The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1858, Page 6

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Prropean Express Co., 61 King William st. ‘Am -Duropean Ex rews Co (8 Ptace de i dourse Onapel street. } Pars. Livenroor.. am. European Expeoss Co. 9 R. Stuart, 10 Recharge sirest, Fast. Havesx.....Am Burcpeac Expreas 0o., 21 Rue Corneitie, | The contents of the European edition of the [snaip wil) comoiste the pees received by mail and telegraph at the cffico during the previous week, and up to the hour of publics. Tho Nows. Beth houses of Congress had up the Kansas ques tion agsia yesterday. The Senate agreed to take up the report of tbe Conference Committee toxlay. The House rejected the motion to postpone the conside- ration of the report till the second Monday in May by a vote of 100 to 104, and agreed to make the subject the special order for to-morrow. As it is understood that all the administration Senators » in favor of the report, and as the defeat of the motion to post | pone is regarded 4s indicative of the porition of par- ties in the House, a speedy settlement of the Kansas trouble, by the adoption of the scheme presented by Mr. Boglish, may be anticipated. The Senate also discussed the Paragnay reeola- | tanical church militant anti-slavery peoplo it NEW YO a | was originated by some of the parties who are op- Preed to the locating of the Quarantine there, and the circumstances go strongly to favor this opinion. So quietly was the establishment consumed, how- | ever, that even the people who reside close vy the | Quarantine grounds knew, or seemed to know, no | mere concerning the matter than that the fact had | occurred. | George B. Hamilton was arrested yesterday by Deputy Marshal De Angelis, and held to answer a charge of unlawfully obtaining letters from the Post Office at Chicago. Capt. Smith, of the brig Jonathan Hathaway, which arrtved at Wilmington, N. C., on the 23d inst. from Cardenas, reports that the schooner Cortes, of New York, was seized on Sunday night, 18th inst., by the English war steamer Forward, on suspicion of being a slaver. They were lying at anchor under Stone Key Light, entrance to Cardenas, on Monday evening, 19th inst., as the John Hathaway came out. ‘The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of about 1,400 bales, on the basis of 12%c. for middling up. lands. Despatches recetved from the South speak of in- Jury from frost in the capper part of Alabama, with fears that it bad aleo been felt in other districts. Some days, bowever, must elapse befere the statement can be veri- fied. It ig possible that in the highlands of the cotton regien there may have been frost to some exteat, but whether of an intensity to do muoh if aay barm, remains to be determined. These reports, however, combined with the ficcds and cool wet weather of April, have tended, more or jess, to strengthen the market Should this year's cro> by apy contingency fall below 3,000,000 bales, and that coming forward pot exceed that amount, we shall bave three years cf short crops, or crops below the ave rage of several years previously. Assuming these resulta to be realized, the figures wilt stand as follows;— Crop of cotton 1856-57. rep of cotton 1857-58. Crop of cotton 1858-60, The average yiold for two or three years pro viowly was above 3,060,000 bales. Owing to the advarce in freighte flour closed dull yes. terday, with little or nothing doing for export, while the demand from the local and eastern trade was fair, without change in prices. Wheat was held with more frm which checked sales, which were limited. | Owing to the improvement in freights corm was choaper, and sales of sound white mado at 730, a 740 , and of yel tow at T4c. a 7c. Rye sold af 680. Pork was Grmer, with lees Coing for forward deltvery; the sales ombraced mss, On the spot, at $10 a $1025, and prime at $15 51. aud ticices. Sugars were steady, with sales of 760 nogs- boade, mostly common and refining goods, at rates given elsewhere. Coftee was @rm, with modorate salos, inciu ding Rio, at 10c. a 11e, Freights to Foglish ports wore botier Flour to Liverpool was teken at Is. 44d. a ls. 6d.; corp, in bulk, at 43d. for delivery ahead, afterwards Sd, was generally demanded, and 6d: in bags. To Glas. gow corn, in ship's bags, was engaged at 61d, and tierce beef at Sa. The Crittenden Kansas Bill— Beginning ct the Break An.ong the Anti-Slavery Rank acd File, We trazefer to our columns this morning a remarkable sad omivous pronunciamiento from the New York Independent, on “ The Fecompton Consti tution for the Slave and iis Increase,” to which we would invite the special attention of all tho aati- slavery advocates in Congress of the C#ittenden amendment. The artiole in question Is from the trencheat steel pen of the Rev. Goorge B: Ohcever, a famous man of war for smiting “the slave. o- gercby” hip and thigh, aad for pierciag all Northern doughfaces between the joints of their barnees. Tho paper from which tho said article is extracted is a weekly jouraal, largely devoted to the anti-slavery cause, and among our I'nri- is exceedingly popular, from the terrible style in which it cuts and siaches into “the slave power.” In fact, for tic last two or thzee years the