The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JaM?+S GORDON BESNETT SDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY U, 1857. the validity of the indictment. Peter Mathewson, charged with burg!ary in the third degree, was ac- quitted. Bertha Bushkill, a young girl, was tried and convicted of stealing ar infant, but judgment Qrews ww. conKES O7 KAssAU AND FULTON ere. | WS! Suspended. The particulars of this case were cia rey “ae omene, THe WEERLE on on arr, Selec ad ae ran Se ee ¥o. aT ~- ‘geen eaarer ef weasel centee paid fm Fees Gagan Baa be Eanes ‘inrrens ano Packsoes No ‘orice teukem Of anor ymous correspond. nes, Pt» or We do not JOR Pil pach. ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every dav, ~ AMUSEMENTS THIS BY ENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brodway—Ticur Borg Frars—Oow TRAser OD (—BiANCe BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Boni— ‘Tax Nata Quran, ACK'S THEATRE, LE, Brosway—Hexcasscx— AKoss se is te Pei, OLTérID THEATRE, 595 Broadway—Atterncon— 0 GuARDIANS-—MoTaEx AND RARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Ermoruam Misemeziey —Cuniosiemss, &o GO, CHRISTY 4 WOOD'S MONPTRELS, 444 Broadway —Tas Maciciaw—Necno Mivsterisnr, MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway: no Menovres, Ae OU AKHRURAN Bi aDings—BY BRYANT'S MINSTRELS, New Vork, Saturday, July U1, 1857 Mails for Kurope. ‘THR NEW YORK BERALD—EDITION FOR BUROPS. ‘The mail steamsbip North Star, Capt Lefevre, will leave this city to day, at noon, for Southampton and Bremen. The Buropean mails will close fm this city a half-past ten o'clock this morning. ‘The Furopean edition of the Hunt, printed in Freach Bad English, will be poblished at ten o'clock Ln the mom tog. Single copies, in wrappers, six ceniz. cae ae and advertisemonts-for any edition of the Naw Tox Hamat will be receivod at the following place ta Earope:— on Mi = Am. ay Eoropear. Y~aeed Boat soy, Big cinn ieme—ie a 9 Chapel street Livwapoo:—R. Sinart, 10 Exchange stroet, Eat. Mavas—Am. & Faropean Kxpresa Co., 21 Rue Corneille ‘The contents of the Ecro, can edition of the Brsa.y wil! Bombine the nows received by mail aud telegraph at the eflice during the previous week, and up wo the bow of puviication. The Ne Be ‘We publish elsewhere a brief history of the pro. grees of public events in this city for some weeks past, in order that our readers may see at a glance the exact position of affairs, Between the lawyers and the judges and the poli- ticians the Btreet Commissioner entanglement is daity becoming more complicated. Pending the | proceedings before Jadge Peabody, upon the appli- cation for warrants for the seizure of the papers of , the Commissioner's oftice, Judge Davies yesterday — issued a writ of certiorari, commanding a suspen- sion of action in the matter, and directing that the | © case be taken before him, at the general term of the | Supreme Court, on the second Monday in Septem- ber next. Meantime the Street Commissioner's of- tice remains in possession of Mr. Devlin. Every- | thing about the premises was orderly yesterday. | Mr. Conover did not make his anticipated atiempt | to take possession. Tle may make the attempt on | Monday next, when Judge Peabody renders his | decision, or he may postpone it until September | uext, ‘Two persons died yesterday of wounds reccived during the Pourth of July riots in the Sixth ward— one a special policeman named Thomas Sparks, the other # tinamith named John Meyers. Mr. Meyers was not a* participator in the affray, He | was walking through the streets, when a chance shot from the rioters struck him in the head, in- ‘ flicting @ mortal wound. The officers entrusted with the warrants issued | by Coroner Perry for the apprehension of the ten | rioters implicated by the jury on Monday, had not been able to secure any of them up to last evening, | It is wo easy matter to effect an arrest in the vicini- ty of the Five Points just at this time, for no donbt al the parties concerned in the late riots are on the qut vier and ready to elude the vigilance of the of- fcers. Moreover, it is not improbable that the most | notorious of them, learning that thelr arrest was intended, have fied from the city. If they can be induced to remain ont of the city altogether it may be « better way of dealing with them than bringing them to trial with a chance of escaping conviction. The Board of Alcermen met iast evening, and after come struggling agreed to give up to the Me- tropolitan Police Commissioners all the fixtures and moveabies used by the old Police Department, The | new force, it is understood, will enter upon formal | The Police | posse #ion of the station houses today. Commissioners continue their examination of ap- plicante for appointments, and to-day will s wearin a | «iderable body of new men. The special force are etill retained, es the regular organization fs not in a satficient state of forwardness to warrant their being dustanded. The Board of Councilmen adjourned last evening | for want of a quorum. The majority of the mem- bers who were present signed a call for a special meeting this afternoon, for the purpose of consider- ing the feasibility of transferring the property in the Strcet Commissioner's office to the Counsel to the Corporation. Under the Quarantine head in anotner column, will be found a printed copy of the rules just pre- pared by the Health Officer of the portof New York, | which will be required to be