The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1858, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. ——— WHOLE NO. 7893. THE AMERICA’S MAILS. Kapoleon’s Troubles with the London Press. The Effect of Marshal Pelissier’s Appointment. OUR LONDON AND PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. Regotiations to Sell the Collins Steamers te the French. DEATH OF GEN. THOMAS, OF &e., KEW YORK, &e. ‘The mails of the America reached this city from Boston early yesterday morning. Our telegraphic summary from Hali ax, published on Saturday, 10th fastant, embrace the chief points of the news, but we give the following additional extracts from our Moropean files this morning:— ‘The Paris Pays announces that a circumstance has eecured on the coast of Africa which merits notice. fome French ships lately presented themselves at the entrance of the Zaire, the principal river of Con- go, in order to engage free negroes for the French West India Islands. The Governor of the Portu- geese possessions on the West Coast of Africa op- posed the execution of their object, claiming the right of the Portuguese government to the coast as far ae 6 degrees 12 minates south latitude. The matter hes been referred to the French and Portuguese governments, The China Maii (Hong Kong) of 28th January saye:— ‘The news from Canton during the week may be summed wp w very few words. Firstly, the establishment of a police, compored tp part of Britisn and French eoldiers, aod ip part of Chinese, bas infused coafdence iaw the people, and numbers of shops for the retail of goods and of market proauce are opening in the city. Large stores ef american muskets ano Chuese arms have been dis- @overed and removed w safe quarters Sach of the runs ef sme Gough and Lin forts as remained staud ng havo Deen biown up. The refusal of the United States Senate to autho- rive the increase of the regular army of the republic je commented on by the Paris Constitutionnel with ‘the accrimonious spirit which it ever brings to bear ea American topics. It says:— We now witness the depth of shameful impotency to which a pation :alls which permits heelf to be ruled by ‘ap excessive and insuiting suzpicion of ite cbief. We may ‘fi 4 state that this result is also due to the sentiment of to think of cropaniie 1a which a popeisr party’ mewe to republic ia wl & popular weedy to launch armies of filibasters on certain coveted fmt and ielends, gains daily in extension, while the refuses five regiments and a few thousand dollars ‘whoeb are require’ in order t avenge the nations! hovor, feeuited by toe Mormons, and w oeliver the couctry from @ social eoourge which is a scandal for the civilized weak. * * © * The ultra Southerners opposed it for fear that a Northern President being elected be might, @rongh we army, exercise a perfi tious pressure apoa the Sevtb; ard that some of the Northern republicans have also voted egainst the iacrease, fearing that the tive new Fegiments might be employed to impose the Lecom ton esa titution upon the peopie of Kansas, The Liverpool Mail says:— ‘The Leviathan, or Great Eastern, will, we have every Feasen to bope, come to Liverpool after all. A ‘grid’ of Very unusual dimensions is beiog laid dowa upon the Cheshire side, between Monk’s ferry and the graving doeks of Messrs Clayton and McKeverigsa, and it m said, ‘we believe on very good authority, that it 1s designed for fhe accommodation of the moaster abip: Wappears that the greater number of the manu- facturers throughout France are suffering at thie moment, but those engaged in the sugar trade are more oppressed than any by the commercial crisis. ‘There are now numerous petitions before the govern- meot from the merchants of Nantes, Lille, Amiens, Denai, Valenciennes and other towns. All the re- finers in these towns are in accord with the impor- ters of colonial sugar in demanding a reduction of the existing duties. In consequence of the long protracted stagnation Of trade, the Paris Moniteur, introducing a new fea- tare into its columns, publishes a commercial review of its own, which,as might be expected, is more favorable tban those emanating from private sources. The following js the first specimen of the Moviteur’s yeports of this kind:— ‘The enperior a¢ministration receives every month {n- formation on the state of trade in the principal manufac tering towne of the empire. Weare authorized to select from this periodical inquest some details which are act without iutercat, At Lille the state of the sugar trade is me very satisfactory, the stock Oo band being wo consi- derabic, but the other branches of business are resuming s certain degree of activity. At Rouen the spinning aad ‘weaving ortablichments are burily emoloyed aod wages im are at the orainary rates. At Flavrethe state of fairs has improved aod the erivis is Considered as over. At Eibeuf the manufacturers are well employed. At Ricims business is represented as increasing. At St. Qventin, woere the Gnavcial crivia has not caused any fu'ures, a1 embarrassment is over and business has re tarned to ite natural state. At Amiens the sugar and spirit mapuf+ctorors are suffering, and in other branches of trade there is moch room for improvement At Sedan to high rate of the raw material @* compared with the Price which the manufsctarers can obtain, cause con ride rable embsrrasement to the latter, bat they nevertheless mi) continue at work. At Mulaausen all the workmen fipé employ ment, and the state of affairs # consivered as geod. At Lyons an improvement hae set in aod there ap- pears 8 proepect of its continuing. At St Etienne the ap Proach of «pring gives hopes of « revival of affairs. Con- sidorabie orders have been already received from Paris aed from Londoa, but some looms still coatinue unem- ployed: At Nismes commerce i« every day improving. At Nantes the state of business is generally aatiefactory. At Bordeaux the ship builders have not yot acquired their ~~ At there i @very day greater meuvity. Lonnon, March 26, 1858. The Derby Ministry—Its Probable Policy in Regard to the United States—The Collins and Cunard Lines—The French Alliance—The Late Conspi- racy Against Louis Napoleon—A Projected Or- heanist Rising—The Malian Conference Hoar — The London Penny Papers, &e., &e. Tincline to the opinion that the new “Derbyan” government is firm upon its pins, or in other words, geated for some time to come. The late Cabinet bronght itself into great disfavor owing to the atro- eious character of some of its late official appoint- ments. Apropos of the present government, you Americans may expect every amount of considera- tion from them, if we are to jndge from Diaracli's admirable speech on the Central American question Ist year. Every one here regrets the discoutinned running of the Collins line. A notion haa got wind of the fabulous profita realized by ita rival, the