The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1859, Page 4

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Consols closed on the evening of the 21st of Janu- ary at 952 a 95%, both for money and account—a slight advance on the quotations by the Arabia. Negotiations were about to be commenced in Lon- don for an Austrian loan of £6,000,000 sterling, or about $30,000,000. American securities were dull nd unchanged in London. Cotton had declined one-sixteenth of a penny per pound on some descriptions in Liverpool. Flour ‘was dull at nominal quotations. In the London market sugar was buoyant, and coffee more quiet, The excitement caused by the complicatious of the Italian question had subsided in some degree, but the general aspect of political affairs on the Continent remained still very threatening. ‘The unexpected death of the King of Naples had been announced in London, and that event may have had the effect of precipitating the crisis to an issue. Prince Napoleon had married the daughter of he King of Sardinia. The amnesty granted to sundry political prison- ers in Naples had been so modified as to require their banishment to America. The special newspaper organs of Lords Derby and Palmerston in London were, simultaneously, loud in their condemnation of the Monroe dec- trine as interpreted by Mr. Buchanan and other of our leading statesmen. Lord Palmerston desig- nates the Mosquito protectorate a “stumbling block” in the way of American progress in that di- rection. An English protectorate for Mexico was gravely discussed. The mails from India, dated on the 24th of De- cember at Bombay, announce that the subjugation of the disturbed districts was rapidly progressing. Ismael Khan, a rebel chief, had surrendered. Details of China news speak of short supplies and an advance in teas. The screw steamship Kangaroo, Capt. Jeffrey, which left Liverpool on the 19th ult., arrived at this port about midnight last night. The steamship Quaker City, of the Tehuantepec line, has arrived at New Orleans, with San Fran- cisco advices to the 20th ult. She reports that the Panama steamer brought down 110 passengers and $1,296,000 in treasure for this port. By the Quaker City we have important news from the city of Mexieo to the 28th ult. General Miramon entered the capital ten days previously, sent General Robles adrift, and reinstated Zuloaga in the Presidency. He also appointed General Bales as commander-in-chief of the army. There is @ report of the capture of the Mexican war ateam- er Iturbide by an American and six foreigners. Advices from Port au Prince to the 16th ult., received yesterday, furnish additional particulars concerning the revolution in Hayti. The govern- ment forces had been defeated by the republicans on both Jand and sea. Reinforcements were pour- ing in upon Geffrard, while Soulouque’s situation was daily becoming more perilous. Our despatches from Washirigton state that a proposition will be made in Congress in a day or two to suspend the tariffact for two years. This will bring the act of 1846 into operation. In Congress yesterday the Senate passed the Agricultural College bill by a vote of 25 to 22. It goes back to the House for action upon some amendments inserted by the Senate. A synopsis of this bill was published in yesterday's Henaxp. It gives to the States about six million acres of land in aid of education in agriculture and the me- cbanic arts. It is understood, however, that the President will veto the bill should it be sent to him for approval. Mr. Slidell gave notice that he should call up the bill providing for the acquisition of Cuba tomorrow. The bill granting certain par- ties the privilege of constructing a railroad in Penn- fylvania avenue, Washington, was then discussed until the adjournment, but without any definite action being taken. In the House the Senate bill to pay Maine nearly $6,000 for expenses incurred in organizing @ regiment of volunteers for the Mexican war, and the Senate bill authorizing the Attorney General to represent the United States in the proceedings in equity pending in the Supreme Court between Massachusetts and Rhode Island, relative to the boundary line, were passed. The Bevate joint resolution for the payment of the balance of $7,000 to Georgia, on account of militia services against the Cherokees, Creeks and Seminoles, was aiso passed. The bill making ap- propriations for the civil departments of the govern- ment was then ‘debated in Committee of the Whole Nothing of importance bappened in either bracch of the Legislature yesterday. ‘The Tammany Society hold thei regalar monthly NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1859. meeting last night, Daniel E. Delavan in the chair. The evening was occupied in initiating new mem- bera, No other business was transacted. American people with the great sectional peace | compact of 1850. This should have taught the | democracy their line of policy and safety. But At the meeting o! the Board of Aldermen las even: the Board agreed to adhere to their amendments to the tax levy, and appointed a com- mittee of three to confer with the Councilmen in un thereto. A resolution appropriating $5,000 for altering and repairing the Comptroller's rooms was laid over. The resolution appropriating $2,000 ‘ov the celebration of Washington’s Birthday was ected for want of a