The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, JANES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 1 OFFTOY NW. W. CORNRK OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PN, Broadway—Boav to Ruiw- Pao- mRT, AC. ALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tewrrarios—Tue WG ACTRESS RARPOM'S AMERIOAN MUSROM, Brow Boon sod Brening, Facic V1 w WOOMS BUILDING, SI Sonos. Dances, 40 —-Pason. 563 Brose way—Ku nt oy THe Hopson River. MRORANIOS' HALL. roadway —BRY ANTS’ MINSTRELS: BGRO MELODIAS AND HURLESQUEA—VIRGINIA FESTIVAL METROPOLITAN GA Brence- mAlLoOM = SCR! Thirueth straat ant fecond GY mNAsTIO FMATS AC New York, Wednesoay, July 25, 15 The News. By the arrival of the Mosea Taylor we have | two weeks later intelligence from Califoraia and the newly discovered gold diggiags in the Hudson's Bay Company's territory. The excitement occasioned by the accounts from the Frazer river mines continued to increase, aad there had already departed, as appeared by the books of the Custom House in San Francisco, nearly twenty thousand gold diggers for the newly di- covered placers, As an evidence of the rush of emi- gration northwa e find in the San Francisco journals the following vessels advertised to proceed immediately for the mines, for the conveyaace of passengers:— Oregrn. Samuel Merritt Commodore, Caribbean. Eusabeth T. Wilets. Levaore. BARKS. Jeeny Ford. Asati Nencese Ocean Bird. Jens A. Falkinburg BGS. Hecyen. Curncaa, Perreverance, SCHOONTRS Goiven Stale. Frenoes Helen. Pe Gurneiia Terry. Terand Qose, Jonveue. The steamer Orizaba left San Francisco on the ‘2d inst. for Victoria, with over one thoasand pas- sengers. The steamer Cortez wasalso crowded with passengers for Frazer river. In consequence of the immense emmigration which was taking place, ‘wages of mechanics had advanced iu San Francisco frem five to seven dollars a day. Governor Stevens, Congressional delegate from Washington Territory, has addressed a long letter to General Cass, exposing the enormity and illeguli- ty of the tax imposed on citizens of the United States by the British authorities assuming to exer- cise jorisdiction over the whole tecritory in which gold bas been found. The Governor asserts that a state of things exists in the newly discovered gold regions that cannot be tolerated by American citi- wens, and that the proclamations of the Hudson's Bay Company are illegal and entitled to no respect from the government or citizens of the United States. The letter of Mr. Stevens, together with copious newspaper extracts, will be found else- where. A report had reavhed San Francisco that another battle bad been fought with the Indians. All ac- counts agree that the wild warriors of the North were hostile to the whites, and that they were arm- ing themselves in every quarter. All the troops that could be spared from California had been despatched to the scene of the difficulties. The new Sunday law which was passed by the yast Legislature had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. A very large confla- gration occurred ia Oroville on the morning of the 2d inst. One hundred houses in the Chinese district were burned. The total loss was $30,000. Business in San Francisco, in consequence of the dewand from the Nerth, was brisk and increasing. ‘The Moses Taylor brought $1,163,817 in specie. The pews from Central America is dated at Gra- nada, Nicaragua, the 10th; San Salvador 19th; San Jose, Gustemela, 274b; Ayutla, 28th; La Union, 30th, and Sau Juse, Costa Rica, 30th of June, and Ponta Arenas, 3d of July. Don Fermin Ferrer, of Nicaragua, lute Minister under Walker, had petition- ed the existing government for permission to re- turn to bis bome. All the republics were quiet, Cholera bad abated in Guatemala. Coffee cultiva- tion was being encouraged in Nicaragua, and the Central American crops generally promised well. Flour, rice snd grain for food may be imported duty free into Costa Rica for six months from 15th of May last. Messrs. Cauty, father and son, had asked permission to open the Serapiqui road. The Na tional Bank of Costa Rica commenced operations on the 14th oltimo. Twelve thousand seroons of cochi- neal, the year's crop, had been gathered in Guatemala, Prewidentuntin, of San Salvador, had, it was sai resigned on account of ill health, and General G. Barrios had assumed the office. President Guardiola, of Honduras, had changed bis Ministers of Foreign | Affairs and Interior. Honduras was ready to aid | Nicaragua in maintaining the unity and indepen deace of the Central American States. Our filesfrom New Granada are dated at Panama on 19th of July. There was no definite news from Rogota, but letters bad been received to the effect that the Case-Herran treaty was rejected by the Legislature, and that General Mosquera had been appointed to command the military on the Isthmus. Some papers represcuted Senor Obaldia as having | been elected Governor of the State of Panama, | whilst others asserted that Senor Hustado had the | most votes. It was said that the United States ship | Saranac was about to leave Panama for San Jaan | dei Ser. A number of residents on the Isthmus— several of thea employés of the Panama Railroad | Company—had left for the gold mines at Vancou- ver's Island. the South Pacific we have advices dated | Frou Valparaiso the 15th, Lima 25th and Callao the 27th of Jane. The Chilean Legislature met on