The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON B EDITOR AND PROPRIBTOR, SPFIOE N. W. CORNKE OF nassau AND FULTON BTS. na wooccnaaas Fae ain) B ERALD, 130 conta} hath ta cont THE WEERIT HERALD, ory 4 mi AE rm “PRS Sean parte? On Corainonh Both * RMT) F HERALD, every Wednenlay, atfowr conte per MT ENTRY ‘CORRESPONDENCE, cet i ert eevee, sorted om any gt ba ey ae von Coneaeiccunes ame ROVLARLY KrorrsTen TO SEAL Alt LETTERS AND Pacuacms bay NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. Wedo no return those revected. .Ne. 387 Vorume xn... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tas Caitio—Tazn srmat GikL AWAT—ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA. . — NIBLO'R GARDRN, Broadway—Tax Cooraes—Ticmt Rora Faats—\'awtourme or Bormas. BOWERY THEATRE, Bomory—Ravasraisn ano GrM- wastio Faars—Monaar or Mapes BURTON'S THRATRE, ‘Broadway, opposite Bond street— Pants oxo Lowpox—Comic Pastomims—A Dar in Naw Youre. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway+Two 1o OxE—A Curious Case. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway Gna Spec: TACLE OF TRB 5R4 OF Om, On 4 MOTHER'S "§ JUVENILE COMEDIANS, Seeier—ae nNAGHES done asp Danetno- ne Winaw Ott j—After- BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway oy noou—LVCK'S IN 4 Nawe—Fawtry Jars. Eve CountkY's SINEWS. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 663 b meeetvay: —Grores Ouewtr & Woon's Minsteeis—OLv Doc MECHANICS’ BALL, 472 Rroadway—Bavant's Minereais —Ermiorian Sonas—CoLomep ProruRe Gautary. NATIONAL CIRCUS, 8 Bowery—Equmstaian Faats— Qrunastic Rarxcises, Ac EMPIRE HALL, 506 Seek Tao LuLusTRarive: Or tax Kane RxPRDiTiIOn DOPWORTH'S SALOON—Mx. G, Vanpenuorr's Luc: tuRB ON COMMON NENBE New York, Wriday, November 27, 1857. vi ne News. The steamship Vanderbilt arrived at this port from Southampton at an early hour yesterday morning, bringing files of Paris and London papers to the 13th and 14th insts. respectively. She also brought $250,000 in specie and 305 passengers. The Vander- bilt was off Cape Ra the afternoon of Sunday, 20d inst., and a telegraphic summary of her news— which reached us after some delay—was published in the Hxranp of Wednesday, 25th inst. We give this morning copious details of the pro- greas of the wild monetary panic which set in in Eng- land: on the 11th instant, and prevailed with great intensity in all the cities of the United Kingdom until the official order suspending the Bank of Eng- land’s Charter act was received, which produced a temporary calm in the centres of commerce and finance. The crisis in the money market was se- vergly felt in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, had reached St. Petersburg. We have the following corrected and extended list of failures and suspensions which took place subsequent to the departure of the Atlantic from Liverpool on the 11th instant City Bank of Glasgow... Sanderson, Sundemann & Co.. Fitch & Skeet... Messrs. J. Monteith & Co. M. Guimaraes & Co. Wilvon, Morgan & Co. Mackenzie, Ramsay & Co. Rowman, Grinnell & Co Draper, Pietroni & Co Steegman & Co... Monro, Grant & Co. Coddington & Co, R. Bainbridge & © | Glasgow was in a very excited state ‘immediately | | before the news of the suspension of the Charter | act was received there, and military precautions | against riot had been taken by government. Consols | closed in London on the 13th instant at 89; a 894. The Bombay mail had reached London with pa- pers tothe 17th of October, and telegraphic advices from India dated at Calcutta on the 9th and Madras on the 14th of October Lad beeu received tere. There was little additional news, and the chief point of it was the situation of the English at Lucknow. General Outram reported that their sick | and wounded could not be moved to | Cawnpore in the face of the enemy without the aid of more than two thousand soldiers, which was the entire force at his command. He was | consequently again besieged. The mutineers were | very numerous in Qude, and all of Central India was ly disturbed. No more British troops had | arrived, but it was hoped that large reinforcements | would pour in during the month of October. General Wilson had toasted Queen Victoria's health in the | but a scene of unexampled inflation, with paper _ NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1857. at the Tammany ratification the other evening | hindrance to them at all. Let it be abrogated ternoon and in the evening. eesenaaooh the coun try, so far as we have heard, the day was appropri- ately observed. ‘The Political Effects of the Revulsio .. As soon as the public have recovered the shock of the financial disorders which are oc- curring in Europe, they must prepare to hear of political disturbances, Political revolutions have invariably followed periods of commercial and financial embarrassments. Disastets in business have the effect of unsettling men’s minds; and, in their disturbed state, traders naturally vent their spleen on the government of their country, and try to convince them- selves that, had it been different, the crisis need not have occurred. This is alike consonant with experience and with human nature. The financial embarrassments of the reign of Louis the Sixteenth precipitated the first revolution in France; the troubles of 1827-'8 in the money markets of the world laid the seeds of the re- volutions of 1830; and the panic of 1847, which compelled the Bank of England to resort to the same extraordinary measure which has relieved it now, immediately preceded the French, Ger- man, Spanish and Italian convulsions of 1848. The sequence has recurred too frequently and too uniformly to be a matter of chance. It is, therefore, according to precedent and principle to expect that the year 1858 shall witness some political convulsion of some kind or other. And it isalso reasonable to anticipate that that political convudsion shall be co-exten- sive with the financial