observed on board all vessels detained at Quarantine. The rules will be foand to be sufficiently pointed and rigid. If they are only more The Regular Democratic (Wilson Small) General Committee met last night at the Tammany Hall, and passed a series of resolutions expressing their regret atthe death of William L. Marcy, ex-Secretary of | State. Without transacting any other business of unportance the Committee adjourned. The joint committee of the Common Council held | fa meeting yesterday in regard to the disposition of | the gold enuff box of General Jacksoe. A few iet- ters were read from distinguished military gentle- men, giving their opinions in regard to the person of persons best entitled to the gift. The Supreme Court of this State, at the general term in the second district, Judge Strong presi- ding, has recently decided » case in whieh the sell of ale (ager bier incladed, of course,) in leas | ities than five gallons, without « license, is declared not a violation of the Excise law. We have news from Rio Janeiro to the 20th of | May. Our correspondent states that the coffee market had fallen and had still a downward ten dency. The stock poured in faster than the «hip ments were made, and one handred and cighty thousand bags were in first bands. American freights were very dull. A good deal of sugar had been shipped for the United States in anticipation of the reduced tariff. Advices from Paraguay stated that President Lopez was arming his river forts heavily, and would deny the right of naviga- tion to strangers. The United States storeship Sup- ply arrived at Rio on the Isth of May. Oar t at Sagua La Grande, Cuba, writing on the 27th ult., says :— Two barks from the West Coast of Africa succeeded in landing off this place, on the Might of the 24th inst., nine hundred and fifty slaves, and both vessels were under canvas | the following morning before sanrise for Brail. The British Consul forwarded a letter stating the occurrences to the Covernor of Jamaica, who has ordered a Britieh frigate to go in pursuit of the savers.” James Shaw, a captain of a © put on trial yesterday the Court of eS arged worth of lead. The case, how ever, was postponed til] Judge Russel! decides og properly enforced the pubiic can ask no | reported in the Hemanp seme days since. John Smith, indicted for robbery in the first degree, very cea prudently pleaded guilty to an attempt, and was Grrainont, both sent to the State prison for tive years. Winifred Sullivan, indicted for grand larceny, was acquitted Pek | im consequence of variance between the indictment and the proof, She will be re-indioted this morning ‘The investigation into the cause of the death of De LY 2 emected with neatness, cheapness and des Grand val, at Hoboken, was concluded yesterday, when the jury rendered a verdict that deceased was killed by a pistol shot fired by Frederick Cueva. jo, 190 | The prisover bad previously heen remanded to jail, where he will await the action of the Grand Jury at the sitting of the Court in October next. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced abort 600 a 500 baies, betog bared upon middling uplands, at aboat 140 als Floor was in moderate demand. Prices were lower, being fully & cents per barrei for nearly all kinus under good to choice extras, Wheat was also raher beavy and alack of sale, Chicago spring brovght $1 50, and asmall lot of new Southern white soli at 32.06. Tne receipts of cor were light an prices firmer. «Common mixed 2old at Sie a 86c., and good to prime anit at Sic a 86c, Yellow and white were gominaj, Pork was had above the views of duyers. Smal! jots of mess $22 600820 85 In large lots it was otfere! at $22 76, withoct bayers, lard was firm and aold at aye. Sugars were more active with an improved demand from the trade. Tho swies ombraced about 1,562 bhds. inchiling 700 Hogiirh Islaads, aud 70 boxes, at rates given iu another columa. Colfee was firm but quiet, while sales were !imi tod. Freights were inactive, while rates to Liverpool were in @ measure nomival and without change worthy of notice ) to other por s. Whe Decay and Dispersion of our Old Poittl- eal Cxrties—The Prospect for 1860. Revolutious, they say, never go backwards At all events, the comprehensive revolution iu our political parties and in the political issues of these latter times, set in motion in the Presiden- tial election of 1852, is etill progressing; but it the great campaign of 1860. In the contest between Pierce and Scott the ‘The reenlt was inevitable. The old whig party had thus become a superfluous organization, and it was abolished by the voice of the people. It wea voted a superfluity, and it was broken up and d'epersed. The elements of opposition to the democratic party were thus thrown adrift, | and these loose materials were so largely in- creased by desertions from the Northern demo- | cracy during the first year of poor Pierce's ad- ministration as to convince the commonest ob- eerver of political events that the opposition forces, by the year 1856, would hold the power in peed hands required to carry the Presidential lection. Sut with the disintegration of the Northern de- mocracy under poor Pierce, a new, grotesque, absurd, preposterous, mysterious, secret and ap- parently overwhelming revival of the old ex- ploded Native American party took place. For a while it threateaed to carry everything before it. The worn-out and superannuated political hacks of both the old whig and democrstic