Independent, a» ao metropolitan enti slavery organ, and as a general newspaper, has tion. Mr. Mallory defended the course of the Para- guayan suthorities, while Mr. Mason urged the ne cessity of adopting prompt and efficient measures to obtain reparation for the outrages committed against the United States. Inthe House Mr. Quitman ask- ed leave, which was refused, to prosent a joint reso lution having reference to the admission of new States into the Union. In order to puta stop to the dangerous combinations of partizan politicians, Mr. Quitman proposes that hereafter new States shall not be admitted until they possess sufficient population to entitle them to a represcatative in until Congress has sathorized the people the Territory desiring admis sion to bold a convention to form a constitu- tion. The House took up the Deficiency appro- | pristion Dil, and disagreed to the Senate's amend. Congress, nor of ments giving $4,000 to the House reporters of the | (Hobe, avd for the settlement of the accounts of the late Clerk of the House. The ir man of the Committee of Ways and Means ed 8 proposition that evening sessions be held daring the present week, for debato only, but uo action was taken. The Evropean mails of the steamship Canada | reacbed this city from Boston yesterday morning. | Our ample ff | nished on the 24th inst., « e of the news, but the lett and | Paris correspondents, and the extracts from our files | given this morning, will be found interesting. We | bave a more preciso account o the captare of Luck now by the Brits 4 the retreat of the rebels | from y pubtiched. Dr. | had been | y Simon Bern put on trial jon in Lon don, charged wi fore th is to tae of the Freach. Justice Camphel the plot me " did, must be con formity with his answerable a4 ac Grand Jory fone? four true bille, two of which er a & principal with the ma charged the der of persons d Nicholas Batti and 1 Rigueor. The other charged him with being ana cowry before the fact to the commision of the game murders sf Neither the steamship Kangaroo, from Liverpool nor the Moses Taylor, from Aspinwall, eth now fully due at this port, bad teen signallzed ap toa date hour last night The Board of Aldermen last evening received @ communication from the Mayor respecting the ne comity of appointing a police justice to attend to the business of his department, and saggerting the name of Judge Welch. A resolution to that effect was adopted. An ordinance for the Letter regu! f the Fire Department wae prowonted aad orde w be printed. The Board of Conncilmen were tn soasion Inst evening and received a nomber of rontin Papers, but none of them possessed the slightest in terest. A petition of a large number of property holders, have the Righth avenue paved with Bel gian pavement to Forty.second street, was weferred to its appropriate tee. The Board concurred with the Aldermen \n notifying the several railroad companies to put Us ir roads in repeir withia twenty days, and that )be given to the Crotom Aque: @uct Board to carry the reolattn wot ‘The Board of Enginoers and Poremon of the Fire Department held a meeting last evening and ro solved to bold an election on Friday next to fill the office of assistant engincer, nade vacant by the re rignation of Noah L. Farnham. Wm. Hackett, R. A. Moore and T. A. Keese, roapectively foremen of en, ¢ companies Nos. 20,42 and 41, were put in fon / ation for the office, | slavery or BO been steadily supplanting that rotten and lobby and crazy crotobets of all the fanatics and loose lunatics of the North, has been cut dewn to | about ope-haif its maximuar circulation of a | year or two ago. | The Jndependent, therefore, although not « | party organ in soy party senec, may now be considered as having a voice smong the élite of the anti-slavery factions of the North, which can no longer be disregarded by our anti-slavery politicians. It is because of euch regular con | tributors as the Rev. Heary Ward Beecher, the Rey. George B. Cheever, and others of that | clase, that the journal in question has risen to its present commanding position among our | readiag, thinking and conscientious anti-slavery circles. Hence the opinions of such o paper, even In reference to party polities, cannot be | dvapiced ; an@ hence, at this particular crisis the views of the Independent, as \aid down by Dr. | Cheever upon the Crittenden Kansas bill, are especialy entitled to the thoughtful stady of all keters of the Crittenden. Doag- A few of the «trong expressions of Dr. Cheever’s manifesto on this subject wild serve | to show that the conscientious Northern aati- tlavery rank and file are not prepared to swal- low the debasing stultifications of the black re- publican leaders of Congress. The Crittenden bill | is denounced because it utterly ignores ‘the pomed to be enslaved in this question of very. “The poor cresture to voor miserable chattels of this nty, comprehended in the right of the persons pr in Kanras’ a voic sove claw right to be respected.” popular damning _ have no ,; nounced their rights,” and as reducing the popular sovereignty of the free States to the “ mere pri This is de- vilege of determining for themselves whether | they will have slavery or not.” “ The central | iniquity,” the “ most detestable iniquity,”’ that atrocious article and element of slavery,” that “Hebolical article of cruelty and injustice,” “enforced by villany and violence,” is the Le compton declaration, made in the “ most hea- ven defying a:d infamous terms” of “ the right | of making slaves of human beings without their own consent ;” and tho crowning infamy of the Crittenden amendment is the adoption of thix “atrocious” doctrine of the inviolubie right “ of any owner of slave to sach slave and its in- orcas.” This looks Ifke mischief tles of hot tn eult, and bellion against Tt hagall the qual f and a sense of In omivows of a fierce re the black republican sup porters and apologiets of the Crittenden bik With such eymptoms of revolt and revolation so early in the day, we should hardly be surprised if within a few months the stultified black republican leaders of Congress were to find thomeclver and their party as com pletely demoralized and broken to picoes as the dt jointed fragments of the Northera democracy. It wae the untorupulous and unprincipled hos tility of Giddings, Grow and Company to Mr Rochanan’s administration thet pushed them to the desperate trick of swallowing the “inf | mous’ Lecompton slave State constitution for ' KK BARKALD, ia, however, pretty broadly forosrodowed in the ant+rlavery manifesto under coundaration, The Crittendeu-Montgomery vill has been comridered a smart thing by the mougret coati- ticn of trading demagogues and political Jo xs pars the judgment of the conscientious anti- elavery moses of the North, and at this point the trick will utterly fail. As the traveller who blew bot and cold with the same breath was ex- pelled from the cave of the satyr, so will these juggling black republican politiciaus of Con- grees fall sbort of their estimates among their consistent anti-slavery partizans of the Nucth This manifesto of Dr. Cheever is but the open- ing of the ball The Correspendence with tae Betush Govern- ment on the Slave Trade. The reader will find eleewhero » despatch from Seoretary Case to Lord Napier ia reply to several letters from that ambassador on the subject of the slave trade; also an extract from « letter from the Hon. Jobm ¥. Mason, United States Minister at Paris, to the State Dupart- ment here, and an article from the London Mercantile Gazette, referring to the eame sabjact. It seems that, some time sinee, the govern. went of which Lord Palmerston was the head had £o little to occupy its attention, either ia (odia, China or Kurope, that it devoted some ime and consumed some stationery in appest- ing to the government of the United States to carry out with more vigor the treaty tor the suppression of the slave trade on the coest of Africa. What the precise pretensions’ of the English politicans were, we aro left to con- jecture, as the despatches from Lord Napier to SUNDSDAY, revert enovgh, Tt is equally nateral that Fra.ve should revive the sfeve trade, as she is pow d. bg, under the pame ef the apprentice tyttem ; or the, too, has rich Weel Ladia telaads which sre eeproductive for want of tabor We coveerned in it at Wasbington; bat it has yot to | Fy that no om can feel surprise at either of there two naticas resurcitating the stave trade, however immo: o¥ it may be, and however coa- trary to the principles wh ef have ever formed the bade of our legislation ; for necessity, as we al know, bas no Jaw, and the wretched condi- tion of the Britich and Precen Weet Fodia isiands | may weil ett for some violent remedy. Bat for owe of there natione—Eogland— which is carsywng on openly one regular slave trade under & faigned name, and organizing an- other te be carriad on hereafter in Hindostan, torepreach us wifi perticipation in the clave tiade on the Coset of Africa, from which we do not receive a single negro, and whence not a negro is sent out ina slave ship that some Eng- lieb bendheléer is sett. benefitted thereby ; for Fugiard, the author, sad we may say the largest proscutor of the slave trade in the world, to teach us Tecsone on the peint is really the most remarkable outburst of Pecksniffllan impudence that we have ever beard. \Iudeed there is no- thing in Pecksniff equal to Ly in American [nremmerenos mv Cuta.—We per- ceive that the Chinese correspondence of some of the Loudon’ papers states fiat the Wuited States Minister in that part af the world: is about to depart from the attitads) of neutrality which he bas bttherte held, and to share, wit: the French, Ruxian and English plenipotea- tuarics, the boner‘and: risk of » bastile expedi- tion against Northern China. It ih added, in Mr. Case have not yet been published; but it is safe to infer from the reply, that the Kaglish urged us, in the first place, to increase our squadron on tho coast of Africa, and, next, to enter into some new stipulations with a view to corr: boration of this story, that Mr. Reed has rent Lome for more shiprof war and Mist one at least is about to Be-despatohed to rein force his squadron All this, as the published inatruc\lons of ACW 27, i698 —-TRIPLE SHEET. the old French voblesee, Although we oxnuot reasonebly objrod to the douxhters of our ail. counts and marquises, We nay yet toxtance the fact as en evidence of the fao'lity wih