The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. Jamas CONDON BKAM Kee, EDITOR aN) PROPRIBROR, OPTION H.W. CONES OF FOLTON AND NASSAU STH. TEENS, aan in premeey Money Whah of the vender Frm DAILY HERALD, boo cents por cory, 147 cere THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at tix cents ; the Briropean Edition wont Dy mail wilh bo che or ‘rary Waku cons per copy, $4 per annum to 4 of Great Brsgatsn or oon pa of the Continent, both er dct poriage } te ‘on the Sth and 9th of each at nie conte | jn, OF Sh 0 per annum MH FAMILY WERALD, on Wednesday, at (our cots ior copy, oF $2 por annum. Pastage stacnpe not received wus aubscription | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1869—TRIPLE SHERT. Vrotestant and dissenting, broadcast before the world, aad in the same epirit we devote a large space this morning to a detail of the proceedings which took place at the laying of the corner stone of this Catholic House, the address of Dr. Cummings, and a description of the and new building of the Angel Guardian. British yacht St. Ursula, Commander Cair- arrived at this port last evening in thirty days he Clyde, ona pleasure trip. She sails un- » flag of the Admiralty by permission of the government. She belongs to the Royal Lt Club, and her model was taken from the brated yacht America, She is topsail schooner 389 " rigged, and for comfort cannot easily be excelled: AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. AOADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street —Ttarta Overs ie Pourram. matt WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Bos Roy. BOWERY THAATEE, Bowory.—Haxar Doxxnau—Wat- s408—TWO BUXEsRDS. METROPOLITAN THEATRE (Late Burton’s)—Maarr ‘Wives of Winoson—Prerry Pisce or Busixess. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Mux or tum Dar. LAURA KERNY’S THEATRE, No. 524 Brosdwoy.—Mip- founes Nigut's Danan. BABNUW'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, moon and Kvening—Uncir Tom's Canin. Broadway.—After- WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— Wemortan Bones. Dances, 40.—Genu OF THE Fire aiiad BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, MEOH ANTICS’ HALL, 427 Broad- ‘Way —Necxo Bonus, &c.—Bvucasqus Iraian Oren, CLINTON HALI., Astor Piace.—Ds. Lorp’s LECTURE ON New York, Monday, May 16, 1859. "TRIPLE Whs New York Herald—Kdition for Europe. The Cunard mai! steamship Niagara, Captain Millar, will Ieave Boston on Wednesday, for Liverpoo.. The European mails will cloge in this city to-morrow afternoon at half-past one o’elock to go by railroad, and 4 four o’oiook to go by steamboat, : Tho European odition of the Haren will be published at ben o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, Bix cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Naw Yous Benap will be received at the following places tm Barons — Loupon.,,..Sampeson Low, Son & 0 47 Lndgate Hill. Lansing, Starr & Co., 74 King William street. Parm......Lansing, Buldwin & Co., 8 pl de la Bourse Mevearoct..Lansiog, Starr & Co., No. 9 Chapel street. BR. Stuart, 20 Excl street, Havas... .Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 Rue Corneille, ‘Hamsvng .. De Ohapeauronge & Co. ‘The contents of the European edition of the HERAtp will Combine tho mews receivod by mail and telegraph at “the fice during the previous week and up to hour the of publication. The Nows._ The steamships Weser and Borussia, both from Bouthampton, arrived at this port last evening with advices from Europe to the 3d inst—three days later. The news is of a highly important charac- ter. War had been actually declared between Austria and Sardinia and France, and the report of the first battle was hourly looked for in London. Austrian troops were pouring into Piedmont, and the French army had made pid advances towards the scene of conflict. The Grand Duchy of Parma was revolutionized for Piedmont, and the Grand Duchess had left. England was rapid- Jy placing herself in a state of efficient armed non- trality. Consols had advanced in London to 89j a 904, an improvement of five-eights as compared with the closing quotations of the 30th ult. The demand for money was active, and a farther ad vance in the rate of interest was expected. No additional failures are reported. American securi ties continued heavy: an improvement in Mlinois Central shares is reported. In Liverpool cotton had déclined an eighth, and some circulars say a quarter of a penny, while breadstuffs had advanced, fad provisions were buoyant, without material change in prices. The particulars of the wreck of the Bhip Pomona, of New York, on the coast of Wex- ford, Ireland, are given in another column. Four hundred and twenty lives were lost by this tarrible disaster. ‘The steamahip Avon was at Lisbon onthe 2a inst. from Rio Janeiro, with the monthly Brazil mails, but the dates are not given. The opposition with which the Cabinet of Brazil is met appears to have weakened and rendered it undecided what Line of policy to adopt in the administration of in- ternal affairs. Exchange on Londo 4. Remit- 2ances to England in draft, £550,000. Since the de- parture of the last mail coffee has been exported to the United States to the amount. of 79,594 bags; stock 12,000 bags. The