The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. See JaMES GORDO BUESAETT, OPrICe 4. ©. coRNER OF WAREAT ANP PULTON ATE, He. 151 AMUSEMENTS THIS KV BRING. |, Broadway—Ticrt Bors Prars— ELIS irmeraanas “Bee, ‘on rae Haase 1Y THEATRE, Bowery—Liwpa. tus Pxcar Gini, on Mose SONG Yau ConsrinaTons—O'FLANIGAN AND THE Parnes. ° RURTON'S NEW THRATRE, Beovway, Bond at, RERTONS Weeeeauon Unreorectas’ ‘Venase Beans @revex Tamon- Boas or tur Hovss. ULAOK’S THRATRE, Brosdway—Tua Gauiovs F aut: hae tors Wire Sonar LAUB \ KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway—Maaninn Lire —Vauuerr. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUNEUM, Broadway—Afernooa Urcocay Morta:—Liwxxice Bor, BveningPuacp AND ITS Viorm. GEO. CURISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTR! 444 Broad ‘way—Ermioriax Exrentainugnts—New Year Oats, — BUCKLYY’S SERENAD! 635 Broadway—Caixess Gencracta or Arappin—Nacno Bexcs, dc. MECH NTCS B 4) Broad: ‘Mnano Mev: ae. Guinsrahaan easoperar Detasts Mowe New York, Monday, June 1, 1857, . Mails for Kurepe. i-< ‘The Conard steamship Niagara, Oapt. Wickman, will ‘eave Bouton, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. = ‘The E mails will close in this city'at « quartog ‘past one o’clook to-morrow afternoon, ‘The European edition of the Humatp, printed in French aad English, will be published at ten o’oleck in the morn- img. Bingle copies, in wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the ew Youx Hmnatp will bo received at the following places ta Europe:— & Co. | ~-0tinge "unin ~splaed a ‘Villiam st, 8 Place de la Bourse. 9 Chapel street. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Humatp will @ombine the ews received by mail and telegraph at the @ffice during the previous week, and up te the hour of The News. ‘The steamship Canadian was due at Quebec yes- terday with news from Europe to the 20th inst., four days later than previous advices. The managers of the Canadian telegraph lines, however, refuse to open their offices on Sunday evening, and we are therefore anable to state whether or no the steamer has arrived. Gov. Walker reached Lecompton, Kansas, on ‘Wednesday last. His inaugural eddreas asserts, among other declarations, that the laws of the Ter- fitory will be maintained by the entire force of the government. Havana papers of recent date contain advices from St. Domingo City to the 4th ult. Ex-Minister Del- monte has fled to Curacos, having escaped from the republic es if by magic, while his enemies were seeking for him in order to bring him to a strict account. His patron, Gen. Santana, is in Jamaica, having taken advantage of the American treaty in French Guiana, and was allowed to embark. Al- though the new administration is earnestly endeavor- ‘tng to improve the present state of the country, the prevailing misery is dreadful. Provisions are so ~ “peares, bore all native rice (which is the chief ar. ticle of consumption), that in a month's time there ‘Will not be a grain left. The truce for two years ‘took effect from the 14th of February, bat up to this |. ‘time its benefits are nominal. Without a lasting peace St. Domingo can do no more than sustain her present condition, for improvement does not take root in the tented fleld of the genius of war. It is said that Santana will go to Curacon to join his fa- vorite ex Minister, Delmonte. | We have news from La Ventosa (Mexico), the | western terminus of the Tehuantepec route, to the | Ast ult. The Danish clipper ship Cimber was in | port from San Francisco. While entering the har- | bor she saw the wreck of the schooner Mary Taylor. The construction of a breakwater in the | harbor is recommended as very emential to the | ultimate guccess of the railroad company’s plans ‘Phe natives regard the work as finally suspended, and say that $20,000, borrowed cash, is due them by the company. Labor rated very cheap. The rainy eeazon had set in. We have advices from South America dated at Buenos Ayres, April7. Precautions had been taken to keep the yellow fever out of Buenos Ayres, but it was still raging virulently at Montevideo. A revolu:ion was installed in Rosario, on the Ist of April, to oust Governor Lopez, and elevate Sr. Eobeque in his place. The message of President Lopes. of Paraguay, was devoted principally to the relstioa of hia troubles with the American govern- ment. