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Brennan & Taylor, as lessees of the State of New York, moved for the appointment of a receiver, on the grounds that the present occupants of the market stalls and the tenants of the Mayor and Commonalty of New ‘York withhold from them possession of the premises; that the tenants refuse to pay them (Brennan & ‘Tayior) rent, and that a small portion only of the rent collected has been paid into the city treasury; that the persons acting in the collection of the rent are pecuniarily irresponsible and are not authorized to act; the amount so paid is more than $40,000 annually. The defendants claimed to hold under the city, and that the premises in dispute had been reclaimed by them and theCorporation. The Judge in an elaborate opinion, granted the motion for the appointment of a receiver, who is to give two sureties in the sum of $20,000. As the courts have decided in favor of the State lessees of West Washington market it may be a matter of some curiosity to know what the annual rental of that property will be worth to Messrs. ‘Taylor & Brennan, provided their lease is held good, From the books of the Comptroller it appears that, from May 25, 1858, to July 22, there was paid into the city treasury $6,260 83 for stalls at West Wash- ington market. This would be at the rate of $37,500 a year. Of this the lessees pay the State only $5,000 per year. The committee of Mexican bondholders in London have received advices from Mr. Whitehead, dated Mexico, June 18. General Zaloaga’s government were in great pecuniary straits, but would, it was believed, obtain another one and a half million from the church, which possibly may enable them to maintain themselves. The persons composing it are individually most respectable, and profess the most satisfactory disposition towards the Londholders, put their only resource seemed to be a disposal of some further portion of territory to the United States. Our advices from the city of Mexico,to the 3d of July, show that the prospects of the Zuloaga government became worse daily during the inter- vening time. The Tammany Society met last night and trans ucted considerable routine business. Several new members were proposed, two of whom were black balled and the rest laid over. It is evidently the de- termination of the present members to make the so- ciety as close a corporation as possible. During the course of the evening an old tomahawk was pre nented to the society by one of the sachems, who made an appropriate speech on the ocrasion, which ‘was much applauded. The attendance was not large. Notwithstanding the inclement state of the weather the cricket match between cleven of Canada and eleven of the United States was commenced yesterday, at the New York Cricket ground, Elysian Fields, Hoboken. There was a very large attend. ance. Canada,winning the toss, took the wickets first and scored seventy-three—seven wickets down. ‘The match will be resumed this morning at tén o'clock. In the Sapreme Court yesterday Judge Ingraham granted the motion for a writ of error and a stay of in the case of Cancemi, charged with the murder of policeman Anderson. The opinion of be Coart, which is mainly upon the point as to the regularity of the proceedings whereby the prisoner ‘was tried by eleven jurors only, may be found Sisewhere in onr columns. We have news from Rio Janeiro to the 17th of Jane. Political matters were quiet. The commer- cial and indostrial associations were agitating the question of establishing an electric telegraph to con nect the principal seaports of Brazil. The yeliow fever was prevailing with considerable virulence at Babia, Maranham and Pernambuco, bat at Rio the Gisease was said to be rapidly decreasing. It was stated that Paraguay was on the point of evacuat. Sng the territory between the Parana and Uraguay rivers, and that negotiations far the surrender of the military poste were mready in progress. The Exdbe Commissioners met yesterday, and pfter granting an innkeeper's license, adjourned. Fire Marshal Baker yesterday arrested Samue Phillips, on a warrant issued by Justice Connolly, wherein Mr. Phillips stands accused of attempting to suborn one James Smith to burn down a block of frame dwelling houses in Brooklyn. The case is rather a remarkable one, and the facts are detailed In another column. A spirited yacht race took place at New London ©n Batorday last. The whole number of vessels en tered for the race was twenty-one, which were ar wanged in three classes. The course ron was fifteen miles, and the winning yacht accomplished the dis tance in three hours fifteen minutes twenty-five gecouds. The Haswell and Mystic, of the New York Yacht squadron, were spectators of the con- teat. The August term of the Court of