price of coffve has risen 300 reis. At Bahia exchange was at 25; sugar un- altered. At Pernambuco exchange was also 55 Cotton 500 reis higher. The letter of our Panama correspondent, pub- liehed this morning, contains the details of the pews from New Granada given in the Heranp on Sunday morning. It appears that the lutionists in Santander had fought two battles with the go- wernment troops, in one of which the actiug G vernor of the State was killed. It looks as if gerious movement originated in political party pquabbles, the President and his Cabinet in Bogota wishing to depose the State un- thorities of Santander, who are liberals or democrats. The Isthmus, as announced, wa ict. ‘The ratified copy of the Cass-Herran treaty trom Washington waz lost,as already reported in the Heraxp, in the Magdalena river. The Court of In quiry which had been sitting on board the United States chip Vandalia, investigating charges pre- erred against Commander Thorburn, hu closed its proceedings and forwarded its report to Washing” | ton. We have files from the Bahamay dated ut Nason, N.P., on the 30th ult., but the papers contain li news. The Legislature was prorogned to the wf June, but the Governor's a) Ushed. Executive assent was gi passed by both Houses, amon, th was not pub- al bills eases of divorce and other » within the Bahama Islands. an aet to im: prove the harbor and town of Nas: i to afford greater facilities for repairiag vessels thit have Bustained damages. o The great Catholic reformatory and educational movement, likely to affect the members of that | church all over the United States, was formally inaugurated yesterday by the laying of the corner stone of the new Honse of the Angel Guardian, at Roxbury, Mass. The Right Rev. Bishop Fitapa trick, of Boston, conducted the ceremonies, assisted by. 8 great number of clergymen, in the presence of thousands of the tsity, who attended from evel part of Massachusetts and the adjoining States: | Rev. Dr. Cummings, pastor of st New York, delivered an eloquent ad, reported at length in to-day's Hxnas,, This step wf the Catholics bas been received with so much enthusiasm that it will probably end in the arch » Which is entire separation of the youth of that persua- | Bion, for school purposes and moral training, from the different State cetablishmonts of the country to ingtitutions built by Catholic funds and wonducted on principles strictly Catholic. Daring the past week we issued triple sheet Hexaxps al- Most every day in order to spread the sermons, Viptleticn and duancial reports of the auniversaries, ller owner. Mr. Tennent, of Glasgow, with his | three nieces, also Mr. Basil Ronald and Mr. James Honeyman, are on board. She is lying off the Bat- uring the past week there were 49 admissions to the City Hospital; $5 discharged cured or re- | Neved; 6 died, and 228 remained on Friday last; of that number 195 were males and $3 females. ‘The annexed table shows the temperatare of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer and thermometer, tho variation of wind currents, and the state of the weather at three periods during each day, vis: at 9 A.M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— REMARKS. Saturday—Clear and warm all day. Sunday—Clear and warm all day. j—Hazy and warm daring the day; enly Changed to N. E., and blowing a —Overcast and cold; 25; P. M., ri Wednesday—Overoast, with light rain during the day. Tb rsdey—Overcat and cold ali day; night, clear and oonlig! Friday--Moruing and afternoon, clear and pleasant; night, clear and moonlight. Saturdsy—Morning, hazy and warm. ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday were confined to about 500 bales, closing without further change of prices, We continue toquete middling uplands at about 113¢c, There was asort of pause in the upward movement in flour, which was to be expected after a period of so much excitement and ac- tivity. Common and medium grades of State and Western were ratber easier, while prime to choice grades of extras wore firm, and in some cases somewhat higher. Wheat was less buoyant, and closed with leas spirit: Michi- gan cold at $1 90, good to choice white Southern at $192.0 $2, red do. at $1818 $185, and red Indiana at $1 60 a $185. Corn was in botter supply, and cheaper, while gales were moderate. Pork was active and firmer, with a good demand, especially for futaro delivery. New mess sold at $18 600 $18 76, thin moss at 617 75, and clear at $20. Sales were mado for all May and for May and June delivery, part buyer's option, chiefly in the range of $18 75a $19. Beof and lard wore doth firm and in good demand, with eales at Bigher rates. Sugars wero steady, with sales of 700 bhds., including Cubas, l’orto Ricos and New Orleans, within the range of 6%c. a Tic, Coffee was steady, but quiet. Froight en- gagements were moderate, and rates without alteration of moment, m The News from Europe=Speech of Mr. Disraeli on the War—Fatmre Ailiance of England with the United States, Among the articles of European news received by the steamship Weser is a remarkable speech of Mr. Disracli, addressed to the electors of Byckinghamshire from the hustings on the day of bis election. That speech is highly interesting for three reasons—first, because