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, writing on the 12th nit., states that there was great excitement amorg the produce dealers, and that the depression in the markets with regard to bread- #tuffs continued, owing to several arrivals of flour, corn and meal, which had greatly increased pre- vious stocks. Nearly all the recent imports had been stored, thereby affording no prospect of im- provement in prices. A continuance of rainy wea- ther bad improved the crops, but the yield of sugar would undoubtedly be 8,000 hogsheads less than that of last year. The island was vefy healthy. Dry ard pickled fish were in plentiful supply. The following were the current prices:—Sugar, $7 25 per 100 pounds; molasses 41c. per gallon; rum 70c ‘a T2c.; ginger $6 per 100 pounds; empty hhds. and casks $5 each. Freights to neighboring colonies were active, but at low rates. The White street Police Commissioners issued a fcbedule of “ precincts” for police service, on Satar- day, which is very materially different from the pre- | sent subdivision of New York into districts. The captains and men ander the old system are just now im some strait for their pay, which is two pay- ments behind hand. The strife between the munici- pal and State authorities will be in some respects divided by the final action of the Aldermen to night on the municipal watch ordinance. Yet paoh is the feeling in the department, that as many a8 360 t 400 of the beet men talk of throwing ap their commissions and accompanying Matsell West. ‘The new Board, unterrified by the Sapervisors, con- tinue not only to discuss patrolmen, bat even a horse police anda marine police. They begin their ac- tion today on » docket of fifteen captains and all the patroimen, all arraigned for disobedience. The United States sloopof-war Galveston, from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Philadelphia The Boards of Supervisors, Aldermen, and Coun- | cilmen commence their June sessions today. But very little business, however, will be done until the decision of the Court of Appeals upon the questions in dispute respecting our municipal difficulties is rendered. This will probably occur about the mid dle of the month. Further particulars of the recent developementa of the Newburg murder case will be found in our report elsewhere. In spite of the culpable disclosure of the plans of the officers, Mr. Clark has succeeded im secaring several important witnesses, including McLangblin, Sparks, and others, who will be exam- ined before the jury today. hsaarereyramrndans ip rade syeistiscd fo Saturday—Vorph le afternoon, clear ; evening, hurday—| clear ; : heavy thunder showsr. ty 2 Pe acter gs clear ; afternoon, clear ; evening, D » Clear end warm ; afternoon, clear; evenlug, clear. Turstay—Morning, clear and warm ; afternoon, clear ; "Wednsiday-—Morning, clear sod warm ; aflernoou, clear ead windy; , raln. m clear and warm; clear; quality considered. The lots sold embraced fair to good Ca- Dadian white at $1 80.0 $1 85, and common Canadian club ‘at $1 60; choice white was scarce and prices firm. Corn was lees buoyant, and sales chiefly confined to Western mixed at $1. $1 08; Southern yellow was held at $1 08, and white do, at $108 a $1 04, Pork was tolerably active, with sales of mess at $23 85, and 200 do. good quality or brand at $24. Sugars were quiet and without noticable relaxa- ton on the partof holders. Rio coffee was firn, with sales Of about 1,250 bags at 10}¢c.a11c., and 300 Bahia at at 10;¢c. Freights were inactive and without change of moment In quotations. The Municipal Confiict—Important Decision of the Court of Appeals—The Authority of our Ancient Charters Recognised. In another colamn will be found the official re- port of the decision of the Court of Appeals in the Broadway Railroad case. We give it entire, less for the importance of the direct question that it involves thaa for the remarkable collateral con- firmation which it affords of all the views and ar- guments advanced by us, on the unconstitution- ality of the new city charter. So completely in fact does it cover all the points to which excep- tion has been taken, that it may be regarded as a decision in advance by the Court of Appeals, of the whole question. Tho Court recognises the full force and authority of our ancient charters, and decides that the powers conferred by them on tbe Corporation are of a two-fold character—po- litical and governmental—and that neither the State nor the citizens can divest them of them or abridge them. The decision maintains the Sharpe grant as an act which the Corporation was legal- ly entitled to make in its governmental capacity, the control which they exercise over the streets, lanes and highways of the city being a sovereign power yielded to them by the State for the public benefit. If there be any consistency in judicial reasoning, it is clear that the principles enunciated in this decision