The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1859, Page 6

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The latest despatches | from the seat of war in Italy show that the Aus- | trians, although for a period of seven days occu- piers of Sardinian soil, had accomplished nothing whatever, save the power to levy small forced con- | tributions upon the enemy. Heavy rains had fallen, swelling the rivers and filling the low lands so asto retard military operations, thus seviously diminishing the probability of the Austrians obtaining any signal .advantage before the allied forces are ready to oppose them. The effect of war thus early upon A is observable in the fact of the failure of an extensive Vienna bank- ing house, whose liabilities are stated to be ten millions of dollars. In London the financial excite- ment had entirely subsided. The rate of interest at the Bank had been increased to four and a half per cent. Consols had fluctuated slightly, bat closed on the 6th at 90} for money and account. The speculations in breadstufs and provisions had abated, but no change in rates is reported. There is nothing later than the 4th respecting the cotton marke We give.to-day a cerrect copy of the war decl: ration of Napoleon against Austria, and repab i ‘el columns with it the previous maz Joseph, in order that the peculiar points wo papers may be move readily secon. ae poleon was expected to leave Paris on the 6th stant, the day the elder Napolecn left to fizlt the battle of Marengo. Our London correspondent States that great alarm as to the future position of England prevailed all over the Kingdom. The an- nouncement “of the Rass-French alliance reached Queen Victoria when at dinner with the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and the leir apparent to the throne of Portugal. The news 60 aff d lier Majesty that she had to retire. The offi journal of St. Pe- tersburg denies that an “ offensive and defensive” treaty of alliance has been made with France or apy other Power, but makes no mention of an agreement with France,as has heen officially an- nounced to the English government. The next news from Europe will reach us by the following steamships, all of which are at sea to-day, having left in the following order:— Dete | setting. h esto | | Where Where from.| ‘Bound. ti Asia... Hammonia . Hungarian. We have files from Bermuda to the 3d inst. The Legislature was summoned to meet on the 1sth. The British sloop-of-war Zeldina had sailed for Halifax, and the steamer Styx for Nassau, N. P, The cuttter yacht Aquila, of the R. W. Yacht Club, Capt. Ward, belonging to Robert F. Shaw Stewart, Esq., had arrived from Trinidad, via St. Thomas, Judge Allen yesterday refused to grant a motion for a mandamus to compel the Comptroller to pay the salaries of City Inspector Morton and his depu- ties, and declared the office vacant under the pro- visions of the city charter applicable to the case; whereupon Mayor Tiemann took possession of the City Inspector's offices and effects. So the matter stands. A report of the judicial and extra jndical proceedings of the Judge and Mayor may be found in another column, A meeting of the Harlem Railroad Company for the choice of directors was held yesterday, and the the old board of officers was re-elected without opposition. The Board of Supervisors met last evening. The bill of the Police Commissioners for $2,300, for ad- vances to the Deputy Superintendent for contingent expenses, was referred. Other bills were passed upon—some ordered to be paid. The Coroners sent in a petition for better accommodation for the post mortem examinations at Bellevue Hospital. The report of the conuuittee in favor of paying the Coroner's bill for post mortem examinations ($545) was adopted. The Board adjourned to Monday next. In the case of the second trial of James Glass, | the twelfth juror, after much difficulty, was obtained | and the case proceeded. The Judge intimated his | intention to sit till twelve o'clock. ‘The Aldermanic Commitiee on Streets met yes: terday afternoon to hear parties in reference to the | proposed widening of Nussau street, on the south. | easterly side, from Pine to Beckman street. Daniel | flanshaw, who owns considerable property on the | side of the street which the petitioners desi widened twenty-five feet, said that the wile: it would deprive him of his entire property, where he has done business for years. He argned the im provement to be unnecessary, and even if it y necessity, that was no reason why property owners should be made to suffer loss, He cited the pro- cedent of the evil effects produced on down town property by the opening of William street some years ago, and insi. that seven-eighths of the property hola assan street are adverse to the job. He pre ed a numerously | signed petition to strengthen his case, and was fol- | lowed by other property lolders similarly interest: | ed, who endorsed his views. Mr. Whitlock, who is the proprietor of real estate in Nassau street to the amount of over $200,000, argued that the reqnire- ments of the city demand the opening of the street | aga relicf to Broadway. He considered that no in dividual property owners have a right to urge their private claims upon the Common Council as an argu. ment why a necessary public measure shoyld not be varried out, and that the opening of the street would 1 to be | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1859.