it is the state- ment of a minister of the crown giving a full and circumstantial account of the negotia- tions of the Powers of Europe previous to the outbreak of hostilities, and pledging himself to the truth and accuracy of what he states; secondly, because it defines the present position of England, and points out the course she in- tends to pursue; and lastly, because it fore- shadows a future alliance of England with the United States as the great sheet anchor of her hope amidst the storm of war which may wreck the nations of Furope. Coming, too, from a distinguished representative of the high tory party which, in the reign of George IIL, twice waged war against the communities of the New World, the announcement of this political programme of Great Britain is the more significant. It indicates that she has now no friends in Europe on which she can depend, and fearing some future combination against her of an overwhelming nature, she is anxious to conciliate our good will beforehand, and to trust to kindred and a common language and religion for a firm and abiding friendship. All this must be highly gratifying to our na- tional pride. But experience has shown that neither a common blood, language nor religion go very far in keeping nations friends. If there be any alliance, it must be founded on a com- munity of interests; and we fear that the natural rivalry of two great commercial nations like England and the United States will always keep them from beiag very cordial in their friendship, though their interests may keep them from quar- relling. The advantage would be all on the side of England. She only abandons the al- Imnccs of Europe when they abandon her, and | by aclose alliance with the United States she would strengthen herself, but would not strengthen us, On the contrary, she might drag us into numerous ware and endless difficul- tice, Washington's advice to keep clear of all entangling alliances is the dictate of true wisdom, and the right course for our government, Eng- | land expects, says Mr, Disraeli, to play a greater part in #he future by our aid than she has played } in the past by means of her European alliances. j But with all due respect to Mr. Disraeli, the American people mean to play a great part in the future “on their own hook,” and they have the game in their own hands without any part- nership or division of glory. England is old and decayed—the United States is young and vigorous; and to link our fate with hers would be like a vigorous youth marrying an old lady in order to take care of her in decrepitude- “ Westward the course of empire takes its way,” and the policy of the government of the New ; World is not to fetter itself by any alliance with the nations of the Old At the same time, England will not experience in us an ungenerous foc. If she were driven to | the wall to-morrow fur frecdom’s sake she wotld find this country her best friend. She | would have our sympathies and moral support | if nothing more. Upon these at least she may calenlate as long as ehe is true to the principles of liberty, and we trust she will tong continue as ite floating fortress in the midst of the despotic | governments of Europe, till they are changed by her influence and example. We believe the American republic has exerted a mighty influence j on herself. In recent yeags she has made much | Progress in extending the limits of freedom to her owa population. Let her pursue this course till the theory of good government becomes a practical reality, and thon she may defy the tyrants around her, for she will figd ftiends in every nation, The Republican Party—W. H, Seward ver~ ous SN. BP. BankeelNo Slavery vorsus No Popery. We refer our political readers to two siguifi. cant newspaper articles which we publish to day—the first from the Boston Atlas, the leading local organ of Gov. Banks and the Massachusetts Native American republicans; and the second, a brief but pungent and telling paragraph from the Albany Evening Journal, the principal organ of W. H. Seward and that republican programme which is purely anti-slavery, “unmixed with baser matter.” Detached from each other there is nothing very remarkable in either of these ex- trac's, but face to face they afford a world of in- struction. W. H. Seward is the greater Ajax of the anti- slavery republican party, pure andeimple. He has no sympathies with the principles of Know Nothingism, more particularly in regard to the Pope and the Catholic church. On the contrary, he has rather a political weakness for Archbishop Hughes, between whom and the wily Senator tho most friendly personal relations have been cul- tivated by the latter for many years. Governor Banks, of Massachusetts, “is a black horse of another color.” Lately identified with the na- tivietic American no-Popery party of Massachu- setts, we find bim, with the absorption of the bulk of that party by the local anti-slavery re- publican party, assuming the “half-and-half” composition of that party itself. While, there- fore, strongly opposed to the extension of slavery asa republican, he still sympathises with the nativistic and anti-Catholic sentiments and dec- trines of Know Nothingism. This broad distinction between the principles, associations and