The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1857, Page 2

2 AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. — The report of a contemplated marriage between the King of Sardinia and the Princess Sidonie is formally con- tradicted at the Saxon capital. In the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies the ministry had Deen interrogated regarding the mission of the Cavaliere ‘Boncompagni to the Pope during bis.stay at Bologna An imteresting debate took piace oa the subject, in the course ‘of whioh Count Cavour declared that the mssion had no political character, but was eimply one of courtesy. The explanation was generally regarded ag satisfactory, al though exception was taken by some to such courtesy. Ap ipteresting debate had taken place in the Tario Chambers cm the increase of the Sardinian army, Tae war party confess openly that they support the govern- ‘ment in sugmenting the army during peace, because Sar- dinia must be ready for the war of Italian independence agninst Aurtria Letters from Vienna contain glowing accounts of the wilitary celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of ‘the Austrian military Order of Maria Theresa. Tne pro- ceedings were very brilliant, aud passed off with great édlat. Asevere hurricane bad occurred at Archangel, doing much damage to vorsels from the interior, Loss in goods eatimated at 100,000 silver roubles. ? It is notified in the London Gazette that the Danish go- vernment has offically sigaified its intention to release English ships immediately apd entirely from the obser- ‘vance of the provisional regulations existing at Elsinore relative (o the Sound dues. Lisbon dates are to the 16th of June. The United States rigate Constellation was at anchor in the Tagus. ‘The House of Deputies of Portuga: has passed a bill making liberal provision for the expenses of the forth- coming marriage of the King, and fixing the new Queen’s dowry at £15,000 per annum. appears from rumors in diplomatic circles, that the misunderstanding between Belgium and Turkey was Drought about by the forcible complaints made by the Ottoman envoy, under instructions from his gevernment, of the conduct of M. Blondel, the Belgian envoy at Con- stantineple, in connection with the Danubian Principalitica question, a: d it is stated that the Porte bas sent M. Blondel ‘his passporte. Great preparations were being made in London for the ceremony of distributing the new Order of Valor, by the Queen in person. The event was to take place in Hyde Park, on the 26th of June. Our London Correspondence. Lonpon, June 19, 1857. Royal Festivities—One Week's Enjoyments— Par Namentary Proceedings—Narrow Escapes of the Palmerston Government— The Jewish Disabilities Question —Handel’s Oratorio Festival—London Oyster House Critics—Grand Scene in the Crys- tal Palace—Review of the Performance. ‘The Queen setting her loving subjects the examp'e ‘and leading the way right royally, we are living in & complete round of festivities. Day after day brings its particular demand upon as, and each week's excitement seems to exceed the one gone by. I have said that the Queen leads the way, and you will believe this when I give you her Maiesty's movements this week up to the day I write. On Monday the Queen apd Court attended her Majesty's theatre in state to witness the grand revival of “Tl Don Giovanni.’ On Tuesday the young Prin- cess was baptized with more than ordinary cere- mony at Buckingham Palace. On Wednesday her Majesty and Prince Albert, with her distinguished guests, the Prince of Prussia and the Archduke Maximilian, of Austria, were present at the Handel festival at the Crystal Palace; and yesterday (Thurs day) the Queen held a levee at St. James’ palace, which was attended by a larger number of ladies and gentlemen than any levee since the first held by her Majesty after her accession to the throne. Then, 1a ive, we have the presentation of the corosses of the Order of Valor in Hyde Park on the 26th, and on the 30th her Majesty goes to Manches- ter to inspect the art Treasures Exhibition. The race eeason andthe Handel festival brought to London an immense namper of people from the provinces, sa natural consequence London is very fall = -y gay. American gentlemen are to be found in | numbers in our salons, admiring and ao eae onl — oe tg Oon- tinental, with us, ) CATTYIDE al them eible evidences of an intimate acquaintance with an imaginative Parisian tailor. altogether, London is worth visiting just now. ‘The political worla is still dull, and the proceed- ings in Parliament not noteworthy. Last night there ‘was & protracted debate, the House sitting till 2 o'clock in the morning. The proceedings would not interest you, but the monotony hitherto prevail- ‘ing was relieved bya government defeat 4; a question relating to the ordnance survey of jand, which chafed Lord Palmerston pretty considerably, and drew forth cheers trom the opposition. I: was rather odd, too, that the same eve in the House Lords the government narrowly escaped a more ‘and importart defeat on the Ministers’ Moaey , a question affecting Ireland, and arousing re- ‘ag well as political animosisies, which was carried by the very narrow majority of five. Ear! Derby came down to the House and delivered a re- ‘od tory speech, well calculated to tickle the Sa iords enc pander to their prejudices—a coarse which was very near Laving a success the noble lord scarcely calculated upon. ‘The Oaths bill, which is to let in the Jews to Par liament, will, when it comes before the House of Lords, afford the noble earl at the head of the oppo- sition another opportunity of trying his powe: By the bye, it was generalfy unders.ood at the cubs that Palmerston had mace things sq Houre of Lords for this said Oaths bul, and that ic would be permitted to pas; but since Lord Derby's h, people doubt it, and again prognosticate that the Loros will, as usual, throw the bili out. Then what wil! the Premier do? becomes a mn; for he is pledged to carry the bill. Atthe last reading of this bill in the House of Commons, its opponen's made their great stand, and endeavored wy ameud ments to nullify it. After all had failed, the House was highly amused by a discovery made by Lord Robert Ceci! Toe liwht dawned upon his lordship's brain ali at once and in trem>ling tones be aunounc ed to the horrified renpoees gentlemen of his party the awful fact chat if Jews were admitted to the House of Commons, Jews might become in course of time Premiers, Lord Chaaceliors, “ Keepers o the Queen's Conscience,” or anything else. The information was received with a groan such as is to be beard only at a meeting of ae Methodists; and such was the reality of the horror excited that Lord Palmerston was obliged to rise and with an ill-repreesed smile upon his lips, eonfess that euch things were possinie. Lord Robert's as- tuteness is of cunrse Os oe admired. The defeat of Walker afforded the Times an an Oppertanity of giving the worl: its opinions on fili- bustering - if = own lead you that way wil do well to give the article tae extended