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HROOLEY’S MIVETRELS, 414 Broadway.—Sunsesqves, Bons, Dances. dc —Neceo Jupuss TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, May 27, 1859. The News. The Asia, from.Liverpool 14th inst., reached this port yesterday morning, with news from Europe two days later than that received by the City of Baltimore. Cotton was freely offered for sale in Liverpool at the advance of about one-eighth of a penny per pound on current qualities. Breadstuffs were firm “at an advance of sixpence per cental on flour. Pro- visions were in better demand. Consols rated in London at noon on the 14th at 914 91g for account, and 91f a 9H for money. The return of the Bank of England exhibits a de- | ‘The Roard of Aldermen met yesterday, and the Committee on the City Inspectorship presented a report relative to their course with respect to that We give the paper, together with other eedings of the Board, in our report published iu another column. ard of Councilmen met last evening, and disposing of a few unimportant papers, a re- port of the Committee on Streets in favor of con- curring to lay the Belgian pavement in State street from Whitehall to Battery place was adopted. The report of the same committee in favor of con. curring with the Aldermen in giving the contract eluy Broadway with the Belgian pavement to Waterbury was, after a lengthy debate, lost for want of a constitutional vote. Mr. Babcock affirmed that a person officially connected with the Board had offered him money to purchase his vote, which was not denied, although Messrs. Ottarson | and Lent affirmed that no attempt was made to bribe them. After the Board adjourned the reader, who was charged by Mr. Babcock to have offered | him a certain sum of money if he would vote for | the measure, seized him by the hair of his head, when they got into a souffle, but were promptly separated, The Life Underwriters’ Convention, which has been in session in the Astor House since Wednes, day, finished their business yesterday afternoon, and partook of a dinner in the evening. A con- densed report of the proceedings will be found in another column. The New Jersey Episcopal Convention met again yesterday, and balloted for a bishop in place of the late Dr. Doane, but effected no choice. There was another meeting of the Excise Com- missioners yesterday, but no business came before them. ‘They informed us, however, that many of the most respectable liquor dealers have sent in blank forms and applications for licenses, so that they are likely to have plenty of business on their hands before many days. The Sheriff has served summonses on several of those whosemames were placed in his hands as violators of the Excise law. The Commissioners intend to continue their ses- sions four times a week until fifty meetings have been held. The Councilmen’s Committee on Arts and Sciences held a meeting yesterday to hear par- ties interested in the leasing of Reservoir square, formerly the site of the Crystal Palace, to the Ameiican Institute. Messrs. Milhan and Banks, both of whom own property in the vicinity of the square, argued against leasing the ground to the American Institute, urging that it would be a greater advantage to up town property to have it leased to other parties for a market or something convenient aud useful, and that the American In- stitute have no greater claims on the city for favors than any other private company. No one appeared on behalf of the American Institute. Although the Asia’s news, received yesterday, was consicered to present many favorable pointe—such as the delay in actual collision between the belligerents, the de. claration of neutrality on the part of Eogland, the in- creased easiness inthe London money market, the ad- crease for the week of $820,535 in bullion. The demand for money was less pressing. No fighting had taken place in Italy. Napoleon had arrived in Genoa, and was received with an immense display of royal pomp and popular joy. He issued a very exciting address to his ar- my. The tactics of the Austrians were still shrouded in much mystery, but it was thought that they were the result of deep deliberation and would be mostly of a defensive nature. Prussia had published @ very important parliamentary pa- per defining her position, from which it would ap- pear as if that kingdom and the German Confede- ration would yet -play a conspicuous part in the war. England had officially proclaimed her neutra- lity, but the declaration must be sanctioned by the new Parliament in order to be permanent. Count Buol, of Austria, had retired from the Cabinet and ‘was succeeded by Count Rechberg. The Archduke John, of Austria, was dead. The Pope had notitied France of his neutrality in the war. Paris remained quiet. Joseph Sturge, the eminent English reformer and anti-corn law agitator, died on the 14th instant. By the arrival of the Moses Taylor we have de- tails of news from San Francisco to the 5th inst., and later intelligence from Central America, New Granada, the South Pacific and the Sandwich Islands. The letter of our San Francisco correspondent, published in another