The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GORDON BESNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON aND WaSSAU BTS. AMUSEMENTS THIS BVESING WIBLO’S GAROER, Broadway .—Iuxcanace—MY Youn Wire ann Op Unsnetia. if Bowery —Gunmaxzz or Moscow— | wine Bavoe Mises Or New Sener. MET! ‘AM THEAT@S (Late Burton's).—Mesat- MANOR, OR ; Fatty aud Farsenoop. WALLACK’S THUATSK, Broadway.—Rext Dar—A Pratry Pisce or Business. LAURA KEBKE’S THEATRE, No. 52 Broadway.—Mip- Soumse Nicur's Dusan. CAN MUSBUM, Brosdway.—Afier- ener e oy tae bercuic—Favoy Box. Bveaiag—OvB Cousin. MINSTR' ILDING, 561 and S63 Broadway— sens Sines, Dances. £0-—barem LOVES. MINSTER! M®CH ANTOS’ FALL, 437 Broad- win Alaco foncm £0 Dusan or BUOTEL-RY. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thurecay, April 21, 1850. ‘Tne News. The United States steamer Harriet Lano, of the Paraguay expedition, arrived at this port ata late hour last night. The remainder of the fleet were to return home as soon as the necessary arrange- ments could be completed. By the arrival of the steamship Saxonia at this port and the Arabia at Halifax yesterday, we have news from Europe to the 9th inst. The intelligence is one week later, and is highly important. ~ ‘The English Ministry, in view of their recent de. feat on the Reform bill, bad decided to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. No time had been designated for carrying this resolution into effect, but in the meantime members of Pazlia ment were actively preparing for the clections. The news from the Continent. is if possible more warlike than before the initiation of arr rangements for holding a Congress for the pur pose of peacefully adjusting the pending dil. ficulties. France has despatched an army of sixty thousand men, and Austria another of fifty thoueand, to the frontiers of Italy. Count Cavour protests officially against the exclasion of Sardinia from the peace Congress, and also against the re- cent invasion of the soil of Piedmont by an Aus- trian patrol. In the House of Commons on the 8th inst. Mr. Disraeli announced that ia a day or two he would make a statement relative to the political concerns of Europe. The disturbed condition of affairs had caused a fall in public securities both in London and Paris, and at noon on the 9th consols were quoted at 43 295 for both money and account. In American securities but a limited business had been done, at previous rates. The sales of cotton at Liverpool during the week ending the 8th amounted to 39,000 bales. A de” cline of one-sixteenth of a penny, chiefly on the lower qualities, as compared with the prices cur. rent on the sailing of the Europa, is reported. The breadstuffs market continued dull, while pro- visions were firm, with a better demand. The great fight between Tom Sayers and Benja min, for the championship of England, resulted in the victory of the redoubtable Tom. Tue battle lasted twelve minutes and a half. The steamship Quaker City arrived at this port yesterday morning from Havana, with news to the 15th inst. A French ship had landed four hundred and seventy-five coolies from Macao. She was out one hundred and twenty-two days, and n’ fortunates died on the passage. Of the remainder about cight died every day feom the time she entered Havana harbor. Returns prove that from the period of the inauguration of the coolie apprenticeship system forty-four thousand five hundred and forty- nine Chinamen were shipped for Cuba, of which number thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-five weve landed alive. showing a mortality at sea of six thousand seven hundred and ninety-four— a little over fifteen per cent. The commercial nan who put the plan in operation had, however, realized some hundreds of thousands of dollars by it, and retired from business. One of the largest iron buildings in the world was going up in Havana under the direction of Mr. James Bogardus, of Centre street, New York. It was destined for &@ warehouse for the Credit Mobilier Company, and would be eight hundred feet long and Gred and fifty feet wide. All the mecha: teamsters employed were from New York. Ma- chinery required for the preparation of cotton is to be admitted free of duty. Sugars had declined slightly in price, while freights were active at a slight advance. Exchange on New York is quoted at from par to one-half per cent discount. Our Bahama correspondent, dating at Nassan, N. P., on the 14th ult, says that the town is being greatly improved by private and legislative aid. The steamship Karnak had brought many visiters to the island, which tended to elevate the ideas of the inhabitants. Government had voted a subsidy tor the establishment of an inter-insular steamship line. Anew hotel was about to be built on the joint stock principle, and the quays were to be extended. From Antigua, West Indies, we have news dated onthe 12th ult. Yellow fever had shown itself there, and Mrs. Jarvis, wife of the Hon. B. E. Jar- vis, senior Member of Council, had been carried of by that disease. Sugar making had been entered upon vigorously, but complaints are made of dis treseingly dry weather. We have files from Bermnda dated on the 6th inst. A strong southwest gale raged at the islands during the afternoon of Monday, 4th inst., continu- ing without abatement until the night was