sentiments of Seward vs. Banks will explain the wide margin of difference be- tween the views of the Albany Journal and the Boston Av/as in reference to the general fusion of the Northern republican party and the “South Americans,” &c., for the next Presidency. The organ of Mr. Banks, referring to the proposition of the late American State Council of Maryland for a national convention of “the whole body of the conservative opposition in all the States of the Union,” in view of the next Presidency, gives to the proposition a “hearty concurrence.” Hear it:— ‘We desire a union of the opposition in 1860. We desire to meet in the Convention to nominate candidates for tho two highest offices in the government, delegates from ail the States in the Union. We desire to see ia that Conven tion such men as Kenneth Raynor, Mr. Gilmer, Me. ‘Vance, Mr. Graham and othere of North Carolina; John M. Botts and Judge Summers, of Vir, ; H. Winter Da- vis and J. Morrison Harris, of MaFyland, and gontlo. men of represontativo position from the several Southern ‘States. The Adas man has an especial admiration for Maryland and the aforesaid Davis and Harris of that State, and says, “if either of them should be put in nomination for the first or second office in the government, they could rely upon the electoral vote of Massachusetts.” Thus, it would appear that there is a very strong afliaity be- tween the Banks American republican party of Massachusetts and the American party of the South, and that the voice of Massachusetts in the republican camp will be earnestly exerted in favor of the general fusion indicated. But this programme would put the nose of W- H. Seward out of joint. The North Americans do not like him. They hate him because of his suspicious anti-nativistic associations and ante- cedents. The South Americans can never ap- proach him until that Rochester manifesto shall have been blotted from the record. According- ly, if there shall be a fusion of the opposition elements upon the broad and liberal basis of the Boston Adas, W. TI. Seward must go to the wall, ond Banks, of Massachusetts, Cameron, of Penn- sylvania, or Bell, of Tennessee, or some such man, will be apt to come uppermost as the cham- pion of the coalition. All this, we perceive, is most clearly comprehended by that veteran politi- cal gambler, Thurlow Weed, and he is, therefore, dead set against any concessions or affiliations which will shake the integrity of the unmixed anti-slavery Seward division of the republican church. What says Mr. Weed? He says that— It is a significant fact that in Virginia and Kontusky the Opposition ce War the democracy because thoy ave conceded too m' tothe North on the subject of slavery. itis with such an element that the republicans are expected to combine. It would be mach easier to mix oi] and water. This is brief, but very much to the purpose. And we concur with the venerable Thurlow in his opinion that “it would be easier to mix oil and water” than to fuse the anti slavery republican party par excellence with the odds and ends of Americanism and old line whiggery, as proposed by the leading organ of Governor Banks. But, what then? Why, then, the division & the opposition forces, in 1860, into two or three factions, becomes “a fixed fact.” The strong pro-slavery grounds offensive and defensive, at present occupied by the opposition in the South, will cut them off from the republican camp; and the nativistic doctrines and legislation of the American repub- licans of Massachusetts have opened another con- troversy which may terminate in a Northern rupture as mischievous to the republican party as was the Fillmore movement of three years ago. Let the democracy—especially of New York— proceed, then, to the work of reunion and reor- ganization, and they may re-enter the White House in 1860, as in 1856, between the divisions of the opposition. The name and the programme of W. Ii. Seward, even in the North, can only operate to distract and divide the opposition forces; but, at all hazards, his partisans are re- solved upon Seward. Let us watch the progress of the gam¢ among all concerned ; for very soon it will become to us, on this side of the Atlantic, scarcely less interesting than the impending struggle on the other side for the continental balance of power. Axotusn Jos.—The Police Commivsioners have appointed an auctioneer for the sale of unclaimed property under the charge of the Property clerk, This is a disreputable job. The appointee was a policemen, and at the same time a member of the Republican Central Com- mittee Club, which is contrary to police regula- tions, and his present appointment is a sinecure of $800 per annum at the expense of the unfor- tunate taxpayers. The whole propgrty sold in this manner does not pay the salaries of ‘the two clerks who have the care of it. And yet another official is appointed. Would it not be cheaper to make a present of this property to the poor, or to throw it into the North river? What necessi- ty isthere for an auctioneer? The police force appear not to be overburthencd with work. Could not some one of the number sell this pro- perty for lack of having anything better to do? Or could not any ordinary auctioneer sell it at the usual commission ? Ciman Your Own Sreeers.—While our spoils hunting corporation are squabbling over the plunder of the city treasury, disease and death are hourly germinating in the recking filth ‘with which the streets and guttcrs are gorged. There is not a city in the world in which such @ condi- tion as our own is @ would bp permitted to ex- ist twenty-four hours. We warned the public before, and we repeat the warning now, that ir the people in the different wards do not clean the streets on their owm responalbility, and at their own expense, we shall have a deeolating pestilence in our midst before the Fourth of July. It is contrary to mature and experience that the mass Of putrefaction which many of the streets present can swelter under a hot sun without breed- ing disease. There is not the remotest prospect that the authorities will remove it; they are too busy about the epoils of office, and too wickedly reckless of public health and life. The residents of each ward should call meetings, raise funds, and go to work at once to clesusc their own neighborhood. Ifthey do not, they may prepare for a devastating epidemic this summer. ‘The New European Allianco and Confitct— Can the United States be Drawn int The mails by the Adelaide, and the arrival of the Weser and Borussia last night with three days later news, have given us more clearly than was done by the telegraph the reason for the failare of the last effort to preserve peace, and it is an instructive one. France declined the mediation of England after Austria had accepted it, be- cause to entertain the proposal of England after the failure of the Russian propoeal for a con- gress would have been an insult to Russia. This simple fact shows more clearly than any, other that has been thus far developed how com- pletely France and Russia are playing into each other’s hands. If they had been really desirous of peace, no umbrage would or could have been taken by any Power at a fact so easily capable of friendly explanation. The reason, therefore; that has been assigned by France proves beyond a doubt the existence of the Russo-French alliance. It even goes farther. It seems to jus- tify the rumor, hitherto little credited, that Aus- tria had some time since certain intelligence of the alliance and its designs, and that it was this knowledge which led her to force on the war, from which she could not escape, before her enemies should have completed their web. What are these designs? Do they comprise simply changes of dynasties? Do they imvolve a complete reconstruction of the balance of power in Europe? Are certain nations, which hitherto have ranked as great Powers, to be reduced to secondary ones? We know that the treaties of Vienna are to be “revised and re- modelled;” but is that remodelling to make two great Powers only, or many equal oncs? The Austrian writers are convinced that a partial dismemberment of the Austrian empire is to take place; that Gallicia is to accrue to Russia, together with Moldavia, Wallachia and the Roumanian provinces of Turkey; and that the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom is to be added to Sardinia, Prince Napoleon placed on the throne of the Papal States, and Murat on that of Na- ples. This is a plausible remodelling of the treaties of Vienna, and we see no reason why it should not be carried out. The only difficulty is, will England consent to the division of Turkey, and to Russia’s sweeping down into Constantinople? We know her jealousy in re- gard to the route to her Indian possessions. Gibraltar, Malta, the Ionian Islands, and her de- termination to defeat the cutting of a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, all testify to, her watchful care. All the power of Russia was brought against the first Napoleon, because he would not consent to the occupation of Con- stantinople by Alexander. The introduction of steam navigation has destroyed the reasons which impelled him to refuse that point, and Louis Napoleon may have conceded it at Stutt- gardt. Such a scheme would bring on a generay war in Europe, and the statesmen of ‘Europe all anticipate a general war. In such a contest it is even supposed that the United States cannot avoid taking apart. The French Minister at Washington is reported to have recently expressed such a belief, and even tohave added that “the Emperor hada sure scheme for that.” We do not entertain the slightest idea that Louis Napoleon can draw us as an ally into his echemes for revising the treaties of Vienna, about which we do not care a fig; nor do we suppose he will be inclined to practise any “sure scheme” for drawing us into the gontest against him. He may entertain the same belief his uncle did on this point, When the coalition was formed against him, Napo- leca said to the American Minister at Paris, “You will be drawn in; you cannot avoid it; I do not care which side you take, but .I wish to know where you stand.” Then followed tho “paper blockade” by England, the retaliatory measures of the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the “Orders in Council,” which did draw us in. First came the Embargo act, and finally the war with England. To-day we believe that England understands her true interests too well to be drawn into this continental