The New York Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ——eee JAMES GORDON BERNETT EDITOR AND FROPRISTOR, Orrics » w. comum OF NASSAU A AND PULTOW Ors. 8 bhedlli cll esi an ¢ ts ++ Me, 174 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadwar—Tiont Rore Feats—Tus Rroresent ~Biemoe, Saeee Some saio owoen. BOWERY THBA’ BOWERY TRE, Bowerg—Hatter Karaanure axp BURTON'S NEW THRATRI Rreatwey, opposite Road— Vasuas eecurvas ee ee JIMBRICK Bor, ‘WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Huxcusace—Kuss ex tam Dark. LAURA KEEN®’S THEATRE, Broaaway—Love's Tae. Gesrn—Vapintr, BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Proadway—Afternoan —fyen's Cave Bvening—syrie's Cave— Att "Oncosuontr AWEWaxp Position. GEO. CHRISTY 4 WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway— New Year Cats, MECHANICS HALL, 472 Broadway—Naecro Maron, 2G—SaWnUEE ACKORATE—IY BRYART'S MINRTRELA Mails pam nay THE NEW YORE HR&ALD—KDITION PO BUROPE. ‘The Cunard steamsnip Canada, Capt. Shannon, will leave ‘Ghia port today for Liverpool. The European mails will close at nine o'clock this morning. ‘The European edition of the Henan, printed in French And English, will be published at balf-past eight o'clock tp tbe morn ng. Singic copies, in wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yorx Hyexarn will bo received at the following place fn Burope:— ss & European: wes Go. 61 King William st. Pare— 'b Place de !a Bourse. Tavapeeot—Do, 9 sees stroct. Lavearooi—R. Staart, 10 Fa Havez—Am, & Europsau Express Co., 21 Re ‘ecnaltia, ‘The content of the Earo;ean edition of the Hrxaup will Sombine the news recetved by mall and telegraph at tho Office during the previons weok, and up to the bour of publication. The News, By the arrival of the steamship Persia at this port yesterday, from Liverpool 13th inst., we have news from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, fall details of whioh are given in our columns this morning. The Liverpool dates are one week later than those previously received. Cotton was firm, with an ac- tive demand, while breadstaffs were steady. Several mercantile failures and suspensions are reported from England. Homphrey Brown, ex-member of Parliament for Tewkesbury, and one of the most Gigantic speculators of the day, was placed ander arrest cn account of his operations as a director of the Royal British Bank. A deputa- tion of gentlemen connected with the West India interest, headed by Lord Shaftesbury, had had an interview with Lord Palmerston on the subject of a supply of African labor and the slave trade in | general. Lord Shaftesbury said that there seemed to bea weight of authority in favor of the plan of | closely watching the Cuban coast. One portion of the Atlantic telegraph cable, manufactured at Bir- Kkenhead, was completed. It measures twelve hun- dred and fifty miles, and was operated on over its entire length with the most satisfactory result. ‘The proceedings in the British Parliament during the week were very tame. The Jewish Re" lief bill had been read a second time in the Com- | mons. Earl Grey brought the celebrated lawsuit of Shedion against Patrick—which involves the question of the valigity of civil marriages in the United States-—before the House of Lords, by pre- senting a pelition asking for a select committee of | inguiry, which was refused. Captain Sands, of the ‘United States steam frigate Susquehanoca, was present at the anniversary dinrer of the London | Free Hospital, when he was highly complimented by Lord John Ra-sell, aud our relations with England alladed to in a hopeful manner. In France the election sgitution engrossed the pablic attention completely, and was likely to do so until the 21st inst., when the contest would come off. ‘The constitutionslists, the republicans and the ultra. montanes, al!*took an active ebare in the canvass. The legitimists and fusionist Orleanists ab-tained. ‘The Bank of France returns for the month show au increare of cash in hand of 15,725,000 francs in Paris, snd 34,635,000 france in the branch bauks. | In Spain vigoroos preparations for a war with | Mexico were being mode. Fifty thousaud additional | men had been voled by the Cor esto the army. Senor Lafragu Mexican Minister, made but lit | tle progress with bis diplomatic mission. It was evi dent, however, that England and France were be- ginning to dread the consequenzes of such @ contest | as would ensue if hostilities were once commenced, | sand thatthe probabie fate of Cuba and the territo- rial extension ot the United States served to cool | tocir enthusiasm in the cause of Spain. The dates from Chir e€—FooChoo-Foo 18th, Sbangbai 20th, Canton and Hong Kong 26th May. No tree operations bad tuken place at Uan- ton. Yeh wae embarrassed for the want of money. active in the tea districts , Mauritius, weather was dry. in Port Louis ¢ p 202,000,000 and there which The coming crop, « noes, would reach the figure of eof thirty per ‘The rebels were very We bave news from Port Lou the 1th sugar July May. The was expected Of the last pounds about er of remained id be eb ent was re ia are—Caloutta 4th Bombay 12th, and Crylon 13th of May aued rife amongst the native twoops, a nstical excitement ed by supposed off the religious, p the men, aspect of affairs ver) sh authority St was eaid that a general rising of the native regi ments against the Hoglich was in contemplation Trade was unsteacy. The exports of coffee sioce October amounted to 5,500,000 hundreé weight. at Colombo, Ceylon, exports of coffee for a short period of the season have been 37,388 cwt. Neariy the whole