a warning and a threat, and we fear that the coa- sequences will be anything but peaceful. It has been resolved upon by the free State party to “refuse to co-operate’ in the June eleotion; and for the reason that they do not, and will not, recognize the authority calling iteelf “the legiti- mate government of the Territory.” And why? For the simple reason, we venture to say, that the policy proclaimed by Governor Robinson is the policy of Mr. Seward and his party, to wit: to allow the pro-slavery party in occupation of the local government to pursue their own course, and make Kansas a slave State as fast as possible. The quicker the better. Were the free State party to turn out in full force in June, and carry the election, and carry the State constitution of Kansas against the insti- tution of slavery, “ Othello’s occupation” would be gone ; and the active capital of both Northern and Southern ultras for the succession would be sunk in that single operation. On the other hand, let Kansas be made a slave State, under the auspices of Mr. Walker, (in whose behalf Mr. Stanton has opened the ball) and the result will be that Walker will become the lion of the South, while Seward, in behalf of “outraged freedom,” will become the champion of the North, for the succession. This, at all | British character warrant a perfect confidence events, we believe is the calculation and the ob- ject and the policy on both sides. A few weeks ago, when Mr. Buchanan, still suffering from that hotel poison, was overwhelmed with the | pressure of the Chinese question, the Kansas question, the Mexican question, the Central American question, and the New York appointments—all at once—Mr. Walker, naturally enough, aud Mr. Seward, strangely enough, were among the active end scheming politicians at Washington. We have already explained the causes and agencies resulting in the selection of Walker for Kansas ; but we have no doubt that this appoint- ment of Walker, and his Kansas policy as laid down by his Secretary of State, and the policy of the free State party of Kansas, as proclaimed by Governor Robinson, all dovetail beautifully together as parts of the great Presidential game of both Seward and Walker. Kansas as a slave State will serve the purposes of both these ambitious and scheming politicians; as o free State, it will set them both aside. Hence the “masterly inactivity” free State programme of Governor Robinson, and hence the bold and emphatic slave State policy of acting Governor Stanton. Now, what is the Presidential programme for 1860, as thus chalked out? A programme of re- newed and embittered sectional agitation of slavery upon the Kansas issue. Practically it amounts to little or nothing, as regards shayery in Kansas, whether she is admitted aaa slave State or as afree State. African alavery does not pay, and cannot live there, Introduce it, and it will shortly disappear. But bet Kansas be admitted | by the next Congress asa slave State, or at any time before the next national campaign, and upon that act the two great parties for the Presidency willbe divided by Mason aad Dixon's line, and the division will be complete; for there will be no Fillmere in the field in such a fight to confuse the issues of the battle or divide the forces of either side. We conclude thet Kansas will be admit ted as slave State, and by the next Con- gress, She may come in under a conatitu- tion saying never a. word upon slavery; but even thus, she will come in as a slave State, for slavery is atrendy there under the organic taws of the Territory. We conclude that with this ad: mimion of Kansus as a lave State, the sectional formation of parties for 1860 will actively be- gin; and that ouch is the game of both Seward and Walker—the one sa a Northern and the other ae a Southern aspirant for the succemsion. With these things before ue, we may conjectare the consequences. We may asaticlpate # sectional politioal Gonetiaion whloh will shatise Inte frag- ments all the foundations of the financial and commercial exohanges and oredita, speculations and caterprisra, as between the Nerthora and tha Southern States, The financial and speculative schemes and bubbles of the present day will be burried wo a general revulsion; and theevils of universal bankruptoy and pecuniary distress will be mingled with the terrors of politieal anarchy and disolution. ‘The independent people of the North and of the South, through a timely co-operation, may arrest these fearful consequences, by a very simple