The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1859, Page 1

THE NEW? YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8162. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. City Churches. ‘The Rey. Dr. Holman will preach the second of his course of lectures on the ‘Four Mothers of the Bible,’ ‘this morning, at Mount Olivet Baptist church, corner of Forty-first street and Sixth avenue. Subject for the occa- sion, ‘Mary, the Mother of Jesus." The Rey. Samuel Knapp will preach in the evening. In the Stanton street Presbyterion church, corner of For- syth, the Rev. R. Davidson, D. D., New Brunswick, will preach this evening. Preaching by the pastor, Rev. J. ‘Sanderson, in the morning and afternoon, All are invited. Rey. Thomas Armitage, D. D., pastor of the Norfolk. street Baptist church, will preach this afternoon at Tre- Bor’s Academy, Thirty-fourth street, one door west o Broadway. Rey. P, Macmenamy, D. D., and members of the Young Men’s Reformation Society will meet in Spring Street Hall 185 Spring street, this evening, to consider the wnsorip- tural dogmas of Romanism and answer objections, Divine service will be held this morning and evening in the Protestant Episcopal Mission church, Clinton Hall, Astor place, in charge of the Rey. Robert @. Dickson. Rey. Edw’d T, Hiscox, D.D., will preach at the National theatre, Chatbam street, this evening, Rey. G. T. Bedell, D. D., will preach at the Academy of Music this evening. Divine service will be held as usual, this morning and afternoon, in the North Dutch church, corner of William and Fulton streets. The Rev. E. P. Remington will preach this evening in the Memorial church, corner of Hammond street and Wa- verley place. In the John street First Methodist Episcopal church preaching this morning and evening, by the Rev. Charles E. Harris. Morning subject—Theatrical Amusements ‘Tested by the Law of Christ.” Evening, to young men; subject—‘‘The Life Light.”” In the Bleecker street Universalist ehurch, corner of Bleecker and Downing streets, New York, Rev. G. V. Max- ham, of New Haven, will preach this morning and even- ing. Religious services will be held in the French church, at Cooper Institute, this afternoon. Discourse in French by M. Charles Miel. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. The stated meeting of the managers washeld at the Bible House, Astor place, on Thursday, the 6th instant, at balf-past four o’clock, P. M., Dr. Thomas Cock in the hair, assisted by Hon. Luther Bradish, with Wm. B. rosy, Benjatnl 1. Swan and Francis Hall, Esqs. The Rey. Mr. Shelton read the 27th Psalm and offered rayer. as new auxiliaries were recognized, two in North Carolina, and in Kentucky, Florida, Hlinols and Connecti- cut one each. Communications were received from agents and others sbowing encouraging Prospects in the work at home, not- ‘withstanding the continued money pressure, and the need of great exertion to supply immigrants and others with the Holy Scriptures; from Rev. R. 8. Maclay, Fuh Chau, China, sending a printed copy of the treaty between China and the allied Powers, also in reference to the —s of Japan; from Rev. I. G. Bligs, Conetantinople, in regard to ‘the work in that region; from Rey. Wm. Walker, Gaboon Mission, West Africa, with request to print portions of the Scriptures in the Mpongwe language; from Rev. Dr. Van ‘7% Beyroot, Syria, sending specimens of the Ara- ic Testament how in course of publication. Grants of books were made of Portuguese Bibles and Testaments and Spanish Testaments for the Rio Grande; Ojibwa Testaments to the American Missionary Associa- tion; books in English, Portuguese and French for distri- bution in Madeira; severa) grants of books in various lan- guages td captains of vessels, for distribution in foreign poris; English and German ‘books to the Toledo Bethel, ‘Ohio;’to the Seamen’s Friend Society, French Testaments for distribution at Havre; to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Bpiscopal church, books in Danish and Swedish. for their Missions among thoso people in the West and Northwest; various gravts to poor auxiliaries, and to Sun- day schools where there are no auxiliaries; ‘and twenty- three vo! es in raised letters, for the blind. ‘The fo!lowmg snms were appropri to the several objects named, to be paid as they are wanted, out of the earliest funds that can be spared — To the A. B. C. F. M., for publishing the Armeno Turkish Bible. oe > For the Armenian 8yo. F To the Preshy terian Board Foreign Missiot To the Missionary Society of the Methodist f. To the French and Foreign Bible Society......... To the Missionary Society of Protestant ©. Church Total Be: their wants, as the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and some others, whose demands the Board hope to be 'pre- pared to meet as they may be learned. ‘The increased openings for the spread of the Scriptures greatly augment the demands on this society, and present corresponding appeals to the benevolent. . ORDINATIONS. Rev. EF. H. Hall was ordained as colleague pastor of the First Unitarian Society, in Plymouth, Mass., on Wednes- day last, On Tuesday, December 28, Rev. Wm. W. Parker, late of Andover, Was ordained ag an Evangelist, and has ac- cepted an invitation to labor with the people of the First parish in York, Me., as a stated preacher. INVITATIONS, Rey. Walter Olarke, D.D., of Hartford, Conn., has been called to the Mercer street’ Presbyterian church in this city. Rev. Ellis J. Newlin, President of Delaware College, has received a unanimous call to become pastor of the Presbyterian church of Bloomfield, N. J. Mr. Charles R. Bliss, of Longmeadow, Mass. a in tho laét class of Andover, has received a’cal pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Beverly. Rey. 8, P. Giddings, late of Springfield, Vt. , has received call to become the pastor of the Congregational church in La Salle, I. INVITATIONS ACCEPTED. The call recently extended to Rev. Edward P. Terhune, of Charlotte Court House, Va., a graduate of the Theologi- cal Seminary at, New Brunswick, by the First Reformed Dutch church of Newark, N.J.,has been accepted. He will be instailed and enter upon his duties in February, ‘The Baptist church of Melrose, Mass., have extended an invitation to the Rev. James Cooper to become their pas- tor. He has accepted the same, and commenced his du- ties ag pastor with the commencement of the new year, Mr. Cooper is recently from Ohio. Rey. Edwin Black, of Salem, Ind., has accepted a unani- mous call from the Presbyterian church of Rising Sun, Ind., and bas entered upon his labors there, Rev. E. J. Newlin bas signified his acceptance of the call mane him by the Presbyterian church of Bloomfleld N. J. raduate to the INSTALLATION. Rev. F, W. Allen, late of Salem, Mass., was installed pastor of the Congregational ebureh in ‘South Berwick, fe. on the 80th ult. RESIGNATIONS. Rev. Heman Lincoln, pastor of the Baptist church in West Roxbury, Mass., and Rev. W. F. Stubbert, of tho Baptist church'in Malden Centre, Mass., have resigned their pastoral charges. DEATHS IN CHE MINISTRY. Rey. Richard Page, a native of Georgia, and a Raptist minister of somo forty years’ standing, died recently near Huntavillo, Texas, Died, in Marion county, Oregon, Nov. 2, of a cancer, Elder Witham Simpson, aged 65 years. Ho had been & devoted minister of the Gospe! in the Baptist church for upward of thirty-five years. The Rev. Isaac Braman died at his residence in Georgo- town, Mass., on Sunday evening, the 26th ult., at the ad- vanced age of cighty.cight years. He was son of Sylva. nus and Experience (Bianchard) Braman, and was born in Norton, Mass, on the 6th of July, 1770. ’ He graduated at Harvard College, with high honors, in 1794, and for several years was the only survivor of his class. Aftor leaving ‘college he studied for