The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1858, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1858.—-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORD ENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OrFice N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU ETS. March, reports that five American vessels were then in port fitting out for the African coast, but that they ran » good chance of being captured by the British cruisers off Cubs. The slave trade was most flocrishing. The United States war ship Fulton had sailed, as reported, for Tampico. The Marquis de Losada, British Consul at Boston, had left Havana for his poat. Mrs. Anna A. Watson, a native of New York and formerly a resident of Irvington, New Jersey, died on the 15th ultimo, Palm Sanday was duly observed, and vast preparations were being | Made for the royal feasts. The sugar market was active, without much variation in prices. Freights had improved slightly. Exchange was dull, ruling at from par to one half per cent on New York. The returns of the election in Connecticut yester- Gay as far as received leave no doubt of the success of the republican party. ‘Tho inquest in tho matter of the death of Charles L. Samuels resumed its labors yesterday. The evi- dence somewhat changed previous impressions as to the murder, and tended to show that the crime might have been committed by others than those first suspected. The ingnest will be continued to- day, when a Mr. Smithson, who is said to have been arival of Mr. Samuels for the hand of Miss Curtis, and who is reported to have threatened deceased, will be examined, if the officers can succeed in find- ing him. Oneof the suspected parties has been dis- charged by the Coroner, but Curtis is still in cus: tody. The details of the evidence before the Coro" ner will be found elsewhere, The body of the young man found floating in Ja- maica Bay, L. I., proves to be that of Mr. Wm. C. McKee, a brother-in-law of one of the Port Wardens of this city, who has been missing from his boarding house, in Greene street, since Monday last. Fromall appearances he has been murdered. There is not the slightest clue as to the perpetrators of the out- rage. Our report contains all the particulars. The Board of Aldermen last evening adopted a re- solution rescinding the grant to Miner C. Storey and others for constructing the Ninth Avenno Railroad. They also rescinded the contract granted to Forbes and others for cleaning the streets and public places for five years. The power given to the Harlem Rail- road Company to run cars on the Fourth avenue was also rescinded, in consequence of repeated violations of the ordinances, and their refusing to discontinue the use of steam below Forty-second street. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening and transacted a large amount of routine business, devoid of general interest. An ordinance to reorganize the Croton Aqueduct Board was pre- sented, and ordered to be printed. A message was read frem the Mayor approving an ordinance passed by both boards for the better regulation of the Fire Department, in which he called attention to the evils existing in the bunking system, sleeping and cook- ing in engine houses, &c. The matter will be inves- tigated by the appropriate committee. The Board concurred with the Aldermen by a vote of 17 to 3 in directing the Croton Aqueduct Board to advertise for proposals for grooving or otherwise improving the Broadway pavement. They also concurred with the other branch of the Common Council in a reso- lution offered by the Mayor directing the Counsel to the Corporation to memorialize the Legislature against the passage of an act to legalize certain re- solutions of the Common Council, particularly re- Jating to contracts for cleaning streets; also with the Aldermen in overriding the veto of the Mayor relative to granting property for a Women’s State Hospital. ‘The Conncilmen's Committee on Finance helda long session yesterday, during which they disposed of a number of papers. What the nature of these papers was did not, however, transpire, as Council- man Cross, who is a member of the committee re- fused to let one reporter look at them, and very uo- ceremoniously informed the others that there was nothing to report, while at the same time he drew the documents so close to him as to intimate that the right of examination was exclusive. The Committee on Assessments of the Board of Councilmen held a meeting yesterday. Several per- sons were present in anticipation of a renewal of the scene in which exJudge Whiting figured 60 con- epicuonsly at the preceding meeting, but the matter in which he was interested did not come up for con- sideration, and therefore those who expected another fracas were disappointed. The committee did no business of any consequence before they adjourned. A mass meeting was held last night at Pike slip by the workingmen and others who are opposed to the proposed removal of the dry docks from their present location. There were about 7,000 persons present. The speeches and resolutions were enthu- siastically received, and there was considerable noise and excitement. The April term of the General Sessions com- menced yesterday, Recorder Barnard presiding. A quorum of