column, contains all the news of interest from that quarter. The specie list of the Moses Taylor footed up $1,938,699, which is the largest shipment since the 27th of December, 1457. This looks well for the diggings, and is the only true evidence we can have on this side of their conti- nued productiveness. We must refer to the complaint made in San Francisco of the overcrowding with passengers of the steamers on the Pacific side. We can hardly realise the inconvenience aud suf- fering which mus¢f@ke place on board a steamer, during a fourteen or fifieen days’ passage, where sixteen hundred human beings are huddied toge- ther, to say nothing of the frightful loss of lite which would inevitably follow if an accident should occur while this living freight was on board. We joinin the prayer of one thousand of the passengers of the John L. Stephens in her late trip from Panama to San Francisco, and sincerely hope that some steps may be taken on the part of the authorities to compel the Pacifie Mail Company to conform to the law which stipulates the number of passengers a vessel shall carry to every hundred tons burthen. The Moses Taylor brings a partial contirmation of the reported landing of Gen. Walker, the fili- buster chief, at Acapuico, Mexico, to join the liberal cause. He had landed at Acapulco, with his lieutenants, Anderson and Natzmer, but had no men with him, as was reported, and it was sup- posed when the Golden Gate left that he was on his way to the United States. We give elsewhere, for what they are worth, the conflicting rumors and surmises on the subject of his mysterious move- ments. The advices from Central America, New Granada ‘and the South Pacific States are exceedingly in- teresting, but we have space only to refer our readers f the letters of our correspondents, aud the extracts from newspapers, which are given in to-day'’s Hsnaup, for the particulars of the news. The Tennessee has arrived below New Orleans with news from the city from Vera Cruz to th inst. It is reported that | movement had been initiated at the capital in fa- | vor of the return of Santa Anna to power. | From the Sandwich Islands we learn that the King | had proposed a change in the constitution, demand- | ing the power of creating as many'nobies, to sit in | the upper house, as he pleased; a limitation and re- | duction of the number of elected members; aad that the ministers be chosen by them. The volea no at Mauna Loa was still active. The sea Spring whalers was nearly over, with about an av erage fair return, It was said that very little guano existed 6n French Frigate Shoal, lately taken pos- | Session of by Lieut. Brooke, United States Navy, ‘The French colony at Domingo, Marquesas I#lands bad left and gone to New Caledonia, We have Turks islands papers of the 30th ult. ‘The Standard says:—Our salt market has been un- usually dull the past week, only oue vessel at pre Bent loading for the United States. The weather hhas looked threatening, and a little rain has failen, but not enough to damage the salt that was ready forake. There has been nochange in price worthy of note. Accounts from Senegal to the 19th ult. have ar- rived in Paris. The French government had suc. ceeded in concluding a treaty with Amady Boukaz, elected chief of:the district of Toro, formerly a part of the great State of Fouta, but just separated from it, As the policy of the French is to dismem- ber Fouta, the treaty was considered of some im- portance, f Mexico to the 19th, and | present generation, vance in consols and the rally in shares—it did not exer- cige any material influence over the general markets, which were mostly without animation. Cotton dealers, although there had been a slight reaction in the Liverpool market of 1-16d. to 3d. om the previous advance of d., considered it a good sign, under the circumstances, that the depression was not greater. Although the importeof the week Md reached the extraordimary quantity of 245,000 bales, the sales of the week had embraced only 63,000, of which 2,900 were taken on speculation. The stock of American in Liverpool was 509,400 bales, against 405,600 in 1858, and 484,000 in 1856. Stock of all kinds was 688,200 bales, against 688,000 in 1856. The imports were 1,110,(00 bales, against 1,140,000 in 1856, The ex ports were somewhat greater than for the three previous years, while the amount taken for consumption was less, witn the exception of 1857. The amount of American at Ben was 237,000, against 243,000 at the same time in 1658; and from the East Indies 93,000, against 57,000 last year. The sales yesterday in this mar- ket were confined to about 200 a 300 bales, in lots, at unchanged prices. Flour opened heavy and dull, with timited sales, but closed with more steadiness. Southern common and mixed brands, with inside extras, were heavy and prices were rather easier. Wheat was dul) for low grades; among the sales were about 10,000 bushels good red winter Indiana at $1 75, with white Maryland at $190; 260 do. new Georgia, tho first of the season, was sold on private terms. Cora closed dull; prime Western mixed sold at 9lc.; at the close there were few or no buyers