par- ties made haste, accordingly, to calist in the | Know Nothing camp, from Maine to New York, from New York to Kentacky and Tennessee, aod | from Tennestee to Texas. “Sam,” for a season, was all the rage. From his unknown hiding places be sallied forth, and carried towns and cities by storm, and swept the good obi State of Massachusetts like a sudden whirlwind. And so Last and West, North and South, he went on, from conquering to conquer, pretty much in the style of the Goths and Vandals, aatil, with his dark lantern and all bis mysterious trumpery, poor “San” was cont off packing to the right about ' face from his disastrous hand-to-hand fight with Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. From that day-—as decisive against the Know Nothing party as was the defence of Vienna by Sobieski against the march of the Turks into the heart of Earope--trom that day the road of | “Sam” was the road to ruin. But, in the mean- | time, the desperate neceseitics.of poor Pierce | and one or two other Northern aspi- taats for the Cincinnati nomination, had | brought about the repeal of the Missouri compro- | mnie, and that repeal had given birth to another new party orgwnization, under the name of the republican party, Finding very soon that this throughout the North, like the rod of Aaron, was swallowing ap all the other parties, the Southern Icaders of the Know Nothing camp hurtied into the Presidental cawpaign, in the cold month of February, and broke into pieces | in the nomination of Millard Fillmore. But as | party, il the power to defeat General Cass, 80 | opporition candidate in 1856, was content tw | hold the ficld in order to defeat Fremont. Thus Taylor, the clements of the outside Van Buren party were thrown adrift, co after the election of Mr. Nothing party all at sea. Here we begin the ess of a reconstruction of parties for 1860, and from all the signs of the times the bulk of the work of the great revolution started in 1652 | is now before us. If the dixbanding and disper- | sion of the old whig party has caused the tre mendous upheaving and effervescence of all the political elements of the country that have followed, what may we not expect from the final breaking up and dispersion of the old use is there for this old democratic party, when all the great issues which gave it vitality and do- | minion bave ceased to exist? It can no more be kept alive upon the popularity of Gen. Jackson | | than can the whig party be revived upon the memory of Henry Clay. There is not now remaining in the country anything in the shape of a homogencous and powerful national party. The last fall elections reduced the democracy to a decisive miaority in the Northern States, with scarcely a solitary ex- ception, as against the combined opposition forecs, Since then we have seen, from various State and local clections, that the strength of this repub- liean party falle far below the splendid popu- larity of Fremont, and that here and there the democracy have been picking up a few reinforce- ments from the onting remains of Kiow Nothing- iem. That reckless organ of Mr. Fillmore, the New York Lypress, occupies at present a sort of half-and-half pA-ition; for while the senior editor is understood to be fiching for a seat as an organ in Tammany Hall, the junior, it is said, is in- | clined to sell out and join the republicans, as the shortest roed to Congress, As a proof, on the other band, that the Seward management of the republican party is creating divisions in the camp and desertions from the rank and file, look at the New York Deity Zones. Shonld Kansas, urder the auspices of Governor Walker, be quietly admitted into the Union with in the next si it i= pose , cr eight months that the Tine 1 free St mea ‘ will, in ali probability, reach its culmination in | old whig party bad ‘been reduced to the same | platform, substantially, as the democratic party. | Martin Van Buren, in 154s, though disposesscd | bope of carrying a single electoral vote, | nore, though superseded as the principal | too, as after the election of General | Buchanan do we find the rump of the Kaow | democratic party’ And what longer | Daily Nows or the Day Book aa a New York city organ of the democracy. But es this contingency may depend upon the lobby operations during the next winter at Washington of the Albany Seward clique, we need say no more upon the subject at present. Our only purpose in these incidental epecifications of the newepapers named is to show that while the remains of the late Know Nothing party are in the market, there is anything but harmony among the big and “ little villains” of the black republican church. With Fremont out of the question, and with the repablicaa party reating upon W. H. Seward as its recognized leader, it wou'd probably, upon a fair test, be found to-day weaker than in November last to the extent of two or three hua- dred thousand votes From the high-handed usurpations of the Seward spoilsmea of our last ; Legislature, it is very probable that they will be signally routed in this State next November, and thus the foundation of Seward’s hopes and strength may be taken away. In fact, the organized and cohesive republican party of the North of 1857 is but a fragment of the Fremont party of 1856. A con- siderable portion of its materials are awaiting, like the disbanded Fillmore voters and the wrangling democracy, the issue of the Kansas question, aud the reconstruction of parties for the succession