far ad- vanced. It was feared the potato crop suffered from this severe blast. Whaling operations off the islands had commenced. A very fiae whale was captured on the 5th inst. by the boats of the Tucker's ‘Town establishment. The colonial Legisiature stood Pprorogued to the 4th of May. Admiral Sir Houston Btewart reached Bermuda on the 20th ult. in fine health, after his tour in the West India Islands. Hon. John Doherty, repre » from the Beventh Senatorial district in th Bt Albany about six o'clock last evening. Hi reguiated. After spending over two hours , in discussing the report, and having only | reached the séventh sectton, after rejecting | two and adopting four sections, the committee reported progress, and in favor of postponing the further consideration of the report until a fatare | meetiog. The Board then agreed to postpone fur- h ther action in reference to the subject, and to make it the special order at their next meeting. The | Finance Committee reported adversely to the rent- | ing of Rose street church, on the ground that $3,000 a year—the sum asked for it—is far too much, and the report was adopted. The report of the Finance Committee in favor of appropriating $14,484 for repairing ward school No. 17, was also adopted, and the Board adjourned. The Board of Aldermen will meet this evening. The receipts of beef cattle during the past week amounted to 2,517 head, an increase of 465 head as compared with the receipts of the week previous. The market was rather dull, but owing to the com- paratively light supply and the superior quality of the stock offered, a alight advance in prices was obtained. The rates ranged from 10c. to, 12c. per pound. Cows and calves were somewhat lower, with a moderate demand only for private uso. Veal calves were in excessive supply at 3c. a Ohc. per pound—a decline of about half a cent. The supply of sheep and lambs was but moderate, but with a dull market prices fell off 25c. per head. $3 60 a $7 are the quotations. The swine market was dull, without change in prices. ‘The Arabia's news received yesterday had a tendency to unsettle the market for cotton, and to evoke a disposi tion on the part of dealers to await the receipt of private letters before doing much. The sales were confined to about 700 bales, including 400 in transita and 300 from store. The market closed duil. Tho receipts at the ports since the 1st of September last amount to 3,370,000 bales, against 2,584,000 In 1868, 2,707,000 in 1857 and 3,067,000 in 1856, The total exports have been for the same pe- riod 2,150,000 bales, against 1,716,000 in 1858, 1,766,- 000 in 1867, and 2,122,000 in 1866. The stock on hand amounts to 707,000 bales, against 690,000 in 1868, 441,000 in 1857 and 687,000 in 1866. The flour market was dull and easter for common grades of State and Western brands, while good to choice ex- tras were unchanged. Mixed brands of Southorn were rather easior, while the upper class of brands was firm. Wheat was dull for the lower qualities, and choice lots were firm, while sales were limited. Corn was rather easicr, while sales wore fair, including yellow Southern and Jersey at 860. a §8c, Pork was firmer, with sales of now mess at $17 25 a $17 30, and prime at $12 6254 a $12 75. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 1,200 bhds. and 300 a 400 boxes at rates given in another place. Messrs. R. L. & A. Stuart have reduced the prices for their refined sugars 2¢c. per Ib. Coffee was Orm, with sales of 5,000 bage of ; and burial, of the magnificent old whig party. | that Kansae-Nebraska Rio at113gc. a 113c. The ten sale yesterday drew a fair company. The catalogue consisted chiefly of greens, and as considerable sales had been previously made the mi ket seemed less prepared to sustain the high rates hitherto demanded. Without establishing any decline, however, the sale closed with leas spirit. Freight en- ‘agements were moderate, and rates without change of moment. . Our Political Parties—A Drop of Comfort for the Forlorn Democracy. Is there any hope for the forlorn democracy ? Divided and subdivided into sections, factions, cliques and little wrangling Presidential cabals, as we now find this lately all-powerful party, is there apy hope of reuniting its broken frag- ments for the great battle of 1860? The pros- pect is gloomy, but there is yet a hope. To. be sure, there is a split in the Pennsylvania camp, a rebellion in the Louisiana camp, a Presidential division and various local discords in the Vir- ginia camp, and hostile cliques and hot quarrels bere, there and everywhere among the rank and file, which seem to defy all the agencies of peace; bat still, upon Mr. Calhoun’s great saving cardi- nal principle of the party, “the cohesive power of the public plunder,” there isa hope for the salvation of the party, and for its effective re union in 1860, It must be remembered that ever since the withdrawal of General Jackson from the abso lute commant uf the democratic party, the oppo- sition party or parties have represented a ma- jority of the American people. And yet, since the time of Jackson, the democracy have elected four Presidents—Van Buren, Polk, Picrce and Buchanan—against two opposition Presidents— Harrison and Taylor. We do not inclade Tyler and Fillmore, elected as Vice Presidents. These more numerous successes of the