constitutional vote. A re- onsi¢eration of the vote was carried, and then the subject was laid on the table. Fire Marshal Baker sent in bis report relative to fires and alarms of fires during the half year ending Nov. 30, 1858, There were Curing the six months 145 fires, involving an lleged less of property to the amount of $1,239,351, The insuance on this loss amounted to $1,051,585, ond the omount of insurance paid to the sum of $253,943, There were forty ineendiary fires during e six menths, being ten less than in the corres- ponding six months of the year previous. The ‘ire Marshal recommends a special law for the punishment of arson. The February term of the General Sessions com- menced yesterday, when the Grand Jury were em- pannelled and charged at great length upon various wopics by Recorder Barnard. A synopsis of the harge will be found elsewhere. Patrick Lane, in- licted for the murder of Jeremiah Looney, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the third degree, and was remanded for sentence. An American propeller was seen off Pernambuco on the $th vlt., bound south, which was probably oue of the Paraguay expedition. UThe Beard of Councilmen met last evening, and transactel a large amount of business, but nothing of special importance was brought before them. A committee of five was appointed to extend the iospitalities of the city to the officers of the Forty. -econd Highlanders, of the British army, on their wrival in this city en route for Aspinwall. The tax evy was returned by the Aldermen, and was re- ferred to a Ccmmittee of Conference. The Councilmen'’s Committee on Cleaning Streets ret yesterday afternoon to hear parties on the expediency of prohibiting the omnibus and rail- road companies from using salt on the streets for tie purpose of melting the snow off them, Col. darling, of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, wid Baily Meyers, of the Sixth Avenue Railroad, informed the committee that it is to keep the srooves of their tracks open and free from ice that they vse salt, and that if they were prohibited rom using it they would not be able to continue their regular service to the public. They said that hey consider the use of salt a public good, because t saves the wear and tear of vehicles ina very miterial degree, and soon dries up the slush which a'ways follows the melting of snow ina city like New York. The ectton market, in the absence of the steamer’s news, was quiet and unsettled. The sales were confined to about 200 bales, too small a quantity to afford any correct cri- terion ag to prices, The Asia was not telegraphed in the offing until near the close of ‘change, about 334 P. M Flour was less buoyant for common and medium grades: which were easier, while sales were to a fair extent. Wheat was steady: sales of choice white Michigan at $1 60; choice amber colored do. at $1 45; prime Southern white at $1 65, and choice white Kentucky at 170. Corn was without change of moment, while sales were mode. rate, at rates given in another place. Pork was less buoy- ant, and for immediate delivery the turn of the market was in favor of the purchaser, with sales of old mess at $18; new do. at $18 60, and new prime at $13 50, witha sale of mess, for June delivery, at $19. Beef and lard continued firm. Sugars were firm, with sales of 600 hhds. at fall prices, included in which was 400 do. Cuba, to go out of market; the remainder consisted of New Orleans. Cof- fee was quiet, but steady. Freight engagements were moderate, while rates were unchanged. ‘The Administration and the Sectional Agi- tatore of the Demucratie Pasty. The availability and personal popularity of Mr. Buchanan in 1856 saved the democratic party from absolute destruction; and it will require no argument to show thatit is only upon the common basis of his conservative administration that the party can be saved in 1860. And yet, with this important fact before them, the factious and sec- tional agitators who bave assumed, here and there, North and South, the control of the party, have, for the last year or two, through all soris of devices, intrigues and conspiracies, been laboring to destroy this administration. This suicidal policy is wholly inexplicable, except upon the theory that the ultimatum of these dis- affected party leaders and managers is the per- manent dissolution of the party, and the reduc- tion of the contest of 1860 to a purely sectional contest, in view of some Northern aggressions which will afford a plausible pretext for the ex- periment of a Southern confederacy. We think, too, that it has at length becom sufficiently evident that with the prostration o! the administration the last remaining impediment within the party camp, in view of a Southern ultra sectional reconstruction of the party, would be removed. But the administration still sur- vives. It has been seriously embarrassed upon almost every point in the prosecution of its just and well considered policy; but the dead weight of the mischievous consequences of these sectional treacheries_in the camp has fallen upon the guilty leaders concerned, and upon the party. Thus, while we find these of- fending party chiefs and managers without any definite position or general influence, we find the party in the condition of an army broken up into guerilla detachments, hardly less hostile against each