The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1858, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. THOLE NO. 7919. SUNDAY MORNI , ‘TRE MARKET Question. irview of the Committee of the Market- men with the State Lessces. UAL AMITY—THE LESSEBS ARE WILLING TO TAKE HEIR TIME—MAYOR TIRMANN’S PO3TTION—BX-AL- cRMAN MOTT MAS A FINGER IN THS PIE—JUDOB HITING A “LITTLE CROTCRETTY’-—THE PROSPBCT PE A SETTLEMENT, BTC. nerday morning the Committee of the Weat Wash- Marketmen bad an interview, by appointment, Meeers. Taylor and Brennan, the Stace lessees ef the ted property, with a view tosome understanding as fature course of procecure. The following is the noe of what passed between the parties, though, as on such occagions, from the disposition of all the gen n to speak at once on aifierent topics, verbatim report- jas mede as difficult as it usually ie in @ woman’s convention. Moessre. 8. M. Bogart and F. A. Wilkin. represented the marketmen, and Mesers. Taylor and nan were found seated comfortabiy in their office ta street, ready to speak for themselves. ir RoGakr, on entering the room, said—We have come pen, to ask # little extension of time a! youf hands, lr. Whiting, our counsel, has been unable tofurnish us pinion yet. . Tavton—We to give you all necessary time legal advice. whole matter, I supgose, can be a oy ay? How jong since you saw Mr. \ ” foaans—We caw hina yesterday, when be said he have his ready by Monday. ae le are orn willing to walt, and hope will be guided by t! opinion of your counsel. As to that hes been decided in our favor b jm the State, Imeanthat 1 do not bh you to be guided by esta tho tite simply as a matver of official duty, and to himself, “J must defend the here, althongh I know that this State title te h.” Bot you have a direct interest to know ber this property belongs to this city or to the State ? are satisfied that it belongs to the State, you will pay rentto us as the lessees. Uf couras you not take the advice of the Mayor or the Corporation e!. I meanthat yon should be governed by the jon of your counsel, because if he inv: the r he wiil come to the conclusion that we own the e properly. If he does not, we have got to take other muree than we have taken to sustain ourselves. You d never go tothe city authorities abont this matter tadvice. Your true way was to go to counsel, pay and get advice, and if you are satisfled, then act dingly, no matter what legal opinion the Mayor and ptroiler may have about it. BoGart—We are enly anxious to know who is the tful"leesee, you or the city. ir. Tayton—I am tatistied that you are willing to pay 2 well ag the city. ir. Bocarn—Yee ; but we don’t want to run the risk of you and the city both. ‘AYLOR—Yes; but you don’t want to get into any tement abou’ it. That property belongs to the State, does not. You said in your speech the other day, to bring down the State orities te turn you out. ‘e did not give Mr. Mou authority to say xo, and he has no authority from us. Bocart—He represented himself to have it. . Tay.on—I will tell you how much he has. He has d some little notes for me, and bas been here aud ed his services voluntarily in this matter. He was the other day, and I told him he had better go home, did pot want him here any longer. ir. Witkrvson—He has done you a great deal of harm, has prejudiosd the market men against you. . Bocaut—He gaid that we were all guilty of treason, ‘that the Attorney General would bring cut the State e to compel our eubmission. . Taytor—That is popsense. Breyvan—There is no fear of our di you in such way as that. I supposed you would employ peel &B Boon as we put up those notices. We had d long enough for the Common Council to act in the r, and bad to take some steps Wo secure eur rights . Bocart—We did pot intend te take any action dntil jething was done on your part. . Taytor—Mayor Tiemann resists as Mayor of the that ie all well enough. He did say that he could recognise us in his official capacity, but he knows tbat tite to this land is clear. Ir. Brxwvan—Well, Taylor, that is only your opinion. ir. ge Lg ht yoy t d—n it, I er right. nows privately that that property iS the Eeate. There is nO doubt a! that. He that the citizens might say that he was neglecting city’s interest if he aid not defend the city claim to property. For my part, I did not know a year ago there was such @ piece of ground. . Born ax—I koew it for a great many yoars. . Tayror—Why, the Mayor has decided for us al- yy. He decided {ae other day, and said to the Deputi wo as ® so. { ry of State———-—. Now, don’t put this do Mr. Reporter, because I don’t know that it is heard #0. re—Well, sir, Twill state what you say—that beard 20. . TavLon—I understood—I do not know that it is trae the Mayor said to the Deputy Secretary of State— Deputy Secretary of State said so, and I will to it. (Don’t put that down, Mr. Reporter, because ill look too excited ) But 1 understand the Mayor said. ‘fn our lease was shown to him, that ‘he was very glad d got it.’’ He said that in substance, and tbat he wanted the Common Council to petition the Sate to he city bave the ground, aud be had sent a communi- to the Common Council on the subject, but they taken no notice of it, and he expected something of kind would be done. . Bocart—I heard that the Mayor said he would not taken any notice uf this matter but for a number of ps from on market calling upon him. Now ys he never eny such thing. Alderman Mott here entered the room and was ly seized by Mr Brennan and conveyed into a back in. Mr. Taylor subsequently observed Mr. Mot: walk- heut the room, and called out to him in an authorita tone, “Sit down there, sir!’ with which mandate the \derman instwatly complied. ir, TAYLOR—The Mayor bas no power to defend you, has the Metropolitan police to do with the authority ? Stato ir, Wrixinson—Perhaps the Mayor did ray something ‘what was imputed to him. We intormed the Mayor Mr. Mott, who represented himself to be your coun- had threatened these forcible moasures and the call. out of the State military. . TavLon—That ia nonsense. ir, Witxivsox—The Mayor then replied, “If you have sical force to meet, we must moet it with physical ir. Tavion—I can assure you this i# the first I have 4 of it. You can judge from our course, per- ly, whether we have been very much excited or taken any strenuocs measures. We made up our to give yous fair yy to