the ministry with Rev. Jason Haven, of Dedham (I. U. 1764), and Rev. Pitt Clark, of Norton (1. U. 1790). Te was ordained on the 7th of June, 1797, pastor of the Second Parish in Rowley, then calied New Rowley, and since incorporated into a town by the name of Georgetown, He was st Rev. James Chandler (fH. U. 1728), who died o ‘Of April, 1789, at the age of eighty-three years, and in the fitty-eighth year of his ministry. The parish was desti- tute of a settled minister nine years, and Mr. Braman was the last of sixty-four candidates who preached there on probation. He continued pastor of this society until his death—a period of moro than sixty-one years, discharging the duties of his profession with groat fidelity and to the autire acceptance of his people, until within a few years when on account of the infirmities of age he was obliged to relinquish bis ardnons duties, and the Rev. Charle her was ordained as colleugue ‘pastor with him. On tho 2d inst. the Rev, Patrick Hook, of St. John’s (Catholic) church, die’ in’ Savannah, aged twenty-fiv pears. He had ben oficating in Savannah abouta year ring his visite to the sick, in the late epidemic season be contracted the fever under which he gradually sunk, Rev. Dr. Iohabod Nichols, of Cambridge, Mass., died 0 the 24 instant, in his 74th year. Ho was a graduate of th class of 1802 of Havard College, and was a tutor of mathe- matics in that institution tilt 1809, in which year he was ordained a colleague pastor of the first church in Portland. He subsequently was appointed of tho church, connection which be retained until the day of is death, though of late years he had an assistant. » Nichols is well known a8 a theological writer. He was aD. D. of doth Havard and Bowdoin colleges, and an active member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he was onc Vico Prosident, NEW CHURCHES. Tho Miesion Baptist church in Mobile was dedicated by the Rev P. &, Collins, the eloquent divine and pastor of the Bayuist faith, onthe 26th ultimo, ‘Tho new Methodist Rpiscopal church at Hayre do Grace, Md., was dedicated on Sunday, the 10th alt, the Rev. Messrs. Brook and Sewall, of Balimore, officiating. The sum of $1,100 was collected towards liquidating the church debt. Qn the samo day the Rey, B, way and Rev. Mr. Clemm, of Baltimore, preached in a new Metho- dist Episcopal church at Harmony, Caroline county, Md. ‘The German Methodist church on Dryades street, Now ‘Jeans, was dedicated by Bishop Payne on the 19th ult. MISCELLANEOUS. The next quarterly meeting of the East New Jei Pastoral Conference will be held with the Baptist Chur at North Orange, on y, Jan’ T, at 2 o'clock P.M. Preacher, Rev. A. 8. Patton, of Hoboken, It is said that his Holiness the Pope receives out of his State some barnes gel Of this, $6,000,000 goes to $2,192, to’ pay | 000 1y interest. $2,700,000 go to support the army and police, $600,000 to maintain the prisons, $24,000 to schools. Other expenses in proportion. The early dedciency 18 $1,800,000, Too clergy own one million dollars worth of real estate, and hold all of the fat offices. The State debt is twenty- seven millions, The Second Associate Reformed Presbytery of Illinois, on the 30th ult., formally deposed from the ministry the Rey. Samuel Glover, of the United Presbyterian Church of Peoria. He was found guilty of a breach of tho seventh commandment; also of ‘long coutinued pe risy;” also of a “breach of ;” of ‘‘using unlawful means to binder the rance of wit- nesses before the Church Court,’’ and in addition he was adjudged guilty of “ contumacy and contempt of Court.”” Rey, J. K. Waite, formerly of Fall River, has become pastor of the Unitarian Socicty in Malden, Maga, Acure of Issoverdi, near Genoa, taking umbrage at i:.. gay dresses worn by some of his fair parishioners, launch- ed out in the pulpit into a denunciation of vanity, but in- stead of qiestioning the taste of the parties he qnestioned their virtue, Great indignation was felt by the women ata suggestion conveyed in enything but diplomatic terms, and an action was bronght forthwith against the cure. The latter pleaded invain that he intended no personal allusions; that he had been carried away by the spirit of eloquence; in fact that he made the suggestion in a Pick- wickian sense. Ho has been condemned to five da} prisonment and ten france fine, It is stated that the pastor of the Unitarian church at Marietta, Ohio, has publicly renounced Unitarianism. CHURCH TROUBLES IN NEW ORLEANS. The German church in the Fourth district, New Orleans, is divided, a minority upholding certain measures of the r, Mr. Presler, the majority, among whom are the ‘rustees, bie opposing him, and having procured an injunction forbidding him to officiate. On Sunday week the obnoxious clergyman ettempted to enter the church, but was met by a deputation of the female members of the congregation, who told him that he had no business there, and could not enter. On his disregarding this infor- yes @ scene ensued, which is thus described in the escent:— The ladies, it seems, were fixed for Santingencies, and no sooner had his reverence forced his wey into the church than they descendeo upon him like an avalanche, with cowhidesand pepper and salt and Hour, and gypsum; Iathering, him merol- jesly with the former articles, and powdering him all ever with the latter, Thus beset, he had but one alternative, and that was to fly from the chureh; an operation which he ‘per. formed to the satisfaction of all.’ A policeman, bearing of the affair, went to see Presler, and asked if he wished to have any- body ‘arrested? but he declined making complaint at, anybody. The richest part of the scene was, that whilst the lies were cowhiding and flouring the preacher, thelr hua- bands and frienda were standing around as quiet and uncon- cerned as & lot of Kgyptian mummies. The unfortunate minister’s troubles did not end here, however. He was arrested the next day for contempt of court, in attempting to preach after the issue of the in- junction, and sentenced to two hours imprisonment. PROGRESS OF A NEW YORK STUDENT IN ROME. A letter from Rome to the London Tablet, describing a festival at the Propaganda, on the 18th of November last, writes thus:—The proceedings commenced with the cere- mony of conferring the Doctor’s Cap, the recipients being Mr, Patrick MacSweeny, of Cork, and Mr. Richard Burtsell, of New York. They first knelt in front of tho Prefect’ reciting the creed of Pope Pius, and confirming it with the usual form of oath; they then received the ring, and for the cap took a position, seated by Cardinal Barnabo. The whole proceeding was impressive. The distribution of prizes then followed, and occupied Rear two hours, ‘as the Irish colleges are covjoint with the College of Propaganda, and upitedly compete for honors. Dr. MacSweeny is a native of Cork, and son of Mr. Callaghan MacSweeny, now of this city. He was educated by the Jesuits here, and was selected by bis Grace Archbishop Hurhes at the ter- mination of bis studies over all the competitors to take a place in the Propaganda. RECEPTION OF TWO NOVICES IN THE PRESENTATION CONVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO. (From the San Francisco Herald, Dec. 9.] Yesterday afternoon the ceremony of receiving two novices into the Order of the Sisters of Presentation took place at the convent on Powell street. Two young ladies, named Miss Mary Phelan and Miss Bridget McNulty, who have been several months in the institution, made their Archbishop Alemany, nesisted By. Avo clergymanae fhe Archbis! femany, assi y five cl 3 ceremony of reception, which is of @ most impressive na- ture, was witnessed by a large number of ladies and gen- tlemen, who were present by invitation. The coridors of the building were crowded in every part, and through th exertions of