—TRIPLE SHERT. other matters of leas interest into considera- ned without taking action on any. Commissioners, afer ther five | monthe recess, Nelda meeting yesterday to grant licenses present, Commissioners Haskett and Holmes. Commissioner Maskett was chosen Chair- nan, ind Mr, Holmes was re-appointed counsel for the ensuing year. They also appointed a clerk. The President made a call for applicants for licenses, but no one appeared, and they adjourned till Thursday afternoon. The Board express their reso- lution to prosecute all parties who may be proved to have sold liquor without license during the past year. It is their intention to meet four times a week for the purpose of granting licenses. The weekly meeting of the Board of Ten Go- vernors took place yesterday. They adopted a | resolution, awarding the contract for the mason work for the enlargement of Blackwell's Island | Hospital, to Messrs. Watson & Shaw, whose charge is $4,618, and that of the carpenter work to Van, | dervoort & Carpenter, who charge $2,904. A com- munication from the Warden of the City Prison, asking for increased prison accommodation for prisoners, was referred. A resolution was passed to hold fortnightly, instead of weekly mectings, as heretofore, till the fi ver, after their next meeting, which they agreed should be held at Belleyue Hospital. The number in the institutions is 6,947, a decrease of thirty-two on the past week. The number admitted during the week was 1,517, and those discharged, died or sent to other institu- | ons, amounted to 1,549 The cotton market yesterday continued to be unsettled, while dealers were disposed to await the receipt of the Ningara’s news, due at Halifax. The sales embraced 700 bak ‘csing without established quotations. Tae re- ceipts in the Soutbern ports have reached about bales, against 2,830,000 in 1858, 2,802,000 in 3,289,000 in 1856. The total exports have boen about 28,000, against 1,996,0C0 in 1858, 1,082,000 in 1867, and 156,000 in 1866. The etocks on hand amount to 449,000, against 575,000 in 1858, 340,000 in 1857, an! 404,000 in 1856. The flour market was more tam? yesterday and leas active. Commo: grades were easier, while the higher and choice brands continued firm. Wheat was firm, with sulesat ful! prices. Tne market was less it the close, on account of the enhanced views of Corn was heayy and sales moderate. Pork con- ; tioued firm, with sales of new mess at $18 50 9 $19, thin | mess at $17 75a $18, prime mess $18 50a $19, clear do. | $2land prime $1525 a $15 75. Boef and lard were both firm, wtib tolerably active sales. The transactiong in sugars were | confined to about 500 hhds., without change of moment in | prices. Rice continued firm, with sales of about 600 casks | at4ijc.a53/c. There was some movement in East India goods, including Manila hemp, lingeed oil, guany cloth, bags and jute—and at advaucing prices. Qotfee Was quiet; cales of 70 bags Maracaibo were made at p. t. The stock of Rio embraces about: 15,774 bags, and the to- tals of all sorts, bags and mats, 71,461. Freights were steady, epgegements moderate and rates unchanged. Whiskey sold at 30c. a 303{c. Louis Napoleon the Propagandist of Ep- rope=Opening of the Great Drama of the Age. The address of Louis Napoleon to the French Legislature places him in the first position as a revolutionary propagandist in Europe. It is true, his words refer only to Italy, but they will go through every country of continental Europe as the slogan of the nationalities in their war against the dynasties. ° “Austria must rule up to the Alps, or Italy must be free to the shores of the Adriatic,” sayshe. “I boldly avow my sympathies for a people whose history is mingled with our own and who groan under foreign oppreesi “When France draws the sword it is not to domi- | nate, but to liberate.” Such language as this from the lips of a man at the head ot six hundred thousand armed men, and absolute controller of the vast energies of France, must have sent an electric thrill through Italy, and fallen upon the ears of every European dynasty like the sound ofthe tocsin of war Already, before they were uttered Tuscany, Modena, Parma and Massa had fallen from the Austrian sceptre, and almost under the very guns of Piacenza and An- cona established the popular rule. Before this time they must have swept through the Papal States, leaving the Pope nothing but the hollow semblance of power, and on to the gates of Naples, carrying dread to the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies, if indeed they have not already fled before them. : Following these words, France has drawn the sword, and noone can believe that the war of the rulers, or the aspirations of the people, will be