will sustain the action of Mayor Wood and his colleagues. No one that gives it an attentive perusal can fail to perceive its applicability on all essential points to the ob- jections raised by them to the new charter. We repeat, that on the strength of this decision we are entitled to look upon the whole question as prejudged ; and were there not other considera- tions preesing upon us, we should give ourselves no further uneasiness about the matter. ‘We never entertained a doubt as to the con straction which a competent legal tribunal would put on the unconstitutional character of the recent enactmenta. Our anxiety was awakened less by any uncertainty as to the legal fate of the question than by the dangers to which the delay attending judicial decision would expose the city. Nothwithstanding that victory is acsured fo us, we are still far from being tranquil on this score. It is trae that there is a temporary lull in the hostitities be- tween the State Police Commissioners and the city authorities, but it is only the calm which precedes the storm. From the indications which reach us there is reason to fear that we are en- tering upon a stage of the difficulty which will anticipate the action of the Courta, If the new Commissioncrs attempt to carry into effect the intentions ascribed to them, the chances are that the people will take the decision of the matter into their own hands. Public feeling is now thoroughly aroused on this question. With the exception of the imme- diate partisans of the Legislature, there is not a citizen of New York who does not express him- eelf strongly and indignantly in regard to it. There is a unanimity of sentiment on the necessi- ty of a determined resistance ta these usurpa- tions, which nothing but a fall appreciation of their dangerous character could have brought about. It is only when great general principles sre involved that we find amongst men of all parties this concurrence of views. And we say it without fear of contradiction, that on no occa- sion within the last two centuries, under the guise of a local question, have interests of greater mag- nitude or of more wide spread importance been placed in jeopardy. The contest is not one mere- ly between Mayor Wood and Governor King, or between the parties which they represent. It is & contest between the principles of popular free- dom as safeguarded by municipal rights and the principles of centralization and arbitrary rule, as revived by » corrupt political clique secking to raise itself to influence and power by its aid. The first have in their favor time-honored charters, the provisions of our several State constitutions, | and the guarantee of the constitution of the United States itself. The latter have neither jus- tice nor constitutional law, nor the eupport of the citizens of New York to sustain them. As for- malized in the recent enactments they are simply the expression of the will of an ignorant and ty- ranical majority in the Legislature, backed by the support of the country constituencies The righta which are placed in issue by these enact- ments have been the source and foundation of popular liberty all over the world. We have benefited as largely by their inatita- tion as any of the countrics in which their first battles were fought It has always ‘been the fate of large cities to oppose barriers to ‘The vaine of foreign goods imported at the port of Beaton ed to $1,172,372. The imports of the corresponding the centralising inflacnces of the supreme power, during the week ending 29th ult.,amount- | and this they have only been able to do through the municipal franchises which from time to week in 1856 amounted to $787,208, showing an in- time they have succeeded in extorting from their crease in 1867 of $385,164. The utility of the police telegraph was shown in ® remarkable manner yesterday. It being about the firet warm Sunday we have had, a number of litte children found their way into the streets and were lost. They were taken to the police station rulers. The people of the country have, on the contrary, from their inferior political informa- tion, stronger prejudices and jealousy of the greater intelligence and wealth of the towna, al- ways been mado the ready instruments of despo- houses throughout the city, and when their dis | tiem. And so it has proved in the first great noted pareats came (or them the police telegraph struggle in defence of municipal rights, in which NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1857. ———— any portion of our penple have been engeged. Without the operation of these paltry rarai in- fluences Goveraer King and his satellites would