of this quantity was plantation, the export Of native having come toa dead stand. The total », Madras ences to joes of tendered the verious to the Brit exports to date were 415,000 cwt, a result never be- fore attained by the ‘setting in of the southwest nonaoon. There were good prospects of a cotton Crop at Tinnevelly. The dates from Australia are—Sydney 11th, Melbourne t5th, and King George's Sound 24th of April. Trade st Meibourne was very dull, from the apprebension of large imports. The production and | export of gold continoed at the average rate. Large sbipmente of the metal for Englaad had taken place. The flour avd provision markets were steady, and emigrants were quickly disposed of. Advices from the Cape 0! (oed Hope to the Lith of April state that painful accounts come from be yond the river Kei of famine, which begins to pre veil amongst the Kaffir tribes. The men of the AngloGerman Legion were being distributed over the country Letters trom Senegal of the 8th of May state that ft that date reveral tribes had commenced hostili | tes, bat the Governor bad means to defeat them. Elsewhere we publish details of news from the city of Mexico to the 30th alt, and from Vera Cruz | to the 6th inst. Active preparations to meet the Spanish invading expedition were on foot. It is re ported that our Minister has bad some difficulty with reference to the execution of Gen. Crabbe and Lis party of filibusters in Sonora. The majority of the Board of Excise Comm‘ssion ers yesterday refused to adopt the minimum price #30 each for liquor licenses. In the Brooklyn Court of Sessions yesterday, Judge Morris strongly ged the Grand Jury a8 to their duty to enforee # of the lixcise law Jof Almshowe Governors bad a pro- tracted session yesterday, although nothing of @ cial public interes was transacted. Considera of | Vieed moment ehirk the question at iseue, and get | Tid of the | the I NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1867. time was ocenp‘ed tn the question of can- vaeeing the political bias of the diferent offisers end empleyée in the various institutions under the charge of the Gov-rnors. The two Know Nothing Governors insist upon their right to have ashare in the extended patronage of the Board. Conmanica- ticns were received from Dre. Sanger and Ranney, complaining of the overcrowded state of the Lunatic Asylom, avd ask'ng that immediate provision be made fora portion of the patients elsewhere. The weekly sta ement of the Board shows that the num- ber of inmates at the different institution: for the week ending June 20 is 6,164, being an insrease of 66 upon the previous weck. The munictpal difficultirs were before the law courts yesterday in two aspecte—the charge against the Mayor in the Superior Court for alleged con- tempt, ard the mandamus against Stree: Commis- siover Devlin, to compel him to deliver up his of fice, books, &c., to the Albany republican nominee, Daniel D. Conover. A phalanx of affidavits were read on the part of the Mayor, in the contempt case, to show that he was not aware of the object ot Coroner Perry’s visit, nor cognizant of his expul- sion, if he were expelled, from the outer office of the Mayor. Alter argument,a motion wus made by counsel to send the matter before a referee or & jary. The Judge reserved his decision until Thoraday. ‘The case against the Street Commphasioner was com- menced, and adjourned to this dag at 12 o'clock. Re- ports of both cages will be found f another part of this matics Hezarp. ropean news received by the Persia yesterday Ra, worabie influence upon the cotton market. The sales (mbraced about 1,500.4 1,800 bales, closing at an advance of one-eighth of a cent per pound, We now quote middling uplands at 1436 and middling New Or leans at 145¢, The news also stiffened the prices for breadetuifs. Flour advanced about Sc. @ 106. per barrel on common and medium grades of Stale and Western, » bile good to choice grades were quite firm, The sales were of an increased scale, including purchases for ex port. The enbanced views of holders of wheat checked rales, nud the chief transaction of moment was confined to Canadian white, at $1 90, Corn also improved. Weetern mixed sold at 84140. a 86c. and Southern yellow at 88e Pork was dull and lower. Sales of moss wore made at $22 80, part check on the day. Sugars were held with much steadiness, while sales wore tight and prices unchanged. Coffee was quite firm. The sales embraced 1,000 bags of Rio at llc. a 11\c., 250 do. Maracaibo at 12c, a 12\e., and 4,500 do. Laguyara at 120. a 12%c. net cssh, mostly for export, and including about all on this market, Freights continued languid and engagements were moderate. ‘The Municipal Case tn the Court of Appeals. It is not neceseary for us to say that the re- ports of the Judges of the Court of Appeals baving decided in favor of the Metropolitan Police act, which were published in the city or- gans of the Albany oligarchy yesterday, were | impudent and baseless forgeries. The character which thoee journals have been at pains to eara surrender thore rights or that honor, or sacrifice their interests, eo long as there be the least chance of defending them Eternal infamy would be the portion of a municipal officer who allowed bimeelf to be bullied into yielding the muvicipal rights of which he was the chosen chempion The prospect then would be, for the remainder of the year, an incessant conflict be- tween two ceta of policemen, exch claiming to be the only t:ue and legitimate force; an era of saturnalia, » sort of carnival for the thieves, row- dies, biackguaras, short boys and