above 90c.; white Southern sold at 90c. @ 92c., and good to prime yellow at92c. a 94c. Pork was heavy and prices somewhat unsettled, while fair sales ‘were made at $17 40 a $17 60 for new mess; clear, $19 75; prime, $15 60, and a sale of prime was reported, buyer's option, sixty days, at $16. Beef was steady and lard firm. The sales of sugars embraced about 1,200 a 1,300 hhde. at rates given in another colamn. Coffee was more active; about 2,000 bags Rio were sold, at auction, at 103{c, 9123¢¢., average 11-26¢.; 2,666 do. do., per bark Johann Fioise, at 10%c., ex ship; the 2,200 bags Laguayra sold Wednesday brought 11 %c. 11%., and two lots of prime were sold yesterday at 120. a i2%¢c. Freight en gagements were moderate and quotations unchanged. The War in Italy—Its Objects und Prospec= uve Results, The news received by the Asia from the seat of war adds but little to the information which we previously possessed as to the movements of the belligerents, The Freach Emperor had arrived at Genoa, and had been enthusiastically received by the Piedmontese. He was to leave on the 14th in order to place himeelf at the head of the army, and had issued an order of the day, the terms of which are to be construed intoa confirmation of his pledge to secure the “ inde- pendence” of Italy. The Austrians were still mabwuvering cautiously. They were increasing their forces near castle San Giovanni, on the road from Piacenza to Stradella, and had also occupied Revergan on the river Trebbia. The Piedmontese troops had retaken their former position at Vercelli; but with this exception no ; advantage seems to have been gained on either side. Although it is attempted to give to this cam- paign a purely Italian character, it requires no great reflection to detect in it the antagoniam of principles which take a much wider scope. It will inaugurate, unless wegare much mistaken, great changes in the ideas‘and opinions of the Old convictions and preju- dices wili receive a shock from it from which it is questionable that they will ever recover. Already it would seem that the public mind of Europe is undergoing a process of mutation which brings it closer to the standard of American ideas. The practical necessities of mankind are at last ad- mitted to have a higher importance than the tradi- | tons of dynasties or hierarchies, But the most temarkable feature in this epoch of conversions is to find the despotic and constitutional goyern- ments changing places, the one advocating pro- gress and the other using their most strenuous “efforts to arrest it. The contest between France and Austria Is not a struggle to be settled by the concession of the reforms demanded by the Italian people. Its immediate consequences may be limited to that result, but it will give birth to doctrines and precedents the effect of which will outlive the men who take part in it. Probably not one of them has a definite idea of the extent to which the motives by which he is animated, be they philanthropic or personal, will carry him. They have set the ball of revolution in motion—not revolution in the vulgar sense, be it understood, but that more sweeping change which embraces the whole human mind in its operation, and they will probably endeavor to check it at the point NEW YORK which sults their own interests, It will, how- ever, be as useless for them to attempt to place a limit to its movements as it was for Europe to oppose a barrier to the ideas generated by the first French revolution, The unaccomplished work of that great re- formatory effort will be advanced some stages by the present war. The struggle is, as we have stated, not against Austrian oppression merely, but against the reactionary tendencies of which it is the result. A similar degree of se- verity exercised by @ monarch like the French Emperor, who derives his authority from the people, and who glories in the fact, would not excite a tithe of the odium. Why is thi Because the House of Hapsburg, true to the traditions of its race, and, like the Bourbons incapable of profiting by the lessons of experi. ence, treats its subjects with a haughtiness and insolence which is continually aggravating old and arousing fresh resentments. We believe, however, that there iss good deal of exagyer- ation in the statements made as to the grinding character of the Austrian system of government in Lombardy. Apart from the necessities of its military precautions, it will probably be found that it has done more to develope the resources of that noble province than the French or per- hape any other European system than that of England would have done. It is, therefore, more by the tone and manner than by the actual rigor of its measures that it has kept alive such an intense spirit of disaffection in its Italian pos- sessions, This unconciliatory habit was well de- scribed by the admission of an Austrian diplo- matist, “ Notre gouvernement n’est pas sévére mais il est desobligeant.” The Austrian government is one of the few despotisms which still persists in igndring the existence of its people. It rules by itself, through itself and for itself. Its egotiem consti- tutes a living