democracy were achieved—first, from union among themselves; and secondly, from the divisions of the opposition. Thus, against Van Buren the opposition vote was frittered away upon several candidates, includ- ing Harrison, Webster and White. Thus, against Polk, the opposition balance of power held in New York by the anti-slavery whigs was thrown away upon Birney, and thus Mr. Clay was de- feated. But the most remarkable triumphs of the democratic party were thoée of 1852 and 1856. In 1848 the democracy of New York and other Northern States were demoralized and cut to pieces on the slavery question; in 1851 the whole Southern camp was disorganized and sepa- rated into two hostile factions upoa the compro- mise acts of 1850. North and South the party thus remained demoralized aud split up till the spring of 1852. Bat the Baltimore Convention of that year, upon the basis of a general aniics- ty, and apon the nomination of a maa—an out sider—innoceat of any of these intestine quar rels, conspiracies and cliques, cleared tho decks for a victory which astonished all parties, and which involved the abrolate destruction, death Tn 1856 the deixocracy entered the field with a recorded popular majority, from the State elections of '53—4—5, of upwards of three hua- dved thousand against them, and ander the tre- mevdous Northern pressure of poor Pierce's Kansas agitation, But here, in Mr. Buchanaa the “ favorite son of Pennsylvania,” and a man whose bands were clean of any contact with bill—the right mano | Buchanan, however, would have beeu powerless Mains will he brought to the c ity this morni We publish this morning a raass of inter: matter relative to the proceedings of the New York Legislature, including the conclusion of the Yat of | ‘acts passed which have received the 523, about the average. Up to noon eleven acts remained to be signed by ( The Coroner's investigation into stances attending the death of M and Mr. Fayette Robinson, by poi weeks since, in Fourteenth street, terminated terday. The chemists found evidence of av poison in the bodies of deceased, but the jury rea ire y Beetham dered a verdict that it was administered ty some , Mar | Person unknown. Mrs. Beetham’s dome: garet Barke, who has since the fatal poisoning re mained in prison on suspicion of being the guilty party, was accordingly discharged from custody. A regular mecting of the Board of Kducation | took place Inst evening. The President declared hhis intention of not signing a bill for $323 for car- riage hire for the members of the Eveaing School Committee, because he believed the charge too ex- orbitant. The report of the Executive Committee on Normal Schools proposing the re-organization of the daily normal school came up, and the Board went into Committee of the Whole upon the sab- fect. The constitution reported by the committee consists of fourteen sections, which provide for the organization of the school, the course of studies to Le pursued in it, and the laws by which it is to be of the | | 1652, upon | Mr. Buchanan wae handsomely elected, with « | popular majority in the Union of nearly four | was | as far as it conld be reunited. found for the reunion of the party, Even Mr. ayuinst the opporition had they been combined; but they were divided, as in 1836 aad 1544 and abstractions, and principles, and And thus it was that ders, and candidates. | bovdred thousand against him. Frown these refreshing examples of the past, | there fs atill a hope for the forlora democracy in | 1860, They have shown, over and over again, that they can be combined at the tap of the drum by the “cohesive power of the public plun- der.” Place the spoils and plunder of the Pre- sidency before them, tell them the day of battle 1s at band, that union is their only chance, and they will rush into each other's arms like a band of brothers, and, till the battle is over, will stick to their common cause like eobbler’s wax. They make a terrible uproar, meantime, we admit, and keep the country in hot water upon constitution- al questions, principles, State rights, and such things; bat the great question of the spoils com- prehends everything which a good democrat feels it to be his highest privilege and holiest duty to live for, labor for, fight for, and die for, Upon this word of magic—the “spoils”—dopend his eucocases, his hopes, and his faith in the resur- On the other hand, the opposition clements of the country do not so clearly comprehend the importance of the spoils, or they do not stand 60 much in need of the spoils as the demo- cracy; while they havea much stronger belief in the saving virtues of political priuciples ‘and abstrastions. Hence the difficulty of combining the opposition forces, North and South; and thus we find them now as far from any basis of common union as they were in 1856. With these general views of the subject, we think there is atill a living hope for the democracy in 1860—first, from their reunion upon the good old party platform of the spoils and plunder; and secondly, from the divisions of the opposition upon constitutional questions and principles, in which, this way or that way, the bulk of the republicans, Americans and old line whiga sincerely believe. The Crisis in Europe-Austrian Between the Upper and Nether PMillistone. The news received yesterday by the Saxonia and Arabia