grand jurors could not be obtained, and those answering to their names were discharged till Tuesday. Jas. T. Finley and Miss Howard, charged with kidnapping a colored girl, were arraigned, and pleaded not guilty. As some of the witnesses aro in Canada, his Honor consented to postpone the case till the next term. ‘The preliminary examination of two men named Durbam and Roberts, the latter a member of the bar, who are charged with levying black mail on Andrew A. Dalton, an alleged faro dealer, was com- menced yesterday before the Recorder. After the cross examination of the complainant the case was adjourned till Friday. Lola Montez gave, as a lecture, at Hope Chapel last evening, a portion of her own autobiography. The audience nearly filled the chapel. The cotton market, through the influence of Soathera advices, aseumed a firmer tone yesterday, end the sales ‘embraced about 1,200 bales on the basis of about 11740. « 120. for middling uplands, closing at about tho latter figure. Flour was steady and in fair domand at about the current quotations of Saturday. Wheat was more Srmly dealt in, at rates given in another column. Corn was firmer, with sales of white common to good at 690. T6c., | and good yellow at Tic. a 72c. Pork was more activo 4 firmer, with sales of mens ‘at $17 10 8 $17 15, and in rete!) lots at $17 25, Prime was at $15 76 and in email lots sales were reported at $14. Lard was Grmer and wales freely made at 100. Cut moata were ateaty. Sales of 60 tlerces Weatern smoked hams were made at lic. Sugars wore steady, with sales of about 450 hhda Cuba and New Orieans at rates given in another columo | Coffee wae quiet and eales limited. Freighte were with | out change of moment in rates for moet articles. Wheat war taken in bulk for Liverpool at 4s¢4; flour at Is. 6d., | Were beef at Se.; rice at 17. 64.; turpentine at 28. 34, and coAton ab 6-324. 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BEOOXLYN ATHEN MUM—Picr mia Tutvsrearions OF ANB'S ADVENTURES IN THE AnCTIC REGIONS. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, April 6, 1858, MAILS Fee EUROPE. The New York Herald--EKdltion for Europe. The Cunard mail steamship Niagara, Capt. Wickman, will leave Boston on Wextnesday at noon, for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city this afternoon, at a quarter past one o'clock, to go by railroad, and at a quarter to four o’clock, ts go by stoamboat. ‘The European edition of the Hexau, printed in French and English, will be published i ten o’clook fm the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six cente. . Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Rew Yours Hsp will be received at the following places da Europe— Enropean Exprese Co. , § Place de la Bourse n Exprees Co., 9 Chapel street, Stuart, 10 Exchange strect, East. Havas... .Am.-Kuropean Express Oo., 21 Kae Comneitie, ‘The contents of the European edilion of the Hera ‘will combine the news received by mai! and telegraph at he office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication. The News. Two weeks later news from Camp Scott has been received. The troops were in good health; and as Colonel Johnston had 1,800 men and a thousand animals in good condition, the impression was that he would not wait for reinforcements, but would proceed as coon as practicable. Nothing positive ‘was known of the intentions of the Mormons, as all communication with Salt Lake City was prohibited. ‘The War Department has ordered Lieut. Mallen to open a wagon road from Fort Benton, on the Mis- souri, to Walla Walla, on the Columbia river, for the convenience of emigrant trains, as the Mormon war may render the central route impracticable for some time. The eteamer Indian, with four days later news from Europe, arrived at Portland yesterday after- noon, She left Liverpool on the 24th ult. ‘The United States steamship Niagara arrived at Plymouth on the 23d alt., with her machinery some- what damaged by boisterous weather. The Ariel, having completed her repairs, was to have left for Bremen on the day the Indian sailed. Operations for relaying the Atlantic telegragh cable had been resumed, and the British frigate Agamemnon had placed fifty miles of the cable on Doard. A Polish bookseller had been arrested in London for publishing a pamphlet advocating the assassina- tion of the French Emperor. The proposed abolition of interest on deposits by the banks of this city had attracted attention in Vondon It was stated by Lord Derby in the House of Lords that there was no foundation for the report that the government intended to import free negroes from Africa and form them into regiments. An amendment to the Oaths bill of Lord John Russell, which continued the exclusion of Jews from Parliament, was negetived in the Commons by a heavy vote. Further news had been received at London from India, but the details are meagre. Lucknow had not been taken at the last advices. The cannonade ‘was to have taken place on the 22d of February. Nena Sahib was reported to be wandering about the country. The Calcutta mai) steamer, with dates from China to the 17th of Febroary, had arrived at Suez. Yeh, the former Chinese Governor of Canton, had arrived at Hong Kong, on board the Inflexible, on his way to Calcutta. The blockade