investigate and 'y yourselves, and not to act until called upon, When core nee = your minds, then we can see what we rball take. You cannot certainly object to that. perfectly satisfied that when your counsel gets his jon into shape our lease will be found all right, and you cannot get any other opinion from le I. . Bocart— Bat Mr. Whiting says he thinks your jease M Gerron—Woll, he’s getting olf, and be's a lite phetty. ir. ‘Docant—Thero is one thing I should like to say our forms of leases which you propose to give us. 4 like to see in them that would give us beable possession, defending as from the claims of the As you have them drawn now you have all the pro- , and it is aone sided lease, We want i aa you. . Tavion—As you are now you don’t got any leases. ir. Bocart—Well, when we do got them we want to ‘them all J. ir, Tavtor—-You know that landlords’ and tenants’ now, I suppore Ir, Booarr— Yes, we pay accandling to size and position. ir. Buxweay—There are some men who pay large and other men occupying stands alongside them that ‘existed in the prices charged for stands of a size and advantage an unreasona + Meeting of the Washington Marke: People. OROUS PREPARATIONS FOR THR DREFENSTVE— NOTHER [NTERVIRW BETWAREN THE DEALERS AND HR PTATE LRSARRG—RESULTOF THR CONFERENCE APRRCHES, APPLAUSE AND ORNERAL ENTHUSIASM. ‘esterday afternoon Fulton Market alip was again the he of considerable excitement. The eccupants of de and sheds on the ground west of the Washington ‘ket assembled there at four o'clock in the afternoon t> it with each other on the best plan of resisting the ta made by Messrs. Taylor and Brennan, the State leon, to obtain possession of the ground which they } oocnpy, and to give further expression to their sent! ts on the subject. A platform was erected in loss than minutes, consiating of barrels of equal proportions ped standing on their ends, which were ovorlaid h planks in order to give them one general and agroea. surface. When this work was completed to satiafac. more barrela wore placed upon it for the accommo jon of the chairman, secretary, &. cha M. Rocanr, on being wnanimously elected to the r, loudly demanded if the meeting had not learned © yht than to encumber the platform with barrels in 4 of having chairs there to acsommodate the people; being anawered by a yoice from the crowd that bar. are more uegfal any day then chairs, apd more appro tate to the preeent occasion, he acknowledged that be made ® mistake; and when the merriment occasioned Taylor and Hrennan, and had from them ¢b- ed a extemsion of the term of their right to bold of thelr stands and ebeds till ge i i geeks ee z at €8 HL E g i : z i z i next Monday. All the buainess that was coming before the meeting beirg now Snished, cries were rained for an orator. Ex-Counciiman Tayror, therefore, mounted the rostrum, and was received with applause. He eaid that he falt well pleased to think that everything is going on so well, and 80 large a number of citizens are ready to stand up vi for their rights. Gapinse,) no right to fear anything, or everything they have aone or allempted bas been crowned with 51 do now contend with apy party, he continued: our position is now that of the so called lessees on the one side aud the city authorities on the other. Al] we ask is pro- tection in maintaining our righta, and we are very likely to have protenion. Your committee, of which I am one, have come to the conclusion, considering these circum- stances, to pay bo more money to fee counsel at present; Dut we want to provide against contingencies, and for that purpose we have come to the conclusion of levying « tax on every one of you, the amount of which you will know on Monday morning. This money will be collected by the committee for the purpose of defraying the expense of banners or any other assistance that may be required. The speaker concluded his remarks by e: the as- sembly to stand by ove another as they have hitherto done, and their own rights individually as well as those of the city will be maintained, no matter where the opposi- tion way arise or what form it may assume. (Repeated and loud cheers.) There were other calls tor speeches as soon as the first speech was concluded, but the Chairman, who did not = haga one forage unnecessarily from attend- ig to the ness Saturday evening, adjourned the meeting, subject to the call of the Chair, ss #00n as the ex- citement bad subsided sufficiently to allow his voice to reach the ears of his auditory. The Washington Market Controversy. J. G. Bryer, Esq. The piece of ground to the west of West street, claimed by the State, is 480 feet on West street by 450 feet, ex- clusive of the piers extending farther westward into the river. This large piece of ground is covered by wooden shanties, the occupants of which, only afew days since, refused to come under the ordinances of the Common Council, and before 2 committee of the Councilmen told them (the committee) to their face the land belonged to the State, and not to the city. It was there charged, also, that no doubt the $60,000 or $60,000 per annum had been coliected, but it was not sbown thata quarter of the amount collected went into the city treasury, or that any part of it aid. ‘Those shanties have been oocupied by a class of specu- latora in the necessaries of life, and have tended to en- hance the cost of every description of winter vegetables— only a few of them being the egents of producers—hun- dreds of them small speculators, who do not always do the fair thing in the quantity and quality of nearly every article eola by them. Wyou spel how much he bas collected within the last two years, who from, and to whom he publica service. But I ha bh ing. The nuisance should be removed, a de built, covering 400 feet square floor of which should coptain the ice of Second and Third wards and the ward court rooms of First, Second and Third wards, ‘The place now occupied by Washington be in couvenient sized auction for stores—a lot of 20 by $15,000 at least, and a corner at speculators who have so long spoilz wiii object to this. A Bight embrace many choice musical gems that will be em- Dellished by the artittic skill ef Mme. D’Angri, Morsrs, Formen, Cooper and a host of other distinguished perform. ers, In the course of the week our citizens are promised three grand sacred oratorios. Nimio's —The undiminished popularity of the Ravels leads their numerous friends and admirers to hope that the farewell engagement that they are now fulfilling will be prolonged to the end of the year, at least. ly no other artists were ever so with the public as are the Ravels with New Yorkers and Americans generally. A capital bill is offered for to-morrow. Bowsny.