Cpnard Company. This latter, although only a private partnership, entirely owes its snceess to Mr. Mclvers’ management, if mnecess it can be called, for it has never yet realized the yhost of a copper dividend. It is true that five oy cent interest has been paid, but the lus pro- t is all locked up in the screw steamers Alps and Andes, now lying in Liverpool utterly unsaleable. At the adjourned meeting of the shareholders in Jane next, which is anxiously looked forward to, it i believed that revelations will be made. As regards our relations with France, take my word for it that they are all serene, and that there will be no necessity for fresh diplomatizing, not- Cana the i attempts of the whigs toembarrass new ntti bli it ment at a 8 y getting up a prablic excite It yond a et that a great Orleanist rising padded Sg had Orsini and his fellow asrassins ence . Sach an event was anticipated at Claremont, and acroas the Richmond Bridge there was indeed something connected with a mysterious “coup” canvassed over the very night of Massol's be- nefit at the Grand Opera. We never fike to find fanlt with the indies, particularly the very good ones bat I must say that the n was ilLadvised and act: ed most indiscreetly in receiving the Orleaniat Princes in state, but one short we tor the at: tempt to murder the Emperor. Iti ident that in marrying Prince Albert she has mo! ouiy waerted his whole family, but an endless e-r of German cousins to boot. The Coburg policy smantly 3) Voyert kyot the establishment of Anstrian desp: Europe, Giye gyen that ungentions’ viduel his due. A gloricus effect of the three weeks tory gow roment is to be found in the liberation of Watt from King Bouba's underground excavations. The whig partics quietly allowed two English prison- ers, a8 inoffensive and unobtrusive as the celebrated engineer and his companion, to lic there until one was driven mad, T posted you up in the “Italian Conference Hoax” a week before it was known here. The staff of the “Thunderer” are immensely indignant at it, and the proprietors of the Morning and Evening Star, through their able manager, Mr. J. Baxter Langley, have applied to a police magistrate and obtained a warrant apices the Irish-Italian, Signor O’ Boromeo. Talking of the Star reminds me that the turee-penny papers are getting on famously—the Dady Telegraph to-day announced that on and after Monday, March 29, it will permanently enlarge ita sheet to eight pages contuining 48 columns, the present size of the Standard, 4s well as of your widely circulated New York Henany. Pass, March 25, 1858. Effect of Pelissier’s Appointment on the Bourse— His Value asa Po''tical Instrument—His Milita ry Capacity—Probahie Results of his English Mission—Paris Under its Additional System of Police Restrictions—Impolicy of Orsini’s Erecu- tion—ZInstability of the English Alliance—-Pro- posed Amalgamation of the French Railway Lines— Operatic Novelty, §¢., §¢. The puissant Duc de Malakoff replaces M. de Per- signy at the aristocratic Court of St. James. When, under the auspices of the infallible Moniteur, the news fell on the car of the Bourse, the look of bewilderment which speculators exchanged was a mixture of the serio-comie. A gentleman of grect experience on ‘Change informa me that the in- telligence lay in the midst of the eager throng like a hissing bomb before explosion: every one seemed afraid to look it in the face, and cast it from among them ere its power of destruction burst forth, while every one seemed equally afraid to ran away or re- main where he was. At last some one ventured to give it a poke, and then made the notable discovery that it was only a fac-simile of what might be manu- factured into a terrible reality—that for the present it boded no harm—and s0 securities, which at first began to hang their heads like lilies in the san, locked up again. The Bouse, however, apart the appointment, in the present juncture of affairs has set every body conjecturing. There has been a disposition, of late, on the part of the Imperial Court, to make a great deal of the fresh created Duke of the second Empire. Both in the Crimea and since his return he hasbeen found to be a man remarkably free from crotcheta of his own, and possessed of an unscrupn- lousness in carrying out the plans of others which renders him invalnable as au instrument. There are times when governments like that of Frauce especially want such a man; and Napoleon, on fitting occasions, knows how to select and adequately reward them. St. Arnaud, a manu with whom, under other circumstances, he could have had no sympathy, was his instrament as Minister of War before the memorable coup d'état, and Peliesier, who served him so well in the Crimea, following his directions with a blind fidelity which secured all the glory to the French ana all the dis- grace to the English, is now the chosen servant of his appointment in the critical atate of affairs with England. Of diplomacy proper Pelissier is as igno- rant as the sword he wears, and therefore will be simple instrument in the hands of others. Of Eag- lish he does not know a word; and his manners are precisely what might be expected froma man utter- ly unused to any society but that of the camp, with a mind unadorned by any degree of cultivation, and with a temper susceptible but of one argument—that of brute force. Ido not mean to «ay that he is ex- cessively brutal and coarse in his behavior: on the contrary, he would be complaisant if he only knew how; bat of this knowledge he hasnone. He smirks, grimaces, and dances like a boar at a cabaret, and is grossly offensive, while innocently belioving himsel polite. He is a little thick set man, with no preten. sions to high intellect in his brow; but his dark, deep set eye, looking doubly dark when contrasted with his short, closely cut white hair, is fli of determina. tion. It is, besides, a capital eye for country. He will, in @ mont) after bis arrival, be perfect master of the power of England for defence; there will not be a weak point on her frontier or in her midst that the poorerrand boy of Rouen will not have read,mark- ed and learned, and thoronghly digested, Pelissier, ation, is rally an arithmetician: vith no acquaintance with the seience of engineer ing, he hax a practical roanner of discovering loop holes that on many orcasions took our best engi neers at Bebastopol by eurpriae. In the handling of large masses he is perfectly unrivalled, and he is known to have the very huinblest opinion of Eng: land's military art. “They are perfect children in the art of wa said recently to Count de Morny, when speaking of the Indian rebellion. “Individually brave braver than the French, for anght | know —they are babies in regard to combination. Give me one regiment of French and any day J will tarn their flank and out manwnyer a dozen British, command. ed by their