The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1859, Page 4

NEW, YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1859. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS TERMS, cash én advance. Money sent by mail will be at the cook of the sender, Postage stamps not (aa subecription ~rae Hi too conta ,, $1 per annum. Fim WankLy nary Bonarh yt eos cont copy, oF 33 per aan; the or %5 to PEGE pAMILY WREALD, every Wadneaday, at four cons per ‘annum. ony, or eee CORRESPONDENCE, containing tmportant ‘paid for. Founicy CORRESPONDENTS ARE y Bequastep ro Seat alt Letrexs ano Pack- i if seeeeNOdd Volume XXIV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Iratian Orgma —Lacrurs On ASTRONOMY. ADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—-Purnau—Loxs nurer ‘rue Heata—Deaps or Daxapret Nore. WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Berrancor—Faisky Ooenuan Jaques BrnorTwo Boztanos. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway—Nick or THE Woove—Gisxiis—Map Docs. WALLACK’S tos—BLve xD URA KEEN®’S THEAT! No. 6% Broadway.—Ovn axnaioux Covsin~ Tax Masa Raxe gan rl ve SERATER, Broadway.—MERcHANT OF BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—After- moon and Evening—Tom Noppr's Sacagt—Rosgtza. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— ‘Bruior.ex Bones, Dances, 40.—Naw Year Cais, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, MECHANICS’ HALL, 437 Broad+ way—Nuceo Songs any Buniesques—SurLock. SNIFFEN’S CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Brosdway.— Mazopixs, Buauesques, &0.—Ou! Hus. New York, Friday, January 14, 1850. ‘The News. The steamship Niagara arrived at Halifax yester- day, with European news to the Ist inst., one week Jater than the advices brought by the Africa at this port. The intelligence is interesting. The steamship Weser, of the New York and Bremen line, about the safety of which serious ap. prebensions were entertained, had arrived at Queenstown. She had experienced heavy gales and sprung a leak. At London on the Ist inst. consols were firm at ‘96§ a 96] for account, ex-dividend. There had been an average business in American securities, without material change in prices. Business prospects at the close of the year were regarded as generally satis- factory. The quarterly return of the revenue of Great Britain showed an increase of £1,125,496, as compared with last year. The receipts for the year, however, owing to the repeal of the income tax, &c., were £4,000,147 less in 1858 than in 1857. At Liverpool cotton had exhibited symptoms of a decline in prices, but on the Ist inst. rates were steady at previously reported quotations. Bread- stuffs, except flour, which was dull, had an upward tendency. A letter from Jaffa states that no punishment had yet been inflicted on the robbers who murdered an American family there about a year since. The Wabash was at Jaffa at last accounts, and it is re- ported that if the murderers were not speedily Drought to justice the town would be bombarded by the frigate. “It is said that the Emperor Napoleon has assured the British Minister at Paris of his support in the event of England’s opposing the policy of our government in Cuba, Mexico and Central Ame- rica. In Spain the newspapers are highly indig- nant at the tone of Mr. Buchanan’s Message. In Congress yesterday Mr. Seward introduced in the Senate a bill amending existing acts for the suppression of the African slave trade. It pro- vides for the employment of steamers for the capture of slavers, authorizes States to pass laws to suppress the traffic in foreign slaves, and appro- priates a million of dollars to carry into execution the provisions of the bill. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A resolution was offered, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a plan for raising revenue adequate to the wants of the government, by the imposition of specific instead of ad valorem duties, also to furnish all needful information on the subject of spe- cific duties. A bill was introduced to es- tablish a line of steamers between American and British ports. The debate on the Pacific Railroad was resumed, and continped until the Senate went into executive session. In the House a call was made for information concerning the number of chaplains in the navy, to what religious denominations they belong, whether they are required to wear gowns, what form of worship is observed, and whether the Episcopal Litany is used. The Judiciary Committee was au- thorized to send for persons and papers in the case of Judge Irwin. The Naval Appropriation bill ‘was referred to the Committee of the Whole. The Dill repealing the law authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to change the names of vessels in cer- tain cases was passed. The Committee on Com- merce reported a bill in favor of building two steam revenue cutters, one to be stationed at Philadel- phia,and the other at New Orleans. In Committee of the Whole, Mr. Cochrane's bill providing for the codification of the revenue laws was taken up. A debate ensued, in which considerable opposition to certain provisions of the bill was manifested. The State Senate yesterday instructed the Com- mittee on Public Buildings to investigate and report concerning the transactions of the lobby, in accord- ance with the