In the South, before the lapse of a twelve- month, we may expect the organization of a Southern sectional party, under the auspices of the secessioy Icaders of the democratic party, This sectional movement South will give vitality and system to the Seward sectional organization of the North; but between these extremes, from the facts and circumstances we have recited, the reader cannot fail to discover the abundant raw materials that will exist, North and South, for the organizatien of an all-powerful conservative | Union party. We adhere to this theory of at | least three parties for the succession; and to the opinion that, as neither the sectionalists of the | North or theSouth were thoroughly chastised in 1856, the duty of reducing them to eilence and submission will be the special business of the | conservative masees of the American people io 1860. | The Present State of ine new Granada Ques t ‘The presence at Waebiagton of Judge Bowlin, late Minister, and Mr. Morse, late Commissioner to Bogota, has again brought up the pending questions with New Granada. It is stated that the late Minister bas made representations to our government in regard to that of New Granada, accusing it of duplicity and « want of guod faith. We think there must be some mistake about this for such a charge on the part of the ex-Minister would not only be discourteous and undignified, but it is in open contradiction with the flatter- ing farewell letter he addressed to the Granadian Secretary of State previous to leaving Bogota. ‘That the pending questions between our go- vernment and that of New Granada require an early and a satisfactory settlement is but too evi- dent. The ridiculous errors into which the late administration was led, both as regards the points in question and the best course to be pursued for their satisfactory adjustment, as well as the un- diplomatic and undignified correspondence into which the zeal of our late representatives at Bogota betrayed them, we are happy to sec has no likelihood of being repeated by Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet. They have contributed as much, if not more than any other cause, to delay a just reparation for the outrages committed at Panama more than a year since. The present state of the question, however, indi- | cates an early resumption of the negotiations that were broken off at Bogota, and one that it is not unlikely will result in ao early settlement. | In order that the present position of the two governments may be seen, we will give a slight recapitulation of the chief points. When the negotiations at Bogota were brought to aclose by the refusal of the New Granadian government to comply with the ultimatum of Messrs. Bowlin and Moree, the new administration | of President Ospina was about to replace that of Senor Mallarino. A change had occurred in our own administration but a few weeks before, and thus cach government was unaware of the views of the other. General Caas, in courtesy to bis | predecessor in the State department, aad with a ' proper sense of self-respect, at ouce took the | position that New Granada having declined the of this government, was under the ob- ‘ ligation to take the firet step toward a renewal of the negotiations. In view of the posible con- tingencies that might arise, and of the vast | interests of our citizens involved in the safe tran- sit by the Isthmus, the President determined to send.a naval force to the ports of Panama and Aspinwall, with ade quate instructions for all emergencies. s the position which our | government at present occupies. | On the accession of President Ospina to power in New Granada the Congres+ of that republic | Was in session. Grave @ificulties attended bis | government, for his predecessor not only left | him with an involved treasury and several em- barrassing internal questions, but also a sharp controversy with the British government and an | entire suspension of diplomatic intercourse with | our representative, In addition to this a popular | excitement bad been artfully created against our demands, with the express view of embarrassing the new Cabinet. He has succeeded in settling the Britich question, and is said to entertain just views in regard to the one with ux In order to facilitate its amicable arrangement, Gen. Mow quera, as chairman of the Senate Committee oa Voreign Affairs, has reported o bill giving full authority to President Ospina to arrange the demands of the United States. We published this report and bill in full some days since, and should it pags the Granadian Congress, as there is every reason to believe it will, the President will have authority to arrange our claims by a Con- vention that will regaire no subsequent discussion and ra ification in Bogota. ‘This was the position of the question at the de- parture of the last mail from New Granada, and we are credibly informed that General Herran, the Minister of that republic near our govern- ment, confidently expects by the next mail full instructions in the matter, and direction to open the negotiation at Washington. During all the time that has necessarily clapsed in these pro- ceedings, there has been no interruption of the transit of our mails and parsengers by the Isth- mus of Panama, although our portal convention with New Granada has expired, and a popular excitement was created for a time against us on the Isthmus, Nor has there been the slightest in- dignity offered to any of our