the ladies of the convent every accommoda was afforded visiers. The ceremony took place in the chapel, situated in the second story. At 3 o'clock a procession issued from one of the cham- bers of the building, and proceeded to the chapel, tne choir singing O Gloriosa Virginum. First eee ne girl dressed in white, bearing a cross, her head encircl with a garland of flowers. Next were eight young chil- dren, two by two, also dreesed in spotless’ white, and wearing wreaths, The interest excited by their appear- ance was increased by the baskets of fresh roses they carried in their hands. Immediately followng were the two povices, attired in rich bridal garments. The Su- perioress and a Sister came last, carrying lighted can- dies. The Archbishop and assistant clergymen remained standing at the foot of the altar until the conclusion of tha hymn. After the versiclé, Ora pro nobis sancta Dei geni- triz, the Archbishop blessed and sprinkled the candles, and presented them lighted to each postulant as emblems of inward light to dispel all the darkness of ignorance or error. ‘The sermon was delivered by Rev. Mr. Harrington, He referred, during his discourse, to the devotion of members of religions orders, who were the means of instructing youth in the principles of Christianity combined with secular knowledge, One of the results of the charity ever lowing from the bosom of the Church might be scen in its children renouncing the vanities of the world and apply- ing themselves to the education of the poor and the care ofthe sick. ‘Their veal in the service of God had often made them the victims of the tomahawk of the savage, martyrs in the heart of China, or the prey of disease in the crowded hospital. Among the most useful of the re- ligious communities was the Order of the Sisters of Pre- sentation. It was first established in Ireland, soon after the penal laws against Catholics in that country were re- moved. The people were averse to placing their children in schools where the faith to which they had clung far cen- tories, amid oceans of blood, would be endangered. The Sisters of Presentation applied themselves to the education of youth in Ireland, and the benefits of their teaching has been everywhere acknowledged. The reverend gentle- man in conclusion addressed the postulants, pointing out the reward they may expect in the world to come for the labors they assumed, and the benefit they would be the means of jinparting in the course of life they had entered. ‘The postulants were then conducted by the Superioress to the railing, and kneeling in front of the Archbishop, the following questions were asked:— Axcusistor—My child, what do you demand? PosruLsNt—The te pd of God, and the holy habit of religion in the Order of the Sisters of Presentation. ANcuMSHON—Is it of your own free will and choice you demand the holy babit of religion? PostuLant—Yes, Axcunisnor—Reverend Mother, have you made the ne- cessary inquiries concerning the postulant, and are you satisfied? Revexend Moraer—Yes. Ancummnor—My child, have you a firm inteution to per- Severe in religion to the end of your life, and do you hope e sweet to have sufficient eerongeh to carry coustantly yoke of our Lord Jesus Christ, solely for the love and fear of God? Postutant—Relying on the mercy of God, I hopa to be able to do so. ‘The procession was re-formed, and retired in the samo order as they entered, The Archbishop proceeded to biess the habits of the postulants who were absent for tho purpose of putting aside their secular garb worn up to this me, and of assuming the garb of the Sisters of Presenta- tion. The choir, during this ceremony, sang soveral of the Psalms. In about fifteen minutes the two novices return- ed to the church, ‘The long biack dress and white veil wore substituted for the gay habiliments of thefashionable world, ‘The acces fories of wealth and taste were no longer visible, but in their place the habit of the convent, aud tie cross and beads designated the new addition 3 sisterhood. The change could ne do otherwise than aifect the spectators, The youth of the novices, the air of religious solemnity that surrounded the scene, and the suggestive rites of the reception, were sufficient to inspire fecliags of reverence. The remaining ceremonies were obse when tae two Sisters, now admitted into the Order, embraced the Supe- rioress, and were conducted to another part of te edifice, In religion Miss Phelan will be known hereafter ag Sis. ter Theresa Augusta, and Miss McNulty as Sister Mary nn, A bountiful supply of refreshments was provided, 0° which the visiters were cordially invited to partake. ‘The ceremonies occupied about an hour and a half AMERICAN MISSIONS IN TURKEY. At @ late meoting of the Edinburgh Auxiliary of tho Turkish Missions Aid Society, the object of which is to as- sist the American missionaries laboring in Tarkey, Sir John M’Neill, who presided, said—Happening to be in the Fast when the first steps were taken for the establishmont of eome of these missions, and baving had tie pleasure of making the acquaintance ‘and friendship of some of the pioneers in that great work, I had also an Gye, obgerving for some years their proceedings; and Lam hers to tell you that frem my own personal observation I can say that men more admirably fitted for the work, by the calm depth of their zeal, the noiseless tenor of their pro- peng ~ taeir accomplishments and their devotion, are not to be found, as I believo, on the face of the carth. You are aware that in Asia, and especially in Turkey and Persia, there ig a large Christian community subject to the Mahomedan government. All the governments of which we know ane in Asin have at all times been despotic and arbitrary ; and the Mahomedan, even when it is not a persecuting, is of an overbearing kind, Tn the haga ede that continued subjugation and op. preasion prod ite legitimate results. There is no fact more fully established by the experience of history than this, that oppreasion, when long continued, is fatal to the moral character of’a people. Virtue can flourish only where a man is free. Where @ man, to live, must oppose iraud to force, he cannot long continue to be & good (hristian, The American missionaries saw this difficulty. They knew that it was hopeloes to cal) pou tho proud nt SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1859. They did not address sexpense of a re-election. PRICE TWO CENTS. sary preliminary tw success among "tan they should reform and regenerate the among them. They set about that work with a j and prudence and self-denial which do them the hi credit, They found this people in the a Digoted and ignorant midst of ‘iesthood, who had the power pr thwart all their efforts by the exercise of that power. the effect of teaching the young, tr to their on the more advanced, and endeavoring wo ‘@ higher standard of Christian character morality. And what bas been the result? The result has a tried recently by searching persecution, has stood the test. (Applanse.) These are the men who come to their Christian brethren and say, We have here opened up a field, we have insured a certain amount of success, all that is wanted is additional means to push that success further. Will you deny these means? I might insist upon considerations; I might insist upon the value of advancing civilization, and of the instruction given by ‘these missionaries—I mean secular civilization. What is effected ty ee teaching is not confined to those who adopt their religions opinions. That little knot of a few B hundreds at Constantinople is perpetually holding up, for the ha ition Bs g asigh: example of theirffriends and Which cannot fail to ba yd their hearts. lange, i vee with me, Iam sure, when I img civilization—the worth fighting for— is that founded upon oa ote trath. ue Our Toronto