The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1867, NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETS, EDITOR AND PROPEIRTOR. OPrice KX. W. CORNER OF KASSAU AND FULTON 8TS BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tus Sow or tus Nee. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Itavian Ormga—Ie Tao- aro. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Karaicixe axp Perey oui Roox Woon, BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposiie Bond st. ~ Kwranp 111.—Careming 4 GOvEaxoR, ACADEMY OF MUBIC, Fourteenth stroet—Lastax Testt- monisi—Ron Ror—A Dicineny Cask—Janny Lixo—A Dav arree tar WEDDING. PR 4 KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway—Lixe axo Un AMERIOAN MUSRUM, Broadway—. BARNUMS Afternoon ANC U1 Dirriccurias—Pigasaxt Nrigisoas. Kven- =DER, —Neroanoe Jacnwoon, @RO. CHRISTY AXD WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 44 Broad- ‘way—Kruverux Pexroemances—Dovais Beopen Room. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 88 Broadway—Eraiorian Pearcamaxcus—Ovp Fo.x's Concuar, 4c. ELE Gee ‘Neauo Muvovtee, Mails for Kurope. ‘The Cunard steamship America, Captain Lang, will leave Poston on Wednesday for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city at a quarter [Past ove o'clock to-morrow afternoon. ‘The European edition of the Hmnatp, printed in French and English, will be published at tea o’clock in the morn- Ing, Single copies, in wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Rew Yorx Henan will be received at the following places ip Europe:— Loxnox—Am. & European Express r Pa oe b ramaatina! ty. A og Livxaroot—Do. do. 9 Chapel street. Lavexron—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. Havas—Am. & European Express Co., 21 Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Heraup will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of pub. fcauon. 1 —$ ____. Malls for the Pacific. NEW YORK HERALD—CALIFORNIA EDITION. ‘The United States mail steamship Illinois, Captain Boggs, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the V'acitic ‘Will close at one o'clock. Tae New Yors Werxty Heaatn—California etitio containing the latest intelligence from al! parts of the w ‘will be published at ten o'clock in the morning Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as early as possible. Notice to Advertisers. We shal! publish a triple sheet to-morrow. Advertisers, especially those who have been crowded out or limited in Boston, for the week ending May 1, -vas $1,144,443; for th» corresponding week in 1856, $1,263,306 — Georense in 1857, $108,963. The principal articles of import were dry goods, engar and molasses. ‘The sales of printing cloths at Providence, for the past week, amounted to 37,500 pieces, with nochange in the market price. The sales o cotton were mo- derate. The stock of wool was still small, with no advance in rates. ~~ The seeaon thus far has been unusually backward in this section. A few warm days, howevor, like yesterday, will guflice to quicken vegetation, and en- robe our forest trees in the livery of apring. Ac- counts trom Charleston state that spring, after many fruitiese efforts, bad commenced in earnest, end that vegetation was rema:kably vigorous, Planters in that vicinity had been compelled to replant corn three times, the severity of the weather having des- teoyed the young plants, No furiber dange: is now apprehended to either corn or cotton. The snucxed tablo 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 tho state of the woather at three pe- riod: during eaoh day, viz.: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— FUMLARICS. e'Ermday—Morning, clear; afternoon, Monday—Mor wdy and rain; night, clear Tuesday—BMorning, clewr; afternoon, clear; night, clear. Wednesday—Moruing, clest; afternoon, clear; night, clear Toursday—Morning clear Friday—Morning, clear; afternoon, cloudy ; night, cloudy Returday—Moruing, cloudy and light rain. ‘The inclemency of the weather ov Saturday checked sales ef colon, which were confined to about 500 bales, with- out change in prices. Flour displayed increased activity, while prices continued firm, with good local and Kast- ern demand. Wheat was firm, with small sales of com- mon to fair and choice Southern white, at $1 70 a $175 a $1 65, and red at $1 45, with a emall lot of Milwaukie club at $149 Corn was again higher, with pales of Weetern mixed at 8ic ,and Southern aud Jersey yellow at b0c. At the close Western mixed was held at and the latier at Bic. Pork was firmer, with sales on th spot at $23 25 a $28 60, and for fature delivery at Sugars continued firmer, while, owing to the ivele of the weather, eales were moderate, being o * o. Porto Rico, at rates rm, with moderate ons embraced 600 mais of Java und terms given elsewhere. Freights were ements Light and nominal, though closing With some more epirit manifested on the part of ebip. owners, loar; night, cloudy. aflernoon, cloudy; clear; afvernoon, clear; night, space in our columns, will please hand {np their notices as early a practicable. Our new ten cylinder presses being in operation, we are enabled to take advertisomeats tilj niar o'clock in the evening. When they are in complete running order—which will be in a fow days—business motices will be received till tem o'clock. ‘The News. ‘The