citizens there. The duty of both governments, however, is to put an end to this anemalous state of things; and while we have every confidence that our own will he firm in the euppert of our jnst claims, we trust that of New Granada wil! not ‘iesitate to admit om ard accede justice aullimatun ‘The Dificulty with Venez uela—Apprehended Consequences—Hew Pilloustering Expedi- Our telegraphio correspondence trom Wash- ington, published a day or two since, gives some interesting information in relation to the Gifficulties said to be impending between this country and Venezuela, By an arrival the pre- vious day from Porto Cabello we were oppor tunely in receipt of two letters from Venezuela— one dated at Caracas, June 11, and the other at Porto Cabello, June 14—which we have also published. Notwithstanding the statements in these letters are not entirely consistent. it ia quite evident that the present condi- tion of affairs between the two countries is the reverse Gf cordial umity; but we are still of opinion that no serious apprehension need be en- |- tertained of open war between the United States and Presideat Monagas. There is, however, one aspect in which the ex isting circumstances may be viewed that invests them witha grave and serious character with reference to the present rulers of Venezuela, The consequences, also, which may flow to our government and people from the present condi- tion of affairs between the United States and the government at Caracas should be well consider- ed, as they are not unlikely to give color to the oft repented reproach cast upon us of being prone to filibustering. We.will speak more plainly. There is at this time residing in this city a dis- tinguished Venezuelan exile, General Don Jose Antonio Paez, He was formerly President of Venezuela, and the most noted military hero of that republic. He Les many warm and zealous friends and partizans remaiping there. With the masses of the people, cepecisliy in two or three of the mcst populous sections of the republic, hostile to the corrupt and selfish speculators who have such great sway there, we learn he is very popular, and that many anxiously desire his re- turn to the country and his restoration to power. His family connections, it is said, are influential and wealthy, and he has himself command of am- ple pecuniary means in the United States. Ba- nished from his native land by those who now rule at Caraces, surrounded by and in close communion with other South American exiles, like all proscripti, he is constantly contriving means by which his country may be liberated, or by which he may be restored to it, and re-attain his former political ascendancy. We were aware some months since of the existence of a contract between General Paez and the two individuals first named in cur letter from Porto Cabello, by which, in compensation for sundry steamers and sailing vessels to be supplied to him, and for the transportation of some hundreds of “emigrants,” and 9 quantity of arms snd ammunition, to the Venezuelan coast, he engaged to pay some two millions of dollars, for which the Custom House revenues cf the republic were to be pledged; and in which contract also he sti- pulated to transfer to the parties named all the guano on ‘he various islands claimed by the republic. It is said that many of the people of Venezacla plighted themselves to tne fulfil- ment of this contract. We kaye some ground for the belief thet Mr. Secretary Marcy had hints givea to him of whet was going on, and that he did adopt measures to thwart the consummation of the designs of the parties who had engaged with General Paez. In ignorance, hewever, of the names of the persons who had signed the coa tract, the suspicions of Pierce’s administration and its eubordinates were directed to the two great filibustering millionaires of this city—Commo- dores Cornelius Vanderbilt and George Law. Vanderbilt, upon the first suggestion of the charge, at a time when he was particularly savage against all filibusters, because Walker had seized his steamers on Lake Nicaragua, indignantly denied the soft impeachment in the public printa | Law being engaged just at that time in providing minies and other “seasonable hardware” to Walker and Henningsen, declined the loan or sale on credit of a single one of that ever- lasting lot of 600,000 filibustering muskets, al- tered into minies, either to Paez, Wright, Bleecker & Co., or any other parties, till after Walker should have triumphed in Nicaragua. Hence, and not in auywise owing to the vigi- lance of District Attorney McKeon or other fede- ral officers was the expedition against Venezuela temporarily suspended. Walker's friends were anxious to eupprese all such schemes that might divert mea and means from him, and from these influences also originated the quarrel between him and the Cuban filibuster. Goicouria, that broke forth last fall. We have good reason to suspect that the con- | fidential conferences held by General Walker on | his recent visit to this city, (and to hold which | was the chief purpose of that visil;) with some of | the persons above named aad others of whom suspicion on such topics is not entertained in this community, aud the mention of whose names would cause universal astonishment amongst our | business men, had for their object the inva sion of Venezuela, instead, as has been generally supposed, « renewal of the attack dircetly on Nicaragua. Walker, Henningsen, Anderson, Fayssoux, Swingle, Henry