danger to every government which is dependent upon the nice adjustment of the continental equilibrium for protection. An enemy to reform in every shape, whether reli- gious, eocial or political, it is continually evoking the slumbering elements of revolution and endangering the peace of Europe by the irri- tating character of its repressive measures. The war against Austria is therefore essentially a war of progress, the stationary tendencies and narrow political dogmas of the Middle Ages representing the actual condition of that Power; whilst in Louis Napoleon, holding his authority direct from the people and proclaiming the Tights of oppressed nationalities, we have, if not the most perfect representative, at least the most efficient one that can be found of the progressive impulse which has seized hold of the European mind. In religion there is an antagonism of principles as important and almost as pressing depending for decision on the fate of the present contest. Francis Joseph isan enemy te all the reforms which can give the Pontificate strength, whilst Louis Napoleon belongs to that more en- lightened section of the Catholic church which would gladly limit the temporal attributes of the Pope, and deprive him of the power of bringing odium upon its institutions by the imbecility of his civil administration. The aid which Austria has received from the convents for the prosecution of the war is a signifi- cant evidence of her retrogressive tendencies in religious matters. The price that will have to be paid for this assistance will be severer restric- tions upon popular rights and upon liberty of conscience. Should Austria be successful in driting the French out of Italy, it is no stretch of the imagination to anticipate that the ecclesi- asticfl abuses which have reduced the peo- ple of the Roman States and Naples to their present miserable condition will be aggravated tenfold. Whatever, therefore, may be the conclusions formed as to Louis Napoleon’s motives in prose- cuting this war, every friend of humanity is bound to give bim his good wishes. The Empe- ror may care less for the liberties of Italy, less for reforms in the Roman church, than for the extension of his own interests; but what of that? In pushing the one he is forwarding the other. In unfurling the flag of Italian indepen- dence he gives to the world pledges to falsify which would be to bring abont his ownruin. But, be be true or false, the work upon which he is engaged will survive long after he is laid in the tomb, Itis not of his conception or origination, and can neither be arrested nor desiroyed by his faithlessness, He is, in fact, only an instrament of that great echeme of political regeneration which had its birth in the French revolution, its baptism in ’48, and its solemn confirmation in his own appeal to the oppressed nationalities of Europe. May he fulfil conscientiously the mis- sion which he has undertaken, and render his memory as respected as his abilities are appre- ciated. To the world his disinterestedness is, after all, but of little moment. The principles which he has stamped with the authority of his name are henceforth inevitable axioms in Euro- pean policy, and whoever may be the instrument selected to enforce them, they can never again be ignored by Kings or Congresses. Tue Street Jops—Tue SrEcuLATORS AND Cornvurt Orriciars.—The universal corruption of the politicians of all parties in this city—poli- ticians of Tammany, of the black republican faction and of the Know Nothings, for they are all alike—has brought the government toa depth of degradation which no other city in the world, perhaps, can show. Ten or fifteen years ago, when we were only taxed three millions a year, we had a better, more honest and more efficient government than now, when the taxes are swelled to ten millions, Among the many causes of this state of things the principal one is the grasping avaricionsness of speculators, like George Law and others, who have devoted them- selves, for the sake of making money, to all kinds of jobs, particularly opening streets up town where they are not wanted; widening streets down town, such as Nassau; Duane, and others, which is equally unnecessary; devising such schemes as enlarging the Battery, and 90 forth. In furtherance of these objects they have £0 cor- rupted the politicians of all partics that our city officials have become a gang of the verlest ras- cals in creation, The inutility, the mischief, and the nuisance of all these atreet operations have been proved by us long ago; for we have shown that business is moving up the island, and there- fore there is no necessity for widening streete down town; nor for entarging the Battery, be- canse commerce, so far from increasing in that vicinity, has been moving away from there for some years past, and however the job may damage the harbor, it cannot improve the city; hor for opening new strects in the upper end of the island, because the property owners and residents there do not require them, and they know their own wants best. _.The Henan is, perhaps, the only journal which bas persistently opposed these schemes and expoeed