confined to Italy and the Italians. The events of 1848, when the popular heart had no leader among the nations to support it, tell us what we may now look for from one end of Europe to the other. It will be said that Louis Napoleon is not sincere; that he does not mean to liberate any people; that he is really actuated by a blind ambition of conquest; that he only secks to found his own dynasty upon the cheated hopes of men. It little matters whether he is sincere ornot. His words will apply the torch to the slumbering mine of Europe’s hopes for political regeneration, and rouse the oppressed masses everywhere. Already they are in motion. Whoever applies his ear to the ground will hear the tread of the coming millions. Austria has heard it, and has thrown herself into the fight, calling upon the conservative bands to bring their bayonets and follow ber lead. The Bourbons of Spain have heard it, and ask the Cortes to give them a hundred thousand more bayonets at home “to protect the neuirolity of the country during the coming wor in Italy.” The conservative interests of England have heard it, and hastened to the polls to sustain the eelf-preservation policy of Lord Derby. The house of Brandenberg has heard it, and has placed the corps durée of Prussia on a war footing. These are but signs of the times events ofthe grand drama that is just beginning to be acted on the stage of Europe. But they foreshadow the plot that is to be developed, and the events that are to pass before our eyes and before the eyes ofall men. Mazzini, Kossuth, | Louis Blanc, and all the senseless plotters and mountebanks who have been endeavoring for ten years to rouse Italy, Hungary and France, are swept away by the imperial and imperious words of Louis Napoleon. He has started on his march as a liberator, and he must continue on or be trod down by the millions behind him. The events that will unroll in Italy will spread to Germany and Hungary, and react on France; | Spain and the whole of Northern Europe. The | treaties of Vienna will be torn to shreds, and their unfulfilled promises of constitutional governments to the nations will now be carricd out. The cheating assurances of 1813 and the mockerics of 1830 and 1848 have opened the eyes of the world, and the nationali ties can no more be aroused by deceptive offers to fight against their own cause and defend the dynasties that have so long oppressed them and kept them down by three millions of bayonets interlaced across the face of Europe. I'rom the 2d of May Louis Napoleon has entered upon bis new career as the firebrand for the worn out thrones of Europe; and Fravce, not weakencd by 4 prelude of anarchy and bloodshed, but girded in all her strength, has changed front and now Inaterially increase the yalue uf propsrty in all the dower ou of the city. The commitice also tuok lends the nationaiities of Europe im the suugyle for iadependgage, The Southern Fire-Eaters’ Conventlon—The African Slave Trade Debate—General £ oote in the Ring. Wo spread before our readers to-day a rate treat, in the full reports of our special reporter, of several days’ proceedings of that remarkall» assemblage of fire-eaters at Vicksburg, known as the Southern Commercial Convention. As we predicted some time ago, the all- absorbing branch of commerce with these Southern commercial philosophers has proved to be the African slave trade. The other most prominent subjects of a commercial character introduced before the Convention were a pro- position to abolish the tariff revenue system of the federal government and to substitute direct taxation, and a series of resolutions from Gov. McRae, of Mississippi, proposing, in the event of the election of a black republican President ia 1860, first, a vigorous revolutionary effort oa the part of the South to prevent his inaagara- tion; and secondly, if this effort to save the South should fail, a Southern Convention to provide the ways and means for the establish ment of a separate Southern confederacy. But the question of direct taxation, the ques- tion of a revolutionary movement to defeat the inauguration of a black repu! n Pre- sident, and even the tremendous ,uestion of an independent Southern confederacy, were all overshadowed and swallowed up in the Convention by that paramount Southern commercial question, the revival of the African slave trade. And here it will be seen, from the earnest and exciting debates upon the subject, that these Vicksburg Southern re- formers may be fitly classed with our impracti- cable, intractable, fanatical and crazy Northern abolitionists, women’s rights women, spiritual conventicles and free-love societies; for, when reduced to the impartial standard of the princi- ples of common sense, Jack Spratt, of South Ca- rolina, Garrisop, of Massachueetts, and our strong minded women, clamorous for their rights to wear beards and breeches, must all be placed ia the same basket, with the fire-eaters on the top. North and South, such are the curious exere- sences which spring up from the prolific soil of our popular institutions, from the inquiring