The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. OFFICE H.W. CORNKK UF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TEA WS, rash in advance THE DAILY BERALD, t20 cents jp Viper annwm. THE WEBELY BERALD, very Sorte, sis cents bes copy o BS per anu: open Kdition, annum, ‘part ‘/ Great Brisatn, oF 88 0 any part af the Continens box by Lt THE FAMILY MERALD, every Walneolay, at our cents yor copy oF Sper annum. ae Vetume XXII He Ne. 70 AMUSEMENTS THIN BY DNING — ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourveenth ot.—IraLian Oren ‘The Dowcsxote. BRO THEATRE, Brosdway—Kovestayantsy By guinnnacer buss Lup Fewaia ARTiT#—V AN AMBURGH'S IER AGRRIE £0. BOWERY THEATRS, Bowery—Incomse—GUMMAkER OF Mosoow —Wairs Scaar BURTON'S THBATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond street- ‘Tus Cour p'Erar. ALLACK'’S TAK*TR". Brosdway—Jusms Bown, on ens Retr oy Locawow swan Swaine, LAURA KEENF’S THES THE, Broadway—Green Busnes —Srppex PaorguT. RNUM'S AMERIVAN MUSEOM, Brosawa: eo Lost Sox Rvening Tae Baipe or an E WOOD'S RTILDINGS, 41 and 643 Broadway—waores Gunisry 4 Wooo Mixerur:-—Puran Pirmr PRrPER Poe Reewar—Reranes MinsTERLs MRBCRANICN BALL —Ermorta® Roxas—B New York, Friday, March 12, 1858. ‘The News. In the Senate yesterday a memorial was presented in favor of the estab!isliment of a line of mail steam. ers between Philadelphia and Brazil. A resolution was offvred calling on the President for the instruc tions sent to the United States Marshal in Utah. The consideration of the bil! providing for the admission of Kansas was then resumed, when Senators Polk, of Missouri, and Benjamin, of Louisiana, delivered speeches, reviewing the lopics embraced in the Kan- sas question, and in fxvor of the Lecompton consti tution. The Printing Deficiency bill was passed. in the House yesterday General Quitman’s bill to increase the army by the employment of volunteers was ussed by Mr. Stanton, republican, of Ohio, who favored the propsition. At the expiration of the morning hour Mr. Harris introduced his new ma- neuvre witn reference to the admission of Kansas, by saying that be and the balance of the minority of the special cou tee of fifteen felt it due tothem selves to present facts showing that the committee had failed to execute the orders of the House. The Speaker decided that the minority could not present @ report of the facts; and, moreover, that the question yaised was not a_ privileged one. From this reling an appeal was taken, when the House, by 9 vote of 97 to 112, refused to sustain the decision of the Speaker. Intense ex- citement ensued, the republicans became jubilant, and an all night s on, With iis concomitants, ap- peared inevitable, when Mr. Humphrey Mar-hall moved a postyonement of the subject until today, which was agreed to. The republicaas and their allies confidently expect to carry their point to-day, while their opponents ave equally sanguine of de feating them. In Committce of the Whole the Dip- lomatic Appropriation was debated, and a re- commendation that it } was adopted. After a couple of speeches on the Kansas question the House adjourned. All mds were as busy as beavers last night organizing their forces for the grand trial today. The result will probably settle the Lecompton constity (ion one way or another. In the Srate Senate y jay the bili repealing the law allowing railroad cc ) assess their own property was pa Bills were introduced to repeal the Port War t, and also to increase the number of Port Wardens to s'xteen, and fixing their salary at $2,000 per anuuin, The bill providing for the repeal of the Metropolitan Police law was dis* cussed, and made the speciat order for Tuesday next The evening session was ep nt in debating the anti Lecompton resolutions. 1 the Assembly there was 4 lively time. The committee appointed to in vestigate the affairs of the On depot found difficulty in getting and they accordingly invoked the House to compel the ¢ give their evidence. A adoption of resoluti individuals to nded in the * Hamilton mturmacio an ( nen were ” Oar at the bar and explained their report of the proceedings gives the this interesting affair. particulars of Rear Admiral Mohammed Pacha and his snite visited the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, where they were received with great rie 1 curdial- ity by the officers of tise stati escorted on a t inspection through the recciving ship North Carolina, the ordnance aepartment, and to view other objects of interest. The visit, however, was but a flying one, and the Pacha wil! avail himself of another opportunity & jon again and have a more minute i the ‘ternoon the party were taken on board the new steam reve nue ¢ er Harriet Lane, ona trial trip dow bay, with the design of landing at Port Ha bot owing to the ice a landing could not be effected The Pacha seemed much pleased with the day's trip ‘The performance of the Harriet Lane fully justified the anticipations of her constructor and all others interested in her. In the evening the Pacha and his party visited Laura Keene's theatre. A #pecial meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held last evening in Clinton Hall, for the con sideration of the question of a permanent location, and abo of the warehouse question; the latter, how- ever, was adjourned to «a future meeting. A warm debate ensued on the former subject, and the com- mittee were finally empowered to make a selection with as little delay as peasible. A memorial to Con- gress, representing that interference with the Board of Lighthouse Works would be detrimental and in. terfere with their efficiency, was referred to a select committee; and a memorial against a resolution empowering dry docks to hold exclusive places in the city was refused the sanction of the chambers, which