the fraud and corruption lurking under them. The penny papers have been always no- toriously bought up to support them. We have demonstrated over and over again that the sole | object of getting up these outrageous jobs was to put money into the pockets of a few specula- tors, and we repeat that it is to these fellows, more than anything else, we owe the shameless cor- ruption which exists to-day in almost every de- partment of the municipal government, and the oppressive taxation which is crushing all classes of our citizens, And this thing will contirue to go on until the taxpayers adopt some measures to rid the city of the-incubus which dishonest poli- ticians—by whatever party name they may call themselves—have laid upon it. The Neutrality of England and Germany— ‘The Course of Policy in the War. The intelligence received by the steamship Asia defines more clearly than has hitherto been defined the positions that England and Ger- mauy are likely to hold during the present con- test. The Queen of England has issued her pro- clamation of neutrality, and it is certainly one that jumpe with the ideas of the Euglish people. The England of to-day is widely different from the England of two generations ago. George IE, aided by the genius of Pitt.and the subser- viency of a thoroughly corrupt Parliament, was able, for a long series of years, and in direct op- position with the popular desire, to expend all the energies of the British people in combatting and destroying the spirit of order and reform, which, springing from the first French revolu- tion, threatened, at the beginning of the present century, to overturn the feudal and dynastic pri- vileges of Europe. After an intense struggle, and shouldering the British nation with an in- crease of twenty-five hundred millions of dollars ‘of national debt, he succeeded in staying for a time the strides of the new born spirit of the age. Since then the interests of England have become popularized, her policy has become humanized, and her power has become equalized with that of other nations. The interests of the aristocratic classes and the dynasty are now overshadowed by those of industry and trade. King and lords hold their old places in the political scheme of the nation, but the Commons are now something more than machines to vote supplies and to be bought up atso much the head by ministerial gold. She can no longer claim to be the mis tress of the seas, or the arbiter of coalitions’ and dictator of policy. To-day, as.a Power, she is only a peer among peers. Forced by the de- velopement of other nations to abandon the ar- rogant claims which a long series of sacrifices and of victories enabled her to assert fifty years ago, she has materially softened her foreign policy. At the same time, the growth of her home interests has changed that of domestic parties, Though the tories are to-day in power, through the divisions existing in the liberal ranks, their views are widely different from those of the tories of old. Although the , recent elec- tions have given them a small gain, enough has transpired to show that in the next Parliament the liberal element will surpass them by at least one hundred votes. From this it is evident that, should the Coburg interest succeed in getting the present ministry to affiliate with Austria in the struggle against France, even this would not suffice to carry England into the war. Her great Popular interests are too deeply grounded in peace to permit that. On the other hand, the great interests of France lie in not provoking a renewal of the struggle against the first Empire, and England’s rights asa neutral will be zeal- ously respected by her. The policy of the German Confederation is guided by different interests, but they tend to the same peace-preserving end. A series of ex- tracts, which we reprint elsewhere to-day, com- pletely elucidates this point. From these it will be perceived that the Protestant States of Ger- many refuse to be drawn into the Austrian scheme of defending its possessions in Italy and the pretensions of the Romish church. They cling to the federative compact, which expressly stipulates that the members of the Confederation shall not be called upon to aid in any aggressive war carried on by one of the confederates, nor in any war defensive of possessions outside of the Confederation. The proceedings of the Commission of the Federal Diet, now in session at Berlin, are in complete unison with these intentions. The loan and means for raising money asked for by the government were unanimously veted, and the sentiment of German nationality was ex- pressed by all, But Prussia could see no reason for giving armed assistance to Austria, even if the war in Italy should degenerate into revolu- tionary movements, and she at once protested against the proposition of Hanover, that a corps of observation should be placed on the Upper Rhine. It is said that all the speakers wore anti-Napoleonic. But this proves nothing. The members of the Diet, as at present consti- tuted, do not represent the popular sentiment or the intellectual tendencies of Germany. They are the representatives of the