of Canton was raised on the 10th of February, and order prevailed in that city. Trade had reopened. The Americans and ‘Teuasians bad joined the French and English in a de- mand on the Chinese government, and about the middle of March the ultimatum of the Emperor waa expected. It was rumored that the operations of the French and English wonld be extended as far as Pekin. Mr. De Leon, American Consol at Alexandria, had returned from his mission to Syria, which he had undertaken onaccount of the murder and out- rages perpetrated on an American family near Jaffa, the details of which we published a short time since. Four of the Arab murderers had been convicted b; the Turkish authorities, and would be executed as , soon as confirmation of the sentence was received j from Constantineple. The Liverpool eotton market had somewhat im- proved, and closed without excitement at # «mall advance on all qualities, but witha declining ten- dency. The market for breadstuff was dull, owing principally to the fine growing weather. Flour and wheat had both declined. The provision market ‘was very inactive, and quotations nominal for beef and pork. Gold continued to flow into the Bank of oo England, and further reduction in the rate of dit | he Kanane Dificulty—A Simple Plan for a count was talked of. Consols closed at noon on the | Quick and Decisive Bettiement. 2éth ult., at 967 # 97} for money, and 97} for ac-| ‘The Senate has passed a bill for the admis. count. The funds exhibited general steadiness, and | sion of Kansas under the Lecompton constitu- {Tha yn omy ‘a cama our | tion, as a sovereign State, without further de- Bithirs . pressed, and the railroads were carrying little or no | lay. The va gry rae bel bill, end freight. peated & ui tute, the condition prece- The time of both Senate and House was taken up | dent” that the said constitution shall be sub- yesterday by & debate on @ bill for the better protec- | mitted, yea and nay, to the popular vote, and Bion of life and property in the city of Washington. | providing that if thus ratified Kansas shall be Lecompton bill is expected to come up in the | declared by the President « sovereign State un- today, when Mr. Stevens, of Georgia, who | der the eaid constitution; but, providing fur- spoken, intends to speak on the subject. | ther, that if said constitution be rejected the me Dill will be presented to the House | people sball frame ® new one, aud that with ite ‘na dayor two, and @ consideration | Fopuiar ratification the Prosident shall pro- an early day. All the amendments the Chamber of Commerce have been | fim the State admitted under this new consti- in the bill. Nothing of importance | tttion. ‘This substitute bill has been rejected by in the State Legislature. the Senate, and it has voted to adhere to its tutional Convention of Kansas on the | own bill. The House, probably today or to- red @ remonstrance to be immedi-| morrow, will vote to ddhere to their bill; and into Congress protesting against the ad) then, should the Senate refuse to recede, the question will be as far from a settlement by Congress as on the first Monday of last Decem- Kansas ander the Lecompton constitu Convention have decided to submit the ation to a vote of the people on the third ber. y in May, and also that an election for State 4 County officers shall take place at the same | The administration cannot recede, and, tak- , All laws not repugnant to the constitution to | ing it for granted that the House will not re- in force until they expire by their own limi- | cede, how is this impending difficulty to be avoided of an absolute failure to Our Havana correspondent, writing on 30th of } poss, at this session, any bill whatever for the admission of Kansas? So far as the destiny of Kansas is concerned, it makes not a particle of difference whether this bill or that DDL be passed, or no bill at all. Her destiny and her institutions are permanently fixed by the overwhelming aecendancy of her free State population. But eo far as this question affects the practical business of Congress, the general policy of the administration, and the agitating schemes of disorganizing demagogues, it is of (he first importance to clear the docket of this Kansas impediment. While it remains upon the calendar nothing else can be discussed. We have said that the administration cannot recede. Nor is it necessary that it should re- cede. It has done nothing in the case requiring it to recede. It has no right to recede. The duty of the President is to execute the laws. It is no part of his duty, nor has he any right, to go bebind the record to see whether the law- making power has or has not been legally elected. If he had any right to do this he might reject a law of Congress upon tho plea that a member or two of either house consti- tuting the majority in favor of some particular bill were not legally clected, and that, therefore, the bill must be vetoed. But having no euch legislative right, he was compelled to accept and submit to Congress the Le compton constitution as it came into his hands, covered, as it was, with all the legal evidences and forms required to make a legal document. He had no alternative. He was compelled to accept and recommend this Lecompton constitution to tho favorable