and Lockridge, with hundreds of other such filibusters, are al this particular juncture without occupation in their peculiar line, and of course on hand for any bold adventure that promises reasonable reward cither | in gold or glory. Until the disputes with re- | spect to the Nicaragua Transit route existing be- | tween Nicaragua and Costa Rica and the various competing claimants and bidders for it are ad- | juste, and until another domestic row is kicked / up in that region between Martinez, Mora, Canas, | Jerez, Zavala and the some thirtyodd greaser ge- | nerals, each one of whom is striving to appro | priate all the power to himself, the filibuteros will not receive any “invitation” to go thither, and have not therefore any excuse for so doing ; for Gen. Castillon’s old invitation to Walker has run out of date. Besides, according to an an- cient Spanish proverb, “No hay pajaros en los ni- dos de Antano,’ which freely translated may be rendered, “ Another visit to Nicaragua won't pay,” or “ A burnt child dreads the fire.’ Nor have those restless spirits patience to await the | attack by Spain on Mexico, when they could 'al- ly to the aid of President Comonfort. They | must act forthwith and the “invitation” of Gen. Paez will supply them with a patriotic exense | for a descent upon Venezuela under his banner, | and the expulsion of Monagas with the war ory of “Bios, Paez y Libertad.” Who doubts that Gen. Paez will engage, upon his being placed In possession of the government of Venezuela, and sustained in his power by some thousand Yankee riflemen, that not only the Aves island claim but alw that of the holfers of the Colombia bonds for which Venezuela is liable, ehall be fally | paid to the claimants. These claims gould, if the | holders would consent, be readily turned in Wall atreet into a joint etock association for the ma- tual benefit of the present holders and those who would engage thus to secure their payment. If Venezuela should We invaded, anordiag to | ton, the programme indicated by General Paez and the filibusteros, and that firmly seated in power, it is not at all probable the business would stop there. Venezuela would be a point @appui {or their subsequeat operations, through which they would be unembarraased by the neu- trality laws of the United States or of any other government. The filibusters have @ firm belief that destiny bas commanded the annexution of all the Hispano-American States eouth of us to the United States, and that they should be rege- nerated by Yaukee means and Yankee civiliza- tion, Hence the war cries of Vie le Libertad— viva él filibusterismo! canvot be stifled. The anci- ent crusaders were not more devoted to their cause then sre their modern copyists. And bere it may be remarked that the out- rages upon our citizeps, the spoliationa of their property, the refasal to pay the just debts due trom several of the Spanish mulatto republics south of us, and the remissness of our own government—bordering even on imbecility —tocnforce justice against those States, have been potent caures for the increase of filibuster- iew. They bave ut least afforded a plausible ex- cure, in some instances, for some of the courses adopted by iodividuals against those States Citizens of the United States and others deeply injured by wrongs perpetrated by those goyern- meats, for which xo redress could be obtained, bave justified themselves to their own consciences ou the ground that if their government fails in the duty of affording them protection and redress, they have the moral right to resort to other means, and seek to right and avenge themselves. In suck caves our neutrality laws are little respect- ed. If those injured refrain from active and di- rect measures themselves, yet goaded by the injus- tice they have received, the filibusters are certain of their sympatby and commendation. Our con- servative etutesmen ahould ponder on this. It is an ascertained fact that out of more than thirty cases of just and well founded claims against the governments south of us, on file in the State De- partment during Pierce's administration, amount- ing to maay millions of dollars, not more than two or three were definitely adjusted. No more important subject can occupy the at’ tention of the administration at Washington than measures to secure justice from foreign govera- ments to American citizens, hitherto so shame- fully neglected. The British government, in this respect, eets us a proud example. Tur Cask or THY, Pancutra.—We published yesterday the story of this vessel, from the time of her seizure to the singular denouement of her drama by the arrest of the British officers who brought her in here asa prize. The points are few and plain, It seemsthat the captain of the British vessel of war Sappho was urgently eolicit- ed by an “American agent” on the African coast to seize the Panchita, on the ground that she was aslaver, and that the American squadron wasnot on the coast at the time. That the captain of the Sappho, after some hesitation, did accordingly seize her, and mauned her with a prize crew who brought her to New York. And that on arrival here, the owner, claiming to have been injured by the seizure, bed the British officers who com- manded her urrested and held to bail iu the sum of $15,000, ‘These are the leading facte; and upon them we desire to inquire who was the American agent, ut Congo, who evinced so pratseworthy « eolicitude for the suppression of the