other than against the common enemy. Andso we have the singular anomaly presented of a democratic administration still firm and strong after the democratic party has been broken to pieces. But the shortcomings of the party have been supplied by patriotic men from the opposition sides and hence, thus far, the success of Mr. Buchanan’s leading measures in Congress, in spite of a democratic majority re- duced to the impotency of hostile eliques and factions. The slavery agitation Hes at the bottom of all these party troubles and disorders. And here the teachinge of the past may be applied as ad- monitions for the future. The Missourf agitation of 1820 threatened the dissolution of the Union; but there were great and patriotic men in the na- tional legislature at that day—Henry Clay at the head of them—competent to grapple with the dan- ger. They adopted that sectional treaty of peace known as the Missouri Compromise Jand a peace of thirty years on slavery followed it. The war and the peace with Mexico threw into Congress a new bundle of firebrands; but here again the complications of the slavery issue found their masters in such of our old school statesmen as Clay, Calhoun, Webster and Cass, Another com promise was adopted, which might have lasted for another term of thirty years, but for the sup- posed sectional necessities of our new school of mousing Presidential politicians. Upon the basis of these peace measures of 1850 Franklin Pierce was elected to the Presi- dency, almost by acclamation, over the gj general and one of the purest patriots of the age, and solely because it was feared that Gen. Scoit would, if chosen, fall {into the hands of Seward and his anti-slavery agitating wing of tho oppo. sition camp. And thus the affiliations of the whig party with Seward and Sewardism destroyed hat party, so thoroughly satisfied wore the But the Cinciunati Convention discovered that ‘this Southern ultra slavery movement of the party had been carried too far, and the nomina- tion and election of Mr. Buchanan clearly sug- gested a more conservative line of policy. This line of policy the President adopted in bis inau- gura) and in the appointment of his Cabinet; but, singularly enough, from this point the treacheries, disaffectionus, conspiracies and rebellions in the camp, against him and his administration, com- menced. We find these disaffeotions first break- ing out in the South upon the Kansas iesne, and then in the North upon the same thing; and next, with the passage of the English Conference bill, an extended rebellion in the North, followed by the most extraordinary party excesses iv the South upon the African slave trade question, the filibueter question, and other trumped up issues of an intensely sectional character. With the promulgation of the President's Mes- sage of December last, we find these Southern disaffectious extending to every leading recom- mendation of the Executive, including bis Cuba policy, his Pacific Railroad arguments and views, his Mexican and Central Americau policy, and bis recommendations concerning the tariff and a general bankrupt law. Most remarkable of all, these repudiations of the policy of the ad- ministration are most conspicuously set forth in the leading organ of the Virginia democracy and of Governor Wise; for here they amount to the total repudiation of the administration by the man and the State most instramental in Mr. Bu- chanan’s nomination, And why? Were not the views of Mr. Buchanan upon all these great issuce as well known in 1856 as they are in 1858? They wore; but there is all the difference in the world between the imperative neccssities of the party in 1856 and the demoralizations and Presidential cliques of the party of 1858, And thus it is that the administration has been left to take care of itself by most of the Presi- dential leaders of the party; and thus the party has been torn to pieces. Where is it? and what are its principles? No man can tell. Ged only knows. But there yet remains to us, solid and strong, the administra- tion, with its well defined domestic and foreign policy. Amidst the present discords and chaos of all parties, it is our only remaining ark of safety. It commands the confidence of the coun- try avd the respect of foreign nations. Between this, that and the other factious or rebellious leader of the party, and the little sectional or local clique at his back, we can make no choice. We must repudiate them all. At this crisis, considering the necessities of the government, and the judicious policy of the President for replenishing the treasury, we must especially denounce these sectional mock re- trenchment and free trade movements of the Southern leaders of the democracy in Congress. We must denounce them, because their apparent aim and certain tendencies are directed to the prejudice uf the sduilNistrauon, we aisgruce OT the government, and to a sectional contest or scrub race in 1860 which may be the ruin of tho Union. Boyaparte, Buowanan and Benyetr.