the | Ist of June, when the President made an address containing a recommendation for a general union of the Spanish American States against “all foreign agcressors,” and regretiing that the Senate of the United States proposed alterations in the treaty concluded with Chile which it would be impossible | for Chile to accept. He also advieed the abolition | Of the stamp act and tobacco monopoly. There was | & vtrong opposition against the government. A | large supply of shipping lay in the ports of Chile. | The weather cortinned severe, with heavy ralus. ‘Trade was very dull in Valparaiso. In Peru all par- fies were preparing for the coming executive election struggle. which it was feared would resalt in a revolution. resident Castilla had gone south, in order, as alleged, to court the support | of General San Roman for the goverament nomi | nees. The guano exports from Chinchas were | very large. Trade was very heavy at Callao. ‘The American ships Pianter and Samuel Lawrence bad put back to that port leaky. Bolivia was ina very excited and dangerons condttion. President Linares had increased the army largely. Private citizens were daily flogged by order of Courts Mar- ial, and Linares had been consulting mesmerists as to his official fate. Several planters had been banished, and others were leaving for Chile and | Peru, having sold their estates. The republic was flooded with base coin. Onur advices from the Sandwich Islands are dated | at Honolala the 20th of May. On May 20, at ten ininutes past six o'clock in the evening, her Majesty, the Queen, was safely delivered of a maie infant, heir apparent to the throne, Following the exam- pile of bis roya| sisters Iv England aod Spain, and that of his imperial brother of France, King Kame- Lameba, immediately issued letters patent styling the youthfal “The Prince Royal of islander NEW YORK HFRALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1868, Hawaii.” There were immense rejoiciugs on the occasion. The new Commissioner of the United States, Hou. J. W. Borden, and family had arrived. Mr. Borden was presented at court, when the King made an agreeable reply to his address, Hon, Mr. Gregg, ex-American Commis- sioner, had been serenaded, ing to Honolulu bad sailed with a heavy cargo aud passengers for the gold mines on Frazer river. New | gvano islands had been discovered in the Pacific by | traders from the islands. There was a dread that | the natives were fast returning to the praotice of , idol worship, The coffee crop promised to be abun- | dan’, We have news from St. Domingo dated at Port au Plate on the 14th of July. There was a large sup ply of provisions and merchandise on h+nd, and trade was mech depressed. Specie was very scarce, One of the naval officers and some sailors who served in a brig hired by Santana for war purposes had left for New York. We have advices from Buenos Ayres to June | 10, which say business is very dull at Buenos Ayres—very little produce coming in. Coantry quict. Amongst the projects of law presented to the legislature were the following:— That the Execu- tive be authorized to spend ove hundred thousand dollars in bringing the remains of General Don Juan Lavalle from Pern; that legacies for prayers for the soul of a deceased person shall not exceed ove third part of his property. ‘The entries in the Cus- tom House of Rosario during May amounted to $113,233, notwithstanding few arrivals. The steamship Europa arrived at Halifax at an early hour yesterday morning, and left soon after for Boston, where she is expected to arrive this after- noon. Elsewhere will be found some additional details of her news. The steamship Jura, for this port direct, left on the same day as the Europa. The steamship Prince Albert had been substitated for the American Empire in the Galway line, and was to have left for Halifax on the 27th. The Persia arrived at Liver- pool on the morning of the 17th, the day on which ‘be Europa sailed. The receipts of Australian gold at London for the week had been £710,000, and £400,000 more was daily expected. Graphic descriptions of the cruise of the Aga- memron, showing the great danger to which this vessel was exposed whilst laying the Atlantic cabldé} are published in the London papers. The Times asserts that the Agamemnon is unfit for laying the cable, and recommends the building of a snitable vessel at once. The telegraph fleet were to have left Queenstown on the 17:b. The British government have withdrawn the re- ward offered for the spprehension of Mr. Allsop, and all further proceedings against that gentleman will Le discontinued. The Turkish government seems determined to punish the Jeddah assassins, and has ordered an officer of the army to proceed to that city and punish the parties implicated in the massacre according to martial law. When the news of the atrocitics at Jeddah reached Mecca there was much rejoicing among the Musselmen. Further outrages are report- ed in Turkey, and also in Greece. The Bombay and Calcutta mails had arrived, the former at Alexandria with dates from India to the 19th of June, the latter to the 4th. The heat bed produced much sickness among the troops, and only 26,000 Europeans could be mustered. General Rose, Colonel Smith and Brigadier Smith were to meet before Gwalior on the 17th of Jane, Gwalior was in possession of the rebels, who were estimated at 17,000 strong. They were also in great