suggestion of the Governor in his Message. In the Assembly the annual report of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners was pre- sented. They propose various amendments to the existing law. They ask power to employ not ex- ceeding five hundred special policemen on election days; that Aldermen be deprived of the power to discharge prisoners from the station houses; that they have power to destroy counferfeit bank note plates; also an alteration of the basis upon which the expense of the force is distributed among the several counties comprising the dis- trict, so that it shall be based, not as at present, upon the valuation of the real and personal proper- ty, but upon the number of policemen employed in the counties respectively, and with reference to the more effectual enforcement of the laws of the State with reference to the observance of the Sabbath. The Commissioners recommend an amendment of the law so as to give them power to appoint 350 additional patrolmen in the city and county of New York. Since the report was made, however, the supervisors of that county have au thorized the appointment of nearly 200 additional policemen. The report of the Quarantine Commis- sioners was also presented. It appears that the Commissioners have been hasty in making arrange ‘ments for a new Quarantine site at Orchard Shoal. ‘The whole subject is in the hands of the Legislature, and prompt action relative to the matter on thei part is necessary. North river steamera and some others hal their flags at half-mast yesterday, in consequonce 0” the death of Capt. Smith, late of the steamboat Francis Skiddy. We are requested to state that the telegraphic Gespatch from New Haven, published on Thursday morning, announcing the withdrawal of the Stonington and the Norwich line of Sound steamers, is entirely incorrect. The steamers of both lines left this city at four o'clock Thursday evening, and will continue to run regularly as heretofore. The Central Park pond was in good order yester- day, and thousands assembled there to witness the ekating an¥ curling matches. Among the skaters Was quite a number of ladies, whose persons and Performances excited the liveliest admiration. The display was very attractive. ‘The Board of Aldermen met last evening. The Special Committee on the Tax Levy presented their report, the consideration of which was laid over. The Committee made several modifications in the original document, reducing several ap propriations and introducing others. The ordi- nance to prohibit the sprinkling of salt on Broadway during snowy weather was car- ried. A communication was -received from Comptroller Haws, in relation to informalities in the assessment list for regulating and grading 116th street, between Eighth avenue and Harlem river. He returns the list for reconsideration. Among other items, $650 are charged by the Col- lector of Assessments as fees for signing his name and notifying the Comptroller of the same. The as- sessment was sent back to the Tax Commissioners for correction. A motion to discharge the committee to whom was referred the question of City Inspec- torship was, after a lengthened debate, laid over. The Board of Councilmen metlast evening, when the President announced the committees of the Board for 1859, which will be found elsewhere. The republican members expressed great dissatis- faction at the appointments of the presiding officer. The present State officers of Connecticut were yesterday placed in nomination for re-election by the Republican State Convention, which met at New Haven. The rivers and bay were again enveloped ina dense fog yesterday morning, causing much annoy- ance by the detention of the ferry boats. The steamer Empire State, of the Fall River bine, did not reach the city until two o'clock in the afternoon. Her captain reports having encountered but very little ice in the Sound. The steamer Commodore, from Stonington, also arrived about two o'clock. The Grand Jury presented a very large number of indictments yesterday in the General Sessions, for burglary, forgery and larceny, to which the prisoners pleaded not guilty, and were remanded for trial. Stephen Webb, jointly indicted with Henry Foster, for breaking into the store of Samuel Lichtenstein, was acquitted, and on the rendition of the verdict Foster was discharged. James Lathin, charged with William Worrum, was tried and con- victed of forgery in the second degree, having on the 29th of December passed a counterfeit $5 bill on the Granite Bank, Mass. The jury recommended him to mercy, and he was remanded for sentence. Rose Smith was convicted of stealing a gold watch and chain worth $166, the property of Stephen T. Gregory, of No. 88 Rivington street, and sent to the State prison for two years. Thomas Mahones was found guilty of an attempt at burglary, having been caught in the act of attempting to enter the store of W. C. Bernstein, Jr., No. 555 Sixthavenue, on the night of the 18th of December. He was sent to the State prison fortwo years. John Dunn, indicted for forgery in the second degree, pleaded guilty to the fourth grade of that offence, and was sent to Sing Sing prison for two years. James Rogers, a very bad youth, pleaded guilty to bur- glary in the third degree, and was sentenced to two years and nine months imprisonment in the State prison. Thomas Stanley