The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1857, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GUEKLDUT BENNETTS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, * prion x. ©. connun OF NANSAC AND FULTON 878 PERM Ge DAL NALD, 2 coms per OF 9 per anmam. ron Rinne aN AID. coy Roterdty fs cmv ee rt Brin or or BEL ny guard of the Condiment, bath forcATak) CORRESPUN LENCE, nee, tbe peat fo, BAM OUN FOMNGN COmMFONDENTS Aun PAL neueY Reavesteb FO Seat sl LOWERS AND TackaGes i cies Wo. 187 AMUDGMANTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THKATRE, Groadway—Toe Sox or tur ‘@rget. WIBLO'R GARDEN Rroatwar—lratias Orrea—Locweza Pometa— Cove emits Massian mie BOWEEY THEATRE, Bowery—Saiion or Frawos ~Rook i od BURTON'S NEW THRATE. iironcwny. opposite Bond at —Kine Lesk—Twaetr Mivorss wits 4 PGeR WALLACK'S THRATBE, Krontwav—*w Awewaur An atv ae 258 Coat ua Two Serte—Tus Review. Laups KRENE'R THRATRE, Broadway—Line ax> Ca- tes Resrce. BARNUMS AMERIVAN Broadway—Afternoon, = asp Weoncs or Womex—laiu Lios, Even og~ jmounos Jack wuuD. earektmoras P —Dake Dees: CR, eatauntng eportant | A from cing quarter of Ue world, F will te Wir | | one hondred thousand impressions in the sane | space of time required a few weeks since to print NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1857.—TRIPLE SHEET. Vast Increase in the Dally Otreulation of the | The War of the Priesthood on the Drama. | religion. Now, the very idea of the bad reform Herald. ‘The circulation of the Henaty bas now reached the henerome figure of reveuty thousand (70,000) | impressions per day. We expect to reach ics | very short tme eighty, nioety, and perhaps one | hondred thousend (100,000) regular daily oiroe- | lation Withic the Lset tew days our new machi- ' nery hes been pleced in complete operation; and we are now evabled to print with equal facitity fitty thousard. The cost of the new machinery hue riseo to the large amount of ninety thousacd doilars ($90,000) cash down. This machicery includes two new large ten cylinder presses, each capable of printing twenty thoasand impressions per hour, and two steam engines of forty horse rT. Petpe daily circulation of the New You Hx- KALD is now greater than that of any other daily journal in Europe or America, without exception. We exceed by many thousands the daily issue of the London Times, which bas, next to the Hx- RALD, the largest circolation. The circulation of the New York Heratp has grow with the growth of this great metropolis during the past AND WOOI'R MINETRELS, 444 Broaa | twedty years; and, caloutatmg from the experi- Peurommsscet s ence of the. past, we may fully expeot to reach Brostway—Rreor:, ithi BUCKLEY'S seme PEEIOF:AR within the next two years'a daily olrculation of MROMANTOW Bald, £1 Brontway—ieeno (O6.,—Rawvorr Momeeues—r Guvazye Minerasis TRIPLE SHEE Rew York, ‘The News. ‘The Buropean malls brought by the steamer Burops reaobed this olty last evening. Mr. Alexander H. vans returaed « pasenger in the Europa, bringing with lim, ‘We understand, the rejected Oallas Clarendon treaty, witl the offic! currespondence which took place between Sir. Dallas and Lord Clarendon respecting it. In anothor co- Fome wili be found our London correspondence, giving iv Gotall the facts of the case, and the rewons of Lori Ms! mereton for decining to approve the amendments as made by the United States Senate, Tho Buropean ilies contain Very little news in addition to that telegraphed from Halifax, which we published yesterday morning. The Londou Post, in epoaking of the departure of the British expedition to China, announces ita belief that there will be severe fighting, and that the British troops at Canton will suffer muob from the climate. Lord Figin's missin, and the position of the goverument op the China question, are Muck canvassed in Europe. We bave advices from Caraccas, Venozucla, to the @Od of April. The Congress of Venezuela had approv ed of the new consitution, which thereby became one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) copies. Maonm | According to the opinions of the greatest men of the age, either Kuropean or Amerioan, this mag- T ~ | nificent metropolis’ has the prospect of becoming s the greatest commercial city that the sun ever shone upon. Its career is bardly begun. Tho population of London is estimated at two and a half millions, but ft is probable that the city of New York and suburbs will equal if not surpass even that magnificent figare before the end of the preeent century. We do not, of course, expect to live to see this, but our descendants may. We have every reason to express our thanks to the generous, liberal and intelligeat people of this great city for the position in whioh we stand to-day. While almeat every journal out of New York, and every politician of every party has been endeavoring for a period of twenty years to calumniate the Hrratp and its conductor, we have risen above their denunciations—treated them aa the idle wind—confident, as we were, that our conduct and our eyxtem were founded on the highest principles, and that the approba- tion of the free and intelligent c!t'zens in the midst of whom we live, was the ouly reward finally adopted. The balioting fur President and Vice | worth deserving or caring for. President war then proceeded with