—Mr. H. B. Stephene’ exciting drama entitled “Blanche of Brandywine,’ which created quite a sensation at this theatre some years ego, is to be revived with « strong cast and appropriate scenery to morrow night ft ‘Will be preseded by the tavorite of “The § | ad followed by the peculiar drama of ‘Sixteen String Jack.” Berroy's Tumatee is to be converted into an Italian Opera bouse to morrew eventing, when Signor Rencon) will make his début here in his great character of Dr. Dul- Wartack’s—That old and Dyott, whose absence in the Sou! been much regretted by New York admirers, is to take his annual benefit at thie theatre to morrow night. He Pog of the Mr Jefferson are to open the entertainments with the mirth provoking piece entitled A Gonjagal Leason.”’ The patriotic play called “Blanche of Brandy wine’’ will after- ‘wards forniah the audience with some good acting, sweet munic and pretty scenery. Awencas Meerew.—A military drama entitied the “Battle of Buena Vista’ is to be inced to morrow afternoon. At night Miss Benin will appear as the he- roine m the popular drama of OI i SD nny 9 Sa By the way, the last Leiger story, ‘Rosalie Herbert,” been dramatised and will soon be brought out here. The countless wonders with which the rooms are stocked may ‘be neon at all hours. gt customary variety of comic and sentimental songs, heaqoes. &c. The unequalled success of the Panoramic farce styled the waleigh Ride” has Induced the manager to prepare another of a similar character ie expected te excel the first, Brvaxts Miverners tender the burlesque ‘ Musard Concert.’ Dan's genuine original double distilled | Kasence of Old Virginny,”’ the “Polka Militaire,”’ the ‘Sawdust Acrobats,”’ &e., &c , &e., for the edification of the multi- tudes of jo! who are naturally expected to visit Mechanics’ Hall during the next six viakis. Peet's Camrvenia may be classed as fixtures at 444 =. large and well pleased audiences bare ‘eeted them nightly since they commenced operations ere, four weeks ago, The programme for to-morrow con- tains various of the novel and peculiar burlesques, songs and dances that have assisted to give them celebrity. Farwcu Taare. —Metropotitan Hall, opposite Niblo’s, ia to be opened as a French theatre on Tuesday evening. ‘Three very amusing pieces are to be represented. This announcement will most likely attract a large assemblage, compored of Frenchmen and others conversant with language. Tun ir Fae wen abilities are highly spoken of by e wi ve: ‘an opportunity of judging, are to give a vocal ant! instramental concert at Dod worth's Academy, next Tuesday evening. They are to be assiated by those favorite singers, Messrs. Gassior and Tiberin). Tar Banceat Rarr even FLOATED ON THe Urree The largest raft of lumber ever {i »ated upon Ta Crosse, on ite way from ver Falla to St, Louis, on the 24th ait, “Tt was the “ever seen in . raft was mannea by vera red shirta’—overy man at his oar, and évery sar ite work. The ive of the raft was five hundred and sixty feet long, by two hundred wide, and the amount of lam- ver which i contained full a million fect, together with 250,000 lath and 260,000 shingles. There were two good sized houses erected on board, and the whole crew and ofeers consisted of captain, twenty four oarsmen, two cooks, one olerk and bottle washer, which, together with fa Diack bear and a Dull dog, made up all the occupants Fatal Revalt of an Abortion. ARREST OF THE ALLEGBD PERPETRATOR—OCORONER'S INQUEST UPON THE BODY—VERDICT OF THE JORY. In yesterday's MERALD we published & brief paragraph relating to the death of a young woman in First avenue from the effects of am abortion procured by # doctor re- siding imthe Bowery. Since then the matter bas been fully investigated by Coroner (iambie, and the doctor who performed the anlawfu) operation has been arrested snd committed to prison on charge of homicide. Dr. Philip O’Hanlon, the Deputy Coroner, at the instance of Coroner Gamble, took an active part in working up the case. By is exertions the witnesses were recured in time to pre- vent their escape, aud detained in separate places of con- finement, so #8 to prevent their holding any coaversation with each other on the merits or demerits of the case. The name of the deceased was ascertained to be that of Mrs. Phebe M. Mcas, « native of this city, aged 19 years. The deceased bad been recently married, and lived with her mother at No. 115 First avenue. It was while staying at the resxience of her mother that the abortion was procured. From the evidence adduced before the Coroner, it appeared that deceased was about three mouths pregnant when she conceived the idea of having the operstion . About three weeks ago she visited ap Prine ren Mrs Pierce, residing in West Chirty-ninth atreet, and saked the latter to accompany her to the office of Dr. L H. Lines, No. 367 Bowery, for the ostensible ° Deing relieved of some menstrua! obstruction. 5 after holding some private conversation with his patient, the substance of which we suppose will forever remain secret, produced s galvanic batery, and ite in- stromentality the abortion was eflected. Atter returning bome, on the evening of the same day the opera. the deceased uy seized with the suffering most excratiating Spey se ne iolivares of Seaver months’ fetus. The el produced by the miscarriage was a severe one, and ee ee hinigermniee, Gate Weck pone to grow more feeble every day, for her safety, sent for the family physician, Dr. McMur. ray, ot East way. Tut the thedical akill of thie gen- tleman proved of littie avail, the sufferer con- tinued to sink rapidly, and on Monday evenin; died. An effort was then made to keep the matter from the Coroner; but bow poorly it resulted the sequel will show. Dr. McMu , through hamene mo- tives, was imprudent to give a certificate of death by congestion of the brain brought on by a miscarriage, and an effort was made to inter the body upon the strength of this certificate, but it proved fruitless. The affair came to the cars of Coroner Gamble, and his deputy, Dr. O'Hanlon, when the latter, with much