General Sessions was commenced yesterday. Recorder Barnard occn- pying the beach. A quorum of Grand Jurors could not be obtained, but a sufficient number will undoubt- edly be present this morning to effect an organiaa- tion, Judge Russell sentenced Leroy Ruscher, ia. dicted for the murder of John McCarthy, to impri- sonment for life in the State prison. It will be re- membered that at the last term of the Court he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the firet degree. The chief transaction in éottou yesterday consisted of the sale of about 1,200 bales a transitu, on private terms. The sales on the epot were confined to about 2008 300 bales, on the baeis of about 125/c. for middling uplands. Flour waa in fair requeet and wib a Grmer market; the sales reached about 15,000 bbls. Wheet was irregular for common aad inferior qualities, while good to prime lots were firm; the sales footed up about 60,000 bushels. Corn was firm and active; the sales embraced about 75,000 @ 60,000 bushels, at rates given in another place. Sales of mess pork were made at $17 45 a $17 60, and of prime at $14 10 a $14 25, Other provisions were in fair request at sustained prices. A statement of the elocks of pork and beef in this market will be found elsewhere. Sugars were active and firm, with sales of about 2,500 bhds., at prices given in another column, Freight engagements wore moderate and easier for flour end grain to Liverpool. About 6,000 bushels whoat were taken for London in bags at 6d. The Proposed New British Empire--The Hudson's Bay Territory tn Partiament. Some two years after the discovery of gold in Oalifornia, a gentleman, who was a native of Panama, but who had been many years absent from there, returned to see the wonderful change that had followed the American in- coming. We saw him on his return to Europe, when he complained to us bitterly that the Americans bad ruined the Isthmus. Formerly, said he, the trip up Chagres river was delight- ful; you had an abundance of monkeys, par- rots and cocoa nuts on every side; but now there is not a monkey, nor a parrot, nora cocoa nut to be seen. The Yankees, with their infernal rifles, have either killed or driven them away. A similar result seems likely to attend the Frazer river gold fever, and its natural conflict with the Hudson’s Bay Company monopoly; and it has given rise to one of the most remark- able debates in the British Parliament that has occurred for some years. We published a fall report of it in our yesterday's issue; but as a large portion of it involves the question of the Progrees of the United States, we refer to it to- day. The debate was opened by Mr. Roebuck with some resolutions against the Hudson’s Bay Com. pany, which he supported by a telling specch. Mr. Roebuck is a man of strong sense and many crotchets. He never troubles himself about finding soft names for hard things. Like all crotchety men, he always holds to the extreme of every idea; and therefore do we find him admitting some great facts, which Englishmen generally are not yet ready to admit, and drawing the strangest conclusions from them. He recognizes the wondrous growth of the United States, and plumply says so. Thence he concludes that if England does not build up @ counterpoise to us on this continent, we shall overshadow “ not only England, but the whole earth.” He insists that “English civilization is greater than American civilization,” be- cause we recognise the domestic slavery of an inferior race. From this he draws the conclusion that the English are a free peo ple, and that we are not. He sees that if Eag- land does not planta colony from the head of Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains, Minne- sota will send her cohorts there. From this he deduces the necessity of a fight between this country and England. In the statement of facts Mr. Roebuck’s was the great speech of the debate; in drawing conclusions, none of the gentlemen who followed in the debate accepted his inferences. The great fact that is recognized in this dis- cussion is the growing power of the United Statesas a nation. Weare already casting a shadow over Europe. Our mora! influence is being acknowledged everywhere, and the day is not far distant when in every European con- ference the great question will be, what will the United States think? This position we shall at- tain without a battle. We have no more great wars to make. So far as we are concerned, the present age isthe age of the abuse of weak- nese, not of the abuse of strength. No great Power will defy u»—little ones only, confiding in their weaknees, may insult us. We agree with Mr. Rocbuck, that Minnceota will send her cohorts to the banks of the Saskatchewan; and that as she is nearer to them than Eng. land, she will