and restless§spirit of the age, and from the shifts and crotchets of desperate politicians and self-saeri- ficing fanatics. But it appears that in General Henry &. Foote, these Southern African slave traders at Vicksburg caught a regular Tartar, We have always enter- tained the impression that Gen. Foote, though retired from public life, would some day make the welkin ring, and he has done it. In 1850 he was a democratic member of the United States Senate from Mississippi, and did good scrvice in behalf of the great compromise measures of Henry Clay. He thus incurred the wrath of the Mississippi fire-eaters: but, upon the basis of a Union party movement against them, he whipped them, and was elected Governor of the State. But then, unfortunately, the people of Mi sippi returned to their old party divisions, and the fire-eaters thus getting the control of the democracy, the Governor was ruled out of the camp. Then, shak he dust from his feet, moved out ts Vattror came there a le: of the American party, came within aninch or two of being returned to the Senate; but failing, onaccount of the superior tactics of Dr. Gwin and Davy Broderick, the General was left high and dry. California thus becoming too small for him, he has returned to the broader area of the Mississippi valley, and to the’ independent plat- form of a politician holding no allegiance, but denying all affiliations with any of the existing parties of the day. A man of this temper, of this enlarged expe- rience, and holding this independent position as a Southern statesman, was the very man wanted at Vicksburg to take the starch out of those rampant fire-eaters. And it was some lucky inspiration that brought him into this Conven- tion, and nerved him to the task of demolishing poor Spratt and his clique of African slave trade engineers. Read the speeches of General Foote, and then, reader, answer us, was not Foote the giant among those pigmies, striding about among them and trampling them down, like an angry Gulliver among the Lilliputians? The programme of Mr. Spratt comprehended, it seems, a report in favor of the revival of the African slave trade among the Southern States in defiance of the laws of Congress. It further appears that the Convention was asked to give a sort of semi-official endorsement to this report in- ordering it to be printed, which at once brought General Foote to the rescue of the constitution and the laws; and the basting which be admin- istered was terrible. Read our ‘reporter's re- port. Spratt had his allies, his confederates on the ground. They came up to his relief. They boldly defended his policy of importing niggers from Africa without leave or license, and at all hazards and to the last extremity; but they failed ta save Spratt. Nor did the terrible wrath of Foote stop with Spratt. All the Spratt clique of slave traders came in for a roasting, and W. IL. Seward and Barnwell Rhett, as unscrupulous sectional agitators, were skinned alive. The Convention did resolve, notwithstanding all thie, that the laws of Congress interdicting the African slave trade ought to be repealed; but we have every reason to belicve that, had not General Foote stirred up the fire-eaters with his long pole, they would have resolved upon the revival of the African slave trade as recommend- cd by Spratt, in defiance of law, of the govera- ment and of public opinion. For the present we have but little further to say upon the subject than to express the hope that General Foote’s plain speaking to these Vicksburg commercial gentry done them good. We consider him enti- tied to a full hearing, and we cheerfully accord it, in the belief that his views will operate to attract the public sentiment of the South in the right direction. If General Foote has not de- | molished the underpfnning of these Southern po- | litical slave traders, we are somewhat mistaken. Was there ever such another gathering in all this world as the Vicksburg fire-caters’ Conven- tion’ Let Garrison and his motley crew of old women in breeches, and would-be-men in petti- coats retire from the field. They are tame, flat and stupid compared with these fiery, fassy, belligerent and terrible Southern salamanders. henna Metnorosran Cure Mesic.—We have re- ceived, and printed ¢lsgwhere, quite a number of communicaticns in relation to the article upon choir music published in the Henan of Monday last. It appears from the di#ussion which the secounts of our reporters have excited among musicians, and the interest they have awakened in the public mind, that wo aid not over-rate the iimportanee of the music in the fashionable churches, It was our intention to give a fair aceount of the music in the principal churehes, ad we are uow quile happy to render mnte Vesar the things that are Cicsar's, by givicg | cause of all the faltering appears to us to be per” publicity to the lucubrations of the fojared ox omittcd ones. If we can, by so doing, afford apy assistance to a most important feature in the eervices of the city churches, we shall con- sider ourselves quite well rewarded for our