promptness, made such inquiries regarding the case as warranted him in procuring the arrest ef Dr. Lines, and placing the wit- nesses in @ proper place of security until an inquest could ‘be held upon the body. Below will be found a report of the testimony as it was sdduced before Coroner Gamble yeaterday, together with the verdict of the jury, and the subsequent action of the Coroner in relation w the dispo- sition of the accused parties Hapnah Richards, residing at 115 First avenue, being duly Meet Og beng ana (Phebe Maria Moss) was my daughter; married to Chas. Moss about four she saw Mrs. ; ey J day, that is two weeks ago last Wednesday, she came home and said, ‘‘Mother, see how red my checks are;” she then took me in a vate room and told me that Dr. Lines, the decile the Bowery, near Fourth street, had Dattery to her bowels, and that M. the operation ; she was taken in about 11 o’clock the following night the fatus shown to the jury; she tol alcobo! for my husband to see;”’ the day after the delivery e E g H 5 z g Hs 5 z FF s i g z sum in any tion; the doctor came and saw scribed poultices; he visited her week; after the, as she grew worse, I called family physician, Dr. McMurray, of East Broad told bim the whole of the ; Lcalled nell, of Eighth street; they attended her until she died, on Wednesday death, and congestion of the brain, miscarriage; Mr. Moss, the husband of deceased, je iN with smallpox at 105 West Twenty. fifth street; Mra. Pierce visited the deceased three times after her delivery ; deceased told me that the reason for her wishing to have the abortion produced was that she and her husband were going to the country this summer, and she did not want Wo have a child. Pamelia Richards being sworn says—I reside at 115 First avenue; deceased wae wy sister; a week ago last Satur- day my mother told me that deceased had had a miscar- riage; I bave known Mrs. Pierce some time; two or three Sundays ago deceased told me she was going to visit Mrs. Pierce, and that she would go up by the Sixth avenue = say whether she went or not; | don’t know Or. Lines. Kawin P. Richards being sworn says—Dr. McMurray told me thet bis certificate would pass, but that the Coro- er could bold an inquest. Robert McMurray, M. D., of No. 194 Bast Broadway, be first attended deceased for obstruction ebaee ried 5 otrnacat care; Tean't a J, No. 87 West Thirty ninth street; [ am a widow; been acquainted with the deceased for about seven years; about two weeks ago deceased, while at my house, com- plained of being unwell, and asked me to accompany her to Dr. Lines, an electrician, who has attended me on several occasions for disease of the womb; I aon’t know street; I gat down tn the offloe the galvanic battery; | was what part of the body the battery tion lasted about five minutes; 3 fre two days afterwards Lines came the following day and ordered her some castor ofl; she kept her bed, and grew worse daily, Dr. MeMarray, of Fast Broadway, was called in a week subsequently, and attended her until ahe died, on Monday evening last; Mre. i t pn he canes drmced i. . HB. Lines a f i ‘tn f i ag a i | i z E Lj : | i iy i | : i ia inmae bautery. left lung contained tubercies in the state of softening cavity had began to be formed; the the lungs were healthy, the brain was very slightly o: , but nothing particularly ; the onuse er death was inflammation of the womb and its dages, resulting from abortion, | bave examined the presented to jury, and find it to be three montha developed. the eondition nothing to do with the cause of death, tains a large quantity of urine, going to s! urine. John Ferguson, M. D., and Henry Sheppard, M. D., ing sworn, say—We made the post mortem in the case of Phebe M. Moss, and corroborate the testimony of Dr. Bar ker in every particular. Philip O’Hanion, Jt., M. D., being duly sworn, says—1 ‘am assistant Coroner; about J o'clock P. M. on the 7th of May, 1868, I got a notice that a young woman was dead at 116 First avenue: | proceeded to said place and received reliable information that an abortion had been protuced on degoased, whore name was Phebe Mose, that Dr, lines, i N G, MAY 9, 1858, ‘ofthe Bowery, near Fourth street, bed by means of giec- tricity produced this abortion, aud tat Mrs Pierce was pret at the operation; | immetiately proceeded to the bouss Dr, Lines, 367 Bowery, and from him got Mes. Pre address without saying % him tor what parpoee. Ithen eeded W the Tombs and got a warrant from Judge Connolly for the parties, coco making affidavit to the knowledge J had of the cuse; I then gave Coroner Gamble the warrant for the doctor and procesded myself! to arrest Mrs. Mary Pierce, whom | found a: ber resi- dence, 87 West Thirty ninth street; after telling her my ‘pusipess with ber, Mre. Pierce told me that she advised deceased if auy harm resulted from her visit Dr. Lines not to biame her; that she sae Dr. Lines apply the gal vanic batiery to her bowels, and also that deceased told her that she had taken almost everything to produce this miscarriage without effect; I arresied Mrs. Pierce and brought her to the Twenty-first ward station house. Tne case wag Shen given <2 tbe Jury, who, after due de- Liberation, rendered the foflowiog VERDICT. That eaid Phebe M. Moss came to her doath by inflam- mation of the womb, the result of an abortion produced by Dr. S H. Lines, at 367 Bowery, by the applisation of lary Pierce of 87 West cossory to the fact. Further, we censure Dr. McMurray for having given a certificate seat ork ete tu‘ coma tory 1e ere! - feating the ends of 7 ends of justice . Upon the rendition of the above verdict Coroner Gam- ble announced that it was his de‘ermination to bold Dr. Lines and Mrs. Pierce to bail, each in the sum of $2,000, to await the action of the Grand Jury. Adventures of a New ¥°~& Detective in South America—Chasing a Swindler over the An- des Mountains. One of the detectives of the General Superintendent's office recently returned from Laguayrs, after several months of adventure in South America, whither he was sent in search of a swindler named John Reyhner, who defrauded some cotton brokers in Wall street out of the snug sum of $9,000 and then fled to the fastnesses of the Andes mountains for safety. Reyhner, it appears, gra- uated in this city from the position of a bookkeeper to a man doing quite a respectable business on his own ac- count. By means