mysterious tragedy at Newburg has ocea- sioned in that usually quiet town even greater ex: | citement than the Polly Bodine and Baker trials, | which took place there. The body was fowad shock: | ingly mutilated, in an oat field, on Wednesday | morning, and under such peculiar circumstances | that it was not recognized fully until Satarday morning, when it was discovered to be that of Miss Sarab Bioom, of Shawangunk. Coroner Fenton has been investigating the matter thoroughly, as will be seen by the evidence in the report. A man named | William Jenkins, who last saw Sarah, tells a very re- markable story, snd he having been intimate with her, public suspicion has fastened upon him. The | Coroner has taken the responsibility of detaining him ‘a8 a witness. There is ua yet but very little, and that circumstantial, evidence tending to implicate him | A full report will be found else where. Coroner Perry commenced his investigation yee- terday into the circumstances attending the death | of Joun Sweeny, who died from injuries inflicted | upon him on Wednesday night The evidence | elicited the fact that the injuries were received by | the deceased while in a state of intoxication in an affray op one of the ferry boats, whither he had gone for the purpose of resuming a previons quarrel. The inquest on the body of Joshus Weeks, who came to his death from injuries inflicted on his per- | fon « few Gays ago, was concluded yeaterlay. The | jury rendered aa their verdict that tho deceased | died from the effects of a blow inflicted by Daniel | H. Pierce. Pierce was then committed to the | ‘Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury, Al- jen, who was impiioated with Pierce, was excul- poted by the jary, the evidence failing to connect | ‘him in any manner with the homicide, except that be was in Pierce's company at the time. In another column will be found the particulars of | the strike and riot among the freight condactors on | the Baltimore and Ohio Railrord. It was thoaght | at one time that the riot was effectually «appressed, | but our despatch from Baltimore, received last even- | ing, states that it was stil! progreswing, and that the train which was retarning with the military guard | yesterday was thrown from the track and several | cars smashed. Two of the soldiers wore injured, | ove having his leg broken. Three military compa. nies were sent out to the Relay House yesterday af | ternoon, to protect freight trains expected to come | in. On reaching Jackeon's bridge they were fired upon by the rioters. The military returned the fire, killing one rioter and wounding several others, Tho | traias then passed on. The Northern mail did not | reach Washington yesterday, Its non-arrival is at- tributed to the obstructions ou the railroad, ab | though it has been stated that passenger trains ma | Last evening the Rev. Dr. Van Zandt, of the | Ninth street Dutch Reformed church, and the lev. | Henry Ward Beecher, replied to the discourse of | the Rev. Dr. Bellows, on the Drama. We give a | full report of Dr. Van Zandt’s argument in another column. A case of some interest to billbclders was decided afew days ago in the First District Court, on an ao- tion to compel the Marine Bank to redeem a five | dollar bill which bad been somewhat mutilated, al- | though the value, date, ietter, number, and signa — tures of the President, Cashier and State Register were legible. The bank refused to redeem the bill, | end set vp as a defence that it had teon franda- Jeatly altered or mutilated, and that the plaintiff was not the lawful owner. This plea, however proved of no avail, as judgment was rendered in fo wor of the plaintiff. ‘The Northwest Presbyterian church in Fifteenth ptreet, near Bighth avenue, war dedicated yee torday afternoon by appropriate ceremonies. The church is a amall wooden structure, of the Gothic onder, and cost about $3,000. The inside i finished in imitation of marble blocks. Theeditice ia 66 feet | dy and will accommodate over four hundred per- sons. There is also a Sunday school in the base- men', whieh is well attended by numerous children of the vicinity. We bave files of Bermoda papers dated on 14th Apel. In the Hovve of Assembly, on the 1°th alt, ® resolve authorizing the exemption of foreign ttean peckets from larger light dues than British tents packets wae reed o first time. H. B. M. ship Indore, bearing the fine of Admiral Bir Houston Btewut, sailed for Carthegens, N. G.,on the 11th alt The Rev. Dr. Hider, of Mount St. Mary's College, ras yesterday conecorated Bishop of Charleston, at Phe Cathedral, in Baltimore Tp total value of imports of foreign goods ot Surring News from Washington—England Virtually Kejects the Ainended Dallas- Clarendon Treaty. ‘The answer of England to the amended Dallas- Clarendon treaty has been received at Wasbing- ton. The treaty modifications made by our Cabi- net, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, are virtually rejected by Lord Palmerston, and doubtleas with rome suggestions through Mr. Dallas or Lord Napier to Gen. Cass, that will be likely to revive the slumbering Anglophobia of the State Department. In the absence of any precise information touching the real objections of Palmerston to the treaty, a& amended by our government, we are Jeft, upon this point, to our