is the most important that has come acrogs the Atlantic for a long time. For thou- sand years Europe has not witnessed such a crisis as to-day combines to throw everything into one man’s hands, In England we have a dissolution of Parlie- ment, and an appeal by the ministry to the people, which deprives the present ment of Great Britain for months to come of much of its moral strength on the Continent} The military mo- narchies are continuing their vast preparations for war, talking all the while about a Congress to settle the pending difficulties, but which no one believes will settle anything. Austria is on the verge of @ financial crisis, All the other Pow- ers—Russia, England and Sardinia—have ne- gotiated the loans they had applied for, but the Rothschilds had given up the attempt to place the Austrian scrip, Russia is hand in glove with France. Germany is divided, and under the action of a division of opinion she will fol- low, through Prussia, England in her course of inaction. Thus the House of Hapos- burg is brought between the two mill- stones, France and Russia, and the in- tereats of three hundred millions of civil- ized people hang upon the wills of two men— Alexander on one side, and Louis Napoleon on the other. But it is the latter that {s more particularly the master of the situation. His position is one that knows no parallel in history. Absolute master of thirty-six millions of men in the highest state of intellectual and industrial de velopement; with a navy euperior in numbers and weight of metal to that of England, and first in the world; possessing railroads crossing his territory in every direction, and fleets of steam transports at command upon the sea; his empire flourishing and almost virgin in its finan- cial recources; England, the only power that could possibly close the paths of the ocean to him, his friendly ally, Napoleon III. wields to- day afar greater power than ever did Napoleon I. in his palmiest days. Add to this that he is not bound by the treaties that bind the rest of Enrope, for France was ignored at the Congress of Vienna; that he has no dynastic ties such as bind other royal rulers; and that, with the most unscrupulous brain in Europe, his sole aim is to create nct to follow precedents; and we have the secret of that triumph of diplomacy, backed by bayonets, which makes him the arbiter of the European world. He has, too, the gift of silence, combined with tenacity of purpose, in a remarkable degree; and when ho cpoaka ft is mare frequently for the pur- poee of disguising his intentions than of announc- ing them. He said “The Empire is peace,” and straightway made war with Russia, Every- where he proclaims England as his best ally, and s0 fortifes Cherbourg that every Englishman looks upon it as a standing menace to England. With the softest assurances of peaceful views opon his lips, he arms France as France never before was armed, and by so doing brings half the time-worn monarchies of Europe to the verge of bankruptey, by forcing them to follow his example, so that they may be prepared to meet him should he assume to take offence. Thus on the one hand he weakens bis enemies, while by the exercise of an astute diplomacy he pute them in the wrong, and forces them in self de- fenee to become the aggressors, This is precisely the position to which he has reduced Austria. He has forced her to such im- mense expenditures in arming her Italian posses- sions that she is on the verge of a financial re- lapse, from which she can escape only by war, and a resort to messures that only a foreign war will enable a government to impose upon its people. In this state of things he talks of negotiation, and seeks an interna- tional Congress. But all the while he continues his own warlike preparations to such a degree that Austria cannot in any way diminish hers, Thus delay becomes more dan- gerous to her than war itself. She can cscape from a domestic convulsion only by the breakiug out of hostilities, and sbe must commence them in eelf-preservation. But the first gun that Aue- tria fires upon the Ticino isolates her from the eympathies of the rest of Hurope, and leaves her to cope single handed against her powerful enemy. Then comes what Louis Napoleon intends, and what the first Napoleon ardently longed for The alliance with England makes the Mediterra. nean a French lake. It was Nelsou who pre vented the first Napoleon trom usiag the naval power of France in his Italian wars. Now Louis Napoleon can freely pour that power into the Adriatic; and the certain capture of Venice and Trieste ouiflanks the Austrian armies in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdoms. Such a move- ment revises the treatics of Vienna, if their total destruction can be called a revision. This is what Louis Napoleon aime at, and what he wiil attain. His diplomacy triumphs by threatening war, backed by his admitted power to make it; and in war he triumphs by isolating his oppo- nents through diplomacy, for by it he puts them in the position of being the aggressors, He is the master of Europe, and his policy has oonvert- ed it into one vast military camp. How long it will consent to this anomalous state of things time only can determine. Prayer Mextixos iy Tuy Leoisbator® AND Tuem Errect.