process. Let thoindependent conservative mages, everywhere, proceed to reorganize in behalf of Fremont for 1860. He stands now in the favora- ble position of Jackson in 1825—the majority otf the people are with him. Organisation and action are only needed to bring them into line, Let this be done without de- lay, North and South, and the Kanaay agi- tation will very s00n be settled. The trading politicians of the North and South will be cir- cumvented in their schemes of agitation and dis cord; the administration will be relieved of many embarrassments, and the country of the appre- hensions and the dangers, political and financial, that otherwise threaten to destroy if. Let these rule or ruin intrigues. and plots of our sectional agitators, demagogues, fanatice and traders for the Présideney be arrested by a timiely and active popular movement for Fremont, and Kansas will soon be quieted, and the substantial interests and the general secarity of the country will be achieved. = Fremont, in 1856, was brought out at the eleventh hour; and before the people could or- ganize in his support his cause and theirs was betrayed. In view of the contest of 1860, let his friends at once proceed to business, and pre- pare to save the country from the calamities of political anarchy and dissolution which await us if we trust to the reckless politicians and sec- tional agitators and traitors of the day. The old whig party is dead and buried, the Know Nothing party is broken to pieces, the old demo- cratic party has gone to the dogs, the republican party is dissolving, and all will be chaos and dis- solution in 1860 unless the people shall in season take the field. New Attitude of England on Central Ameri- can Affairs—Distribution of Power. We publish in another column a most interest- ing and important letter from London, referring to the views of the English government with re- gard to Central American affairs, We had heard from various quarters for some time past that a change was taking place in the opinions of British statesmen on this exciting topic; but this is the first authentic account of the actual conversion of the leaders of the government and of the aristocracy to the cause of Ame- rican extension and common sense. It ap- pears from the statements of our correspond- ent—and we will take leave to say that we know him to be » gentleman of character and ttustworthy—that Lord Clarendon is not only anxious to settle our foolish Central Ameri- in the world—is alive to the injury which the mongrel Spanish races have done to Central America; and is resolved to do what in him lies te favor a new regime under which commerce, civilization and order may have a chance. He does not seem to think that it will hart England to have some more good markets opened for her exports, and to bave new and safe lines of transit secured for her passengers to and from India. He be- lieves she will survive the infliction of these advantages Taken in conjunction with Lord Napier’s speech at the St. George's dinner, this disclosure confirms in a remarkable manner the hints we have for some time been receiving, and leads us to indulge the very gratifying hope that the days of English intermeddling in this continent are ended. The proverbial slowness of the British intellect has retarded the consummation longer than might have been expected; but on the other hand, the reliableness and stability of the that the policy now inaugurated will be perma- nent, and that in the road in which we are now entering there will be no turn. Several years have elapsed since the wisdom of adopting ‘this policy was urged on the attention of British statesmen in the columns of this jour- nal. It was recommended, both because England could hope to carry out no other, and likewise because it held out fairer prospects of proving advantageous to England in the long run than the captious nnd troublesome line which her politicians had always pursued. Attention was drawn to the singular and ns it were provi- dential distribution of the globe between the four leading and active Powers of the world While Russia was evidently destined to spread cast- ward over the great plains of Central Asia, and France was clearly designed to extend a para- moont influence over Spain, Italy, and Northern Atrica, it seemed that no probable accident could prevent the steady diffusion of British power slong the coast of Asia, and that no pomible event or concurrence of events could permanently retard the genial expansion of the United