pub- ity the columns ot the Hexano are capable of. You will fing it sufficiently up to the mark as regards strewgth of tone. Walker's defeat excites but little fe tus; indeed, he never had many sym- re. On the 30th of thisYmonth Mr. He Bostrtey forward his annual motion on the Gallon ‘e then see bow the new Parliament wil! treat this subject, which isdaily ng in ‘and favor the public mind. On the 20th there will be a great of the advocates of the ballot in London Rumner, of Massachnsettes who ‘kexpected in a few days, 1s to be invited to attend, it Handel festival at the Crystal Palace of course absorbed every other topic of the Musical pre end “all people that on dwell” are now more or mu. her dwelling here or at the antipodes, will feel & live.y in-erest in the success of this great experiment. ing you my im, ons upon the great Han del val rather faily. The newspepers have long and elaborate accounts of the festival, written by accomplished critics; bot they do not in my opinivn convey a correct estimate to those who could not be present to judge for themselves. People necessarily abeent from thie great musical experimen: to asver tain the practicavility of rendering Handei's grea oratorios stil! grester by the usi.g greater force form their conclusions, and take a sort of sec ind hand gratification from a perusal of the account. given them the professional critic. In musica! matters, e-pecially in England an! in London more Fv nay ny it is dangerons to piace ualimited con dence in auch accounts, for reasons I cannot now enlarge upon, ba’ which appertain to the very fanity “nystem” carried out by newspaper critics, and fron ‘the fact that it i* the fashion with them to praise all the doings of certain men or booies of men, whatever they may be. Measuring the Hante! fes tival even by it« records in the daily press, then, and i the accounts with proper care, you will conmder S. 3. that, glowing as some are, when you the magaitede of the undertak- be apt to come to one of either that British critice do not wield descriptive pod that the festival is con deomned by careful praise. The Handel Festival is pronounced a great sucess ; 1 pronounce it f are, and | qi! give soch reasons for this opinion as | will satisfy any unprejediced resder that it is the Oorrect one, merely premising that although a jour. nalist by profession, I have for thirty years studied music a8 an , and may re be deemed entitled to the privilege of forming a conclusion for “a “Messiah,” as [think the greatest of Hgadel’s sublime conceptions, is the oratorio best known to Se pine ya) srr oer ba ee to it work. “Judas Maccahseus,” oh! Wednesday was on the whole, much r the same fashion, and did not therefore alter the opinion I tormed from the first performance. To- day I lose the “ Israel in Egypt,” in consequence of professional engagements,aod 1am much disposed to think thet this oratorie will go the best, first be cause it is almost entirely made up of choruses, and second because the artis‘es will bave had more ex- bert, and acquired more confidence in them- v e8. I went to the Crystal Palace on Monday prepared to be gratified in no ordinary degree ; to enjoy an enjoyment to come and to pais away once and forever ; a thing never to retarn but in dreams, but to be stored in my mind for recital to my children, or, maybap, my children’s children. [ bad been Jed to imagine from accounts of the rehearsals— which, by the ‘his wide interest must be my excuse | fs by, | carefaiiy held myself uloot that: my pleasure might be enhanced by anticipation —that there was something absolutely gorgeous io store for me, and that I should have an opportunity of revelling in gg ned and I came away disap- pointed. I believe that such attempts as these to give us music as we never heard music before, mist tail, untii we have an edifice acoustically adapted forthe purpose, and until we can organize a chorus from amonget ourselves without having recourse to the provinces, for I hold that the Haudel Festival failed from two causes. The Crystal Palace is not adapted for vocal music. It was not designed or built for such @ purpore; and Iam prepared to say decidedly that many of the chorases of the “ Mea- siah” would bare went mach better in the open air, after the manner of the Germans, than tney did in the Crystal Palace We cannot forget tnat last years when the directors arranged with Mr. Gye for the Friday Opera concerts, it was found necessary to erect a screen to confine sound within a reason- ae fe a it has oe in ee: possible by compet judges to make the Palace « music hall. But the second reason I give for the failure of the experiment was the more powerful one. The choruses were made up from the Exeter Hal! Amateurs (excellant and well trained singers), the choristers trom the va- rious cathedrals in the provinces, and the choral societies, especially those in the north of England, These men met together for the first time two or three days before the performance came off, and sang the mosic under immense disadvantages, once at Exeter Hall and once (on the Saturday) at the Palace, On rehearsing it was evident, 1 am informed, that Mr. Costa nad got together a body of men taught in widely different schools and ascus- tomed to sing Handel after peculiar fashions. Men are not easily driven from their peculiarities of style. The men of the north sing Handel's choruses ith an unction only found in the northern districts. There is a sort of Rembrandtish coloring about their renderings not found at Exeter Hall, and therefore the delicate refinements of Mr. Costa's style were somewbat one to this portion of his forces. In the west of England, again, the men have a tradi- tional method, with its peculiarities of course ven to them by their fathers, of which they are ighly conservative. To be brief, the couatry- men have been in the habit of singing Handel's choruses naturally, declaimiag the words rather than elaborating artistically the masic. Not so at Exeter Hall, where chorus singing is scientifically and nicely cultivated. Thus will see that the choruses ig made up of a “combination of ineon- gruities,” singers tenae their art in schools widely at variance in matters of taste, it was impossible for Mr. Costa, with all his acknowledgéd skill as a con- ductor, to bring such into thorough uaity of action in the short time allotted him for the pur pose. Hence it was that trebles were timid, tenors nervous and basses wavering; aud for the reasons given, I repeat that all like experiments must fail, until we have ax edifice capable of holding orchestra and , built with a due regard to the priuci- ples of acoustics, and until we can have a body of chorus singers trained together in one school, under one teacher. ™ In the performance of the “Messiah” the insuffi- ciency of the rehearsal was painfully evident in m: of the choruses, more ularly in “and He shall a and “All we, like eheep, have gone astray,” Jast of which is rather “catching.” The great “Hallelujah” chorus was perhaps the best of any, and the “Amen” was not far behind it in point