Correspondence, Tororo, Dec. 22, 1858. A Canadian Dred Scott Case—The British System of Re- ‘sponsibility—The Ministerial “Double Shuffe’”—Partisan Judges—Appeal 40 England—Opinions in Favor of @ Written. Constitution— Meeting of Parliament— Violence of Parties, de., de. The Canadian law courts have just pronounced their Dred Scott decision. They have given judgmentin favor of the present Ministry in a prosecution against them for penal” ties for having, in the recent ‘double shutile,”” violated the independence of Parliament. This decision is creating pro- found sensation throughout the country, and the cry is universal: “Appeal to England.” It ig regarded as the heaviest bior government since its establishment in 1841. If ministers can change places in the same cabinet, resign in a body, ‘wait till a succeeding ministry hag run its course and re- signed, and then resume office with new colleagues, a shuftle of places and a new policy, and all this without being obliged to go back to their constituents and obtain their sanction, then our system, whatever it may be called, is not the British system. Many of the staunchest friends of the mother country and its political institutions now openly declare that if this decision is upheld by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to whom it will ‘be appealed, they will go at once for a written constitution and direct responsibility in heads of departments. imed at the British system of responsible As this is the most important political event that has occurred in some months, if not years, in Canada, perhaps it may be interesting to your American readers if I explain it a little more in detail. The rebellion of 1837-8, though @ failure as a demonstration of force, was a complete success politically. The old tory oligarchy, that bad ruled the country almost from its settlement, was broken down, and the British government, by adopting Lord Durham’s recommendations, allowed the people of Canada to copy the institutions of the mother country and introduce the system of responsible government. This they did by solemn resolutions of the United Parliament in 1841. With but little interruption this system was accepted and acted on by all parties and admmiatrations until the advent of the present coalition, and even they did not venture open- ly to set it aside until last session, when they perpetrated what has been aptly termed their “double shuifle,”” It is a fundamental rule of the English system that the acceptance of office by a member of Parliament vacates his seat. Cabinet offices are no exception. But bis constituents in the latter case may re-elect him. Minis- terial changes, whicl'are ‘sekiom meée without involving a change of feeling, are always subject to the approval of portion at least of the constituent body, The people, therefore, under this rule hold a direct check over the movements of the government in some of its most import- ant crises, The rule is probably more effective in terrarem, than in its remedial action. Parliament hesitate, are circumspect, observe party obli gations and consistency, because every important chango involves their seat and compels them tosubmit that change, its objects and consequences, to the instant adjudication of their constituents. The same rule was adoptedin Canada, But an exception was made by a recent statute in these words:—“Whenever any person holding” a cabinet office and being a member of either house “shall resign his of. fice and within one month after his resignation accept any other of the said offices, he shall not thereby vacate his seat."’ This was to provide for the case of our ex- change of offices between members of the same adminis tration. It was thought an unnecessary hardship upon ministers to compel them in case of an interchange of offi. cers merely 1 vacate their seats and incur the trouble and Such an arrangement would not ve likely to involve any change of policy, or any act of administration upon which the people in their primary ca pacity would desire to pronounce. The clause is in the form of a proviso to a general clause laying down the rule that every acceptance of office vacates the member’s seat. ‘Its meaning and scope are, therefore, plain. Now for the case and judgment upon it. In July last the McDonald ministry broke down on the Seat of Government question, and resigned in a body. Their resignation was acocepted and Mr. George Brown entrusted by the government with the formation of a new ministry. sworn into ofiice. They, of course, at once vacated their seats and went back to their constituents. In of the action of Parliament in their absence—unjust and un- precedented as the candid ofall parties now admit it to be— they advised a dissolution; the Governor refused their ad- vice, and they in a body resigned. ‘The Governor thereupon sent for a private member of the House toform @ minis- try, and he failing, for amember of the McDonald Ministry. latter patched up a eabinet composed of the old set, ere was a new premier, and he an- istry , though mn office with two additions. nounced a new policy. The Brown Mini only a few days, were obliged to submit their acts and in- tentions to the approval of their constituents, though they had ceased to hold office before that approval could be ex- pressed ; yet the re-constracted McDonald Ministry con- tended that they were exempt from this ordeal, and retained their seats under cover of the proviso I have quoted, as if itsmembers had merely exchanged offices in an ex- isting administration. Their corrupt majority in the Legislature, the leaders of the opposition being out of tho House, upheld them in this violation of the law. Public mdignation in England as well as in Canada was frecly expressed against this outrage upon the constitution. There cannot be imagined a case in which the justice and Public necessity of the rule requiring a ministry to sub- mit itself and its policy for popular approval is plainer than in this, And, as a matter of fact, it is equally plain that the people would, under, the operation of the rule, have condemned the government in instanti, and thus compelled the Governor to accept a8 his advisers the leaders of the opposition. Desperate efforts were made by the ministerialists to defeat the members of the Brown Cabinet, yet they were ull returned with increased ma- jorities. As the law adjudges a penalty of $2,000 per day against every person who ‘presumes to sit and vote” in Parlia- ment without authority, the over-holding ministers were brought into court. The case did not get to a jury, as the defendants admitted all the facts, but denied that they were liable. They demurred to the sufficiency in law of the plaintiffs cause of action. The Judges, therefore, were called upon to say whether the above proviso ap- plied to the case of an entire change of ministry, with an intervening administration, or only to an exchange of offices between members of the same government. They have said it applies to both. They have even gone further than ministers themselves in straining the law, The lat- ter admitted that they could not go back to the same oflices they formerly held, for the word “other? stood in the way. They were each accordingly sworn into other offices for a few minutes, then resigned those offices and accepted others—to wit, their old offices. Two or three of tho Judges think this sham work and perjury were un necessary, for though the Legislature said “‘othor offices,” it meant the same offices, They have given long judgments to justify their interpretation, but cite few authorities. Their reasoning is throughout contradictory, vibrating constantly between strict construction and liberal interpre: tation, to meet the necessities of the case. They ignore everything but the words of the proviso, and these aro looked at