of false pretences, it is alleged, be in- duced some brokers in Wall street to sell him about 825,000 worth of cotton. Representing that he had the ready cash to meet the purchase, he ordered the cotton to be shipped. The sellers, believing in the honesty of the buyer, complied with the order. Reyhner promised to pay for the cotton betore the vessel ieft this port, but in- stead of doing 80 be brought the bills of lading to a banker and drew against them to the amiount of $9,000, With this sum he immediately fled from New York and set sail for South America, leaving the cotton brokers and the banker in the lurch. Search was made for the fugi. tive, but in vain. Two policemen were sent to Philadel: phia, whither it was at supposed Reyhner had fled, but they were compelled to return to New York without effecting anything. The victimized consulted to- gether, and after some delay it was tw senda detective to South America in search of the fugitive. Ap. lication was made to the General Superintendent of Po- ice for one of the detectives, and the request being com- plied with, the detective Cts Ap gator ed started to the far distant shores of Venezuela, in quest of the awind- ler. Reyhner sent his trunks to New Orleans via Phila delphia, while he to the port of his destination i America. He did this in order to put the police off the track; but the trick failed as the sequel will show. The detective ascertained that Reyhner bad embarked from Philadel for in the schooner Maxwell, about two weeks previously. The officer i d to Baltimore and there set sail for same He arrived at Jaqunrre after a of twenty-four days. There he learned that hner had e to} pwns a few days previous to his arrival. at onc ired a a mule and rode over the mountains, arriviog in Varacas only in time to learn that Reyhner had deparfd for the interior the day previous. detective on applying to the United States Consul at Caracas, learned that Reyhuer had deposited his money in the hande of a banker at that place, and he promptly to have the cash se- cured. Tho banker was responsible to the depositor, and refused to deliver the money up to the policeman uniess compelled to do so by a legal process. The detective had the necessary papers drawn up, and would doubtiess have tne it without further delay had not a revolution en outat this very moment. This revolt, which com- pelled Movages and his family to residential mansion and take shelter in Cangul’s house pat everything courts and all the government offices, it impossible to transact legal or any other kind of busi- ness. The officer was obliged, therefore, to remain a quiet “looker on in Venice.’ Knowing that the leave the Pr ; the French in Totiek tives tor on bis being mato a cerned, knowing full weil that the the United States and Venezuela was The American Consul laid ao wep An oe none’ the hands of tbe banker, so that Reyhner could not touch it until bis claim to it could be made elear. no tribunal to bring the matter before, and opportunity of seeing the moral, social and physical con- dition of the natives of that unfortunate country. He has & very poor opinion of the soldiery, most of whom he says aro half starved, half clad negroes, armed with old flint muskets, These negro soldiers, he says, are very over. beariog in their manner, especially in the night time. A poor Frenchman was murdered in the streets in the most cruel manner, merely because he was unable to give the watchword. An American from Baltimore, of the * Plug Ugly” order, became intoxicated one ev: and under. took to whip one of the insolent darkies, when a troop of the black soldiery set upon him and beat out his brains with the butt ends of their muskets. A lad related to Mona. gas, while passing through Caracas one night, felt him- self insulted at the watchword, can vive, being given him by the negro soldiers, and not making any answer wa shot down likeadog. The detective managed to get aloug peaceably, however, and met with no grievaoce For Americans the natives have a profound respect, aud it is only im extraordinary cases that Yankees will meet with either ineultor injury. The residence of the American Copsul was the refuge for more than one unfortunate indi- vidual who felt the displeasure of the revolutionists. (a his return to the United States the detective was made Desrer of ceepatches the government at Washingwo. He left Caracas on the 20th of March, and riding over the mountains on a mule started for Laguayra for the purpose of taking his © for this country. On his arrival at a be found to bis great surpriee and no little re. gret the evolutionists had seized every vessel ia e He was, therefore, compelled to go to Porto Cabello. ring a row boat he two of the natives to take him to the latter piaee, a distance of over sevemty miles voyage across the Carribean Sea in an open boat, twelve feet iong, was a hazardous undertaking, put never theless it was accomplished in the space of loss thao twenty-four hours, without any accident of note. From Porto Cabello the olfiser engage his passage to Philadel phia, where be arrived some three weeks ago safe and in good bealth. He immediately proceeded to Washington delivered bis despatches to General Cass. and afier « brief sojourn in the capital returned to New York. Personal Intelligence. Hamphrey Nrown was brought up in custody on Thurs day, the 220 uit., at the Court of Ban! 'y, Loadon, but his g¢ocounts not being ready a further adjournment of six 8 was ordered. ARR . From Harré, in the ship Germania—Dr William L.Wella, of Orange, NJ. From New Orleans, in the eS Hoilmes— Albert W Walton, Mra Nancy Lewis—and 3 in the steerage. From Nenvitas in the brig Anita Owen—J Aguero, H Re- doich, © Varona, M Varona, A Varona, J M , F hold wees i ri, © Caballero, A and C Castellanos, E Geaery, y Hare ‘rom Maranham. (n the achr Maria—J Knebemir aod lady, From Havens, ta the sche Humming Bir’ —R J Krowo aod J Williams pee For Liverpoo!, in the ship Kangaroo—Mre Andrate aad three TSiaren, Mise Kattner, Mrs Pentland, Miss Wil Tame, Mine McNamara, Mine Wilkes, Misa Fitzpatrick, Robert Laweon, §Jeewurm, James Bruce, A Muller, A Edwards, Madame Cavallo, Martin Walberg, Mr Francia, Richard Clay ton, John T Wiliama, P F Faalkner, Chas Simpson, A Frang feld, J F Rawarda, Gen Totten and indy, Miss Chrisie, Miss Fdwards, Mr« Smith and child, Mra Swanston and child, Mr ‘Der ‘and family, B Kesh and family, A Kaufman, laty and child. Kaufman, Iady and child: Dr Hammond, Dr Hesselton, & F Dully, Peardon, Al Weir, Dousde les, Relock—and 100 in the atrerage. For Bremen, in the steamahip Eriesron—A Palmedo, 4) } og Ty , pao ‘and family; 4 hroeder, Mee A Bequesi, Mrs Mary Krehbaid y, J Birann, Jr, LW Gloon, WS Charies and lady, Diener indy, Ht Seggerman, wife and family, GR’ Cholwell, TF Sandysen, & f Byorkiand, J Siromer, F A Neishelm. T It Basten, J) Braun, 1 W Zotger, CF Tritgen, F Otten and Kitna, J | ke, D Lasson, W Meepner, § G Orp, M Albert, GT Wileot, © Dosana, wife and family, H Tucken, A Broegerbot, 1 ® Koskett, Mrs lason and family, Mr Kragwinkle and family, M Pollick, Mr Reinhold For Charleston in the > steamahip vn, MMos. Wa W iit se jas Turner, Thos D Kilie, Wm J B Lane he steamehip Alabama —Chas Harr's. Mrs 0 8Titus and son, 0 H Halden, Jaa Campbell—an! Sin the steerage. For Savannah, in the steamship Nashville WF Pack Nathaniel 8 Merrit ss =. Charles H Biaen, F Beien, Win Ri Iai vey, nbam, For Richmond, Ae, {0 the sleamsbip Jarmestown—R (ud lam, lady and three children; RY Higvee, A 8 Van Tuyl, Mr Keating, Isaac Hamilton, J T Mitehell, ( W Censer, Sullivan, John Yoong, Fd ( Perry, BB Perry, Joha M Merrit, James Roya, W Baker, lady ani two children DF Vandenberg, 0 FR Briggs. © Van Siyek, Mire Leeds J Wilkinson and 3) Mre Smith and two friends J B am Smith, J B Hetherington, F Frederick, lady and t j T Wasere, lady and two AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our London and Madrid Correspondence, &., &o., &o. Oar London Correspondence. Lonpon, April 20, 1858. ‘The Brest and Toulon Fleets—Wil the Queen of England Visit Lous and Eugenie at € Yherbourg ? Civilities to the New French Ambassador— The Murderer Lane—Our Views of the Bernard Trials—Our Gallic Relationship The Budget— Our Own Criticism of the “ Lear" at the Prin- cess’s— Medlles. Titiens and Piccolomini—Signors Guiglini and Belart—Amusements, §c. The arrival of the Niagara followed so closely on the trail of the Fulton that we were yesterday even- ing in receipt of New Yorx Hexatpe up to the 6th, almost ere we bad hurriedly and anxiously perused thore up to the 3d, that came to hand by the last named vessel. I mentioned to you in my last that the Brest and Toulon fleeta were to rendezvous in the Channel, and rendezvous in the Channel they are, to—that is if our imperial ally ean muster sufficient ships in time to form an imposing squadron. Some Belgian penny-@-liner, in contradiction to these rumors, as- serts that our Queen contemplates a visit to the Em- peror and da belle Eugenie, at Cherbourg, early this season, on the occasion of a railroad opening there. Malakoff’s Duke is to present the invitation, and Lord Cowley to come over here to make the necessary preparations, and to put our good little Victoria in the line of conduct she is to adopt during her stay in France. The rendez- vous of the Toulon and Brest fleets is to be, in order to conciliate us and prevent the “soupcan” of an armed annoyance so neas our coasts, changed to the Isle of Hyeres. Really the Court of St. James and that of the Tuileries are indulging in civilities which are the usual precursors of a row. In the meantime, his Excellency, Field-Marshal Pelissier, has been cordially received and féted by our military authorities, not to omit those of the navy and our diplomatists. He is to be entertained at dinner by the members of the United Service Club on Thursday, under the chairmanship of the Duke of Cambridge. Omnium gatherum, as our civic functionaries have it, where they mix up no end of eatables and no depth of drinkables, is some- what in our line of courtesy—and so from gay, we are off at a tangent to grave. Lani, the Italian, who murdered the doubly «n- fortunate French woman in a brothel in the vicin age of the Haymarket, has confessed his crime in full, and I think slightly deviating from the truth in the statement that, in the first place, the poor crea- ture attempted to rob him. On Saturday last, the 17th inst., waa produced, with new arrangements and scenery, by Mr. Charles Kean, at the Princess’s theatre, Shakspere’s cele- brated and somewhat mythic tragedy of * King Lear.” It was, indeed, a great treat, and every one in the intensely crowded house, before the curtain, seemed fully to sympathise with the great modern dramatist in the triomph that he has herein enacted. It was no ordinary task, because he had to combine a large amount of antiquarian knowledge and research, with no common degree of skill, in the representation of the unhappy king, to whom the chief prominence is given from the beginning to the end of the play. The mase en acene is perfect throughout. The chamber scenes in the early acts are exceedingly ap- propriate, distinguished by the rude massiveness pe- culiar to so early a period; and we may instance, more particularly, the room of state, where Lear an- nounces his pul of dividing the ng ae be- tween his two eldest daughters and their husbands, to the exclusion of the younger and more faithful Cordelia; as, also, a holl in the Earl of Gloucester’s castle, where the bastard, Edmund, shows a forged letter to Gloucester, in order to mak the latter —— that Ed, had _ conspi to rob his fat of his hts. The great scenic triumphs of the piece, however, are the two wild scenes the heath, and two charming rep- resentations of the country about Dover in the olden time. Indeed, whatever may be said of the previous revivals at the Princess’s,—(and when we reckon how many they have been, we may well admire the manager's energy of enterprise,)—we see no falling back or short coming, bat a zealous anxiety to keep up the prestige of establishment for works of is character. No art, in short, no resources, no expense has been spared in getting up all those stage accessories, to which Mr. Kean and his coadjutors so well furnish the essentials. The incidental music, too, of which there is no small quantity, has been efficiently composed by Mr. J. L. Hatton, to whom the public are much indebted for vast improvements since his appointment to the directorship ; nor must | we forget to give a due meed of praise to Mr. Brad- well, the costumers, property-men, &c., who have #0 powerfully aided the manager in carrying out his poetical conceptions. The dresses, perhaps, belong to no very defined era; but