thereupon adjourned. The Police Commissioners met yesterday, and had # long discussion respecting the recent decision of the Supreme Court declaring the old policemen members of the present force under the law. May. ors Powell and Tiemann wished the Board to submit to the authority of the Court immediately; but the republican Commissioners declared their intention to carry the matter up to the Court of Appeal Steps were taken by the Board to eniploy a pore of policemen to prevent any communication between infected vessels at the Quarantine and the shore, with a view to preserve the public health. The examination of Smith and Fitzpatrick red with defrauding the city treasury of $10,090 which is going on before the Recorder, was to have imed yesterday, but a further postponement ring was obtained till Wednesday next at clock. the on, heen re of the eleven ¢ The Jer rendered his decision in the case of the people against Borgers, charged with vending lottery policies, in the General Sessions yesterday overruling the motion to quash the indictment. The opinion, to which reference is made editorially, will be found in another column. The trial of Michael Barrett, charged with the homtteide of Jobn Skelly by shooting him with a gun, was resumed yesterday in the General Sessions, and occupied the whole of the day. A large number of policemen were examined for the defence, who testi- fied that the deceased wae a member of the Atlantic Bives, and that the members of tic company were @ terror to the neighborhood. The officers said that they would not believe them under oath in a matter in which they were interested. The case was given to the jury at a Inte hour in the afternoon, when, after being absent twenty minutes, they rendered a verdict of “not guilty.” Judge Russell, in discharg. ing Barrett, reprimanded him very severely for his conduct. The Tammany Hall General Committee met last night and had a report from a committee in relation to ceitain secret societies among the democracy, which are eeeking to coutrol the party machinery, itis poe posed to form, if possible, some system of primary elections whereby all the democracy can be represented and the efforts of the alleged couspira- tom vet at naught, The Board of Aldermen met last evening, and passed bpou a LOMbEr of papers of an unimportant character. Mr. Conover sent in another long com- munication exposing in detail the corrupt practices of the officials of the Street Department, by whish the tax-payers are swindled out of large sums of mo- ney. The document may be found in our report of the proceedings. The Board of Councilmen also met last evening. A very curious memorial from Stephen H. Branch was received and referred to the Finance Committee. ‘This paper, which we give elsewhere, will be exten- sively rend, and as it will create a sensation in va- rious quarters we refrain from further reference to its contents in this place. The reports of the Alder- manic Committee on Frauds were referred to a spe cial committee of three. A resolution of the ot'er Board directing the Corporation Counsel to restrain the Treasurer of the Metropolitan Police Commis- sioners from paying the policemen was laid on the table. A communication was received from Mr. Vidal, in reply to D. D. Conover in reference to al Jeged frauds in the Fifty-first street coutract. A re- solution to publish the official report of the proceed- ings of the Board inf the Hegatp was unanimously adopted. The Third Avenue Railroad Comp2ny were directed to run cars to Eighty-sixth street as often as they are now run to Sixty-fifth street. The steamer Tennessee has arrived at New Or- leans with news from Vera Cruz to the 7th and from the city of Mexico to the 5th inst. The en- tire country was still in a state of anarchy, while the military forces of the opposing factions were mus- tering in all directions. Six thousand government troops were near Calaya, awaiting the arrival of re- intorcements before attacking their opponents. Old Alvarez was in the field with three thousand cavalry, ready for a brush. The overthrow of the usurper Zuloaga was regarded as beyond all doubt. We publish some interesting extracts from our European files, received by the Kangaroo, this morn- ing. The ministerial crisis in England produced a marked sensation in Paris, where sanguine hopes were entertained of Lord Palmerston’s speedy return to office. In England public opinion was mach di- vided on the subject, but the police espionage exer- cised over the foreign refugees in that country tend- ed to Keep upa public excitemeut against the alleged interference of Napoleon in goverament affairs, which served the new Cabinet of Lord Derby mate- rially. We have news from Belize, Honduras, to the 18th ult. There were no American vessels in port. Ma- hogany was scarce and high. The supply of log- wood was large, at the nominal price of $16. Dry goods and provisions were very dull, and there was little money in circuls'ion. No rain had fallen in Belize from June of 1857 to date. The Legislature had met in session and passed a law for the importa- tion of two thousand coolies—or sepoys, if to be had— from India. Smallpox was spreading in the town. ‘Two thousand Indians from Yucatan had visited the mabogany cutéers on the Rio Honda, but they re- tired peaceably. We have files from Bermuda to the 17th ult., but they contain little news. The Royal Gazette bas the following summary:—Quietness, amounting to dull- ness, is the order of the day. Business wears a sleepy aspect, and men in trade complain of the prevailing depression. We turn with hopeful gaze towards the planter, who is working with right good will in the sunny fields, and rejoicing over the marvellously mild weather... As to the young crops, 80 far as they have progressed