numerous petty sovercignties and principalities that now divide and dilute the German nationality. Their action is to a certain degree governed by the German popular sentiment, for they well know the dan- ger of opposing it and taking arms in behalf of the feudal privileges of church and State. There- fore they talk against Napoleon, while they pursue the neutral course which he desires them to pursue. Here, too, the highest in- terests of France will no doubt govern her course. Not desiring to give to Austria the effective aid of the German Confederation against her, she will avoid attacking any por- tion of the true German territory. Ausiria, some weeks since, had appealed to the German Diet for countenance and aid; but Prussia, on the other hand, has declared that she will maintain her neutrality, and will not be drawn into a war by the preponderating vote of Austria against a plurality of the minor Powers. Between Aus- tria and Prussia there exists an autipathy as strong as that which so long existed between England and France, while the Jealousy between the House of Brandenburg and that of Hapsburg is even stronger than the national antipathy. Each aspires to direct the policy of the German Confederation, of which both are members, and Prussia would gladig see the power of Austria diminished by the loss of her Italian possessions, and Germany is disposed to leave the initiative of her policy to Prussia, as she will have the beaviest burden to support in the common defence. Under these circumstances Louis Napoleon has it in his own power, by respecting the rights of England and of Germany, to enable them to fol- low the dictates of their respective domestic in- terests and to stand aloof from the war. That he will do this there gan hardly be a doubt, Bis HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. own interests demand it, and all his words thus fur have proclaimed it. He docs pot wish to carry the war beyond the confines of Italy, yet be well knows that the establishment of a new order of things in Italy will be the initiation of @ new order of things in Germany, and eventual- Jy in the whole of Europe. Political Changes and the Fall of Bankers— Monetary Effects of tne War in Kurope. One of our cotemporaries, whose great gud is the nigger, whose philosophy is the nigger, whose politics is the nigger, whose humanity is the nigger, and whose finance is the nigger, pickg a brick out of ene of our recent articles, and ea- deavors to handle it, though in a very curious and awkward way. It tells us it “would be much ebliged” if we would mention one out of the hundreds of claim- | ants upon our government for remuneration for disasters arising out of our Revolutionary | fivances. We are always ready to oblige our | ismatic cotemporary in the way of informatioa. On many former occasions we have done the | same thing. We have “obliged” it with infor- | mation in numerous instazces in politics, phi- losopby, legislation, law, finance, economical science, social relations, and numberless other | things that go to make up the sum of life. We are willing todo the same in the present in- stance. It is true, that most of the claimants have gone down in poverty to the grave, but some of them still live. Mr. Salomons for the last twenty years has been vainly petitioning true, but they show, in any event, the popularly of the prima donna, She has gained, at avy rav, good solid applause, which isto the artist ae breath of life. She is now aboat to leave 1; apd, a8 she issued @ Napoleonic bulletin atshe commencement of her last campaign, we shald not be surprised if she made another address-a furewell—in English, to ber numerous cops darmée of admirers and sdherenta, Mile. Pico lomini is, like the Petit Corporal, an Italian ; be is the Napoleonne of the Opera, and she issuesher proclamations to the army of the Academy im the same style as tbat used by the French dm- peror to the army of ltaly. Her adherents are certainly as enthusiastic and as devoted as hs. In the artistic way we shall have many new recruits next season. Already the musical agents are writing from Paris to the effect that nearly all the best artists now on the Continent are anxious to come to America. The chief cause of this sudden attachment to republican’ nstitutions is the war, which will send all the singers away from Germany and Italy; but it is. likewise true that the artists find an Aumrican trip of great advantage to them in every way. Altogether, the next season promises to be a very . brilliant one in every way. ‘What W1-1 Become of the Pope? According to the news from Europe by the Asia the Pope had eent a circular to the bishops to pray for peace, and @ message to the two bel- ligerent Emperors that be intended to maintain strict neutrality between them. By a formor arri- Congress for the payment of half a millien or thereabouts of dollars, which his grandfather loaned to our grandfathers during the struggle of the Revolutionary era, not one cent of which has ever been repaid or funded in any way, ex- cept in the Revolutionary breeches pocket, But our cotemp does not attack the great principle which