force around Lucknow. Sir Colin Campbell was about to proceed to Allahabad. The disarmed Se- poys at Bengal were being discharged in small par’ ties. There was a rumor among the Chinese at Shanghac that the ‘ort north of the Peiho had been captured. The allied fleet off the mouth of that river numbered nineteen men-of-war. The United States steamer Powhatan arrived at Hong Kong on the 12th of May, and proceeded to the uorth. The sloop-of-war Germantown was at Hong Kong, and the steamers Minnesota, Mississip- pi and Antelope were in the Galf of Pecheli. We have interesting advices from the west coast of Africa dated Cape Coast Castle to the 1th, Li beria 16th, and Sierra Leone 2d of June. The Admi ralty Court at Monrovia had, in the case of the French sbip Regina Cccli, awarded $6,500 to the Ethiope as slave capture prize money, but we are not yet informed at what place or from whom Cap- tain Simon bonght his negroes. Commodore Pro- tet, French commander on the coast, had had an interview with the King of Dahomey on the snbject of the traffic, but legitimate commerce had so raised the price of slaves that the King was unable to supply them to the agents of M. Regis at their maximum price. Trade was improving at Lagos. Few slavers had been in the Bight of Benin lately: Palm oil was very high at Accra. The officers com- posing the English Niger expedition were all well at their camp near Rabba, with the exception of Mr. Davey, the surgeon, The somewhat notorfous cross indictments of Mesers. Cook and Wells, growing out of an affray at Astoria some months since, were to have been tried yesterday in the Queens County Court of Sessions, at Hempstead Court House, Long Isiand. By con- sentof all parties, however, the triala were post poned until the February term of the court. It will be recollected that both parties are old men, and that Mr. Cook charges Mr. Wells with undue ap- proaches to his daughter, and an assault upon him- self because he repulsed him; and Mr. Wells charges Mr. Cock and daughter with having committed an aseault upon him on the occas‘on of his visit to their honse, The strongest feeling prevails on both sides, and considerable excitement is occasioned in Long Island circles in anticipation of the trial. The sloop-of-war Brooklyn, built by Messrs. Wes tervelt, was launched from their yard foot of Houston street, yesterday morning. Upward of five thousand persons were present and she glided off the ways in Leautiful style. Her appearance on the water was critically commented upon by several naval officers prevent, who eulogived the builder in high terms. After the launch a collation was given, at which reveral addresses were mad¢ and popular toasts drank. An outrageous attempt was made by some rowdies at Port Lee, last evening, to steal a passage onthe steamer Thomas E. Hulse, and a bloody fight ensued. The rowdies were fortunately repulsed, but a lady passenger was unfortunately shot with a pistol in the hands of the captain. Particulars are given else- where. The German festival at Conrad's park was con- tinwed yesterday, and there were about half the number of people present that were on the grounds the preceding day. Everything passed off in the moet creditable manner: and the enthusiasm pre- vailing among the German citizens to do honor to the memory of Gen. Steuben was evidently ordiminished, The corner stone of a new Welsh Calvanistic church was laid at six o'clock yesterday evening, in Thirteenth strect, between Second and Third avenues, The chair was occupied by William Miles, Dsq., and the dedicatory prayer offered by the Rev. Thomas De Witt, D. D. Addresses were also delivered by the Rev. Wm. Roberts, pastor: Rev. Dr. Armitage, Dr. Krebs, of the Ratgers Institute, and Dr. De Witt, after which the stone was closed by G. W. Grifliths, Bsq., and the benedic- tion pronounced, Ata meeting of the Health Commissioners yes | terday an application was received from certai shippers to have the decision of the Board relative to vessels coming from Ponce reconsidered. The application was denied, and the previous order, that all vessels coming from that port shall discharge at the lower Quarantine anchorage, was confirmed afd insisted on. The owners of vessels now lying at the lower Quarantine made application to be permitted to discharge there. Referredto the Health Officers, with power. A mocting of the Board of Health of Castleton, An iron vessel belong: , Staten Island, was held yesterday afternoon. The resolutions passed at th last meeting of the Board giving Dr. Munday a vote ai the meetings, were, upon motion, laid on the table to be reconsidered Mr Theodore Train moved that the report submitted by the Health Officer (Dr. Munday) at the last meeting be presented to their counsel, and that be be requested to prepare such rules aud regulations as may be deemed advisable to carry out the recom mendations and suggestions of the Health Officer. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after- noon, and had under consideration the tax levy Objections were made to portions o° it, particu- larly that rélative to paying the expenses o' D. D Conover whilst ofticiating as Street Commissiouer, amounting to $38,278 95. The Board adjourned without disposing of the matter, A case involving the liability of ex; ress companies cume up yesterduy in the Marine Court, The action was ‘aid against the Adams express company for the amount due on a promissory note given them to collect, which had been lost before preseatation to tne maker.’ The Court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff, holding that a banker or common car- rier {5 liable for all damage resulting from his care- exsness or neglect. The enles of cotton yesterday ombraced abort 1 2008 1,60 dries, based meiviy upon widdling aplands at 1253 Plour wes come what less buoyant, while sales were tair without cherge of mement ia quotations. Wheat was firmer av@ more active. The sa'cs eisbraced aout 6,00 bushe's, at prices given in austher colume, Cora was fim, Wb limied sale, iveleding Wesiern mixed, out of wider, ot Tle. a 76c , and goed sound Southern white at $i. Pork wos Gemer and more active Tho sides om. breced about 2,000 pb's., chiefly meas at $17 25 a $17 87d a $17 OC, end prime wt $18 900814. Beef, cut meats ave ‘ard were alo firm. Sug ere firm and ia g20d Gemand, with saies of about 1800 hhds., at rates givon in another piace, Coffee was firm, though sales wore Nght. The stock of Rio smounts to about 19,936 daze, and the stock of all descriptions embraces 45,604 bags Freight ergegements were moderate and rather easier tor grem ia bulk for Liverpsol, while the quotations for other articies remsined about the same. ‘The New Northwestern Kmpire—Gzitsh and Amertean Ke lprucity, The discovery of the new gold fielda in the westerly portion of British North America is the most important event of the day. The mercurial people of California and their neizh. bors down the Pacific coast and across to the Sandwich Islands, are in a state of the wildest excitement, 66 will be seen by our advices per steamship Moss Teylor, which arrived yester- €ay. Already, as we learn, the number of emi- grants from San Francisce to Frazer river ex. cecde twenty thousand pereons. Nor is this excitement confined to Califor- nia, We published, only a few days ago, an interesting report of a meeting of the citizens of St. Pau', Minnesota, ia re- lation to this subject. It will be recollected that in commenting upon the proceedings of the people of St. Paul, we stated that while the crmi- gration from our Western and Middle States would find that city a convenient poiat of de- parture, the Canadians would undoubtedly take measures to pass wround the head waters of Luke Superior, and save the detour about St. Paul This has already been done; and as further important steps have been taken for the improvement of British North America, we pro pose to give a brief account of matters relative to the new E! Dorado as they now stand. The vast Northwestern empire which lies be- | tween lakes Superior and Wianepeg on tho east, and the Pacific on the west, has a territo- | rial area of one million square miles, which | would make twenty-four States as large as Onio. | North of the boundary of forty-nine degrees, | and contiguous to the proposed emigrant route | to Frazer river, we have five hundred thousand equare miles, divided as follows:— Square mas. Vancouver's Island ..........+ 6,00 Frezer ana Thompson rivers 69,000 Sources of the Upper Columbia 20 000 Atbaberka district... 50,000 Bashatchewan, Red Kiver, Assineboio, &c. 362,060 | ‘Total, 606,010 The Minnesota people, with that sharp eye to a great land speculation, have already “ calcu- lated” that this district would cut up into | twelve States, each having an area equal to that of Ohio. The sixty thousand square miles in the Frazer and Thompson river district. is he paradise of this empire. We are told that “from the forty-ninth parallel, some three hundred and fifty miles north, a more beautiful coaatry does not exist.” The Parliamentary Committee were told that “its fisheries are most valuable; ita timber the finest in the world for maritime purposes; it abounds in bituminous coal, well fitted for the generation of steam; and its cli mate ie fiae,equable and salubrious.” 1a many respects this region is not unlike Northern Calt- fornia; and buta little more than a yearsinceanri- | ferous deposits, found in pretty large quantities, made the resemblance still more marked, and created the wildest excitement amoog all the adventarers on the western slope of the moun- tains, from San Diego to the mouth of the | Columbia. The richest placers seemed to be in the table land betweon Frazer sod Columbia rivers, and it is to this district that the atten- | tion of British statesmen is now turned. For nearly two centuries the navigation of these rivers, their tributaries, the bays, straits or eoands into which they flow, hae been monopolized by the Iludson's Bay Compeny. In addition to this the company hoids under a tripartite teoure all the territory extending from our Northern frontier to the Aretic Sea. First, they hold under license from the Crown the colony of Vancouver's Island; secondly, the territory extending from the Pa cific to the Rocky Mountains, now to be called New Caledonia; and third, under the Charles the Second charter, the vast territories extend- ing from the Rocky Mountains to Hudson's Bay. The Crown will resume almost immediately all the territory held under license; bat the charter is a rather more dificult matter, Mr. Roebuck, as one of a deputation adaressing the Premier on the subject, pursued this line of ar- gument : That euch a policy should be adopted as would develope the British possessions, and make @ continuous liue of