never have been able to ‘drive us to the revola- tionary necessities in which we are now placed. The present struggle is not, however, wholly witnout precedent in our history. It resembies somewhat the conflict originated between Adams end Jefferson at the close of the last end the beginning of the present cea- tury. The principle of State rights was in fact only modification of that embodied in muaici- pal privileges, or rather an adaptation of it to the peculiar necessities of our government or- ganization. But in its consequences the strag- gle between the federal and republican parties was even less critical and momentous than that now waging between the city and State authori- tica, Inthe former the establishment of the principle of centralization would have been dan- gerous only in a degree, as it would in its turn have been checked by the operation of the mu- nicipal franchises, and no doubt subsequently modified by the good sense of the nation. De- etroy the rights of the cities and you remove the foundation itself of our whole political superstrac- ture without the power: of ever replacing it. Are we not, therefore, justified in that the ,'| Present gontest of principles in-one of the most ‘important that’ has ever been agitated in this’ want? ee ‘ ‘Whine characteristic feature of thie daring at- tempt to rob us of our municipal rights thet the leadets in it should be the descendants of the very men who, on the State rights question, made themselves prominent ag the advo- cates of centralization. The father of the present Governor King distinguished himself by the violence of his zeal on the un- popular side of that question, and his son seems de- termined to earn for his name atill greater odium, as the enemy of the principle of local self-govern- ment. In another generation or two we may, no doubt, expect from this family of conspirators against the popular liberties some traitor on a larger ecale, with projects of individual ambition proportioned to the weight of his hereditary We have no apprehension, however, that the results of this contest will redound much to the glory or profit of Governor King and his party. firmness evinced by the city authorities in maintenance of their powers, and the deter- mination manifested by the citizens to support them through all the difficulties incident to a conflict with such a body as the Legislature, will, we think, ultimately have the effect of & great noise in New Orleans, and, according to our telegraphic advices, loudly amert 5 sly will eoon go back to Oentral America, this is all hoeh, They have played out their full hand, and have shown that they did not under- stand the first principles ot the game they pre- tended to know so well; and it if evident to the dullest mind that neither Walker, who was chief on the Pacific, nor Lockridge, who tried to re- open the San Juan river, can ever again get a corporal’s guard to follow them, or raise a dollar to fit one out. Not the least curious part of the vociferations of these returned heroes is the fuss they are trying to make about English and Ame- rican interference. Lockridge flourished his pro- test, and tried to make the world believe that the Englieh officers frustrated his mighty plans. But it has since leaked ont that after marching up to Fort Castilla, he was the first one to vote'not to attack it, Besides this, it is long since well known that had not the British officers prevented Spencer and the Costa Ricans from taking Punta Arenas and Captain Scott when they took the river, Lockridge never would have | had a chance to try his hand at retaking it. Walker, too, makes. foolish outery about Capt Davis and his interference, In the condition of things in Nicaragua—a condition to which they had been brought by Walker’s entire want of every | quality, civil or military, that should distinguish a leader—the interposition of Captain Davis was the only thing that saved him from death, At the rate men were deserting from his lines he could not have held oat mach longer; and he may thank Captain Davis that he has at this | time a chance to abuse him and the American government, . ‘The trath is, that Walker has not at all com: prehended the true spirit of the great movement which he endeavored to seize upon and tarn to his own advantage. He had great energy, en- durance and courage—¢o have all AngloSaxon | Americans—bat he was narrow in his concep- | tions—no statesmen—and acted too much like @ small minded party man, instead of a large minded patriot. That great movement, which he mieunderstood, contemplates the carrying of | American influence and energy to the rapidly | disintegrating