atten- tion of Congress, Having thus faithfully ad- hered to the line of its constitutional limita- tions, the administration cannot recede, even if it were so inclined. But, notwithstanding all this, the Kansas policy of the administration, while yet it had the discretionary power to shape, to some ex- tent, the organic law for the State, very clearly indicates the way of escape to the conservative men of Congress. In his instructions to Gov. Walker, the President distinctly favored the policy of the full submission of the organic State law to the popular vote. Gov. Walker, as long as he kept within the strict limits of his office, was sustained by the President in all his efforts to this end; but, as the discretion of sub- mission or non-submission rested with the Con- vention, and as the Convention thought fit to make only a partial submission, the President was bound to accept and submit to Congress this line of action as the legal solu- tion of the organic Territorial laws. He saw that the Lecompton constitution was republican in form, and a really ex- cellent constitution, too, notwithstanding the disreputable character of some of the parties concerned in its formation. And yet,in both his messages to Congress upon the subject, the President, while pleading the binding force of the law, has clearly indicated his regrets that a full and absolute submission ‘of the said consti- tution to the popular vote was not made. Here, then, is the authority upon which the Senate may act. It is within the province of the Senate to accept or reject the Lecompton constitution; and as the important principle of slavery is not excluded from the Crittenden substitute, but is retained in it; as the destiny of Kansas will be precisely the same under any act, or in default of any act of admission, and as the only remaining consideration to every peacemaker now is the speediest possible re- moval of this bone of contention from Congress, why should not the majority of the Senate re- cede, or at least permit the Crittenden bill to go through by default? It is not necessary that any administration member should vote for the bill. The absence of eight or ten Lecompton men when the vote is taken will answer the But the administration has substantially won the victory, even upon this Crittenden substitute. The steadiness, firmness and deci- sion of character exhibited by Mr. Buchanan in this controversy have compelled the whole black republican phalanx of both houses to recog: | nize the principle that a slave State constitu- tion shall be no bar to the admission of a new State hereafter. Thus, ata single blow, the whole anti-slavery platform of “no more slave States—no more slave Territories,” has been demolished, for the entire representation of that party in both houses of Congress has been driven to the extremity of the clearest recogni- tion of the broad principle of Congressional non-intervention in the organization of the in- stitutions of a new State. This is one of the most remarkable political achievements of the last half century. It is equivalent toa political revolution. It is an extorted concession from the black republican anti-slavery alliance, which secures the fullest possible margin for the organization and ad- mission of new slave States. The Northern anti-slavery policy of excluding a State be- cause of a slave State constitution is aban- doned. They bave relinquished the right and the power to exclude a now State on ac count of its recognition of slavery. They are forsworn, in the most solemn form, to the principle of non-intervention in voting for the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution, should that constitution be ratified by the people of Kansas; and the conservative people of the North will hold them hereafter to that agreement. The great vital principle to the South in- volved in the Lecompton constitution being thus fully conceded in the Crittenden bill, and the destiny of Kansas being already perma- nently fixed in any event, is there any plausible ground remaining for this disagreement be tween the two houses? None whatever. False issues and false pretences, false pride and fic- titious quibbles amounting to nothing are all that remain of this exhausted dispute. There still remain, however, the desire and the pur- poee of the anti-slavery disorganizers to keep this agitation open as long as possible for elec- tioncering objects. Of all things they would re- joice at the absolute failare of all attempts to secure the admission of Kansas at this eeasion. This desideratum, too, they will most likely achicve should the Senate refuse to permit the passage of the Crittenden bill. But let that bill be paseed, aad we shall presently see that Mr. Giddings and his anti-slavery confederates, in voting for the Lecompton ab- straction of slavery, have abandoned their last plank of sectional excitement, sectional discord and a sectional organization of parties, In a business point of view, it is all impor- tant to have this Kansas stumbling block out of the way. We are in the fifth month of the ses- sion, The treasury is embarrassed with debts and obligations which must be mot; its ex- penses are heavy, its receipts are comparatively light; the Mormons and the frontier Indians