beat England in settling up the country. But there is no fight in this. With the reciprocity treaty along our Northern boundary, and the Anglo-Saxon right of self. government, there will be no cause for disputes. The Minnesotans already talk of making a dozen States there; but it makes no difference whether the national fiag be English or Ameri- can. Canada to-day lends more moral power to this country than she does to England. Great Britain cannot build up a rival to us on this continent. Ifshe can beat us in building up new States, which we much doubt, they will form a part of our commercial system—our American zollverein, which is the keystone of our political power. Dut it isin this matter of empire building that we have beaten England everywhere, and the cause of our qiccess is precisely the difference between American civilization and English civi- lization, as defined by Mr. Roebuck. It is a difference which existe also between the only two living political parties now in England. It was the cause of the separation of the Old Thir- teen colonies from the mother country. It is the cause of England's failure in the West In- dice, in Southern Africa, in Hindostan, and thus far in Australia. England has pursued the abstract, we the practical. [agland has sought to develope the moral, we the material. [ng- land hae consulted a morbid and ill directed conscience; we have felt in our pockets. Assoon as George the Third, pursuing an abstraction touched our pockets, we separated. From this point of divergence the two civilization have grown and waxed strong. England has fallen into the hands of the evangelical fanatics of Exeter Hall, who have blighted some of the fairest portions of the British empire. The United States have increased from thirteen to thirty-two States, and from three millions to thirty millions of prosperous people. While moral darkness, ignorance and rebellious mil- lions have accrued to no small portion of Eng. land's empire, light, knowledge and happiness have flowed uninterruptedly over that of the American Union, That the developement of human Miowledge and civilization is insepara- ble from the progress of industry and of na- tional wealth is a demonstrated law. This caure is still at work, and is producing the results that Mr. Roebuck foresees. The United States threaten to overshadow England NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, ADGPST 3, 1858. snd the whole world. But there is no menace in thie mighty growth: rather is there in it the rainbow of peace to the whole world. It is the Ubcration of man from the time-wora theories 0: king-craft. The Kuropesn ifea that men belong to the country is displaced by the Ame- rican idea that the country belongs to the men. Ifa maa docs not like the soil or the climate where he was born, he is free to go to any other, and in eo doing he carries with him the right of self government. These convictions will carry men into the territory between the heed of Lake Superior and the Rocky Moun- taine, and if the soil and climate are good they will settle there. As for the Hudeon’s Bay Com- pay, it will follow the beaver aad the musk- rat, end these will soon disappear before the unerring rifle of the American: settler. If Mr. Roebuck wiehes to know still more about the difference between English and American civili- zation, we advise him to etudy the progrees of Western Canada, and compare it with that of our Western States; te look into the moral and secial condition of the blacks in the British dominions, and compare it with those in ours; and, above all, to reflect upon the value of a greased cartridge as a propagandist of evaa- gelical civilization in British India. ApromTMents wv THY New Yorn Custom Hovse.—A large number of candidates for places in the Custom House, whose names have been forwarded by the Collector to Washington during the past month, called on that function- ary yesterday, expecting to be sworn into office, when they were politely informed that the con- firmation of their appointments had not yet been made at Washington. The disappointed applicants generally took the matter very cool- ly, but some departed with loud and energetic oaths against Secretary Cobb and the Treasury it. ‘The Collector keeps his own counsel and says nothing, never even intimating to a candidate that he has forwarded his name to Washington until the confirmation has been received; but the facts will leak out, in spite of him. There is great curiosity to know the names of the lucky candidates; and members of Congress, 0 soon as it is known that the Collector has forwarded a batch of nominations, hurry on to Washing- ton and obtain copies of the lists from the Treasury Department. As almost every Con- gressman finds some fault with at least one