conjectares. We fecl pretty well assured, however, that the late ultra pro-tlavery Senate at Washington is mainly re- sponrible-—that ite impracticable demands of Eag- land conee: x vigyers in the Bay Islands and elsewhere, were fatally offensive objections with the British Cabinet. Other considerations have | doubtless contributed to sharpen this specific poiut of hostility into something of positive in- difference, if net of haughty defiance, concerning the final succes or failure of these negotiations. Lord Palmerston is not the man to forget euch offences as the dismissal of Crampton and his three recruiting Consuls for the Crimea. He has | also enter!ained bis misgivings of the warlike | anteecdents and flibustering sympathies of Gen. | Case, and of the Ostend manifesto of Mr. Ba- ehatan, and has been anxiously waiting his op- poriuuity to snub them. But above all. bi brilliant successes in the Jate British elections have elevated my Lord Palmerston, and made | him proud, imperious, independent and defiant, | and expecially inclined to carry it with @ high hand over what he doubtless considers the impu- dent eseumptious of an ultra proslavery aud filibustering administration. j Another isue, however, rising far above the | personal misgivings. prejudices, sod unbalanced | diplomatic accounts of Lord Palmerston, has evidently exerted controlling influence over his What thent We see mo other way of cecape from this entangling alliance, under its present significant developoments, than to cut loose and henceforth stand aloof from wll copartnership with England, or any other European Power, in our negotiations touching the domestic affairs of the Central American States. Let the pending joint stock negotiations be aban- doned--let the required notice be given of the total abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and let the policy be inaugurated of independent American diplomacy in Ceatral America as to- wards other countries, and let us hold En, gland an- sworable in San Jnan del Norte, as in Vera Cruz, for any and ail infractions of our independent treaty privileges. At this crisis, such, it appears to us, is our only safe and reliable policy. Next, with regard to China, we are not neces- sarily bound to the beggarly expedient of a timid neutrality in refusing all proffers of an armed coulition with England and France, Of the fruits finally resulting to the civilized world from this Anglo-French enterprise we shall be among the first to claim our full share. In the interval, we have the means, the men, the ships and the opportunity for such an independent naval de- monstration in the waters of China. as will com- mand the respect of all'parties, now and hereaf- ter, and contribute much, from its moral weight, to the early consummation of the common objects of ail Christendom. Finally, we perceive no cause for any epecial alarm o¢ regret in this rejection of the amended Dallas-Clarendon treaty. It has caused a sensa- tion in the diplomatic and Cabinet circles at Washiagton, some turprise to Lord Napier, some pleasure to the Russian Minister, and a brown study, perhaps, to General Cage, with a serious shake of the bead from the President. But, as the effect will be to divert the attention of the Cabinet from the paltry squabbles of hungry office-beggars, and their plots and bargains for the epoils, to higher and greater and more impor- tant questions, we are rather gratified, than oth- erwise, at the course of Lord Palmerston. The immediate question now with Mr. Buchanan and General Cass is, thall we submit to be snubbed in this way, or shall we make this the occasion for # bold, active, decisive and comprehensive independent foreign policy, in Central America, in China, and throughout the world? Our Foreign Relations—Our Duty to China and the American Isthmus. ‘The time is fast approaching when some Ame- rican statesman, comprehending the impulse and the epirit of the age, will adopt a purely Ameri- can policy in the guidance of our foreign rela- tions, and stamp his character upon our national career, as did those of our fathers, who, through their strong faith when all men doubted, have rendered their names the glory of their age. The present moment seems eminently propitious for such an achievement. Civilization, after having lifted up the laboring millions in Europe and America, and opened to man here a vast career of progress, is now crowding to the ewarming East to do a like work there. It is the great movement that underiice the policy of the four great nations which now divide the civilized world between them. ‘The restless tide of ouf increase is seeking the shores of the Pacific with wagon routes and rail- roads across the continent, dromedaries and tele- graphs through the deserts, and railroads and canals across the isthmus of America, anywhere from Tehuantepec to Panama. Russia is hastes- ing with hot speed ber caravans across the steppes of Tartary and her armies through the gates of the Caneasus. France is opening a pag exge from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea through the isthmus of Suez. Englaud is seek- ing t© lay ber iron rails from Beyrout to the Euphrates; her watebful eye is on every available point in the Malaysian archipelago, and)Formosa is about to come under her sway. Russia has