murderers; r+ crimiva‘ien of the moet bitter aud aggravating kind between the rival forces, each treating the otber a+ rio-ers, lawbreakers and felons; a geae- ral covvulsion of society by the constant imp:n- éevcy of riots; an incalcuiable injury to the fair fame and commercial interests of the city. We bope the Judges of the Court of Appeals will have this prospect before them if they have any doubt in their own minds as to the prudence of deciding the main question involved in the appesl Pos-ibly, though we don’t see how or why, it may require some oerve for a Jadge of euch a court to decide an important point of this character ; bat one thing is quite certain—a Judge who, from private motives, declines to terusinate the present municipal crisis, and pro- longs cur existing anarchy and confusion, will find that prudence was a very rash policy in- deed. Whe Great Kasters—vew York Her Proper Port of Destination. The approaching compl+tion of the mammoth ccean steamship, the Great Eastern, has led toa warm discussion of the capacities of the different’ herbors ou our coast which are best fitted to re- ceive her, Greater intercst is imparted to tris vivairy by the probability that the port to which she mokee her first visit will become ber perma- nent destination, Strangely exough, untid withiv the last few weeks the controversy has been car- ried on without reference to the claims of our own port to the honor of first welcoming to our chores this leviathan of the commercial marine. It has been assumed—we know not why—that the cannot find depth enough in our waters. Nothing can be more foolish or erroneoas than this impression. Betore, however, we proceed to disprove it by the evidence at present lying before us, let us just briefly examine the preten- sions of the other two harbors—Portland aud Norfolk—wnich sre indicated as the points be- tween which the choice will tie. As to the cacacity of the first of these harbors happily serves asa warning to the public; and we apprehend that but few of our citizens were misled by their latest fabrication. It isnot yet known that the Judges of the Court of Appeals have decided upon any judg- ment in the case of the Metropolitan Police act. When they do decide, the readers of the HeraLp will be made aware of the fact without delay. Till then, we caution the public, and especially those persons whose interests may be affected by the judgment, against placing reliance in the statements of journals which take too lively a | concern in the controversy to be impartial or honest witnesses of facta. At this late hour, it is perhaps hardly worth while to speculate further on the judgment that is to be rendered. But we may find epave to ob- serve that that judgment must declare one of three things. It will either aflirm the constitu- tionality of the act in its entirety and as it tands; or it will declare the act unconstitutional, null and void; or, lastly, it will, on some verbal or technical ground, avoid the great question at ssue, and render a judgment which, like that of the Court of Appeals, may be claimed as a victory by both sidea, We desire to say here, that to the first two of these courses we have no objection whatever; but the last will be a calamity of the | very worst and most disastrous kind. If the Court of Appea's decide that the law is constitutional, the course to be pursued by the city authorities, the people, and the Albany Com- missioners will be plain and clear. Every one will acknowledge the binding force of the law while it stands on the statute book, and those | provisions of it which are suscept of execu- | tion wili be quietly carried into effect. Difficulty will arise in reference to the number of Metro- | , the law declaring that the Super. | politan poll visors shall fix the number to be employed, and | the Supervisors having decided that five men e for the city of rk; and further ice to the police | be likely to replevy to which that same act Bat, urmoanted or howevir th vated, t law, the abolition of t b ceased to por d the reach of it will be uader it rights of self-government, al franc the dependents the clique at Albany; and this clear understanding strong upon ut, and per- petually recalled to our recollection by the right he Metropolitan police, we shall go into the xt Slate canvase with a firm purpose to regain our loet liberties, if the Court of Appeals should deci emu a grasp od that we atc asible mun of mere ruling with | | le that | | the « is unconstitutional, then, again, would | the couter events be clear, obvious, and safe | It would then become the duty of the city magis trates to deal with the Metropolitan police as | rioters; aud we think we are safe in saying that Meeers, Simeon Draper and company would dis- cover, very speedily after the decision, that there are avocations in life to which they are much better suited than that of Police Commissioners, In thie case, as in the former, there would be no room for doubt or inconvenience or uncertainty: all would be clear plain sailiog; and in a day or two the last traces of the police conflict would be | effaced. But rhould the Court of Appeals in an ill ad- | care by a judgment leaving the claim of slure to infringe our municipal rights undecided, then, indeed, would it behove us all to take care of ours! A judgment based on a a collateral point e case, leaving the main part of the law still op sation, would hand us over to absolate anarchy. It ie not Iike ely that the Albany Commi would relinquish the toqu oner 2e for which they have 1 80 fiercely strag giing, so ‘ong os there is the least