without regard to preamble, context or inten- tion. It is, perhaps, a sufficient explanation to add that these Judges are all violent partisans of the party in wer. We do not cloct our judges in Canada ag yet, but people are now considering the propriety of some change in that direction. It is thought that if the bench must pander to power, it would be a lesser evil that it should pander to the people—not the mob, be it observed—than to a cor. rupt and perjured ministry. Thiscase will no doubt be carried by ty ee to England. In a recent case, involving the conduct of public men as trustees for the people, the samo Judges held that such trustees might “put money in their purse’? at the expenso of the public, and on an appeal to England their judgment was reversed, almost without argument. There can hardly be a doubt as tothe view English Judges will take in thig Canadian ministerial shuffle. This right of appeal toa high minded, and, in mont cases, impartial tribunal, is one of the most yalua ble we possess as a colony. There are daily rumors of ministerial changes, but the general opinion is that the present men will mect Parlia- ment oreaniy in tho lattor part of January, The session will be stormy beyond all former sessions, Both parties are inflamed toa high pitch. There can be no useful le. gislation while parties are so nearly balanced; a disso tion, therefore, is not far off, Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured to a large and apprecia. tive audience this evening, His sutyoct was “The Law of Ministers and members of je succeeded, and, with’his colleagues, was uence ‘ Woman’s State FOURTH ANNIVERSARY—REPORTS, SPEECHES, ETC, ‘The fourth anniversary of the Female State Hospital As- ‘Bociation was held at twelve o'clock yesterday, at No. 83 ‘Madizon avenue. Nearly a hundred persons were pre- nent. The hospital is devoted to the treatment of certain diseases to which married women are incident. Tho meeting was called to order by Dr. J. W. Francis taking the chair. Prayer was offered by Dr. BANcs. The report of the Treasurer of the society was then read by Mrs. Ocnen Horruan. It showed that the re- Ceipts of the association have been during the past year $7,148 63. The expenditures amounted to the same Bum less $16 19, which is now in the hands of the Trea- surer. ‘The Secretary’s report was then read. It set forth the objects of the Woman's State Hospital, and called upon the friends of the movement for support. During the past year 122 patients had been received and treated in the hospital, eighty.seven of whom have been discharged. Fifty-eight of them were perfectly cured and returned to ‘their homes, where for years before they had been suffer- ing a8 no human tongue could tell, Twenty-eight of the discharged were permanently relieved, though not absolutely cured. One only was decided to be incurable, Thirty-five persons are now in the inatitution, receiving treatment and proper care. ‘The report noticed the donation of land by the Corpora- soe eeean careers and Statioth streets” ‘t also stated that they had r uisitions. referred with yewpens to the grant land the Corporation of the city given the institution. ‘He know it would succeed, as it would ultimately receive ‘the $50,000 which had been laid up some years ago for a charitable purpose, the conditions of which the Woman’s ‘Hospital met, or would shortly meet. Enasros C. Benxpict then addressed the assembly, say- ing he had received the deed of the land granted by tl Corporation to the institution, and the property now be- longed im fact and in deed to the institution. Mayor Tiemann si; the grant a week ago yesterday. During the little period si the institution had been es- tablished, without any large funds, but supported mainly by the energy and charity of the ladies present, there had been relieved in it from the it painful of diseases Provinces tron Central America, froma Cuba, {rom Bag. Provinces, merica, uba, from Eng- land and from China. The declaration which had been made at @ previous anniversary—that the institution and the treatment in it was one of the greatest inventions, one of the greatest events of the age, giving relief as it does to a large class of cases which heretofore had been con- ceived to be incurable—had already been full; ven, Fabiola, a Roman lady, founded the first hospital was if; and for having founded toe fest hospi Jerome himself; for ing e her name bag come down to us through history honored and well worthy of being honored. So here, women were the firet who have ever founded a woman's hospital, and deserve to be honored for it. He could not expect ‘the ladies to produce all the funds necessary for carrying on the ition, but they could collect money, they ome their time and energy; and men, who frequently nothing more, could give money. Those who worked for such an institution were as much if not more to be honored than those who give their gold. He rvfored to the influence of the ladies, and instanced the election of Fox at a time of grent political feeling in England, when the ladies drew up their carriages om- biazoned with the arms of dukes, earls and marquises, before the hustings, and began to canvass or electioneer for Fox. They had their influence. Fox was elected. Dr. ADAMS next took the floor. He did not know what be should say, as there was no living opposition. He could only congratulate those who had been connected with the institution for the success and usefulness of their movement. He had no doubt that there were many homes where before there was debility, woe and intense suffering, but where there is now strength, health, hap- piness and home joys, all of which haye ‘resulted from the treatment of the unhappy sufferers in that institution, Many happy homes looked to the institution with such feelings as can only pertain to those who have suffered and been relieved. He went on to show the influence of Christianity upon humanity in the establishment of such humane institutions. They were, as he considered, a true and necessary outgrowth of Christianity. The meeting then adjourned. ‘The Complaints of a Filibuster. One of the Charleston papers has received the following letter from one of the emigrant passengers of the schoonor Susan, lately wrecked near British Honduras, on ber voyage to Nicaragua. Monn, Jan. 1, 1859. Once again, yet once again, has an outrage been com- mitted upon the starry banner of our country. Once again, and oh! may it be for the last time, have the pro- verbial insolence and inhumanity of the British Lion been displayed towards the citizens of our own favored land. Lend me, Messrs. Editors, your valuable columns whilst I recount the wrongs whichi the minions of England’s Queen have inflicted upon myself and one hundred and nine other gallant spirits, who have lately fallen into their merciless grasp. Tam one of the one hundred and ten passengers of the schooner Susan. With our history up to the period when scorning the restraints which the vexatious legislation of our country had inconsiderately placed in our way, we evaded the vigilance of its officers, you are, no doubt, fa- miliar, Equally must you be persuaded of the peaceful, nay, the philanthropic character of the enterprise which induced us to seek the shores of Nicaragua. Not our’s was the design so falsely attributed to us, of ivading the territory of @ sister republic, at peace with our own; not our’s the idea of seizing its government, dividing its lands or plundering its treasury. No, Messrs. Editors, we left our homes, our billiard saloons ‘and , tearing ourselves from all that was most dear to our souls, in order that we might carry to the benighted inhabitants of Central America the bom a which we ourselves en- joy. We went to teach them the arts of peace; to culti- ‘vate the soil, to cut the canal, to