ablest captains.” It is usval, on the appointment of an Ambassador, to consult the Minister of the country to which he is sent, os to whether there is anything in the cha- racter of the person objectionab) lord Cowley, of course, conld have nothing to sa; this instance. Pelissier had commande the Crimea, when the English and French fought side by side. Ugly reco! lections existed about that “Little Redan,” bat no- thing could be said anent it. Peliasier was the man whom the present dynasty had expecially delighted to honor as the foremost man of the second empire, and whom it had selected as the first of that series of aristocrats which the governinent ot England believed tobe so nece to the may! rale of mankind. ‘To say he was no diplomatist, and would simply be “a chiel amang us takin’ notes,” would never do: and therefore Lord Malmesbury, aa advised by his Ambassador, returned an answer that England would be delighted to welcome to her bosom the gallant neral who had won such immortal laurels at the jalakoff Tower Preparations are making at St. Clond for the re- ceptien of the Imperial Court for the sammer. The season here has heen a complete failure, and never were the complaints of trade so rife, First came the American money panic, which deprived the metro- polis of a var ire class of visiters who spent their money with lavish freedom, and whose orders were most important features ot the future. Then came the terrible aftentat of the Mth of January and all its concomitants. The Prussian — the early session of Parliament, and subsequent! the pasxport regulations, have kept the Mnglish almost entirely abseat; and the system of espionage, now 80 universal, is rendering the capital hatefal to the better classes of the French themselves. What change may take place when the Emperor takes up his abode at St. imposible to say; but at ery the discipline under General Kxpinasse and ix old comrade, M. Bottellier, the new Minister of Police, is |; ‘ificantof the danger in which the Emperor is still supposed to be. town lite- rally swarms with police. You cannot stand at the corner of a street and look out for an omnibus with- out being civilly told that “say are not permitted to doo. All along the arc of the Rue Rivoli po- lice are seen wandering at midday, by twos and twos, and that they may not offend the eye too ly, they walk outside the pillars. From the uilerics to the Bois de Boulogne it is one Jong vaat line of sentinels, many in uniform, but to as many out of it, who may be known the inquisitive peering glances they cast in every one’s face who * the rance of 4 foreigner. Tall, deaf people, sbout F of with an Englich aspect, are careful o takin, oat tary walks lest they be summarily captured for an Allsop. The following incident, which I had from the fi of an Knglish postillion belonging to the impertal stables, will show how great precautions are: — (in Tnesday last, on passing near the upper lake in the Rois, one of the leading horses fell; in a moment, as the carriage stopped, a perfect legion of men, dressed in various habits, poured out of the wood, till every tree seemed formed into a human be- ing, and surrounded the horses, The boy and peain borged them to keep back, and really to fear Gat ine misebief was inteaded, when sudden- ly some one Wiis el in his ear not to distarb Dimeeif, that ev rv one he aay Was 0 eworn sereant 0 the Em; e koked ap,and the epe ker ed bi nd dé-covered the anifora ¢ police. The manner of Orsini’a death, with a letter that tas been published, addressed by him to his dant ‘ers in 1854, under circumstances much akin toth °° of his late position, has had an effect. the reverse of desirable to the French government. [t is known that Pietri atthe cabinet counc! strongly adv commutation of his sentence in the’ interest of the Emperor. “Send him to Cayenne,” he said, “and ho one will cast a thought upon him. He will be re garded as a mere adventurer who has been let too- cheaply off. Execute him, and he will be a martyr, and partons finda dozen imitators.” But Pie‘ri’s sun was vet. The aétentat of the 14th January had revived his infivence, and the head of Orsiii fel!, The greatest care has been expended to prevent ‘he ap- pearance of Orsini’s letter in any of the journals. Tt has, however, been translated from the English newspapers and freely passed about. Itcannot be denied that there are every da} stronger symptoms of a cloud hanging over the alli- ance. Everything is now thrown into the hands of the military, who are known almost toa man to be inimical to that alliance. At present a certain con- clave, consisting of Morny, Persigny, Espinas-e, Houseman and Bottellier, with Malakoff in London, vules all matters, The Emperor seems to have aban- dened himself to them. What is to be the end? The views of Morny are no secret—and there is no man in the empire whose judgment the Emperor so much respects—that the English alliance has served its turn--that Russia is the proper friend of France, and that all idea of England and France holding the world at peace by their continual brotherbood is Utopian. “Can there,” said de weer Ue any real fellowship with governments so utterly at variance; where one is continually doing itself, “and stimulat- ing the other to do, that which the one aystematical- ly forbids? If you will be all in all to England, open your ports and marshal your forces, and see where we shall all be ina fortnight. It resolves itself to this—you must alter year system or your alliance. ‘The last is far easier than the first.” “M. de Morny was very busy about the publica- tion of the famous “ pamphilet;” and was, as 1 have been informed on good authority, the last party who revised it before the Emperor gave it his final touch, It is by his advice that it has been publicly hawked about at the corners of the streets for ten sous; and it was his prediction that before a fortnight had elapsed it would do more real harm to the alliance than the most furious war manifesto. Iam afraid there are Parad indications that his prescience was not at fault. A scheme is on foot for amalgamating all the rail- way lines of France. Three hundred millions of franes are levied annually from these public works. Railways, it isaffirmed, are often administered against the public interest, since companies are found fre- quently buying up competitions arising from diligen- ces, rivers, and canals, in order to monopolize the whole traffic into their own hands. Tbe general ex- poe would be materially diminished by the estab- ‘ishment of one direction; as, at the present time, the existing railways possess not fewer than 208 direc- tors, besides a corresponding number of high fune- tionaries, who might, withont injury to the public, be materially reduced under a betier system. The weather is like sammer. The watering of the streets goes on as in July. ‘The