chance that either force or fraud will give them Cs nor ean it be expected that the city cs. who have the honor, interests eof the city in charge, will voluntarily in respect of depth and «ea room, we have not an adverse word to ssy. I'he Great Eastere would unquestionably lie as easily aod safely within its extensive anchorage limits as within those of | any other harbor in the world. Butin a com- mercial point of view, we coafess we cannot see the wisdom of this choice. To support a vessel of such enormous tonnage and capacious psssen. ger accommodations as the Great Eastern, some- | thing more than the traffic, present and p:o=pec- tive, of @ place like Portland, will be required. It is true that it commands the Canada railways; but this fact alone will uot secure for it the trade necessary to keep a gigantic line dike that of which the Great Eastern is only the first experi- ment, in profitable operation. The same may be eaid of Norfolk. That port commands only a few lines of railway, passing through Virgisia into Tenneseee, and in point of passenger trailic it can never prove remanerative to steamers of this huge size. The Southerners, ia their eager- uess to advance their own interes's, Bave exag- gerated the advantages of Norfolk; bat the pro. prietors of the Great Eastern will not, we expect, be disposed to victimize them- selves merely to confer a temporary benefit on Southern trade, Besides, we do not see any local superiority in point of harbor accommoda. | tion which Norfolk possesses to induce them to overlook the sectional character of its preten- | Great Eastern, after | sions. The draft of the consuming the majer portion of her coals on the outward trip, will not be less than twenty-six feet, and by reference to Biant’e Sailing Direc- tions it will be seen that shortly after she enters Hampton Roads che will run into a shoal of four | fathome. In this respect Portland has greatly | the advantage over Norfolk, the average depth of its anchorage not being less than thirty-six feot. If we can show that the port of New York can supply all the conditions of depth and sea room which a vessel of this immense size requires, we apprebend that its superiority in all other res- pects, as the ultimate destination of the line, will not be contested. With this view we bave pre- pared an engraved chart of Long Island Sound and the East river, first pag opinion to which we have given ex the two entrances to our harbor, this is the o one practicable for vessels like the G Eastern. That by way of Sandy Hook pr the obstacle of the Bar, which is insurmountable, its depth at low water being twenty-six feet —just the draught of the Great Eastern, when relieved ion. Montauk Poiat, of the Harlem river, where the depth is 33 fest | The lowest depth of the channel is where it ap- proaches the Astoria shore,near Randall's Point. | There it is only thirty-two feet—deep enongh, | for the maximum draught of the | however, Great Eastern, which is said to be only ec feet. With regard to any supposed difficulty in the vessel's movements on reaching the anchor- age above indicated, it will be seen by reference to the chart that between Ninetieth and 106th street the shore takes an inward sweep, forming a cove of at least half a mile wide, and giving an average depth of from 90 to 100 feet. She haa therefore only to back into this cove to turn round with the most perfect ease. These caloula- tions, it should be added, are all made at low tide depth. Having thus shown that in point of harbor ac- commodati@™ we can afford the new line all the | facilities necessary, it only remains for ns to eny a few words as to the promise of euperior advan- tages which we ean hold out to it in other respects. New York, we need scarcely say, is the great con- verging point to which all the internal and ex- ternal trade of the country tends, Hore all the principal trans-Atlantic and Pacific lines of steamers, the great main trank raflroads and the canals, have either their termini or connecting branches. Through our city, also, most of the passenger traffic of the country is carried on. Strangers visiting this continent are naturally desirous of seeing in the firet instance a York, ss the metropolis and the centre of the commercial and manufacturing * in- dustry of the United States With men of enterprise, like the proprietors of the Great Eastern, these recommendations mast be para- mount, If once convinced that they can bring their vessel eafely to New York, there is but litte which will be found oa oar | , and which will fully bear out the | or | decide that Goubt that they will veleot our port in preference to any other. We bave placed before tnem the result of our own investigation; and conclusions. Let them give the tacts the same careful and im- partial examination, and we are confident that they will arrive at a similar conviction to ours. The Springfield Speech of senator Douglas— Mis Card for 1860. ‘The curtain of 1860 is partially lifted, and we have a peep bebind the sceves, We published, the other cay, (from the Chieago Datly Zimes) his home organ.san abetract of the late speech of Senator Douglas at Springfieid, Mlinois, upon Keneas, Dred Scott and the Mormons. We have eince received a fail report of tnis important prenumciamiento, and shail give it to oar readers on the first opportunity, inasmuch as it is evidently the official opeoing bid of the distin- guiebad Seoa‘or for the next Presidency. For the pres-nt, aa the keys to a clear interpre- tation of this speech. we fefer our readers to an editorial ané a communication from the