labors. ‘The Latest News from the Seat of War—The Austrian Army in an Awkward Position, By the balance of the Vigo’s news from St. dobns, which we publish in another colama, we have the important inte!ligence from the seat of war that the Austrians bad crossed. the river Po at Cambio, and atthe village of Po in small numbers, and had pushed their vanguard as far as Salle. These are new troops, with whom it was evidently intended to march on the fort of Alessandria, the points of crossing being low down onethe river and opposite the Sardinian stronghold. It is also stated that the divisions reported on the left bank higher up, that France were threat- ening & passage at that point, with a view, no doubt, of attacking Turin; but the swelling of the river by the rain defeated their purpose. The low ground was flooded with water. Thus, when cyerybody expected the news of a battle, and that the Austrian eagle would have pounced upon the prey before the French troops came to the rescue, we find that nothingis done, and that the Austrian army, though seven days on Sardinian coil, had only advanced thirty-five miles, thus losing the very opportunity for sake of which it had placed itself in a wrong position before a}l Europe, in sending a sudden challenge to Sardinia and crossing her boundary before she | had time to prepare to defend herself. Whereas the Sardinian and French troops are now posted to the very best advantage, having all their po- sitions connected with each other by railroad, and with the two bases of operations—the passes of the Alps open to France, and the port of Genoa open by sea. Even the London Times—the zealous friend of Austria, which had been boasting of her strate- getical superiority, and that she would cat Sar- dinia up before France could possibly save her— admits that the position of the Austrian army is now extremely awkward, that it has thrown away its chance, and that the advantage lics de- cidedly with the enemy, unless that the Aus- trians have the power of levying forced contri- butions from the Piedmontese—a mere tempo- rary advantage, which is of a very doubtful nature, considering that it will exasperate the people and give theylie to Austria’s promise of | protection to them; besides that, it isa game at which both sides can play, and that French ships of war can soon make matters even in the Austrian ports of the Adriatic. The tardy movements and vascillation of the Austrians have not been accounted for. But the feetly plain, and that is, the revolt of Tuscany and Parma. This blow staggered the purpose of Austria— ehe hesitated, and like a woman who hesitates and loses her virtue, she lost the van- tage grourd and whatever chances of success were in her favor. We had expected she might “portibly win the first battle, but the whole aspect of the batile-field is changed. A large portion of her army now stands in immiueut aanger or ve- ing cut off from its base of operations. The Sar- | dinians have gradually drawn it into the heart of their country, and not without evident misgiv- | ings it is now moving slowly but surely into a trap, out of which it may never be able to es- cape. Tur Commnc Man ror Eneriyp—Drsraets’s cu TO His Constrrcents,—Mr. Disraeli has proved himself to be the coming man of England. Since the speech of Canning against the Holy Alliance, forty years ago, no single discourse of | any English statesman has been so replete with a broad and comprehensive political philosophy, clear-sighted sagacity, and nervous life and energy, as the speech recently delivered by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer to his consti- | tuents in Buckinghamshire. ‘ In more senses than one is it remarkable. Coming from a tory leader, it throws aside all the old tory arrogance, discusses the highest questions of State, and explains the politic motives of Ministers at a gathering of the people. It abandons the old tory ground of re- ‘sistance to the popular demands, and acknow- ledges the necessity of an extension of the fran- | chise. It rejects the old system of burthening posterity with loans contracted for the defence of the privileged classes, and boldly announces that the government of the day should pay its | own expenses, whether in war or in peace, by a direct resort to taxation. It recognizes the leagues of kings and emperors as being some- thing different from the leagues of nationalities, and asa thing which the English people have no reason cither to favor or to fear. It comprehends the growth of nations sprung from the loins of the English people, and not from the English aristocracy, which has broken down the old theory of the balance of power, and the barriers of oligarchical and ecclesiastical privilege in Europe. It dares to assert that England is no longer a European, but a cosmopolitan Power. And it looks for the future of England, not in its sympathy with the traditions and institutions of feudalized Europe, but in its connection with the free communities of America and Australia. to which it is bound by ties and interests woven and welded by the