must be attended to; our relations with Spain, Cuba, Mexico and Central America are of the | Thzeatentog C&:Aitton of the Anglo-Fiench most significant and interesting character; the postal service, the army, the navy require the prompt attention of Congress; and, aboveall, the crushing effects of the late financial revulsion, and the financial and commercial disorders which it has produced, call impera- tively for the interposition of some general and uniform act of relief and regulation. In this business view of the case, then, no Jess than in consideration of the paramount ob- ject of a decisive and final settlement of this vexed question of Kansas, we submit to the conservative democrats of the Senate that their duty to the country, to the administration and to their party, is to consent to the passage of the Orittenden bill. It eecures all that can be gained under the Lecompton or any other bill; andin placing the act of admission in tho hands of the President it endorses his honest adhesion to the law, and secures an honest, certain and final solution of the whole question. Revival of Spring Business—The Weather, Opera and the Balls, The very delicious weather which we have been enjoying during the last ten days has had a great effect upon all branches of metropolitan business. The hotels are filling up; Broadway is crowded with delegations from ‘all parts of the country; the travelling season has fairly commenced ; and the array of spring bonnets, with the expansion of spring crinoline, gives our principal promenade the appearance of an immense flower garden. Our mercurial and excitable public is preparing to pass from the prayer meeting to the bal masqué—from the sackcloth and ashes of Lent to the gaiety of the Concerts Musard. The prayer meetings them- selves are on the wane. They did not succeed in converting either Burton or Forrest, and were obliged to content themselves with Awfal Gardner. The last standpoint of these gather- ings—Burton’s old theatre—has been abandoned by the parsons, and it will now be used as an ordinary court house. Instead of supplications there will be replications; instead of religious emotions there will be only dry motions before @ terrestrial Judge; instead of humble confes- sions there will be pleas of not guilty, Rynders reigns in place of Beecher ; Blackstone replaces Watts. In the world of amusement we find the chief topics to be the grand /éte at the Crystal Palace on Thursday, the concerts of Musard, and the bal masqué under the same direction, after the fashion of the Grand Opera at Paris, Every- body is going to the Crystal Palace, everybody must hear the Concerts Musard, everybody is discussing the bal masgué. Still another topic agitates fashionable circles. Mr. Ullman has just concluded the longest and most successful Opera season ever given in New York. He has succeeded in creating an immense sensation. No manager has been so much talked about. He has satisfied the public, but has dissatisfed eve- rybody else. The prime donne have quarrelled because one got more applause than the other; the tenorshave quarrelled because the public didn’t like them; the orchestra and chorus have quarrelled because war is their normal state; the critics and composers have quarrelled about the originality of operas; the Italians have quarrelled with the Germans, the Germans with the Italians, and the French with both. Fry’s opera, “Leonora,” made several pretty quarrels. Some people said it was an amiable plagiarism from Bellini, Donizetti and other composers, while the friends of Fry insisted that these masters plagiarized from the author of “Leonora.” The public did not come to bear the opera, and it was a fiasco; so the friends of the composer are dissatisfied with the manager, who, as we said before, has disappoint- ed all the cliques, but has made a great success with the public. More particularly has he dis gusted the old clique of oyster house critics, who have been brought out from their holes by the warm weather, and who, encouraged by the partial success of the oyster cellar conspiracies against Mayor Wood, and the similar demon- strations against the administration at Wash- ington by the disgusted democrats and black republicans, bave resolved to form a grand combination to crush the little Napoleon of the Opera. He is to be smashed up without any mercy whatever. With the artists, the oyster houso critics, the fiddlers and tho red republi- cans against him, and only the public in his favor, his case is certainly deserving of sympa- thy. Let us hope he may have a safe deliver- ance. Meantime, however, things go on as usual. The concerts and balls afford topics for grave discussion in society here as well as elsewhere. Before the bal masgué at the Academy, the wife of a California Senator gives a similar enter- tainment st Washington, to which all the world ts invited. The question of what to wear at these balls has given far more trouble to the parties concerned than the Kansas imbroglio or the Central American difficulty. Of course all fashionable New York goes to Washington for Mrs. Gwin’s ball, and to return the compliment every body in society at Washington will come here for the Musard ba! masqué fortnight later. By that time we may hope the contending par- ties of the Academy will have arrived at some tettlement of the troubles. If they do not, “ it isn’t,” as Mr. Toots would say, “of the slightest American Suipsvitpine ror Foreran Coun- TRirs.