Rich- mond South, elsewhere in these columns. We have here the open sesame of Mr. Douglas to the White Honse, and its immense treasures of one bundred wiltiovs of public plunder per annam. And what is this open sesame? It is the clearly fore- shadowed position of Mr. Douglas as a favorite of he Southern ultras, and his extraordinary movement Sor the Southern inside trade for the succession, in di- rect hostility to the just and conciliatory policy of Mr- Buchanan's administration. What we have already said of the views of Mr. Douglas upon the Dred Scott decision and the Urah difficulty, in view of the paramount issue before us, will suffice on this occasion. He who upon the Dred Scott cave stands, especially aa a democrat, by the Supreme Court of the United States, stands upon the only ground a leading democrat can occupy. As for Utah, the plan of Mr. Douglas for extirpating the excres- cence of Mormonism may be exceilent, and it may be constitutionally impracticable. In any event, the Mormen nuisance as a Presidential question, is a side issue of very littie consequence, even as a make-weight in the North. The vital and nbeorbing issue in which the supreme iaterest and the whole drift of this Springfield speech may be detected, is the particular issue of Southern slavery involved in the Kansas controversy. Talleyrand has said that, in the ecience of diplo- macy, ‘Words are used to conceal our ideas;” and this maxim is thoroughly understood by the disciplined politician. For example, the unsus pectivg reader of this high-flown eulogium upon Mr. Douglas, from the Richmond South, would be a little puzzled at fisst to account for this happy enthusiasm of our Virginia fire eater. But, on turning to the Chicago Times report, which the South gives of the speech in question, two lines which it has elevated to walics, solve the whole mystery. These two lines relate to the nicest, precisest, moet delicate, and yet the largest and mort momentous issue embraced in this Kansas dispute. They give us the exact position of Mr. Douglas, as published in the first general report of his epeech by his own organ, to wit:— He spoke of the fairness and justice of the law, giving the peopie en opportuntty of expressing their honest oon- victions on the subjeet of lavery, in a constitutional man- per, by means of a consatutional convention soon to meet, to ail cther importont mailers connected with the future of the new State of Kansas. ‘The people of that beautiful Territory would soon speak. We Dave, be hed 20 doubt, a free and quiet expression of opinion, by means of the elective franckise, from that rilent but mort certain weapon of a free peoplo—the dullot vox. Should the enemies of that mode of the much vexed question of slavery in that Territory blindly and obstinately refuse to exercige the rights assured them by the laws of Congress, upon their heads, and theirs aicue, will rest the responsibility. For his part, be was satisfied he democratic party ia Congress had dou their duty, and he was equally well sauisfed that the demo- | cratic party in the Territory of Kansas would do theirs in a mavoer gratifying to the heart of every friend of the constitution and the Union. That word “decide” covers the whole case. It is a little word, but in the connection in which it is given and accepted by our Virginia cotem- porary, it is as large as the universe. The pro- slavery party of Kansas have elected a State Convention, the free State party refusing to take any part in the said election. The convention thus elected will doubtless adopt a State consti- tution, recognizing the institution of slavery. To satisfy the people of Kansas, however, Gover- nor Walker bas said, over and over again, that unless the said State constitation shall first be submitted for ratification to the people of Kansas, fairly and honestly, he will do what he can to haye the said constitution rejected by Congress, and he believes it will be, because it ought to be so rejected. For taking this fair and just position, Governor Walker has been assailed without stint, and beyond the limits of decorum and decency, by the Richmond South and other democratic ultras of the secession sebool. Here, then, is the solution to those two lines in , and the tremendous importance of that litle word “decide.” It means that Mr. Douglas, asa member of the United States Sonate, is in favor of adopting the constitution of the Kaneas pro-slavery convention, without referriog it back to the Kansas people for their ratitication—it means that this is the position of Mr. Douglas as a Presidential candidate for the support of the ultra | Southern factioa against Governor Walker and of her coals, Entering the Sound, however, at | she can with the most perfect | ense reach the foot of 106th street, at the mouth | the administration, and their honest, mous and conservative policy. In the full published report of this Springfield epeech lying before us, doubtless revised by the band of Mr. Douglas himself, the substance of the foregoing extract concerning Kansas, from the first report of his organ, is thos rendered:~ ‘The law onder which her delegates are about to be elected # boleved to be just aud fair in ali te objects and provisions. There is every reason to hope and heiieve ¢ Inw will be fairly interpreted and tmpartially exe cuted, so. at to inaure to every bona fide iababitant the free acd quiet exercise of the elective iranchiee. If any portion of dhe inbabitants, acting under the advice of po. Hsical leaders in, dlntant States, hall chowre to abront themeclves from the polls, and withhold their