of or effect. Of the solos little can be said. sven Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Weiss and Herr Formes give satisfaction in the beantiful allotred to them. It was : E the ear, kened by Handei festival then assures as of one thing, and that is thet two things are necessary to ensure grandeur of effect, viz.: a per training, neither of exponen is thus we exceeded my some other matters for the next Uur Paris Correspondence. Panis, June 18, 1857. A Stroll in the Cemetery of Montmartre—Neglect of the Tombs—Reminiacences of Anniversaries— Anecdote of Wellington—Grelet’s Arrival -A Matsell Officer Posting Up on the French System —Rambles of Yankee Travellers—Sunday Sights and Amusements—Great Art Echibition. Twas yesterday holding communion with a fine oid octogenarian—one on whom time with placid hand had laid bis pressure—on the abortive ten- dency of all anniversaries. The subject was in fact suggested by the sight of innumerable monuments, as we strolled through the cypress groves of Mont- martre, fast crumbling into decay, evidently in con- sequence of the failure of those pious visite which, doubtless, were once so punctually and faithfally rendered. It is, I believe, a calculation of the autho- rities of this magnificent cemetery that not one in a hundred of the tombs—the ground and sculptured a failure. pegret But! fear limits, and therefore will leave at 60 great a cost—finds in the course of fifty years a representative to enforce the right of freehold. So true is it that the tears of the young are the real libatim to the dead. In the dawn of our existence we look on the grave as something which cuts short posed to view it as the haven of our rest: and as this lest fee'ing predominates our pilgrimages to Montmartre, or any other cemetery where the ashes of our ancestors lay, are gredaaily less ond less re- membered, and the anniversary of their death is forgotten in the speculations of our own approach ing suramons. “ Yes,” said my venerable friend, “to-morrow, the 18th of Jane, is surely a case in point. Ia 1815, now two and-forty years ago, I, as Surgeon General to the Forces, sat in a carriage wita the Duke of Wellington, as after the battle of Waterloo he drove into Braxsela. I stood by him while, just before he stepped into the carriage, the juerer of the Se of the cooled his Lands and ples in a vase ot fi waiter held up to him, end i heard him say, ‘Who would be enough to predict that this day has accom, for twenty years the peace of the world?’ Well, we bad plenty of auniversaries about that event, bat they, too, like the pious visits to the tombs of Montmartre, have fallen into dis- uetnde; and when | jook around and witness ihe wonderful change which these two-and-forty years have accomplished, I am strack with amazement! at the little dependence that is to be placed in the wis dom of man and the ancoatrolable nature of dee tiny, Who would have believed that the down trod Paris of 1815, with her army demoratized, her bank- yupt finance, her depopula'ed peasantry, her filch and gar’ , ber hate and abborreace of England and tne lish, ber Emperor banished to St. | Helena, the Holy Alliance sworn to redace her to ashes if she ied, that this same Paris shoald now be the fairest city in the world, wish an of comparable equipment, with monumeats that attract the devizens of every clime and country, With a soldiery beariag on their bosoms the silver effigy of the monarch of Eogland, and on the throne en Emperor betore whom almost all the crowned heads of Kurepe bave sat as bidden guests, and he a Napoleon Bonaparte! Truly niversaries of the past are idle dreams, except as records of the ins'g- nificance of “ad The Ara a8 arrived, with M. Grelet and his fortunes. It seems his conduct on board ship was a pattern of magnanimity under bondage. His lynx- eyed guardian placed perfect reliance on his hoasr } and the billows of the Atlantic, and his confidence was not abused. The acute Yankee having delivered ap bia charge to the wuthorities here, is now busily employed in improving his ‘‘idees” on the subject of thieftaking; but as unhappily he does not nader- stand a eyllable of Freach—and the science of the ‘aft fe not easily transintable—t suspect he will be obliged to look for any improvemen’ in his art ra- ther to the English of the channel than this. Tt is @ mir‘ ortune whiM@ cannot be helped, for there is no toabt tha’ the devina palladis arte of his pacu- ad profession is nowhere so well understood as in ars The ee A concourse of passengers which the Arago brought are already making ‘he most of their time in inspecting our gay and beautiful metropolie; and to witness the delight with which they scour the length and breadth ° tue stieets, climb pillars, building and pro- which it had Trang | marbe of which have been purchased im perpetuity | the joys of life; as we grow older we are often dis | waver which a Belzian | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1857. sweep through churches, digest guide books, charter hackney coaches, crowd to theatres, run up and down pulaces, roam over miles of painted canvass, eputter out unintelligible French in sublime uncon- sciousness of error, gaze at toe Emperor, rush into restanrants and gloat on the Zouaves, one {s inclined to regret tbat as the masses bave given birth to poets that have sang respec‘ively the pleasares ot hope and the pleagares of memory, none should yet have appeared of sufficient genius to sing the pleasures of ignorance. The writer and the reader of letiers which the next mail will convey across the Atlantic ure to be envied, whose theme will be the wonders of this cspital. What a death blow to many a life Jong opinion wil! already have been desit! What will he say of a Paris Sunday—tie very saturnalia of rest as interpreted by relaxation’? What will be tell of those berds ot human beings emancipated from weekly toil, and suuning them- selves in that fairy-like costume which for ages has given the law to the civilized world in the broad walks of our Elysian fields, the magnificent avenue of the Empress, or the Paradise like beauties of the Rois de Boulonge, with its lakes, its tg autler- ed monarchs of the forest, its wild birds and gor- geous swaps and troops of prancing steeds and golden equipage, nct to mentiou the inspiring 8 rains which pour forth from the Poi alan, and the murmuring waters of the mimic at the cascades? t will he write about the men and women and childrea of France, all three band ed ther, laughing, chatting, joking ~doing everythipg, in fact, except swearing, vursing oreat ing and drinkibg?—and this on the Sabbath he has been so, often told was a day of sofemuity, of prayer, of mourning ana lamentation for sins past, of pions hope of fatare ameudment! Then the theatres—how many plagiarisms will he not detect of plays copyrighted at New York as iufalli ble originale, which have been stolen from the re- rtoire of the Opera Comique or the Theatre dex ‘arieties! And the restaurants—ye gods! what juicy memories wi'l he not record !