—The accounts which we publish today of the trial trips of the steam corvette Japanese, built by Mr. Wm. H. Webb of this city, and the Manjoor, built at Boston, for the service of the Ruesian government on the Amoor river, with the recent trial trip of the Voyageur del Mer, built at Boston, for the Pacha of Egypt, are indications of the favor with which American shipbuilding is regarded by foreign govern- ments, Mr. Webb has had three contracts for the Rassian government. The America was built by him and sent out in 1855, the Japa- nese is the second, and he has now on the stocks a large eteam frigate which is to be the flag ship of the Russian navy. The first ship built in America for the Russian government was by Win. H. Brown, sbout fifteen or eighteen years ago, and since that time we have built ships for nearly every government except Eng- land and France. Indirectly we have built for them, as they have been obliged to pilfer parts of the models of our Collins line and yacht America to be able to keep up a decent rival- ry. Since the triumph of the America, and the beating of the Agamemnon, the fastest ship of the English navy, by the Niagara, American models have an acknowledged superiority which must ensure them an eventual preva- lence throughout the world. It is no wonder then that the Saltan of Turkey has sent here for a flag ehip worthy of the Ottoman navy, id it is to be hy that he will seoure a shi which will satisfy him and reflect ndditionel credit upon the country. The respective attitude of England aod France at the present time may well be considered alarming and menacing. Though for s period of eix or seven years the two nations have been bound together by what has been called an al- liance, there has never been—except during the brief struggle with Russia—any cordial co.ope- ration between them to attain any commen ob- ject, nor bave they ever bad common views of policy, common institutions, or a common politi- cal principle. Save in name only, they have been, ever since the alliance was first consum- muted, diametrically and irreconcilably antago- nistic on every possible point of contact. Their political differences, and they have been radical and unsueceptible of compromises, have not been more obvious than their social and popu- lar rivalry. Indeed, it has eeemed as though the cloéer the bonds of nominal political union were drawn between the two Powers, and the more the rulers of both exerted themselves to | efface all recollections of past enmities, the more intense grew the mutual dislike of the two peoples, the more angrily jealous the two armies, Evepthe campaign of Waterloo hardly created so wide a breach between the armies of France and England as the Russian war. ‘This under current of enmity might be kept under control and gradually suffered to die out; but the government of France is actually in such embarrasament that it may not be prudent to crush out any feeling which under certain cir- cumstances might lead the nation to rally round the sovereign. The dislike which a part of the peo- ple of France enteriain for England is nothing to the indignation and fury which the free press of England and her free institutions must excite in the bosom of the Emperor. So long as Exg- land lies where she does, within a few hours’ sail of the French coast, and pours forth a daily current of democratic notions, the Emperor knows that his dynasty will not be safe, nor his throne secure fora month. So long as French refugees may go to England, and in perfect se- curity there, calmly plot the murder of the Em- peror or the outbreak of a new revolution—and Louis Napoleon is not the man to need be told that the new law against conspiracies will be of no more effect than the act against Cardinel Wiseman—France will never be certain of tran- quillity for any considerable period. One of two things: either Louis Napoleon must put down the free press and free institu- tions of England; be able to give a warning to the 7imes, and have it obeyed more reverently than the last was; have the right of sending moucharde to London to pick up every seditious character they happen to suspect, and despatch him, free of charge, to the swamps of Cayenno; and, generally, exercise a parental supervision of English affairs; or else, he must stand in dread lest at any moment his throne and bis dynasty may be scattered to the winds. Which alternative is he the more likely to adopt? Of course no time need be lost in demonstrat- ing that Great Britain will not part with ono iota of her liberty for the sake of obliging her neighbor the Emperor. On the contrary, any attempt of his to carry out his views in England would rouse a storm compared to which the late squall was @ mere puff. The English people, whatever they have done, or may wish to do, will certainly never submit to foreign dictation ; the first overture toward an attack by Louis Napoleon upon the press of England or the right of asylum would rouse the Euglish to determined resistance, and would make an end of the alliance. No doubt so eagacious a man