States over the unsettled and the uncivilized portions of thia continent. Here was a boundless sphere allotted to the energy and industry of each, and in which collision with a rival was imposible. Within these limits each of the four Powers was eure to find ample scope for the extension of civi- lization and commerce according to its own methods; and under tte own influence not one of the four could complain that it was stinted either in territory or in opportanitics of usefulness, or in capacitics for acquiring wealth or power, Three of the four Powers seem, long since, to have tacitly acoeptcd the providential distribu- tion. Noone has molested Eogiand’s spread in India; no one has interfered with the beneficial conqnests of France in Algiers, and no one but some Fanglish statesmen has cavilled at the oe ‘eblishment of French inflaence in Spain and Italy; no one but English states men has complained of Rusmla’s growth toward the Caspian; no one but English statesmen has the annexation of Texas and the neces eary expansion of the United States, The only rebel ageinst the law of distribution has been And what has sho gained by it? Notbing in the world but the ill will of nations and peoples who were sincerely anxions to be her friends. It must be o aubject of sincere congratulation NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1657. by fortune, will become, in virtue of her power, her wealth, her navy, her position, her rank among the old nations, the most powerful lever of progress on the earth. And the four great Powers, relieved, by @ tacit understanding or “co-operation,” as Lord Napier called it, from the necessity of always watching for quarrels and wars with each other, will be enabled to bring all their combined intelligence and indus- try and honest endeavor to the great and noble work of raising the whole world to the level of the highest intellects which it containa Tux Invamous New York Leqistarurs or 1857.—The State Legislature which closed its sestion some days ago will be long remembered as the most corrupt, rascally, unscrupulous body that has ever disgraced the Capitol at Albany. Sailing under the banner of philanthropy, repub- licaniam and hostility to Southern institutions, they cared little or nothing for any such princi- ples as these. They were the mere canting hy- poorites of political life, who used this outward devotion, and put-on this pharissical garb, to conceal the corrupt, selfish, aggrandizing motives which were the mainspring of all their actions, Or if there were some elements. of sincerity in the boily—as probably there may have been some from the rural districts—they only went to form @ blending of fanatics and scoundrels combi- nation of Puritans and blacklegs. 5 Such was the character, and such history will declare it to be, of the last State Legislature. Inconsiderately and without any regard to the interests for which they legislated, they passed over eight hundred acts—a large proportion of which we would undertake to say will prove to be abortions, and most, if not all, of them violations of good sense, good policy and good grammar. It is only, however, with some dozen of these acta that the citizons of this metropolis have anything to do. And all of these —witbout an exception we believe—are either liable to just criticism or are altogether repug nant to the institutions under which we live, contrary te the letter and spirit of our constita- tion, subversive of the political rights and inju- rious to the personal interests of our citizens. The Metropolitan Police bill, the Excise law, the new City Charter, the Central Park bill, the City Hall bill, the Assesament bill, the Quarantine law, the Port bill, &c., are all more or lees encroachments upon our municipal rights, and ill-judged acts of legislation. As to those of minor importance, such as the Quarantine law, the Port bill, &., it is enough to gay that the provisions of these statutes are such as ehould properly emanate from the government of the city, instead of from the Legislature of the State, and that they are an uncalled-for and impertinent in- terference with our municipal affairs. But like those of greater importance, they wore got up out of that spirit of meddling obtrusive- nees and desire to pension political. partisans upon the, people which have inspired this in- famous Legislatuge in all that they have done. | - The measures taken first. bythe Mayor of this, City, and now by the Attorney General of the State, in the name of the