of the candidates, considerable opposition mani- fests itself, and the result is that Mr. Secretary Cobb hangs up the list and refuses to con- firm it, and the expectant candidates are disap- pointed. We have been farnished from Washington with a partial list of the names now “hung up” at the Treasury Department, some of which have been hanging there since last February. The list is not full, but is as perfect as it can be made. The fact that the present Collector has not the control over his own department, which has always been accorded to his predecessors in office (excepting Judge Bronson, who left the Collectorship after a similar difficulty with Mr. Guthrie,) is creating much excitement among the “unterrified,” who are loud in their demand to know why Secretary Cobb retains in office the black republicans, Know Nothings and free soil democrats, who, it is alleged, are plenty in the Custom House. The following is a list of some of Mr. Schell’s unconfirmed nominations:— wee Harvey Hunt, James P. Sharkey, James P. Duna, William Grandin. GUAGE George Weir. Edwin a, e Jobe J, Tait. Nicholas 0. Blauveit, William O'Donnell, Gilbert We Beary C. Rabineau, James 8. Hant, Adophus #. Kreck,” = Sohn Wards William Van Sasa,” James Crowe,” George Mel'ca, A. Seaper Sait’ Joan W. Qao, James MoGes, Charies H. Hall,’ Dana Wier, Jona Hanford,” Witter, Joba Caries J. Gale, George W. Bisecker. MAASCKER OF VRRELA. J. McMahoa. Mablon Cart, Patrick y y Galen,” Thomas: . Daniel tots, Charles Miller, ' Charice Linn, B. yi John Tucker, Wm. Wain Charies H. Smith, James H. . pod Bove D. B. Dee Wm. MoKinney. ins P ORK Mi. Crowe, ©. B. Whaii ee w. Leg ‘Wm. Brown, We leeks,’ James 8. Fester, Edw. Jack man, Jobn C. Van Soon, Thomas B. Chase. STORERERI PS. John Gilmore, Woebael Boland, James Hl. Lynch, G. W. Van Olinda ‘Thus stands this matter at preeent. Secretary Cobb, under the influence of members of Con- gress in this region, disagrees with Collector Schell on the important personages to fill the $1,000 and $1,500 appointments of thiv col- lection district. If Mr. Cobb, guided by the influence of certain members of Congress, pos- seesed the pluck of Mr. Guthrie, and Mr. Bu- chanan the vacillation of poor Pierce, we should have another Bronson affair in less than three weeks, The contest about the spoils of the Custom House, if the Secretary and the Col- lector are equally obstinate, will soon become exceedingly interesting to the family of Tam many Hall, as well as to all outsiders. Let the Secretary and the Collector hold on each to his different position, and then we shall see some curious resulte. Sovrnery Traventers ar tak Norry.—The South Carolinian is gratified to hear that the num- ber of Southerners at our watering places is very small, and says that it isa “wholesome puniah- ment to the community of the North to let them feel that the South isdeeply disaffected by the continued agitation of questions meant to affect her institutions.” This is simply non sense, There are very few travellers or hotel sojourners from any section at the watering places, partially on account of the hard times of last winter, partially on account of the in creased European travel, partially on account of the extortions of the landlords and their servants, but particularly because the extension of railway communication has opened new placers of health and recreation People North and South have become tired of the old round of travel to Cape May, Newport and Saratoga, and have sought out new routes. The Southerners can find in Virginia and Tennessee splendid mountain scenery, with medical springs, potent in curing the ailments peculiar to their climate and habita, and they can there find society congenial to their tastes. As the facilities of travel are increased, we shall find Northorn summer emigration eetting towards the Southern springs. Our people are fond of plea a a a ee a ea ne change, and anxious to opee up the be@uties of our country, of which we know comparatively nothing as yet. The attempt of the Carolinian to tsce the deplotion of the old fogy watering places to political feeling is absurd in the ex- treme, Jutificatien of Babery Morel Obiiquity of a President. Tu connection with the exposure in yester- day’s Henatp of a little piece of prevarication prectised by the confideace man of the lobby organ zation at Washington, in his testimony before the Corruption Committee of the House of Representatives, wo had occasion to borrow an extract from ® pamphlet recently pub!tehed by Mr. Byron Kilbourn, late President of the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company. This pamphlet is entitled, “Review of the Report made by the Committee of Investigation to the Legislature of Wisconsin relating to the land grant.” The particular