embarrassment which has occurred. In this country, as the revulsion of 1837 pre- ceded and led to the political revolution of 1840, so the revulsion of 1857 is likely to lead to a change of issues, and a reconstruction of parties for 1860. Up to the present time, no political issue has grown out of the affair, mainly because its financial bearings have not yet been fully gauged. But when these are known, the political aspect of the matter will come into view. The republican party being effete, the native Americans defunct, the demo- cracy tending toward disorganization, ample opportunity will be offered for the creation of new issues on the financial questions suggested by the erisis. In England, the question of indemnifying the bank for the overissue of notes authorized by the circular of the government will create the first dividing line among politicians. One party will take the ground that an act of Par- jiament which requires to be superseded every time it is strained is worse than no law at all, and that a new bank charter is imperatively re- quired. The other party will reply to this that Sir Robert Peel, when he drew the Bank act, distinctly explained to Parliament that the con- tingeney which has occurred was foreseen, and that he relied on the interflosition of govern- ment whenever the pressure on the bank should endanger the solvency of the institution. Be- tween these two factions we can see already that the conflict must be very severe. But, besides this issue, another and more important one may be raised at Manchester, Leeds and Paisley. We hear already that many mills have been @losed and that others are working half time; we know that curtailments must be the order of the day for many weeks to come. The manufacturers are suffering from a combination of bad debts in America and hard times in Eng- land; they cannot keep anything like their usual force at work. It is likely that the suffer- ings and the conduct of the masses of the uuem- ployed may create a new party in Parliament on the basis of some industrial or perhaps char- tist principle. But it is on the continent of Europe that the | Nasco effects of the financial revulsion will he most plainly felt. #£rance and Germany are radically rotten; so are Spain and Italy. The imperial régime in France, which, in the guise of increased national prosperity, has been nothing credit and stock bubbles carried to an alarming extent, is quite likely to collapse under the combined effect of the stoppage of the Bank of France, the failure of the Credit Mobilier and the suspension of mercantile houses. And expe- rience shows that if the French Empire falls, the other dynasties of Europe will go likewise. Such a contingency would come naturally on palace of the Great Mogul in Delhi. The accounts of the English assault on that city, with the report of the capture of the King and his family, together with the description of the taking of Lucknow, are very interesting. We copy the official accounts of these important events. The steamship Africa, from Liverpool morning of the 14th inst., arrived last evening. She brings 85 passengers and $25,000 in specie. Our advices from China are dated at Shanghae léth, and Hong Kong, 25th of September. A violent typhoon bad destroyed a large number of vessels in the China seas, and done much damage in and around Foo-Choo. The Russian plenipotentiary was await n official reply from Pekin to the notification of the heels of the financial crisis. Tur Coneress Pristine ann tHe Lonpy,— This batch of the public plunder, which has heretofore been appropriated to the fattening of some party organ or organs at Washington, has of late become so enormous as to have raised the elemente of a lobby rebellion against voting it any longer to any one man, or any one estab- lishment. And when this government pap has reached the high figure of a million, and from that to a million and a half of dollars for the jobs of a single session, it is high time that the knife of “retrenchment and reform” was ap- plied to cut out this growing excrescence of corruption. We are, therefore, rather pleased ban otherwise at the lobby movements on foot t to the Emperor. The tea market of Shanghe« was firm, an ilke were quiet. From Aust we have news dated at Sydney, lith, and Melbourne 17th of September. All was well at the gold fields. A pr mine had been i wered at Aarant, 120 « from Melbourne. The wool market was very firm, and contacts were | s high rate. 7 ng clip was expected | n the last Money tight. There have | is New South Wales, and con- | perty or Hunter, | tion of pr the ther rivers. Some pre gold "I wered at Nelson, in New Zealand 450 e+ had arrived thence at Sydney nm South America. The dates 2d, Montevideo Sth, Rio Janeiro th, Bahia 19th, and Pernambuco 22d of October e Bohia sogar marke ned, and sales Coffve was in «mall demand. and freights minal, In the Rio market sugars were unchanged t coffee had fallen slig change on London At Pernambu had advanced. The political urs were | ver. Cotton news from Buenos Ayres ix not important. There was a report of an intended invasion of the State on the south «ide, in | whieh Calfucura was to be aided by the Chilian Indians. News had been received of an Indian invasion on the northwest side, bat the tails’ are not given Our despatches from Washington contain impor tant news, Governor Walker fad an interview with the President yesterday apart in their view of the Kans tution, and affairs look quite squally pateb under the telegraph head Thanksgiving day was very generally observed in this city yesterday. Business was entirely suspend ed, and all classes of our citizens, sinners as well as saints, enjoyed the day each according to its own Some went to church, others to the Opera They are wide as “se poles Lecompton ast! Read the des fashion and the theatres, and not a few amused them selves by target shooting, while all who could afford it partook of a