which short residence abroad. It is diffloult for us ber ‘0 anderstand bew at American girl oan be content to sacrifice the independence of her Fepublican condition to the empty honors and &4ual slavery, of despotic instivwtiona There lionaires beetowing their wealth upon for-ign INTERES TING Avericans fal! into European idvas atter a! sap THE LATEST NEWS. ~~ FROM THE GaTIONAL CAPITAL, ne Our Special W: 4 BANCAS BSPOKT—DBeBaT OF sad vce —PLOCPKOT OF 4 SPSPPY SETTLAMGAT OF TES QUESTION. -WHaT @t00GB N. RaNDEKS W Aleut THs oe OF COlLNCTUR sOnHSS— TER PATADT PXTKNSIONIS®S FLODKKD—THE rae SULWER TEBATY, BTC, ag WasuinGson April 26, LSet ‘The pazecge of the resolution Ging the consideration’ of inno contrcllivg Indies, however, io matters of | te Covicfénce Committos’s reportow toe atmission of taste, and we must therefore resign ourselves to | Kevsus er Wednestay cext tr a titumps over the farden* eee our bard- earned republican wealth used to prop up tho pride of impoverished aris- tcrata There is one thing, however, thet we fute, and if {y now confidently believed shat the question’ Will be de fuRtvery sotued cm that day By the accep.asce of the report. 4 rumor was provalent on Saturday Mat tho Desg'asites cannot resign curselves te, and that is to gee | were inclined to regard the report faverebly, This was our young men imitating the vices and pleng- | *t “fost probably t try and frighten Scultier mombers ‘ug tuto the low associations of the fast youtix of the Eoropesa capitala. Midnight orgies aed ecoffies about loose women, followed by duels in: which cherges of unfair desting are openly made, are not exactly the means by whioh the Americas reputation is to be maintained abroad. If our traveling countrymen are desirous to enforce respect for republican institutions, they will chow, by the propriety of their demeanor and strict deference to public opinion, that they exercise an invariable check over thelr actious. Proepect of Trouble In Rasta, Our latest advices from Russia are to the ef- prospect of a coltision between the Emperor and the nobility, growing out of the emaucipa- tion of the eerfs. Several great propricters of Isndcd estates are said to have fled tur safety to st Petersburg, doubtless fearing some out- borst on the part of that olass which Alerander has just quickeped to political life. To understand this question it must beborne feot that tho greatest consternatioe prevails | throughout the emplro in cousequouce of the | from ite suppert, af @ caucus was bel# last night of Douglas men and Sowh Americans, whea 1 was corelved | to Gght for & postponement ef the qacation ti! the: 2ce0@ Monday in May, with thio ultimate view of léav.ug the @otj-ot unacted upon tals session It te regarded as somewhat singular that Gom-Qattmaam minould object to the Conforonce Kansac bill as ue beta,” guifeiently Southern, whee it is acquieced im by every Southern Senator and noarty every soutaorn montter,, ‘and {t is remembered that Qaitman himsclf is a Nestoerw: man oy birth. Revert J. Walker, Douglas, Humphrey Marshall, saa) others, were busy concosting plans 2 George N. Sandee rovmtill @ late hour last might, Sanders probaly feds & mere prottable lobrying for Cot. Colt, Russell tife’ Utah contractor, aed the Opposition, tham attending his~ office in New York. A large aclegation of New York city politiciass are arnin bere, qaarreiling over the Custom House, aad mak ing & Cond aet at Collector Scacil, who is alse hero, Chey point to the recent defeat of the ticket wich Schoil’s name at Tommesy a9 proof that he deserves to be inoontieootig” garrored. I net probable anythiog will be done tll the Kaneas qucstion is disposed of. Moeatine, elt rumors as to tho Prostcent’s baving intimated kis intentice ef re moving ScbeH’are gratuitous, Tho Senate Patent Committee had up thts mornteg for oonsiseration the Heywood lodia rubber appticrtiew.for renewal of patent; elso the Chaffee eppication Rw the more thorough suppression of the trade; that they complained of the fitting out of slavers in our Nortkern porte, and that they disliked the eternal “representations” to which their frequent ‘‘visite”’ of American vessels sub- jeoted them. They appear to have been started on the scent of tho African slave trade by the publication in this journal of the statistics of the building of vessels-for that trade, and to have mado up their mind that it was timo for them to interfere. Mr: Reed and tho letter from Genenil Case to Lord Napier, given elsewhere, shew, ia mere ‘idle verbiage, without any adequate foondation. Mr. Reed’ cam: have mad no agreement to participate in any hostile move ments against China, for his instructions ox- presaly restricted his - co-operation with the maritime powers of Europe to-the contingemcy ot peacefal negotiations with the Chinese. Bho Pre-id-nt bimself would» have had no right te anthorizo Mr. Reed to make war upon tlie of the slave aud its iacrense, | as “a wanton aod eternal sacrifice of | On the night between Sunday and Monday the | Kansea, with the fitmey covering of “a condition for Qnarantine batldings at Seguine’s Polot were | preeedent;” but the “condition subsequent” toMy destruyed by fine. It is believed tat two fire | was overiooked hy these