English people, and in the | creation and developement of which the English | aristocracy have had no part. Had such a speech as this come from some of the men of the Manchester school, or fallen from | the lips of the enlightened though aristocratic | liberals of the day, we should have seen in it an evidence of a coming revolution in British poli- | tics. Coming, as it does, from an admitted leader in the old tory party, it proves the extent of the silent revolution that has been already effected there. Mr. Disracli has shown himself to be the man who will yet hold the post of the younger Pitt during a Earopean corflict and convulsion. He has all of Pitt’s individuality and sagacity, and he will inherit his position and influence. Palmerston has aspired to it, but he is nothing but a petit maitre in politics, and has not comprchended the true spirit of the age. Lord Derby is a crotchet incarnate, who has loaned his lesser light to the Coburg intrigues, Lord Jobn Russell, constituting both the head and the tail of the Russell party, is incapable to lead and unwilling to serve. All of these lesser lights must pale before the rising sun of Disracli, and cventually give way to the only man pos- sessing the confidence of the old tories, and who comprehends the British people and the teuc position of England in her relations with the world. With euch a man at the head of her affuira, we should not have any fear that England would be drawn into the present conflict of progress with privilege, of nationalities with dynasties, on the continent of Kurope; mvc taat we shouid | | whomsoever or for whatsoever purpose, is the ‘in abl | Austrians. But as yet Kossuth and his Hunga- | One of our cotemporarics is much afflicted with | Convention, purporting to have been made by Cee EEE NS tave any trouble in ge'tiog alexg with our Eog- lish cousing, He has dared to look in the face and to comprehend the true position of Ecgland in her external relations, azd we look forward to bis advent ag the coming man for her. Kossura anp 1e War ty Tnany,—Aridst tee convulsion which is now shaking Europe from its centre to its remotest extremities, we do not | henrone word of Kossuth, who made so much voise in this country a few years ago, preaching | up the dootrine of American intervention ia the affairs of Korope, aud particularly in behalf of his beloved Hungary, for whose deliverauce he raised afew thousand dollars, which he invested | in Cincinnati saddles for the use of his Magyar | wairiors, What became of the saddles we never | learned; but this would be the time to turn them to account. Now would be the time for the ex Governor of Hungary to take advantage of Austria, which took euch a dirty advan- tage of Hungary ia the revolutionary move- ments of 1818 and i849, Now there would be | some chance for his proclamations and manifes- toes to his countrymen to be attended with prac- | tical effect. Austria's difficulty is Hungary's | opportunity. Where is now the Revolutionary ; Committee established in New York ia 1852 to | aid the cause of bleeding, prostrate Hungary? | Then there was not the ghost of a chance fur the assertion of her independence. Now there is | every chance, and now is the time to give her moral and material aid. Louis Napoleon in his manifesto declares in favor of nationalities and independent sovereign- tice. Kossuth would now be the natural ally of the French Emperor, for he proclaimed the same dcctrine when he was here, Itis trae that the Magyar then abused Louis Napoleon, and de- nounced him as a tyrant. But the lattcr is too mucha man of the world and too able a statesman to remember that now. Russia, with whom he was at war only three years ago, is now his fast friend and ally. We shall sce whether Kossuth is equally practical, By his adhesion to Napo- leon now he would aid two good causes to- gether—that of Hungary and that of Italy— both lately under the iron hoof of Austrian despotism, When the Magyar was here he ad- vecated the cause of Italian independence as intimately connected with flangarian freedom. “A war of France,’ said Kossuth, “against best porsible chance for the success of Euro, revolution.” “You will probably see Lonis \ poleon brought to the necessity of an offinsive war against Austria. They caunot both stand on the soil of Italy; and whoever be ruler of France, he may abandon Italy to herself, but never cen abandon her to Ausir ne-third of the Austrian army which occupies Italy are Hungarians, who have fought agaiast and tri- umphed over the yellow-black flag of Austria under the same tricolor, which ing of the same tri-color for hotlt countries shows em- blematically that Hungary and Italy are but two wings of the same army united aguinst a common enemy.” “Italy a barrel of powder, which the slightest spark can. light, and Italy is the left wing of the army of liberty, of which Hungary is the right.’ Now the bar- rel of powder is jgulted, aud Italy, the left wivy, But where is the right wing, and where is its leader? Honest and bold Garibaldi, who made no fuss here after his defeat in 1819, is already leading Italian troops against the rianz have given no sign. | Manin, the greatest and ablest Italian revolutionist of recent years, who long co- operated with Mazzini and the Carbonari, declored in favor of Sardinia with his latest breath, when he was dying at Paris. He saw that this was the only practical mode of Italian deliverance. It is believed, too, that there was an understanding between Louis Napoleon and the Italian revolutionist, Orsini, before the exe- cution of the latter for the attempted assassina- tion of the French Emperor, and that Orsini agreed to dissuade from their purpose his compatriots, banded together to take Na- poleon’s life at all risks, if the French ruler would promise to interpose in behalf of Italy; for they believed he was the chief obstacle to its regeneration. Certain it is that from that time all attempts at bis assassination have ceased: The perfect ease and unantmity with which ‘the whole people and military of Tuscany and Parma have seconded the designs of Sardinia and France show that there is an understanding with the Italian revolutionists throughout the Peninsula; and perhaps the next thing we shall hear of is that the people of the Two Sici- lies have raised the standard of Italian inde- pendence. It is not easy to see why Kossuth should not fall in with the views of the other revolutionists: particularly as the Sardinian cause fs very popular in England, where he has received an asylum for so many years. But perhaps he is now more active than we have given him credit for. He may, for all we know to the contrary, be on the confines of Hungary, in disguise, stirring up the latent embers of disaffection to the perfidious Touse of Hapsburg. If he is not, or if he is not in some other way now taking advantage of the circumstances of the hour, in favor of that Hun- gary about which he made so many speeches in two worlds, ho is a greater visionary than even his career in the United States proved him to be, with his sentrics at his door, and all his assump- tion of royal pomp and authority. Now is his time to assert his title as King of Hungary. Exrraorprsary Newsparer DENrerrrise.— sporadic attacks of enterprise, which we greatly fear, should they be of frequent occurrence, will coon exhaust its constitution. Some time ago it published atreaty between Great Britain and Nicaragua, which it called the Ouseley-Jerez Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley and General Jerez; bui it turned out that no such treaty had beca made at all—our cotemporary’s mare’s nest being sim- ply a slight modification of the Cass-Yrisarri treaty, got up to suit the existing fecling at the time. More recently it has produecd an alleged treaty with Paraguay, which is no more like the Bowlin treaty than that of Vienna, manufac- tured, also, to accord with somebody's views on the Paraguay question. The same journal, in companionship with an- other city cotemporary, has made the extraordi- nary exertion lately of publishing a supploment, in imitation of the Hxratp’s now almost daily “triple shect;’’ but it takes them just a week to get the supplement ont, and it always happens to appear just on the day when there is least news to justify an extra issue. The Wrraun *triple sheet of Monday, and the triplo shect of this morning, we need hardly remiod our readers, presented a complete picture of the fi State OF burupe wt Lie prosyuk yauiivill, ouvir”, as she docs on the threshhold of a gigantic con- flict—lifting the curtain, as it were,from the stage, ard exhibiting the great drama whose opening scene is now bursting upon the world. The “supplements” of ow: cotemporaries— the result of a week's labor—moxeover, arc en: tirely detached from the papers ihenwselves, and the circulation of the extra portion ix doubtless confiued within the limits of the city, Thus, tbrough this extraordinary effort, they make a great splurge in the metropolis, to dazzle the eyes of the advertisers, while it is probable the supplements never reach the country at all. ‘Thin is the age of enterprise; the Heratp has led the van, and our cotemporaries are evi- dently aaxious not to be left too far behind, Errrcr or tue War ox New York Butts oF EXcHANGE on Loxpox.—It appears by the laat news from Europe that the bill-brokers of Lon- | don had raised the price of their bills of ex- change on the United States; while heres on the contrary, we have the remarkable fact that Bel- mout has lowered the price of his bills of ex- change on Europe, which, considering that Bel- t though at present they are like weary stragglers, HI | far in the rear of the army. mont is the agent of the Rothschilds, seems at 3 first blueh unaccountable. Bat the matter is ment does not proceed from the fact that Bel- moni’s paper is not still as good in commercial transactions as it was before the outburst of hostiliti of specie is wanted by the belligerents for the purchase of provisions and other purposes of war, and Austria bas appointed Belmont her agent to procure gold and silver in the United States. Belmont, who isa native