we &dvanced, and which we threw out as a warning to our merchants and commercial interegts generally, that truth cannot be overturned. Some may be dis” posed to doubt it; for, as a general thing, experience of the present and the last generation of merchants comprises only revulaions that have sprang from purely commercial causes. The financial disssters of 1817, 1825, 1837 and istence, and for a time led 80 bravely. Bat it 1857 arose from the reactive force of preceding commercial expansions, speculations and over- | hands of the French troops, who have been i trading. They grew out of the exaggeration of natural and legitimate elements in trade; of of 1848-9, pushing the expansive power of commerce to its utmost extreme. The financial ruin that follows war, and great changes in political systems and governments, is ofa different character. It is destruction that | t9 knows no recuperation. Egypt, Palmyra, Greece, Carthage, Rome, Venice, Genoa and Holland all had their respective great financial interests and bankers, their bankers have long since disappeared, al- though in most of them their millions of people have continued to exist and labor from tha‘ day to this, War was the element and the cause of their decay. In its course it is not like the healthy reaction of excessive commercial expan- sions. When the latter works, nothing is really lost. The great public works which it may have created, the ships it has built, the products of in- dustry it has called into existence, and maa him- self, all remain for the use or for the enjoyment bec ofman. They only change their position in the relations of values. But with war it is different. There, millions of men are arrayed against each other. The material elements of wealth and power are consumed or destroyed. Producers and products alike disappear and are known no more. The complicated political and financial scheme within which they revolved is broken up, and the control of the wealth, and through it the power of the world, passes to other combina- tions and to other hands, Such, in a greater or leas degree, must be the result, of the present contest in Europe. In con- sequence of the disparity of forces and resources between the two Powers, Austria may, and pro- bably will, suffer ina greater degree than her antagonist. Her entire political and financial scheme will crumble, and mustbe changed. But France, too, must suffer greatly. Two millions of men and many millions of capital cannot be withdrawn from the arena of industry, ing to stimulate production and exchange, en- gage in the work of mutual destruction, inflicting great injury upon the material and power of each nation. Principles conducive to future social developement may be sustained and the interests of posterity advanced. But the existing wealth of the world must pass to the hands of those who maintain themselves free from the contest and its sacrifices, and who con- tinue to protect the productive power of indus- try and trade. This is the position that it be- hooves the United States and England to take. Together, they may maintain the immunity of the seas to commerce, and thus preserve the life- giving elements of their own industry. While they hold it, upon them, and power always follows in its train. The present war in Europe will certainly bring the ruin of the political syetem and of the financial agents of one of the parties, and in all probability a state of exhaustion to those of the other. Tu Season, Mergonoroarcat, Aaricurrunat, | #28tional salute from the forts aud the ships Fasutonanie aNp Orrnatic—We may all con- | Wr; followed up by the incessant roar of Capt gratulate each other upon the brilliant opening | Rynder’s big gun; there would be a g of the season of flowers and fruits and birds, | military and civic procession, with the ccrulean ekies, balmy atmosphere, and all of | tegiment for escort, a banquet from the q nature’s bounteous gifts. After au open winter, we had, for this climate, a most agreeable com- mencement of spring. The last days of April | With the Catholics and cach other in giv} were delicious, and May opened gloriously. With the religious anniversaries came, of course, | Cuted of the carth—for that the Pope is just rain, but the temperature was mild and warm— | 8” object of suffering and persecution who the weather was good for the farmer and the | doubt? florist and the horticulturist. Good growing | , This is the most Catholic country in weather it was and is. Just now we breathe the | world, for though there are only two mill air of mid-summer, and every budding thing is at least a month ahead of the almanac. We are prosperous, too. The Broadway skop- | Catholics in the world are bred, and thera} keepers find plenty of customers for their most | here universal freedom of religion, and the § costly and beautiful merchandise; the fashiona- | ‘estant holds no higher position than the Rom ble thoroughfares swarm with promenaders from | ist. It is the only country in the world wh all nations in Christendom and a good namber of | the Roman religion is perfectly free, for in th heathen lands; the ¢rottoir glows with bril- | countries