portion of it which came under our notice yesterday was a para- graph wherein the author convicts the vote broker referred to of having wilfully prevari- cated or euppressed the truth, im his evidence before the committee of Congress, in regard to the consideration which be received for bis ser- vices in aid of the passage of the Wisconsin Land Grant bill—such consideration being a contract regularly signed, sealed and executed, under which this thimble rigger of the lobby was to have received the munificent prize of four thousand acres of land, estimated by him- self at $40,000. A further and closer examination of this pamphlet, however, reveals the fact that aside from its developements in regard to the corres- pondent and part proprietor of the New York Times, it is entitled to a considerable share of public attention for some other very curious portions of its contents. As its title indicates, it is an effort on the part of the late President of the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Com- pany to vindicate the action of that company in the course to which it resorted to procure from the Legislature of Wisconsin a grant of the very lands which Simonton was supposed to have had an influence in getting Congress to be- stow upon the State. And how, our readers will naturally ask, does this Mr. Byron Kil- bourn defend the company? Does he labor to convince the public that the evidence taken be- fore the Wisconsin Corruption Committee in the early part of last summer was false, and that the report founded thereon was consequent- ly not entitled to consideration? Does he deny that Governor Bashford received bonds to the amount of $50,000 for approving the bill, or that the Lieutenant Governor received his $10,000, or that the private secretary of the Gevernor, the members of the Legislature, the clerks and officers of the two houses and of the Supreme Court, the editors and reporters, and everybody else connected in any way with the fraud, received bonds to a greater or less amount, commensurate with the positions they severally occupied’ Not by any means. Even if a simple denial could have proved of any avail to overthrow the evidence accumulated by the committee, this model of a Western rail- road president is not the man to stoop to such adefence. He does not see that there is any- thing to be ashamed of in the matter. His mo- ral susceptibilities are not #0 acute as to enable him to look upon the act of corrupting the Exe. cutive, Judiciary and Legislature of a State in any other light than as a fair business transac- tion. Lest it might be thought that we are mis- representing this railroad moralist we will make a few quotations from his “ Review’’: said, “* whe- Birictest’ test Tae Ire. ain | satisied waption= Bailcond g He had, at first, it would appear, some mis- givings lurking in an out-of-the-way corner of his conscience that it would be difficult for him to justify the giving or receiving of bribes, or, as he chooses to call them, “ gratuities; and so he did not care to engage then in an ethical dispatation on the subject. But further refleo- tion—aided, we suppose, by a reference to the best authorities on the point—satiafied him that there was ‘‘nothing in the whole proceeding repugnant to the strictest principles of morali- ty.” Where did this man learn the principles of morality that could produce such blossoms as these? What church or college or institutian is respensible for sending out such a disciple as this railroad ex-president? Or does all oar boasted civilization and enlightenment and Christianity only end in such a libel on common honesty as this? If this is the natural result of our educational system the sooner we unlearn our knowledge the more fit we will be to occupy our place in the ranks of nations. But listen again to this La Crosse and Mil- waukie apostle of morality. Not satisfied with avowing shamelessly and after due reflection such an abominable heresy on truth and purity : | | i i FE i it 3 Z i § i il i i it t i : ; : - i i if if i i : iy F ct a i a a “ Stupidity” is the term which this moralist | of the new school applies to designate that re- gard for truth and honor which would restrain any honest man from offering a bribe. He raises his brazen countenance, nd, with an ef- might envy him, asks the high minded citizens ofan American city if they would pot have blamed him for his “ stupidity” had he failed to make ase of all the materials for success Just so would he have argued had he gone into the eacred courts of justice and bribed the judges on the bench to decide a case in controversy wherein the company was a party, in favor of the company and against law and equity. He would have asked then, as he asks now, whether if he had not done so every