— We really don’t know what the newspaper editors would have to write about if the race of what are called representative men should fail. Luckily for these writers, however, there are always some persons who are so widely known in the world that articles upon them will be more or less welcome to the public. About twenty-five years ago General Jackson was a perfect fortune to the opposition writers, as well as to some of the English journaliets. Then there were O'Connell, and Sir Robert Peel, and Clay, and Webster, and Calhoun, all good for a slashing article or a personal paragraph. Just now the press at home and abroad pays its devoirs to Buchanan, Bonaparte and Bennett. These three terrible fellows are continually at work, trying to accomplish the most awful, bloody and diabolical crimes. The English language is exhausted in abuse of the Emperor of the French, the President of the United States, and the Editor of the New York Hmranp According to these journals, the three autocrats above mentioned can at any moment doom all Christendom to destruction; and they are now working to accomplish that agreeable result, The British journals are always full of Bonaparte and Buchanan, and Bennett occasionally. The American presses devote a great deal of their space to Buchanan, and quite as much to Bennett. As to the former, it is so long since there bas been a President of the United States who had any will of his own, that the topic is quite new; and no wonder the poor seribblers work it todeath. Louis Napoleon—the writers have been at him over twenty years; and Bennett has been similarly honored during the same period. Louis Napoleon is the great news paper editor of France, as he regulates the whole press there; and Bennett is acknowledged by his opponents to be the leading editor of the United States. Mr. Buchanan edits, of course, ® thousand, more or less, of sound democratic organs—sound while the money lasts. So, altogether, it is no wonder that the press talks #0 much and ¢o bitterly of the three B’s—Bonaparte, Buchanan, Bennett; but not satisfied with writing of them ag public men, their relations and connections come in for a share of delicate attention, and it is one of the best jokee of the season, that, disgusted with Mr. Buchanan’s bachelor condition, the edi- tors baye absolutely married him, without bis knowledge or consent, so as to have an opportu- nity of abysing bis wife, or the lady that they say is to become so very toon. Such ingenious andacity deserves a public recognition, and Con- gress ought to give some of these philosophers & medal. In the meantime the three'great abused-— Bucbanan, Bonaparte end Bennett—will doubt- less survive, and work out their awful plots for the enslaving of the entire human race. Dickens AND Spurceon 1s New Yors-— It is definitely stated, on what appears to be pretty good authority, that Mr. Charles Dickens has accepted propositions tecdered to him by an American gentleman of the name of Evans, and that he will shortly crogs the Atlantic for the second time, aad will give the readings from his works which have proved s0 attractive in Lon- jon. It will be fresh in the memory of our readers that when Mr. Dickens first visited the United States he was caressed, feted and fooled almost $9 death, and that be repaid the snobs who made asses of themselves on his account with some “American Notes,” which were hardly Considered above par on this side of the there were Presidential aspirants in the camp too | Atlantic, It will be curious to see what sort of eager for the Southern proflavery vote at Cin- | reception our people will give the great Cock- cinnati to heed this instructive lesson. The re- | ney novelist when he comes a8 @ sort of semi- peal in 1854 of the Missouri Compromise was the Consequence, and the reopening of the slavery agitation in all its length and breadth was thus sounded from Maine to Texas, and from Boston to San Francisco. theatrical star, At about the eame time we may expeot the great sensation preacher, Spurgeon, who has eclipsed all the other dissenting shep- herds in England, and who is what our Eastern friends would call a “powerful” parson. On dit, that the Rev. Mr. Corey, a Baptist preacher, of ibis city, with a splendid head of hair and a limited congregation, has tempted Spurgeon, and shown him ten thousand reasons, worth a dollar each, why he ehould Ishor in the American vineyard during six months. It is to be hoped that Corey, Spurgeon and the other sinners will make a good thing of it, Tbe ccoffers have already begun to laugh at the idea of a minister paid like a prima donna or a tight rope dancer; but have not there always been scorners, and are not the Spurgeons still abead? ‘The Complications in Mexican Affatrs—What the French and English Intervention Amounts to. The accounts from Mexico, in relation to the proccedings of the French and British diplomatic and naval representatives in that republic, are of a very conflicting character; and those re- ceived by the government st Wasbington are of the same nature, as will be seen by our des patcbesin another column. Those from Eng- land, received last night by the Asia,.confirm the statement that the English have made some sort of a demand on that republic. The conflict of advices from Mexico is produced, no doubt, by the conflicting outgivings of the two governments in that country, with which the di- plomatic and naval representatives of the Allied Powers have to deal. The central government, who have been advised by Messrs. Gabriac and Otway of the demands their governments had in- structed them to press, have given out that they are of the most exacting character, and that they will be pressed upon the