—At the opening of the late session of the Legislature, some pious members organized praycr meetings, on the plan of those adopted in this city during the finaacial crisis, with a view to obtain grace and purification for the legislators, and preserve them from the temp- tations of the lobby. But it appears from the re- port of the Chairman, which we publish else- where, that very fow attended the meetings, though the sanguine Chairman still humbly hopes that a few of those who did wore blessed of God.” Possibly’ they were; fur enough votes were cast to dofeat the swindling city railroad and otber lobby echemes. These votes must have heen cast by the chosen few who obtained grace at the prayer meetings, The Approaching Religious Anniversary ‘Week. The periodical ealvation of New York, aswell as the conntry and all creation generally, through the depletion of Wall street, is impending. The religious anniversaries will be commenced on the 9th of May by the Union Theologiggl Semi- nary and the American Seaman’s Friend So- ciety, followed on the 10th by the New York Colonization Society and the American Foreign and Christian Union; on the 11th, by the Ame- rican Home Missionary Society; on the 12th, by the American Bible Society and the Young Men's Christian Union; on the 13th, by the Ame- rican Board of Foreign Missions. This is, of course, only a partial list, but it is a pretty good amount of work for the time al- lotted to it, and we give it that our raral and provincial friends who come up to this wicked metropolis may make their arrangements ad- visedly. At the same time, we have prepared a table throwing some light upon the most important matter that enters into the calculations of anni- versaries, to wit: the question of cash. Our statement is necessarily imperfect, as the secre- taries’ reports have not yet been fully made up. So far as known, the result of the operations for the past year, compared with 1858, is os follows:— 7860. American Bible Society... 40,000 Amsrican Tract 9312 873 Am-ican Home Missionary of #14 609 American Board of Foreign Missions, 133,251 *1 54,996 Preabyterian Boara Foreign Missions (0. 8.) 233,907 #20°,000 American Union... 76,608 *60,600 American + 40,000 bee ‘Am+: can Seaman’s Frieud Society,. 23,813 268,000 New York Colonization Society...... 67,024 60,000 *cssimated. +0x months of 1859. The receipts of one or two societies have fallen off, but as a rule there is a general increase over the previous year,which was the period of the financial revulsion. The total receipts of the societies for 1856-7 amounted to $2,106,443; for 1857-8, $2,081,807. So the crisis had no parti- cular effect upon the religious societies, This year’s receipts will probably exceed those of the flush times of 1856—a very encouraging circumstance from several points of view. It shows that money {fs plenty when Wall street thinks about investing in any speculation which does not promise an immediate profit. At the same time it is intercating to note that the reli- gious societies are the last to be affected by a financial crisis, When men are in trouble in this world they always think of the next. We presume that the anniversary exercises will be conducted in the usual way. There will be some vigorous denunciation of the sins of the metropolis, much pious horror at the crime of negro slavery, great lamentation over the ruling wickedness in high places, as shown by the Sickles case and others of the same order. The benighted barbarians beyond the sea will receive due attention, and the usual arrangements will be made for their conversion—arrangements which have been made every year during the last half century, and which, we are shocked to say, have not yet succeeded in even an approxi- mate manner in accomplishing the desired end. The savages themselves, with a few exceptions, look upon- the efforts of these philanthropists with the most provoking indiffereace, aud uader such circumstances even @ labor ufluve becomes tedious. And in view of ali this, we have a new idea for the anniversarians, Why not attempt the conversion of our own savages? Why not try to bring our small politicians, corrupt Aldermen: Corporation swindlers, lobbying Congressmen and thieving office holders into the straight and barrow way that leads to eternal life? Slavery at the South has been preached against unceas- ingly for thirty years, and not ove particle of the burdens resting upon the black man has been removed—in fact, his bonds have been tightened. Heathenism still holds out against the Christian missionary, the untutored | mind being so far perplexed with creeds and doc- trinal points and theoretical disputations, as to reject all forms of belief and return to its idols. Why then should not the religious world turn its attention to the frauds and rascalities daily com” ing to light in the administration of our local and State governments? If they could work any reform, we are confident that the taxpayer® would subscribe heavily enough to double all the fat ealaries and provide Scriptural pocket hand- kerchiefs for all the little negroes from one end of Africa to the other. But it will be hard work— hard as the Jabors of the devoted Twelve against the corruptions of the Cwsars and the Herods, and all the Roman tyrants of their day. Tracts will not answer. It must be good, solid apos- tolic knocke, with progpects of everlasting