theatrical world bids defiance to the political. Let movarchs be assaulted, ministries overthrown, individral functionaries, however dignitied, dis- laced, the spectacle with all its nianifold agréments is rarely found at fault. Even the Emperor and Empress must need: soon repeat their visit to the Opera, first taking the precaution to have every house in the ueighborhood thoroughly ransacked for fellows that amuce themselves in drying fulmi- nating powder to the imminent peril of themselves and the whole neighborhood they inhabit. At the Grand Ope: Ig which is meant the French Opera, a new piece, h gorgeous scenery, has just come out, called the “ Magicienne,” the ‘success of which is mainly attributable to the beauty of the scenery. Bat the novelty is the transformation of the stage in the ballet into a_cbess board, while the corps de ballet, dressed as ‘kings, queens, bishops, koights and pawns, dance the moves. The Italian Opera has been enlivened by a charming thing called “ Don Desiderio,” from the pen of Prince Ponia- towski. For once all parties in Paris had a common object-—that of applanding a common friend—and it was pleasant to see Orleanist, legitimist, republican and Bonapartist, vying with each other in signs of good will towards one pad mutually loved) The piece itself is an elegant trifle, with some very pretty cavet duos and quartette. But without Ponis towshi ts author it may be questioned whether the succvss would have been as complete. Pause, March 25, The Projweted French Tvansatiantic Line—Nego- tiations for the Purchase of the Collins Steamers— Health of Judge Mason—Peissier’s Appointment to London Death of General Thomas, §¢., &¢. Captain Comstock, of the Baltic, is now in this city i» daily conference with the directors of the new Transatlantic Frensh Steam Compaay in rerard to the sale of the Collins steamers. The Frenchmen are desirous to boy, but want them too cheap. The captain stands out for their full value. I have heerd that Comstock’s experience and practi- cal judgment have made so strong an impression on these French directors, who are mostly speculators, that y have made him offers to come into their service, which he has declined for the present. He is very anxious for the recuseitation of the Collins line. The French directors have three years to or- ganize in, but they are still undecided whether to buy steamers in the United States or England to begin with at once, or whether to take their time and build in France. They are to give the captain a final answer on the 10th of April. Twas glad to find Judge Mason looking 40 well. His head is as clear asa bell, but his left arm is paralyzed. He seems to like Paris, and ! think is disposed to remain here. He is astaunch admirer of the Haran, and tells pleasant anecdotes about everybody. He is very popular here, and Louis Na- poleon sometime since, | heard, applied to the Pre sident through M. Sartiges at Washington, to pro- long his stay in Paris. Wm. B. Astor is here. Marshal Polissier, the hero of the Malakoff, is named ambassador to London. This is considered here as a demonstration. Napoleon IIL. cannot con- template war, bat John Bull had better look to his Martello towers in time. The Times keeps pitching into France, but there are signs that the commercial world don’t like it, and the Times will see the ne- cessity soon of drawing it milder. The French have a hearty prejudice against perfide Albion. 1 sce and hear this every day, and they go heart and hand with Napoleon in his present quasi hostile policy. M he could contrive to administer some humiliation to John Bull it would increase his popularity im- mensely. The alliance which Clarendon said was going regulate the universe, and save Cuba, is a thing of yesterday. General J. Addison Thomas, of New York, late Assistant Secretary of State at Washington, died here on Saturday bag Fed unexpectedly. 1 saw him two weeks ago, full of life and pleasure projects for the summer. He had aeharp attack a month since of influenza. About ten days ago it re- turned, then fever set in, and an attack of mutnps followed, which carried him of. He was an estima- ble man in all respects. He leaves a wife (for- merly Miss Lorillard, of your city) and three children, who remain for the present in Earope—it being the General's express desire that tne educa- tion of the latter should be finished here. His body goes home in the Arago. Napoleon on the London Times. {Translated for the New York Hxnaro from the Paris Moniteur, March 18 | In its issue of the Lith inst. the London Times falaely affirms that the French police is in the habit of penetrating into the privacy of domestic life, and of exoiting euspicions and fears in the domestic circle, thus disturbing the harmony and disarranging the relations of private life. To this misstatement the Times appends the remark that “it looks back with regret upon the time when it could not but help bestowing its admiration upop the conduct of the Emperor when he used to drive a pheton himself through the streets of Paris, whereas now he never stirs ont of hit palace without being accompanied by aquadrons of soldiers.” It is quite sufficient for the refutation of sach state- ments merely to publish and make them known. Never, at any former period was the French yo £0 little inquisitorial as it now is. If, indeed, it has — increased in the manifestation of seal since crime of January 14, there is no one who can —— of this except those who regret the failure of that crinsinal enterprise. As to what is said it the Emperor never riding out except in company with yr of soldiers, every- body here knows well that his y has made no change whatever in his former habits since the con- spiracy of January 14, and that he drives out every day afone and unattended by any escort. it is really enrprising he Times, which pow a sesaee the means of obtaining correct information on Box! Matters, should think it uecesary to entertaiy MORNING EDITION—TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1858. its readers with the publication of reports so utlerly faike and unfounded. Some foreign papers affect to be quite astonished at the demand made hy France to the neighboring xoverpments of the Continent, calling upon them to cause the removal of dangerous refugees from their frontiers. In making such a demand France has done noth- ing more than what she has a right to do, Bhe has only had recourre to that which is between nations a ieciprocal and international right. Nobody was astonished last year when Switzer- land made a demand upon the ors government, calling upon it to cane the Swiss refugees who were in favor of restoring Neufchatel to the King of Prussia, to be removed from the frontier to the inte- rior of France. Nor, again, was anybody snrprised when Spain called upon us to hav+ the Carlist refugees removed into the