pleaded guilty to an at- tempt at grand larceny, and was remanded for sen- tence. William Johnson was tried for breaking into the store of Henry Miller, but the evidence was insufficient to convict him, and he was dis- charged. Robert Shansey, jointly indicted with Johnson, pleaded guilty to an attempt, and was sent to the penitentiary for one year. Our files from Australia, dated at Sydney on the 12th and at Melbourne on 16th of October, contain an interesting résumé of the progress of the colony during the past year. A return of the gold yield, from the first discovery of the metal there, is given, with full statistical tables of the revenue, imports, exports, insolvencies, increase of population, &c., for the same period of time. We publish the ex- tracts this morning, with the news that the Port Curtis gold mines had proved a miserable failure. Our European files by the North American, dated at Liverpool on the 22d ult., reached this city from Portland yesterday evening. The papers are ndtso late by three days as those received by the Africa and Alps. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales. The Niagara’s news imparted a stronger tone to the market, and holders manifested a better feeling, while prices were without quotable change. Flour was firmer for most descriptions, with a fair demand from the trade. Wheat was firmer, with a speculative demand for good Western red; the sales were to a fair extent, and at full prices for all good qualities. Corn was firmer, and with small sales, including new Southern yellow at 80c. a Slc., and Western mixed at 84c.a 85c. The Nia- gara’s news gave more buoyancy at the close, to the market for breadstuffs. Pork was again more active and firmer, both for immediate and future delivery; old mess sold at $17 and new at $17 50, and prime at $12 873; a $13—and at a higher figure for June delivery. Beef and lard were also firm. Sugars were firmer, and closed at full 3c. advance; the sales embraced about 1,300 bhds. at prices given in another place. Coffee was steady, while sales were limited. Freights were dull, and engagements light. Spices this week nave become active, and have undergone a matcrial advance. Mer- chants and brokers in this city bhaye been appealed to by committee men at Washington regarding the trade in spices, with the view of ascertaining whether they would not bear @ reasonable duty, without inconvenience to the trade and the consumers. They are now free. Answers have been returned, to the effect that they would bear a fair duty without material detriment, and that should the duties of 1846 be restored—30 to 40 per cent ad valorem— they would yield a revenue of about $500,000 per annum. It is the impression among dealers that Congress may renew the dutiés, that has in part contributed to the Present speculative movement. The Spoils Politicians of the Day, and Their Presidential Movements. The first great duty of the American people is to take the business of the next Presidential election into their own hands, regardless of party associations, party caucuses, or spoils and plunder jobbing party conventions, During the last fifteen years, under our managing party politicians, our governmental affairs, Congressional, State and municipal, have rapidly sunk to that low ebb of immorality, cupidity and corruption, from which the next step must be a spontaneous popular revolution, or a descent into chaos and anarchy. That de- basing party maxim, first enunciated some twenty odd years ago, that “to the victors be- long the spoils,” has become the absorbing, controlling, absolute rule of action of our party managers, from the party leader in Congress down to his fagleman of the village caucus. The lobby, originally consisting of a few poverty stricken old soldiers, asking for pensions, has grown into the third estate of the government, and the numerous gangs of its luxuriously sup- plied dependents, which now swarm in the pur- liews of the Capitol during the sittings of Con- gress, will afford some idea of the spoliations upon the treasury and the pockets of the people. The worst of it is that the list of the founders of this rapacious lobby system includes most of the leading chiefs of the corrupt political parties of the day, and most, it not all, of their aspirants for the Presidential succession. Thus, while slavery, and the protection and expansion of slavery, are made the bond of cohesion of the modern demo- cratic party, and while hostility to the extension and the protection of slavery are proclaimed as the only basis of uniom of the republican party, the real bond of union, with the one and the other, is that which Mr. Calhoun was wont to stigmatise as the “cohesive power of public plunder.” ‘The miserable and disgusting squabbles of Tammany Hall over the spdils of the the New York Castom House are the same that control the proceeding» of parties in Congres. aod the nominations of democratic and repablicas and Know Nothing national conveations for (be Presidency. Looking over the catalogue of our promiacat party politicians, on all sides, now engaged in speeches, stand as prominently implicated in their public acts. The question, therefore, which now thrusts itself upon the country, is this :— Shall any of these party leaders or party managers, who have grown rich upon the leak- ages of the