government holding the Gulf ports in such an energetic way as to bring about the overthrow of the constitutionalists, and transfer Vera Cruz aud Tampico to the cen- tral authorities. On the other hand, the Juarez government at Vera Cruz represent the demands presented to them by the two Admirals as being of a character they can easily comply with, and that there bas been no threat of a blockade, as is stated by the party holding the capital. The situation of both the governments claim- ing to be the national government of Mexico is, no doubt, very critical, and each endeavors to keep up the spirit of its partisans by the most hopeful inventions. The protracted conflict they bave maintained bas exhausted the resources of each, and the patience of the country, and a struggle seems to be now approaching which may be decisive of success to one or the other. General Miramon is about to assume the Presi- dency of the central authority, having com- pletely routed its opponents in the northwestern portions of the republic. At the latest advices from him he had heard of the Echeagaray and Robles pronunciamientos, and immediately refused to recognise them. In his letter to General Ro- bles he attributes the protracted character of the contest between the centralists and constitation- alists to the failure of Echeagaray to carry out the orders of Zuloaga to take Vera Cruz, and pithily says, that had these orders been obeyed the gororement would bare had eufiiciont ro- sources to pacify the gountry. He announced that he should only recognise President Zuloaga; but since he learned his own election to’ the Presidency he has maintained an ominous si- lence, and continued his march, with a portion of his army, on the capital. It is not im- probable that when he takes the reins he may make an attack on Vera Cruz that will be de- cisive either in establishing his government or in destroying his military prestige. At the latest advices the Centralists had again entered Cor- dova—the last city on the route from Mexico to Vera Cruz. As for the reported intention of France and England to occupy and hold the Gulf ports, or apy portion of Mexican territory, we place no confidence in it. These governments have enough on their hands at present, with the com- plications that threaten to spring out of the Italian question. Besides that, such a step as they are said to be desirous of taking would not only give them posgession of distant territory, which it would be costly and difficult for them to hold, bat it would bring them into direct con- flict with popular opinion in this country and the policy of our government—all of which they are just now anxious’ to avoid. For these rea- eons we believe that confidence may be placed in the assurances recently given by Lord Malmes- bury to Mr. Dallas, that Great Brilain has no wish to increase the present complications in Mexico by pressing exacting demands, The commanders of the allied fleets at Vera Cruz have no doubt as late instructions from home as the ministers in the city of Mexico; and they have not exhibited, by any overt act, a dis- position to increase the difticulties of the Juarez government to such an extent as would be fatal. The foolish robbery committed by Garza on the foreign merchants at Tampico, and the satiefac- tion he was forced to give to the Spanish traders, have placed the representatives of the Allied Powers in the position of exacting the same con- sideration for their subjects that was accorded to those of Spain. Spain, no doubt, had designs on Mexico, which were apparent long before the Garza outrage at Tampico occurred. In these she was probably only the tool of the other Powers, who may have wished through her to embarrass the influence of the United States in Mexico. But the energetic tone of the Presi- dent’s message has caused Spain to abandon all her Mexican schemes, The unexpected affair at Tampico gave the Spanish government an op- portunity to back down, and immediately after its reception in Madrid the Ministers of the Crown announced to the Spanish Cortes that the national honor had been vindicated in Mexico, and that the difficulties between the two govern- ments had been satisfactorily settled. The Spanich fleet was at once ordered back to Ha- vana, and at the last dates it had left Sacrificios, ‘This leaves the Allied representatives without o tool, and their demands on President Juarez are only such as he can comply with. Onackey Fie Beit snp Consequent Loss or Human Lire—A sad tragedy in Brooklyn, a dreadful loes of life by fire—an account of which we, published yesterday--is the consequence of culpable neglect on the part of the city govern- ment, to which we called attention several days ago, without effect. Our warning was not heeded, and several lives liave been sacrificed, Had there been @ proper bell or bells to give the alam in time, the fremen would have heen on 7 the epot with their ladders, and saved those who perished. It is imposelble to hear at any dis- tance the cracked bell of the City Hall ; and the THE LATEST NEWS. and swindle the taxpayers of this city out of firemen are not responsible. It ought to be im- mediately removed, and a good bell substituted in its place. There ought to be also a superior class of district belle established all over the city. By these precautions not only will much valuable property be saved, but, what is of more value—buman life. What must be the feelings of the head of the Gill family? He left them all well on Friday when starting on a short visit to PhHadelpbia, and the first intelligence he re- ceives is that they are burned to death or suffo- cated next day, through the negligence of the guardians of the city. There is a fearful respon- sibility resting on their heads, Tue Invaston or THE Forrr-seconp Hron- LaNpERs.