people of the State, to test the validity and constitutionality of the Metropoli- tan Police bill, will, we have no doubt, result in the complete defeat of these puritanic-blackleg politicians at Albany, so far as that bill is con- cerned. But in the meantime, and pending the decision of the question by the Court of Appeals, it is doubtful whether there will be any legitimate head of the police force in the metropolis. The two charters conferring the control of the police department on the Mayor are both annulled by the new charter, which goes into operation next Friday, and which gives him no such control. But we suppose be may still continue to exercise authority over the department under the Police act of 1853, which makes the Mayor, Recorder and City Judge police commissioners, It is more than propable, however, that if he does continue to exercise his authority in that respect, Mr Comptroller Flagg will refuse to pay the force out of the city treasury. Thus we are ina state of complete anarchy and revolution in this city; and it will go on probably from bad to worse, until the police force is utterly demoralized, and until there will cease to be any such thing as protection to life and property in this metropolis, The Mayor and Common Council resist the new law, and deny its force; and we dare say that nine-tenths of the community will applaud and sustain them in this. The Excise law—a law suggested by the same hypocritical puritanic spirit as that which gave birth to the passage of the Maine law by the same State Legislature two years ago, and which the Courts declared inoperative and void—will be resisted with all the energy and determination that can be brought to bear against sach an op- pressive edict. Measures will also be take to test the validity of the Central Park bill and other bills affecting this city; and we should not be sur- prised if, one after the other, the Courts declared them all invalid. It would bes proper rebuke to the body of hypocritical knaves from whom this batch of statutes emanated. We really wonder how, after the exposure and expulsion of their political friends, allies and counterparts —Mesers, Matteson, Edwards, Gilbert and Simonton—from the Capitol at Washington, these fellows at Albany had the effrontery to enter upon such a course of legislation as they have done, If there was a spark of shamefaced- ness left among them, they would have slunk back into that insignificance and contempt from which they ought never to have been raised. But they probably reasoned, and reasoned—wonder- ful to say—correctly, that they would never more have s chance of trying their hands at legislation, and that now or never was the time to make places for their political friends and partizans. With that ides they went to work, and attempted by their legislation to pension their friends on the city of New York. But in that, too, they will fail. So much for the infa- mous Legislature of 1857. May we never look upon ite like again Avyoraxr Snort rrom Mra. Mo Maron.—Mra, McMahon is one of those women who are not to be put down, and who is amply capable of taking care of herself. If any one doubts the assertion, Jet him read her sharp and well written letter in another column. It is in relation to the speech of Mr. Dans, at the fund dinner, and the Indy ns- wames the ground taken by the Herat, She states distinctly thet the Hxratp contained no word about her playing, but simply rebuked the upon her, She then disproves the assertion of Dana as to the numbers of her audience, and there leaves him, for some general remarks upon dramatic criticism, which, as at present adminis tered) she pronounces a humbug. She states that persons claiming to be critica sent that dhe has friendship for ber friends and stect peos for ber enemies. They had better carry Jess enill in future. ‘There is no doubt that the course of the papers generally in relation to Mrs. McMahon bas bene- fitted her. Their bitter attacks were read with much avidity, and made her, as she says, the best known woman in the United States. This has given her many offers of engagements which no praises would have extorted. The course of the Hxnatp was perfectly fair and honorable. We simply rebuked the other papers for their ribald attacks upon a lady who only asked # fair hearing of the public, and who got that hearing in spite of them. Mrs, McMahon writes well, and we advise her to turn dramatic critic, Hor arti- cles would make a sensation, and she can pay off her old scores. THE