navigate the river. We were prepared to sit down as law-loving, law-abiding denizens under the shadow of their banana trees. We sought not, nay, rather, we would have spurned any par- ticipation ih thelr political system. We carried only our spades and our pickaxes—not cannon, revolvers or bowie knives, ag our calumniators maliciously report. Having thus, as I trust, done justice to our motives, un- til now most strangely misrepresented, I proceed to’ the more immediate subject of my letter. In consequence of an accident, for which, let me remark, our noble Captain Maury is in’no wise reeponsible, our schooner was wreck- ed inthe vicinity of one of those colonial dependencies with which the greed of England has almost encircled the globe. Ina short time our vessel went to pieces, whilst we succeeded with great difficulty, in the face of an armed force which endeavored to prevent us,in reaching tho town of Relize. Arrived there, we were forcibly arrested by order of the Gavernor—oue Seymour—and being over- powered by numbers, were compelled to yield ourselves prisoners, Utterly destitute of generosity, ag all English. men are, NO respect was shown to our exhausted and de- fenceless condition. We were dragged into a large build- ing, called, as we were told, “The Queen's Arms Hotel,’” where, notwithstanding our resistance, we were compelled to wash ourgelves, ( put on garments which were not our own, and, consequently, fitted us very badly, and to swal- low food which may, indeed, to an Kaglishman appear ex. cellent, but which we had never been accustomed to. Thus were we treated for the space of several days, until at last tired of their sport, our inhuman captors insisted Upon our returning to our own homes, In vain were our protests; the Governor and his minious would lis- ten to fo remonstrance; they would not even hear @ countrymen of our own, a ship captain, who endeavored to persuade them that wo were —— People, whe had done nothing to merit such treatment. A 'ship-of-war was hastily prepared, and we were compelied 0 re-ctbark for the United States; A choice, itis true, being given us of the port at which wo might desire to be landed. Behold n, forcibly con- veyed in the custody of that felon flag which for one thou- sand years (be the same more or less) has been employed in astisting the despot, and repressing the aspirations of the patriot. As might have been expected, our treatment on board of the sbip—tho Basilisk—(fit emblem of the cockatrice policy of England) was of @ piece with that wo experi &t Belize. In addition, however, to other cruelties, some of us were even forced into the very cabins of the vessel, and confined there during the night, antil we finally reached our native shores. Here we were Janded, and our persecutors departed before they could pre nd 4 fit reward at the hands our indignant fellow countrymen, Messrs. Editors, lot no man talk to me of the feiendship of Great Britain towards this Union. Acts such as these I have narrated give the lie to the friendly Emmy of British Ministers, and the courteous notes of British Ca- Dinets, They hate us, Mosers. Editors—who can doubt it who reads my story? Naval Intelligence. ‘The United States steamer Dispatch has been put out of commission, and will be repaired at Norfoll, The officers had been detached with the usual leave. A storeship will sail on or about Wednesday noxt from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, far the rendezvous of the Para- guay expedition at Rosario, Letters for officers or others connected with the expedition will be sent by her, if for- ‘warded to tho Naval Lycoum, Navy Yard, Brooklyn. AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our London, Paris, Berlin and St. Peters- burg Correspondence, &e,, ac, de. Our London Correspondence. Loypos, Dec. 7, 1858. American Sccuritics in England—No Fuith in American Railroad Stock—Canadian Grand Trunk Road—The [Ui- nois Central—Ohio and Mississippi: Railroad—Marictta and Cincinnati Railroad—Adantic and Great Western Ratlroad—Mobile and Ohio Railread—Mississippi and Central Railroad—Florida Raitroads—Indiana Kail- roads, dc., éc, The British public have always felt a tively interest in the condition and prospects of the North American rail- roads; though at present, we scarcely need observe, all Such securities meet with little favor in our market. How can we wonder atit, indeed, when we recollect how many and what sort of such securities have been palmed off on honest John Bail through the pure minded aud honorably intentioned medium of the leading financial firms in Lon- don, all of whom have no doubt taken good care to pro- mote their own interests thereby? In fact, so severely has speculative John been bitten by these transactions, that the very mention of an American railroad security makes him button up his breeches pockets; and having nothing else wherein to invest his surplus capital, he sub- scribes to Turkish, Egyptian, Chiiean, Brazilian or Portu- guese loans, which, if well supported by some leading finan- cial London house, find no lack of buyers in the market. Indeed, just now—although Uncle Sam is our very best cus- tomer both as toquantity and price, and worth all our others put together—it would be the height of folly for him totry to borrow a sixpenco in England for internal improvement purposes in North America. Nay, we have even heard that the British ironmasters have paseeda re- solution not to sell the Americans any more rails except for cash, though still they will accept half in oash and the rest in bonds, provided the price per ton is raised s0 a8 to make the cash amount equal to the fair market price Of the iron, ‘The shorteomings of Canada in the Grand Trunk Rail- ‘way scheme are likewise placed to the account of Jona- than—for the reagon, perhaps, that ane of its branches terminates in Portland—and from sixty to se- venty millions of dollars have already been precious echeme; nor has the outlay even yet ceased. The managers, moreover, pro- mise enormous dividends in that indefinite term of futu- rity—soon; and thus unlucky shareholders are hooked in and led to keep contributing their cash, when all the time the realtruth is that the road never will and never can pay We may here mention that a strong delega- tion has been sent from North America to tempt Mr. Bull with another grand scheme, no leas than a union of all the provinces from Nova Scotia to Columbia, Jnateding, of expended on this its expenses. course, a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from Halifax to Pacific; and such ig the redundancy of the population along this proposed line, that, should it ever be completed, eholders of the present Grand Tronk line believe it cannot fail to benefit their own line. We incline to think, however, that Master Bull’s pocket will not stand 80 heavy a pull just now, though there are many ahrewd menat the helm, and among them some of the promoters it Grand Trunk; so that, as all will be on the 8] of the present British territory, it is hard to say what may be the result, Our own opinion is that when the Victoria Bridge is fin- ished, the St. Clair river bridged over, and Lake Michi- gan either tunneled or bridged, the present Grand Trunk may pay—vot dividends, but running expenses. Some few years ago, however, when this grand scheme was first brought out, 80 good a speculation was it'deemed that people pment vane scrambling to get shares—ene single London com ‘and banking firm alone having one million sterling invested therein, while an equal sum was loat and by the contractors. The ‘fools Central was another tit-bit for honest John, which he did not forget to swallow, and the result was that the shrewd managers have made fortunes, while Illi- nois itself has since its construction attained an unprece- ‘while, wbo pald