in secret session, and Tesulted io the re-election of Presidont Monagas, and of Senor Griach, bis sen-in-law, for Vice President, for the We have only to say that our career hereafter will be the eame as heretofore—independent, torm of six years. Monagas haz already filled the Pro | fearless, just, generous, and national in the high- sidential chair for eight years, and Lis brother four yoars, and their present election seems to cetablish their rule in the republic. General Flores of Ucuador, who has lately arrived in Veacrueia, received one vote for President. He est degree. A Warnine To Youne Giris,—The tragedy to which Sarah Bloom for a time unconsciously at- has asked to be incoporated in the military Ust of Vens | tached her name, has seemingly closed without a guela, but with what idea is not known. He is already in the army Lst of Ecuador, Peru, Chili aud Bolivia, and is weil lenowsth fer-his aitempt: (o regain the Preeidency of Boualor. Colenet Keith, an Englishman, who served in tho war of ray of light on the terrible otory of which itis the horrid finale, mang girl with “ the long Indopeadcnce, and has tincs been Minister of Findace in | man knows wWhelle®-dhe came, nor why, nor how Veneruele; bas died. He was avout Shy cight yeare of | she perished, Another young girl, it is eald, was age, and exjoyed the respect of the republic. Considerable progress was mi‘e yeoterday in the Bond street murder trial in tho Court of Oyer and Termiaer. Mhe prosceution closed iis case in the afvernoon, kaving examined Coroner Gonnery (who was subjected to a long, orcas ckaminaliocn) and severs! witnesses as to tho light in the rear of the house 21 Hont street the olght of the murder. The counsel for the defence moved that the ebange be dismissed on the ground of insufficiency of ov!- dence to sustain it. The Court denied the motion. They moved thee to dismiss it because the prosecution had not examined the other persons in tho house—tho Misses Cun- Bingham, Eckel and Snodgrass. The Judge held that the proscoution war not bound to prod: them. Finally the Acfence moved, with questiouabie p nce, to dismiss the charge because the Court wae not logally constituted as required by the City Charter of 1463. The latter motion was not pressed. Two witnesves were examined as to the fact of Dr. Burdell’e baring in Decembor last given a obeck for Miss Georgiana Cunning? school foe. That was hardly relevant to the | won Carncehan was called for the defence, nau his theory of the manner in which the wounds were nl by what sort of & person, in refere: to sive. Hoe stated, also, that if any considerable quactity of leather or woollen | clothes had Leen burned in the atic Prosecution, the disagreeabio em the house, and remained in tt week. The Court meets at wine tl Frobabiy have & verdict The war between eo & the oystermen ¢f Princge ly begun. The maneion an ground lately purchased by the quin'e point, were fred t palat Wecneaday, and complet ly . Tho wore oecupled at the Line Ly pine pr ‘ Mow Miraculous excape, For a ful account of the aosur renee see another columr Dr. Danie! H. Bisselle, the new F the Mert 1 Of his efpe. We under: aud that Mr piower, obtained & mandamus y Selah, Commissioner of Ropalcr possession of his books snd paper fos having devolved upon Mr. Taylor (0h Of the Legisiatare. ‘The regular meeting of the Chr mbar of © cain ore Gay was more than usually interesting. «vores. were adopted in reference to the late action of the Legals tare on the osury laws, and communicstions were reat from the new Pilot Comminioners and tho Roart of Ms rine Burveyors. A committer wae appointed in refer n eo Of the for the mind in aa wulng yor were eiscted (Aber column The Roard of Baperrisors mot yestertay. A member Wuggeeted Let as the now act io relation by Un Superyieone had golarrived in this city, beir dutlos wore unknown to Our report will be ¢ (them, and moved to adjourn to Thureday nert, which was | ered to ‘The Poart of Aldermen mot yewerday, Alferman Monaghan moved tat in consequenoe of the doults ow: .t tag ef to the recent act concerning the Mar fbeonce of the opinion of the Corperation © nud ia the | found dead a_ couple of days ‘ago in Richmond county, with her skull battered in by a hammer. So the list goes on from day to day, and from week to week. They die; the newspapers give us & word portrait of the poor pale corpses, with the distorted features and the stamp of brutal violence; they are laid under the sod, and every- body forgets all about them. How many—+hall we say how many doren—girls are found mur dered in this vicinity every twelvemonth ! There isno doubt as to the manner of their death No question but they are assassinated by brutal rowdies whose passions they have been compelled to satisfy, and whose security they pur- chase by the sacrifice of their life. They are killed lest they should tell The deed once done, the chances of detection sre very slender. The sea tells no tales, and the old lying sentence “murder will out’ bas no tecrors for fellows who associate daily with anpunished, undiscovered murderers, They feel safe, and read the reports | of the discovery of the body with a decent show of interest. They know the police too well to be afraid of being troubled by them. It ecems quite certaln that the horrid crim» of gizl-murder