LATEST NEWS. Colonel Forney and the Pennsytvanian. Purcapairwa, April 26, 1867. Colonel Forney bas just concluded « bargain for one- ourth of the Pennaylnanian hewspaper. He witlassume the editorial.control of its columas ou or about the first of May. ‘The remainibg portion of the paper will still continue the property of Mon. William Price, the present proprivior. Ship Helen Miller in Distress, , ; . Nowwoux, April 26, 1857. ‘The ship Heiea Miller, of Baltimore, from Newport, Eng. and, wita sailway iron, has put in here in distress, The Southern Mail. Wasaiwaron, Apri! 25, 1857. No Southera mail bas beea received from beyond Rich- mond. Markets, Provinxven, April 25, 1857. ‘The cotton market has been inactive during the week, and prices haye @ declining tendency. Wool—The market continues the same, with light stock and smal! sales; sales of the week, 41,700 pounds, Drinting clous—I’rices dirm; sales of the week, 54,000 pieces. Affairs in Washington. Wasarvaron, Apri! 23, 1857. The Chinese Question— Developing the Commercial Kesources of the Kast—Our Relations with the Malaysia Group, de. ‘The diseussigh of the China question, and the appoint. ment of Mr. Reed, have brougiut prominently before the government the question of our commercial and diplomatic intercourse with the islands of the Indian ocean, common- ly known under the general torm of Malaysia; and Captain Gibson has been bere several days pressing his views ln regurd to those regions upon the Cabinet, ‘The government of Holland claims an exclusive right to the trade of that archipelago, and without power to deve- lope it herself, acts upon the old Phomecian system of keeping ber knowledge sealed up; and, circulating curious myths and stories of dangers and perverseness on the ‘of the natives, she has in a measure deterred com. merce from seeking new sources of profit there. President Fillmore commissioned our late Consul at Singapore, Mr. Balestier, and instructed him to visit several of the native _ and make treaties with them. Differences between linseif and some of the naval officers of our squadron caused this inteution of the President to fall through, and during the ‘last administration it was not renewed, because of the hostility of Mr. Marcy. The House Commitiee on Foreign Affairs made a report in ‘August last, that protection should be given to our citizens seeking to establish commercial relations with the native urged it, and senta memorial on the subject to the and have treated. the question. in their late 1 ‘in order to stimuiate the government from the East India merchants of Ne terete aes te ee and Dana ; Qut nothing was done. The New York Chamber -of Commefco: has taken as yet no steps in the mater, well worthy their cousideration. ‘The population of Malaysia is estimated at twenty-seven who carry on a vast commerce with the of the continent, their calm seas and being crowded with Chinese junks and native . Ourypresent trade with them is a limit. ed traffic of about « million and a half of dollars worth of cotton goods, cutlery, firearms, crockery, &., for which we get about three millions of’ dollars in’ coffee, spices, India rubber, gutta percha and drugs. By a proper course in making treaties with the native princes, very mauy of whom are independent, as for instance the Sultan of Djam- bi, his trade is capable of immense expansion; for not only do these ie prefer our domestics, firearms and cutlery, to those of the English, but they have the greatest craving for our cheese, butter, apples, &e, Nearly all of the islands are full of col, tin, gold, anu- mony, While many of them produce diamonds and pearls, Dut they bave vast capabilities for the production of cot! ton, sugar and indigo. To appreciate the vast field that exists there for comineree aud exploitation, we have only to remember that labor is abundant at six cents a day. If these Countries are properly opened to our enterprise, § vast developement of their productions will take place in these and many other articles valuable to our trade and to owe mechanical industry, bringing at the same time « ew stimutns to onr shipping interest, which just now is sadly in want of profitable employment. To do this, « commercial agent, with power to make Weaties with the hative princes, should be sent to Acheen, an independent Rahjacet in Stunatrs, or to Bruni, in Borneo, and our New York Chamber of Commerce should act 1a the matter The Boston Howrd of Trade may work a century and achieve nothing, for it is a provincial