—how to-day he ted in the Rue St. Denis, in sight of its once famous marble arch, on soup and bouilli and viandeboulée, miscalled roti, for a franc; and the next day behind the well known Passage Panorama he ate and drank at s banque’ worthy of Lucullus for a golden Napo- leon! How he fasted in the rue du Temple for copper, and supped at the Trois Fores Provincials tor as many dollars asthe fingers on his hand! How, too, he rode and he ran to Versailles, to St. Cloud, to Fontaineblean and Rambouillet, till at last even American go-a-beadism was fain to cry, “ Hold, enough!” Often and often as these things have been written of, a fresh mind, stimulated by the charms of novelty, will give new interest to the description, and tend to increase the ever increasing number of visiters which the Arago and its fellows wili bring from the New to the Old Worid. I feur there is one thing, however, which Ameri- cans will hold in deserved contempt in this other- wise wonderful capital, and that is, the elections now soon about to come off. [ susy the same philosophy which on the memorable 13th, when the comet was expected to make such short work of us, as left the Parisians in a state of imperturbanle calm—of unbelief in the reality—will be found whea the government ope to their “ sweet voices” The Palais de I'Industrie is agian the scene of in- terest. Perhaps as the Horticultural Society has left their beautiful garden behind them miaus the flowers, which that garden was intended to set off, every exhibition which follows should leave some rele of itself behind to beautif; the buiiding for its successor. At present it is the exhibition of living artists which is the sub ject of attraction. There are 2.715 pictures, 428 examples of the sculptor’s art; in all, with the ar- chitects’ and engravers’ contributious, 3.474 pieces for the observer's eye Decay, Ary Scheffer, De- lacroix and others, names best known in Frencb ar’, do not exhibit, and as a whole it must be allowed that tve exhibition does no: do great honor to the French school. at the same time there are works of high merit. The painting ordered by the Emperor, where his Majesty is seen introdacing the Queen of England to the is a miserable op of femeny snd Sone, Fee hg og 7) puppet. Tne gems exhil Meirsonier’ are 8 small diamond editions of art, which, a foot square, readily fetch 30, 2 france apiece. There are pine of tnem. One called “Confidence,” the subject of which is more than one friend reading @ letter to another, is ren- ve 0 's visit ta. As usual the exhibition still incomplete, but thousands reso: Our Madrid Correspondence. Maparp, June 13, 1857. Friar Civilo, Primate of Spain— The Law Aguinst the Press—Bravo Murillo Coming— The Reve- lution—The Queen's Confessor—Question Be- tween Spain and Mezxico—The Correspondence —Don't be Frightened—The Press Petitions— Railways—Crops—Concordat— Havana and New York Telegraph. | Father Civilo is a friar who, by force of audacity and constancy, has been able to overcome the ana- | themas of the people, and has escaped from their anger in all the popular revolts. Sagazious and a gool courtier, skilfal in the art of flattering the weaknesses of men, he has kept advancing little by little in his career until now he finds himself in Madrid, © Senator and about to be named by the Pope Cardinal Arch- Bishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain. The eleva- tion of this man and his enthronement upon the steps of the throne will give you a sufficient idea of the re action of Spanivh politics,and serve to mark the point to which she has arrived in the backward | march towards past ages. Other indications are not | leas significant. One of them is that the Minister of | the Interior government has formed a project of | law suppressing the press, and that the presen’ | Cortes will probably vote it, with some modi- | fications. It will give rise, however, to serious Ceba ‘es, aod the government may find it for its ia terest to modify it. Sr. Novedal, the enterprising | young Minister who has proposed this bill, owes to the freedom of the pressall that he himvelf is to- | dsy. Born in the humbie ranks of the people, | whence he weu'd never have been able toriss to be | Minister were it not for the liberal system, he seems now to avbor that liberty whih was his own protectress, and turns w bite | the breast which warmed him. The reac | tion, in its full extent, is threateniug, avd robably inevitable. The little liberty which as survived all the changes of Spanish politics since the death of Ferdinand VII. is about now to be ev ok, and much time will not pass before you receive the news that Don Juan Bravo Marilio is Prime | Minister. | Then the power of the military will decline, for Bravo Murillo has always combatted the preponder | ance of the sword, butin turn the priests will rule | Between Bravo Murillo, Friar Civilo, and the nan, Six ter Patrocumo, there will bea time of miracles, when we may expect to see flying jackasses and oxen | travelling at tLe rate of steam—or steam »: the rate | of oxen, as the case may be. This portentous period Bes° | will, however, probably be of short duration, and it will conclude in the first instance by a military in surrection, and in the second place by a radical re ee / aie oe Reon a u _ ves will once more get fairly of reins of power, and this time wll roli the wheels clean over casque, cossack and crown alike. These are my ideas 0’ tics at present, and them reatized. Within two months Bravo will be Minister, and within twelve months you see the backward movement checked and the forward fi of the political pendulom fairly begun. Toen from under. High heads will certainly be crushed and tal! things will be The arrival of the Bishop of Cal jntment as confessor to the Queen, have prodnced the pala ¢ # most quienes Bott in entire accord with the policy now triumphant. What these men call religion is now more than @ gross political a Perhap§ you are not aware of some the arrangements in the palace of the Spanish monarchs. Une of them is thet the oratory is in front of the bed, and mass is said at a cer ain hour every day whilst the sovereign ia in bed. There is a curtain between the altar and the bed, which is raired if the King wishes to hear the muss, and closed if Le prefers to keep snug. It seems that the present sovereign lady has ee nerally preferred her morning nap to mas; bu the triawph of the new confessor fo complete—the jneen now bears mass asleep or awake eve + day, the King Copeort, it is said, would be glad to hear ti every hour, an¢é the Cabinet witnout jaterin'!