of Europe called Catholic, the desi liant equipages and is gay with the fair | who establish and patronise it exact are | return more than an equivalent, crowded with fashionable emigrants, who | Catholicism is injured in a greater degree th vp an American army of | isserved. Here it would be as free as the observation in Italy. The leading places of | and untramelled by any connection with K! public amusement are thronged nightly. The | or Emperors, or States. And the Pope him opera /abitués have just had a grand sensation in | and the Catholic religion would thrive all # new work in which Mile. Piccolomini has made | better by thus abandoning the temporal s occupants; the European steamers will make one of her greatest triumphs. We hear of costly gifls made to her; a charming cquipage, fast | As the object of sovereignty can no longe horses, &c.; &¢. The storics may or may not be © secured, the empty title ought to be thror “the finan-| Cstholics on both sides of the Atluatic are cial agents of every government rise aud pros | troubled about his uncomfortable and even perii- per, or decay and full, with the advancing or re- | ou. condition. There are rumors of bis intende ceding system which they uphold.” This great | 4; ght, the | fyotman, to Gueta, taking shelter in that islao and each in its turn And, ruled the moneyed world. But their rule and | y and, ceas- | arch, is dominant, and the Roman regarded) without | Crescent triumphant over the Cross, and to Wealth | nees the abominations of the harem. wealth will continue to pour in | 1, ‘America, val we learn that Austria had commenced a con- fiscation of church property for war purposes, Between the‘two warriors the peace-loving Pope is confounded, and knows not what to do, for the chances tbat the prayers of the church for peace will be answered by Heaven appear very small There is a good deal of speculation as to what is likely to become of Pius 1X. amidst the clash arms and tbe horrors of war; and mauy piou and it is supposed that he would fly if he could, as he fied in 1848, in the disguise of under the wing of the tyrant of Naples, whea he was affrighted at the progresa of the populag movement which himself had called into ex: affirmed that he is virtually a prisoner in th occupation of Rome ever since the Revoluti and that Louis Napoleon will not pa mit him to leave the Eternal City, lest whea from his power he should declare against Fra and in favor of Austria. It is stated that the Spanish government wat take him under their protection, and give h & refoge in the Balearic Isles. But he would b fact, he would be more a prisoner than at Rom in truth, it is hard to say in what part Jurope just now he could enjoy freedom of tion, or peace or rest. He cannot go to th Neapolitan government, ashe did in 1848, there is every probability that revolution soon break out there, and that the Italian will extend from the north to the south of th Peninsula, The Bourbon is no longer able protect him: He cannot go to Austria, which treating him so ehabbily, already giving him foretaste’of what it may do if its arms shou prove victorious. Besides, ere long the war ms arried into the heart of Austria, even to tl very walls of Vienna, where the First Napoleq carried it. By fleeing to Austria, moreover, Pope would turn Napoleon and France ag him, and all the other Powers would feel jealo at the preponderance of influence thus given the House of Hapsburg. The Protestant Gert Principalities, too, would revolt from Austria order to avoid contamination with “Anti chris *gainet whom their Luther battled so heroicalll He cannot go to France lest Austria shou become his enemy, and in France he would as much the vassal of Napoleon IIL as Pius V! wag" of Napoleon I. Spain, continually revolution and anarchy, so far from being au to protect him, cannot protect herself. He c not go to bigoted England, where Protest ascendancy is established in Church and Stat he cannot go to Sweden, where the Catholic ligion is not even tolerated; he cannot go Russia, where the Greek religion, with its pad heresy ; he cannot go to Turkey to behold q There is no nation, therefore, in Europe which he can with safety, propriety and digo flee for refuge. Like the dove let out of No ark, there would be no rest for the sole of foot. He cannot stay where he is, for is all around him—a war that may last years, It is manifest he would gladly esc! if he only knew where to turn. Now, we tell’ the Holy Father where he can find refu| and we do so in the name of the constitu of the United States, and of its free hospitable people. Let him come , and take up his abode in island of Manhattan, with Archbishop Hugi who, we trust, will get a cardinal’s red cap the auspicious occasion. Never did any celeb meet with such areception here as would sure to greet him. The honors paid to Koa would be cast into the shade. There would poration, illuminations and a grand disp of fireworks. Every Protestant sect would him a welcome to this asylum of all the pel of Catholics in it, their numbers are bd continually swelled from Ireland, where the reignty and wielding the spiritual sceptre