citizen and every stockholder would not have blamed him for his stupidity, ‘To such complexion have we come atrlast.”” Further on he says: Do we really live ia ® Christian community, where men baye the ksowledge of good aad | be looked to by,car.government, and the oppor. evil? and have we charches and eeminarics and echools aud institutions for the epread of Gcepel truth? Or are we a bevighted people, ignorant of the very rudiments of civil eociety, end in ead need of an army of missionaries to convert as to Christianity? We are afraid that those who read this “Review,” prepared aod circulated by Mr. Byron Kilbourn, would an. swer our fret queetion in the negative, and our eecood in the eflirmative. Certainly Mr. Kil bourn is in sad need of some good book to en lighten his ignorance, and to teach him that there are laws, both haman and Divine, which forbid us to cheat and swindle und practice fraud sad corruption. And if—as we caunot believe—he has fairly represented the sentiments of the people of Milwaukie and of Wisconsin, we earnestly commend him and them—includ- ing, of course, all the legislators and officers who accepted the bribes—to the immediate at- tention of the Bible Society and of the Jesuit sathers of Fordham. Seriously, it cannot be any longer a wonder why it is that the railroad compaay whose in- terests were confided to the hands of such a “man, and operated in euch a spirit, would find iteelf, in the brief space of a year, in spite of the advantages thus fraudulently obtained, re- duced from a high position in the stock market down to-the very lowest figure short of zero, with its resources dissipated, its obligations dis- regarded, iis credit bankrupted. Mr. Kilbourn is no longer its President, although he takes credit to himself for being the largest share holder and bondholder of the company, and for holding resolutely to these securities. But the eyetem which he inaugurated, and which he un- dertakes to justify, of disregarding public and private faith, has not gone with him. It stillie the rule of the La Crosee and Milwaukie Rail- road Company. The week before last its Pre- ident had it officially announced that the cou- pons of the land grant bonds would be paid on the first of August. That announcement gave an impulse to the sale of those bonds, of which it is reasonable to suppose the managers of the company profited. Last week a contrary an- nouncement was made; the bonds fell nine per cent in one day, and the same managers probably profited by the fall. Thus it is that the policy of bad faith, so shamelessly justified by its firet President, has worked the destruc- tion of the company, and consigned it and him to public scorn and contempt. Ex-President Comonfort’s Defence—The Con- flict In Mexico, We publish to-day two important documents relative to affairs in Mexico, which will be at- tentively read by every one taking an interest in the condition of that unhappy republic. The exposition made by ex-President Comon- fort of the policy that guided his recent adminis- tration of the government there, and of the prin- ciples upon which he endeavored to restore order and liberty to the republic, is an able and statesmanlike document. It exhibits upon his part a clear conception of the only foundations upon which public order can be permanently established, and the comprehensive spirit of a public administrator rather thaz of a partisan. The recital of the great difficulties with which he had to contend during his administration, carries with it an impression that Mexico is not yet ready for the establishment of a good and stable government. A wide epread contést be- tween the selfish and egotistical interests of the clerical and military classes on one side, and the rights of the masses on the other, is being car- ried on there; and any compromise between the two, upon a just middle ground which shall be beneficial to all, scems to be out of the question. This was what President Comon- fort endeavored to effect, and it raised againt him the ire of all He incurred the misfortune of bringing wise coun- sels before either party was ready to admit them, and therefore he failed. ‘The views of a foreign resident in Mexico, published in another column, are those of an observer from an entirely different point of view. They are characterized by a spirit of impartiality and an air of truth and modera- tion which will give them weight with the reader. They are from the pen of one who has known the country for nearly a quarter of a century, and who is disposed to judge Mexico more in a spirit of sympathy with the good ex- isting there, than of harshness for the evil it contains. The ills that are destroying the re public are set forth in a clear and dispassionate manner, and the narrative exhibits