interior, on which occasion the Spanish Cor- tes returned thanks to the Emperor for having pre- vented a civil war by the measures he adopted to- wardathore refugees. It ix manifest, therefore, that, France has only pur- sued in what she has done a line of conduct found- ed upon a& itive principle of international law, wail has always been in force, in every age, among civilized nations. From the Paria Conatitatione!, of March 19. ‘The Monitcur has overthrown and refuted ina few Jain and simple words all the calumnies of the Lon- jon Times, This is a distinguished honor conferred on that journal, which it has not deserved, neither on account of its sincerity nor of its honesty. But in fact there are some kinds of calumnies and false assertions which st is impossible to pass by in silence, even when they proceed from a journal which is justly held in disrepute for the constant and syste matic party-coloring which disfigures all its state- ments. Berides, it is very proper that both France and all Europe should know what are the lyii means and methods by the aid of which certain im- dent writers are laboring to mislead public opinion hh England. We also had perused this article in the Times. But we took no notice of it, because we cannot be employed every day in giving answers to the lies pe ures of this English al, which is en- gaged in carrying on an unceasing warfare against our country, by virulent attacks and envenomed ar- ticles of every kind. Two points, however, bave parton struck usin reading this last libel of the Times against the government of the Empire, and against us asa pation. We may as well say a word or two on the subject. If there is anything in the world calculated to diegust a man of proper feeling, it is when he hears a thing roundly asserted as a itive fact, which a notorious — falsel , and which any one could at the very instant prove to be a fuschood. Now the Times evidently cuts loose from all the laws of common honesty (which for aught we know ought to be quite as binding upon journalists as upon private persons) when it asserts that the Emperor never goes out of Paris without being surrounded by a numerous and well armed escorts To refute this assertion there is no neceesity to appeal to the recollections of those persons who are in the habit of meeting the Emperor every day alone and unattended in the Bois de Boulogne or in the Champs Elyaées. Most of these persons no doubt have often wished that what the Times asserts was true, whep they have seen with what tranquil con- fidence and ease the Chief of the State confides in his own courage, in his own Inck, and in the rotection of the Most High. Whatever may the dioux intentions and purposes of the Times, that journal is most assuredly destitute of all excuse for its conduct in retailing such scandalous faisehoods. The 7imes has corres- pondents at Paris. Why, then, does it not call apon them for correct information on such matters which are familiarly known to everybody at Paris? But in saying thus much we forget that the Times has taken its part, and would be quite unhappy if it did not calumniate and tell lies, Another point ought to be noticed. The T'imes draws an imaginary picture of the conduct of the police in private drawing rooms and parties. Now, as here the question is merely about a fact which the commonest Paris lounger may prove to be false, we shall be less severe with the Timea as to this particolar. Besides, it would be very unjuet of ns to require that certain correspondents of the Times should be well posted up as to what happens in places where they never have # chance of putting their feet. Hence, therefore, as to these places the Times has only one chance, and that is to inveut, and accordingly it doce invent. All sueh tales as these enly deserve to be banished to the domain of romance audfiction, and theretore not a word more will we say about them, Excitement at Paducah, Ky. ARWEST OF A FUGITIVE UNDER THE &XTRADITION TREATY WITH PRUSS(A—“ PRUSSIA, OR ANTI-PAUS- SIA” ANOTHBR KOSTZA CASE. [Correspondence of the St Louis Republican. } | Papvean, April 6, 1858. Our ueually quiet city on Satarday last was thrown | into quite an excitement by the arrest of a Prussian subject, by the name of Edward Desling, under the | extradition Liye @ existing with that government and the United States, under a charge of forgery and fraud, It appears that Desling, under the as- sumed name of Leroy, had been sto ping at the St. Francis Hotel for several days. On Friday Madame leroy, a yor handsome and interesting lady, ar rived from Chicago, and lage her hasband at the St. Francis. Following in the train of the unena pecting lady were four individuals, one of whom had ept an eye upon her every movement sinee she had left Chicago. The names of the mysterious Boyer, a New York police officer; Davia, detective; Mulkke, an officer of the police from Proesia, and Mr. Lapau,a New York attorney, who | registered his name on the hotel books as Samuel Johnson. Immediately after their arrival an interview was bad with Mr. John W. Sanner, the City Marshal, to whore was shown a document emanating from his Excellency James Buchanan, President of the United States, emblazoned upon which was the broad seal of the Department of State, instructing all federal, and requesting all State, judicial and ministerial offi- | cers to arrest, or cause to be arrested, the aforesaid Edward Desling, and to examine into the charges of forgery and fraud said to have been committed by him at the city of pe in the Kingdom of Pras- sia, during the month of February, 1857. The Cir cenit and Criminal Jadge both being absent from the city, Marsbal Sauner, after consulting with the Mayor and Justice Smedley, concladed to arrest, at an early hour on Satarday, the accused, and boli him under surveillance until the arrival of one of the judges, when an examination of the charges against Des- bl; | The counsel for Leroy or Desling 0, could be detivered over to the proper representative of the Prussian goverument, to be sent back to the place where the crimes charged against him we raid to have been committed, to undergo a trial be- fore the authorities of that government under the extradition treaty, existing between that govern- ment and the United States. The opposite counsel claimed the right to examine the documentary testi mony before it could be read. The Court sustained them and then consented to heargthe reading of it. Imagine to yourself about a quarter of a ream of flat cap filled up with affidavits written in the Prussian or German language, each certified to before Judges and high officials, all emblazoned with seals, and each duplicated by a translation into the Englsh language, duly authenticated as correct as to per- sons and verbiage by the Pruasian Consul .General at the city of New York; the whole accompanied by