they are at any rate suf- ficiently characteristic to remind any one acquainted with Strutt’s delineations, of the early period of our AngloSaxon history; and it would be unfair to Mrs. Kean not to award to her the ample share of praise which is due for taste im selecting the costames and appropriately blending their colors in the grouping, so as to form a harmo- nious whole. It were superfinons to add, moreover, that not a stone has been left unturned, whether dramatically or ogee ally, towards rendering “ King Lear” in all respects worthy of the great magician who brought it into being; though at the same time the latter could never have indulged in the fairy notion that his conceptions would ever be so admirably realized by the aid of subordinates, who, in his time, were utterly anknowt. Mr. Kean, however, has done more—far more than putting this chef d’ewere well upon the stage, in any accessory sense. To have done that, indeed, in the way that his antiquarian ee have enabled him, was, in tacit, no trifling of praise; but when, besides this, he has thrown into the scale all his long acknowledged dramatic genius, and hesitates not to exhibit in their fall force the conflicting passions that agitated the weak minded but madness stricken joes from the day on which he sella all his worldly interests to benefit a thank- lesa family, to that on which he dies repentant, yet half insensate, still within Cordelia’s arms, but de- votes all his energy, all his skill rare powers of high = wrow delineation a vish, wil fal, strong . but not ungrateful old man—and almost constantly appeam before the aadience, as the leading and prominent feature in the piece, we cannot but warmly join in the well earned plaudits that greeted him as be went through his arduous task, from the assignment of his king- dom and the banishment of his loyal servant Kent, and proceeding through the various phases of imbe. cility, as shown in his dialogue at the end of the act, with Kent in disguise and the clever fool one of the best of Shakspere’s delineations—and his awful execrations and curses on his thankless child Gonereil:— Flear, Naturo, hear’ ——— Dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful, And from her derogate body never apring A babe to honor her’ If she must teem, Create a child of spleen, that it may live And be athwart disnatur’d torment to her ' ‘Turn att her mother's pains and benefita To laughter and contempt. that «he may feet How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it « To have a thankless child. The force with which Mr. Kean uttered this—the fearful and increasing intensity of passion he gives to this scene until it reaches its climax— will never, we think, be felt more Meng 84 more heartily re- sponded to than it was on Saturday night. “The sume remark also applies to the last grand burst at the end of the second act, where, in answer to a question of the cold and churlish » he came down with a flood of impassioned eloquence that fairly enraptured the whole audience: Ob, reason not the need, ke. But his powers seemed concentrated in the few concluding lines:- Oh, let not woman's Weapons, water drope, Stain my man’s checks! No, you unnatural bags, No; I'l not weep— L have full cause of weeping but this heart Shall break into a hondred thousand (taws OF ere It weep. Oh, fool, I shall go mad! The poor bewildered king's interview with the fool, (who, by the way, found an admirable vooal and acting representative in Miss Poole,) and the banished Kent, however, was, perhaps the crowning — of the play. He is no longer imbecile or ey, but furious in the expression of his passion sparing to all around him. A more awfnl ont burst, indeed, of insane fury and indignation has PRICE TWO CENTS. seldom been listened to since the days of Frederick Cooke and Pasta. The audience were electrifed— the actor was repeatedly called before the and some minutes elapsed ere the play was to proceed, In fact, the third act, righ on te the end, whether by Mr. Kean, Mr. Ryder, or Misa Poole, was admirably represented, and we may air- ly say that the honors were divided. Hopeless mad- ness, however, brought on by filial 5 the passion to be represented, and ita cruel excesses were most wonderfully displayed, with a fearful energy at times, sometimes sinking into almost childish idiocy and then awakening again toa sense of parental wrong, that makes the as well as tremble. In the fourth act, as the reader knows, the poor king’s madness takes a new phase. He has ‘more decidedly lost his mental consciousness and recollec- tion than in any previous part of the play; bat yet there is method in his madness, as witness:— Tarough tatlored clothes ema srpeer— ror tered oh einall vioes do Rouen ak furr’d gowns bide al. Plate sin with gold, And the str jance of jnatico hurtiess breaks; ‘Arm it in rags, & pigmy’s straw doth pierce it. ‘Take that of me, my friend, who gave the power ‘To cea! the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To eee the things thou dost not. —A speech, of course, that appears in strange con- trast with the semi-comic insanity of the few pre- vious minutes. The tragedy, however, assumes a consummately ainful character in the last act, in which the ten- lerness of the long neglected, but now royal, Corde- lia, and the gradually awaking senses and sympathies ly displayed, ey -4 of the aged king are beautifa is still enycioped in the cloud of insanity. delia, half unconscious of her identity, he says :— Tam a very foolish, fond old man. Fourscore and up-warde ; and, to deal plainty, I fear I am act in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and kpow this man ; Yot [am deubtful—for I am inaiply | What place this ia: and all the sk: it bave Remembers not theee garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night —Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.” But above all, the notice of the audience was di- rected to poor Lear's last dying efforts, as he asked for the tears of those around him, and in despair ex- claimed :— pre - ; " ne forever I know, when one in dead, when one Ii She’s dead as earth. Lend me a looking gi If that ber breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. The scene was supersingly touching ; and shad with altered mien he turned to the officer near Dis I killed the slave that was» hanging thee, Did 1 not, fellow * T have seen