tor- ments held out between every sentence. However, the greater the difficulty, the greater the triumph, and the more plethoric the treasury. Let the anniversarians ponder on these words. Rightly taken they open a mine com- pared to which California is poor, and the ships of Tarshish of ng more account than so many Yankee lumber echooners. Arrarrs iy Uran—Our correspondence from Salt Lake City, published this morning, will be found to possess features of unusual interest. It would appear from it that apostacy is rapidly on the spread among the Saints, and that an expec- tation prevailed that large numbers of them, dis- guated with the Church and its practices, would leave the Territory in the spring. The charge of Judge Cradlebaugh, in the Third Judicial Dis- trict Court at Provo, had created a great sensa- tion, from the fact thathe recommended to the Grand Jory searching investigation into the Mountain Meadow massacre of 1857, the Spring- field murders, and other offences attributed by the Saints to the Iadians, but the perpetrators of which are well known to have been white men. It ig stated that the ceptain of the large party which was so ruthlessly rourdered in 1857, and the only oue who escaped, is now at Camp Floyd, and will act in concert with the authorities in ferreting out the authors of the most wholesale massacre ever committed on our continent. The Third Judicial district, it will be recollected, was unable to mete out justice to the parties ar- raigned, owing to the fact of the majority of both juries being of the Mormon faith, and conse- quently opposed to subjecting their brethren to the rigor of the United States courts. The bold and energetic charge of Judge Cradlebaugh has, ag will be seen by a letter from a Mormon cor- respondent, caused intense excitement and indig- nation amonget the members ofthe Church, who seek to weaken its effect by accusing him of out- stepping the limits of his jurisdiction. We give the arguments on which this assertion is founded from a desire to do equal justice, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. British Diplomacy tn Amerton. British diplomacy on this continents has not been, geacrally sneaking. fortunate in its reore- ‘sentatives, With the exception of the estimable noblemaa whe has jast quitted the post of Minieter at Wasbiagton, we do not recollest one who has managed to leave a favorable impreastoa behind him. Sir Heary Bulwer was 9 fussy, Pompous personage, who tried to make up for his diplomatic deficiencies by his energy in amall matters. He was fond of runing about from hotel to hotel, and, in ocoupytug himself with the gossip of such places, fancied that he was achieving political successes, Mr. Crampton was a good natured, easy sort of man, fit enough for the position of a country squire, but not at all adapted to the atmosphere of Washiagtoa. As long as his daties required only plain sailing he got on well enough, but the moment a diffloulty occurred he exhibited a lamentable’ want of udgment, His diplomatic blunders nearly em- broiled the two countries, and had he been suf- fered te remain here a little longer, he would have left us a legacy of open questions that would have proved as fruitful of trouble as an Irish inheritance. Lord Napier seems to have been sent here to. re- deem the mistakes of his predecessors, He was the first British diplomatist whose selection ap- pears to have been dictated by a sense of the social as well as political necessities of the posi. tion. He proved fully equal to the expectations that were formed ofhim, No other foreign mints- ter that has resided here has succeeded in concili- ating to the same extent the interests of his own government and of ours, or the good will and ea- teem of our people. He seemed to comprehend at once the spirit and working of our institu- tions, and to accommodate himself without diffi- culty to the democratic ideas and projudices which naturally flow from them. In other parts of our continent the British government have not been as fortunate in finding capable representatives to replace the blunderers who have been bring- ing its diplomacy into discredit. In Nica- ragua Sir Gore Ouseley, who was sent out to effect certain treaty arrangements in concert with our government, and whose marriage with an American lady should have rendered the task an agreeable one, is said to have pursued a course which is neither warranted by his instruc- tions nor-his understanding with the President, There are some antecedents of this gentle- man at the La Plata which would help to ac- count for this singular conduct of his in the Nicaragua negotiations, supposing it not to have been misrepresented. As the facts are not be- fore us, however, we will abstain from further comment, in the hope that such may prove to be the case. In Chile the British have had a Minister who, instead of minding his official duties, did nothing but occupy himself with other people’s private affairs. A street fight with the American Consul, whose family he had grossly insulted, and a violent death at the hand of agsassius, sufficiently attested the charac- ter of the relations which he had succeeded in establishing there. The recent acts of the British Minister in Mexico, and their re- pudiation by his own countrymen there, prove that. gentleman to be