they could not pro- mise better. In many fieids the potato shoots are several inches above the soil, and they look very beautiful. The onion crop in most of the parishes is advancing rapidly, warranting the anticipation that the first week in May will see the exportation of that famous bulb commence. By the arrival of the bark Venus, Capt. Atkinson, we have received advices from Curacoa to the lth ult. There were rumors in Venezuela of a revola- tion in favor of General Paez. An arrival at Curacoa from St. Domingo on the 13th ult. re- ported that Baez still held his own against Santa- na, and was supplied with provisions, &c., in abun dance from Curacoa. He had purchased a number of Curacoa schooners and converted them into men- of-war. The sales of cotton yerterday embraced about 2,500 bales, closing quite steady at Ive. al for middling uplanes. Flour wae without change of momeat. Com mon grades were rather heavy, and extra brands, ia cluding round hoop Ohio, were firm, Common aud me Clum grades of Southern were quiet, while extra grades were firm, with moderate sales, The sales of wheat were condines to email jotsri, pme red Tennessee at $1 45, and good Southern waite at $1 46, and prime Teanessee do. at $150. Corn was less active and sales moderate, including inferior at 65c¢ , and good white at 68c., aud prime yellow Vork was more active, while prices were un- ‘The eales embraced purchases to Ol! govern. chauged. ment ooutracts. Mees soid at $16 704 $16 80. Prime was firm, with sales at $13 50 a $13 60, with tougher figures bad for future delivery. The Hurepean pews imparted greater firmness aod acti- vity to naval stores, and sales of spirits of turpentine were freely made at 50c. per gatlon, and 100 bbis. were reported at Sic. Common rosin was sold as high ax $1 60 per bbi of S10 ibs., deiivered. The suger market con- Unued firm, with sales of about 700 a £00 bhds. New Or Jeans and Quba, inclading 160 do. of the later by auction, and 160 ao, St. Croix, at raves given in another column. Tre pubic sale of Rio coffee held yesterday, noticed in awctber column, was espirited alfeir, Tue sale, though large, Was very good ove. The prices averaged about 10-60. and were considered to be abvat ye better than thoe of previous sales. A cargo of 5,500 bags was als> sold on private terme The transactions of tne day footed up 16.000 s 17,000 bags, reducing the stock to adout 20,000 ongs. The only noticeable change in freighte was wat more cotton was offering for Liverpool, while engagements of compressed and uncompressed were taken at dia 5 52d ; at the close ship owners demanded 5-324. a 316d. (Other articles were unchanged and the offerings light. ‘The Mormons—The Army Illl—Congress and the Administration, The judicious recommendation of the Presi- dent for an increase of the army (in view of the | Mormon rebellion, and the hostile movements and tendencies ot the numerous Indian tribes of our vast unsettled regions of the Far West,) having failed in the Senate, has been brought forward in the shape of a bill in the House, and | now awaits the action of that body, We kuow not what may be the final result of this trauefer of the subject; but of one thing we sre satisfied, to wit:—that such members of the House as may be disposed to flinch from their duty cannot now fail back upon the paltry excuse that the measure is unwarranted by the exigencies of the day, or that its adop tion will be obnoxious to the American people. Excepting a few noisy sectional ayitators and local mischief making demaygogues, the American people. of ail sections and parties, are, en masse, in favor of the President's policy for the prompt suppression of this rebellious nuisance of Mormondom; and should ten thou- sand additional men to the regular army, in- stead of five thousand, be required to effect this great object in bebalf of law, order, social decency and public decorum, the country would cheeriully foot the bill. We were somewhat puzzled the other day, in this connection, to comprehend the sentiments of Mr. Faulkner as given to the Associated Press here from their telegraphic reperter at Wash- ington. In the said report Mr. Faulkner is rep- NEW resented as saying that “the war in Utah was a war agaiust the people, on account of their re ligion;” that “whoever engaged fsuch a war, } Whether a volunteer or a regular, would be guilty of murder,” and that “the employmeat of Voluateers would be appealiag to the pas- sions of the country, setting the précedent of carrying death and destruction to our own citi- zens.” This certainly wouid be very extraordi- nary language from well informed advocate of Mr. Buchanan’s policy; but the fall speech of Mr. Faulkner, now lying before us, shows that the telegraphic reporter of the New York Asso- ciated Pressis either an incompetent ignoramus, or basin thie case, and in many other cases, been inexcusably negligent of his duties. What Mr. Faulkner did say was this, that the regular troops from the whole line of our West- ern frontiers being ordered to go to the relief of Col. Johutton, reinforcements were needed to fill the aps thus left open, and thet regular troop would, therefore, be needed. Aud he con 'ended that volunteers for the Utah service might precipitate scenes of bloodshed wiieh under the discipline of regular troops, could be avoided. The President’s purpose is to reduce the Mormons to law and or- der, if possible, without bloodshed, and, said Mr, Faulkner, “he who goes to Utah, whether as volunteer or regular, with the intent and purpose of making war upon that people, because of their religion, will, if he sheda blood on such a mission, have committed murder in the eye of the constitution. There is here but one daty which devolves upon this government. It is to maintain the supremacy of