in a strong light the adverse elements with which the patriotic desires of President Comonfort were forced to contend. What he has passed over in silence, probably from a wish not to probe the sores of his country too deeply in the face of the world, is touched with a skilful hand. The fratricidal conflicts of parties, the encroaching spirit of the State governments toward the federal power, the demoralization of all the ruling classes, the lust for power and plunder, the intrigues of the , the faithleseness of the army, and the rapatity of ephemeral go- | Yernments, are all exhibited. These two documents support cach other in a remarkable manner, and confirm the views that have been so frequently expressed by the Iixnaty. The conflict now waging in Mexico is a conflict between the class theories that ruled in the sixteenth century and the political ideas of the present age. Unfortunately, both are carried to their utmost extremes. The priests and the soldiers insist upon the maintenance of privileges incompatible with the rights of the people; while the popular leaders, urged on by the deaperate character of the rosistance they meet with, carry their advocacy to the extreme | socialistic theories that are inconsistent with a safe government and public order. In this con- test the people must evontually obtain the vic- tory, and the old system of class government be swept away. It is much to be feared that in the result those conservative principles which are necessary, for the establishment of order and liberty will be swept away with » selfish and wicked clergy and an unreliable military organization. It is this fear which induces the great mass of the Mexicans to look with hope for the future only to a foreign intervention. Such an inter- vention can only be exercised in its moral capacity, and in this way its influence is already felt in Mexico, The arbitrary theories of the church party have recently found their strongest support in the countenance which certain European legations have given them. ‘The partizans of popular rights have sought for the same sympathy from the government and minister of the United States. If this moral influence is exercised in a proper way, it may yet do much good to that republio, and perhaps eave it from a destructive war of races, with which it ig now threatened, Thesg things shold tape moment for doing good should not be al- lowed to paes away without action. = THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Wastington Dewatch. DESPATOHBS FROM TM AQMY OF UTa—OUR BPLA- TIONS WITH GRAN 4DA—HOW 7H5 0ASS-Hae- BAN eonvantlon beante: ‘BTC. Wasurieron, August 2, 1858. + The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior have returned to Washington. The War Department received to day an official communication from General Johnston. It contains nothing but what has been anticipated by the Hreaxy’s correspondence. ‘The New Granada legation has no official informa- tion yet of the action of its government on the Caas- Herran Convention, nor has any special agent of that government arrived, as reported in some newspapers. It seems to be probable, however, that the seventi: article, relating to a coal depot, has been stricken out, and that the clause of the first article which has been modified is that which relates to the re- sponsibility of the New Granadian government fer preserving good order across the Isthmus of Pana- ma. New Granada acknowledges ite liability in the language of the Convention, and will pay damages arising out of the difficulties of the 15th of April, 1856; but it appears. it objects to that part of the olaase which declares New Granada responsible fer the preservation of good order on the Isthmas, im the language of the Convention, “arising out of its privilege and obligation to preserve peace and good order along the Transit route.” It is said this ée- claration is too general, and might involve that go- vernment in difficulties in other cases where it would net be willing to acknowledge responsibility. Mr. Jackson, our Minister at Vienna, is now here on leave of absence, and is the guest of Secretary Cobb. The Unien will publish to-morrow a disclaimer on the part of Mr. Appleton, that he has any connec- tion with that paper, editorially, pecuniarily or othetwise. The Treasury Department receives daily gratify- ing notices of an extraordinary increase of revenue. On Saturday the Sub-Treasury of New York alone received two hundred and eighty six thousand dol- lars from customs. An interesting question has been raised, thougt: not officially, I believe, as to the right of the United States to pass military forces over the territory of a sovereign and friendly power without formal permis- sion. Has our government the right to take its forces