already one foot at Pekin, and no one can tell how short the time will be before England shall have hers on the banks of the Yang-tze-Keang. We believe that this event, when it does take place, will be for the advantage of the crowded | humanity that now dwells in China. We believe | more; for we believe that it will be an achieve- ' ment mach more easily attained than the world has heen led to suppose. ~The mandarin sway that has so long ruled China has deccived the world as to the trac character of that people, by stirring up the rabble to invult and outrage foreigners upon | every octasion. But every one that has visited that country and sesn how ready the people of | all classce are to chin-chin with Earopeans and Americans, to bring them presente, and to know their wishes and their ways, is perfectly well convinced that when the wand of the mandarin is once beoken, a meek, submissive and peaceful | affairs of China. | expectednimeh, and have been sorely disappointed | mind, adverse to this amended DallasClarendon | people will be found. When civilization shall treaty. We refer to the passive armed neutrality | have brought «tear to their rivers, and highways policy adopted by our Cabinet in teference to the | to their fertile districts, and machinery to in- We have seen from the Eng- | crease a hundred fold the labor of man, this lich newspaper prees—metropolitan and provin- | swarming East will react upom the Weet with a cial —thet the Britis) government and people have | mighty impulse and energy. It is bere that the first step should be taken in and chagrined in this matter—that from our war | our American policy. Had our advantages been like and progressive democratic party in power | properly improved by the la#t administration, we they at least enticipated something more in re- | could today, by the developement of » single getd to China than,the subordinate position and | physical truth, make 9 deep impression upon this policy of “masterly inactivity.” Hence the | great movement toward the Hast. It hag been enrly interposition of Loni Napier in behalf of | discussed in Washington what route Mr. Reed Mr. Walker as our epecial ambamador to China; | shall take in going to China, and Lord Napier hence the very pleasing saurances of family | bas been very desirous that he should go through friendship, common ancestry, common destiay, interoete, hopes, de., with whicb Lond Napier was ushered into Washington. Now all these sssuranees and protestations and bosstings and toastings of brotherly love attendant upon the dinings and winings of Lord Napier, gofor aothing. The positive refesal of car government to participate with England and France in the magnificent enterprise of opening | the whole Chinese empire to free trade and free | | social intercourse with the civilized world, and | the stupidity and folly of the Southern ultras | | controlling the Senate of the United States, in making the issue of niggers and African slavery | the test question upon Central American affairs | have, in # single blow, demolished all the hopes | of Lord Napier and our St. George's Society of | the active “ co-operation” of Jobn Bull and Bro- | | ther Jonathan, in the Bast and in the West, in behalf of the common objects of commerce end Obristianity. The Dallae-Clarendon treaty, as modified by our Senate and Cubiuet, has been sont back by Engiand. He will go round'the Cape of Good Hope, and four months must elapse before he can get to Canton, If we had now afirst claws steam. ship in the Pacific—ne we should have—he could go from New York to Panama in ten days, from Ponama to the Sandeich Islands in fifteen daa, and from there to Canton in twenty days more— tanking forty-five days from New York to Can- ton, ‘This is our peth, sod it ie incumbent apon us to follow it. We hope that the sdministration, in view of these facts and of the retarn of the Dallas Cla rendon treaty virtually rejected, will rise equal to the occasion, and adopt at once » purely Ame- rican policy. Let ws bave no treaties, no en- tangling alliances in anything; but in this great movement of civilization to the Kast we must tke a part, whether we will or nol. Not only is our present trade there immense, but it will in- crease a thousand fold. Let us, then, give a hearty co-operation in the opening of it, and take care to secure to ourselves that share of its ad- vantages to which we ore entitled, and which out as one of eur deepatches states, about the unratified Honduras convention. We beli that Lord Palmerston in this movement will Ye fully sustained by the public opinion of Hogland; and that, accordingly, there is n0 pro- ability of hisabating « jot in bis objections or éemanda What, then, ie our administration to dot Buccumbt—yleld the disputed ground upon Central American alfaira, for the enke of “our cordial relations of amity?” No! e, of | England, with a few paltry d'plomatic excuses, | rearer proximity to China than any other nation will enable usto develope so much more easily than can any other nat’on. Closely connected with this movement, and, in fact, forming a part of it, is another: Send the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to oblivion, in company with the Dallas(larendon treaty. Let oe have no entaogling alliances ; and as our path to China, the coming