votes with a view of leaving the fret State democrats in & minority, and thus securing a proslanery constitution in oppasi’ion to the withes of 0 majority of the perple lining under i, let the Pemponetilily reel on (nove who, for partisan purposes, wild carr yfiee the principles Ucy profes: to cherish amd promo’. magaani- Upen them ant upon the polical party for whose benefit and under the directem of whose leaders they act le the blame be virited of fastening vipon the people of a new State inatit ioe repignant to their feelings anid én violaison of their wishes, The word “decide” does not here occur, but it is fully comprehended In the closing sentences of thie extract. The act of this Kansas pro-slavery convention {s discussed as final and decisive; for not the slightest allusion is made to Governor Walker's policy of referring the State constitu- tion to a vote of the people. The plan of Mr. Douglas is to make Kansas a slave State, by the only possible process through which it can be made a elave State, namely—the process of adopting in Congress this forthcoming pro-lave ry constitution, without referring it to a vote of the Kansas people. Ana this is the Southern bid of Mr. Douglas for the next Presidency. Sach a speech and euch a purpese are not the results of accident. They are the firet developements of the game of the Southern ultras for the euccession. As a demo- cratic Presidential aspirant, Mr. Douglas is now without arivelin the great Northwest. That ection of the Union, also, may justly claim the next democratic nomination. In securing Mr. Douglas, therefore, the Southern ultras, it would seem, have secured a good foothold for undermining the edmivistration and for controlling the whole democratic party. In this view, we fully beifeve that this Springfleld speech of Mr. Douglas is but the suggestive over- ture to the exciting opera on Kansas, slavery, eections, factions and parties which will agitate the next Congress, and rivet the attention of the whole country. The Southern secession faction are openly making war against tho Kaneas policy of Mr. Buchanan; Mr. Dougias is with them, and is doubtless fully informed of the good will of Mr. Senator Hunter, Mr. Jetferson Davis and their colleagues, The present attitude of Mr. Douylas then, is at best an attitude of quasi hos tility to the admipistration, and the first. month of the coming Congress will remove all doubts upon the subject, or we are net among the pro- phets, Experience bas taught Mr. Douglas policy of takirg an early attitude in the field, a fix- ed position, In the conduct of the great compro- mise mearures of 1850 through the Senate, he was eomewhat at rea until he quietly dropped into the broad and smooth wake of that greatest staterman in the hour of peril, the gallant Harry Clay. Upon the Kaneas-Nebraeka bill, Mr Douglas adbered to the Missouri compromise till persuaded by Southern Senators that the policy of repeal was the high road to the Presidency. But having upon this iseue to divide tho honors with poor Pierce. they both fell to the ground. Now, however, iLe case is different. Poor Pierce is out of the way, Gen. Cass is out of the way, Penn- sylvavia and Mr. Buchanan have received their reward, and they are out of the way. Governor Walker, however, as a Southern man, as a national man, and as @ representative of the ad- ministration in Kansas, stands in the way, and this movement of Mr. Douglas, under the wing of the Southern ultras, is a movement in terrorem to supplant Walker, to reduce the administration to terms, and to put Mr. Dugias in the foreground for the succession. Very well. We stand committed to the fair, just, honest, liberal, manly, constitutional policy of Mr. Buchanan, as illustrated in the conduct of Gov. Walker in Kansas. We believe—we are eure without a‘shadow of a doubt—that the coun- try is satisfied with this policy, and that the peo- ple will sustain it. Thus ageured of the Consti- tution, the just cause, and the people, we shall calmly await the meeting of Congress. We are for the country, the administration is for the country, first and Jast, and the country is with the administration. Mr. Seward on the one side, asa sectional aepirant, and Mr. Douglas on the other, may now be classed together. Ovr Mrister To Cuwa.—The Hon. Wm. B. Reed, our newly appointed Minister to Chioa, was entertained on Monday at a dinner given to him by many of the prominent merchants of Phila- delphia, and he took advantage of the occasion to make a +peech in relation to his mission, which was published in our yesterday’s issue. The oc- casion was one which called for an exhibition of the bighest intellectual grasp of some of the greatest questions of the day. The ecene of Mr. Reed's new labors is crowded with issues perti- nent to three mighty continents. Europe and America are deeply interested in the events now developing in Asia; and the future of hundreds of millions of men there is to be connected more closely with that of the civilized commanities of the world. A naval and diplomatic congress is gathering on the shores of China, in which Mr. Reed is to be our representative. We bad, there- fore, looked to this public teetimonial, given to him by his fellow citizens, for some exposition of views and principles equal to the occasion; and in this we are sustained by Mr. Reed's voluntary disclaimer of any reserve or diplomatic mystery beyond the proprieties of official position. We must confess, however, that we are much disappointed in the exhibit our Minister to China bas made, and the more eo that it compares so unfavorably