as Louis Napo- leon foresees as well as we can the inevitable perils to flow from a war with Englaod. But can he withstand the current which is drifting that way? Can he afford to risk a new revolution in his own country, produced by the stimulating example of English liberty, fostered by the proceedings of the French refagees in England, and actually aided by the anti-English spirit of the soldiery? All Europe stands on the brink of a volcano. There is no knowing when it may break out. It is easy to see that there is nothing permanent in the institutions of any of the countries of Central, Western and Southern Europe, and that between the governed and the governing Classes in those countries there reigns an irre- concilable and perpetual feud. It rests with England, more than with any other Power or body of men, to ronse this fend to open war- fare, and to kindle a revolution which would leave but a single continental throne stand- ing—the Russian, If England's neces- sities compel her to intervene in Con- tinental European politics, as she would do of course if ehe were aesailed, she would act by supplying the revolutionary clubs all over Europe with money, arms, and leaders; she would give them her moral support; and then of the result, there couid be little doubt. Boys at echool, six weeks afterward, might find it difficult to say to what period of history Louis Napoleon belonged. Certain it is that of all Barope, Russia is the only country which would probably escape unscathed such a con- vulsion; and that, should it take place soon, Russia and the United States, so dissimilar on every political and social point, would resem. ble each other in being the sole nations undis turbed by the catastrophe. As for continental Europe, England could set it all ablaze in thirty days. Tue Late Cousins Live or Sreamers.—We publich in another column an article from the London Morning Chronicle on the failure of the Collins line of steamers—the three fine ships be- longing to which were sold by the Sheriff on Thursday last. John Bull takes occasion to glorify himeelf on his superiority over his Yan- kee cousins, as Bull so well knows how to do; because, owing to the twofold cause of the illiberality of our government and internal difficulties in the company itself, the Collins line had ceased running. This fact is claimed hy the Chronicle as @ conclusive proof of Eag- land’s supremacy on the sea, and the inferiority of American ships and machinery to those of British manufacture. The Collins steamers, though sold under execution, it is understood have been bought in for the Browns, in connec- tion with Mr. Wetmore, another member of the old firm, and Mr. Corcoran, the banker, of Washington; and they will eoon be on the ocean again. Mr. Collins’ connection with the line bas pro- ably ceased, in consequence of difficulties in the company, arising from little jealousies and envies of the ¢clat which he obtained from the excellence of many of his improvements and sug- gestions ; and it can be said forbim that he man- aged it skilfully and well, and had he not been tampered and thwarted by others, it would have been conducted with more prudence and skill, and would, probably, be in existence to-day. Under the new régime, however, the line is likely to beevme—what Capt. Nyc said it was when he dist.onn¢oted himself from it—actually ap English line, though under an Americas New Isms wy Poumncs AnD Monats—Toa Docrrmk oF Assasaneanion—We published yesterday an account of « preliminary meeting of @ number of European exiles who p to honor the memory of Orsini and Pierri, the assassins lately executed in Paris, by walking ia procession, with crape on their arms. Tap meeting was spirited, harmonions, and very original One speaker considered the act of these assassins worthy of Washington and Le fayette; and “an Irish gentleman” recom- mended the public at large to have likenesses of Pierri and Orsini in their houses “next te the image of Christ.” There was-no disguise about the views of the speakers or the au. dience; they “went in” for murder purely and simply, and some of them, no doubt, would be as good as their word if a fit occasion presented itself. We find the doctrines of these admirers ef | murder and assassination put forth from time to time in their newepaper organ, which, it need hardly be said, is the New York Tribune. That | Journal lays down the new ism—assassination— in a very methodical form in its issue of yester~ day morning. Aseassination, it says, whee practised on “an imperial villain, put-throat and traitor,” “involves ne moral turpitude,” and de- serves no censure. On the contrary, it merits applause, as witness the foolish nonsense which poets have sung about Harmodius and Brutue, Louis Napoleon “would not die as befits him if he died otherwise than by the hand of an as- sasein.” The Zribune writer, as might be ima- gined, does not confine bis vindication of assas- sins to those who want to kill Emperors; his sympathies are larger than this. He calls upes Allsop to assassinate any one who tries to arreat him; and he adds, modestly referring to self and friends of course, that if Allsop don't care about committing a fresh murder, “others will be found in plenty who will.” It will be seen that