utterly unfit for bis post, Mr. Otway has shown himself to be a mere passive tool in the hands of the Comte de Gabriac, the French Minister; and were it not for the independent instructions given to the English admiral at Vera Cruz, there is renson to believe that the latter might have been induced to harper seriously the cause of the constitu- ‘ionalists in that city. We are glad to perceive, by a recent announcement in the English papers, that Mr. Otway is no longer to be left to the un- controlled influence of the French Minister, Mr. | George B. Mathew, formerly Governor of the | Bahamas, and recently British Consul at Phila- delphia, has been appointed his Secretary of Le- gation, and in the present circumstances no bet- ter choice could be made, Mr. Mathew is a man of eminent politicsi ability, an excellent diplo- matist, and possesses great firmness and energy. Having resided for some time in this country, he is acquainted with all the points of difflsuliy which have turned up in our relations with Mox- ico, and can correctly appreciate our policy ia re- gard to that republic. Unlike Count Gabriac and Mr. Otway, he is not to be frightened by the vugbear of American filibusterism, and will not lend himself to intrigues to combat that fancied danger. We augur the best results from the ap pointment of Mr. Mathew, and we congratulate the British government on the improved judy- ment which it evinces in the choice of such di- plomats as this gentleman aid Tord Lyous, of whom concurrent testimony speaks almost as favorably asof Lord Napier. The selection of men of sense and capacity like these cannot fail to place the relations of England with the Ameri- can governments on a more satisfactory footing than they have hitherto occupied. Works or Pentre Uriurry ww New York ayp Irs Nxtcunornoop.—Elsewhere will be found brief sketches of the various works of utility, and improvement which are now in progrese, or about to be undertaken, in this city and vicinity. It will be seen that they involve an amount of expenditure which, includiug the five mil- lions for stores and dwellings now ia course of erection, and of which we gave a state- ment yesterday, cannot fall fur short of fifteen or twenty millions. The following are the works to which we allude:—The Cen- trol Park, the new Croton reservoir, the Pas- saic dam, the East Pennsylvania Railroad, the Staten Island ditto, the temoval of the obstrac- tions to the navigation of the Harlem river, the new terminus of the Long Island Railroad, the new hospital at Blackwell’s Island, and the Brooklyn horse railroads, proposed to be or- ganized under the General Railroad act. Bo- sides the extension of the water supply and of the facilities of locomotion and recreation in our immediate neighborhood which these works will give us, there are some of them which will afford us accommodations of another kind, the im- portance of which cannot be sufficiently appre- ciated. One of there isthe East Pennsylvania railroad, which connects the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Central lines, thus completing the link in the grand trunk route which connects New York with the Western and Southwestern States. On the advantages resulting from a line which enables our merchants to send out goods to remote points of the Union without tranship- ment or breaking bulk it is unnecessary for us to enlarge. Everything that tends to diminish the cost of transportation must necessarily assist to increase the amount of businees transacted. An- ether work which bas a especial importance is that which is about to be undertaken under the recent act of the Legislature for removing the obstructions to the navigation of the Harlem river. As soon as this is accomplished, vessels from the North river, coming eastward, will no longer have to round tho couthernmost polat the island. By entering at the Spayten Dev creek and proceeding down the Harlem rivei| of our clty and neighborhood. It shows thi they are determined to fulfil all the requiremen‘ of the destiny which has indicated New York s| the great commercial centre of the continent. No Oresmsa Prayers on tus Last Dar o| Tu LearsLaTure.—It is remarkable that oa th last day the Legislature met there was no cle| gyman present in either house, and the pi ings opened without the usual prayers. It surmised at Albany that the clergy had doned appeals in bebslf of the membera as h less, thoagh it seems cruel to ‘abandon tn articulo mortis. The United States steamer Harriet Lane, Captain Jol| Faunoe, from Montevideo on the 12th of March, arrived Quarantine last night, Dos | ‘The United States frigate St. Lawrence Milled from tevideo the day beféte, ; ‘The following veanels would safl from Mon video for the United States as soon as thi covld be prepared for sea, and the eatire squadron’ ‘was supposed would be on their way home by the lst April:—Frigate Sabine (flagship), Commodore Shubrid with Judge Bowlin on board; slop Falmouth, sleep Preb| steamers Atlanta Memphis, Calodonia, Southern Star, F ton, Water Witch, W. W. Chapin and storeship Supply. The Metacomet had been condemned as unseawort!