tbe day, with my good biting faichion, I would have made them skip. —And then with painfully altered tone— 1am old now; And these same crosses spoil me. * * Who are you? Mine eyes are none of the best. The last speech, somewhat prolonged, and his death, while still watching over his only loyal daughter's corpse, are equally affecting; and » as conscientious critics, we give the preference to 4 illustrations of the third and fou: acta, yet erhageee for the old king’s sufferings, and the ca: falls not without causing a tear to bedew the cheeks of many a fair spectator, not to mention the sterner part of the audie To deny to Mr. Kean a first position in the walks of the tragic drama were a simple absurdity. That others have not their merita were “ay lous to dispute. To Mr. Ryder, who i yed ay aed character of acknowledged difficul Sa ig ir is due; for he did it—no slight praise— justice, especially throughont his fei; mad scene with Lear in the third act, and at the end of the fc . where he bursts into indignation on reading ( "s letter. Next in order we may notice Miss Poole, whose long experience of dramatic business and arch comedy, too, added to her fine alto vocal 5 gave her the abillty of—saving her pardon. ry good, and what now-a-days rarely happens, a clever fool. More than all, however, a4 long lovers of the stage, we were delighted to see Kent, most de- cidedly an important and icuous character, de- manding no small talent, so ably represented by the veteran John Cooper, whose genial smiles and active friendship seem to have made him even more active and lithsome than he was a tithe of years geno was oneety @ veteran of half @ century's ing. part was played udiciously and with more spirit than is weual! wih this old public favorite—the last remnant of the Kemble and Egerton school of . Graham's Gloucester, too, was excellent; and ag it requires more than common talent and jadgment, it deserves all praise. It were injustice, however, to say the same of Walter Lacy, who, without making himself audible to a third of the audience, made himself tho- roughly and visibly ridiculous to all by his Quixotic mode of personation. As for the ladies— calied— Miss Kate Terry made an ex lia, thoroughly entering into the spirit of no easy part; Miss Heath would have made a pom § Goneril, but she has too mach honey in ber suit the gall of such a character; but as for Bafton, proh pudor! she was beneath contempt, account of her utter inefficiency—a sure proof of the impolicy of making actresses of merely pretty faced members of the corps de ballet. On the whole, | repeat, my visit to the Princess's was a great and an intellectual treat. As a general rule it is unsafe to make the property man, the stage carpenter, the scene painter and the antiqua- rian tailor take the place of the real actor, the vivid representative of life, as it is and will be in every age. ir. Kean, however, has always tempered his zeal with judgment, 0 as seldom or never to outate bability; and, besides, where a pure and é classical taste cannot quite snes of anachroni 4 asin “Midsummer Night's nm” and “Timon of Athens,” yet he always wa te astore of learn- ing to bear on the points, that where he does not convince he never fails to interest. From any fault of this nature--though the 8 a of Mgt nn is perfectly free—it is as nearly as possi are dnetion of the past, and as each, lesson on Nhe primeval history of our country. The dramatiat’s jearning and diligence has never been doubted; and we are glad, from personal knowledge, to be able to ffirm that he has the power of personating morally nd intellectually, and that too with no common ability, the events which he has set forth pictorially with such general effect and admiration. May Mr. Charles Kean long continue to pursue a career #0 ad- mirably adapt to make his fellow-countrymen thoroughly and practically acquainted with apere; for, as Horace says: — ‘The eyo perceives more clear All phd (truths than through the fickle ear. There can be no mistake about the snocess of Malle. Titiens at Her Majesty's theatre; the three nights of last week were not only fully but fashion- attended. abl The exactin, state that Powe never ran #0 high, we ourselves had to d over five guineas to pay for a second tier box to hold four, which we had, in a moment of tion, promised, nay, even pressed upon a rosy cheek- ed country cousin who had arrived in town accom- 7 by her “ Ma” and her “ Pa,” and her big bro- . we say a second tier box know that that really means the fourth row, first comes ey then the grand tier and number one. We shall have to economise monthly segars and kid ‘gloves in order from our operatic extra oe. However delighted with Mdile. Ti , and, to m: love with Giuglini, whom = } duck a —— Ay bom of her ing optics, conceal most inain eyelashes, and heaved a hat almont cequel the soles of her pretty litt i almost inclined to associate an unmi mone ayllable with the enphonious name of the still more euphonious tenor. Mr. Lumley has now added an attractive ballet corps to wind up the soirées. This evening “!'Enfant Terrible,” the Beautiful and accom Piccolo. mini, makes her bow as Norina, in “ Panqnale; the celebrated Signor Bélart is the tenor. Mr. Frank Talfourd’s burlesque at the Haymarket has done the anriferons trick for Backstone—salle pleine nightly. The business is wronderfully good at the Ade! ehater, ith Messrs. Benjamin W Wright and Beatord, and Mme. Celeste, with an Bi Piccoli- mini, pretty and talented Miss Polly Ki Drury Lane is closed, and B. T. Smith, the lessee, is euparintending his gin palace, the Radnor, at the corner of Chancery lane and Holbarn. At the Pa- nopticon—that is the Alhambra palace in Leicester sqnare— the horse and biped troupe of Messrs. Howes « Cashing oq endienees 5,000 ey noon. Man, ve, in despair, to get twice, and, having the. time, wil ‘mabe savior at. tempt. All honor to Mr. Rainor and his successful corps of Christy minstrels. There are very many acts of kindness to their credit since ir visit here, and we have just learnt from the oral information of Messrs. Albert and Arthar Smith that they give their gratuitous services on the occasion of = complimentary benefit to the celebrated amateur clown. Mr. Joe Robbins’ benefit is to come off at the e 8th of next month. As many to appear on that occa- ndulge you with a count, fall, partic The Barney Wil