our cotemporary’s new murder docirine isa very complete and pretty affair. Judging it only practically, we don’t think i will work. Itis not © wy to assassinate Louis Napoleon to c: the government ef France. When the r time comes, there will be the usual revolution, and Louis Nape leon will either get killed fighting or will ran away like Louis Philippe and Charles the Tenth. How near this is and how easily it will be accomplished when the times are ripe for it can be easily seen from the cool way in whick the Chalons officers went to the Prefect to inquire if the republic had been proclaimed yet before they turned out to fight for the empire. There will be no assassination needed when the hora sounds; the Tribune and its friends will find their vocation gone. We only trast that in their disappointment they will not deem it necessary to transplaat their theories to this eoil, and try to inaugurate aseaesination as a political method here. Tue Broapway Raunoap.—tIt is attempted to defend the Broadway Railroad by arguing that it will not travel the whole distance im Broadway, but will damage some side streets aswell. Thisisno argument in favor of the bill. If the road only travels a single block im Broadway it will do irreparable injury. The whole truth of the question is on one side; that no railroad is necded in Broadway, and that a railroad there would do incalculable mischief; on the other, that a parcel of speou- lators, with some newspaper men among them, are trying to force the charter through the Le- gislature in the hope of making money at the public cost. Of course the bill must be killed. A Ternwiy Swattow.—The great antida- very men, Giddings and his associates, all awat- Jowed the nigger when they went for the Crit- tenden amendment ; that is, they voted for a slave State constitution. Don’t allow the rascals to gee it off their stomachs again by vomiting. Pass the bill when it comes back to the Senate, aad take them before the country as pro-slavey men, nailed to the counter as base coin and clenched also, What a fix! AMPRICAN INVENTIONS IN AUSTRIA,—Of the Bare- pean nations who have paid particular attention te the progress of the American people in arts, sciences and inanufactures, we most certainly place the Aus trians amongst the first and foremost. Since 1848 we find the American railway car almost exclusivdg on Austrian railways. The outside connection om locomotives has been extensively adopted in that country, long before the prejudices in favor of the inside cylinders were removed. In 1853 the ins river stenmboat for the Old World on Americaa principles was constructed for the Danube. Since that two immense boats, of fifty feet beam and cighty-two feet outside of paddle wheels, have bees built for that river, on the model of our lamented Steers, and engines ‘nrnished from New York. Morse's electric telegraph has from the very start monopolized the Austrian telegraph wires, and there is scarcely a large farm in that extensive empire or a large manufactory that cannot show some evidence of American ingenuity. At this moment a balance dry dock of the largest description, on the Americas principle, is constructing at Venice. The timber for that dock is furnished entirely from this country, and almost all the mills on the North river whiok have been standing still for months, are now busily employed in the sawing and shipping ot that timber. ‘The main part of the machinery for that dock is alae being constructed in New York. There seems to be hardly an American invention of importance that has not found its way into Austria, and it is a matter of surprise and gratification to the American travel lor visiting Austria that the home talent is so mach appreciated ina country which has been almost s stranger to us, and of which, as a general thing, we have so imperfect a knowledge. Sanuve or mim Mowm (avion.—The steamship Moses Taylor sailed yesterday afternoon for Aspinwall, with as many pacsengers en roule for California aa the veasd could possibly accommodate, The number that crowded her decks as sho meved from the wharf could not have been leas than one thonaand, composed of all classes and stations in life, from the millionaire morchant of Sam Francigco to the Irish servant girl. Tho opposition line, which was recently so much talked of, and which mo- coded in making one trip, bas been bought off, and the ships are again laid alongside the wharves, ‘The conse- quence will probably be « speedy return to the old rates of fare charged by the mail line. ‘Tue Revor’a, on Exrree Quanritie.—Mre. Kate Laby tn- forms us that sho is about to introduce into New York the above named new dance, as agreed on and arranged by the Congress of Masters at Vienna. Sho has just recetved: the mmsic, with = choregraphique description of the figures, which are exceedingly simple and beautiful. ‘They are called “Die Dentechen,”’ the Germans; “Die Hungarien,” the Hungarians; “Die Polen,” the Poles; “Die Ttalienne,/? the Italiane; “Die Slaven’? and ‘Die Osterreicher.”’ ‘Tre Priswaric Trorm.—It appears afer all that the Commissioners of Patenta had decited in favor ef Thad. deus Hyatt, PR ag AND LAND I tg yt Tyler R gives @ valuation of negroes in wth oumy, T 1,809,090, and of Ins, ma 81,076,000, “UMY? TWAS 8