—The advent of the British regiment, the Forty-second Highlanders, as announced in the Hiratp, seems to have created quite a sensation in the city. Some observations which we published yesterday on the ex- pected arrival of that regiment, on route to Fort Vancouver, Fraser river, bave called forth two letters, which will be found in another column. One of these correspondents, who signs himself “Merchant,” deprecates the idea of the whole of the First Brigade parading on the occasion, lest they should be put to shame by the superior skill of a famous regular regiment of the British line. But there is no necessity for the Brigade parading in rivalry with a British regiment—that would not be common politeness; but we suppose they “know enough of military forms ,to receive a British regi- ment in a becoming manner, The other cor- respondent, who signs himeelf an “American,” is very indignant at the idea of “tolerating a body of British armed soldiers marching through our thoroughfares, when the same privilege was recently denied us in the contemplated visit of the Irish regiment to their native country.” There is a slight error here: we never asked for permission for one of our militia regiments to visit the dominions of the British Queen. The American government knows nothing of Irish or German or other regiments visiting their na- tive country as such. They may do that, if they can, on their own hook;, and with their action we have nothing to do, unless it appears that they intend to filibuster, and then it is our duty tostop them. Questions of policy and prudence may have suggested to the British government the propriety of refusing permission to an Irish- American regiment, suspected of filibusterism, to visit their native country; though for our part we do not see that there was much danger to be apprehended. But when a British regiment pasces through our city on its way to British possessions, by order of its government, that is a very different affair. It becomes then a mat- ter of international courtesy; and considering that the American and British nations are friends, it would be the height of absurdity to raise any objection. We venture to say that if the Seventh regiment (National Guard) or the Seventy-first regiment (American Guard) visited London under the same circumstances, or even on a pleasure excursion, they would be received there with all the etiquette and honors due to them. Our correspondents, we fear, are disappointed individuals, and have very contracted views. Even if the American people and their govern- ment were not such good friends as they are with Great Britain, it would be a paltry, mean policy to throw obstacles in the way of courtesy and hospitality to strangers, or even enemies ; and in this respect the writer who signs himself an “ American” might learn a lesson of polite- ness from semi-savages. When the Lowland Saxon, Fitz James, attempted to pass through the territory of Roderick Dhu, the Highlagd Gael, without a pass from the latter, what did the Highland chieftain do? He gave him of his Highland cheer Feet ten ct Soca deer; Dry fuel on the fire he laid ‘And bade the Saxon share his plaid. When the guest was about to depart the host politely intimated to him his danger ; and when Fitz James expressed incredulity, Roderick summoned his followers by the sound of his whistle, and, having convinced him of his error, escorted him safely over the border. Shall a civil- ized people have less courtesy than a demi-barba- tian? The very Arabs might teach this “Ameri- can” something he does not know. They will give hospitality to even an enemy, but kill him if they can after putting him fairly on his way. During one of the wars between the English and the French the troops of both armies, when not engaged, used to meet at a stream which divided their lines and take a friendly drink of brandy and water together. They were not the worse Frenchmen and Englishmen for that, and did not fight the less bravely next day. Let us imi- tate their example. There is nothing lost by politeness, The French and English troops fra- ternized in the Crimean war; and there can be no reason why the American and Eng- lish troops should not now fraternize after a war which terminated forty-five years ago. The two countries have been friends ever since, as it is their interest and their inclination to be; and the fraternization of their troops will do more to preserve the entente cordiale than all the diplo- macy of their ministers. Since writing the foregoing we have received the report of the Board of Councilmen of last evening, from which we perceive that our sug- gestion has been adopted, and that the hospitali- ties of the city have been voted by that body to the Forty-second Highlanders. This is as it ought to be. Let the British regiment have a good time in the Empire City. Tur Crry Rauways—There are rather more than the