public treasury, or from their Con- gressional squanderings of the public lands, or upon Galphin and Gardner claims, or swindling contracts, or trumped up indemnities, or official land or town lots, or upon any other crooked diversions of their official of political influence, to fill their pockets and enrich their dependents, be considered competent to conduct the business and to dictate the people’s candidate for the Presidential election of 1860? We protest against following the movements of any of these party leaders, or their party cau- cusses or conventions, any longer. We appeal to the honest, uncorrupted and independent masses of the people to take this important business of the next Presidency into their own hands, and that, too, without further delay, in a general, spontaneous movement fora popular candidate and a sweeping popular revolution. The finan- cial revulsion of 1857, in exhausting the resources of the Treasury on the one hand, and the expensive legacies inherited by Mr. Buchanan from Fillmore and poor Pierce on the other, in swelling to their present extraordinary dimensions the ex- penditures and necessities of the government, have operated pretty effectually to choke off the lobby. The vigilance of Mr. Buchanan has also done much to keep the lobby vultures at a re- spectful distance. In all this, however, we have but a temporary security. Let some reckless and prodigal party politician, conversant and conniving with the dirty trickery of the lobby, be elected our next President, and spoils and plunder, spoliation and robbery, and bankruptcy and ruin, will become the order of the day. Casting about us, then, for some available man competent to represent the uncorrupted, unbrib- ed and honest masses of the people, we must look outside the circle of our scheming and juggling party polificians. Among the tried and sterling patriots of the land, who have continued compa- ratively poor, when they might have be- come rich had they dabbled in the mud- dy pool of party and lobby corruptions, General Scott, like King Saul among the sons of Israel, stands a head and shoulders over all, and notalone in his physical altitude, but in his moral elevation. Identified with the old whig party when it represented the national and conserva- tive principles of Henry Clay, and never having swung off into the dirty excesses of the sectional pro-slavery or anti-slavery agitators of these evil times, and with his hands unstained by official speculations, party subsidies or lobby jobs, General Scott is the very man for the honest conservative masses of the opposition camps of all sections. We adhere to him as the only living representative man of those sound na- tional principles, and that prevailing popular Union sentiment among the opposition masses, without which there can be neither cohesion among the opposition elements nor a chance of success before the people. On the democratic side, we apprehend there is no prospect of anything but defeat upon any candidate, mixed up, North or South, with the party sectional squabbles of the last two years, Outside of this schedule of spoils and plunder politicians, however, there may be a chance of union and success, and upon some such uncommitted and popnlar candidate as General Wool. We can only anticipate from the continued ascendancy of the old party caucus and convention system, in the choice of what they may call the “regular” democratic and republican candidates for 1860, a riotous scrub face of fighting sections and factions, which will hurry the government and the Union to de- struction. Increase Wirnour Improvement.—We see that the Police Commissioners have re- warded some two hundred tried and faithful po- litical adherents with placesin the force. Now that they have increased the number of men to the highest limit, perhaps they will endeavor to improve the Department, by keeping all the offi- cers and men to the strict line of their duties, and simplifying the circumlocutory manner of doing business at the central office. With all the faults of the old force, it was much more efficient than the Metropolitan, and that with one-third less numerical force, and a proportionate reduc- tion im expense. If we leave out some of the tremendous efforts of the brilliant detectives, we never should know we hada police out of the hotels and theatres, until our tax bills come in. Avorisn THE Desxs.—The press generally ad- vocates the removal of the little fancy desks pro- vided for our representatives in Congress, It would be an improvement to take away the country school appearance which the House al- ways has, in spite of its paint, gilding and fres- coes. Congress should also abolish the custom of making long speeches for Buncombe in Com- mittee of the Whole, or if there must be @debat- ing society, let its sessions be held in the even- ing. When these two nuisances are abolished, we will mention one or two more. Soffigtdat for the day is the evil thereof. ‘The Rrvelution tu MextcomPast Career of Mexico bas again presented the spectacle of one of thone rapid and facile changes of | goverament for which she is o celebrated. Even | while the fires of civil war are raging in nearly all the States of the republic, ber rulers cannot | take themselves out of that vicious circle of revolution which has become the normal law of 8 ebange