Spanish American States, and by arresting the continual intestine wars that desolate them, restore peace and | eocial order, so that indnstry may thrive, proper- ty become secure, and the increase of material welfare bring about its natural result, which is the developement of the mind and of political selence. To do this the leaders of such a move- ment murt show a knowledge of the wants and of the instincts of men,and a sympathy with them in their aspirations. When Walker first went to Nicaragua, the people everywhere received him as though he were their political Messiah for whom they had long anxiously waited. In their desire for peace they would have pardoned many things. But his gathering of unworthy favorites around him, his want of sympathy with the peo- ple, his ignorance of the motives that sway eocie- ty, and his ambition to posses the baubles of power while he held its substance, weaned the people from him and brought his fall. This out- cry, therefore, of the filibusters against the Amer- ican and English officers ip an empty yauat to hide their disgrace. England aa well os the United States recog: nizes the present need that civilization has that | peace shall be established in the Isthmus coan- tries of America, Thoy have no confidence in the existing order of things there, They recognise that this need can only be filled by the extension of American influence; and therefore did they both look hopefully to Walker and his American cohorts, He was permitted to go on, and he did go on to the end. Now that he has got there, he must recognise the fact that he has failed, and tarn his attention to something else. The move- ment itself will go on, for it is in accordance with the epirit and tendencies of the two great nations of the world. But England and America have now to turn the attention of their govern- ments toward those countries, and carry to them — of good government aud social se- ‘Tee Bebellion in Unio. We have already published ‘he fact of the arrest end bailing of the United States Deputy Marshal Churchill and others, at Springfield, Ohio, on charge of aesaulting a Sheriff and his deputy. It will be remembered that Mr. Churchill, with » party of assistants, proceeded on Wednesday last to Mechanicebarg, Champaign county, Ohio, to arrest a fugitive elave; that, finding the slave gone, they arrested parties believed to have aided end abetted his escape from his master; that, on their way back to Cincinnati, they were over- taken by Sheriffs and posse commitatus, with a writ of habeas corpus the surrender of the prigoners; that the United States Marshal refased to surrender them, and used fire arms in their de- fence, but were finally overpowered by the Sheriff's party, and carried captive to Spring- field, where they have been imprisoned on the double charge of assaulting a deputy Sheriff in the discharge of his duty, and assaultiog a Sheriff with intent to murder him. These are the facts up to the present time. From them it appears as clear as noon day that the State authorities of Ohio have been en- federal laws. The first fault rests with the State Judge. who. iaeued the It is discretionsl with a Judge to hold that writ; and the Judge who wrong, we suppose it is not worth while to remark upon the riotous and wicked epirit of the volunteer posse which accompanied the Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff and wrested their prisoners out of their hands. That the act constitates a conspiracy and riot in the eye of the law must be perfectly clear to which it might derive from the writ of habeas corpus wes dispelled by the riotous and murderous proceedings by whose aid that writ was served. burg to enforce. But we will not believe, until we see it, that either 9 majority of the people of Obio, or a Supreme Court Judge are resolately bent.on setting the law at naught. And if they are the sooner we know it the better. ~ No State or local law, in a national matter like this, can for one moment be understood as repeal- ing or quelifying a law of Congress. The latter is the law of the land, until it be pronounced un- constitational, and all laws emanating from lower authorities must, if they clash with it, go for nothing. State Legislatures, within certain lim- ita, exercise a sovereign right of legislation; but they cannot contravene a law of Congress, any more than they can dimolve a contract, or cur- tail the constitutional liberties and franchises of the people or any part of them. This is not a lawyer-like, but a plain common sense view of the principle governing the contest in Ohio. It follows that the federal authorities are bound to carry