with a recent one that took place here. When Lord Napier spoke to the assembled guests ot the St. George's Society he gtasped the issues ot the day between bis fa- therland and ours with a clear and keen perception of the popular instincts aud the high- est interests of both nations; and his trathful exposition has not only met the unqualified ap- probation of both countries, but has sowed in cach seed that will be prolitic of much good in time to come. Perhaps even to-day we might enjoy it, were it not that the unwise policy of Lord Palmerston towards this country prevents ite due fruition. Hed Mr. Reed taken his cue from Lord Napier’s speech, and told us how the interests of al] those now gathering in the porta of Eastern Asia might be peacefully blended, to open to the industry of its countless millions the «golden gates of commerce—how the mechanical skill end scientific attuioments of the West might carry their benefits to the labor of the East, and how his government had instructed him to take the bigh position of the friend of all parties, and | by removing error on one side, counselling for- bearance on another, and holding the mirror of trath and reason up to ail—to labor ceaselessly for the advancement of peace and the developement of the highest interests of man everywhere—we believe he would bave epoken much more in consonance witb the instructions of his govern- ment and with the duties he is called upon to pertorm. that, though he has proved to be wanting in the gift of words, he will not be so in acts, nor in the intentions to bear worthily the high mission with which he is entrusted. Prosect o a Dictatonsum ix Mextco—Ia the news from Mexico, which we publish, in an- other column, is an article translated fm the Trait d’ Union, advocating the establishment of a dictatorship by the democratic party in Mexico, as being the only sure means of counteracting the reactionary tendencies of the clergy and of the few hundred wealthy families that form the oli- garchy of that republic. We know that such a design is entertained hy some of the Mexican de- mocrats, and we are not at all surprised to see it. The legislators of that country have recently adopted avery French republican constitution, and now they seek the natural French remedy or its numerous evils. Some such result is the inevitable consequence of the new Mexican con- stitution, as we clearly pointed out in our com- ments upon that instrament many weeks since. ‘The eystem of one legislative chamber, which is to remain in consiant ression, and of which the President is but the powerless instrument, is an impracticable system of goverument when society is in Ke normal condition; much more fs it so when both the political and social organizations of the country are shaken to their very centres, The new constitution of Mexico contnins no con- servative clement whatever in ite provisions. and for this very reason is utterly unadapted to the end it proposes to attain, which is the restoration of political aud social order to the country and We bope he understands these, and | __? ———oOvOvoows==——_——_—_— the de velopement of ite material interests. It resemble,’ more nearly the dreamy creations of some of ou’ Fourierité philoropbers, who believe that property’ ia theft, that control is tyranny, and society s shombug- Ox Lawrers anv Lager Bren——Ovr very respectable and moral epenking cotemporary of the Tribune has the following elaborate aticle on the bar:-— ‘The Hunatp bas an elaborate leader on the decline of a Pare Ma aa then In he bends of the — hr ‘This statement is, in every sense, #rronceas and wrong. Our “legal adviser” is too much ef @ good lawyer ever to perpetrate euch an act We bave the full warrant, therefore, both of law and of fact, to etate that our highly reapectable cotemporary is, to use bis own very classical lan- guage, an impodent end malicious “liar.” We do not think it is necessary to-day to apply to our venerable brother the other classic epithets which be uses daily to thore who difiur in opinion with him, euch as “lit\.c villain,” “scoundrel,” “cat throat,” “rascal,” “thief,” “fool,” “short boy,” “pickpocket,” “bully,” “gambler,” “grog- house keeper,” “blackleg,” &o., &o., and the like savory terms, which are scattered with profusien through the moral columns ot the Tribune. One dose of his own medicine is enough at one time for any moderate philosopher with his boots off and hia face dirty. THE LATEST (NEWS. THE POLICE BILL IN ALBANY. No Decision yet from the Court of Appeals— The False Reports tn Circulation, SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD ALBANY, June 23, 1857—M. ‘The rumors as to the decision of the Court favoring the constitutionality of the Police bill are deetitute of the alight- est shadow of a foundation. They are started by the Sickles and Weed cliques here, in hope to have effect on the Mani- cipal force. The Judges have not yet come to any dect- sion; but the opinion of the best lawyers here, founded om the arguments, is that the law must be upset. There ta not much prospect of a decision tll the close of the week. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Auaany, Juno 3, 1867. Case No. 7 is now on argument. the All a rene Hor cet Jane pat he Sou ot Appeals bad aed arrived at % decision of the pag were Lio an evening, we have rae ‘te believe, no consultation had had om this couulatons, which bad given ‘rae to the rumors in question, having been mage mn ed Uist of cases Cog ingen send tocws, Dosbliews vidual Judges are considering this ‘nie New York case. and there will be a conference and a decision at an early day. News from Washi 5 THR CALIFORNIA OVERLAND MAIL CONTRACT—TER SOUTHWEN ROUTE SELECTED--THE NEW OTHAM SLOOP CONTRACT—A CHANCE FOR SHIPBUILDERS— THE NAVAL COURTS—THE POUGUKER SIE FOSTMAS- TERSHIP, ETC. Wasmnotow, June 23, 1867. ‘The Postmaster General has selected the southern route for the overland California mail. The contract for carry- ing {t will mot be awarded before Thursday. Mr. Butter- field, of Utica, one of the bidders, is here prossing his claims t= person Tne plan adopted by the Secretary ut tue Navy, witit reference to the constructing of the steam sloop, will be similar to that adopted by Secretary Cobb with references to the steam revenue cuter. Models, plans and specifica. ‘ions, are to be examined by a competent board of en- ginecers, to be appointed by the President and himself, who are to report as carly as possible. After an apimated and severe contest of two or three months the ‘outs’ bave succeeded in ousting the present incumbent of the Poughkepsic Post office, Mr. Pease, and to day got G. P. Pelton appuinied in his place, Hon. John B, Haskin and Wm. F. Russell arrived te- day, and are stopping at Willard’s. Before Nava! Court No.1 Commander re-examined in the case of Lieut. Foxhall A. Poser, outie was then closed, except in the submission of his defence, which will be read to-morrow. The case of Ex-Lieat. Harrell, dropped by the late Retiring Board, was takea ap. Before Court No. 2 the case of Liut. Walk is still pena- ing. Captain Boutwell was examined on behalf of the ge yernment, and Commodores Boarman, Mayo and Salter, Commander Benham and Dr. Squibb oa behalf of the ap- pellant. Before Court No. 3 the Hon, Reverdy Johzson road bis argument in defence of Captain Latimer, A very lange sumber of nayal offcers and others wore in attendance, ‘To-morrow, at 10 o'clock A. M., @ trial of the relative merit: and capacities of breech loading guns will take place at the Washington Arveval. The Secretary of War wiil be present. TUR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DRWATC THE UTA APPOINTMENTS—THE NEE VERS ORSHI?—THE KEW GUVRANOK 0! | 0, BTC. Waannortoy, June 23, 1867, | Governor Ouraraing will take bis family with him to \ permavant cas celebrity, now Sur- 1 probably be traasforred Utah, intending to make that Territory f home. Colonel Jack Hr: veyor General to Utab ina simular capacity. Brigham Young has never recognized the Walled Staten sorvey#, but claims possession of all the rol! in Utak. | Not ‘one of the inhabi there holds insdr derived by government , and heace eves | Sak Take “City open to pre-cmuption, Thix is one of the perplezitios with whieh the federal courts in the Territory will 10 deal, together with establishing or confirming tiUes$(o lanis, which may be dertved te parsuance of United States Inws. It is expected thas the troops and civil'officers will leave for Utah in the middle of July or on tho lst of August Col. Riebardeon haviag declined the Governorship of Nebraska, Governor Izard will return to the Territory and reaume bis duties T. H. 0. Neill, bas been removed ax District Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and proba diy Stanley Mathews will be appointed in his piace. Mr. Reneber, North Carolina, has rotor: come with the aesurance of ointment to the Governor. ship of New Mexico, feriwetber, who bas tendered | big resignation, to take effect in October, Contrary to public expectation (here has been no de- finite action to-day by the admicistration oa the California overland mai) contract service. The varioos bidders or ther friends continue to vigorourly prose their respective interests. In consequence of their wishing to be heard ft | is probable an official decision will act be made before the close of the week. The Kansas Jee St. Lovis, June 23, 1987, | The Leavemworth Journal anys the twelve regular demo. Crate candidates of that couaty have been elected byfan average vote of 420. The sveregs vote of the independent candidates was 76. in Douglas county the democratic nominees recetwed an average vote of 15, and the indo. Pendent candidates of 100, ‘The Public Works of Pennsylvania, Paianeuraia, Jane 23, 1967. In the Sapreme Court this morning, Judge Lewis gave @ decision in the injunction case relative to the sale of the main line of public works. The decision deciares that the ‘State had @ Mant to order the eale, and that tho Ponnayl- vania Railroad Company or any ofber body haa a right @ purchase; bat the | egisiatore fad no r ght to ox the purchasers from tonnage tax. This decision will oy Provent the sale, New Hampshire i ture on Melersl Am Cowve Jane 23, 1867, In Lad praeee * Personal Liberty bill wna die. cursed, and x y 194 to 114, The resolutions condemning the Dred Soott deotston = neat taken up, and Mr. Greoaieat, of Portamouta, male an borate Apeech agains! their passage. Much interest was roaat fated tn the debate, and the galleries and lobbies were crowded. ‘The Chief Justiceship of 6° ovaries, Trcomplete returns tadicate the heat, Ame. rican, by a small majority, fo the vacancy occasioned by the of the Chiot of Kentusay Destractiy il | Storm in Ditesourt, Sr. Lois, Jane 23, 1967. A ball storm In Buchanan omnty, Missouri, on Sata destroyed all the crops killed some cattle tn the Several men wore injured, and one, A negro, was killed, The hail stones were as IArE® aa Rodee exes, The Brig Henry Hicks Ashore. Nawtooxat, June 23, 1867, ‘The Rritieh brig Henry Hicks, from Philadelphia for ®. John, NB, loaded with corn and flour, went ashore on Muskegst, on the night of the gud, yuk G04 off without da