affair, but if the New York merebants wil! act, their influence is’ folt throughout the country, becanse they are looked upon as nauonal in their intere-ts and connection:. Besides this, we need a naval depot and cowl station for our ships somewhere in thewe distant but now poculiarly inteaesting seas. The English are already in posexsion of Singapore Rajah Booke at Sarawak, in Borneo, and entertain designs upon the island of Formosa. It is to be hoped our government will soon take some actioa ia Uais mater. on . DEATH OF THK HON. JOSHUA A. sPRNCKN. The Hon. Joshua A. Spencer died at Uti Y.,o0 Saturday morning, the 2th inst., shortly after 6 o'clock. Mr. Spencer has filled « large apace in the public estitna- tion for many years. The early period of his life was not one of historic or biographical interest, having been bred an honest hoyse carpenter, and proud to take up the broad axe, and show to bis frieuds how he was wont to work. Forty years since he entered upon the practice of the law; and from the first took a prominent stand in Oneida county. He there formed and built np « reprtation that will mark him with posterity as being one of the most dis. Lngnicbed gentlemen of bis profession, alike remarkable for hia urbanity, for his sound judgment, for bis legal learning, for bis integrity, and for bis Gne Christian cha racter. Mr. Spencer's early advantages, as I have before inti mated, were #mall, and he was a self made man, who rose to his professional rank by the force and energy of bis mind, aided by untiring industry. He has long held « high rank at the bar, and filed with eminent usefulness the position of State Senator for one term, and District At torney of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Iu the latter office he had charge for Ure United States of the celebrated Mcleod case, and concurred in enforcing Mr. Webster's views of the ques on of public law involved. Both these able jurists held, Urat as tho case depended ona right to regulate our foreign relations, Ue State courts had no jurisdiction of the mater, and that it belonged exclusively to tho national govern ment. An act of Congress, it will be recollectod, was sub: sequently paced enforcing this position, and depriving State courts of all power of interference in such cases. Mr. Spencer wise ever sound and sonaible in all his views of law, and was emphatically an honest man and a pare minded chrivtian gentieman. He has teft behind him the influence of a noble example as a legacy Wo the bar, aud w the American people Narnasmet 9. Bawxs, Sr, father of the Speaker of the National House of Representati vee at his revidence, at Waltham, Masa.,on the Sid ine the age of sixty four years. Major Cranium Yaner, of Buckingham, Va., week al an advanced age. The Livingwon (N. Y.) Republican announces Ue death of Mrs. rite reel | of Nunda, at the advanced age of cone hundred and three years. The deceased formerly re- sided in Geneseo, was a very bealthy and strong woman, was never sick, retained ber montal faculties unimpaired to the last, and her death was quiet and easy, seoming Ww be a quiet stopping of the working of the system. died lust Oeroarrom To Tim Liquor Law iv Bovvaro.—A inoeting of the opponents of the pew license law was beld io Buifalo on the 24th inat., at which the following resolutions wore passed: — Resolved, That this meoting is in thvor of « sound, jadl- cious and general license Inw for the suppression Of in emperance and the regulation and control of the sale of intoxicating drinka, and that we will, at all times, give our hearty co-operation in procuring the enactment of such a lay, and the enforcement thereof when adopted, but Whoreax, at the ate seskioh of the Logisiauire of this Biato, a hew was passed, entitled an “Act to Suppresa Me temperance and to Regulate the Sale of Intoxtwating TH. quore,’” and whereas, Uhe said IAW is unequal and oppres= sive ip its operation Upon the rights of Ube public at large, Resolved, That auch a law ia ih our jodgment unjust and arbitrary, in Uhia, Uhat while it recognises the right of vend. ing spiritaous Hquors and the necessity Unerefor, it confers that right upon the powerful man, while it denies the ame to the weak, poor and friendinas, because ite provision, in franting licenses make property, influence and friends to sign a petition, and not moral character and integrity the lent and indireediy prohibits large number of (persons how engaged iti the busineas from comtimuing therein to their great injury, while it