slave trade, and the eeizure of the Panchita? We were not aware the try had the advantage of beiag represoated officially at Congo. Was the “agent” an agent of the government, or an agent of the Board of Foreign Missions? We should like further to know whereabouts one might find the American squadron detailed on especial duty for the sup- pression of the slave trade? By the Ashburton treaty we are bound to keep a squadron of eighty guns on the coast; where is it? With regard to the right of the captain of a British vesel to board and make « prize of an Amerioun vessel, we do not find that the Ash- burton treaty the only authority on the point justifies any such measure, Thut treaty says:— o'ipatt naa sere o6 thecoant of Atti eo ant adequate squadron, or naval force af ve of suitable numbers aud descriptions, W carey in al! uot lesa (han 00S, to enforce, separavwiy and Ln oa tively, we rights aud obligations of each of countries for tie suppression of the slave trade; squadrons to veadont of each otior; but governments at puiating, nevertheless, to give such to the olficers comtasuding thetr respective forces as ‘hall enadie then most effectually to act in concert and co-ope- upos innt.a Consaltation. aa exigencies may arise, for the aitaiameot of the tree object of this article copies of all sock ovder® to be communicated by each govera- ment to We oter respectively Whether there has been any “ mutual consul- tation’ between the American and Britidh squad- | rons, ending in an agreement that veseels of war of either nation shall be justified in search- ing and ecizing slavers belonging to both, we are | not aware: it is a point on which information is dcsirable. act, we apprelend that the captors of the Iw chita will find themselves in an awkward po This country will not tolerate @ renewal of the British rigbt of search, in any shape, It is not our province to inquire into the afi- davii of the owner Weeks, or the guilt or inno- | cence of the alleged slaver. There are some very suspicious features in the case certainly, The at- tempt of the Portuguese Mesquita to obtain pos | session of the Panchita after she was seized does not look as though she was on a lawful trading voyage. The evidence of her antecedents col- | lected at Ascension tells against her. And the mysterious disappearance of her papers on her arrival here, connected with the surreptitious | visit of an ipdividual who ix supposed to have been her owner, is not calculated to strengthen the impression that ahe had nothing to conceal. | ‘These are matters which the courte will discuss; | | we only mention them from a desire todo jus | tice to the British officers, and in order that their positian may be rightly understood by the public. Tie New Stark or Miyyusora Under a spe- vial act of Congress authorizing the same, an election came off throughout the Territory of Minnesota oa the first Monday in June last, for delegates to a Convention to form a state consti- tution and government. Under the authority of the same act of Congress this Convention will moect on the second Monday in July (next Mon- day), to organize a State government, Kc. The republicans have secured a majority of the Con- vention, and they will, no doubt, make use of their success with the view to the be& party advan- tage in the organization of the now State, ana in the distrilution of the spoil, But here the ques tion rpurs: why not set aside all the late irregu- jar proceedings in Kansas by both partics, and put Kaneas through the regular discipline of an enabliog act of Congress, as in the ease of Min- nesta Or was this enabling act to Minnesota a mere device of Mr. Dongias to keep her out of the Union till Kansas should be ready to come int We hope not, “Sauce for the coos should be eauce for the gander.” This is the aly tene dogtrine on the “goore que tion.” For, without come such excuse for the | Whe Baect of the French Kiections on the wrench re. We had occasion some time sinec, in comment- ing on certain slurs of Louis Napoleon's official organ upon the “commercial iaterests” and “twieus of cotton” that bind this country and England together, to remind the French Emperor that orders from the United States for goods were much more effective than orders for military strategy from the Tuilleries for the prevention of revolution in Paris, Lisle and Lyons; and to warn him that he must bind his throne with “cotton twists” if he wished to secure for it any Jong permanency in the good will of the Freaoh People, The result of the recent clections in Franee confirm our words ina most remarkable manner. It is true that only a small number of opposition deputies have been returned to the French Legie- lature, but that small number comes from the very centres of industrial France. Paris, Lisle and Lyons are in opposition to the empire. It is true thet Paris is not unanimous in its opposi- tion. and that out of 215,000 votes the govern- ment shows a majority of 15,000 in ita favor. It should not be forgotten, however, that this mea- jority was obtained by colonizing the capital with some thirty or forty thousand troops who voted uvanimously, and that 145,000 registered facts are abundantly indicative of the direction of the tide of popular feeling in the industrial centres of France, and of the dangers that He ia the path of Louis Napoleon. He may appeal to the vast majorities he has obtained in the raral distriete, but this will net prove anything in his favor. ‘ In