Thanksgiving dinner at their own houses. We give elsewhere the exercises at the Five Points, at the House of the Friendlies and at the church of the Deaf Mutes. All the charitable institutions have reason to be thank. ful for the assistance they received yesterday. The target paraders were out in full force yesterday, and the theatres were filled to overflowing, both in the af to do away with the old system of bestowing the whole, or even the bulk of this mass of spoils upon some favorite organ of the party at Wash- ington, because the upshot may be the establish- ment of a national printing office, and the diver- ion of this corruption fund to the legitimate uses of the treasury. Mr. Buchanan, in resolving to dispense with a | pecial Washington organ, and in thus casting loose the cords which bound the late adminis- | tration to the Union concenp, struck the first ef- | fective blow against this corrupting system of adminittration organ grinder at a dead expense to the treasury of two or three hundred thousand, and from that to half a mil- lion a year. The Union may now be cut adrift by Congress without involving the slightest discourvesy to the President, and the knowledge a xpecial of this fact bas led, or will lead, to various free | and unfettered combinations of the lobby for a | share of these printing spoils. That myste- rious little Washington paper called The | States, w we believe, established for the es. pecial purpose of cutting in and cutting ous the | Union as printer to Congress. The Stas is @ representative of Southern rights, including the right to filibuster; and, danger from this quarter, the apprehensive of Union of late has been “out-Heroding Herod” as a constitutional fire-cater But this is not the only danger which the Unwu bax to encounter. The democratic pro- vinelal organists, who have been living for years upon a few straggling government adver- tisements, are bristling up, and from this State, and from Ohio, Minois and other States, these provincials will be early on hand among the lobby managers at Washington. From Vir- ginia, Mr. A. D. Banks, who publishes an obscure democratic journal at a place called Petersburg, is already said to be in the field. He is | cept. he distinguished himself in a very remarkable manner, <A certain Michael Doheney, a warm admirer of the Delhi sepoys, presented to the astonished democracy in the Old Wigwam a cap which had been awarded to Preston S. Brools as a fitting souvenir of his assault upon Senator Sumner; and this cane Mr. Doheney stated he hat received from the hands of Mr. A. D. Banks of Virginia. This announcement was received with some applause and some hisses, for there are many respectable men who are in the habit of visiting the Old Wigwam. And so, perhaps, in this Mr. Banks the Washington Union will have a formidable rival for the public printing among the very fiercest of the fire-eaters. But the Union, if we may believe one half that is said of it, is not a party but a joint stock concern, including democrats, Know Nothing: and black republicans of various degrees ameng the stockholders, And thus its lobby influences will not be limited to the democratic members of either house, but will embrace the pliable members of all parties. Depend upon it, there will be some rare sport, both before and behind the scenes, within a month or s0, before this business of the Congress printing, and that in behalf of Secretary Cobb is settled. We shall have a finger in the pie. Central American Affairs—Abrogation of the Clayton and Bulwer Treaty. The question of Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley’s mis- sion seems to be a very unsettled one, and the Washington correspondents are not at all cer- tain whether he is accredited to Washington or to the Central American republics. The latest version is that he is certainly going to Central America, and that he has taken a house in Washington for the winter, and will present his instructions to Gen. Cass in a day or two. How a house in Washington is going to help his mission to Central America, or Gen. Cass assist him to understand his instructions rela- tive to negotiations in Costa Rica or Nicaragua, we are not informed. But the whole secret of this curions piece of diplomacy is to be found in the anxiety of Lord Clarendon that Mr. Bu- chanan shall not recommend to Congress the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Both Clarendon and Palmerston know very well that if the President brings the question forward in his message, it will be acted upon at once, for it will be but the expression of the unanimous voice of the country. It is for this reason that England and Costa Rica —which is blindly under English influence— have already each double-headed missions in Washington, and that France will soon be in the same position. Mons. Belly is coming to the assistance of Mons. Sartiges, and a grand united effort is to be made to keep the Clayton-Bulwer treaty in existence. Unless they succeed in doing this—unless they continue to keep our hands tied with a bungling treaty and a doubt- ful interpretation of it—the influence of Euro- pean Cabinets on the American Isthmus will ra- pidly wane. Its only chance for existence now is to fasten itself upon us by an unwarranted reading of the contract. The progress of events has rendered Central America an object of special interest to all the commercial world, on account of the canals and railroads proposed to be constructed for the purpose of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It was the natural desire of Great Britain to prevent our attaining a position which the course of events clearly marked out for us,and which should give us control, in peace or in war, of the grand thoroughfares be- tween the two oceans. This was the main fes- ture of the policy that dictated the Clayton- Bulwer convention. By this instrument cach Of them agreed never to occupy, fortify or exercise