the piper, looking levbepanstapyere while, who pai iper, on Jews ation of his. ividonds. which a8 yet have been—nil. In short it may well be regarded as Grand Trunk No, 2. The great (six fect) Ohio and Mississipi Railway was another scheme brought over by Jonathan to tempt bro- ther Bull; and as it was endorsed by the great American banking house of London, what else could. it possibly be trate speculation? The bonds, therefore, were eagerly bought up, and looked upon asa certain invest- ment; how certain they have proved, however, is suf- ficiently evident from the fact that, for’ some two years, been no dividend at all; ‘nor does Jonn like to buta there press for os as there may be a flaw in the mort- gage, and are written. By the way, while on the subject of grand trunk schemes, J may mention a new scheme—the Marietta and Cincinnati Railway—of which I herewith enclose a circular translated from the French:— Lonpon, July 28, 1858. Drak Sin—After long deliberation we have agreed, majority of the holders of mortgages on the Marietta and Cin. ein forward the necessary legal p! ‘a permanent property. (Une suisie immobitiere.) ‘e have since been engaged in correspondence with persona regent the interests of the English sharegolders, those interesta are well cal- culated to insure the success of the enterprise, we have no hesitation in recommending our friends to join wih us in ite digposed to and as wo are quite convinced tbat taking. ‘ithe ehlet‘aanager will be Mr, Samuel Hallett, of New York, aasisied by the honorable ex Prewid it jul ers le, ry eee AB Tema advisers, will be united the Hon. . J. Y, Magon, now Minister Pleniposentiary at Paris, and the Hon. G, Plenijoventiary at. Londoa, both of who "to the United States. ios steps to take possession ee); but at the same tine negotia- the powerful railway companies ediate ements will allow of cur guaranteeing: tre mediate arrangement ar e shares without the results ‘pos. M. ‘will probably soon return to the Unt proposed to take immediate (pour que la suisie soit tons will be set on foot w: in the nelghi ; nor are we without hops ‘the necessity of entering on ‘session and sending the railroad into mark¢ @ la suisie et de mettre le chemin en vente.) ‘What Mr. Hallet thet numeraire, ff the ders are paid in that way, grin gat notes, if the latter receive a guarantee res. ‘Mr. Halleti undertake its of under in taking. By Pp ng ete 7, Al urpose of dec! on measures to be taken; and we shall be moat happy if you will appoint our chairman (notre sieur), Mr. Willian Ferguson, to represent you at this g you consent 10 this be plensed to fill up and ign the adjoined ‘enclose. ROBERT BENSON & CO. Guntiemen—I have received your letter of July 2%, relative to the Marietta and Cincinnati Railway Company, and I hereby Suthorize your chalrman, Mr. Wma. Ferguson, Wo represent me at me ugust, and to take all other steps iat mnay'be unetal for the furtherance of tls uudertaking Pt have Sy the receipts of the first instalment, ——; do. 01 sal if you require them. MR, HALLETT’S ONDERTARING. Lonvon, 34 Great George street, Westminster. Panis, 10 Rue Lord Byron. To tHe Snanenoupens oF THe Mauterra axp Cixciswart AILWAY:— GentirMEx—Referring to my different communications with ou, a& well as to the conversation which we had together with ine Hon “Gi. Si Dallas and the Hon.'J. Y. Mason, om tne matter of the Marfetta and Cincinnati Railway, I have the honor of in- forming yon that nnder the auspices of the hoforables ex-Pre sident Filmore. Mr. Mason and Dallas, Lam prepared to take charge of the sharebolders’ intereata in the above mentioned railway, whether on the pian of futre proceder a une swisie im- mohiliers or gay oe Lie a eentet oni Lg be required for inew 5 in capital and interes of the teed obligations. wr the first and second instal- ents (hypotheques). mVTengaye 10 undertake at my own risk and peril the expenses and legal on condition of receiving my ‘and in detrayment of my ex. penses—in case of success—an allowance ot ten per cent on the amount of any sums that may be realised or guaranteed by the sale or purchase of the said railway. Tris understood that, in case the railway be sold for a certain sum of money, the price shall be at least equivalent to the amount of be two mortgage loana—the first at eighty cents, the second at eighty cents per share. If it be sold or converted into actions or shares of any kind, the purchase price shall equal the price of the Joans at the’ date of issue; ‘while on the other hand, should any arrangement be made for the sale of this ratiway to the Pennaylvania Railway Company or tothe Raltimore and Ohio Railway Company, the six per cent ahares and six per cent preference do. of these railways or one or the other—sball be recownized as equivalent alike the seven per cent shares of the Marietta and Uincinnati Rail. fat saeerten, 2 Ge of all Jaw pi Aga remuneration 2 fore, ar. m I lace in your hands the agreement of Mr. ex President Fanmore othe propositions above Tasiosied. My letters of in- * jallett's proposition has been carefully examined b ‘our committee, and we now recommend it with mach con! dense to. the sharehoklers, more particularly aa there are no other means of want the same end without great additional aivances, We would further observe, too, that aa any delay tt 8 bonds not worth the paper on which they with the allway Company, that urgent steps should be taken to legal proceedings to make this railway lent Fillmore, one of the of the United States; et. (Le donner suite paid in values of the same description— besides, to make his partners parti- second, ——, which I place at your dispo: President a the’ Beery conjunction with an ex-! Thue) States, Tatra stra ead otras patos: Sut arly the American government should pay its ministers cient to prevent them from getting into suck very ques- tionable company. Nevertheless, with such an imposing array of great names and ‘ial talent, the Marietta and Cincinnati no doubt immediately offer itself to the loving embraces of bondholders, without delay pro- ceed so far to increase its revenue ag to make the securi- ties pay a handsome per centage. ‘The great (six feet gauge) Atlantic and Great Western pe plab peeesind Grand Trunk—has been well and shrewdly managed on this side of the channel—arrange- = car / already completed for rs eir tron, (mucl whicl been already forwarded, ag well, pits as for a certain amount of cash—euflclent, %t is supposed, for opening the ine. Whence comes, however, is somewhat of a of the great London financial houses vw therewith. In this instance, too, the parties advancing the Joan have exercised a wary outa competent agent to examine the probabili of success, and the truth of the representations made by the projec- tors and managers; nor have they advanced their capital Without being well satisted on both these points. Wo incline to think, however, that the establishment of this line will produce such a clashing of railroad interests ag not only to make this line value! iteelf both to share- holders and creditors, but also to injure very many of the leading }ines from St. Louis to the At by not render them utterly valueless, Moreover, if this rail- ‘way be completed, very few years will elapse ere ‘will be heavy complaints on this side the Atlantic ot the of several ii ‘tant American lines—euch a8 the New York Central, tbe New York and Erie, the At- Jantic and Great Western, the ‘ivania Central, the Baltimore and Obio, the Marietta and Cincimnati, the Pitte- burg and Chicago, with several others, all of whom will, dy the opening of the Atlantic and Great Western, be in- volved in a bitter internecine war. Let us hope, how- ever, that moderate counsels will prevail, and that, there is an abundance of trade for all, they will settle their feuds by compromise, instead