our authority in that Territory.” This is a clear and consistent statement of the case. The Mormons are in open rebellion against the government. The federal execu- tive officers of Utah, appointed by the Presi- dent, have been sent on under the protection of an army escort. These officers and their escort have been stopped on their march by the open hostilities of the Mormons. Meantime, the new federal Judges for the Territory at Camp Scott bave issued an indictment of treason against Brigham Young and his associate Mormon chiefs, civil and military; and the case which is made out against them demands their arrest and trial as rebels and trastors. What then? Why, thea, the personal safety of Brigham Young and his chiets implicated suggests that, unless the little garrison at Fort Bridger be promptly rein- forced, it may be destroyed by the Mormons Mr. Faulkuer therefore is right in saying that more troops are needed, and that regular troops, uuder the absolute control of a discreet and sevsible officer, are alone competent to ad- here to this nice distinction between the serving of a civil process against a gavg of traitors and a war for the expulsion of an obnoxious religious community Very true, the indictment for treasop, should Brigham and his confederate traitors be caught, will answer all the purposes of s regular war against Mormon polygamy; but to catch these traitors, or to compel them to evacuate the territories of the United States, areivforcement ot the army en route for Utah is the first necessity. The President, to meet this emergency, in the absence of new levies has been compelled to drain the army stations of our Indian frontiers, and these stations can only be titly refilled with the new regular rein- forcements proposed. At the same time, it is a most remarkable fact that while the Mormons are in open rebel- lion, and while an indictment of treason bas been fouod against Brigham Young aod his as- sociate civil and military chiefs, the Mormon delegate in Congress, under the authority of Brigham, and filling, doubtless, the importaat office of # Mormon spy at Washington, is al- lowed to hold his seat as quietly as any other member of the House. He should certainly be expelled from the body or tried as a spy in the camp. But the proceedings of this Congress seem to be conducted in both houses without either consistency or regularity. Party demoralizations and disaffected demagogues rule the roast. Upon the _ filibustering question, upon the Kansas question, and upon the Mormon question, the ad- ministration at every step, and in every way, has been confronted and baffled by North- ern aud Southern disorganizers; and really, from the proceedings in Congress upon these subjects, in the Senate especially, one would suppose that the practical dissolution of the government had already commenced. Upon this Mormou question the Senate and the House unquestionably should sustain the sensible posi- tion of Mr. Faulkner, and they should act in this business so that neither Congress nor the country will be disgraced in the eyes of the world, Tbe reduction of the Mormons to law and order, and the protection of our frontier white settlers and overland emigrants against their amiable scalping red brethren, is all that the President desires. But between the selfish objects of our democratic newspaper spoils or- gans and our sectional and factious disorgan- izers in Congress, it is extremely doubtfal whe- ther this army bill—this measure of wisdom and humanity—can in any practicable shape be passed. In a word, in these days of political demorali- zation, North and South, we should be all com- pletely adrift upon the waves of revolution and destruction, but for the trusty landmarks of the staunch and steady, able and conservative ad- minittration of Mr. Buchanan. Tue Minisreriat Cnancrs AND. —THE | Brrrisu Lecation at Wasuinerox.—Although the personnel of the Britich Legation may under- go some modification under the administration of Lord Derby, we do not think that the policy pursued by bis lordship towards this country will be lees conciliating or satisfactory than that of his predecessor. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe that the present Pre- mier will do all that lies in his power to draw closer tie bonds of friendship that at present unite the two governments. It will be re- collected that bis colleague, Mr. Disracli, was the firet to advocate an open and frank recognition of the political ascendancy of the United States on this continent, and to point out the advantages likely to accrue to England from the wider extension of our dominion. Personally, Lord Derby is known to en tertain very friendly feelings towards this country. Whilst Lord Stanley, and shortly after he attained bis majority, he made an extended tour here, in company with Mr. Stuart Wortley and Mr. Dennison, and has always been heard to declare bis warm sense of the kindness and hospitality that he met with. It is possible that Lord Napier may not be disposed to continue his present functions under Lord Derby, although several late precedents have established the propriety of an ambassa- Agr goutinuing at bis por aller the administra. YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1858. tion that appointed him had resigned. It would be a great lors to both countries if his lordship should feel himself! compelled to act upon nice personal ecruples, and to leave a position in which be has earned the warm esteem of the people to whom bh. bas been delegated. Kaow- ing bow admirably he has discharged the duties of bis mission, we believe that Lord Derby, in his anxiety to cuuciliate public opinion here, will not be deeivons to make any alteration iu the present constitution of the legation. One change, however, will, we