dominion over any portion of Central America. It was, however, so loosely worded that serious mis- givings were entertained in the Senate; and it would not have been ratified but for some cu- rious letters between Mr. Clayton and Sir Henry Bulwer, which were presented to that body in order to give the matter a coloring, but which form no portion of the binding stipulations of the treaty. The Senate was thus wheedled into the unwise step of relinquishing our right as an independent nation to acquire territory in a region on our own continent which may become necessary for the security of our communication with our important and valuable possessions on the Pacific. After having got our government into this unfortunate predicament, the British govern- ment has not taken the first step toward the performance of its obligations ander this con- vention. It not only is in the actual possession of @ large portion of the coast of Central Ame- rica, but it has gone on extending the same, in spite of the terms of the treaty. It seized the valuable island of Ruatan, where, in 1841, Col. McDonald, the British Superintendent at Belize, hauled down the flag of Honduras and hoisted that of Great Britain, and since then has added thereto five of the neighboring islands, and erected them all into a British colony, under the name of the “Bay Islands.” The return of these islands to their rightful owner—the small State of Honduras—is clogged with stipulations which that State, notwith- standing its weakness, has nobly refused to ac- Then, again, on the Ist of January 1848, « British force expelled the officers of Nicara- gua from San Juan del Norte, hauled down the flag of that State, and raised the Mosquito flag in its place. To make the thing more complete, they ignored the ancient name of the place, and christened it Greytown. This flag of Mosquitia is merely a black version of the British ensign, and the government is “a fiction,” as Lord John | Russell called it in his despatch of the 19th of January, 1853, (0 Mr. Crampton. Even Lord Palmerston, in speaking of the Mosquito King to Mr. Rives, in 1851, said, “He is as much a King as you or 1.” It is these facts, and the twisting and tarn- ing of the British government in its interpreta- tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, that have outraged the honest sentiment of our people, and lead them to desire with great unanimity that notice shall be given to the British govern- ment of its termination. Such a step is particu- larly distasteful to Palmerston and Louis Napo- leon, whore great object is to tie the hands of our government, at least for a time, while they are getting through the difficulties which are acenmulating round them in the India revolt, she China war, the Moldo-Wallachian question, the revulsion, and probable bread riots in Eng- laud and France, the Spanish and Mexican im- broglio, and the revolutionary era which the financial crisis is about to inaugurate ia Buro- pean politics. The times are broodiig with great events on both continente, and England and France well know that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty isa mighty clog upon our national pro- ® little fat man, and ' gress, while, under their interpretation, it is no at once by the government, or the people will ignore it entirely, and proceed to arrange the whole question by what Lord Clarendon ‘gingerly calls “spontaneous settlement.” Tae ExrravaGance iN ovr Crry EXPEnpi- TuRE—Wuere THE Buame Reatiy Lixs.—In our columns to-day will be found a document of tome importance in connection with the ap- proaching charter election, inasmuch as it sup- plies a complete answer to the more prominent of the arguments used to defeat the re-election oi the Mayor. Our readers are aware that, un- der the provisions of the new city charter, it is directed that, two months before each charter election, a statement shall be published by the Comptroller of the receipts and expenditures of the city revenues for the year ending the first of the month in which such report is published. As this provision has not been complied with, we supply the information which it was intend- ed to furnish, from such other official sources as are open to us. The enormous increase in the amount of our city taxation within the last two years has been put forward as an argument to show the utter unfitness of the Mayor for his present office. Itis said that he is fairly chargeable with a large proportion of the extravagance and cor- ruption which have contributed to swell the burdens of our city taxpayers. There is nothing like figures to dispose of general as- sertions of this sort; and we pray our readers to pay particular attention to the facts devel- oped in the document to which we refer. The amount of our city taxation for the present year is $8,066,566 52, being an increase over that of 1850 of $4,836,386 05—or more than double. This enormous augmentation of expenditure is not to be accounted for by any of the ordinary necessities occasioned by the in- crease of population during that interval, or other legitimate causes. Comparing it with the previous ratio of increase, it is evident that there must have existed somewhere extravagance of the most reck- less kind, or the most profligate corrup- tion. The facts are in themselves sufficiently discreditable, without their being made the in- struments of further wrong. Those who are responsible for them must not be allowed to shelter themselves under the cover of a parti- zan warfare against men who have had little or no control over them. This will explain the reason why the city budget has not been pub- liched, in compliance with the provisions of the new charter. The damaging effect of its figures would, it was rightly apprehended, sad- die the blame where it was justly due, and se- cure the re-election of the Mayor. The tax estimates for 1858 will tell a damning tale mismanagement; and if the increase