usual number of railway bills before the Legislature. Numerous enterprising indivi- duals purpose to give us horse railways in Broadway, Greene steeet and several other city thoroughfares, and the lobby is working very hard to get the bills through. Now, we are quite well aware that the old prejudice against horse railways in the streets is wearing away, in view of their great public convenience ; and there is little doubt that eventually our thoroughfares will be covered with a network of railways. Still, we do not believe that the Legislature has any right to vote away valuable franchises which involve the rights of the commonalty of New York in their own streets. As the Mayor re- marks in his message, these valuable fran- chises belong to the city, and should be its property. The brilliant idea of Thurlow Weed and his lobby friends is to seize upon these rail- way rights, worth probably four or five millions, them. It is to be hoped that the Common Coun- cil will steadily resist any such attempt to sell out our streets for the aggrandizement ofa few country politieians. Nino's @anvew,.—Dan Rice takes bia benefit this evening at this clogant place of amusement, AFFAIRS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Our wi THY TARIFF QUKHTION—CALL FOR ANOTHRE CAVOUR OF DEMOCRATS—PROBABLE VBTO OF THE AGT CULTURAL COLLEGE BILL—THE COAST SUBYEY AND THE DUDLEY OBSERVATORY —DRAVATOUMS FROM MEXICO AND NEW GRANADA—SEPTLEMBN? OF THE DIFFIOULTY BETWEEN MESSRS, 8I0KLES AND BUTTERWORTH, ETC. ‘Wasmrvaton, Feb, 7, 1868, Apaper has been in circulation to-day in the House, calling a conference on Wednesday evening, of democrats from all sections, for a geveral interchange of views oa the tariff question. The Ponnsyivania and other deme- cratie members absent on Saturday will unite in this one, ‘No conolusion has yet been arrived at by the Committee on Ways and Means, It is thought they will be able te agree upon a tariff pill this week, substantially as offered by Mr. Phetps. A general impression prevails that either Mr. Phelps’ bill, or the re-enactment of the tariff of 1946 will pass Congrees. The Southern mon find they have mat enfficient strength to opposo it. It is doubtful if forty votes can be had in the House for a loan a8 uncomnected with a change in the tariff. A proposition bas been started to-day, by Hon, Miles Taylor, of Louisiana, to introduce a bill suspending fer two years the tariff of 1867, thus reviving the tariff of 1846, A good many leading Southern members, herote- fore opposed to any measure looking to a modification of the tariff, have agreed to this proposition of Mr. Taylor. It will be offered upon the first opportunity, and prc bably will meet the sanction of the caucus on Wednesday, If tt does the whole difficulty may be regarded as nettied. ‘The Agricultural College bill, which passed the Senate to-day, will not receive the President's sanction, it is ua- Gerstood. Attorney General Black has given the Secretary of the ‘Treasury an opinion upon the claim of the Coast Survey te hold possession of Dudley Observatory, at Albany. He maintains that the government bas nothing to do with the controversy; tbat no contract was entered into in its be- half, and that the Coast Survey cannot keep possession of ‘the premises without the consent of the trustees, ‘The statement that Wendell stated he loaned Hon. Gee. Taylor money, Wendell asserts is not true, and Taylor de- pounces it a8 s malicious falsehood, He has never had . any pecuniary transactions with Wendell. Taytor is chair- man of the Seaman Investigating Commitice. Wendel declares he will not testify before the committer. Despatches bnve been received from Mexico at the State Department, which indicate a belief in that country that the British and French governments intend to interfere 80 far in Mexican agirs as to take possession of and hold one or twoof the principal Guif ports, under the protest of holding them as a guarantee for the payment of the public debts to their subjects, and of the revenues stipa- lated by diplomatic conventions to be appropriated to tha payment of the interest to foreign holders of Mexicam donde. Itis believed here that these {cars are exaggerated; and the government have no reason to doubt the good faith of Lord Malmesbury in giving tho assurance he did some time since to Mr. Dallas, that Great Britain would only interfere in Mexican affairs so far a8 was requisite to protect ber citizens from gross and unjust exactions by partizan leaders and discordant governmonts, in the saape of forced loans, and to prevent a complete ignoring of the obligations stipulated in existing conventions; and that the Britiah government has no wish to increase the present complications in Mexico by pressing inopportune demands. ‘The New Granadian legation received by the last mail from Bogota, very satisfactory advices of the condition of that republic. Political affairs there were ina state of perfect tranquillity, the financia! condition of the{country bad greatly improved, the public officers were being paid regularly their full salaries, and public confidence oon- tinued to increase daily. It was hoped that the Cass-Hor- ran Convention would be ratified in Washington, and that diplomatic relations with the United States would be re- newed at an early day, by the appointment of an Ameri- can representative