trust, be made by the new Premier, and that is, in the reeall of that mysterious and enigmatical diplomat, Sir Gore Ouseley. In the pursuauce of a frank and un- reserved policy towards this country, Lord Derby will, no doubt, at once put an end to this equivocal and double-headed mission. We want no secret political agents here, even though the Chevalier Jenkins prououaces their wives charming and their entertainments unex- ceptionuble. ma The Defalcation In the Union Bauk. Once more the news of a heavy defalcation in a Wall street bank has startled the public, and spread dismay among the holders of bank stock throughout the country. The first book- keeper of the Union Bank, an officer of long standing and high reputation, Mr. Brotherson, left the city op ‘Tuesday last, charged with robbing the bank of a sum vari- ously estimated at from a hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand dollars, The circumstances of the robbery, and of its detection, were somewhat peculiar. The rob- bery has been traced backward through the books for two years; but it is said, and appa- rently on good evidence, that the first fraud oc- curred ten years ago, and that the money which the bank then lost has never been since made good. What were the precise relations between Brotberson and Mott, the person who has been arrested and held to bail as the accomplice of the absconding bookkeeper, it will now devolve upon the courts to determine ; it is alleged that the robbery was effected through the medium of Mott—namely, that the money was drawn out on Mott’s checks—and that the profits of the fraud were divided between them. " How so large an amount as over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars could be robbed from a bank, and a system of fraud could be carried on for a series of years without exciting the attention of the managers, may well excite attention and remark. Every business man must be aware that it would be impossible to defraud him to anything like this amount or a tithe of it, without arousing his suspicions; how the thing could be done in the Union Bank is a proper subject of inquiry. And when we couple the fact with the disclo- sures which have been recently developed by the State investigation into the condition of the Bank of Pennsylvania—which show, as was here stated a few days ago, that the bank had actually paid forty-seven per cent in dividends without earning adime, and that the directors habitually certified to the correctness of state- ments which were palpably false, and could easily have been proved to be so—we are irre- sistibly led to the conclusion that the distinc- tion which has been drawn between bank and railway management to the advantage of the former is unfounded, and that both are equally pregnant with ruin. The closer the facts of the Union Bank case are studied, the more plausi- ble does this inference appear. The books which Brotberson must have falsified in order to exe- cute his frauds must have been checked by other books in the bank; Brotherson himself, one would suppose, must have been held in check by the tellers; and besides these subordi- nate checks, the President and Directors, we are bound to believe, made a regular and for- mal inspection ofthe books at stated intervals. Yet all these checks seem to have actually availed nothing even to direct suspicion to an | account which was wrong by over a hundred thousand dollars and wrong for several consecu- tive years. Jt would actually seem that the only parallel to such management as this must be sought in the City Comptroller's office; in other words, in the most disgracefully maladministered de- partments of the city government. There is no other place publicly Known where such care- lessness and mismanagement could exist for a week. The discovery of the robbery still further illustrates the sort of management which was prevalent in the Union Bank. Six weeks before the bookkeeper absconded, the officers of the bank were notified by a detective officer that Broth- erson was in the habit of gambling continually and losing heavily. A prudent bank officer would not have hesitated an instant in such a case; whether the employé was or was nota de- faulter he ought not to have remained an hoar in the bank after he had been proved a fre- quenter of gambling houses. But the authori ties of the Union Bank laughed at the warning. They knew better than to enteréain suspicions of Mr. Brotherson. So the thing went on; the officer watching the defaulfer’s movements, and repeating his warnings, and the bank officers slowly and lazily waking up to the necessity of some action. When they did decide to act, they went about it so clumsily that the default- er had plenty of time to make his escape, and the banking community lost the benefit of a wholesome example. One might almost be led to imagine that the managers of the Union Bank had been afraid to bring ghe law to bear upon their dishonest employe. As to result, of course, the affair will have none. No bank defaulter is ever punished here —by the law. Most of them, poor wretches, endure punishment enough in the disgrace and exile and poverty to which the crime usually dooms them. As to the bank, we presume its credit will be uninjured, and its officers will con- tinue to rank high among the banking men of the metropolis. But there scandals are fast teaching the pub- lic of New York that, whatever the pious papers may eay, the only banks in this city which are managed with a due regard to the protite of the stockholders and in accordance with the prin ciples of trade, sound and political economy, are the two or three hundred faro banks which the ardent virtue of Mayor Tiemann is now battling #0 lustily to put down, Tuk Scnoomasten Annoap—Every body must read, mark and inwardly digest a very extraordinary and amusing document sent to the Common Council last night by Mr. Stephen Hi. Branch, and published else where verbatim et literatin. Mr. Braneh, among other things, has been a schoolmaster, and taught Congressmen, Aldermen and other mag: nates of the land. Itis altogether a very cu- rious, remarkable and astonishing exposé, and we recommend it to general attention and pe- ural, Occvrarion or Canton—Amenican Pouicy mw Cuina.