a regal document, emanating from his Majesty Fre- derick William, King ot Prussia, instracting the courts and their officia epee pont his kingdom, to use Fs due vigilance in causing the arrest of said Deeling. As to the illegality of these affidavits, or at least a majority of them, when they shall be introduced before the Court when fhe case comes up for trial under the warrant, | have not the least doubt. Some of them are sels upon hearsay stavements, others upon direct and hearsay statements mixed up together, whilst those which are direct in proof of the guilt of the party charged with crime are not accompanied with the oral testimony of some wit- nesa from the place where the crimes were eaid to have been committed, whe could identify the ac- cused, and could prove the existence of the parties making the affidavit. Having taken no notes, ] can give from recollec- tion only the gist of both the direct and hearsay documentary testimony. Edward Desling, who is represented to be about 25 years of age, light built, small stature, extremely hear sighted and thin visaged, was emplayed by the banking house of J, He Stein as a clerk, at @ salary of two hundred and fifty thalers a year, at the City of Celogne, in the kingdom fof Prussia. During the month of February, 1867, it {4 stated that he eraged an en- graver to make a plate, a fac simile of the one used for [bills of axctiange by the house in which he was employed, three copies from which he filled up and signed with the name of the firm as follows :— One tor 5,000 thalers, one for 1,843 thalers, and another for 5,000 thalers—all of which he negotiated with different bankers in Cologne for gold. It also appears that Desling had a visiting card engraved representing himself as the Consul of her Majest; the Queen of Spain. and also the Consul of hi serene highness, the King of Portugal, Be eages | fraudulently” the two offices that rightfully been conferred upon the senior member of the house in which he was employed, the better to secure an opportunity to dispose of the fraudulent drafts he was then about to negotiate throughout Europe. Another clerk in the same house, having discovered Desling’s card in the window of the engraver, Des- ling became alarmed and tled to England, accompa- nied by “a dancing girl” named Felicitia Bernadino. ‘The forgeries having come to light, a police officer follows him, but arrived too late; he had left in the steamer for Halifax. The officer sails for New York, and upon hia arrival learns by telegraph that Des- ling and the Bernadino bad been at Montreal, under an assumed name, passing as man and wife. Being detained in New York in endeavoring to et a proper police officer to accompany him, he learns that the Bernadino was in that city, stopping at a German hotel. Accompanied by an officer he surprises the lady in her room, but Desling was non est. The Bernadino was about to fork over and tell all she knew about the affair, when a lawyer came to her rescue, and instructed her to answer no questions that might be asked of her. This ocew in the month of June, 1867, about four months after the for- iced were said to have been committed. The of- cer not being able to discover the whereabouts of Dealing, returned to Prussia. Recently, the Bernardino having taken to the stage again onder another name, and accompanied by Desling, onder the name of Leroy, were travelling through the country. The Cologne bankers, upon being made aware of it, sent Mulkke, an officer of the police, with a requisition from the King of Prus- via upon onr government for him, should he be ar rested. Upon the arrival of Mulkke and suite at Chicago Jast week, where the Berna: had an engagement, Desling again managed to elude his pursuers and | left for Paducah, Ky. The officers being satistied | that the bird was not fur distant from its mate, kept a constant watch upon ber movements, and when she started in the curs they were her moving shadows by day and by night, autil they traced her to her rendezvous. In giving i= the gist of the afidavita and the movements of the parties connected with this affair I had almost forgotten that I left the learned counsel arguing the writ of habeas corpus before Judge ‘Trimble at a quarter to 12 o'clock Saturday night. Upon a motion to adjourn the case until ja made by Mr. Lapau, the Court stated that he w va be compelled to attend his Court at Smithland, which commenced that day, and he could not possi- sit in the case again until Wednesday week. ponement; their client was illegally he without warrant of law, and — clai Court bis immediate discharge. His Honor then or- dered a warrant to be issued and the aceased com: mitted, to await an examination before some other Judge on the charges preferred against him, On Monday a number of our citizens signed a re uest to his Honor Judge Williams, Jadge of the irenit Court, and forwarded it to him at Mayfeld, requesting him to come up to the city and have the case tried before him. It is expected that he will comply with their request, and be bere by that time. If he does not Judge Trimble will again hear the case. As the day wears on the excitement amongst our citizens is still increasing. The question asked by each when two parties meet is, “ Are you Prussian or anti-Prussian?” The anti-Prussians say that Leroy is no forger—that he is a political refagee, who formerly belonged to a ag mp club, and ‘was compelled to fice from Prussia to save his neck from the block. They aver that the King of Prussia has offered $40,000 for bis arrest, and that the charge of forgery has been trumped up against him only to secure his arrest under the extradition treaty, kaow- ing that he could not be legally arrested in this country for a political offence committed in a foreign country. J understand that Leroy has filed his declaration of intentiog to become an American citizen. The Masquerade Balls. PVOGYSTIVE LETTER FROM JUSTICK WELOR TO IMPKR ling could be had, ander a warrant of arrest, to be granted by them. Atan =p hour Marshal Saaner was in attendance to take Desling into custody, bnt having been informed that during the night bis lady had given birth toan American citizen, and the Marshal being an intense American, he de- clined invading their private sanctuary, and quietly waited until Desing was entering the breakfast room, when he took him into custody, and conducted him té a private room of the hotel, accompanied by the parties who had come in pursuit of him. After a short conversation Desling requested a tete-atete with the Marshal, which was granted. As soon as the other parties retired he told Sauner that six hundred dollars was all the money he had on earth, and that he would give him five hundred and leave jon other ee with his _ ay Bg give jim an opportunity to escape. on his being in- formed that “he mistaken the metal he was dealing