in our city expenditure falls short of ten millions we shall have to thank our luck for having escaped so cheaply. Of the eight millions expenditure for the pre- sent year, it will be seen from our analysis that the Corporation have had the control and ex- penditure of something less than two millions, ‘The sums appropriated to the Governors of the! Almshouse, the State and Corporate Asylums, the Police Commission, the Central Park Com- mission, the Croton Aqueduct Board, the Board of Education (including both the State and City School tax), and the Commissioners of Record, &c., are expended through State officers and by statute regulations. Of the addition to our city taxation since 1850, no less a sum than $4,020,544 is chargeable to State enactments and State officials—th 1 increase for which the city officials are \- sible since that year being only $824,701. The disbursements comprised in these two mil- lions will not be considered out of the way when we state that they embrace the expenses of the Street Commissioner's Department—of the City Inspector—the opening, paving, re- pairing, cleaning and lighting of streets—the care and expense of public buildings, police stations and engine houses—the cost of the Fire Department, public grounds, sewers, docks, slips and markets, printing, official salaries, &c. These facts will enable the constituency of New York to estimate, at their just value, the charges made against the Mayor of having con- tributed to accumulate their burdens. The most cursory investigation of them will show that the Mayor and Corporation have had bat little ~control over the — dishurse- ment of the city revenues, and that the enormous increase which has taken place in our expenditure within the last few years is en- tirely attributable to State interference and enactments, prompted by the anxiety of a knot of political intriguers at Albany to centre in themselves the whole official patronage of our city. These are the men who have raised the ery of corruption and of ma)-administration against the present incumbent of the Mayoralty, in order to remove from their path the last remaining obstacle to \he consolidation of their usurped power. The good sense and intelli- gence of our citizens will, however, peuctrate through their artifices and misrepresentations, and show them with which catdidate their real interest is identified. Tuk Meetine at tar Acapemy To-Nienr.— The meeting at the Academy of Music this even- ing will doubtless give to the Holy Alliance op- posed to Mayor Wood a touch of the quality and strength of the democracy when the occa- | sion calls them to the reseue. The democracy understand the issue of the contest. It looks to the campaign of 1860, Defeated in every attempt to cope singlehanded with the demo- crats of this metropolis, the Seward republi- cans, the Know Nothings, and all the odds and ends of the opposition, have combined their forces for a last desperate effort to get posses- sion of the city. If successful, the same scheme of combination will be most probably applied toa general movement against the democracy for the Presidential succession. But, defeat this combination here, and that game is blocked. Let the democracy maintain their ground, and show the allies to-night that the Joss of a few #traggling deserters only serves to consolidate the ranks of the party. Dermixa His Own Posrrioy.—We are re- quested to state that the Thomas Bell, whose name appears among the list calling the anti- Wood meeting of last Tuesday night, is not Thomas Bell, auctioneer, an old democrat of the Ninth ward. Should’nt wonder if there were a good many other names of the aforesaid list put there without authority. Cammorie Prete Bonwen to Dear —Fathor MeCabe, « well known Catholic prieat, was burned to death at Ma lone, N. ¥., while lying in his bed, on the 24th inat., owing to the clothes which covered him taking fire. e fire was confined to the bedroom, and nothing was known of the lamentable affair until next morning, when his Les f was discovered by another priest, who had slept in an ad- joining room. against State interference and black republican | THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FRon WASHINGTON. Arrival of Governor Walker—His Interview with the President—Their Antagonism Re- speoting the Kansas Constitation—What ts to be Done—The Financial News trom Eu- of Monetary Affairs there— Position of the Banking Houses—Mr. Bel- mont’s New Movement—Mr. Slidell and the. Future—Certain New York Domocrats in Bad Odor at Headquarters, dic., dic. Wasmneton, Nov. 26, 1557, ‘The Kansas question has again suddenly assumed a gloomy and threatening aspect. President Buchanan had endorsed the action of the Constitutional Convention and approved of the plan for submitting the Constitu- tion to the people. This I have stated in my des- patches, Now Governor Walker arrives and swears the oath of Hannibal against the whole proceeding. He pronounces it am outrage upon the people of Kansas, and « shameless violation of all the principles of free government. He is absolutely opposed to the constitution, and stands pledged to defeat it. An effort on the part of Congress, he says, to force that constitution on the people of Kansas, without their voice boing heard for or against it, will surely be followed by re- bellion and a bloody civil war. He describes the opposition to it as almost universal, and says no party in the Territory favors it. Thus are the President and Governor Walker brought in direct opposition on this ex- citing and embarrassing subject. At one o’clock to-day Governor Walker had his first interview with Mr. Buchanan, and after five hours of the Kindest and most friendly interchange of views, they parted to sleep upon the question, and will meet again to-morrow. A split between these two distin- guished officials would be productive just now of disaster to the country and perfect anni- hilation to the democratic party. Can they re- concile their difference of opinion? Mutual friends here hope so, but the parties themsolves fear not. Mr, Buchanan thinks that a submission of the slavery clause to the people was so much gained; and as this was the gist of the whole dispute, he deemed it his duty to ap- prove of what was done, if be could not have the whole constitution submitted as he desired. Gov. Walker says slavery is not the issue among the people of Kansas —that has passed by; but all the issues affecting their government as a community are involved in the constitu- tion, on which they are denied the privilege to vote, and they will resist at all hazards the attempt to force it upon them, and to this resistance he, himself, is absolutely and. uncompromisingly committed. Can the Governor back down?’ He certainly neyer will. But may he not return to Kansas and urge a free, full and peaceable yote upon the slavery clause, under a pro- test against the rest of the constitution; and having rid it of this incubus, there not being three hundred men in the Territory who would vote for the clause there, afterwards leave Congress to send the rest of the constitution back to the people for a proper yote upon the instrument itselfY This, it is belteved, Governor Walker could do with out any sacrifice of principlo or positim. If so, should he not, as a great statesman looking to the good of his country, make haste to do it, and by this means har- monize the differenco of sentiment and avoid its unbappy consequences? I learn that the constitution itself is yet a secret decu- ment in the Territory, and still in the bands of the com- mittee, to be altered and amended as they may think proper. Twenty dollars was offered for a copy of it by a gentleman, but it could not had. It is the earnest desire of both the President and Governor Walker to agree upon a common platform, upon which they can honorably stand; and frequent free and friendly intercourse may lead to this. If not, we have had but the end of the beginning of “ bleeding Kansas.’’ I have seen letters from the highest diplomatic authority in England which speak very discouragingly of the condi- tion of financial affairs there. The wisest doubt the issue of the present crisis, and it is feared that the cessation of enterprise will throw many thousands out of employment, ‘and lead to fearful bread riots. ‘The fact is, the whole political and financial systems of. Europe are rotten to the core. Every government is overburthened with debt, and each year sees some re newed sheme of loan or trick to meet the deficieacy of the budget. Al the same time, manufactures and trade have been stimulated in a most inordinate dogree for the last ten years, and the merchants aud manufacturers are all involved in vast kiting and speculating movements, which the present revulsion in American trade is likely to blowup. ‘The trade of this country has now became so important to Europe that the slighest wavering hore is fol- lowed by trembling there. One-third of all the exports of England come to the United States, being much more than goes to any other one country, Thus it is that American houses take such leading positions in London, and Ameri- can affairs are watched with such interest. But the lead. ing bankibg houses in Europe, not excepting even the Rothschilds and Barings, are managed by men who, though very good in smooth fair weather times, have uot the ability and talent necessary to meet a grand mone- tary crisis, and they have been shifting along till now they are all on the verge of ruin. Tt is stated here that Mr. Belmont will not go as Minister either to Madrid or Paris, but that the Rothschilds, during his late residence in Europe, having discovered that he possesses great talents asa financier, he will go to Paris 48 soon as he can arrange the business of his house in New York, and take the management of their house in the French capital. He will leave political life altogether. Mr. Slidell, as Thave repeatedly informed you, will not go to Paris, His great conservative influence is wanted in the Senate, and he will be kept in reserve aa the con servative Southern democratic candidute for the Preal: dency in 1860, His steadiness of purpose and reliability under all circumstances are felt to be of great usefulness in the present uncertain condition of political parties. ‘The President, and in fact, every member of Cabinet, are indignant at the course of certain democrats in New York, some of whom are holding high positions under the ad. ministration, in opposing the regular democratic party. Unless Iam greatly mistaken, some removals will be made in New York before another moon wanes, Bids were opened yesterday at the Treasury Department for building a new custom house at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and it was awarded to Blaisdell & Emerson, of Boston, their bid being lowest. Disasters at Se: CH AND BARK THE BRIG J. PRINCE Noxvoux, Nov. 26, 18! Capt. Brown and crew, of the brig J. Wallace, of Mill bridge, Me., from Machias, bound to Porto Rico, with a cargo of lumber, had to be abandoned at gea. Ship Revenue, arrived October 30, fell in with bark Prince, abandoned. Fire in Philadetphia, Prtaveteata, Nov 26, 1857, This morning the extensive lithographic establishment of Messrs, Wagner & Macquinan, situated in Franklin The place, near Chestnut street, was destroyed by fire. Franklin House and other neighboring propert slightly damaged, The loss is $40,000, but there is a partial insurance. ‘The Presidency of South C mn College. Covvsma, Nov. 26, 1857. The trustees of South Carolina College have elected A B Longstreet president of that inst Interesting from Venezuela, THE NEW GOLD MINES OF UPATA—ENGLISH TRRRITO- RIAL AGORESSIONS—PROLIFIC YIELD OF GOLD— THE FORKIGN DEBT OF VENEZUELA, ETC., RT We have received dates from Caracas, Venezuela, to st alt ‘The Piaris de Avisos hax a long article upon “ English