scene of enterprise, lies through the Weet, let our government extend the blewings of pence and scoure fransit over the isthmus routes that ere now the ecene of discord and danger to commerce, and of fruitful evil to themselves, If Mr. Buchanan shows kimself equal to the occa- sion now presented to him, and, laying aside all petty preyudices, gives a hearty to the civilization of the East, and to the pacifica- tion of Mexico, Central America and Panama, he will command the enthusiastic support of the people of our own country and the applause of the civilized world. Let him remember that through the American isthmus there are three hundred millions of people within forty-five days travel of New York, who are destined soon to receive the guaran‘ecs that civilization gives to industry end to progress. The Municipal Revolution—Where do we Stand} For the past week or two the government of this city of New York has been in a chaotic con- dition. We have had statutes of the State Le- gielature brought into conflict with the fanda- mental law of the land, and with the common aw inviolable rights of the municipality. We have had the local legislative power of the city placed in antagonikm to the central legislative power at Albany—the Executive of the city re- sisting the mandute of the Executive of the State— he judiciary appealed to in a variety of forms, and with varying resalte, for protection against unconstitutional enactments—a body of . police, with two seta of Commissioners in hostile attitade to each other—heads of departments in the city government bowing in obedience to the new charter, and other heads of departments refusing respect or obedience to it:—we have had, in fine and still have, the city government in a state of chaos and dissolution, a condition of things in which the best and most law-abiding of our citi- zens hardly know how to act with propriety, and the end of which, in its possible disastrous eonse- quences to the peace, prosperity, and commerce of the city, it is impossible to foresee. Let us, however, endeavor to see where we stand. In the closing days of the last session of the Le- gislature a batch of enactments was passed bearing with more or less exclusiveness and unfavora- ble effect on this metropolis. These were—a city charter, to go into operation on the first of May; ‘8 new police law, to take effect on the passage of the act; an act for the opening of the Central Park; another for the building of a new City Hall; several in reference to harbor affairs, and an excise law for the whole State, To all of these the opposition of the Meyor, Common Council, merchants, and citizens of New York ge- nerally, is more or less vehement and deter. mined. They are justly regarded—at least, most of them—in the light of unwarrantable assump. tions on the part of the Legislature to intervene in the local government of this city, and to deprive the citizens of that control over their own imme- diate local affairs which is the very keystone of republicanism, and which is secured to the peo- ple of every county, city, town and village in this State by the letter and spirit of the constita- tion. The game of opposition to this centralizing ac- tion of the nigger worshipping Legislature at Al- bany was opened on the new Metropolitan Police act. On the 22d of April—the day on which the new Commissioners appointed by the Governor of the State were to replace the police authorities elected by the people of the city—the Mayor, as ex officio Police Commissioner under the act of 1853, applied for and obtained from a Judge of the Supreme Court (Judge Davies) an injunction restraining the new Commissioners from taking any steps to enter into their new office, and from assuming any control over. the police or the police property of the city. That injunction waa, on the same day, and in a manner which has been stigmatized as surreptitious, so modified by the Judge who granted it as to permit the organi- zation of the new Board. This was check and countercheck No.1. The game was followed up by Mayor Wood convoking the Chief and Captains of Police on the same day, notifying them of the steps he had taken to resist the execution of the new law until its constitutionality should be es- tablished, and commanding them to disregard all orders emanating from any other body than from the old Board of Commissioners. Of this Board bimseif and City Judge Russell, who co-operated with him, formed the majority—the minority having, in the person of Recorder Smith, trans- ferred its allegiance to the new powers. Simultaneously with this opening of the game by Mayor Wood sgainst the execution of the Metropolitan Police act, there was movement in the Common Council in resistance to the new city charter, which movement subsequently ex- tended iteelf to all the recent statutes affecting the city; and an appropriation of $10,000 was voted out of the city treasury as a fund out ef which to defray the expenses of contesting these laws. At the game time the hotel keepers and li- quor dealers of this city and Brooklyn took counsel, and prepared to resist to the last ex- tremity the exeoution of the new license law, the provisions of which they regard as being intole- rably stringent, and unwarranted by the consti- tation, Noovert act has yet been taken elther for of against