with,” he grew somewhat furions, and made a demonstration toward drawing a knife, but quick- ly abandoning all attemps at resistance he became a passive instrument again in the hands of his captors. It soon became noised about the city that some foreign body-snatchers from Anstria and [’rassia, as niste My the police of New York and Chicago, had arrested a —— from tyranny for some political offence, end intended to convey him away by the first passing steamer toward the |, thence to be transported some Prussian vessel to the land where a political offence is never forgiven; where patriotiem ix treason, and where the scaffold is considered an oasis to the groaning inmates of its thonsand dungeons. Judge Trimble happening to arrive on his way to Livingston court, a writ of ha- beas corpus was sued ont by the friends of Leroy or Desling, and he was forthwith ordered to be brought intocourt, Able counsel were employed to defend him, consisting of Messrs. Hon y King, A. P. Thompson, J. M. Bigger, L. D. Husbands and Judge Milliken. For the prosecution, Mr. Lapan, of New York, and L. F. Quigly. The counsel for Dealine contended that their client had been arrested without due form of hw, no aff davit having been made charging him with any crime, and being illegally detaimed in custody, they prayed for his immediate discharge by order of the Court. Ma Lapan was opposed to this ruling by the Court, t the arrival of Judge Trimble in this cite he tad filed an affidavit in chambers, on which to base a warrant, and he had in his possession there in court documentary tes- Sey certified to, which he would read to the Court with his permission, which, together with oral testimony he was ready to produce, wonld be sufficient for the iting of a warrant to hold the accused for e: tion on the charges referred Cony him, and if deemed sufficient, he expected the acensed, together with a copy the evidence taken in the case, would be forwarded tothe Department of State, so that he, Desling, SARIO ULLMAN. Powice Counr, Pinst Disraier, HaLts or Justin, } New You, April 10, 1858, § Mr. Brrxarp Uniaan—Sir: Infortaation has re- vealed to me that it is your intention to give, at the Academy of Music, a series of masquerade balls, to which the public are to be invited on paid tickets of admission, and it therefore becomes my duty, as a Magistrate and Jnstice ot the Peace of this ci inform you that euch assemb! like all unlawful sssemb a breach of the peace, liable to be sappre wblic authorities, Be aUse, as & DEW sojonrner, you may of it, aud it is therefore , for that the act by which public by the 1 acquaint you with this fact, not be aware me to inform you jnerades were de- cided unlawful has always received the approbation of every member of onr community who feels an interest’ in the morals and welfare of the city. As you announce that you have been one un der the protection of the laws, isa nataral preeomption that i would not know ingly me wilfully attempt to violate any of them in order to inerease an already pecu cuniary euceess. Experience has proved that pub- lic masquerades in large cities are chiefly frequented by vicious and depraved chatnoters of both sexes, and it is for this reason that the citizens of New York-—as liberal as they are in relation to all ques tions of pitblic amusements —have wierced #0 readily in their suppression. The sight of a '* face ts to a certain extent a gnarantee of his conduct, and a protection against his designs, and it is se- riously felt that the present is not a time to lend dis- scuiees to the vicious, and to afford new facilities for the tration of crime and escape of the guilty. Wan'these views | bave felt it in be m; uty, aa to notify yon of one of the magistrates of thix C4 the law and to acquaint you with the moral senti- ment of the community on the subject of the public masquerades, and | desire to say in conclusion that 1 hold it to be of the utmost importance to the sie iranetenaefia mf one city in the sy jon a somblages wien would be sare to grow out of the blic toleration of the masquerades, that they be ot received and countenanced at so respectable a house as the Academy. You will find the “ Act for sd ape holm ae ff in ay ane itive t city, %. Yours, mn Vawss Hl. West, Police Justice, Tae Trance or mie Poromemnrere Gret.—The vertiser throws cold water on the story of the keen sie girl ina tranee, avd says that a fow backete of «old water thrown on the patient would have soon to her senses, There ia nothing remarkable about case except the fuse, for the disease i# a very common one, known ae hysterical coma, That she has never been nervous before js abont as wonderfal ag that a person ghould have the itch for the first time. lo Ad. Academy of Music—Masard, The Musard concerts begun iaet night st the Academy of Music. Of course they commenced ‘n a rain sworn, The weathor somebow or other never will ascommodate teeif to circumstances, The Musard concerts are connect- ed in the mncs of every American who hes sojourned in Paris, with pleasact summer evenings, crowded Boule- ‘Varda, ices, strawoerries, booquets, Masardines and other Jusuriew of the geagon, They are of the sammer, summery. Opa het night, when the interminable ballet in the Rae Lepelletier wasa boro not to be eodared; when the dirty, badly ventitated theatres where loanpportably atifting, and when one was ennui with watehirg the same paozia walking backwards aod forwarda in froat of the cafés, the card of Musard, written in letters of fre in troat of the Hotel d’Oemond, was the moat cheering sight to the Hanewr, Thore he could have afranc’a worth of masic, smoke in the garden, mect every one be knew, look ®t these Parisian dames whose nonchalance and ight indifference tend themsetves 80 gracefully to the coquotry of tbe fan; those camea who Know how to vive w silk tho roundners of an ankle, and who will astonish tho world with their neat little boots, their prim head drennes, heir zephyr-)ike tresses those whom Balzic ved to cal tomnes, Dut who were afterwards called Musardines. Now, alas, by the departure cf Musard thoy hava deen, 8 Fiorentaro saya, ‘‘debaptised”’ all at once. What they will do for a new name we cannot pretend to say. Their lors, howover, is our gain. Wa bave Musard > With bis charming quadritl¢s, graceful waltzes and plea- sant overtures. Musard, who at forty, bas all the grace and claaticity of twenty Ove; Musard, who possesses that facility peculiar to the French artist of being in twenty cilferent places and positions at the same moment, and is studiously polite, graceful avd polisbed, without ever baving seemed to study or think about the matter at all. He is the Charles Mathews of the baton. M. Murard Is the Prince Regant as Murard pere was the king of the quadrille. He rerved under bis fathor until that morarch was obliged to lay down the sceptre, when the