of administration for Mexican politica. Since the 20th day of January last two formal governmenta—each claiming to be the supreme authority of the republic—have existed in Mexi- co. President Juarez recognizes the federal con- —— of 1857, and his partisans ‘old nearly quite all the States lying on the circumfe- tence of the Mexican con’ed™ tion - the present seat of government being \ cra Cruz. Until within a short time Presiden Zaloaga held the central tion of the. cs, claiming to govern t! ounwy as a centraliced republic, In this he } a strongly supported by the conservative, or reactionary party, and the church. The points of conflict between these two governments are these:—The constitutionalists desire to sepa- tate the State from the church, abolish the exclusive privileges of the clergy and army, pro- claim freedom of worship, and to confiscate to the use of the impoverished national treasury the wast pomesdons, in lands and houses, now held by a few ecclesiastical corporations of monks, nuns and chaplains, The conservatives wish to preserve to the church its property and influence in the State, and to the army those special privileges which have come down from the times of the feudal ages. In this contest the remnants of the regular servative army bas never been able to subdue the country. Zuloaga’s government, when es- tablished in January last, contained only a small Santanista element; for though the remaant of the army desires to recall Santa Anna, the digni- taries of the church do not wish to do so. But Echeagaray has pursued, and which party he has joined, we do not yet know. ‘The whole of this affair looks to us very much revolutionary forces that overthrew Arista; Gene- ral Robles, commander of the troops of President Caballos, the legitimate successor of Arista, Haro, and the priest- Miranda, (now in Mexico,) agents of Santa Anna, and eventually General Lombardini, commander of the garrison of the capital, were concerned, and the result was the elevation of the latter to the Presidency, and the immediate recall of Sinta Anna. -In this new scheme it is not seen yet which are the cheated parties. Robles and Echeagaray have evidently been left out, and the question is whether Gen. Miramon has been brought into power by the Santanistas as his forerunner, or by the church party for the purpose of keeping Santa Anna out. In either case it would be contrary to all the antecedents of Santa Anna if he were to return to Mexico before his partisans have completed their triumph. He bas been ten several times chief of the republic, but he always has come to enjoy and divide the spoils—not to fight to attain them. Gen. Miramon is a young man, not yet twenty- eight years of age, who has risen to bis present position through his valor and intimacy with Osollos during the last twelve months. - His first appearance upon the scene of agin was as a lfeutenant of the army under Santa Anna. After the revolution of Ayutla, which triumphed with the flight of Santa Anna in August, 1855, he took the field as a guerrillero, in company with Osollos, in opposition to the federal government, Inscribing “Religion and Privileges” upon their bannner, both of these young men led a preca- rious and eventful life of warfare against the constituted authorities. The revolution of Ta- cubaya, in January last, found them in despe- rate straits in the hills around Mexico, and they rode in all haste into the city, to join the insurgents, It was the reckless valor of Osollos and Miramon that turned the tide of victory against President Comonfort. Zuloaga was chosen President; Osollos became com- mander-in-chief of the army, aud he appointed Miramon as his second in command. They acted together in the North against the constitutional- ists, until the death of Osollos, a few months since, when Miramon succeeeded him as commander- in-chief of the army. In all the campaigns of the past year he has displayed great activity and courage, which have been crowned with success. He drove back the constitutional forces under Degollado from Guadalajara, was then called to the East to defend San Luis Potosi against Vidaurri, whose army he annihilated, and then had to fight his way back into Guadalajara, which had been again occupied by Degollado during his absence. In conducting these operations he was forced to make several rapid journeys to the capital to obtain, by his personal efforts, what slender resources he could squeeze out of the government. On these visits he found time tomake love and get married; and when he last left the capital he took his wife with him to the campaign against Guadalajara. In his short career he has exhibited energy, readiness, courage and violent temper. The latter has led him, on two occasions, while at San Luis Potosi, to violate the rights of certain British subjects there, which caused much em- barrassment to President Zuloaga, as the British Minister formally requested his deposition from command. If he comprehends the philosophy of the present contest in Mexico, President Mira- mon may achieve much in the re-organization of the nation. That he cherishes the army we koow; but whether be has thus far sustuined the church from principle or from expediency we do not know. His intimacy with Osollos, who had no affection for priests, and looked upon them only as his helpers