the lew, as it does not virtually go into operation until the third Tuesday in May, when the Commissioners appointed under it are to bear and determine the applications forflicense. But the momeat an effort in made to enforce the penal provisions of the law, that moment will tho Liquor Dealer's Society join imme, and resist by every legal means its execution. In like manner the mercantile and shipping classes denounce the new Port Warden, Pilotage, and other laws affecting their interesta. And thus, as we aaid in the out- set of this article, we find the Mayor and Com- mon Council, merchants and citizens generally of this metropolia, in « determined attitude of hostilit; -9 the new disfranohising laws of the infamous Sewardite Legislature of 1857. In Brooklyn the like sentiment of hostility to them exists, and like measures of resistance have been resolved on. No practical act of opposition, however, has yet beon attempted there, inasmuch ne the operations in this city render such, so far, unnecerary. Bat, to continue our review of this struggle of the municipalities against the central power at Albany: Some three or four days subsequent to the granting by Judge Davies of the inyunction against the new Commissioners, he again, on ap- plication, and efter hoaring argument, further modified his injunction 0 aa to confine Its action timply to this city, and allow the new Commis. sioners to act, if they choose, in the other portions of the Motropolitan Police district —to wit, the counties of Kings, Wostches ter and Richmond. But this judicial action of Judge Davies waa anticipated and provided for. A new proceeding was commented before Judge Roosevelt, on what is known to the law by the term of quo warranto—meaning “by what warrant or authority” do yon enter on the office of Police Commisioners? The suit was compmenced under the authority of the Attorney General of the State, and in the name of the peo- ple of the State. If the new Commissioners bad “any Confidence in the constitutionality of the law under which they claim to act, they would have accepted the legal gauntlet thus thrown down, and gone into the argument of the real vital question involved—“Has the Legislature of the State the‘power to appoint city Police Commis- sioners—officers whose election is vested by the constitution in the people of the locality?” They did not choose, however, to join issue; but they dodged, and made a hole-and-corner application to Judge Peabody, the appointee of the Gover- nor, to dissolve the absolute injunction of Judge Roosevelt. This was another very ingenious check and countercheck movement. During its pendency Judge Davies dissolved his own injunc- tion on a lawyer’s quibble picked out in it by himself, and the probability is that on other technicalities Judge Peabody will feel justified in dissolving Judge Roosevelt's injunction. ‘That contingency, too, hus been foreseen, and & new tactique resorted to. This was the com- mencement of another suit,on what lawyers know as a writ of mandamus directed to Judge Russell to compel him to act as Police Commis- sioner under the old law. This is also instituted by the Attorney General in the name of the peo- ple. Against Judge Russell it is @ friendly “suit; but he gave the new Commissioners the pri- vilege of defending it for him. They declined, and contented themselves with a protest against the proceedings, Notwithstanding the protest Judge Roosevelt entertained jurisdiction, and rendered judgment, as a matter of form, for the defendant. From this judgment the Attorney General appeals to the general term of the Su- preme Court, to meet to-day; and as the same pro forma proceedings will probably be gone through with there, the question will be brought up to the Court of Appeals, and there it can be fairly met, discussed apd decided in June next. Tocap the climax of injunctions, and make a more complete muddle of the whole matter, Judge Birdseye, of Brooklyn, has, on the appli- cation of a New York taxpayer resident in the City of Churches, restrained the Corporation of New York from paying out any of the $10,000 appropriated to contest these acta. Such is the legal aspeet of our municipal revo- lution. Practically, the police isin the same con- dition now as they were before the passage of the act. They are subject to and obey the orders of the Board represented by Mayor Wood. In legal theory there is no police in the city, and no pro- vision made for the payment of those who serve in that capacity. No one kaows under what charter we are at present living, or whether we are not, in fact, living under Dongan’s or Mont- gomerie’s eharter, granted in the time of the Georges. The Central park cannot be laid out. The new City Hall cannot be built. The or- dinances of the city cannot be enforced. Weare no more than a highly civilized rabble without a head. The new Police Commissioners may, on the dissolution by Judge Peabody of Judge Roosevelt's injunction, attempt to enter on their duties by force; and threats have been sathorized- ly made that physical force will be oppdsed to physical force. What then? Then, probably, we may have the trained bands of the city—our volun- cease to be a bloodless one. To such @ condition of anarchy are we brought by the scheming and corrupt legislation of the most unprincipled body ee instite- ions. Tua Licentiousnyss aNp IMMORALITY OF THE Provivctat, Press.