Expeditions to the Gold Mines of Caratal in the Upata Dis trict," from which we learn that although this new gold district is undoubtedly within the Venezuelan territory, the British authorities at Georgetown, Demarara, had sent out mseientific expedition to examine thom, and were taking active steps to attract the trade of the gold district to that place, The eum of $5,000 had been appropriated by the Court of Policy of Demarara to explore and open a road in that direction. Some question about boundaries is aleo likely to come up with Venegnela, and the British officials m. wnifest the same disposition to annex the territory contiguous to De marara that they exhibit in Moequitia and the Bay Islands of Central America. ft seems that in the beginning of 1841 Mr. Schomberg, under orders of the British govern ment, proceeded to examine the eastern boundary of Bnglih Guiana, and took upon himself to howt the English flag on tho beach near the mouth of the Amacuro inlet, east of Barima- point, which commands the mouth of the great Oronoco river. The Britieh cabinet hae neither sustained mor re boked this act, but tolerates it Jor futare purposes. The Diario de Avisos adds that the gold mines at Upata Assuming the npereanes Which they have long been pected to pos The executive | power bad appointed an Jengiveer to the military command of the distriet of U: of $6,000. He is directed to map has authority to introduce such deem proper. From the G@acela de na, of the 10th ultimo, we learn that people were havingggreat success at the mines Vicente Leon bad found slur of gold stightly intermixed with gravel, weighing 46 ounces; L. Acuuna,a lump 2 pure gold, of 24 ounces; Silva and’ brother washed out 32 ‘ounces in twenty days; two others got #0 ounces in fi weeks: and one man had worked out 173g pounds aoe January. ‘The question of the Venezuelan debt to the Tagich toad, holders was assuming a serious aspect. A been held in London, at which the arrangement Draped im May last by the government was rojeuiad, tas te government is accused of bad faith w pay 00 Me domestio debt while the foreign ected. Pata, with a salary the whole country, amd improvements a3 he may jews from Northern Mexico, pais the New Orleans Picayune, Nov. 19. ie last Rio Grande mail we have two ceeds the 7th inst. from porto See prevailed that the federal government had or- dered a body of troops, under command of Gen. tothe border, moved thereto by the unsettled and social state of the country, especially the continued difficulties between the ye and ecclesiastical Aye do nek I} th the oper The fe do not ourselves cr. re] Je government knows well that the border is full of faithful and valiant defenders of our institutions, which are of themselves, in- deed, stronger and more Cfficient than aig could be sent here. Neither the rd sramenee Santa Anna, bor the ir people from the th of duty. : _* ined @o ‘not believe that government will deliberately pro- voke or insult its faithful adherents on the border by suck a course. ‘The subscription to the Rio Grande and Monterey Rail- road now amounts to upwards of a million of dollars, a large portion bas been subscribed in the adjoining States, the expectatien that the read will some day be coa- tinued through to the Pacific, City Intelligence. Proors or RerwniicaN Cornuprion.—Mosars. T. W. Wei- gan and Charles F, Lang—accusod by George Hoffmanand other workingmen of the Twentieth ward of having asked and received money of certain workmen, for having, ag foremen of the work on Central park given them employ- ment—have called on and presented the following facts to * us, sworn to by them before a commissioner of deeds:— Mr. Wola says that he is one of the foremen on Cea- park, a e of the parties named in the working- men's charge; that he knows no such man as George man, and denies in toto, the contents of their pte which, ‘as he believes, has been made for the sole purpose of in- juring bim as such foreman, and for making political capi- tal. Mr. Lang says that he knows no such man as Hoff- man; does not now and never has held any position in the Central park or on the improvements being carried for- ward therein, and that the charges made againat him are wholly without foundation, and made for the purpose of injuring him. Mr. Barrow.—We are glad to learn that Mr. James Bar- row, Jr., about whose absence notice appeared in Wednes- day’s paper, returned last night. He was obliged to leave town on business, and sent a letter to inform his wife so, which was never delivered. Farat Vinicis Casvatty—Rusvit or Reckurss Driving. —Mrs. Eleanor Ritter, who was run over on Tuesday af- ternoon, in the Bowery, by a baker’s wagon, died oa Thursday at her residence, No. 227 Chrystie street. Coro- ner Perry held an inquest upon th ly, when the evi- dence showed that at the time of the accident the wagon was driven at a reckless rate of speed; and that after the lady bad been run over, Francis Riley made every effort in his power to escape, although he failed in it and was arrested. The jury rendered & verdict of “ Death by inju- ries caused by reckless driving of Riley ;’’ and on the ren- dition of the verdict he was require: pa the Coroner to give bail in $1,000 to answer any indictment the Grand jury may find against him. Fins in Lavrens Strext.—About 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a fire broke out in the bakehouse of M. Bourdon, No. 18 Laurens street. It originated from the oven flue, The firemen were soon at the premises, and extinguished the fire. Damage to stock about $59; no insurance. The building is owned by Jacob Cramm; it is damaged about $100, and insured inthe New ‘York Fire and Marine Insu- rance Company. Fins in Canat Strget.—A little before 12 o'clock on Wednesday night a fire was discovered by officer Beach, of the Eighth precinct, in the millinery store No. 373 Canal street, kept by Mrs. Gay. The fire originated in the vicinity of ‘he ct chiasey fluo, and was extinguished by officer Beach with a few pails of water. There was some slight damage done to the stock, which is covered by in- surance. Fire i Curr Sraeer.