populated and im- proved country from the Atlantic to the Pacitic as a counterpoise to the rapidly increasing pre ponderance of the United States on this conti- nent, While, he said, the border States—Min- nevota and lowa—were filling up to the frontier, the Britieh had, on the other side, nothing but a little colony on the Red river. This primi- tive state of things Mr. Roeback accredited, with jurtice, to the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company. He proposed that they should be got rid of at once. If it was decided they had a legal right to remain, they should be paid for relinquishing their right; if not, they ebould be dispossessed without pay. The Pre- mnier agreed with the deputation in their geno- ral views, and referred them to the epeech of the Colonial Secretary introducing the New Caledonia bill, as indicating the policy of the government, And this brings us te an examination of the course of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton in this the moet important eveut of bis official life. He begins by sketching the territory over which | political and commercial empire has passed | from the South to the Middle and Western | hope that Cuba and Mexico would one day fall | May we not the new Colonial government \--o reign. 1 extends from our frontier to the sources of Frozer river; it is ‘our hundred aud tweuty miles long and about three busdred browd, with an area of about torce bnudrcd ‘houraud sqaare wiles, This territory takes iu the whole of the gold ficlds, and alt of the best land, 89 far as kuown, in this part cf Britieh North America Under the bill the Ceown isto make the laws for the new colony during five years, and if vefore that time the colony shoald have tu» material for celf government a Legislative Aswmbly will bodoubt be given. Tae Secretary, alluding to the circumstance tha. some gentle men might think five years too short a period, remioded the House that the larger uumber of immigraats attracted to the diggings would probably be Americans accustoard wo rel goveroment, aod that the beet way to keep them contented would be to give them the fora of government to which they were accustomed. The value of Vancouver’s Islucd, as a poiut from which trade couid be carried on wish Chia, the Eustera Archipeiago, wud so forth, with the projected extension of the railway which pow connects the Avaatic with the great lakes, to the Pacific coast, were also aiiuaed to. The biil will probably pass withont opeorition. Tt will setile at ovee the pretensions of the Hudrou’s Bay Company and ther agrota They certainly bave no rights over the guld telds *hich ere not in their territory, and it has al- tency been decided in Australia taat placer nold belongs to the finder, aud the Crown has only proprietmry right over mines and their products ¢xcavated in the regular way. The aeepatch of the colonial Secretary to Governor Deuglas neither permits or prohibits the li- cenee system, but hints very strougly that the Crown will not ranctios any attempt to enforce the peymevt of the tax. The whole mat ter bas alresdy been brought before our government through a Itter addressed to the Secretary of State by Mr. Stevens, the delegate in Congress from the Territory of Washington. This document and the Paken- bam tieaty, by which we are secured in the right of navigation to Frazer river, are printed in another part of to day’s paper. We are glad to see that the whole matter is to be settled be- tween the Cubinets of Grea’ Britsin aud toe United States, and we believe that the Derby Ministry will pursue a liberal policy in the matter. The Frazer river mines bave already taken us from New York to Minnesota and California, frem California to London, from London to Washington, and thence our attention is direct- ed to the events on the other side of the border. Tbe Canadians are already alive to the vecessity of direct communication with the new auriferous region, They have a rega- lar lize of steamships from Toronto to Fort William, on the portbwest coast of Lake Su- perior, and a biil bas been introduced ia the Conadian Legislature to build a route from Fort William to the settlements on the Red river. Tbis route will be nearly all by water ; it will avoid the roundabou' way by St. Paal— saving some eight hundred miles, The Mione- sota people ray that they “will join heartily | with the people of Canada in the policy of colo- nizing the western districts of British America ;” and that “relations of reciprocal trade” should be extended over that portion of the imperial poseeesions. Our reciprocrity treaty only ap plies now to Canada, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- | Wick and the ielands adjacent. All these facts are pregnant with import to the future of the United States. The sceptre of States. Southern statesmen have indulged the into their hands and restore the pristine glory of their section. But with the prospect before us of a vast empire in the Northwest, a great agricultural, commercial and mining country filled with a hardy, thrifty, industrioas, iutelli- gent population, English, Scotch and American all blended in one amalgam of power, the North would maintain its supremacy against any posible acquisition of territory in the South, The British statesmen acknowledge that we have set them the example of develope- ment, and that a modification of our system of self-government