sirife. She has no part in it. Not even the possession of Constantinople by Rus- sia necd give her much uneasiness in regard to her Asiatic possessions. It may even be doubted whether it would not be better for her that Turkey should be in the possession of some stable power rather than to continue to be a “sick man,” of the contingencies of whose dissolution she is in constant fear. Yet, even if she does euffer herself to be unwisely drawn in, we do not for a moment suppose that she would to- day undertake, as of old, to levy tribute on our trade, or to drive our ships from the gea. The era of the “ paper blockades” and the “ orders in council” of fifty years ago has passed away, never to return. But if England is true to her- self, and the future that is still before her, she will take no part in the continental struggle. She will let the old dynasties and the yowny na- tions fight their own battles, while sh: pplies them all with bread, ships, iron, coal and cloth- ing. No changes that can be effected will endan- ger her interests in India or her commerce on the sea. As for ourselves, we cannot be drawn into the struggle unless England be so unwise as to en- deavor to re-establish her old tory policy. Then, indeed, we would be drawn in, but it would not be through any “sure scheme” of Louis Napo- Icon, And we should not begin with embargoes, nor long sufferance, as from 1806 to 1812. Con- fident in our strength to do so, we should at once defend our rights. Should Louis Napoleon dream that with a bribe, as for instance Cuba, or Central America or Mexico, he can draw us into the struggle as an ally, he errs grossly. He has no power to control affairs on the American con- tinent, except so far a8 his influence over Spain may lead her into a peaceful negotiation with us for the cession of Cuba. We could only laugh at any other offer from him to advance our inte- rests. Cuba, Mexico and Central America are already hastening along the path towards the esteblishment of their natural and untrammoled relations with the American Union, No Euro- pean Power oan prevent that consummation, and we have only to bide our time with and pursue our own course with constancy. Even during the present atruggle in Europe the colo- nial tles of Cuba to Spain may wither or be severed, and that ieland obey its natural gravita- tion to us...As for our fighting any European Power to obtain them, the [dca is absurd. Thoy will come full soon enough of their own accord, Twenty Years with tho Anniversarians— Cul Bonot We have just completed the twenty-first re- cord of the anniversary proceedings of the va- rious philanthropic, religious and reform so- cieties, and we have been moved to look over, not only the proceedings of the past week, but those of the anniversaries since 1839, when woin- augurated the system of reporting them—a sys- tem which, like nearly every other distinctive feature of the Heratp, has been imitated in a feeble way by our cotemporaries. It is curious to see how every other material thing has advanced in that period of twenty | years, and how the anniversaries have stood still or retrograded. In twenty years the population and wealth of the m etropolis have been doubled; in twenty years half a dozen new States and as many Territories have been added to the Union; important inventions, such as that of the clectric telegraph, have revolutionized the old systems of doing business; in fadt, in twenty years we have grown at least a century, according to the standard of former days. It is no small shame for those who control the anniversaries that they have neglected to take the pains necessary to keep up with the spirit of the age. They have taken nothing, in point of fact, but their salaries. Look at the foreign ‘missionary socicties. Year after year they have exported a number of sucking theologians, fresh from Andover or Yale, or Schenectady, with helpmeets equally thin and co-ordinately pious. What special frait has been gathered by these laborers in the Lord’s vineyard we cannot say. The cause, we are told in a vague way, pro:pers Travellers of the worldly sort do not speak highly of the result of the missionary labors ia heathen lands, and, in some instances, have cir- culated reports impugning the moral character of the Christian brethren themselves. In China, India and the islands of the sea, the most un- wearying perseverance has apparently effected but little. There are not so many man-eaters, women-burners, or idolaters bowing down to woed and stone. But it is not clear that the un- tutored mind accepts the new faith after rejecting the old errors. At any rate, the ueual effect of the spread of Christianity, to wit: the clevation of the tone of public and private morality, does not seem to follow missionary labors except in indivddual and rare cases. Still Wall street gives and gives, and so long as the supplics keep up, 80 long will the soldiers of the Cross he ready for the route, There is still another class of missionaries— those who labor in the prairies of the great West, or along the borders of Texas and Mexico, or among the miners of California and the lumbermen of Oregon. This is better than the work among the Hindoos; but, if we are not much mistaken, our pioneers are- a