—The establishment of a British and French protectorate over Canton is an event of no small importance. Its results cannot be cal- culated or measured by any of the ordinury rules that apply to such movements, The pro- fessed object of the allies in taking this step is to compel the Emperor to afford redress for cer- tain alleged grievances for which they have been unable to obtain satisfaction by diptomatic means, Will their seizure of one of the great seaport cities of the empire bring them any nearer to the accomplishment of their purpose? We think not. The same experiment was tried before by the British without success, and there is nothing in the present state of circumstances which justifies the belief that this system of at- tacking the extremities,without making an etfort to reach the heart of the empire, will be more effective than on the former occasion. The Chi- nese know well that by embarrassing or stopping their exports the foreigners will inflict as much injury upon their own interests as upon theirs, and they are shrewd evough to pereeive the advantage of passively uiiowing this game to be played out. Supposing all their ports to pass into the possession of the British and French, the Chinese can still carry on a great portion of their trade with Europe, through Russia; and as their teas will be consumed at any price, it is obvious that the present mode of proceediug is strategetically wrong. This being the case the allies will either have to enlarge the scale of their operations or to renounce altogether their present efforts to force the Clfese to terms. It seems to us that, having gone so-far, they cannot now stop skort, aud that they wi!! have to send expeditions into the interior, either to Pekin or to the tea districts. The magnitude and risk of such operations will, of course, bring them within the conditions ot military conquest, and compel them to provide for the permanent retention of their acquisi- tions. Once drawn into such necessities, it is difficult to fix the precise point at which they can halt. The events thus shadowed forth are far from being as improbable as at first sight may ap- pear. It was from such small beginnings that the British erected their empire in India, and the French their colonies in Africa. But in any case, supposing the Chinese likely to make the required concessions after the lesson they have already received, it is certain that the two na- tions whose forees are engaged in this demon- stration will endeavor to secure to themselves exclusive trading advantages. They can hardly be blamed for this, secing that they have had all the trouble and all the cost of the effort to bring this stubborfi people to reason. It is a pity that the instructions of the American Com- missioner were of so strict @ nature that he could not interfere to an extent that would have enabled him to secure a participation in the benefits of any arrangement that may be arrived at. As it is, we shall probably be con- demned to occupy the position of outsiders until, by picking a quarrel of our own, we can enforce an equal distribution of the spoils, Pouirican. Parties tx ExcLanp.—The retire- ment of the Palmerston Cabinet is significant of something more than a change in the feelings of the English people inregard to the French alliance. It shows that the old conservative and whig parties are completely used up, and that the revolution partially effected by the blunders of aristocratic rulers during the Cri- mean campaign is about to be consummated by an infusion of radical blood into the high offices of State. It is evident that Lord Derby's Cabi- net is only a Cabinet of transition, and that it owes its existence merely to the impossibility of an immediate compromise between the whigs and radicals. This once effected, they will have to walk the plank, and to retire once more to their position as obstructives. It has been observed for the last year or two that the ascendancy of privileged incapacity was nearly at anend in England. The break up of a ministry disgraced by the accession of a card-sharper, and the substitution of an ad- ministration composed for the most part of country noodles, will bring the whole system to final close, If the Manchester men only play their cards right, it is impossible that any fresh ministry can he formed without including some of them. The Derbyites are imporsible, the whigs are incorrigible, and the people of Eng- land are ripe for an experiment out of the raw material. Let us see whether the cotton lords will not make better statesmen than the titular nonentities that have so long held the reigas of power. Army Intelligence. The following assignments to duty of officers of the Quartermaster's Department have been made by the Secretary of War, and wili be carried into effect under such special instructions as may be given by the Quarter. master General :— First—Colonel D. D. Tompkins to tem) a In the Department of tho Went, and to laxe post at Fort Leavenworth. Second—lLseutenant Colonel G. H. Crossman to duty in the Department of Utah. ‘Third—Captain 8. Van Viet to ropair, without delay, to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and aseume the cnarge of tac Quartermaster’s depot at that place Fourth—Captains P. T. Tarniey and G. H. Page, to duty in the Department of Utah, or to the depots estabusned on the route to Salt Lake city, as the princigal Quarter Lo eae orders of the commaading officers of airect. Fi W. S. Hanoook to remain on the Mis. souri oF go into the field, as the principal Quartermaster muy direct, During the temporary absence of Colonel 1D. 1). Tomp- kins, Assistant quartermaster General, (rom New Uricans, the cuties with which be is now charged wil 9e per- formed by the officer of the subsistence Department sta Woned at that place, until otherwise oraerea. Majors N. . Brown aod Heary Prince, Pay Depart Ment, are assigned to duty with the troopa serving in Utan, and witl necompany the reinforcements .unaer or ders tor that department. Tak Orena.