desperate tricksters. It was such pretensions sa these which drew from Mr. Case the galling reply which we pub- lish elsewhere. It will prove as complete & set- tler for Lerd Clarendon and his friends as the famous despatches of Mr. Maroy on the Entist- ment question, Mr. Cass first explodes the bubble of an Afri- can Protective Squadron. So long as the pre- sent treaty is in force, the United States, he says, will porform their. stipulated share: but “the benefit of the squedron has borne ne pro- portion to the expenditure of life and treasure it bas cost.” To stop theslave trade, you must not lie low along the fatal coast of Arica, where it is so easy for the slavers to foil the vessels of war: you must attack it in Ouba, which is the only market for slaves, and where, alone, the trade can bo crushed out, Tho argu- ment applies with crushing force to Great Bri- tuin, whose interest in the productivences of Cube is believed to prove & serious obstacle in the way of her insisting ou the faithful fulfl- ment by the Cubans of the treaty agaimat tho slave trade. Next, Mr. Cees grapples with the much vexed question of the right of search. The -United States, he says, have never ewerved from their | original position on this point. They regard the “visit” or “search” of their vessels by a foreign man of war a¢ an outrage. Such outrages, committed by Britich men of war on American ships, have been so greatly multiplied since the treaty for the suppression of the alave trade went into force and effect, that the Ameri- ean fair trade with the coast of Africa haa almost been destroyed. And though no direot issue has ever been made by the United States with Great Britain in con- sequence of these outrages, nevertheless the | opinion of the government and people of the United States is as decidedly opposed to the pretended right of search as over, and if it be persevered ia by England, some day gravo | | trouble will grow out of it. | Aw to the ships that Lord Clarendon saw | mentloued in the Herat» as having been fitted out to be elavers, Mr. Case very naturally ro | plies that we are a shipbuilding nation, given to build good and fast ships for all the world; and that thus thé slavers, who aro mosily Spanieh and Portuguese, generally bay. their | ships bere, But to make us reeponsible for the | condact of there ships after they have boon sold | to foreigners, is of course absurd. Mr. Cass finally concludes with dey part of the resident, to take rores, in concert with England, for t! governed concern the New York Weekly 7i- | buna, until the latter, the organ of all tho Isms | ining, on now men suppres th Frespondence goes to Europe, even the English themeclves ined to ery out agaist the intolera ble imper © and meddiccome temper of their late government. It must have been at the very moment that Great Britai in eubdae and regovern the her desperate struggle to been ot thia very moment that us upon the suppression of the African slave trade. fled Lord Clarendon that the African squadrons are a farce, and do no good; that the slave trade i» carried on by Spaniards and Portu- gnese, not by Americans; that Cuba, where trestice make England all powerful, is the only ploce where the slavo trade can be stopped. keep a running sore alive between the United States and Great Britain that he does not oven take the troable to make the least Inquiry as to at the United States, with ## much foundation and reagon as good taste and consistency. There is no fear that the African slave trade wiil be revived by the citizens of the United States They have no tropical regions lying fallow for want of labor—aod that noceesarily African labor--to develope them. Thanks to their common sense, they were not led by Exeter Moll theories Into tbrowIng away the labor which former generations had provided for them. But the cae is very different with those nations which bave tropical possessions and which bave never had or have lost the labor which ie eseentlal for their cultura, That Groat Britein should rovive the slave trade, under the sweetly eourding name of the coolle system, in order to work the splcndid--Lat now deserted plantations of tho Britieh West India islands, i | well as Pierri and Orsini, for the attempt of the | of this little formality, the unwary travoller is was ro | jolciog at the uneqalvocal testimony she ro- | ccired of the sympathy of the United States | The least informetion would have satis. | that | ever detected by means of it, while it has pat Yet so anxlous was this English politiciaa to | the fects, but snarls away, in letter after letter, | Chincee; for the constitution expressly reservus the war making power toCongrees, Mr. Reedfs instructions therefore simply directed him to take part in every peaceful endeavor that was made, no maiter by whom, to obtain the eatry of the Chincse rivers and a. complete relaxa- tion of the present commercial restrictions of the Chinese laws; but on no account to mix him- eelf up in the quarrel pending between the Chinese and certain Huropean nations. Mr. Reed is-too experienced a lawyer aad too judi- cious aman to have expressed an opinion, how- ever lightly, which could justify the assertion that, inthe face of these instructions, he was