out to the letter the law of Congress which has been broken by the State authoritics of Ohio— and this, not only by arresting the partics actu- ally guilty of the amaalt on the United States Marsbals, but by prosecuting with the utmost rigor all those authorities—sheriffs, magistrates, and judgee—who gave them aid, comfort, or assistance. There need be no apprehension of resistance. The people of Ohio have their own opinions on slavery, no doubt ; but they are too prosperous and intelligent a community to be indifferent to the advantage of law and order; they will see the law enforced, even if it jar with their private opinions, A few violent abolition- iste may clamor ; but if it be necessary to call out troops, soldiers enough may be rallied by the United States authorities in Ohio to vindicate the supremacy of the law. Coxructs or Jwuniptcrion.—We have at present pending four conflicts of jurisdiction in this country. They are all important; and while they frighten the timorous, and give com- fort to the enemies of our institutions, they are pregnant with ure. One is the contest in Utah. Here a commu” nity organized as a United States Territory sets up peculiar institutions of a semi-religious eharac- ter against the laws of the United States; and the question is how far does a Territory enjoy the right of legislating on social questions in opposi- tion to the principles of the common law of the land? In Kaneas, the question comes up in a different shape. There the contest is now complicated by ® division among the local authorities; but it has, and may again resolve itself into a mere conflict between the lecal Legislature, bent on establishing certain laws and the federal Con- gress opposing them. ‘The conflict in Ohio is very clear; it is between State officers no doubt considering themselves av acting under a State law, and Federal officers noting very plainly under a federal law. The iesue in this case is simply—where the State and Federal laws clash, which shail prevail? It isin fact the old question of nullification in a new the fourtiycon waged flict is being in thia city tefnten the Date Laas ae ee ne tas chartered clty of te municipal righta, and usurp | said rights for iteelf? All theee contests will, we feel saticfied, come to a just aod satisfactory aa well as peaceful is- sue in the course of a little time. There is a great deal too much common sense aud prosperity in the country for a revolation or even an émeute to have much prospect of success. It is right and proper that all these conflicts should be waged, and the limits of the various sets of au- thorities in this country traced out by thorough discussion. Bat that any of them is likely to work permanent mischief, or to unsettle the faith of any large class of persons in the permanency and excellence of representative institutions and the democratic system of government, we do not for © moment imagine. Avorser Pusse or tas Burpe, Murpss Casx.— The lovers of excitement, who had their amiable weaknets disappointed by the lame and impotent conclusion of the late murder trial, are likely to have their full measure of enjoyment Out of thisease, after all. The contest for Dr. Burdell’s eetate before the Surrogate promises to transcend, in the interest and piquant character of ite all that bas transpired on the previous investi, Property to the amouat of from $100 000 to $150,000 is dependent on the ieeue of this snit, If Mra Cunningham es- tabliches ber marriage, ebo becomes catitled to & third of it; and if, as rumor says, she is in the Position in which ladies like to be who love their lords, and can equare up dates satisfactorily, she will get the whole. As is usual where money is concerned, the eagerness manifested to decide the right to this succession is mach greater than that displayed in the effort to vindicate the jus- tice of the country. An immense number of witnesees will be examined, both on behalf of the biood relations and of Mrs Cunningham, whom the delicate scruples of the District Attorney did not allow to be produced on the murder trial, Although it is to be presumed their evidence will not in any way affect the legal verdict already given, it will assist the public in their canciusions 1s to the guilt or innocence of the partige clregus- ie ar tan Cage ondlas wate a issue will bring to light evidence to fix the guilt positively somewhere. Orr yor Cuma.