fon took itup. This was at london tm 1842 In 1848 he was made conductor of the opera bails. For the past two or three years his concerts bave been given at the Hote! D’Ormond tn the Rue Basse du Rempart, a peculiar place where one has to go down etaira to order to get up. ‘That is about the whole story of Musard, except a little bit of romance concerning a young lay called “Sassnnah the Pole,’ which young lady was, they say xe Coutts, the armirer of Mario, persevoring, constant, forlorn and un- appreciated. Musard haa not, asthe horsemen ray, “turned abair,” either on acconntof Susaanah or any one else, since ‘we saw bim at the Hotel d’ Osmond. He keoks like one of the ‘Princess Dovee,” stepped for @ moment out of the Jockey Club to conduct the orchestra, as a matter of amu ment. His manper is quite superior to that of his great imitator, with his expansi: smolling always of tho shop. Musard is calm, supreme an! cignified, like a genoral commanding an army; the other reminded one of @ militia captain training his re- craite under the windows of @ village tavern, The Academy bas come ovt tn an entire fresh suit of epring clothes to honor its new oocupent. There are new carpets, which the ladies say must bave cost “ever so much @ yard,” with sofas placed at convenient distances tn the lobbies and corridors. ‘The programme of last night’s concert, which will re- main unchanged during the week, was as foliows:— YROGRAMMP-—PART I, 1. Overture (William Tol!) ...........4006 eve Rogeini : oes Crcheuire. 2. Lo Cont. Suisse (Quadrille) with solos... Mosard lane promo Eben, Donizetti, ated Orchestra, 3. Alr of the Page (Tho Huguenows) .....,....Moyerbeer Madame D’Angri. 4. The Exprees Railroad galop, arranged by.......Musard Orchestra. This galop deseribes— 1. The gathering of the passengers at the depot, and the usual burry apd confusion 09 that ocea-ton, 2. The condvetor’s whistle and locomotive bell. 8. The departure «af the train; the locomotive yavaing through the streets, “arta quick'y into the open country —bot unc forious—gain ng sire: gth with ite acuvi ty, it Durries onward w stant goal, side station is parsed. ouebes the tu ‘ne locomotive siackens ite speed It paaees through and traverses once more the epen conntry, until the station uppeare In the dim disinuce. The engineer gives the rig- nal; the brakemen tage their places, and the tran caa- ously approaches the depot. fue last throbe of the locomotive ax it rane ato the machine shop. Blowing off steam. The end of the journey. 6. Celestine (I'o!ka Rona) for cornet) Monsieur Legendre, yo cept during the war in the Crimea, ancora! Zonaves played tbe well known vaudeville Rerthe,” io tbe middle o? which they were ¢ to storm the Korniici, Afer having cov selver #iLD glory 1D galing Porseagen of he bastion, a Fecons lieutenant propose: to fiowh the interrapted pray, and if was brought to an end amit the cheers of the Freneb camp ‘The liret four movements of les Zonavee consist of the ty Daud would be likely to play, and the with the be y beard In a mow of preparation js taken up on all sides, Battalion after battalion repiies to the summons and the treoos fail in. The drums apd clarion convey the idca of aseembiing multitudes, and the march which follows conducts the mind to the contemplation of ® martial acbievement. As troop after Lroop aud battahon alter battalion disappear, the music becomes more sub- dued; the French steal stently through their trencher, and after @ murderous strugg.e succeed im hoisting the tri-oo'or on the Kornileif bastion. Then the Zoaaves, with reckless dering and that elasticity of temper for which remarkable, return tw the camp and foiwh their pied bal Military Polka—M. r 1, Overture (Ira Diavolo)..... Orebr stra 2. Ocean Breeze (Valtz «ith corcnes solo) vrchessra. 3. Fantasia (Eisir GAM OFO) Ls cess cs seeeee Sigisinond Thalhorg. 4. The Cattle show (comic qnatrilia) .......e0e6 Booufs of moutors (heel and mation.) Orcbestra. Tho quadrille, which is @ simp'e ¢ « was compowed by the French (Crystal I’slace in 1856, and played for the firet time at the dinarr givem by the French government to the succeseful exhibitors. ‘The flocks and heres aa they deseend the are gathered to. (ther by the shepherd. The bell wethers are placed in front and lead the a to the city show. The baaing of the lambe, the lowing of the cows, the roaring of the bul, are imitated in the orchestra with the regular instruments. 6. The Rataplan............. Madame |) 6. Variations (ophiclelde)..... . .. Movsieur Moreau. ‘The musicians ore arranged with military precision— the light troops, violine, flates, Ac , in front; the heavy artiliery of contre base!, drums, horns, trompeta acd eer- tain other mysterious contrivances for kicking ap & row when {tie wanted, being either in the rear or dis played to the right ana left of the centre. The disposi tion of the reats in the auditorium has not been changed. ‘The concert was altogether a great triumph, acd Mo sard bae more than verified his Raropean reputation. The Audience was, wo believe, agreeably disappointed, » re freshing searstion which one experiences only rom occasionaliy. The opening overture was execute! * «> that precision which always distinguishes the orchestra of Muserd, wherever be may be. The pieces de ririvance of the programme, the Zouave and the Cattle Show quadrilies, and the Railway Galop, are described in the ‘amme, but po one can give an ideson paper of the Cite ony ba whieh the effects are worked up, and at the fame time the motive of the music and the laws of har- mory remain unshaken. The gem of the concert was the Yooare quadrilio The grandest of national eire—the Mar. roillaiee—ie admirably worked in at the finale. Roenf & Morton qandriiie is foil of fan of ‘the pastoral order, and gives an agreeable change t> the 1 The whole concert is_ sharp, epirited, virenst, aad in rat Ued off without any tedious waits. Other conductors and managers might take a lesson of Musard in this a, Aa for Musardé himself, be is thoroughty im! with an artistic feeling, and his com straight to the na a at We in every sense o term. It is popu ar, and Have saul that we have ail gil The conductor plauded throughout the concert, and received evidences of arenuine triumph. His soloists, (cornet) and (opbicleide), are both excellent ar- tiers, and were much app'auded. ‘The remaining attractions of the concert are ‘60 well known to the public to need more than mere ment sn. Vir. Thalberg waa ae wae y received and pinyed his de- Nelour fan/acia ae charmingly ar ever. Madame a’ “4 come out very strong in point of costume, and eo two eonge with even more than usual spirit, She folly deverves tio high place she holds im the opinion of the public, Altorether the ¥aeard coccerts have been tetat o igiihoretber tne Weert cece and wit Bonk ou fee wor con ropnar sor tosy a great deal ? BBs