about te take part in any hostile movement. There is no reason to believe that there will be any serious fighting in the North, at least until the allies approach Pekin, should they attempt to do so. Neither the bombardment nor the oceupation of Canton seem to have created the least stir at Shenghae. The Chinese empire is so vast, and the. means of internal comrauaication so Inadequate, that it is really no exaggeration to suppose that the Emperor will never hesr of the loss of Canton until the allies tell him of it. It would not be surprising if the embeseadors of the various nations now represent- ed in the Chineso seas should find the Emperor wholly unaware not only of the recent affray at Canton, but likewise of the treaty of 1846, whieh, aa das been shown, was never seat to Pekin ; and if, on calmly representing their moderate desires and the intention at least of some of them to carry matters to extremities if they were denied, the diplomats, met with a specdy aad satisfactory reply. It is probably in this hope that Mr. Reed accompanies the expedition to the North. Tre Cusxars = Tm Passrort Systew.—h seems that all the world has got to suffer, ca Rue Le pelletier. The new regulations respectiag. passports now require every American visiting France from Bngland to obtain a passport from tho United States Minister in London, and to have th's vieé by the French Consul. Jn default liable to be thrast into prison on arrival in Franco, and to be detained there until he can got some person of influence to identify and re- spond for him Practically, the only effect of thi+ new ar- rangement will bo to lay a small tax, of some fifty ceats, we presume, upon every travr Her en tering France. This might be borno without much demur. But no one who has travelled in | cowatries where the passport system was in full rigor can doubt but that this new scheme will be the cause of much vexations annoyance to travellers. Discrepancies will be discovered hy over zealous gensd’armes between # man’s natural countenance and the eigndenwat inscribed on his passport. No one will dare to shave, for fear of not corresponding with that pen and ink portrait, and being consequently arrested a# an assaseln in embryo. Persous of the most harmless charac hundred and fifty millions | ter will be kept in constant hot water by the of slaves sho bat ta India—It must have | perpetual reference to their certificate of polltt- Lord | cal inoffeneireness, Clarendon travelled out of his way to lecture | The argument against the pawport sys. tem—a completely unanswerable ono—is. no rascal or political offender was hundreds of honest people to great unnecemary inconvenience. Oriminals flying from justioe, political conspirators coming to asmesinate the Emperor, have always had as many and 94 por- fect paeeports as they wanted; the only people whom the want of a passport has annoyed have been quict old gentlemen who contrived to lowe theirs in the Alps, artiste who left theirs at | hotels, and ignorant simpletons who never knew the importance of having theirs properly | oid. The countries where the passport ayetem lis im fall force are those where political con- spiracies are constantly ocourriag; in countries where no paseports are used, conspirators are unknown. After » while we presume that Napoleon will grow tired of these precautions, and that we may go to Franco again as easily aa before. Avorucas Freaxs 1 Tir Frexon Merrnoro- Lit. Our Paris correspondence bears evidence to the cocentric activity of our travelled coun- trymen. The fow that are at present remaining in that city are, it appears, determined to ren- dor themselves aa prominent ead remarkable as poeeible, Some are figuring in duela, some un- detinking to settle the polltical affairs of the world, and some allying thelr republican e#m- plieity to the poverty stricken protensiony of in mind that under the late and ull former Em- perors of Russia the vast bulk of the rarei population were serfs, fixtares on the soil which they tiled for the tenefit of its owner ard theirs, Alexander, the predecessor of Nicholas, ‘a man of much theoretical philuntbropy and funcitu! enthusiasm, conceived tho idea of set- ting all these serfs free. He attempted to do 40; bot sfter carrying out his purpose on some of the domains which belonged to the crown, he discovered that the nobility who constituted his court had no notion of raking any such sacrifiee to prove their desire for human progress, It was intimated to him that the fate of Paul awaited him if he persevered. Like a prudent man, ho took the hint and desisted. The tack has now been resumed by-his nephew, whe has the ucvuntago over his unele of being a sonnger, cooler, and more practical maa He deolazed, aa seon as he succeeded to the Commitee azo unfavorably Cispored tor rocomeceia £ any renewale, and will im this reepect conform te tm! ‘action of the House Patent Commitins. Thus, the eppth cations for renewals of patents -some treaty ia aemose =msy be regar¢ed as dead for this Congress. ‘The Clayton-Bulwer treaty wili be abrogaed. Lee@ ‘MWapier, baying recetred no instructions fron tho Deroy” | administration on the subject, will not utierome to re open. mogo.iati pe for the preeent. Is is pot