at Bogota who understood the language of the country, and could thus bold social intercourse with the people, and exercise that legitimate influence which should belong to the representative of the leading republic in the world. Notwithstanding the recent territorial difficulties be- tween New Granada and Ecuador, President Ospina had tendered the mediation of his government between the republics of Ecuador and Peru, for the peaceful settioment of their present dispute, and it was thought that the madiation of New Granada would be accepted by both parties. ‘The Peruvian legation is much concerned at the move- ‘ment recently made in the Senate to bring out the official Correspondence showing the cost of Peruvian guano to the consumers, and the profit it leaves to the government. It ig stated that the guano agents make twice as much out of the monopoly as do the authorities of Peru. You will be glad to hear that Messrs. Sickles and Bat_ terworth have arranged their quarrel by an exchange of letters, The correspondence is kept back by mutual con- sent ; but the friends of Mr. Butterworth claim that their man holds the advantage ; Mr. Sickles’ friends do the same for him, THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasaunaroy, Feb. 7, 1859. ‘The Secretary of State has transmitted to Congress his annual report on the foreign commerce of the United States and commercial changes in foreign countries for the year 1868. it is of peculiar value to the mercantile and Producing injerests of the country at this time, as it be- gins with Great Brttain and ends with Paraguay. Besides the abstracts of diplomatic and consular despatches, o which the report is mainly composed, important and in terceting information is compi.ed from the official reports of the leading governments, and presented in an agrevable and attractive style, ‘The Superintendent of the Statistical Office of the State Depart 7 ent and his assistant exhibit in this report—so far - as a cursory examination enables one to judge—vvidence of much ability and untiring labor. It appears from this report that the number of acres under vine cultivation in France exceeds four millions, yielding annually 919,545,- 575 gallons of wine, and 27,220,060 gallons of brandy, worth, at the present low prices in France, $98,617,660. ‘The report containsa letter from ©. G. Baylor, dated Brussels, in December last, in which he says ‘he has de- ‘voted his means and opportunity to the developement of ‘8 direct reciprocal and independent trade between the to- ‘bacco and cotton States of America and the Continent of Europe. fuc. trade would benefit the goncral interests of the Southern States, and incidentally the Western and Northwestern States also.’’ With the concurrence of the friends of the movement, Belgium has been selected as the base of European operations, and with the concur- rence of the leading commercial and financial influences of the kingdom, Mr. Baylor is au. thorized to say, with the approbation and good disposition of the Belgian government, the long expressed wishes of the Couthern States will soon receive such aid as to result m the realization of the practical and successful carrying on of direct trade with Continentel Europe. There bas been formed in Brussels, to negouate ‘the details 0! this commerce, and to represent thie planting interest of America, a Continental and Direct Trade Asso- ciation, Steps are now being taken to receive the cotiom direct from the plantations of Amorica, to be sold on the Continent under the auspices and guarantee of gmple and well known capital, in the most expeditious and economicay manner, direct to the consumer in Belgium, in Switzorlaod, in the Zoll Verein aud in Germany. To meet this cotton iroport and impart the character of reciprocity to the trade, and supply the important feature of @ return trade with cheap freights, the manufacturing interost in Belgium is about to be organized, and through a means at once imple, practicable and attractive, a committee bas been formed, wnder the administration of which will be held exhibitions of continental industry, taste and manufacturing skill, through. out the Southern States of America, in the privcipal towns. These industrial exisbitions will partake of the character of the German fairs and trate sales, The goods of the continent of Europe will then in a most attractive manner be brought, as it were, to tho vory doors of the Southern people at first cost, and exchanged for cotton. Mr. Baylor asks the approval of the department for what he has done, The Sirst fair will probably be hold ia Charleston or Mobile, . Mr. Forsyth formally tendered today, at the State Department, hia resignation as Minister to Moxico My. Cass assured him that his course had mot with the approbation of this government, fwhich, as yot bas come to no dotermination relative to Moxican affairs. Tho disposition of the President is to await farther developements, while he is not prepared to recognize cither of the governments, Mr, Forsyth’s resignation Was promptod by reasons of daticacy, ke not ‘being desirous to continue in a diplomatic capacity under present ciroumstances, and while the action of oul government regarding Moxico remains undevormined. The report is provalent that arrangements are ia pro- Gres for establishing an independant democratic paper im