of open and destructive war. Hl i ‘The Mobile and Ohio Railway Company have secured, it is eaid, all their iron—certain parties in England having become such large creditors that they had to ties for the old debt—even then very large, and in order to make those securities valuable, were obliged to furnish all the iron wanted by the company on its own terms—thas ig, a long day and payment in bonds at last. The Miscissippi Central Railway, were, the great backbone of the repu also, if report speaks truth, been supplied with through the same channel apd‘on ; the parties supplying it boldiy declared that they have aided, and never will aid, any enterprise carried on by or in « repudiating State, yet their interest in try uorthwards {from New Orleans (which, without this line, would be valueless) is 80 great that forced to break their lution by pany. The same parties are also, as we 5 ers of old se er th ate ‘with reference to the lat- ter there are si ‘8 SAUietactory A lleva, he dat bay no groan Tor complatat; aad as her creditors have so far Jen to- wards the developement of its resources, the least it can do in return is to give a new lining to the pockets of tiong very liberal gentlemen. Far more Ley however, F i the securities of these undertakings will find in due time into the hands of the speculative Mr. Bully. for be announced in connection they will, unquestionably, with great names, and as John looks and never to eecurities, he will be sure to buy them up; and #0 the money will go ppirventher ator wns = and bankers, at a very heavy price a rate of interest for credit, commission, &. Now, itacen will buy such loans, he ought rather to parchase first oie pen rates Low gies et and cut about by iron masters, ers, agents, &c., in which case the securities woul: 7 cases out of a hundred be good investments and pay largely, jot long ago the State of Florida among the repudiating States) was, American railway companies, in the asking for @ comparatively small ing gctual gecurity—such as has ne hat. and in every point of viet those who kept the keysfof Mr. Pay us first the amount of our nada, and then, but not till then, we or whatever else you want.”” fact fe, that American house in London has bought up a of the old territorial debt fora mere song; to Florida railroads, until house is paid in fal the broad grounds of the opposition being ostensibly that no ‘anterprise, however or reasonable, ought to be aided. ina State that repudiates the claims upon her. Yet, so beautifully consistent is this same firm, that only very re- cently it furnished either the iron or credit—pebaps both— for the Mississippi Central Railway. It is much to be feared, however, that Florida will never recognise or pay any claim while such a course is taken; for, ever since it became a State in the federal Union, it has never owed @ dollar, as its very coustitution prohibits any debt. The debt was contracted, in short, when the country was a Territory, and that,'too, as the present citizens of that State allege, neither justly, equitably, nor legally; nor hag the State any right to acknowledge any claims, even were they made, as they have not been. Be that as it may, this self-appointed and beautifully consistent guardian of John Bull's coffers utterly opposes any advance of kind to Florida, so that if that State has need of railways she must make them from her own resources. Florida, we believe, wished to borrow £2,000 sterling per mile upon @ limited length of road, for which she offered as securi- ty for the payment of seven per cent annually for thirty- five years—first, the entire railroad; secondly, a most am- Fetter a BERS Fee ts i TEES ple guarantee by the State authorities for the principaland interest of the loaa; and thirdly, upwards of 4,000 acres of valuable timber'grown land for each mile of Had the above American banking house not put in its yeto to the loan, it could easily have been procured, and Flo- rida would thereby have been so much strengthened that she could soon bave paid with ease the entire claim upon her,and no doubt would have done so in all cases where their validity had been legally substantiated. We hear, also, that the State of Indiana is to have am appeal made to her liberality by some of lng ge men- tioned above, on the subject of her canals, for the con- struction of which the State borrowed money several years _ In the speculative go-ahead eagerness of those ‘times, State found itself unable to pay the interest of its loans, and the canals were wently left incom- plete. This led to a compremise—the ‘surrendering the canals, and the creditors taking back the securities they held from the State. The new owners of the canals of course completed them, and for a time all went well; but soon afterwards railways became all the rage, Jobn Bull’s iron and money have intersected Indiana with railroads in all directions, to the immense injury of the canals, which thenceforward became absolutely worth- less. ‘The owners of the latter, therefore, deem only right and fair that the State should take back the and let them have State bonds again, alleging the injustice of the State in ae railways up toruin the canals. Now, Indiana without railways, instead of being one of the ™most prominent and flourishing States in the Union, would be worse off than Utah; so that the luckless canal owners must, we fear, abide by their bargain, and not trouble the State for its bonds; for the latter will surely keep them, however much the leading American banking house may complain of its want of liberafty. Far better would it bo for the proprietors to fill up the canals, lay down rails, and run trains in opposition to all other lines in the State, until the latter shall pay the present canal owners the amount they have invested, when the State and its rail- Ways and interests may be left to their fate. Lonpon, Dee. 17, 1858. Prosperity of the Royal London Yatch Club un- der the Commodoreship of Andrew Arcedeckne, Esq.—Bal Masqués in England—Jullien’s Past Season and his Stars—Our Great Tenor, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Hogarth, the Father-in- law of Charles Dickens—Messrs. Webster and E. T. Smith Raving afler Middle Aged Women Garrick Club Rows—Theatres and their Pros- pects—Letter from a Musical Friend—Re- cent Divorce Cases, &e. The annual dinner of the Royal London Yacht Club was so great a success thatevery stranger pre- sent came spontaneously forward, anxious for elec- tion, and next Monday evening some twenty-five are to be balloted for. Not the least important toast of the feeding evening, admirably proposed by Commodore Andrew Arcedeckne, the chairman, was—The Press of England and America;” and he coupled with it the London Times and the New Yors HERALD. Jullien’s bal masqué, (but then bal masqué’s, like omelettes souffiés and unicorns, are impossible things, in England particularly) save the music, was a sorry affair indeed. The theatre was crowded, it s true, but the costumes were limited to a few hired and slovenly dressed supers and sundry traviatas, who sorely forgot themselves when the efferves- cence of imperial pop had stolen away their dis guised improprieties. Of course there were seve- ral fights and numerous police returns the next day. Mons, Jullien is not at all to blame for this; on the contrary, rather to be pitied for having striven in vain for many years past to make the pudding headed Saxon understand that, though more than usual soirée license is allowable at the masquerade, intoxication and bullying are as ill placed aa at the private ball given at a friend’s house. As regard@ the promenade concerts, they have been highly successful this year, at the; Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth. Mons. Jullien and his match- Jess band have cause for auriferous and well laarel-