believed Congress can adjournon the Tt ef Jene. The President wishes @ recousiderntion of¢ ttre + reointion of adjournment unless Mr. Giancy-Jenes’ pre-- position of night sessions is agreed to, fhe more oxpe- | riproed members regard an adjournment before Jey nse impomibie, THE GENS SRWSPAYRE DESPATCH. Wasuscron, apeis 26/1888. Thebill which Mr. Quitman evdcavored to introdaon im the Bowe today se’ forih that it is unwise, impaine » and Ur juot to existing States to premoturely or hestily ad- mit ne © States, thereby unduly stimuiatiog the occepe- tiok of distant vaoant Territories by forced aad eneatural: migratiok for political permzaa and gecticnel par- iw poses, preducing strifo’ and discord betwcom dit ‘brone, that, 80 sconyas the termination of the | ferent yertions of the and leading to ¢ wraps war with the Western§ Powers) left his heads | political: combinatious in Congrese. In order to owrest~ sree, he Would preceed to erasacipate the serfa, | theee cvils and give bernie Of the live of poner ° proceeding ¢ which will herontter be parsued, the bili proviees ms counts = orgy Mtge pall we that no aow States Lal be @omitted ivto the Usion watit - e . P it ts acoortained by & Conous taken by tho authority-ef are reboliiag, ae théy did under the former | Congreve that the Terriwry nokiog atmiaion costaion © Atevander; but tae sezfs themwpelves seen, 40 | populat.on suflloteat for & representative to Cougross, ner beve cought the enthusieam from the Emperor, | Sail the peopic have bees autaoritec by Congross te bold aod are fighting their owa battle, py ttatei to frame a Constitetion and prosead the-eams- is the old fight between king am . a At i ing and people = on one ide, and the arisseoreoy on the ovhor— 2 tight which has been fought in every Paro- pean State, All historians tell ns that the de- cline of the feudal rystem dates from the period | yp, pexaun, (opp ) of Ni ¥., presented the Jott rese-. when the kings of the various European coun- | taton of the Legwiaturo of Now York in favor of tho pro— # tries pereelved the nocescity of allying them. | moton cf Lieut. Maury. Revered to the Naval Commiues, * selves with the people in onder to make hend Mr. Wiser, (opp ) of Maws., presented a protest from. the barons; how this alliance was faith. | oy apangeliraet conag 6 pe proba agra iy om fully carried out, and how sorely the Laroas | signals ieferred ts tho Ooeumities on Soeeere en Benate Wasarvarom, April °¢, 1868, atcove against the joint pressure from abore and beneath; how, fically, victory generally rested with their oppenents,and a oity iwre, a mapicipelity there, a State elsewhere cbsained | Cranchizes and liberties which no fature baveu | or noble could venture te disturb, The his. tories of the time are full ef the accounts of the | conflict; they jurtify. the assertion that it de. | vastated and laid waste Surope for o period of | one hundred years, and that, though it may ken a necesury preli to any | me devclopi ment ot tisation, it retarded, for that time, every endeavor that was made by searching men to grove their way | of the d ess which then oversprend the Yarepean continent, ‘This is the copfiiet {Im which “emia is now aout to engage. Ever since the. organization of the present empire of Rustin, one thousaad years a0, people of that empire have been ) held aloof by (heir rulers, theiz laws and their | languige, from the strifes and thoories whic’ | have distracted Western Europe, They have enjoyed porfect peace, whea all around them | was war; they have been loyal, when loyalt, seemed (o heve ‘orraken overy other spot ox earth. But, it reems, strong as were the bar- riers which isolated Muscovy from the rest of | the world, aud little a4 the Rassian serf popu- npposed to know and care abogt his, they are proving that they aro \ not insensible to the effort which the Emperor | is making for their crauncipation, and proving , also, it w sald seem, that they are not devoid of the passione which dictated to former genera | tions the Jucyverie and the mamacres of the | Reign of Terror in Franca Of the result of the conitlict there agg M4 but little qu tion; though It Is net untfely bat the \ Emperor, if he find the strength of the nobility | too formidable, may abandon his projected ro- | forms, as his uncle did. But however the quar- | rel ends it Is quite certain that it will involve | Rusia in distarbanoos and probably ia civil | wars for come years to come. This is @ histori. | cal event of some importnoe. For the past rixty years Russia has been the have whotesc only really #oble part of the European Conti- | nent. With the exoeption of the futile and in- | sensate uit mpt of Rylefef and hie assoolates in 1825, there has Leen no evidence that the Rus | sian mind was ever aware of the ourront of ideas which have rendered every Marepean throne precarious for the past sixty years No matter what revolutions were exploding ele: | where or what dynasties crumbling, there was | one place to which the lover of stable monarchy might always look with confidence, and that | was Ruseia. That confidence has heen at length dispelled. | Rosalia will now have its revolutionaries and its | outbreaks like every other country of Europe, and the lover of quiet will find no civilized country in the world to satisfy him outside of the United Staton 0 Pryauerry hae dled ak Florence, aed atety: ae browber to tha Cardinal Gabricile For. rote, beta fire) cousins of Pope Giovanal. Finance ad wae Ds uty la te lars Paptiament of Naples, bot whea all Iberty were . in 140, ‘tod book Count | veven. Ht there and in Bema, be & bie endalg OF the frovtier Bi Ranta Scrum | sca Naas 425, £08, # \f | | oad of comptnint m that Paraguay has OCR DEFTOULIY, Wirth PARAGUAY. ‘The Parsguay resolution was taken up. Mr Masony, (adm) of Mia, oxpieined the otroam.,. - stances uncer which the diflionity hat occurred between.’ the Water Witob and tne Paraguac acwartos, He. spoke of Cresicent Lope ™ as & maa Of education wut pol | Gea! cegacity, WOO desiree, under bia pecuitir form ef Ver BUELL, tO GeVoiupe the resources of Pecaguay. Lopem as Levar relured royarnuom, ANG Wo Dive Dever $e) Aske}bim for repecauom Mr. Mallory wae 17 Ope posed. 10 veIbg ores caMinet that small repubic, whose Oot aee Of t0e cHOWMemace we hare Det get received, wh ve commerce 1 ro VaVUADIC, ANI Whove fooung Is Cor taibly Tavoradle towns us. MF Strom, (np ) of RI, quoted fem the recwde to show tnat Parngbay ba@ maaticsted tho revorseof fiiewdiiness towaea woe United Staves Ho thoaget.ee Should LOL MRO HO Moy LEgotiatore Lack aod roren, Due CpcasaMmer Cathe with autLory prompily 1 TeL ress. Maitowy replied that whea Precdent Loprneam- plac od Of ontragon Committed agattios Paraguay Oy Dage be roferea t) the Intter’s bawtag lacuiteted se V 10g Aho @emetry WiKnOUS FO DEC Ob Mime O10, 000 OS emedod rollef, Cee com nuatauca tote the Weer Wien sed thet Mr Maiteg hea Spoken frets iat vid’ w! intortatios, aad the Commimee of fs from the official documents. Dheir re- 8 howtuttiee, Dut that. the Proridsot deni «f Parugnay a Foremn A Paraguay, it is Vresitent hare pawer w back hu dewaed | With a cep ay of force Mr. Mawm took i for gramted of of the perple of that aspecisl United States Gommussiaver wi! be #eut, Gud 1 Pa ogeay grants reparation very Tefoses, the feet om the stauaa wit! prow’ ‘orce Ww go up the river apd compel It. the dlcod of An Americas cluzem, and coef-cated Amert- can property, for whic pe redress uae beon mate The Senator ‘rom Florida sage that Lopes ts ie leading «pir t but be ts tho leading beigand, ed requires to be taught” by 8 Giep'ay of force. Mr. ii © replied, warmly defending Loper agaiant, tho pau ¢ of brgnog. Mr. Sxwanp, (opp.) Of N. Y., rose to spenk, when Tak KANMAS QUFSTION, Mr, Gowns, (adem ) of Mo ,aakeo that the Kansas big. de ‘akon up, Whlch wae Goo, Mr. Seward yioiding tage tloor. Mr, Gum then moved that all ordors be poobe poped apa the report of the Cooference Comm.tt-o be corricered, @bicd MoWOL #&+ Carried, notwitstanding Ww, earnest opposition of Mr. duart Mr. Srv set, (Opp.) Of Mich., then wanted to bere, “ine House amenaments read, for which the auvstituss & -pro- Pelovers Hontor, Groen and Toots objected. The Cusin (Me. Fitzpatrick) ruied that the amee?d ment could pot be read Mr. & i Ropealod. Mr ‘ae moved to lay the appsal on the tala, Mr. So" aut comanded a vote, whon the soarte Pofused ‘Uy 26 ye ne to 26 nays to lay tho appeal om the sapien, A long dipcosinn, lasting two bours, then toe piace om the parhamesiary Tule aud the practicn appAaabic to ine 0 & Voto was taken on the Cnaie’s decision, sustained by @ vote of 50 ngninay Lt. “, (opp) of Ky , as pet ready to pre. ton thie qaestiog. Es asked tae coar- toey apd justice cf tho Senate taap ld be postponed till Wearoncay Loot by Fv 28, vars 29. ir o uo, ee 1 cree Wo py oy pe meni aked by the om Kentacky, sy ing the wigh charectey Of that Meaator, woo hee served the country with distinction before rome of those who ow refeod his request were been, showed that he askot It in Do factions oF sioletor view. Mr. Cooxm, (nto ) of Ga, rapliod to Mr. Douglas, ant Ir Prom cedre,), of ORI argned that wo must hw ir Prow (adm ~ the bili from ine Howse Detbeo the Seaate coal praca ancther rte Mr. (hats in reply Ceclared the Saws t = -4 Doe iameutary law ia ding now We bat apt Petoun the bil new: Ue only question for our dooliy ta, Whether the Sonate wil! of wii Mot Concur in the ro port of the Conferenon Committe Mr Sewaeo enid Unet ae the Senator from Kantooky Crittoncen) wna the author of the amendments to the Soiave bill which were ado oa Wy the Brow, be in prartia mentariy the porsom bearing the responsiba:y af a great saeesarecand chou be aosoricd the Briel prot jonemment be re jocse in the Senate avo so longer to or three Woop are a power, they can be raed, aad must bo They have the same respon albl'ity ant acesant~ ability oe the mejority; for thore la, gormaps, littie differ. ence between the services to the © anuy vf aa hoaect And patric minority nod of tha, majority. As to the Terliamentary phase of the ar Ajoa, the written Iaw i a 5 yy rh of Repressntatieas tape tthe ttn Ot ibe te kan MY Wc cal cncep Mr. Derr, ‘adem ) Of fod. complained that tho mino- ono ty do. fadm ) of Del, replied to Mr. Seward peNienoy corewn'e. lanenstints ov tom. and t «wed Fequire Hhat a diatracting questo thelr be F wit opon for the conrantenes af one Re valor Mr. Capon, (opp) of Me, retaiaed an capterant onan