is the best for their new colo- ny. Will not the American settlers asi for the whole loaf when the half is so freely offered? safely predict that before many years the boundary line of forty-nine will be obliterated, and that the war cry of 1844—* fifty-four forty’’—witboat the fight, sill be heard on the other ride of the line? Minne- ota and Iowa, as Mr. Roebuck rays, are filling up to the frontier, and, gold or no gold, the rash of immigration will soou cover all the avail- able lands between the Red river andthe mouth of the Columbia. The pioneers in this move- ment will be the frontiersmen of Nebraska, Towa and Minnesota, with progressive pyr- ties from Canada, who will conquer the territory, pot with arms in their hands, but with the gold rocker, the plough, the loom and the anvil, the steamboat, the railway and the telegraph. Commerce aad agriculture, disenthrailed by the influences of | free institutions, will cause the new empire to spring into life, full armed, as Minerva from the brain of Jove. Its Pacific ports will be throng- ed with ships of all nations; its rich valleys will bloseom with natare’s choicest products, while its grand rivers will bear te the sea the fruits of free and honest labor. Great as have been the achievements of our Western pioneers, they all pale in comparison with the magnifi- cent work now before us, in which the united energies of two great and free peoples will be engaged heart and band. Tux Riewr or Seance w rie Barrisn Par- Liament.—We commend the atteation of the strenuous believers in the theory that Eogtand has abandoned the practice of the right of rearch to the revelations recently made in the Britieh Parliament, Mr. Hutt introduced a re- olution “that it is expedient to discontinue the practice of authorizing her Majesty’s ships to visit and search vessels under foreign flags with a view of suppressing the traffic in elaves.” | This resolution was lost, on a division of the House, by a vote of 24 ayes to 223 nays. Dur- ing the debate which ensued on this motion the Gistinction between the right of search and the right of visit was defended; bat the most curi- ous statement was made by Mr. Fitzgerald, Under Secretary of State. Thie gentleman in- formed the House that “her Majesty's govern- ment, ae coon as they found that the right they had bitherto claimed of verifying the flag dix played by any versel euppoved to have slaves on board was one they were not entitled to exer cire, thought it only becoming the dignity of a great nation at once to abandon ft; but at the same time they considered themselves perfeetly at liberty to proceed in the manner sng- gerted by the Amerioan Secretary of State, end where there were grave silspi- ciop#, smonnting aimost to certainty, that the American flog wes not legitimately borne, torvu the rick smplied, in ascertaining at once whether the veasel had aright to the flag it bore or not” We ruppose tt will not be contended that Englacé baa hitherto claimed the right to vex cur commeree on the ocean, whether it were euspicious or not, Neither can we see the great diflervence between vessels “supposed to have slaves on board,” and others under “grave sus- picions amounting almost to certainty.” Per- bap some of ibe eutausissiic believers at Wash- ington in the backing down of Great Britain from a Jong claimed right wil! explain it to us, Perbaps they will also inform us what is the preciee line, “almost a certainty,” up to which Englund may exercice this grave and b-lizerent right in time of peace. Mc. Fitzgerald eays this is the position which Geseral Cass himeeif pointed out to England. Thia is a grave charge against the Secretary of State, for it implies an abandonment of the American ground, that Bag- laud hall not exercise belligerent rights to- wards our shipa in time of peace. Lody Bulwer and fler Husbaad—A Drama im Four Actes, Twerty-eeven years ago there was a fashion- able and literary wedding in London. The bridegrocm, Edward Lytton Bulwer, was a. young mun of mark. He had graduated with hovors, received the prize for the best Eagtish poem, ond bad begun to publish the novels which have since created au equal pensation in May Fair and in St. Giles’, He was the pet of the delicate, inte- resting young ladies who were # little blue. It was one of there angels that he led to the altar. A once popular poetess tells to the world that Bula+r waa a pale and fascinating young man ; hie bride was the more charming because she wes in delicate health, and her complexion was like “rose leaves crushed on ivory.” No union could have promised better. Bulwer was rising to the topmost wave of success, while his wife, who was beautiful and clever, found a welcome in every drawing room of Belgravia. A littie more than ten years pass away, and we find cur couple not quite so interesting to themeelves. A son has been born to them. Lady Bulwer inclines to em bon point and has a bad temper. Her husband has been created a baronet, and is recognized as one of the first, if not the firet, living writers of fiction. He works bard, end ad interim, it is whispered, amuses himself sfter the fashion of Young Evgland. His chambers are those of o bachelor. Madame lives in the coun- try, and comes down post one day, to find her busband entertaining a dinner party more joyous than select. The twain have lived apart for some time, and the reparation is made eternal by a