of Frankfort, in Gorwany, was many years Consul General for: Austria in this country, and she now relies on him to get her the needful in her trying emer- geney. She commenced war without a silver or gold coin in her chest, or even without good | capable of satisfactory explanation. This move- ¢ in Europe, but that a large quantity | credit. But everybody knows that money is : “the sinews of war’’—that fact has grown into a | familiar proverb; and all who have had any ex- perience in commanding armies, or those who have read the minute histories of campaigns, necd not be told that without abundance of specie war cannot.be carried on, and that some, of the greatest eulerpriscs have been defeated for want of it. This explains the fact of Psion the recognized agent of the Rothschilds, aud the secret agent of Austria, reducing the price of his paper, in order to procure all the specie he can for his employers, We learn that thred quarters of a million of speoie go by the mai steamer from Boston to Liverpool this day} i and that more than half a million of i has Leen sent by Belmont. litile Qoubt that it is for the Austrian gov? ernment. The result of this war will, per haps, depend as much on ready money—no mere paper, but hard cash, silver and gold—a: en the skill of the generals, the valor of thy troops, or the superiority of the weapons, “Th precious metals,’ therefore, will now becom) precious in an eminent degree to the Europea Powers engaged in deadly conflict on the plaia of Italy. Tue Crey I onsutr DECLARED Vacant— Covr p’ Erar or rue Mavor.—The long pendin controversy about the City Inspectorship, whic) office Mr. Morton assumed to hold illegally sin the first of January, took a new and decide phase yesterday. Mr. Morton, it will be remo bered, sued out a writ of mandamus agaiust tl Mayor to compel him to countersign the Comy_ troller’s warrants for salaries and expenses «| the office for the months of January and Febru: ry, which the Mayor had refused to do on th ground that he was not legally City Inspecto his term having expired on the 31st of Decembe 1858. In the Supreme Court yesterday Judy Allen refused the order for a mandamus, aud d. clared the oflice of City Inspector to be vacar according to the provisions of the charter, ax precisely upon the same grounds which we too in these columns months ago; namely, th: “upon the jast construction of the act of 185 Morton did not continue in office after the $lst / December, 1858. 1. By the repeal of the a under which he took office—which repeal toc full effect upon his office on the day named—b authority as City Inspector wholly ceased. | There is no provision of law in force authorizir him, expressly -or by implication, to continue perform the duties of the office after that d 3. His time of office is expressly limited by 1 act of 1857 to the time for which ke was clecte which expired on that day.” Thus has the Supreme Court endorsed o views, set forth at the origia of the controver: and decided the matter, we trust, finally. / Upon this decision being promulgated, May Tiemann and the Compiro! cr promptly took fi possession of the City Inspector's office aud : the property therein, placing a police force charge. This coup d'état of his Honor b brought the operations of the City Inspectorst to a stand for the present, and facilitates the s tlement of the difficulty. It is not certain, however, whether the May, can appoint a new incumbent to the office, w may legally perform its duties until he is cc firmed by the Board of Aldermen, in which st: of the cage we are still at the mercy of that c rupt and trickstering body. In any event | advise the public not to be lulled into secur) with regard to the desperate condition of streets, or to suppose that this turn of affair! any guarantee against pestilence arising th from. Under the best of circumstances our put functionaries are not to be trusted in the matter Cleanliness, either morally or physically. Thov it is proverbial that a new broom sweeps cl the proverb may not hold good with a new Inspector. ‘ Tur War axp Our MERCHANT Marty Samors 1x Demanp.—The determination on part of England to strengthen her navy ai preparation for any contingency which erise out of the European war must greatly feet the efficiency of her merchant service, wl n view of her neutrality will be in muchdem) ov the coriying trade of the Mediterrancan } Baltic seas and the Channel, Alcerdiy: the eff) of the increased bounty offered by the Qu for seamen, from a nominal sum to.the temp! one of icn pounds sterling, is ft in Engl Merchant ecamen are flocking bo. the docky: in hundreds, offering their services 40 the nj and the London Times predicts that some — thonsand seamen, now working the merc!) ships afloat in the Channo}, will, as they asziy the different ports, avedl themselves of the creased bounty money od join the navy.) this event, which looks quite likely to oF how is {he meroaant marine of England mor.ned, and what eflect will it have upou ‘merchant service of this country? aa rg: sba Wal glove & pividapen coe, W There can by |