is on the increase. We never remem- ber to have known so many cases follow each thing perbaps must be allowed for the incroaso of population; but tho number of mardored girls cecms out of ali proportion with the ioccease of the city. We appreheod that our sewing girls, and factory gir's ere not aa prudent as they might be; thet they make friends of poopie whom they hardly know, and innocently expose thomselves t dango which they do not realies, It ought to be weil nnderstood that no pradent girl shoald be out alone, or with a strange maa, after night tall. No girl chould be persuaded to drive in the conutry, or ball in = boast, or place herself in any way beyond the reach of people's voices, with a _; | man whom she does not know intimately. Girls working in factories or 6 wing cetablishments +bou'd cros# the city in knots of two, three or four, especially in the evening. No girl who re- epecta hervelf will allow » stranger on any con- sideration to converse with her, or acoompsny Ler through the street. It is disregard of these obvious rules which has | facilitated tho late murders, The New York | Towéy mourt be guarded against more cautiously | than a wid beast. He is more bratal thea the | English rufflan, more tresoherogs thaa the Irish mutderer, more vindictive than the Spanish bravo, muse cowardly than the Asiatic aasaesin, Ho will j murder a poor girl, whose peace of mind he has | marred; but a single man will scare him: he never hts uniese he has two on his side to one against vm. Against this species of brute, which the po dy uw Monday text Tho Bosrd «!journ | police never trouble, it behooves young girls ‘The new Holice Commianioniers mot exsin yootorday, but | % be well on thelr ganrd. oe scoompliibed wothing It ls now regarded as certain Wat | Judge Wiving will not wecept tue post of Genora Super tan drat Williaen Heary Quackeot zsh, Boa) Parcel) an Baramond wore wrested yeaeriay by Mr brook, Loe apecial ag sat of Lhe Pom On AR Charge of stealing Yom Whe Oy ‘19th Gh & letter copwining two walue Of #200 each, directed to G . The nocused were held ton et Flour was quit ty lore option , at 146 ket close! { an advance on common & & Ie, pnt for good to extra do. at barrel, Wheat continued rm, with raie The airy embraced common to cholee whit ALG. The £1 FS 9 9186, Milwankio club oold at #1 49, « Dlinots pime winier rod, with prime red $1 OF. Chotes white was nearce, ond Missoort « Grorere of that standard was bold at #2 Wherabiy edive at 82 a Bhs, for Western Sowtherh yoliow Pork was rinady, with salee OH B, Check on the day, and nt $38 00 in then “ane Quiet, but firm. The aalee ombranad about hfe, Cuba muscorade et prin " ere CUS OR evict. Preignee wr. prio given elaewhor MPoring for Prgi oh ports aty, with rather more | | the Washington hotel keepers, aad pothtag more, Tux Nattonan Hore, Disxase.—The Acade- my of Medicine, we think, the other evening » | wave the quietua to the enormous humbug that tlw late Nationa) Hotel disense at Washiagton was | the reault of a dastardly attempt to polson Mr. | Buchanan. The stinking sewers, ventiog their eadly exhelations into and all over the house, il, or onght to, account for the malady aod ve the mystery to the #atiefnotion of all sonsl- ' That any humae being could enter. tele euch a diabolical aid venomocg hatred of h hy poison, tn offending peo- poses all bonads Tehave no doubt that Mr. Ba Troeid nt, and singe, i really the 1 sorts of men th » of Mon 2 a vue of his well wn amiable, kind wadiliatocy chara | ferasa man and a8 a politician. We suspect that this pol oning humbug is the weak inventlon of come disappomted office beggar, or some of The daily pres gives diarval'y th» rec yd | ing tao better, ia, to say the Least of it, whsud of our thea rea, Is @tsousses the various mori | That they sbow'd revile thea i eatural, Lt and ‘slents of the sev ral actors, acd critoi#es th» | the rcligious prees, thea go or ty nbuse its avigh qua ty of the pleys they perform Toe press | hors and fellow-creatures; bat, if De. Daaderke «a, @oy, therefore, not wrhout reason, be called the | or ony otter of the clergy, think to reform th» organ of toe stage. There is acother elag. how- etege, let them begio, and show their compoteaoy ever, and another class of actors, who stand stool | ¢ the work by first reforming thomseives, When from (he first, who aleo have their organ wh c® | the religions olass become good aud vieturus, the ie calied the religious press. This Intter orgaa is | exemple will be eo coutagions that all other «bol'y devoted to the iaterests of tho several | classes will teko the iufcetion, and vietae will partis it represents, It do-eribes the sveral | hecame en epidemio; butas long as Kalloshs and preaobers, applauds them highly, tells wcnd-rfai | Averys and Ouderdonks exist, we are ia ao dan stories of the great resulta of their preaching, ic | gor of that terrible epidenio of virtue among the forme the world fom tims to time of the great | clergy or laity, or even the sinners of the stage. | other in so short 2 space of thme as laely. Somo- | revivals which are going on ia tre oo .gregatioas of their favorite ,reachers, and, ia a word, docs ell In ite power t+) promote the views avd iute- reste of the parties it represeata, Now, since the retigtous pres: is, in fact, nothing