enriches the favored fow, and becomes n 7 with the frienda aad favorites of the refuse oF grant ticenses in their dis- of apeal. s American in the Ola World, I be allowed the pleasure to grasp him Dy © honor to consider him as me ft 3 » I must now say the (sad at all times, but I ae sure you now mere owe you sow mantonietr) word farewell, that this world can afford. And may God bless you al. On Thursday, the “Sonnambula”’ was given to another crowded house ;.and.on Saturday there was a perfeet jam for the benefit of Miss Louisa Pyne. The house wases brilliant as on a grand night at the Itallan Opera—in Cray everybody was there. The opera was the “Fra Diavole’* of Auber, to which was added the. musical burleta “Mg. + das," Misi Pyne as Apollo, No artist evor bad a mere flaticring benedisin every sease. At the end of the ber- Kesque ‘Miss| Pyne’ Wila 'eecalied ‘aud made @ preity litte, Lapis Giermannat—or, rather, let me call you dear, for reek os tare ever been to mo—I come i i F i i welcome ever extend aang Pyetigp aid and support, “ merert a greeting drawn them ; wide AUantic, and told me that w! en my wanderings were over, and, Uke a truant child, I retu should’ fidd them unaltered, ahd my" old. piece. tetas 4 a Place in thai ous world I have found friends a4 dear and warm as those I left behind me, and if in the presumpta- ous vanity which your unvarying kindness has fed, Taag and believe that you too will wish me “ good speed’? im homeward flight, and that should I return again you will welcome mo back, I think I should be only doing you justice. I would thank’ you, if I could, for all the marks ef kindness you have bestowed upon me, but I have ae words to ve how deeply I feel them and how ardemt- ly they will be cherished by me when far away. There is Dut one way in which I can show my gratitude, and that te by telling of your greatness, power and freedom as a na- on, your generosity as a people; and when asked of Ame- rica, replying, “Go, see, and judge for yourself. In hee ‘sons you will iind brothers—in her daughters, sisters—amd everywhere friends.” I would delay if I could, the utter- ance of (hat little word which conveys so much’ sorrowfd regret; but it must 6¢ n, and if not quickly, my swell ing heart will prevent its utterance. Dear friends, though, absent, do not forget me. May we meet again; and now, God bless you, and, farewell. There was stil! another demonstration to Misa Pyne. ‘When she returned to her hotel she found her rooms oces- pied by some fifty ladies and gentlemen, personal friend, artists and Werateurs. Here Biss Pyne was presented with @ magnificent bracelet of unique and novel patiers. Mr. John N, Genin (what could we do without bim?) made the presentation, happy aa ever, and Misa Pyne said a Cow words in reply. Miss Susan Pyne was toasted, (whem shall we have so excellent an artist willing to sing socomd- ary parts?)—#0 was Mr. Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. Pyme~ The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, Mr. H. How- ard, thanked Misa Pyne and her assocletes, ina framk, hearty, manly way, quite characteristic of the fine fat- lows he commands, for her offer to sing for -the bene@t of the widows! aad orphans’ fund, whioh concert comes.e -” on the morning of next Friday. The whole affals was-very pleasant, and mot a bit over done, which is the usual faut: with guch things. ‘The orchestra on the last night waz conducted yy Me, Ta Manna, by pormission-of Mr, Stewart, the tease ef - Wallack's. Mr. B, MoUenhauer, who was the conducter the previous nights, was pre-engaged at the Philharmene. Three years ago Mr. La Manna conducted the frst per- formance of the company at the Broadway theatre, and by ‘8 curious agoident he mounts the orchestral throne oa the Jast. The “harmonious Sicilian’’ was never more radiant, and his orchestra never better. ‘Tho Misses Pyne and Mr. Harrison will sail in May Sr home. They had engaged passages in the Persia, to sail em the 29th, but the withdrawal of that ship and the substita- tlon of a smaller vessel lef them without places. ‘Tho Italian Opera at Niblo’s Garden has not mot with the success it deserves, and the directors annonce Usat the season will terminate next week. Wo have not much to say about this. All who heard the “Trovatore”’ on Friday night will agree with us im the Statement that artists ike Mme. de Gazzaniga are met plenty enough to waste their sweetness upom unappreaia- tive publics. It will be hard, too, to find a tenor equal te