—All the world is going to China, Uncle Sam included. Thecredalous anti- quarian who fancied he had discovered the re- mains of the tower of Babel the other day, may in afew months hence mpalize the living atruc- ture in one of the gimcrack porcelain edi- fices on the banks of the Yang-tee-Kiang. What an invasion of hoosiers, cockneys, gobe-mouches, and adventurers of all nations, will the unfortunate Celestials bring upon themselves by their stiff necked obstinacy! The pertina- ciousness with which they have resisted the admission of foreigners into their empire has of course only served to give greater zest to the desire to see them at home, now that the barriers of exclusion are about to be broken down, China will henceforth be the great field of exploration for bookmakers, professional tourists, travelling ehowmen, defaulting speculators and chevaliers @'industrie of all eorts. We wonder what impres- sion these various types of European and Ameri- can life will make upon the disciples of Confucius. The astonishment with which we are told they regard a modern dress coat will no doubt be eclipeed by their wonder at the mental and moral peculiarities of these gentry. They will fiod amongst them many who have their heads re- versed like the tails of the dreas coat, while at the eame time their hands are busily engaged in pockets of their neighbors. - pose that the contest which is now waging in Virginia is one between the democracy and the Know Nothings. It seo merely in name. The strugg'e in reality lies between different sections of the democracy iteelf. It isa fight between the partisans of Hunter and Wise for thenominations to the State Legislature, in view of the election of @ United States Senator, which is to come off in November. There is not a particle of princi- ple involved in this contest. The Virginia edi- tors, who know the ropes, might tell the worldas much. THE LATEST NEWS. Interesting from Wi TROUBLE ABOUT THB BROOKLYN NAVY YARD AP POINTMENT6—THE NAVAL COURTS—NO DECISIONS ‘TO BE PROMULGATED TILL CONGRESS MEETS, ETC. Wasmrvaton, May 31, 1867. Hon. Joba Kelly and Secretary Teucey had quite a flare- up yesterday in the Navy Department. Mr. Kelly charged Mr. Toacey, [ learn, with violating certain pledges about appointments in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Some very barsh compliments were passed. There is a flying ramor this evening that Mr. Toucey will order Commander Ogden and Lieut. Palmer to be ‘again tried before the Naval Court of Inquiry. ‘There is another report that the Secretary will divulge ‘BO decisions until the meeting of Congress. This report comes through a member of one of the Courts. There have been po appointments made by the Slate Departinent. Kuropean Intelligence and Telegraphic Die courtesy, Bowron, May 51, 1857. The Canadian Steamship Company's screw steamship ‘Canadian Is due at Quebeo, with Liverpool dates of May 20— four days later, The Canadian lines wore on Saturday requested to open on Bunday evening, but the telegraph company which enjoys a monopoly of the wires in that Province refused to comply with the request of the agent of the preas, notwithstanding bis offer to pay the operators ‘extra for their services. The morning press of the whole country will, therefore, probably be deprived of important European vews for twenty four hours because of the ab- sence of the beast spirit of accommodation on the pait of the managers of the Canadian lines. ‘This disobliging conduct Is probably ove of the fruits of the telegraphic monopoly which is becoming se popular amongst the telegraph companies in the | nited States, as well as in the British provinces. The pablic must, un. doubtediy, sustain rival lives, or make up their minds to pay exorbitant rates and submit to every species of impo- sition from a class of telegraph men who seem to have bat ove clear idea, and that s to incommode the preas and the business public as much as ponst die. Adjournment of the Massachusetts Legis- lature. Bowron, May S1, 1867. ‘The Mamsachusetis Legislature adjourned sine dé on Baturday evening. ‘The Mayoralty of Providence, R. I. Provinmwce, May 30, 1857. ‘Tho third trial to elect a Mayor yesterday resulted tn no choice being made, Stephen T. Oldney recetved 1,680 ‘votes, Henry J. Burroughs, 1,446; Thomas A. Doyle, 441. ‘There wore 117 scattering votes. The Southern Mall, Wasmwcros, May 81, 1857. ‘The New Orleans mail of the 25¢h inst. ts at hand, ba the newspapers contain nothing of importance. Obituary. DEATH OF THEODORE BAFKS. ‘We have to record the decease of Theodore Banks, Fsq., President of the New York Corn Exchange, who died yes- terday morning, after a lingering {liness, in the 48th yea- of bis ago, Mr. Banke had, by his well-known integrity in buatness, his promptness and desision of character,-ob- tained a deservedly high position in the mercantile com- munity; and on the