but the stra't- ened acd varro®# organ of a peculiar s'yle and character of performers. of aspecial and pculiar department, we thik it is a remarkable exhivi- tion of arrogance and effrontery for this special organ to: aasume the airs it has lately beea dolog in attacking the organ of the other -stage, and venting its spleen and malice against those who epeak in its favor. The: seoular press, properly condaoted, is de- voted to the instruction :of mankind, and in giving that information which, being afterwa-ds colidcted and digested, oonstitates history, It does more thon history oven pretends to do—it gives in slogular and wonderful details a view ot tho domestic condition of ecclety and of the economical etate of the world. How much more acourate and insteggfire our knowledge of the ancients would gw be, if, insiead of a mere ebroniole of political evonts and military exp xdi- ditions, we had a view of the social condition of the people ia reports similar to our police and law reports and records of criminal trials! Be- sides eorving these purposes, the pross contsias literary and scientific reports, and disquisitions on various subjects, involving oftentimes pro- found learning and deep reasoning. But the religious press fulfils none of these useful ob jecta. Its ch'ef purpose is to extol und magnify, at the expense of truth, the special sect and de- nomination of which each several sheet is the organ and representative. The religions press ia the especial instrument and organ of religious jealousy, opposition and hostility. Contention is ite life, and hostile attacks upon all contrary ecete is the very bread It feeds upon. It foments religions quarrels, it exoites religious bigotry, it stirs up religious animosity, filling the minds of men with gall and bitternces. It does all this necessarily in the pursuit of its avocation, which is, with cach soveral sheet, the exaltation of one eect over all others; and in thus doing all this, it breeds doubt, suspicion, and disgust against.re- ligion, in the minds of many. All theso baneful inflrences are wholly unmitigated by its religious cant, ite unctuous affeotation of sanctity, its fierce inoulcation of Judaistic severity in Sab- beth keeping and other. mere formalities, in which neither justice nor right conduct have any share. It is, therefore, an unmitigated evil. Who can venture to deuy the truth of these positions? Viewed in the mirror of truth, the religious press will be seen precisely in the light we have here described it. It would, in fact, be imposible to caloulate the evils inflicted upon #0- ciety by euch an organised band of polemical “bruisers,” whose business it is to quasrel with each other, and with all the world besides. Yet this so-called “religious press,” in the most pro- found ignorance of its own character and merits, | and aguming the character of truth and virtue itself, has come out in the fiercest style against j the dramatic stage and against the great Bel- lows of the day for having ventured to blow kindly of it, The Odserver—one of tho religious | sheets referred to—pronounces Dr. Bellows’ late | address ae “the enddest moral spectacle we ever | looked on,” and charges the Dootor with “pan- dering to the diseased appetites of the play-going publio, and exhorting people to go to the devil's house.” The Jnlaldigencw, another of these sheets, | fs nearly as bitter as (Le Observer, and pronounces dramatic entertainments to be “inimical to vir- tue and detrimental to morals.” Another of the | sane press—the Evangelit-—discourses in a simi- lar bitter strain and consigne all to the assoola- tion of the worm that never dics, Now let us look at the class and profession | which has been thus 60 unmercitully attarked by the religious press, With all thelr faults, which are neither greater nor perhaps less than those of other professions and classes of men, they cer- tainly exhibit nothing like the starched pride, the miechievousness avd littleness of the “ white choker the Kalloch race—which bas fallen foal upon them. On the contrary, they are generally | a cheerful, mirthful, sociable and kindly set of | people. Compared together, leaving out the question of absolute morality, the actors on the stage—sinnors a4 they are—exhibit mora of the | kind, good and geatle qualities of practical religion than many of their fierce opponeots do, But on the other hand, taking up the question of strict morality, we bear roore in our law reports of adal- | tery, fornication, simony end pecalation among | their opponents—raints aa they profess to be— than we do among the people whom they denounce and vituperate. Ifa strict comparison were made, | it would stand out in bold relief that the class and | profession of men which tho religions press extols to the skies ie not a whit better, more virtaous | nor more moral, than the class and profession of men which the same press consigns to the lowest | and hottest regions of Tartarus, The one class aims to amuse and entertain mankind, bat the other, whatever ite talk may be, actaally destroys them. Tho priest class of every coantry, | and every age—ono of which the press in question is the organ—has been engaged in creating more bloodshed, as a profemion, thaa any other claas Tt has fomented more wars, consigned more men to death, burnt