-ion. There is no lim)‘ to the saints who may be ex yected to come from t! is phase of politics Saint N wedal and Saint Peter i’ dal will be edifying additions w the calendar. And Senor Tassara, what i+ he doing at Wishing ton? Nobody has heard from him lately. { hope he is doing more ‘han Senor Lafra, 4 doing here in the question of Mexico. That matier of the ar- rangement of difficuities between Spain and Mexica has come to astand still. War is imminent; put the Spaniards and the Mexicans are of the ame race— they a8 the talent of doing nothing in a moat remarkable degree, and I suapect the eame ix at present to see whieh can do most of it. (he nis inertia of Senor Pidal ia immense, wonderful, and capable of driving an ordinary competi'or to despair and a fauz pas. Bot it looks aif be had met hia match in Senor Lafragua; and who knows how or it low. , and his ap when the important trial of force quiesceut between the Mexican and the Spaniard will terminate? Since my last letter the two plenipotentiaries have done absolutel; nothing but smoke Havana segars toge- ther, in courteous and cozy manner con: ceivable. One circumstance only would seem to in- cicate any advantage on either side—the se- rs were out of Senor Lafragua’s box, not Pidal’e. Will the Mexican treasury be able to hold out long enough under the expense of this negotiation? But notw ithstanding this disad- vantage there are certa'n indications that the sereni- ty of the Spaniard wil give way first. Pidalthreat- ens to break out somewhere, whi'st Lafragua svill continues perfectly pla:id and commonplace. Hear t the Correspondencia says about it; and the Correspondencia is a tool of the government:— For some time since Senor Lafragua, the Envoy of Mexi- 00, sent to Satisfy or appease the just indignation of Spain, shows bimgelf remarkably backward in bis official proceed- ings. ts a justification of this ho alleges, as wo have heard, hat be lacks powers to accept what the Spanish govern- ment exacts as necessary satisfaciion for the outrages wbich baye been put upon us. Op thw point 1 appears to be positive that the Cabinet \s reolved pot to yield an apice; but demands satisfaction for the past, rigorous fuldiment of the treaties, and guaran- ices for the future, it would be n thing strange, if the instructions and au- thorization which ser Latragua looks for ao not arrive jvick!y, tbat the Spani#b government should demonstrate by ap act of energy that although it bas exbausted ail the means of covoiliution, it bas not renounced sustaining the novor of the Spanisb ‘tag and the jusice and interests of or follow countrymen in America. Didn't I tell you that Senor Pidal was getting im- patient—be, the incarnation of laziness? ever mind! Lafragua will find means to sit him out and sit him down yet, orhe 1s not the Mexican I take him to be. Pidal wit! fall from his place of Minis- er of State, and then the whole business will have to be gone thorougbly and leisurely ever again with bis succeesor, and then a new incident will make an- other reference to Mexico necessary; and the sum- mer will pass, and the autuma will pass,and Senor Lafray will continue to smoke assuringly, and T should not even be surprised if by some skilful and perfectly courteous manceuvre he should get the supply of segars to ranning out of the Spanish box before the revolution, which will at last conclude the whole business. ‘There isa great war between the Credit Moviler and the Credit Mercantil about making the great Northern rail from Madrid to Bayonne; mean- time nothing is done on the work. The directors of the Madrid eee have signed and sent a circular letter to all the members of the Cortes who have been public writers, to ia- dyce them to use their influence against the minis- " bill about printing. I send you the letter an- nexed. The absolutist newspapers are clamoring for a new Concordat with the in favor of the clergy. Their modest and opportune desires are summed up in the Regeneracion in the pind anckoee. The weather continues of the finest ription and the crops will be immense. Prices are already begimning to decline, though slowly, as there really is and will continue to be a pi scarcity of grain to be had at any price till the new wheat be- gips to enter the market. Nothing new about the expediente of the Havana and New York submarine yh. The thing is precisely where it was last 'aciencia. Our Berlin Correspondence. Beruin, June 16, 1857. Dullness in the City—Royalty out of ‘:own—The Palace of Sans-Souci—Scenery in the Neighbor hbod— The New Palace and its Grounds. All the world are out of town. The King and Queen have gone to Teplitz, the old Prince of Prussia to the Rhine, the young one to England, Prince Charles and his sposa to meet the Empress of Russia at Weldbad; poli- tics are quite at. stand-still, and of the whole Cabinet Council not a single individual is left here, but the Minister of Finance, M. de Bodelshwing, who remains, like Marius, seated on the ruins of his saline Carthage. To make up for the absence of our haute volée, we have quite a rush of visiters from all quarters of the globe—shoals of Russians and Poles with crack-jaw names, a good many English, a few Americans, and even some Turks. The principal attzaction for strangers is Potedam, with the belt of palaces surrounding it, including Sans-Souci and ita magnificent grounds, which have been greatly im- proved and beautified recently, and now torm one of the most elegant residences in Europe. The palace of Sans-Souci was erected and the gar. dens laid out by Frederick the Great. It stands on a plateau of sixty feet in height, sloping gradually upwards from the gardens. The corps de logis con- sists of only one floor with two wings, and the rising ground is formed into terraces, adorned with are- nues of magnificent orange trees, the finest marble up to it, and by the most ped ry EE of Cucmae ieee this pa- lace of fame Frederick the Great used to entertain first suvans of the time, Voltaire, Maupertias, d’argena, &c.; generals, statesmen and academicians were invited to his petits soupers; here be lived and died in company with his flate and dogs, (several of whom he had buried near it), and from it be derived the name of /e philosope de Sans- Souci. Nothing can be moredelightfal than the pros- pest that opens from its terraces, over hill and dale aod the river Havil, which expands here into a lake, dark, masay woods fo. the bochground of the picturesque lands:ape. The in'erior of the palace and the apartments are mostly in the same state as they were ieft by Frederick. Che present king, whose taste for building and the arrangement of gardens is well known, has been constantly making aaditions to the plantations, executed by first rate horticultarists, and the new creations in Sans-Souci have excited general interest by their rich display of ornamental gardeoing. The grand terre of flowers in front of a marole balustrade is divided into three compartments. The centre of this, the ron- deau, is separated by walks of lotty bicch trees from the two sides, and adorned with small terraces of granite, mae ye! one above the other, in the midst of whi a bowling green surrounded by fine beslthy palms arf date trees, raised in the hot bouses of the Pravertenel, or Isle of Peacocks, which are again encircled by groups of tropical plants,aloes, ver- bena, roses and other flowers, symmetrically and spreading the most delicious pertume. A flight of steps leads from the balustrade to the fountains, which are only just finished, and which throw their refreshing jets into pasins of cement