—During the past few years the New York secular press bas vastly improved in its moral tone, while the religious press has sank sadly in reputation and decency. The most rigid voluntary censorship is daily ex- ercised over its columns, and only through ® mere accident, such aa will happen occa- sionally in the best regulated journals, do we find an impure expression even in the records of the proceedings in the criminal courts, Indeed, 80 far has this become the rule that a ehort time since, when one or two objectionable sen- tences clipped into the reports of a trial in a neighboring county, the whole press, came down strongly upon the offending journals for printing in an amended and purified form evidence which had been given in a court of justice. Time was, and nota great many years ago, thatit wasthought impossible to make a newspaper readable without two or three columns of highly spiced police reports, while the avidity with which the public, or majority of it, swallowed the accounts of a rich seduction or rape case was equalled by the eagerness displayed by the journals in catering to an appetite so depraved. But we have changed all that; and the chango must not only be gratifying to the moral feelings of every good citizen, but also produce the best effect upon the moral tone of the community: We only. want to see a similar improvement upon the morals and taste of the religious press, and then we think New York will be ready to meet the approaching comet and tho Judgment Day, without reproach. While we congratulate our cotemporaries of the metropolitan press upon this reform, 80 much needed and so quictly effected, we feel it to be our duty to condemn the licentious and immoral tone of the press in other great citics—euch cities especially like Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, &., 4&0. Their colamns teem with the most disgusting details of crime in every shape. Boston, whieh was once so highly esteemed for the supposed morality of its men: the virtue of its young wemen and the chastity of its matrona, leads the licentious army, For the Inst month the Boston papers have been filled with reports of triala for sodaction, rape and adultery. The staple literary food of the modern Athenians is more beastly than the ob- scene stuff which is probibited by law in New York. Not only do these journals give the reports with every obscene word carefally preserved, but editorial comments are made, in which the filthy details are reiterated and spiced up to whet the almoet satiated appetite of a sensual and de- praved public—made sensnal and depraved by a licentious and immoral prem. Attention is called to the reports by advertisements, in which the worst features of the cases are temptingly set forward, ae the proprietors of the Broadway bazaars placard their new and choice warea ‘The newspapers vie with each other in hunting up the evidence of man’s beastiality and wo- man’s weakness, and the skill of the writers is exhausted in giving the prurient stuff ia a piquant sha the influence Of these reports and editorials npon a small community Hike Loston may readily be imagined. The drawing room resounds with the elang of the brothel and the grog shops ‘The yonthfal mind becomes early familiarized with vice, and eager to embrace it ‘The remarks on this mabject should got bo ———_———_———__ $$$ $$ levelled at Boston alone, although that olty stands pre-eminent in the ranks of licentioamnes? just at presen. Ia glanolog over our exchanges from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other interior cities, we find a similar longing after forbidden froit, and a similar anxiety to direct the publie attention to it, It teems to be a,sort of rivetry to see which paper sbali be the dirtiest. The journals in these cities are gencrally in a sickly condition, and their condactors eagerly scize at any stuff, however disgusting, that will pander to depraved appetite, and, by a temporary in- crease of their circulation, put a few coppers in their pocketa, In the West there are three great cities—Cincinnati, St. Louis avd Chicago—and we have not really been able to distinguish whiok of the jourpals in those places cau claim pre- eminence in licentiousness. It is almost an even rat is not safe, then, for a resident of the cities we have mentioned to introduce a local journal to bis domestic hearth. In fuct, if he has any re- gard for the well being, tie happiness, the repu- tation, the moral character of his wife, sister, som or daughter, be will avoid the local press as a pestilence more dangerous than the cholera or the yellow fever, for they can onty bill the body, while a wicked preas kills the body and the soul together, In this country we have no official censorship, ‘and it is right there ebould be vone ; but wedo have a law prohibiting the printing and sale of obecene books or uewspapers. Kithee this law should be enforced against the provie- cial press, or the good citizens of every comme- nity afflicted in the manner we have described should combine together and ignore the exlst- ence of the licentious journals until they have undergone a full cours of penance, purgation aud purification. The Religious Anniversaries in New York. The annual gatherings