more at the retake for opiaion’s sake, than any other profession or class of men has ever been guilty of doing. It would do the same things now, on this day, in New York, if It only hed the power. Tt te # falee hypothesis on which the rellgtons prees bas planted itsclf. {t goes apon the muppo- ritfon that it and the olaas it roproseste aro ex- cluelvely good, and that anothor certain claw is cxclasively bad. Thiele morsily, philosophically, and religiously falee. No one mass or maltitude of men is essentially better or worse then ray othor | mors of men. To suppose euch a thing would be | an abeard as to euppore that one mars of clay | were different from another ras of the «amo olay. The religions presa, and the clorgy it represents, think themselves much better than other people, ‘This ia an anheppy mistake, The world in gene to be mush worse than other poople. We do not ourselves think #0, bul wo aro morally cortain nese which constitute an cenontlal part of true The Bond Street Murden—The Defence. The counsel for the people in the prosecution of Mrs Emma Auguste Cunningham alias Bur- dell, for the murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell, closed yesterday afternoon, after cxeaining some dozen witnesses in addition to those whose testi- mony had heretofore been given. Coroner Con- nery was on the stand for the purpose of identi- fying the written depositions of Mra Cunning- ham at the inquest; and advantage was (taken of that fact, by her counsel subjecting him to an ex- tended crees-exemination. The leerned Judge, however, restra'ned the alightest: devtusion from. | ‘the strict legal limits of the cess, and therefore: however readable the report of the Corocer's tes timony is, there was nothing in it. of any impor- tance to either side, Casas ‘The object sought to be a‘tained by the ovl- dence of the other witnesses was to strengthen these points of the prosecution, namely, the ob- servance of an unusual light in the house 31 Bond street the night of the murder, and the fact of Mrs, Cunningham being a left-handed woman. The only witnesses that threw any light on the first point were, Mr. Frodoricks, who Lives in Bleccker street, and occupies a room command- ing a view of the rears of Nos. 29 and 31 Bond street, and who observed, about half past 11 on the fatal night, a glancing light from one of like the reflection might be cast from the motion of a polished rocking chair; and Mr. and Mra, Sohwarts- welder, who occupy the house street, and who testify that there was only a faint light in their room at that time—the neoes- eary deduction being that the light observed by Mr. Fredericks was trom the room of the mar- dered man. Noither of the ocoupants of No. 29 Bond street beard any unusual noise that night, aithough their room was the pattern one of Dr. Bardell’s, though the door was open and the lady Isy awake till 12 o'c'ock waiting for the retarn of her husband ; and her cross examination showed this remarkable fact, that when experlments wore being subsequently made, without her knowledge, aa to the transmission of sound from Dr. Bur- dell’s room, she heard distinctly in her basement the cry and the falling body, resorted to as-tests, As to Mrs Cunningbam’s left handedness, two matyons of the city prison testified to her sewing with her left hand; bat even though that were es- tablished, it could not now be of mach use to the prosecution, in view of the inability of the phy- sicians to form any defin'te opinion as to whe- ther the blows were inflicted by « left handed pereon. Finally, the prosecution produced Mr. Maguire to identify a pistol cold by him to Dr. Burdeli (merely for the parpore of basing an ar- gument upon); and the defence availed them- selves of this witness to show that the deceased was on bed terms with all his blood relations and with the witness himeelf. ‘The prosecation rested here. Counsel for the defence moved to dismiss tho charge, on tho ground of its being entirely unsustained by evi- dence. The motion was denied, and eo were two sabsegaent motions to the same cnd, based, oe on the point that the proecoution did not, as it was bound to do, produce as witnosses tho othor persons in the house, to wit, the Mlsees Cannicg- bam, Snodgrass and Kckel; ard the other on the ground that the court was sot properly cousti- tuted, inasmuch as the charter of 1853 reqnired two Aldermen to be associated with a Judge in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. It is difficalt to reconcile the motion to dismiss the indictment a8 being unproved, with the other motion as to the constitution of the court. If the first were well founded, the ecoond was a mere lawyer's quibble, a resort to which could only be prejadl- cial. In the opening of tho eave for the defence the ground was taken that tho murder was committed not by any of the inmates of the house, but by eome of the relatives or acquaintances of Dr. Burdell, with moet or all of whor he had been 01 hostile terms; and the accused party was, protty plainly indicated. Three or four wnesses were exam!ned for tho defence. Rer. Luther Beochor, of Saratoga Springs, is the principal of the school where Mrs Cunningham's third daugbter (Georgians.) is, aod he avd hie brother proved tie fact of the paymat for Georgiana's term, in December, by Dr. Bor- dell’s