circumstance which occurred in Sir Edward’s introduction to political life. He rises to epeak for the first time in the Hoase of Com- mone, end fails to fulfil the great expectations that bad been raieed by his literary achieve ments, In fact, he breaks dowa altogether. Taunted by his wife, he so fur forgets his manhood, according to report, as to inflict a blow upon her. From this time war is declared between them. The lady makes her débi in the literary world with a novel called “Cheverly,” which is followed by a pamphlet detailing her family troubles, and two other novels, severally entitled “Bebind the Scencs” and “Very Successfal.” All of these novels contain severe attacks apon Sir Edward and bis friends, Curiously enough some of her bitterest sarcasms in “Behind the Scenes” were levelled against Mr. Charles Dickens, whose ma- trimouial troubles have siuce ufforded a wide field for the Loudon gossips, Lady Bulwer’s venom against Sir Edward is rather heightened as sbe grows older and fatter and ashe grows richer and more famous. In politics he rises to the eurfuce with the Derby Ministry, and is appointed Colonial Secretary: To accept this appointment he must resign hie eeat in Parliament, and enter upon a hotly covtested election ia his own county, where he is far from being personally popalar. While finiehing bis address to the electors with the customary tribute to the “galaxy of female beauty” within sight of the hustings, the rose lesf beauty of thirty years ago appears upon the ecene, in the shape of « stout, red faced matron of about fifty sammers, before whose dread presence the statesman beats an fnylo rious retreat, while she gives to the pablic a “piece of her mind” ia relation to the charac- ter of the honorable geavleman who has just solicited their suffrages. However mortifying this rencontre must have been to the baronet, the result wae inbis favor. Le was returned to the House, duly installed in the Cabinet, and has now succeeded in incarcerating his wife ion a madhouse. We are obliged to say, after reading the nar- rativerent to us by our London correspoa- dent—and publiehed in another part of to- day's Hrxatp—that the later proceedings of Sir Edward Bolwer Lytton are such as will go far to damage him in the estimation of hie most ardent admirers. It appears that he received with bis wife her income of £400 per annum, which was mort welcome to him at the time; that when he became rich he refused to allow Lady Lytton more than the tum above named, and that now he has attempted to silence her forever by confining her as a maniac, without the «mallest possible ground for such action. A novelist by profession, he has given the plot for a sensation story of the first class; a statesman by inclina- tion, he has shown in his own person the neces- sity of still further guards around the personal liberty of the subject. A member of the Pal- mer+ton Cabinet made an unenviable notoriety as a roué and a gambler, bat he did not preach the fine sentiments which form the stock in trade of Lord Derby's Joseph Surface. The newspaper accounts, however, go to ehow that he has begun to be ashamed of his course, and that he promises to compromise matters with Lady Lytton. There seems to be some peculiar fatality attendant upon marriages between literary people. No sooner has the world ex- bausted the seandal about the Hon. Mra, Norton than the Bulwers give a now topic for gossip; and as this grows stale, the troubles of Mr. and Mrs. Dickens agitate the clubs, the journals and private circles, Bap News ror Mextoo—The IMhjare Auto grafos, of Madrid, contradicts the story that the Spanish government intended to sead ton thousand men to Mexico. This is bad news for Mexico, as everybody looked w&h hope to the probability of Spanish invasion for the resus- citation of the national life there. President Juarez will have to establish a liberal govera ment tbere on the strength of his ows merits, acd withont any aisistance from # Spanish enemy. Inpiaw War om rau Nonrnwwst.—The de- feat vf Colonel Steptoe’s commaud by acom- bination of the Spokane and other Indian tribes of Oregon and Washington Territories ix about to Jead to a general Indiana war in those re- gions. As was to be expeeted, the news of the victory spread like wildfire from tribe to tribe; into whatever loop in the wilderness the tidings came they were received with rejoicing, and they fanned into @ flame the smouldering em- bers of a hate that knows no extingnichment fave jin death, The buffalo bunters on the plains tkirting the Rocky Mountains turned, when the event waa commucicated to them, and abandoxed the chase to join in the expulsion of the white faces. From all sides the warlike tribes bave been gatberirg to a common ceatre, preparing to buret upon the settlements and bid bavee reign, On the other band, the military authorities of ibe United States have not been idle. With the first news of the defeat of Col. Steptoe prepa- rations were commenced to pupich the savages, and to meet the tbock of war which wae plain ly inevitable. Troops were recalled from thc Uteh expedition, and their course directed to- wards the theatre of Indian hostilities, and from whatever other quarter they could be epared they were withdrawn and sent there. A force large enough to bear down all opposition from the savages will coon be concentrated there, and then we may expect to hear of stir- ring events in that quarter. The Iodians of Oregon snd Washington are the most nume- rous, powerful and warlike of any within the territory of the United States, and they will, at first, give or receive battle. ‘Phe end of course will he, that which must come sooner or Jater—the extinction of these eavages, or their diminution to a point of weakness that will leave nothing to be feared from them here. after. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Speriel Wathington Despatch, THE POLICY OF GRKAT BRITAIN WITH RESPECT TO THE LAT GOLD DISCOVERIES—TRE OPINION OF LUaD NAPIER— STEAM COMMUNICATION FROM MINNESOTA AND TBY GULF OF MEXICO 10 FRAZER RIVER, ETO. Wasurneron, ‘July 27, 1858. Lord Napier is in Washington, and appears to take great interest inthe prospective developeniont of British power and progress on the Western shores of this eontinent, now so much favored by the gold discoveries in the Frazer river country. Whatever irregulstities may bave occurred or may occur in the first excitement, and before the British govern- ment has time to send instructions or to organize a government, bis lordship seems to think the policy of Great Britain will be liberal and adapted to the circumstances, and such as wil! be unobjectionable to the large body of our citizens who may go there. The policy of Great Britain with regard to the mines and lands of New Caledoni#Pand in view of a Jurge American population, will probably be assimi- lated to that of our government in California rather than to its policy in Australia or others of its colo- nies. Taking a statesmanlike view of these recent de- velopements, the repid growth cf a great colonial Power rivalling and stimulating the American States of the Pacific, it ie expected the most important re- sults must follow immediately to commerce, throngh the dense populations of Northern Asia. There will probably be a large British naval force soon concen- trated in that part of the world. 1 onderstand there is continuons water navigation or a certain class of steamboats from Breckenridge, Minnesota, at the fork of the Red River of the North, by Lake Winnepeg and the Saskatchawan river, to within three hundred miles of Frazer river mines; and if a short canal of a few miles were cnt between one of the lakes in Minnesota, connecting with the opper Mississippi and the navigable waters of the Red River ot the North, there would be an entire communication from the Gulf of Mexico to within three hundred miles of the Frazer river mines. . It is asked here why, in view of these new gold excitements and necessities of commerce, the old thip canal company of Nicaragua, which seems to have the best right, does not open the route imme- diately: and if one cannot do it, why do not two or three of the rival companies unite for this purpose? It is vaid this important route must not be kept closed. Tne Canadian Pari nt, Toronto, CO. W., July 27, 1868, It was announced to-day that the Canadian Par- lament would be prorogned some time next week. Melancthoiy Casualty—S<hool Exhtbicion, Bosvox, July 27, 1958. Two men, named O'Brien and Quinlan, were suffo- cated in a well in Somerville yesterday, into which they deecended to blast a rock. Doth leave families, The annual school festival of the medal scholars of our public sehools took plece this afternoon at Music Holl, which was decorated most appropriately for the occasion. ‘The exercises consisted of speeches by Governor Banks and other distinguished citizens, the presentation by Mayor Lincoln of a beanutifal bouquet to each medal echolar, and singing by a choir of 1,200 children. The hall was crammed. Lord Nepler left here for Steam Navigation on the Kite Canal, ® Awtany, July 27, 1858. The steam canal boat Charles Mack arrived hore today. She left Buffalo on Saturday afternooa, 17th inst., and deducting five days for detention, has made the passage here in about five days. She brings cight hundred barrels of flour, and ia capab'e of carrying twelve hundred. On the passage she bari wood ; better results are anticipated when enpplied with coal. There is an immense amount of property now afloet on the canal. Burving of the Steamer Olive Branch, Roxvowr, Joly 27, 1958. The steamer Olive Branch, engaged in towing coal boots from this place to Hudson, was burned this morning at two o'clock while lying at the dock. No lives were lost, The Southern Mati. Warnixeton, July 27, 1868, The mail from all points South as late as due is to band. The shippers’ cotton press at Galveston was pat+ tially burnt on the 14th inst., including sixty bales of cotton. Loss $26,000, believed to be insured in Northern compenies. The cotton and corn reports from Texas are satis- factory. Effects of the Late Storm tn Kansas, Sr. Lovrs, July 27, 1858. Fort Leavenworth advices of the 24th, per United States express te Booneville, state that great damage had been done to the crops in the interior hy the late heavy rains. Several bridges on the Fort Riley road had been carried away,as had also a new bridge across the Kansas river at Topeka, by the heavy rise. Numbers of teamsters are arriving from Utah, having been detained at Camp Scott dusing the win- ter and spring by insufficient means of transporta. tion. Bailing of the Canada, Boston, July 27, 1858, The steamship Canada sails from this port at noon tomorrow for Liverpool. Her maila close at 10 A.M. Despatches placed in the tele