resignation of the late John I. Backley, Kaq., was chosen to the re«ponsible position of President of the Corn Exchange. He hat been connected with se- veral institutions, and at the time of his death was Direo- tor of the Market Bank and the National Fire Insurance which hia energy in no email degree kerved to 2 He wae & member of the first Arbitration ! ‘The June Term of the Law Courts. ‘Tip June torm of the several courts will be commenced this mvorning, and great efforts will be made to go throagh the cakedars before the summer ‘vacation, poe a Portant outs are still pending, though wo cas searcely ex- pect as lively e time Of mandamuses and injenotions 68 ‘we have bad for the last month arising eut of the eollissien Of monioipal autiserities eocasioned by the \ate republican Legislature at Albany, The Court of Appesis, however, ‘will in the second weet of the prevent month set the wmat- ‘(or at rest, and their decision, whiub ever way it ‘will be respectfully obeyed. The general opinion pervad. ing in the Courts is that theagt will be deciared unconstits. onal ‘The federal courts are still tu sesrice; andthe mutincery found guilty of murder and mensiaughter om board the brig General Pierce, will be sentenced this week in the ‘United States Cirouit Court by Judge Ingersell. ‘There is no new cause in the State Courts that requires special potice, The most important pn the calendars hay- tng been previously referred to. In the Marine Court the usual terms will be held daring ‘the month by all of the Judges. Since the passage of the lake act of the Legislature relating to this court, the’plead- ings and proceedings therein are now very nearty assima- lated to the practice in the other courts of records. The ‘buaivess has consequently much increased, both in amount and importance. Woe understand that the Supreme Coart, @ the case of the application of George W. Niles fore mandamus against the Judges of this Court to compel thems to permit bim to practice therein, has unanimously denied the motion, thus holding that the Marine Court be eanse power over persons practicing in their court (© vow exercised by the Supreme Court. . . The Jane: serm.of the Court of General Sessions “Wenees this morsing, Recorder Smith presiding on ‘beach, yee eel interesting saver! canes, which have been postponed from time to time, ‘be nally disposed of this month—amoag which are charges of arson in the fret degree, a crime which is puny labable by death. The names of the accused are ‘Thomas Dening, Michael Wogan, and Le Barnes and Lin. ford, who are jointly indicted; Joseph Gentiimer will be tried for murder; “Dublin Kate” fer robbery in the first degree; John Morrissey for s felonious assault and battery, and Henry Beck for poisoning a family in Second street. Tho latier prisoner if a young German and a noted lin” guist. His relatives are said to occupy distinguished post- tions in Germany. In April affidavits were presented to the Revorder setting forth the above facts, and stating that (he accused was predisposed to insanity. The Court could not conscientiously discharge the prisoner, and he was re- manded for trial. In order to expedite business the Cy 2ggo oot Se Retardant beth ait to cases aftor this » If the room edjoining the Court of can be nees is expected to be acted upon until the municipal dill culties are decided by the Court of Appeals. ‘The Board of Councilmen commence their June seastom this afternoon at 5 o’clock, and will continue to meet every Monday and Thursday during tho month. Such is the ua- Settled condition of our municipal affairs, that Mr. Mo- Glenaban, the clerk, informed our reporter that it is not probable that anything of importance will be transacted by the Board for the next two months, Hoe also sald that it "| Wes hile intention to demand payment of the Comptroller Fasory Dirrerences—It isa mistake to sap- | | ‘this morning for the services of it [ rarity ii 5 F Marine Losses fer the Month of May. ‘The following is @ list of vessels lost, abandoned, or re- ported missing, for the menth of May, compiled from the columns of the Naw Yorx Herat: Value of Value of Yess Ship 815,000 sist pf 100,000 112,000 Ship Andrew > 60000 1! p ag 75,000 falcon, of balk 500 Bark Rostlea, of New 20,000 4,000 Bark Prompt of Besten, ay) od Brig Kemieon, of Boston, 8,000 12,000 Brig Frances Jane, of Boston, 7000 3/p00 Schooner Reindeer 6,000 - Schooner W. W. I + 6,00 = Schooner Leokbere........... » 4,000 - Schooner M. J. 10/000 ~ Sobooper Cadet, of 2,900 — Seboaner D. W.. 6,000 4,000 Schooner D. B. 3,600 = Schooner H. P. 5,000 ~ ‘Schooner W 5,000 Te Schooner am iit 4, to,ann srea 3 i Bane.