dratt on the Artisans’ Bank. This is not material in s legal point of view, however it may go to fortily Mrs. Cunningham's allegation of martiags. Sargeon Carnochan gave some very !mportant testimony, bearing upon the force with which some of the wounds were inflicted, the question whether they were intlicted by a lefthaaded or right banded person (be eaye by a right-handed person), a# to the likelihood ot the aasllant bearing marks on his person, and as to the greater probabil'ty of that betag so If the assail- ant wero a woman. Tho point of groateat impor- tance, however, in Dr. Carnocian’s test’mony, is in reference to the thoory of burning the bloody Clothes avd leather in the atti, Ho gives it aa | his opinion that the disagreeahlo smell would re- main in the apartment for at least a woek. Tho Court meets at 9 o'clock this morning, and the caro wili probably go to the jary thi week. Maxagens ov Tux New Yous Henato.—Evory | now and then some newspaper comes ou! with the | old etory that this or that distinguished outsider | hae controlled, or does controd, the columoa, the politics and the dertiny of tho New Youn Hx- | RAL, The last report of this sort fs that a oer- tain Ms, Johnoon wae the editorial faetotum of this | journal Gating ovr late absence in Europe. Bat | the trath may as well be told. ‘This Mr. Johnson, during the Interval eforeeald, did writs occasion ally for thie paper; but he received his inatruc- tions and his pay for tis services He bad no more control of onr columns than the boys who act as the memengers of our editorial rooms. We understand, however, that there are always among the officeeggara at Washington, New rai, judglog them by thelr fruits, thinks them | York andeleewhers, one, yea several Important outsiders, who manage, or have managed, the ba- siness of this office, and whos Infiaence, there that they are far inferior to dramatie artiste in fore, is paramount at headquartera, Wo oan oaly genersl, in the kindness, amisbility, and good ray, that If there aro xilly birds to be canghs with such trickery, they deserve to be pleoked. Maladiotubstration of Justice, Soversl of the Paris joursals aro eogaged in cri- ticiving the administration of justice ie the Uatted Statee, from the text of Coroner Coacery's witti- ctems on the Ba'deil inquest, end the extraordi- nery conduct of Me, Couoseltor Busteed in the Freveb ¢xtraditioa case. Some of these joarnals ere mer-y at our expense, end some are intig- bunt et what icy consider a degradation of jus tie. We give the most aerions of theee extracts— from (be Comstitutionnel, the lending paper of Parie—is e: other coluwn, acd we invite geseral attention to it, Our readers peed not be isform- «d_ that we have the beet body of laws ia the world— the freest, ag belng the emanation from tbe dco ions of tree courts for period of centu- ries and net the mere dicum of a despot, like Jurtinian’s or Nepoleon's code- and the beat, be- conse the most frequcatly altered and adjusted townlt the growing neceseldes of civilization. Yet there is po doubt that, with thie great advan- tage on our ede to start with, we mast yield to the French in the adainieration of ja-tice. We do not peiform the work as thoy do. We have met et the bar who shou'd be ptoughing fields or blaciving boots, avd whose: unfititees for their po- sition leads to ungraceful scen-#; we elect men to office who are not capablo of performing any da- tice; we insist on delegating the choice of every jud‘oial officer to the people. The peouliarity, par excellence, of the admtote- tration of justice in this country is that justice is not administered at all. That criminals esoape ; that men openly guilty of all kinds of crimes are not punisded ; that the law declares one thing, end the facts another ; that no amount of evi- dence, no degree of certainty, co appaliing hor- ror at the offence commitied suffice to ensure the due conviction of a crimiosl This, we will take leave to inform our Frenoh vympathizers, is a fact far more important and grave than any con- duct whateoever of obscure individuals. It is growing more and more uncertain every year whether criminals can be convicted under any circumstances. District Attorneys have learned diccretion from experience, and no amount of evidence will induce them now to predict, with any confidence, tho conviction of a culprit, They distrust witnesses, and judges, and above all juries; distrust them so utterly that if they could make the juries ocular witnesses of a wurder, they would not atill expect confidently a verdict. Tbey would still foresee that crotchets might impede the conviction of some juryman, and that, as so often happens, a disagreement might prevent a verdict. We have laws against murder as against other crimes; but life is taken away constan‘ly, and no one ever suffers, Mr. Herbert, 8 member of Congress, kills a waiter; Mr. Lee shoots a man who visits him in his office; 9 man kills his wife’s © friecd-at Boston; Polly Bodine commits homl- cide; Baker ehoots Poole; Graham kills Loring; on every side, North, Soath, East and: West, men kill their: fellows, and no one ever pays tho spenalty which the Inw has pronounced against the crime-of marder. Among the cases we have mentioned, the only one in which a verdict was obtained ended in a few weeks’ imprisonment only. The inference which is drawn from the re- cords of our criminal courts is that the written in- junction of tho Jaw against murder is merely com- minatory, and that (be homicide, in the United States, usually goes unwhipt of justice, Years ago, Monsieur de Tocqueville noticed the growing tendency toward laxity in the admin- istration of justice in this country; events have justified bis warning, and the state of things which he pictured as 8 frightful and possible con- tingency has actually come uponua Asa gene- ral rule, it isnot, practically. a crime to take awey life in the United States. The courts do not panish, as the police do not prevent murder. Every man’s life among us de- pends on the chance of his falling in with good company. If he does not, he must protect him- self. A quick eye. a sure hand,a pretty reck- less finger on the trigger of an ever ready and re- liable revolver are the only eure safeguards against the areacsin in these deys and in thls country. If a man can make sure of these, and if he can ra- ly upon a wall to get bis back against, co as to be attacked in front, he may possibly go throagh life in safety, and reach # respectable old age; if be bas not these advantages, he must trust to chance and fate, The local authorities of tre elty wil not protect bim; and ho knows, every one knows, tbat no terror of punishment will dis- arm the hand that is reised to stab him. Tbe or- deal which, in some countries, operates to quell tbe bed man’s boldness and eripple the warder- er’s erm; tho trial with its rlerm laexorable for- malities, and superhuman aiftings of the buman beert; the eequel—a prison and years of solitary twirery, or the mors wholesome solution of the matter by the hangman's drop: these are terrors unknown to the wicked here, for they are taught by daily experience, that no matter what crimes they may commit and however clearly they may be brought home to them, it will be next to im- possible to find a jury to convict and a judge to sentence them according to the law. Tae New Prretavine Pouck Piariwe Tremrs.—The new Police Commissioners, in the very outact, are playing their best tramps. Their appointment of Judge Whiting, late of the Sa- preme Bench, ae head policeraaa, isa grand move. If we mey take this as a eample of tho fish io their baeket there will be no room for the email fry. We ehall, on tho contrary, next be informed, perhaps, that Commodore Vanderbilt is « police captain, George Law another, and William B. Astor treaeurer of the concera. We have not heard of the decison of Jadge Whiting in the premises; but should the baton of “little Georgy Mateeli’’ bo accepted by the Judge, the next beet step would be to wppoint Jadge Edmonds (uleo a former member of the Sapreme Beach), aa a principal police aaiistant of the now Caief. We think #0, because of tue powerfal auxiliary forces, in the shape of invisible epirits and spiritual me epirite and their mediuna (ith all reepect for Judge Edmonds and his opinions), bave been pleyivg the foobor the importer loog cnough. Now let then be tried 4 the deteotive corps of our new police system. Why not? Comrrere Spurr tn 1m Democratio Caue-— Tie all over with our Now York democracy. ‘The anion for the spoila of last Novomber has resulted in splitting the party into fragments upon the division of the spolla Poor Ploroe may even now woep over the fallen democracy of the city of New York. Tammoeny is stubified. There ara two regular democratic committees, cook inning ite bulletin to roy: men all to pot amoug wi eee rank and Ge The fect in, that esoepting Mr. Sohell—s man of character and ronpectebility, and known sa each of all meo—our late New York appolotacats wee most ualortunat in every polot of view. Rye Gers snd Sanders, Herrivs and Hart, are aot the sort of official eeieotious culsulsted to restwe pesce to the purty bere, or coatidenoe to the com munity, We wish the President aod bis Cabiact could have heard tho opiaiovs of tho people ef all pertios of this civy, tousbing these appoiat- mente, on the day the sstouistiog news was re ceived in town, But the edmiuictratioa will hes by ard bye There isa etormia the horizoa These eppolatments are pot goiog through the United States Senate as easi+y os they were tarust upon the Cabloes There is bsd weathor bre wig, and there will be some ugty equalls among the democracy on or before the meeting of Congress, What Should the Conquerors tn China Do? The Hon. William B. Reed, of Philadelphia, our newly appointed Commisaloner to China, wae in the city tbe other day, gaining information in reference to the views of our Chinese merchants, He eill leave in the course of next mooth for the ! gcene of his diplomatic labora. It is said that he ‘ has already received full instruotions from the government aa to the course he is to pursue, We notice’ by the Hiropean papers that some : Journalist has ob bf note of Lord Elgin’s instructions, and th - amount to a demand for a free entry fo instead of five, and for permission for an’ “oollege” of five diplomatiste at Pekym. @ther demands are men- tioned, suoh as the .right of having » military guard for British Consuls in the eight porta; but these are the principal pointa Now if the journalist who published this mo- morandum be rightly informed. the instructions to