into power, would lead us to suppose that he has very little of an abiding love for the church. ‘The Blockade of All City Business. We would direct attention to a second commu- nication from the Street Commissioner to the Common Council, setting forth the illegality of all expenditures on city account, in the absence of definite appropriations to cover the various objects of disbursement, as prescribed in the thirty-eighth section of the city charter. The ground taken is one of strict construction and simple obedience to financial checks, which should meet with the approval and support of all who feel an interest in securing an honest and less expensive city government. The Street Commissioner being the only officer through whom supplies can legally be drawn, and find- ing, under present circumstances, that no expen- diturescan be incurred by him without flagrant violation of the charter, is very properly deter- miped not to suffer others to assume his duties and plunge the city into debt for supplies and labor, which either may or may not be required. The great need of our municipal system is firm- ness in ite officers and an undeviating respect for law. Can nothing arouse the taxpayers of this city from the lethargy of disgust brought on by years of civic pillage and delinquency? or are they so hopeless of reform that its promise must forever fall on unbelieving ears? Can they not be made to realize that the property of the city is in imminent danger, and that the whole fabric of municipal government is fast verging towards utter disorganization and chaos? In the face of a provision in the Charter, which prescribes that “no expense shall be incurred by any yiel on the point of ceding Sandy Hook for quarfintine purposes is most emphatically snubbed in high quarters there. In his message, just delivered, Governor Newell refers to Ge- vernor Morgan’s suggestion in this wise:— The Executive of New York, Jn bis reoent mecennge 2 he Lecelalace of thes Saks, exureeees ine i a‘ BE i He sil geek | i A if ze é. lature or the Roaiteseustae ee positions in favor of Sandy Hook; and after what Hook. But while the site for the new building is not yet decided upon, the fact that the Quarantine is not to be re-established on , Staten Island may be taken for granted. The firmness of the residents there in their opposition to such a measure, the strong opinions expressed by the Governor against it, and the common sense and justice of the community generally, sufficiently settle that question. Meantime we may expect much circumlocution and heavy lobby work before the locality is finally agreed upon. fade CE NE inh French Schemes in Central America—Is Great Britain a Party to Them? It was said ofthe Napoleon dynasty during the first empire that its only chances of stability lay in its external difficulties. Notwithstanding that the saying was falsified by Waterloo, the head of the second empire seems totreat it as an aphorism. No sooner does his domestic policy get him into trouble at home than he looks abroad for some means of diverting the attention of his people. The Crimean war served a pur- pose by securing to him the adherence of the army. He must now dosomething to conciliate the good will and obedience of the commercial classes, The ugly impressions left by his despotic restrictions against the press have to be counteracted by new schemes for the promo- tion of French commercial interests abroad. o It is in this sense, we suppose, that we are to view the announcement in the Eu- Topean news published this morning, that the French Emperor has intimated to the English government his intention of support- ing any line of policy which it may think proper to adopt in regard to Central and South American questions. Whether or not Great ) Britain be sincere in the professions she has latterly been making of a desire to adjust the difficulties arising out of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, by the withdrawal of her pretensions over Honduras and the Mosquito territory, it i, evident, from the fact just stated, and the confirm. ation of the news of the intended departure of a French armed force to the coast of Central America, that Louis Napoleon has no very strong belief in their earnestness, Else, whence the ne- cessity of this diplomatic notification and armed demonstration on his part. There are circum- stances in the conduct of the English Cabinet which go far, in our opinion, to justify the suspi- cions that prevail as to its good faith in this matter. It will be recollected that in Lord Malmesbury’s conversation with Mr. Dallas, after the statement in the London Herald that it was intended to send an Anglo-French force to Cen- tral America, the former emphatically denied that any such project was in contemplation. And yet in the face of this denial we have the fact now positively announced that the French Emperor is despatching troops and artillery to the coast of Nicaragua, and at the same time we receive the announcement of the arrival of two British line-of-battle ships—the Cmsar and the Diadem—in the Caribbean Sea, Surely it will not be pretended that this large addition- al force is necessary for the protection of Sir Gore Ouseley. If not sent out for that object, for what purpose is it sent? Is it that Great Bri- tain and France have at length agreed