—Between 2 and 3 o'clock on Thursday morning, a fire broke out in the brush and bel- lows factory of Daniel Berrien, Jr., situated at 94 Cliff Street. The flames spread with great rapidity to the roof, where the slate peak prevented the firemen from bring- ing the water to bear upon jt until it burnt away the cross beams and let the roof fall. The whole of the in- terior of the building was destroyed, with its con- tents. Berrien states he has an insurance on his stock of about $4, n the United Insurance Company, which wil, fu \y cover bis loss, MP Berrien is at a loss to accountfor the fire, any more than that he is of the belief it was the act of au incendiary. The building belongs to the Orphan Asylum; it is damaged to the amount of about $3,000. Loss covered by insurance. bse nor Of traitors can New Jersey Items. Svicipr iN Hopoxey.—Mrs. Pond, a lady about 36 years of age, wife of Charles Z. Pond, one of the proprietors of the Atlantic Hotel, at Hoboken, committed suicide om Tuesday night by taking arsenic. When it became known to the members of the family that she had taken poison, medical aid was immediately summoned, but it was found to be too Inte to save her life. The Rey, Antoine Cuvan was then sent for, wno administered the rites of the chureh previous to her decease. She seemed desirous of leaving the world, and parted with ber husband and friends with caimness and composure. Justice WI on Wednesday summoned a jury and held an inquest on the body. It appeared in the evidence that deceased had heen subject to fits of melancholy, which had been re- cently aggravated by physical disorganization, and hed in consequence become tired of life. The verdict of the Jury was that she had voluntarily taken amwenic to termi- bate her existence. Her remuins were yesterday takem to Vermont, to be deposited in the family Vault Disaaseat or Honoxky WATER CoMMassiowens.—The trial of Messrs. Charles, Clinton and Ireland, members of the Hoboken Board of Water Commissioners, for alloged mal- administration in office, which has been for some time in progress before the Hoboken Couacil, was concluded on Wednesday evening, and resulted in a dismissal of the Commissioners by that body, The charges brought against the Commissioners were bine in number, promi- nent among which were:—The making of an injudicious contract with Jersey City; non-compliance with the law in advertising for proposals fur laying pipe and introdue- ing the water; and refusing to allow one of the Commis- sioners, who had been elected by the Council to fill a va- to participate in their proceetings. The vote pom oni they were dismissed was:—Ayes—Councilmen Wil- son, White, Chamberlain and Allisoa. Nays—Councilmen Van Mater and Bampton. After the rendition of judgment, Phillip Mulford, Haq., counsel for the Commissioners, peared before the Council and gave notice that he shoul make immediate application to the Supreme Court of the State for a writ of certiorari to remove the case before that bench, and he yesterday went to Treaton for that purpose Naval Intellty: nee. OUR NAVAL | ORRES: ONDENCE. Ow Boanp Steamer SaRanac, Of Care Hexny, Nov. 22, 1857. The Saranac steamed out to sea from Hampton Roads, Va., this evening, 22d November. I enclose here- with a correct list of ber officers. She has been ander re- pairs at the Gosport Navy Yard since her return, Her machinery works tolerably well, but she has not beem thoroughly overhauled, owing to the great i:npatience of the department to have ber again afloat. Our destination has pot been changed. The Saranac is still attacied to the Pacific squadron, and will} those waters :— eve a valuable cruiser im Captain, John Kelly; Lieutenants, feat Athanen, Truss C feurris, A W: Jobaneee Wee liam Gwin; Surgeon, William Nelson; Assistant Surgeon, Algernon. Garnett , John 8. Gulick; Acting Master, William G. Denier; ine officer, First Lieutenant, John C. Cash: Chief Engineer, Theodore 7 First As sistant Engine ambdin; Second’ Assistant Engineers Willem Third Assistant Engineers, Robert Littig n; Sailmaker, Henry T. Stocker, Carpenter, Cierk, Louis Hf. St, Felix er; Master's Mates, A. Hoty, Thomas C. Langdon ‘The U.S stoam fr ite Susqechannah, Capt. Sands, from enon for the Guif of Mexico, arrived at Maderia previous to the 6th instant, The U.S. frigate St. Lawrence, Capt. Hall, remained at Rio Janeiro 15th ult The following is « list of the officers of the U. 8. sloop- of-war Vandalia, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, bound for Pacific station:—Arthur Sinclair, Commander; J. Hogan Brown, Ist Lieutenant, €. H. B. Caldwell, 2 John L. Davis, 8d do. Josep Fry, 4th do: Wm. 7, Glassell, 6th do; Joseph Wilson, Jr., Surgevn; Calvin C, Jackson, Pur. ser; Charlee A, Baboock, Master; H. B. Trist, Assistant Surgeon; Allan Ramsey, 2d Lieutenant Marines Miller, ‘Boatswain; Bernard Carpenter; William Rogers, § Commander's Clerk; Wm. W. Simms, Purser’s ork: Frank B. Merriam Master's Mato; George D. Dodds, ; Henry A. Hunt, do., do. Lieutenant Edward Renshaw, U. 8 N., died at Phiaded 33 yoars. "Ho was a citizen of New lly entered the servieo Nov. 4, 1841. S. store ship Supply, Lieotenant Commanding V. Gray, was to have left the Brooklyn Navy td Andrew Yard, 26th inst., for Porto Praya and Rio Janeiro, follow ing is a lint of her offleers —ljeutenaut Command: Andrew F. V. Gray; Lieuts, A. K. Hughes, Jobn Kell, D. Blake, and James H. Gillis; Passed Aseistant Sur; P. J. Horwitz; and Cay s Clerk, Wim. J. Bennett, The United States steamer Pow hi went into commis. wion yesterday. Gen. Pierce and family will go oat to the island of Madeira in her, and they are expected to arrive in this city in afew days, The Powhatan will probabl; Wa on or near the Ist of December—Vorfolk ik Herald, ow. W.