Lord Elgin reflect very little credit on the British government. For, practically, the open- ing of eight ports will be a very elight improve- ment on the opening of five, which followed the treaty of 1846, At the time that treaty was exe- cuted, it was expeoted that all the newly opened ports would be the seats of a foreign trade equal to that of Canton. Events have shown the fallecy of this expeotation. With the exoep- tion of Suanghee, none of the new ports have ever been worth considering, as a place of trade Amoy, Foo-chow aod Niog-po are hardly ever visited by European or American vessels; aad wo believe that latterly, the fureign Consuls at these ports have pot deemed it necessary to re- aide permanently at their posta, All the forcigs trade ie done through Cantoa and Shanghes, aad would continue to be done at these ports, ver though the Chinese should admit us to overy twa and village on their sea coast. If, indeed, such river porte as Nankin are fa- cluded among the eight tor whose opening Lied Elgin is directed to prees, then there would be some reason in the application, If the Hagildh intend to prosecute hostilities until they are ad- mnitted to the cities. on tho great rivers, then ne objection can bo taken to thei pollcy—from a commercial point of view. But tho language of our European cotetaporary does’ not, on the face of it, bear this interpretation. It appears to ap- ply to seaports onthe seaboard only, =~ The only sensivic thing that can be done in the wey of extending aed improving our relations with the Chinese will be to obtain from their ge- verpment ample liberty to ascend and trade on their great rivers, eo far as they are navigable, and to sell in their coantry, wherever buy- es can be found. the goods, wares, and pro- duce of the United states and Europe. We take it that in respect of the necessaries of lifo the Chineee want nothing of us, They can clothe themselves in home-made stuffs which are far cheaper toan our cheap goods; they can live roy- aly on two cents worth of rice per day; a family can be reepectably maintained, in most parts of China, for five cents a day. What the Chinese want of us, avd what they will take—if they are asealled in the proper manner—are railroads, steamboats, telegraphs, steam machinery, and generally, the prodaocts of industrial ingenulty, such as India rubber goods, &., &. The lo- comotive contrivances are likely to be tho best card. Even the Philadelphian is leas of a travel- Jer than tbe Chinawan; the travelling caravans on the bigh roads are a couple of miles long and follow each other at a distance of air to ten miles; the passage boats form fleets such as even we can hardly realize; yet, the fastest travelling arrangement in China does not exceed five miles an bour, and the sleeping hours must even thea be dedocted from the teenty-four, Too mails are carried on men's backs, between cities of which New York woald only be a common, ordinary sized ward. Yet the Chioaman is « highly intelli- gent and intensely commercial person; he would see at a glance the sdvantages of cheap, rapid and regalar locomotion. He would realize the telegraph in an instant. There, avd oar manufactures generally, are the articlee we waut to send to China, and the right to peddle them up the Blue aod Yellow rivers, and especially in that big city on the latter which is said to contain eight millions of inhabitants, would be worth a whole ward fall of “colleges” at Pekin. This would really make the War with China a benefit to commerce and civilization. This might help to introduce the Chinose inte our femily of nations Bat if all tho fighting is to end iu the opening of some more aseless soa- | ports on the coast, sod the imprisonment of five = Pekin, after the fashion of the Ruselans who are copfined there for five yoars at fa time under the same diplomatic pretence, no- thing in the world will come of it but disappoint- ror Ove Hovsx.—-We perceive that Mr. Belmoat, Charge at the Hague, is an applicant for a new and largec fleld for stook- jobbing, in an application for themission to Spain, He mey powibly get it. We don’t know. Strange thiog» are happening every day, and there is quite » reserrection going on among the fossil politicians and money changers. Previous to his appointment to the Hague, as United States Minister, by poor Pierce, Mr. Belmont had been officiating bere as the Consul Geners] of Austria and aa the Wall | Rothechild. We hare reason to bellove that Mr. Belmont, in the transfor of his official service from the Emperor of Austria to poor Pierce, has made the most of the matn chance, as a stook- Jobber, nnder tho advantages of his officiel pod- tion. Nor ts this all, We suspect now, that the new railroad enterprises: of Spain have attracted his epecolative imagination to Madrid—not so mtch fn view of a new theatre for Amorican diplomacy and Avrtrian dinners, aa for the main chance of “more monieh’ in keen operations with the lame docks and spread eagles of the Spanteh capital, Our lest information of Mr. Belmont located b'm at Plorenos, where, it te said, he wae operating with the Italian bankors, who look upon American travellers as pigeons and beretion, only fit to be placked and roasted. Very woll. Should this steokjobbing smbaam- dor be tramsforred to Madeit he may ponibty ‘ |