of the religious and benevolent societies of the country begin this week. From all pointsin the rural! districts, from the provinces, and our second class cities, hither the tribes repair as to another Jerusalem. And with the representative men of the princi- ples which are now to receive their annus} eulo- gies, and be ledgerized into the intelligible shape of dollars and centa, there cemes an attendant crowd of excellent people, who take this oppor- tunity of ascertaining the progress of religion and benevolence, to hear the addresses of their favorite epeakers, and in their leisure hours to explore this great and mysterious city, and see @ little of the follies of it—for themselves, The hotels and boarding houses of the more economic and moderate classes profit to a considerable ex- tent by these religious inflaxes. So do the book- sellers and so do the milliners and mantuamakers; for it is certain, however the good men of these societies may differ on the doctrine, the fair we- men go in strong for “ irresistible grace.” It is not, however, on the surface we must look, There are many remarkable peculiarities about these anniversaries. And the great one is, that withont extensive co-operation, mutual support, and very large pecuniary aid, the great cause of religion would not prosper; for ‘this is the drift of all the speeches—the bed-plate of all the ma- chinery. This curious dependence of principle upon the support of those whom it most violently denounces—this exalting of God by sacrificing at the altar of Mammoau—is one of those expedicata which it is said spreads the gospel farthest and widest, and to employ which brings the shepherds of the plains so often within the perils of the smoke of Gomorrah. That “ godliness is groat gain,” both “in the world that now is” and “that which isto come,” is a fixed fact in the minds of every tunctionary who draws «salary out of these institutions; and a good many double cylin- ders, and steam engines, and type moulds aod nimble fingers, set in motion by the same princi- ple, are never idle in earning their share of the advantages. These annaal meetings, then, be- come the great moral and religious machines of the day. The most expert engincers have them under their management aud regulate the pros- sure and the supply of steam One would think that some quict, lovely village in the interior would be selected for these meetings, where, anid the beautiful scenery of nature, and a pare sad heavenly atmoxphere “round their peaceful balan diffusing,” these lambs of the fold would gather themselves together. But far from it, Into the dens of bulls and beara, and wolves In ahoep’s clothing, they enter fearleesly, and generally eo tire with @ full share of the epoils which ace collected in such places. In one thing, then, there is great unity: that of purpose in getting all the money aad doing all the good with it they can. What does not come in by the periodical rills, sometimes rashes in like an avalanche. And it is curious cir- cam stance that of late years bequests to rell- gious associations have become very frequent, and are by no means «mall in amount, These bequeets are often made to the injury of rela- tives who are in want and misery; but the de visees in those cases are never known to give any- thing up, be their misery “never 40 great.” Whet remains after being well tolled as it passes from hand to hand on its way, must be sent to Asia or Africa to save the souls of the heathen—ao work of godliness nearer home will answer the parpose of such heaven born charity. We do not disapprove of the system with which the business of these great socictics is carried oa; itis aa the cover to never ceasing importunity that it attracts our aitention. ‘The American Bi- ble Society is an instance of the advantage of food management ina good cause. The distei- bution of the Bible is the starting point of all re- ligious tmprovement. The removal of this insti- tution from Namen street to its present location has resulted so proeperously that in afew years all the debt created for its new buildings will be paid off easily, and a superb property, uniocum- dered, with a rental of more than twenty thow sand dollars, and adequate to the accommodation of all the various branches of labor connected with the busines of the society, will be entirely ita own. Bat this ix a rare ccourrence. Mow of these great societies run behind band every ear. " What, however, is the aspect which these anni- vorsaries present to the world ot larget Some part of its shading wo have noticed already, bat not the decpest. ‘The grand defect is the want of Christian unity. ‘This is the rock which every one secs, and no one attempts to avoid. In the United States, where there is no restraint on ro- ligious opinions—where even [Mormonism stalks over, as on ita monstrous stilts, unchecked in ite propagandiam, elther by the law or orthodox denunciation, the widest range of differenogs may be expected, but not a syvtem of extermina. tion. This haa become, apparently, the taak and the temper of religiow controversy, a [t existed in the days of Philip of Spain and the French De Medici. The immense advance in biblical learning—the splendid exegesis which ite re searches, discoveries and snalyses now enable ae to make—the profoand contemplation to which