stiff udcked and rebelljous people, making so much haste to get rich that they have no time to think of hereafter. Among the philanthropic bodies are some of the order of the Seaman’s Friend and Coloniza- tion Society—very respectable affairs, directed reepectably, by respectable old fogies, with re- spectable salarics. In regard to the efficiency of the Seaman’s Friend Society, it may be summed up in this way: the society provides floating chapels which Jack will not go on board af at any price, gives him a Home which he refuses to sling a hammock in, and presents him with a tract when he wants biscuit or grog. During the existence of the society the merchant sailor has been steadily descending in the social scale and to-day be is treated, as a rule, with ten times the barbarity that ever a Yankee slave driver would dare to inflict upon a rebellious chattel on a Red river plantation. We do not say the friends of Jack are responsible for this; we only point to the fact and say, evi bono? The Colonization Society sends a few negroes to Africa at an enormous expense. Their colony is an acknowledged failure, and is only pre- vented from relapsing into absolute barbarism by fresh imports of men and women with more or less Saxon blood in their veins. If we look at the purely religious societies, we shall find them nearly all divided on the negro question. That bone of contention long ago split the political partics into disorganized factions, and now interferes with the ministrations of the very altar of Heaven. The Bible Society stands firm, for the excellent reason that the Bible is somewhat older than this government, and is a slaveholding document according to the Mosaic law and the teaching of the Apostles. The Tract Society makes its own books, and is much bothered by that’ unfortunate little nigger who will get in at every anniversary. They have choked him with all sorts of parliamentary gags, previous questioned and special businessed him to apparent death; but he still lives. Moving from Lafayette place to the Academy of Masic aid not kill him off; up he jumped through the stage like the Commander in “ Don Juan,’’ and he will be heard. It was Tammany Hall over again without the immortal Rynders. When the teachers behave in, such a manner, the effect of their tracts may be readily imagined. The very best thing that the Tract Society can do is to thut up shop and open an opposition to the Bible House. Something will have to be done to save the funds, for as soon as people begin to find these things out, they will lock up their check books and alter their wills. After all, with these societies the cash ig the | prime object. And they manage one way and \ another to get a pretty good lot of it. In 1857 | the total receipts of the socicties amounted to | 1,798,921 ; in 1858 to $1,633,089; and for the present year $1,815,641, More sincere, we think, are the social reform. | cra, who, in attempting to cure the moral diseases under which Christendom groans, are themselves the victims of a bodily and mental ailment of a more dangerous character than those which they have atiempted to heal. Beginning with abolitionism, something over twenty years ago, when Garrison, who had been an unsuccessful parson, went into a new line, and made it pay better than preaching, we bave had all sorts of isms, which might be summed up under the general term of Tribune-ism. These philosophers get tired of their isms as boys do of their tops, and throw them away with the same recklessness. Thus they passed from the arms of Garrison to’ those of Mourier, Conside- wut, Proudhon, Saint Simon and the other Frenoh phitosophors, who inteaded to upset everything and reooustruet sooisty on a now basis, But although the theery was “beautiful, the practice was very alow, Hevce Muses Gree- ley deserted the now lights, and Philosopher Dane laid down bis waiter’s apron in disyust A section of socialists went one step further, and inculoated the free love doctrine, which is simply indiscriminate and promiscuous com- merce between tho eexes, It was no new thing, as the classic writers will show; but it was re- vived, and along with it, asan aid ia breaking down female self-respect, came te gigantic hum- bug of spiritualism, with its Foxes, Hatches, & id omne genus. Families bave been broken up, maniacs made from heretofore comparatively sensible persons, and much shame thrown upom our country by foreign writers through these free love and spiritual de!usions. Of a piece with the fast named suares is the Woman’s Righta movement. In fact, in spite of the efforts of some of the female politicians te | prevent it, the free lovers, spiritualists and We- man’s Rights disciples are all alike in the publie mind. This inference is logically derived from the debates. According tothe speeches from | their platform, a woman has the right to run off niggers from Carolina; to take whomsoover she pleases as the partner of her husband’s bed; te caucus at Tammany and drink grog at the Pew- ter Mug; to call all sorts of spirits from every- where and make people believe that they came; to “run” with a dire company; to stand up in the cars and stages; to walk home in the rain, giving her umbrella to one of the sex called conventionally the “stronger;” to chew. tobacco, to spit, to swear, and, in fact, to have a share in all the luxuries heretofore monopolized by what were called, by a man, of course, the “lords of creation.” The women have had several conventions, and by all accounts they have not obtained a right yet, unless it be a right to have their meetings disturbed by rowdies. But if women demand men’s privileges they must be ready te exercise men’s responsibilities, and suffer the penalties incident to them. The last item in the humanitarian procession is the African Civilization Society, the object of which is the amelioration and refinement of the free colored man—that is, if the colored mam in this country is ever really free in any way ‘The society is young yet, but quite old enough to have had several quarrels more or less bitter. Some of the colored men think it is the white trash that ought to be civilized; and our old fricad Downing, whose oysters and rhetoric are of the best kind, though both rather hard te open, has had a severe fight of it, denouncing all the sccieties—Colonization and Civilization—as humbuge—in which he was quite right—al- though he has found it out rather late in the day, After this brief sketch of the anniversarians and their works—and let him who can deny its fidclity—we ask again, Cui bono? Most 1s tax Fasmionsnce Cuvacues——One — of ihe most remarkable features in the progress of the metropolis is the increase of the number of edifices for religious worship. Nor is this all. Considering our youth as a nation, we may safely challenge comparison in the matter of religious architecture with the leading European cities, if we except St. Peter’s at Rome, thie Madelaine and Notre Dame in Paris, and the grand old cathedral at Rouen. Archbishop Hughes’ new church in the Fifth avenue will probably compete with either of them, if he does not become involved financially, like the builders of the cathedral at Cologne, which has been almost at a stand still, in an unfinished condition, during several centuries. In the essential points of securing the comfort, and we might almost say luxurious ease of the worship- pers, our churches exceed anything except the royal chapels. Our republican sinners are cer- tainly taken to grace by a macadamized road, instead of the rough and thorny way which the Scriptures tell us of. The carpets are of the softest and thickest material, the cushions in- vite to sweet repose, the sermons are frequently of an equally soothing nature, the prayer and hymn books glow and glitter with all the wealth of the printers’ and bookbinders’ arts, and in fact no means is left untried to secure every proper attraction for the conservation of the fashionable soul, which, like other delicate articles, must be handled with care and kept right side up. The competition among the wealthier churches for first class pulpit talent has often been com- mented upon by the journals. As in literatare, or law, or medicine, or any other special pursuit requiring more than the usual modicum of brains, we find the metropo- lis. bringing from the provinces the best parsons, without the slightest regard te expense. They are paid and lodged and féted like princes, while all the ladies, young and old, vie with cach other in testifying, by appro- priate cadeaw, their devotion to the guardian of their souls. The music, too, is a most interesting feature of the metropolitan church, as may be seen by the sketches of our reporters in another part of to- day’s impression. Here we sce that some dozem or more churches employ the best musi- col talent, vocal and instrumental, reinforced on special ogcasions by voluntecrs from the ranks of the principal operatic artists, and that in a quiet way there is as much rivalry and com- petition in the choirs as in the coulisses. Not only do the Opera artists sing, but the Opera composers write for the church, as they have al- ways done in Europe; so that Lorenzo Dow’a mot—that if Satan did got nearly all the souls that ‘was no reason why he should monopolise all the best tunes—has come to be generally acted upon. We haye given on account of the religions music of the metropolis ag one of the current | topics of the day, and ia the belief that it will be found generally interesting. It proves beyond doubt the rapid progress of our churches in one f the most important aids to the propagation of the Gospel. Where, a few years ago, a few dis- cordant instruments, a shrill soprano, a weak. tenor and a growling bass would lead off an ine harmonious congregation, whose voices fell over each other like sheep scrambling ont of a gate we find now well trained choira, highly educated directors and splendid organs—the musical staff of @ fashionable church costing almost as mach as the sensation preacher himself, including his occasional bronchitis, which no meiticament shows of foreign travel will cure. Increase oF IMMIGRATION~ Irs Causes.—Our readers have seen intelliger.ce récently in the Teraup showing a great increase of immigra- tion. In the course of thr; first half of this month some five thousand emis,rants haye arrived, and probably from five to seven thousand more will havedanded at our port before the expiration of the month. The Liverpool Zimes of the 29th of