and mosaic. Below there is a grove of cypresses, magnolias and palms, beyond which stretches an extensive park, with avenues of fine large old trees, whose thick spreadiog foliage aflords the most grateful shade, and affording altogether a suitable entourage to tais picturesque abode. ° is is the New Pa- Adjvining the Sans Souci lace, built by Frederick the Great after typ Fee of Hobertaburg, at a cost of nearly three miliions of thalers. The interior is most magnificently decorat- ed, and contains the finest —— sculptures, vases, tables inlaid with antique mosaic, Xc., &c. Opposite the new palace there are two fine cha- teaux, called the Commanes, built in the renaissance style, and connected by a semi-circular colohnade. These were used formerly for accom nodating dis tinguished visiters. The grounds adjoining are laid out ina park in the English style, from the designs of M. Lerne, the head gardener. The suc- cession of palaces excites the admiration of stran- Ca from every part of the world, and will scarcely jose even by @ comparison with the splendors of Versailles. Our Cologne Correspondence, Covoone, June 14, 1857. Progress of the City— Commercial Associations— Financial Speculations— What the People Want —Cost of Living and Hotele—Rural Sporte— Eccentric Offer of an Englishman—Chance for an Orphan Boy—Government Revenwes—The Crops in Prussia. The Rhenish metropolis of Roman fame has be- gun to progress forward in true american style; its population numbering now 105,000, is fast increas: ing, and its commerce develops iteelf so wonde faily thet we may place her among the first class com- mercial cities in Prussia, Stock companies and as sociations have grown up here like mushrooms, and the spirit of the age seems to have infected the whole people with American fury. Formerly the bankers here conld easily induce their correspondent capitalist to bay Erie and Southern Michigan Rail- road stock at par, but now the hampug at home is eo tempting that American stocks are neglected. The general complaint about American stock swind- ling, will by-and-bye be followed by domestic trou- vex and collapses, and then investments npon bond and mortage on real cetate in Americanta high rate of interest will be preferred. Although this people weneraily distrust and have no ovnfidence in Ameri can law, they judge the railroad companies by their own country believing them to be government insti ‘ations. Among the many fine aud large establishments of modern civilization the comforts of American steamboats, even the comforts of American bathing ro ma and barbers’ shops, are wanting, and shows how the New World exvela the Old one in domestic luxuries. In consequence of the increasing business and speculations everything has also advanced at Ame ican rates, as they call it, and trade is briaker than it was within a centary. The large bilis of the hotel keepers, especially for Baglish and American travellers, induced us to seek cheaper gavees, od we are not sorry to have selected a romantic country, about twelve miles from the city, where all our do not exceed $250 annum, ‘The country is very salubrious, resembling a hilly New Jersey farm, with all that kind of rural diver- tisements and amusements, as trout fishing, quail, hare and fox banting, combing robins with nets and hawks, &c., in short, very interesting, if only the compsny would be !arger. American travellers and ladies would find here a very plain agree- able home, if they intend to stay some time in the country, and near the Rhevish cities, Two Ameri- can gentlemen left us last month for Crenznach, to return next month, when the deer chase com- mences. The bulletin for curiosities of the Cologna Gazette contained lately the capricious offer or] i f | on bis furnishing iin, within a Tanning.” 7008, one million used post stamps. The Englishman wants the cancelled stamps for the pees of papering one of bis rooms, and all the ladies here sre anxiously collecting for the orpban child. If apy Americans are desirous to participate in this vewevolent collection, they are informed that the Cologne Gazette receives them until next October. The official début of Prussia is [. It shows receipts in direct taxes of 120 millions of thalers, or, on a p' of seventeen millions inhabitants, over seven thalers a head; expenditure 116 million thalers, of which nearly twenty-nine millions were required by the military. The lottery alone furnished to the government’ a surplus of 1,250,000 thalers. The crops are promising, and the trees are full of fine apples and other fruit. Last year apples were exerted to Europe from America, this year there will be plenty on the Rhine. fashionable Life in Washington—Lord Na- pler’s Ball, [From the London Times, June 22.] ‘re very dull jist now. There is an Epsom and Ascot The Kiog of Prussia and the Neuchatelois have settled their ijttle differences. The Chinese affair drags on so heavily that wo can scarcely ex- pect the public to be very eager about the fresh monthly number of intelligence from the source of tea. At home the new House of Commons is doing its work with ali the energy, all the occasional wildness, and all the ultimate docility of a batch of raw recruits. We have talked out the annual exhibition of the Academy. The rival nthnagers of the two Opera houses have displayed their tactics, and the interest in the Royal British is only revived by the apprehersion of its directors. For a few days the public have contrived to exist upon the Manchester pictures, ‘the Divorce bill, and the Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace ; but these brilliant bubbles havo either burst, or the oye is sated with their radiance and marks them po more. When we turn to the oter side of the Atlantic we fied no diet for the public appetite upon which the merest quic could contrive te exist for one poor afternoon at the bow window of bis club. The Walker question. and the Kensas affair, and the Central American difficulty seem either to have settled themselves or to be in course of amicable settlement or compromise, All well here. For the moment—and may that momeai be indefinitely prolonged—Hhil, Britannia!” and “Rule, Co- lwmbia!"’ have become the national airs of the United States, In the abeence of more stirring, but less graufying {atelligence, we can do uo better than call particular atten- tion to the report which we priot this aay from the Naw Youk Haran, of the festivities at Wi held under the auspices of Lord Napier, the Englich ambassador, on the anniversary of the birthday of our English Our American friends as fer excel us inthe style of their court circulars as they lo in yachtbuliding lockpicking and revolvers. The document, which will be in portion of our co‘umns, sctua'ly introduces us into the best society at Washington. The acute, * features of the men, the grace of the ladies, the keenness of their the majesiy of their buste, the luxu- Hance of tbeir bair, thelr socasional enbonpoint and inva- riable charm, will bere be found depicted with a graphic [bad far beyond the reach of our own domestic Je & perfect gallery of photographs. Let us pick out afew characters at random; and, first, we should be worse than Thin, end and inoh s nobleman, and. any ‘any doubt upon the subject, he is told “to goto Brady’s,”” and to see the inimitable photograph ef his lordship sus- there. Lady Napier, we ure told, is of medium and symmetrical ; “the winning smile that sover her fine featurce is the reflex of the happy ition within.”’ From Lord Napter and his fair iy dad we ab easy transition to the rest of the corps diplo * he French Minister, Count Sart spice of hauteur tn his manners that does very ambassador.”” The choicest flowers of the chronicler's ornaments of the ball. Though some oupg & » her claims to . Her bust ‘magnificent. Ne York w Wi in order to at the fale f the English Am! ‘lem as to the of his planation i# most ratisfacwory. ‘Cass intends no alight upon the British crown, but bed at 10 o'clock every night, an Lord Napier’s only began at balf past 10, pot a little difficalt for the General to be Presevt in person. ‘so careful is he of his health that be ‘Will not dine out, not even with the President, and I doubt if be would sit up afver 10 P. M. were he sure of the nomi bation in 1860, ity years ago in Paris, at balls io his own splendid house—and he gave no ead of them—be ‘would quietly slip off to bed at 10 o'clock, as though he Greaded the’ fate’ of Cinderella, but, fortunately, he lert bis amiable wife, three charming daughters, and & hort of attachés to supply his place.’ From General Cass we pass to f circle of notabilitios lest known to the Kogiieh reader, There waa “tho tall and yery gentleman! Lage of the Navy, Governor Toucey, with bis wii {4 nearly as tall, and pearance aod demeanor’ Nor was the keen witted nod warm bearted Howell Cobb, wita his plomp face, matting to the feetivity: nor Goveraor d, the Secretary of War, “ with bis really martial ap- pearance and martinet air.”’' Then there was Jatgo Rick, the Attorney Geveral, “ with his searching, critical diape tations countenance, ope of the moat awkward customers fo 8 law argument any ‘man can meet with. His wife, too, Furope will rejoice 10 hear, is a phenomenon not only of beavty, but of extraordivary youth. Her daughter is grown up, ani it is pot easy to may which is the reuior of the two" Is thie the way Court circulars are written in America ? The endeavor to reproduce here the whole of this por- trait gallery would be nvelers; we must refer to the cat alogue, which we print in arieneo, for further and more accurate information. There it will be found how the Hen Jobn Appleton, althoug ba vitually agrave person, seemed to enjoy the lrvities. Mrs. Appiston is « sprightly and highly cultivated persou—ebe is, we are told, “admirably adapted fer rociety, and it is therefore po wonder abe reemed quite at home at the dail '’ But we mast positively reforeto make any moro selections from this #onderful ery of \itastration. If our on Court Ciroular would a 333 then called, and the basinew of the Court proceeded with FORGERY. Sarah Townsend, a respectable looking woman, was Hl 333 placed at the bar, charges with tn the it ee fora shoes. Mi igwick, the Assirtant a eved that he could not sustain the indictment, ceeded to read the cireumstances which be would addin , At the conclusion of which bie Ho guilty knowlesge of the character of the Dill could not be estab liehed, and pon discharged ber ND LARCENY, Oma Hugh Riley, a boy rixicen years old, pleaded guilty to and larceny {0 stealing $116 worth of Fires a ir. Andrews, and war sent to the House of Mr had been there before, were 3 4 trial ly aeenulting Margaret sennefeid, of 83 Houston street, on 20th May last. The complainant testified that the ac cured went up to her door and asked her to come out, and then went to his room Su ity, however, he return ond. whore, if you sho came ont and was at er, Who strock her with» brick, then arsanited her with a knife, inflict A Revere wound on the temple Ir EK. Blankman, the defendam’s counsel, called two witnerses. They proved thata eon of the Complainant called the defendant's wifo improper names, and tbat the aerured tried to pacify him, and also that the blow was inflicted with @ broomstick {np the bands of @ youth The Judge briefly charged the jary, who in afew mo mente brought ina verdict of a eimplc ansault and bat tery. The Judge said he would defer the sentence t Saturday. GRAND LARCENY Dether Raferman, a youth, wae tried for stealing ® quantity of cother from bis employer, Mr Stolen, #b0 kept a clothing store In Brooklyn. The evide as con clusive, part of the property being found on while an officer obtained the remar der al of the accured. He was convicted of the ol manded for rentenee The court then adjourned for the day. Tne Grave Caor.—The Cincinnati Garrtte learns that the rot has injared the grapes in many of ihe vine, yards aroand Cincinnati. In some vineyarda at leant bm half of the grapes are destroyed. If, however, the weather should be favorable, and the injury extend no further, the crop will still be good. The vineyards thie spring have been weighed down with a superabandant crop, «eo mash ro that if baif of the grapes aro thinned «aay by the rot, ‘8 fine crop would til! be realized ARREST OF TWO YOUNG MEN ON BUSPIOION OF ARSON, Shortly before 7 o'clock in the evening of the 4th en alarm of Ore was sounded for the Third district, caused by the occurrence of a fire in 23 hose carriage house, situated at No. 45 Horatio street. It seems that a lot of fireworks bad been stored in the rear part of the carriage house, igtecded for public exbibition on that evening in Jacks” aquare. The fireworks were valued at $300. Two young men, Damed Edward Gillan and William MoKissocé, not members of the hose company, but merely runners, were seen to clamber into @ window rear of the carriage house, which led them into a room where the fireworks were deporited. Soon after these two young men entored the bowse the fireworks took tre, aud a general banging and cracking occurred in the room; smoke and fire instantly issued from the butding, aud numerous feu lies occupy log the adjoining premises were considerably alarmed, and their lives endangered, Suspicion at onoe rested on these young mon, wae were seen to enter the window. Their description was given, and Capt. Sebring, of the Ninth police precivet, arrested Gillan in front of tae carriage house, on the charge. Gillaa said he wanted to get bis coat, and # person wearing a fire cap said he would fo with Gillaa into the carriage bonse, would see that he came back. The captain let bia go, but Gillae did pot return, as on searching for him it was ascertained that he had escaped from the building through the scuttle, aad so to the roof of the carpenter's shop adjoining. A window rash was found broken out Search was made in the carpenter’s shop, and Giltam found secreted under.aneof the benches on some shar- ings; he was still without bis coat, The acsused was conveyed to the etation and detained, McKisaock was | errested, from description, at bis residence Both the ac- H bear