| and would remain at Montevideo till orders were reeely| from Washington in regard to her. * The following vessels will remain on the Brazil stati under the command of Charles Steedman, viz :—Br| Dolphin, Bainbridge-and Perry. The store ship Release will remain on the station foi} few months, ‘Tbe health of the officers and men of the squadren good, Lieutenant Commanding F. 3. Renshaw, late comman¢| of the Bainbridge, is a passenger on board the H Lane. Lieut. R, returns home on acoount of Ill health, also bearer of despatches to Washington, ‘The Harrict Lane left New York October 9, sinse whi she steamed 16,982 miles and sailed 827 miles, Total 1] 809 miles. The following are the officers attached to the Lane:—Commander Jobn Faunce; Lioutenants A. Stanford, D. ©, Constable, and J. W. Wilson; tenant Acting Master B. W. Frobel; Engineer—J. R. Dryburgh; Assistant Engineers—' Scott, W. Meekor, Charles Dale and J, T. Webster; geon—Apngelo Toxest; Pursor's Clerk in charge—Edwe wiilard; Captain’s Clerk—V. P. Travers, ‘The Harriet Lane brings from Pernambuco fire of mutinoers of the crew of the bark Woather Gage, aro sent home for trial, AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON, Our Special Washington Despatoh. Wasuinaiow, April 28, 1 ‘Tho precise polvt at Issue ju the now Nicaragua is this:—The Nicaraguan government require that United States should promive to provent military exy tions from leaving our country against Nicaragua. this the Pree:dent objects, an4 mainteing that our: laws are to be executed by ourselves, and to be rep or changed, without belog the subject of stipulation a foreign government. Mr. Jonee,.our new Bogots Minister, arrived hi day. He immediately called upon the President and] Secretary of State, and informed them he was read; leave for his new post. His instructions are nearly pleted, and he will leave by the steamer of the Sti May. His son goes with him, as private secretary. ‘Too Fronch Minister had a long interview to-day States and Nicaragua; and also whether it will be aco ble to our government, Upon that subject he has no! been eniightened. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, ‘Wasuixcton, April 20, 18: In relation to Nicaraguan affairs many specalatio induiged in, and some of the statements concerning are doubt'ess unintentionally erroneous. The true of the question is ascertained to be that tho treat; contly returned is, with one exception, entirely accep to this goverfment, which has heretofore asseniod provisions, The exception isfto the amendment, whio substance provides that the United States epgage te use duo vigilance aad all lawful mi to prevent the organization of hostile parti tbis country intended for tho invasion of rogna. This {s not considered important, bul ultimately rejected by the President, who has it uw consiceration, no doubt is entertained the treaty wil modified by Nicaragua, in accordance with the wish this government. By this treaty Nicaragua engages ta the necessary force to keep the Transit route open; but any time she thovld fall to do 80, tho United States aright to land troops to protect persons and pro; ‘The information from Nicaragua leaves no doubt thi British are act!ng in good faith, and are making ari ments for surrendering the Bay Islands and the Musq Protectorate, Such # the present aspect of affaire escertained from authentic soarces. General Barnett, Surveyor General of Kansas and braska, bas been informed by the Commissioner off Tanda Ofize, that in consequence of tho smailnoss of| appropriation, it will be necessary that the cost of| curveys in his district shall not exceed the sui $26,000, of which $10,000 are appropriated for veys in Nebraska, and $16,000 for survey: y s. The Kansas survey fund has been apporti: the sarvey of the New York Indian lands. As 80 the surveys are completed a haif section will be to cach of the Indians who may have removed tl cer the provielons of the treatios of 1838 and 1842, which the public domain will be opened to pre emp Tt is one of the most valuable sections of Kansas ritory. ‘The Case of Mrs. Hartung. Aimany, April 20, 189 The Staferman of this afternoon announces that Hartung bas mado a confession of her guilt. This tion is without the least shadow of truth, as she dec} that she bas no confession to make, that she has tol} she knew of the matter to her counsel, which was monicated to the public, during the trial, in the state signed by her. Death of Senator Doherty. ALMANT, April 19, 181 Hon. John Doherty dled at Congress Fall to-day minutes before six P. M., of congestion of the brain. News from California. ¥ Sr. Lovrs, April 19, 18 The overland mail bas arrived, with San Fran dates of the:28ih ult. Tho California Legislature was on a visit to Oaklan ‘The bill to divide the Stats had passed tho Housg had also a bill Calling a convention of delegates California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona, to oo Plan for the construction of the Pacific Railroad. Business was dull at San Francisco, and the n ‘were gonerally unchanged. Arrived at San Francisco previous to 26th, ships nesia and Chrtatopher Hall, from Boston; Alice Co and Ocean Bello, from New York, and Ocean Pearl, Baltimore. The NewYork Hast Conferenceof the dist Hpiscopal Charch. New Haves, April 20, 186) ‘The New York East Conference of tho Motho:list among the more important appointments:—Now John street, Kaward L. Janes; Forsyth atroet, Pho Burch; Allen street, T.G, Osborn; Cherry strest,| thodiet Episcopal Bothel, John 3. Iaskip; Willett