Brignoli, of a baritone like Amodio, who was unfortunately: unable to sing the “ Conte di Luna,” in which ho made his first success here, He has, however, ontirely recovered. The performaace of “ Lucrezia Borgia’? to-night should at- tract a full house, Mime, de Gazzaniga, Miss Philips, Brignol! nud Amodio are incladed in the distribution, The subscription for Madame de Wilhorst’s farewell concerts is pow nearly completed, and it includes the @rws names lo the city. There is every prospect that the cam- certs will be very brilliant, and that our prima doamm, whose success is due t her indomitable energy no leas than to hor great artistic merit, will receive a Sitting token of pable appreotaden. Madame de Wilborst will seit ter urope oo the 30th May. Mmo. Palania gives hor concert d'adiew at Niblo’'s am. toon, on the 23h, Tuesday, Madame Palania wit have the valuable wid of Mme, de Guzzaniga, (hor died ta concert), Signor Brignoll, and Signor Villanova, We e@- vise every one to go. ‘The attractions presented by the several theaires te night are worth especial attention. At the Broapwar Tunatu# Mr. Philip Warren, the tros- suror of the house since its establishment, and ‘one of the Most correct of men in every respect, takes his anmung benefit. His bill includes the “ Foundling of Paris,” tm which Mr, and Mrs, A. H. Davenport play the principe parts, the trial scene from the ¢ Merchant of Venice,” with Mr. and Mrs. KL. Davenport, and the “ Wandorag Minstrel," in which Mr. Bavidge will play for the Qess time since his wanderings in the land of Creoles, colored “chattels,” early vegetables aod unfortunate managers. ‘The whole performance coucludes with the (ableaw weumt, the “Burial of De Soto." At Bowron's Tikaram the bill includes the capital dracam “Hearts are Trumps,’ and the farce “My Master's i val." Mr, Burton piays in the last piece. AL Waicack’s Twsures Mr. Charles Walcot, “Otym: pian,” bas his benefit, and gives “The Knights of he Round Table in which ail the comedians and come- dicwnes appear, and “The Savage and the Maiden,” @ farce borrowed from Nicholas Nickleby, which had ® great ran at Mitchell's, and which & gtvem with the original Maiden, Miss Gannon, All those whe re momber Une Olympiad when the pit was a shilling, whem play? were sold for twenty-five dollars each, and whee Ge managors bad all the money, the actors all the work ama the people all the fun, will be at Wallack’s to-night, At Lavra Kioww's Timarax the latest “effort” (so te ills say) of M. Dumas fils, ("The Question of Money’ te up for this evening, when will take place its firs per- formance in Faglish. The author of this piece goes upem ® now tack, desiring lo show that he could write a goed play, without making his beroine a lordie or an adukerem, a4 in bis former “efforts.” The piece ia well ca Mar. Jordan plays in it—bis first apearance for two weeks—end Mr. C. Wheatieigh, Mr. Burnett and Misa Reignoide, The alverpiece is the “Kives,’’ which bas had « satisfying rem of forty nights, and is etill popular, At Baovosam’s Bowmr Twxaras “Putnam” and “Te Sailor of France’! make up the bill for to-oight, Mr, Darr plays Putaam, which is done with all the effects, equestd- an and otherwise. At the Mowers “(Still Waters Run Deep,” (frst pre- duced here) ia 0 be revived this evening. Other eundl- lent entertaiomenta are announced. ‘Tyo Corona Ormma.—At Wood's a now sicatoh, “Bacte- wood Echoes,’ ia 60 the bills for this evening, with ether pleasant things, At Buckley's the “Old Folk's Concert” and the “Oolored fee eee que. 4) em, phanic’s of ramet rem at roy see tht been playing in Baltimore and Philadelphia to de great gratification of the villagers. Mr, French has tweet, “One Coat for Two: Suita,”’ a.comio drama in tworaots, tig ©. M. Walcot, comedian, and ‘The Son of Uno Night,” drama in three nots and ® prologue, by Charter Garter, ‘The first named play has been sdcepted at Wallack’s, amd the aecond will be brought forward im grand style at he Broadway (Mr. and Mrs. EL. Davenport, Mme. Ponisi, Mires A. HL. Davenport and all the company are in the bills, Mn K. L. Davenport has » benesit at the Broadway on Wodares day, and gives “ Sulina Cemar;'* Me, Wallack, Jr., Mr. Las raine, Mr, KL. Davenport, Mrs. RL. Davenport and Mmee TPonied in the cast. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ploreace had a compas mentary beeedt al Rickmend on Wednesday. [1s prebesty ‘hat thay wit! play ef ome of the New Vert thasinns Gurtag tao qemning cqmmer, That Ragtioh tener for Wollesk’s