upon a joint line of policy in regard to Central and South American affairs adverse to the doc- trines laid down by our government? No one can pretend to answer these questions in view of professions and conduct so contradictory. That our government has misgivings on the subject is shown by the report that at a full meeting of the Cabinet on Saturday the Presi- dent expressed himself strongly in reference to these demonstrations. The bill introduced in the Senate on Wednesday last by Mr. Mason, investing the Executive with power to employ the land and naval forces of the United States for the protection of our citizens in Central and South America, as occasion may demand, may be looked upon as the formal ex- preesion of the conclusions of the administration in regard to them. They confirm the opinions that we expressed some weeks back as to the shuffling and double dealing employed in the negotiations connected with the Central Ameri- can question. Notwithstanding the formal manner in which M. Belly has been disclaimed by the English and French governments, it seems to be now estab: lished that he has been all along a political agent engaged in pushing schemes of European inter- vention under cover of « commercial enterprise. ‘The article which we publish this morning from La Patrie, contending that his canalization pro- ject fs consistent with, and is fully covered by, the Clayton-Bulwer treaty—an assertion to which Lord Malmesbury is stated to have ordered by the Common Council or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made and with the fact well inclination in certain quarters to prolong the present state of things, in the hope, possibly, that amongst the illegal acts tolerated on the plea of necessity, there may also be introduced some good fat illegal jobs, in which the impeding par- ties have a private interest. Meantime the portion of our fire apparatus is out of re- doing duty under notice that they can urge no claim for remuneration in the absence of any appropriations to cover their employment; and though this does not deter our new Comptrol- ler, who has both Bppointed bis subordinates and printing now done for the Common Council is illegally done, and that the charge for the same must remain an illegal charge against the “gh unless covered in arrearages by some special le- gislation. The charter is wrong, the ordiaances wrong, the whole system of city finance miserably defi- cient and inoperative; but surely the way to remedy these matters is not to add further ille- gality to the evils already inherent in the struc- ture of our city government, The first radical change which would tend to abate these evils in future would be a change of the financial year from the Ist of Jannary to the Ist of July. Un- der the present system it is all but impossible that expenditures should not be illegally incur- red, at least in the interval between the Ist of January and the passage of the tax levy by the Legislatare; but change the commencement of the financial year to the let of July—in other words, let the present Legislature make appro- priations for the year we have entered upon, and up to the 30th of June, 1460—and we shall have no more reason to complain of the preseat finan- cial marasmus, under which all the most useful limbs of our city government are at this instant paralyzed. Let the taxpayers, the Common Council. the heads of city departments. and the Legislature of the State. now in session at Al- bany, ponder on what we Tue New Location oy Qvanuvrixe—No Fivat, Serriewenr Yer.-The report of the United States Engineer, Captain Benham, in favor of erecting on island on Orchard Shoals, and building thereon a new Quar- antine establishment, together with Gover- nor Morgan's apparent approval of the recom- mendation, may bave led many to suppose that the question of the location of quarantine was finally settled. It is not #0, however; for the Le- given his assent—shows that the Em- gisiature Ibany to pronou: it, pier has yet int ct peror is only carrying out the policy ond, 7 of which the Belly was a feature, by will be brought to bear upon the subject, it is very difficult to tell what site may yet be fixed upon. Governor Morgan, in bis message, suggested that the Legislature should appoint a new com- mission of three eminent men to review and re- port upon the whole question of Quarantine; and he moreover very plainly intimates that some prospects still remain of obtaining Sandy Hook for the purpose. Upon this point be said: for that Srrson, to dbeats the couneat of tye Stabe of New SE area ee Sane cam citizens, aad resisted, upon what [must regard as ua founded apprebewsons, by the Lagiabature of Now Jersey despatehing a French force to the Central American waters. It remains to be seen to what extent England concurs in this movement, or whether it is only part of a more comprehensive scheme concected for the protection of Span- ich interests inCuba, It is well known that in the Rivas manifesto Presidents Mora and Mar- tinez were prompted by Spanish advisers, and unless they had some guarantee that they were treating with a political agent, in the person of Belly, it may fairly be presumed that they would not have thus boldly compromised them- celver, It may be that France is acting inde- pendently in this matter os the selfcoustituted 4 ‘h 0