are identified as the two prisoners entering the dow. Fire Marshal Baker yesterday commenced the invert gation before Justice Davison. Captain Sebring was ex ived, Hig testimony went to ehow the arrest and at- tempted escape of Gillan, Giher witnesses testified that the accuses parties were not mentbers of the company, bet Ras ren otaseere fer cepen eee poses er and, for ther, that none but members were allowed to have a key ‘of the house, and that no privilege bad been given the ae- cused to get into the premises by the back window. Om searching the prironers at the station a match was fond in McKissock’s pocket. The di @ done to the carviage house will amount to between $200 and $300. The case wil! De furthorinvestigated by the Fire Marshal this day, before Justice Davison FIRE IN MERCER STREET. Shortly before 10 o'clock om Saturday night a Ore broke out fp the garret story of the building No. 126 Mercer #., cccupled by Mra. Barrett as a female boarding house. The firemen were prompt, and the flames extinguished before tbey spread much beyond the garret and a portion of the roof, The Gre is supposed to have been caused by fre- worke. Both the garret windows stood open, and all the evening freworks had been thrown im that direction from the rear building on way. The damage done to the building will probably amonnt to about $700, covered by insurance in the Beekman aad Continental Insurance Companies; lose on houschold furd- ture by fire and water may be esdmated at $300—insured for $4,000 in the Market Insurance Com any. WIRE IN MULBERRY STREET, At about 11 o'clock on Saturday the fire bells sounded for the Sixth district, occasioned by Ore found in the cellar of the tenement building No. 1153¢ Mulberry strect, ooce- ied by Thos. O’shea, druggist. Only some shavings were urped; no other damage. The fire is said to be the net of an incendiary. A®nirs in Kancas. . MORE TROUBLE AT LEAVENWORTH CITY—JA3. LYLA, COUNTY RECORDER, KILLED—SERIOUS KIO THREATENRD, {From the St. Louis Democrat, July 2 ‘The election to Gil vacancies in the City was held on Monday, the 29th inst. The forenoon passed off as uictly as @t apy ordivary election in the towns of the Bast, aod bo a;prehension was felt of any disturbance during the day. Soon afier dinner James Lyle, County Recorder and Probate Clerk, gave to pre ele. very ticket, which the German tore up and threw upoa the ground, Whereupon Lyle began to abure the Gorman. J. M. Mitebel, a noted character, and last year 3 pro sia- very man, interfered on tae side of the German, and Eh Moore, prosiavery, and a free Sate man named Haller, Joined in the altercation. High words Changed, end Lyle fll slaved torough toe he |, and st aimost thatantly, the knife entering bis back betweea left shoulder B cessful, and result In a scene of bioo¢shed unequalled by apy tragedy yet enacted in Kansas, the citizens being pletely orgapized under the direction of the Mayo: , po may og ‘no gatherings would be allowed in the streets The ext intelligence from Kansas will, I fear, doubt, bring tidings of rio: and marder. There was no desire on the part of the free State men te release Haller, bot « firm ¢etermination that he should have a fair and impartial trial, Governor Walker's Speeches In Kansas. TO THB EDITOR OF THE HERALD, Lacomrron, K. T., Jane 15, 1867. I dosire to correct an error of your Leavenworth corres. pendent, prbdlished tm the Hixxatn of the Sd instant. He makes me aay in my specch at Leavenworth city, that I bad beard Governor Walker eay in a public epeoch at Now York, “that be would consider himself disgraced as « insn and tishonored ase gentleman If be should endeavor to induce Kansas to come {nto the Union asa slave State.” 1 Tetenorsd es'a tan snd disgraced as a gentioman if | did bot endeavor to Feoure to the whole people of Kensae the right to decids their own i Occupy ing no public ioe whatever, the above cer rection would be of little importance were It not for the 2 Sas | oe cones ¢ neceeaeerene Yap er, and this correction from me is due to him. 1 will only acd that | bave beard Governor Walker mate several peo. or a free State, Det be bas left them whoily te their anbinssed jodgmeut. V. respectfully, your fervent, = TOWIX 0. PERRIN More Lynch Law lowa. THE RXCICRWENT INCKEASKS—TARER MEN KILLED, [From the Tipton A tvertiser Extra, June 29) ‘The excitement of the people of Cedar, caused by the nest of horee thieves in this county, is now beyoud al bounds. Ove bundred men can be called together tn two hours potice hast On Sunday night last a company of thirty to forty cot on the track of Alonzo Gleason, and TSesed ton nthe Sees Goo of Tipton. The ponse were out all ni! in search of him among the bushes three miles south of Tipton, bat not capture him Inst (2ith) the porse fell He was on ‘On Saturday taieavéred 1c excaye. by jee to ercape by flight, but was instantly killed There was @ reward offored Towa city of $200, dead or alive. We learn ‘was taken to Towa city to claim the reward. Since last week Alonzo Page has died cel ved at the first asrauit opon his house. A large posse started on Sanday afer C. W. Mute, who, It was ascertained waa secreted cight miles thie side Davenport Clute was once in the powcr of the posse, bat was discharged for want of evidence against him, Since then the poser baye obtained abundanee guilt in the business, and are now pie " rr of “planting” or “ ing”? him. In all probability they will capture put their intentions inte ponen Aa Three men have now been executed by the posse, and If Clute t# taken he will make the fourth. ‘The porse bave now rid the country of the whole gang. Johnson, Warner and vant fled on the drat ov of popular indignation; Devay soon after made bis ‘and Alonson Gieason is now on his we pari Page, Warren and Peter Conklin are id is closely pursued A Miserve Grat,—On Sarah F, Jarratt, sor of N. R. Jarratt, Methodint Fpiacopal ‘urchy loft North. Mount Vicnseat tii 3 uD i @ ba) erahall county, to thie From this oF wear neta ot ly residing eae come nue, T the }eason ce wee Bead, On tho 26th May Mise Jarr inted 8, Agen Academy,” & Noveary tn this city. The laces tn charge of that institution PGrare, of this city, the yows of her novitiate, Upon recetring thie Informe tion the sisters at the St. Agnes state thet she loft the Academy, Sines then ohe has not hoon heard frem, a rectly or indireetly. Her frienda have searched for her diligently in wevernl Staves where It wae at all ie the would go tn oarty o° her tateation of taicing the vel, ‘but op 10 this time not A trooo of her hae beea found — Memphis Bagir June 30. Werart ix rae Sovtr— Ail axcounts concur that the beat yteld of wheat er Koown im the South is pro. duced this year. And what {¢ better, a much proadtth of Innd has heen sown—probably twenty fire per cent more than (n any formar year, This (* partioalarly the care in the State of Tennesse, which will no doant take rank thin rear asthe greatest grain growing State iw the Union. The eolture of cotton ban been almoxt on rely dropped in Tennessee, aod wheat, corn acd gr fro now the staple crops