Europe, and especially in Mrance, mind ia concentrated in the cities, The raral districts do not think for themselves, but ake their tone from and follow the beat of the centres of society, where intellect in all its phases is gathered. I¢ is this fact that is so pregnant with danger te Louis Napoleon. The efforta that the several dy- nasties of France have made to rule it through a policy that has no bond of sympathy with its industrial dcvelopement, have ail been failures, and have produced reaction and revolution. Tae Emperor may sneer, through the columns of the Constitutionnel, at the “twists of cotton” that rale Manchester, and through Manchester govern the policy of Englaad; but it is this observance of the commerciat wants of the nation that in reali- ty constitutes the strength and permanency of England’s government. He may deride the im- pulses of the commercial centres, but these im- pulses are in truth the active exponents of the wants of the whole country. Commerce does not form by itself an infpendent class, but it is the handmaiden of every interest, and is linked by the closcet ties with agriculture. Paris, Lyons, Lisle, Bordeaux and Marseilles are, therefore, the thermonacters of public opinion throughout France. Tiey are indicating with unerring signs, in the results of the late elec- tions, the growth of public feeling antagonistic tothe empire. Every observant cye secs it. Already have the lip and pen warriors taken heart ahd resumed the battle, and from every foreign shore they are pour- ing into France their stirring appeals. Louis Napoleon himself sees and feels their at- tacks, and is struggling against them. His offi- cial organ, the Conshiutionnel, is pouring forth column after column of homily on the Plug Uglies and Mormons of the United States, as being the only true results of republicanism as developed in this country, and urging upon the French people an adherence to the empire. In this he is committing a great error, for the whole world knows that these tales are not true. The moral, industrial and political power of the United States are palpable everywhere, and even he most ignorant classes of Europe are aware of our physical and intellectual developement. In proof of this assertion we necd only to cite the crowds of emigrants that are hastening acroas the Atlantic. If Louis Napoleon is wise In time he may save his crown, but to do so he must imitate the late example of Lord Palmerston. When the English Premier dissolved Parliament and ap- pealed to the people of England to sustain him, he secured his tenure of office by a skilful use of two great and living impulses. He bent before the advancing revolution in the political consti- tutions of Europe, and promised the people a reform bill at an early day; and be recognized the increasing mor influence of the Umited States by announcing a policy of more intimate union and co-operation with us. Even his polioy in China he defended by appealing to the course of our commander on the Canton river, and thia was accepted asa complete vindication of hia | course. His triamph and the policy that secared | it should not be forgotten by Louis Napoleon. | If he wishes to preserve the empire in France he must weave its policy with her industrial in- | terests and replace the bees upon the imperial ermine; and, above all, be must secure the moral | influence of the great republic. Let him ackno#- | ledge the great good that the popular mind throughout the world sees in us, and seek to | blend some portion of it with his fature im France. The impractical social systems of his enemies—the wild vagaries of Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin and their fellows, in rejecting our practi- cal theorieshave left him a clear field from | which to select whatever may be useful, withoat the necessity of carrying all our forma to the ua- prepared soil of Europe. His alliance with | England was a groat step-the announcement of « sympathy with our progress will be a still greater and a more successful one. Actes. Beare or tm Mesrerran Ficwt.— Recognizing the immense difficulty to our read er of keeping track of the various shiftings and Jegal turnings and twistings that have character- ized the contest for municipal rights which we have been and are waging in this city, we pab- lish tovlay « general view of the actual condition of affairs, The Metropolitan Police question ia settled and at rest—our municipal rights, in that respect, being extinguished, at least for a time, The contest for the Street Commissionership is be- ing still waged, and presents to-day the rather ex- traerdinary spectacle of three Judges of the same Court, of co-ordinate powers, nentralizing each the act of the other. This judicial spectacle is in itself an epitome of the general outside triangu- lar fight in which parties are involved. How it is to end, or where may be discovered the clue to the labyrinth, is one of those things that paseth comprehension. The Uxcise Commissioners are not making much progrees in their way. They ate not cer. tamly overflooding the city with licensed spirit | venders—not because it is so difficult to procure license, but because the liquor dealers do not re- cognise either them or the law under which they are organized. Up to this time they have grant ed only 19 licensee, though there arc probably 12,000 places in bea city where liquor is sold. vs for, wnd grunt th voters refrained from going to tke polls. “These |