—The “Huguenota” will be given at the Academy this evening, with ite fine cast and splendid mite on scine. The public will nowce that tae prices are upon the usual scale—one dollar, fifty cents, aud twenty. five. Camnoue Coxsmcration —Tne Right Rev. F. 1, Moar. land, late pastor of St. John’s church, Uuca, will be con. secrated Bichop of Hartford on Sunday next, in Prov! dence, K. 1. The Most Rey. Archbishop dughss, assisted by the Right Rey. Bishops of Boston wud Newark, will consecrate the Lishop elect. The Right Rev. Cweky, of Albany, will preach the We wade rstand that all the other Catholic Bishops of the province will be present on the occasion, Chief Kogineer Lander, of we South Pase Wagon Road Expedition, passed through town yesterday, having in hus charge the bucy of Calvia 8. Croker, Assistant Kogineer, who died very suddenly in Washington, on Sunday last. He js accompanying it to the home of the latter. in Port aod, Maine. Mr. Oroker was a momber of the advance exploring party of the wagon road, and distiogaished bimeelf on detached duty. He was one of the party of four med which arrives with Mr. L at Missouri river. This last tribute of reepect is a proof of the estimation with whicd bie services have been regarded. DEPARTURES. For Liverpool, in the steamship Amerioa, from Boston— Mesers DW Nutting, q A Wil |. Boston, Mra tH Bold, Mise Holding cnd three chinteen, Roxbury; Oapt WM Dunbar, Arewster, J J win, 6M travers, Uhas pod bg tee W Keimer, WT Herding, New ¥ vk; ae Uies ect up, fialenay Ti Hy Rend, t Laval Bhavp ies, Hee; im Ls MJ Torouts, Mr nag Mee Marland, Mian Marland, Mies Mary Msr land, Mise tha Marine d hd de Arriaga, Jobn yemon, Havant obn K Bent WwW bation, Corn IW ham, Ws pean, THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Attempted Coup @'Etat of the Aati-Lesomp- tonites in the House, Debate in the State Senate on the Repeat of the Police Law. | Excitement im the ‘Assembsy om Castle Gardem Affairs. &o., &e., ke. Our Special Despatch, ANTI-LECOMPTON MOVSMENT 1M THE HOUSE—De- BATB ON THR KAN6a8 QUESTION IN THE SENATE— THE PROPOSED BaNKRUPT LAW—REPORTED RACLPE- CATION OF THE NICARAGUA TREATY, RTC., RYO, Wastineron, March 11, 1858. Mr Harris’ movement in the House to day caused the most intense oxciteraent, and but for the propusition of { Humphrey Marehall to postpone the mater uutil to-mor , Tow at one o'clock, & protracted aight seasion would have been the result. ‘The republicans this evening aro very sanguine of euo cess te morrow. If the South Americans join with the republicans, 98 i is said they will, Harris’ motion will succeed, ‘The great speech of Seustor Benjamin in the Senate to- day on the negro question, Pred Scott and Kansas is the general theme of conversation this evening. The Bankrupt bi came up in the Senate Committee ow Judiciary thie morning, but on mccount of cthor pressing business was not entirely dieposed of. The matter is pressing on towards success, aod it ie thought it will be the great measure of this Corg e:s. Captain Ven Viiet left thie evening for Fort Leaven- ‘worth to take charge of tho Quartermasier’s department at that post. Colonel Croxamap, Captains Turnley, Page ‘and Hancock, of the Quarterma:ter’s dopartment, are er dered to the army for Utah. Mr. Yrisarri is «xpocted here this evening. T am in- formed that he has received positive information of the ratification of the Yrisarri treaty As soon as our govern- Ment is advised of the tact the trea y will immetintely be sent to the Senate. A strong effort will be made oo the part of steamahip commodores to defeat it, In fact, some of their agenta are already on the ground for that purpose. Mr. Bervhisel. the delegate to Congress from Utah, has not very lately received any despatches from Brigham ‘Young on any subject. ‘Phe rumors that bolligeroot tet- tere relative to our troops bad been sent to bim from Utab are therefore tncorrect. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, Wasniotos, March 11, 1858. Tho anti-Lecomptonites apticipate a victory to-morrow on the movement of Mr. Harris, of Illinois, to day, in the Howe. Mossrs. Biair of Missouri, Davis, Harris and Ricaud of Maryland, Gilmer of North Carolina, and BH. Marshall of Kentuccy, are the only members from the slave States, voting with the majority of Often, adverse to the Speaker's decision against Mr. Harris’ question of privii ge. These, with the exception cf Mr. Biair, rapre- sent the American par = The Lecomptonites claim thet ona previous vote, by which the call of the Honse was refused by p'ne m. jority, twenty-two of their friende and only five of the . oti-lecomptunites, were absent. TIORTY-KIETH CONGRESS. Senate, Wastivctow, March 11, 1858, STEAM COMMUNICATION XTWEEN PHILADKLPHIA AND maz. Mr. Cameron, (opp ) of Pa, presented a memorial from citizens of Pepbeyiveni, avorivg tine of mail steamers between the city of - bile'elphis and the Empire of Brazil. > AFFAIRS OF UTAH. Mr. Casmmox also preceuted a resolution, calling on the President tor the ipstructions sent w the United States Marshal in Utah. NO EVENING SRASIONS, Mr. Hosier, (adm ) of Va., withdrew his motion for am evening sersion VEBATE ON THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS—SPERCHES OF SENATORS POLK AND WRNJAMIN, Mr. Pows, (adm ) of Mo , spoke in favor of Kansas. She | hod ali the requisites for admission She bad a constite Yon whicn po one except the Senator f om Connecticut de. nies to be republican inform That instrument is tho de- Liberate choice of the people ia pursuance of law, with all the forms necessary t> insure the free expressio: of the wish of the pec Congress could only asi, is that coo- ttito'ion repub wan? Ip this reepect he considered it as unexceptionadle a9 that of aay State inthe Ucion Mr. Puk way the alleged election y og the statements of Walk Det & majority of the voters bad that the Missourians had tavaded ere Was no necessity he coawad #48 enough pro slavery men were ory to Control tue polls As tw armed ¥ cour! be thought the Senators wao re. iterate tie stories 1 tog them, were practising 00 the credulity of the That toe Missour! imaugrants & Aqsa) armed may have scoined aune to aftigrats from the poor houses E € Les, Dut to people wcq unin” og unusual, Phe Missoart nt rifles; they meroty staked eabiy, returning to Missoart verity of the winter, totend spring for ®& permanent migrants on the con rary, eMes came to voto, aud re ver Purp Ke. Seeing this inva sion, tw He LO wor 1 the Misavurians revirnad to the bet © mark by them ja Kansas to protect their interest Sr. J'0'k thea atated toe geveral ground of bis opinion, why the iecumpton constitution should pare, revtatiog mainly the arguments f Mr Stephen's Majurity report from the f Conmittes. He concluded by acsert:n; tof Kaunas are oy tar balees George Toy are solid mea, aaxious peace and quiet [he true Course to give thet peace was the pasenge of the Lec mpieu oll : Me Bessamis (som; of La, commenced by saying, that as a member of the Jv! ory Committee he foit that it war bia cnty to detena the J. ages of the laod agains: the ious throws vvon them, with @ recklewnons aud wotruthtulness that will yet orig shame upon ther acousers Previous to touching open that pot, sowever, he would show that ft was a vita error to suppose that slavery was eatadiished by poritive legislation in the sou:a. Savery. be ‘contends d, @as the creature of the commun law of Engiand. in "hich country it exited, aod waa pro tected by both the commov aua statute iaw aa far back as the days of Queen Ehzabeth, who herself dealt in slaves Our ancestors brought the iawa and institations of Eng!aod to this continent, as their birthrignt, and hence alaver: was the common law of the thirteen orig eal curonies. ie here cited various bistorica! Gata, tracing the history of @ avery in both coptivents dows to the American Re solu tion, at which time it as the common law of the whote Western continent. Thar tiavovy, he further contended, renidence. The Northero the sweepings of Mastern mained th vote, and te Portion; and bad not the Northern States abolished it by itive lation, they would be siare States yot. yw then, he asked. cao it be asserted that slavery Is not recognized by the corstitutiun of the United State? He thas. procerced to a defence of the Supreme Courts’ decwion im the Dred Scott case, controvarting at length the aaser~ tions of the Senators from Marve and Vermont, that the constitetion of the United atates does not recogaie pro Perty iuginvos. Ho anid he had never heard that asser- tion before the Sesator from stane uttered tt. He here introduced several forcible jiustrations, referring to the Patent, Copyright an2 other !aws, and alno cited the case of Prigg ve. the State of Delaware, reading Judge McLean's opinion in that case, deoiting that the rights of the South im slaves as property are guaranteed hy tho copmtitution. He dweitat great lengeh on the Dred seute case, commenting severely om the Judges who published the minority report He now approached, be said, with extreme aig, anothor 1 He bad been aooustomed tb» reverence the ja ge the iad a: men who, by their eminence potions purity of charac ter, stood high a toe breath of ean A long line of Judges hat culminated in a Marshall, and of the illastrivag tan who bas succeeded him, it 1s eaoagh th way we is Worthy to o# the successor of that great man. He then paid a giowing eulogium to Judge fenev And yet this mao, he cuntinued,«o pure, #0 woble, 9 loved, bax been compared by the senator from Maine to the intamous Jeffries, oud charged by the Senator from New York with having anted in corrupt collasion with the ch ef magistrate of the United States, It was diffivalt to sit and fisten to guch iasinuativux without the bloods boil ing within ua — Fle read from var.ous documents to Show that the Dred Sautt case was in the Miseonrt courts before Mr Buchanan went wo Engiaod—vefore the Kaonae- Nebracka act wae passed fence it wae tinpomiaia, ee Ur Seward hat insinonted—that the Chief Justice and the fresitent could have gambled at caros with Dred Scott piayiog dummy fe the Senauy of the United States to be insulted with language like Senator who makes charves tine patow of a support this? Shame on theae without th vucladed with a few remay question, ridi- culing the Topeka constitution, aot denounciog ite authors asa miserable racwie of maurgenta, who 1 Veh ateet on Topoks oF noth'ng, Would grt nothing Mat Kansaa, he areured them, would not be kept bleeding thronyn another Presidential campaign THE PRINTING DEFICIENCY WILL PASE, The Senate pasned the Howe Printing dedolency bill, and adjourned House of Representatives, Wasmivaton, March 11, 1868. THE RVPLOYMENT OF VOLCNTERR SOnnrER®, The bill for the increase of the army by volunteors was taken up. Mr. Staxton, (opp.) of Ohio, favored the bill, bub Sought Wah the dinturbapees iy Yah could be quelled