across the Isthmus of Panama without com- sulting or asking the government of New Granada? What applies in one case, or with one country, ap- plies to another. We have lately sent a force via nati Bette J ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. WasaineTon, August 2, 1858. In addition to the steamers Water Witch, Fultoa and Harriet Lane, the brigs Bainbridge, Perry and Dolphin, the last three mounting sixteen guns each, have been ordered to the Paraguay expedition. Despatches from General Johnston to the War De- partment state that engineers were emgaged in the selection of a site for permanent fortifications south of Sait Lake City. The advices contain nothing of especial interest. The Mississippi Central Railroad Company pro- mise to perform the mail service between New Or- leans and Washington in four days, two additional hours daily, commencing yesterday, having recently been allowed for the ninety miles staging, as neces- sary for the fulfilment of the contract, that being the point of failure. Secretary Cass has privately replied to Governor Stephens’ lately published letter to him against the Hudson Bay Company’s alleged illegal river and mining tax, assaring him he will give to the subject his prompt and earnest attention. Strong efforts are being made in behalf of ex Mayor Vaux, of Philadelphia, for a foreign mission. Lord Napier contemplates returning to Nahant to- morrow. ‘The Ministertal Crisis in Canada. Toronto, August 2, 1858. At the reassembling of the two Houses this after- noon there was an immense rush for places to hear the official announcement of the new ministry. The excitement out of doors was intense, and the Speak- er had no sooner taken his seat than all the galleries were filled with anxious spectators. Some routine business having been disvosed of ia the lower House, Mr. Patrick rose and stated that he had been instructed to announce to the House the names of the new administration. They were as follows:— George , Inspector Premier. M 5 of the , tmaster General. wo" 8. McDonald, Attorney General of Canada Oliver Mowatt, Provincial Secretary. Dr. Connor, Solicitor General of Lower Canada. L. V. Drummond, Attorney General of Canada East. M. Lemieux, Receiver General. L. H. Holton, Public Works. M. Laberge, Solicitor General of Canada East. The names of Messrs. Drummond, Dorion and Thibeaudeau elicited loud laughter and exclamations from the supporters of the late Ministry. Mr. Patrick said that he was not authorized te make any statement on that occasion of the views of the new government in regard to the measures be- fore the House, but that he hoped to be able to do so to-morrow. On the motion that a new writ be iamed for Montreal, vacated by Mr. Dorien’s acceptance of office, Mr, Langevin moved that the resolution be amended by adding to it the following words:— “That this House, while ordering the said writ, must at the same time state that the administration, the formation of which has created this vacancy, does not possess the confidence of this House and the country.” The amendment gave rise to a vehe. ment debate, in which Mr. Cauchon, the Hon. Ham- ilton Merritt, Mr. Galt, Mr. Morin, Mr. Peche and Mr. Natman took part. At six o'clock the House adjourned for an hour and a half. The debate will probably last all night. In the upper House the conduct of the membera of the new administration was violently assailed. In both Houses it is believed that the majority against them will be large, although immense efforts are being made by them to win over supporters. The only alternative left will be a dissolution, and this the Governor General is violently opposed: to. You will see by the tone of the article in the Globe of this morning that the new administration are prepared to resort to extreme measures. Bloody Battle between the Sioux and Chip- pewa Indians. Curcaco, August 2, 1858, ‘The Trioune learns from « gentleman just arrived from Minnesota, that a bloody battle occurred be- tween a band of the Sioux and Chippewas, near Big Stone Lake, on the Mth July. Twenty of the Sioux and eleven of the Chippewas were killed. Pennsylvania Politics, Hararssura, Penn., August 2, 1958, ‘The People’s County Convention assembled here today, and approved the course of Senator Cameron and representative Kunkel. A resolution of Mr. Cameron for the Presidency was not acted upon. ‘The Horse Exhibition at Springfield and the Regatta, Srainerinen, Aagast 2, 1859. A public meeting of the citizens of Springfiea was held this evening to make arrangements for the entertainment of the numerous visiters;who will at~ tend the third national exhibition of horses. The Mayor of the city presided, ard large and important committees were Appointed. The citizens of Bpringfigld have yaised five Sua: