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Our epecial despatch from Richmond, Va., states that a vote was taken in the Episcopal Honse of Rishops on Friday last on the question of the restoration of Bishop Onderdonk, and that eight votes were cast in favor of and twenty-five against his restoration. The question on the Bishop’s res- toration should he resign his jurisdiction had not been decided yesterday. In the Supreme Court, general term, yesterday, Judge Roosevelt rendered a decision denying the mnction for a new trial in the case of Sanchez, con. wicted of the murder of his father-in-law in January Inst. The opinion of the Judge is givem in fall in ancther colnmn. The City of Manchester sailed from this port yes- terday for Liverpool, with 120 passengers. The ‘Teutonia sailed yesterday for Southampton, Havre aod Hamborg, with 132 passengers and $750,000 ia Bpecie. By the bark Teresa, from Venezuela, we have ‘sdvices confirming the news, already published in the Hexatp, relative to the capture of Laguayra by the government troops. The revolationists ‘were being driven from one point of the country to the other, and wherever they can be brought to a Btand they are attacked and defeated. Their proa- pecis are now gloomy and desperate inthe ex, ireme, The government bad seized an immense number of prisoners, and, in short, the banners of he constitutional party were being borne triam- phantly throughout the country. The revenue steamer Harriet Lane arrived at her anchorage off the Battery yesterday, after her -vitaperation and: falschood, which ‘@isappotat-! NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1859. The Great Antl-Rowdy Movement of the New York Demorracy, ‘Tho character of the meeting which was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on Thuesday eve- ning last, proves that the gentlomen who have organized themselves intoan independent conservative association, for the purpose of purifying the democratic party, sre thoroughly in earnest in what they have undertaken. It will, in future, be impossible for cither tho Tammany monopoly clique, or the equally oor- rupt Mozart Tall set, who lef-Taimmany be- cause they were ont-generalled there, to hum- bug reputable democrats into recognizing thelr clalma to being considered the exponcats of the views and principles of democracy. From the present time forward, not 6 farthing wilt bo expended by the, hitherto, paying portion ofthe party, excopting in @ lexitimate and pro- per manner, in support of g01 men, and in urtherance of high and exal d p ‘hile objects. The leaders of the reform which ka been ini- tiated, have held personal aod e; etelsry com- munication with the most promineat democrats of integrity in the interior of the State, and hese ‘latter havo “signified ‘thetr emphatic ap-: proval of what: is ‘contemplated, aheir do termination te‘sepport with firnraesy Abe anti-, Sctrard; anti-rowdy action which hrs be- come: #0 -essentially; necessary. The. Tam-,] many corriptiouiatesend forth thehhowls-and hisses, in eveey vonceivable. siapo:#t-Slnnder, meat and prospective defeat can dictate, but these will be met by the’ silent contempt they merii. * The fourth resolution which was passed, on } motion of Mr. S. L. M. Barlow «at the Fifth Avenue Hotel meeting, reads as follows:— j Resolved, That twenty-five gentismert be appointed by | the members of the committee who called this meeting, to confor with our fellow democrats for the purpose of se curing the solection of candidates for office who shall be volitied by their reputation and standing ia the communi ty, as capable and honest men and democrats, to receive the cordial support of the whole party, and of all thoge who believe in the necessity of acareful and wise admi. nistration of our elty fluances. This is a recognition of the claim of every honest democrat to be considered and appre- ciated. It is the wise exclusion of*mere moneyed influence, as antagonistic to worth'in other respects. It is, in itself, an answer to every past, present or future accusation of up- per tendomism on the part of the intelligent, active, upright citizeris who have resolved, in spite of every obstacle, to achieve the patriotic ends they have in view. Hence it is that more inconsiderable organizations, in different wards, have given in their adhesion to the objects of the greater uprising; and, although their mem- bers are mostly mechanics, merchants’ clerks, workmen in shipyards, foundries and manu- factories, and laborers who are “worthy of their hire,” each one of them feglg that he is an American, that he has sn interest at stake in the city, State and Union, and that the tyranny of a paltry rowdy minority over the.4. vast mass of right minded men in the commu- nity is no longer to be borne. — We have been made cognizant of the formation of no less than five of these minor and local associations, on a pure basis, in opposition to Tammany and Mo- zart Hall atrocity and the shoulder-hitting ré- gine of the last few years. We believe that they willeach and all succeed; we wish them well, and do not question but, when the right time shal! have arrived, they will act in subor- dination to, and in the spirit of the central rally- ing of intelligence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The plan of action, which we ungerstand it is the Intention of the present Executive Com- mittee of the Democratic Reform Association cruise in search of the Quaker City. The Harriet Lane asiled over the exact locality where the dis- abled steamer was found, and if it had not been for the timely aid of the State of Georgia, Captain Faunce would certainly have fallen in with the ob- ject of his search. We understand that it is the intention of the owners of the Quaker City to have her repaired at Baltimore, rather than run the risk of Laving her conveyed to Philadelphia. We are informed on good authority that the re- ported case of the Allaire Company against the Galway Steamship Company, in which it appears that Mr. Greeley, of the Tribune, is interested as a defendant, in no way relates to the present Atlan- tic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, of which the American Express Company are the agents, and which, under the able management of Alex. Holland, Esq., has thus far enjoyed entire ex emption from any difficulties of the nature al luded to. A Galway paper states that two of the new mail steamships for the Irish transatlantic line are so far advanced that the sheeting of them has commenced acd is rapidly progressing. The others are in frame and also advancing rapidly to completion, and will doubtless be enrolled for active service on the Ist of June next, the time required by the government contract. Instalments to the amount of $700,000 have already been paid to the builders by the company. The celebrated trotter Flora Temple trotted for a purse of $2,000 at Kalamazoo yestesday, ‘nd won the money. The time was 2:32}, 2:22}, 2:193, the last mile being trotted quicker by one second and three-quarters than ever a mile ‘was trotted before. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday to fill the vacancies in the Board of Registrars. There Bre 609 registrars in the city, of whom 88 only are republicans. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. A re- port relative to the dilapidated condition of the pavements, aud 8 resolution appropriating $20,000 for the repairs of streets aud pavements, were pre- sented and carried. Somo unimportant business ‘with reforence to arrangements for the coming election was transacted. A special meeting of the Board of Councilmen ‘was hold yesterday afternoon by order of President Cornell, for the purpose of concurring with the ‘Aldermen in fixing the places for holding tho clec. tion polls throughout the city. A list of the places was read, most of which were agreed upon, but in ome instances the Councilmen objected to the localitics selected by the Aldermen. In all proba- bility, however, a satisfactory arrangement will be made before the hour of meeting to-morrow eve- ping. Before adjourning an effort was made to ‘override the Mayor's veto to a series of revolutions apnulling the lease of the Peck slip and Grand street ferries to Meserole & Co., but it proved un™ successful. ‘Tho sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales at unchanged prices. The stock was moderate, and the range of assortments adapted to tho wants of spinners was restricted. Flour was more active, and common grades of State and Western advanced about 10c. por bbl, whilo good to prime extras were unchanged. Southern brands were also firmer, Wheat. was firmly held, while sales wero limited, including Kentucky white at $1 45, Michigan white at $1 4234,red Southern and Texas at $1 20 and No. 1 Milwaukee club at $1 07. Corn was steady, while Bales of Western mixed and yellow wero made at $1 por bushel. Pork opened.-heavy and lower, but closed with some better inquiry. Sales of moss were made at $15 15 8 $15 26, clear do. at $17 26 and prime at $10 65a $10 ‘75. Sugars were unchanged, while sales were limited to ome 200 bhds. at steady prices. Coffee was quict, pond Jog a public sale to come off next week. Freight engage- menta were limited. Among the engagements were 2,500 Lois. flour to Liverpool at 1a. 7344. a 18. 9., and 600 boxes Cheese, in sailing vessel, at 262. to propose, must meet the approbation of every good man, to whatever political party he may belong. A permanent Central Committee of twenty-five gentlemen—one from each of the wards of New York city, and three from Brook- lyn—will form the nucleus of the future organi- zation. Each of these twenty-five, will submit, from his own ward, four other persons, to the consideration of the new commit- tee, to constitute, when definitely deci- ded upon, local ward boards of arrange- ment. There will thus be, practically, a Gene ral Committee, distributed through the city, consisting of one hundred and twenty-five members, each division of which will report: from time to time, to the Central Committee, with which they will consult and co-operate. This will be done with facility, as every mem- ber of the Central Committee will, of course, be also a member of the committee in his own ward. In reporting their views to the next meeting, the present committee, of which Mr. Watts Sherman is the able chairman, will recommend that an office be opened in a convenient part of the city, to which all who wish to subscribe to the conditions of the association may have access. Two persons will probably be em- ployed, one asa secretary, to do all of the clerical work which may be necessary, anda second whom it will require care to select, and who should be a man of high integrity and not destitute of legal qualifications. It will be the duty of this latter te keep a complaint book, more especially for the benefit of city tax- payers, and to investigate, with the aid of such counsel as shall be retained by the association, every apparent case of fraudu- lent contract, bargaining in the Common Council, venal jobbing or other rascality, by which, frequently with the con- nivance of high officials in the metropolis, pro- perty holders of the city are plundered, and fortunes amassed by mere political swindlers. Where fraud, bribery, extortion, false estimates and public robbery shall have been clearly proved, the Executive Committee will publish a full report of every detail of the affair in the papers of the city, and will personally assume the responsibility of so doing. It is proper to remark that the invitations to attend the meeting on Thursday evening last, were, unfortunately, fewer than had been in- tended. The gentlemen who directed them were guided, mainly, by the list of paying de- mocrats which had appeared in the Henan, adding such other democrats as they had rea- fon to believe sympathized in the Reform movement. Scores were, however, uninten- tionally omitted, who have since complained of the neglect, and who are determined to lend aid with head, heart and purse, to this right- eous cause. With the assistance of such demo- crats as the following and a multitude more, energetically resolved to defeat Sewardism, and not to abet the corrupt practices of Tam- many and Mozart Halls in their monopoly sy+ tems of bad nominations, and vagabond, Black- well’s Island practices, a bright day may yet dawn in the politics of this city:-— Royal Phelps, James T. Brady, Watta Sherman, August Belmont, famuel J. Tilden, John J. Cisco, J.T. Souter, Willian, Butlor Duncan, Georte E. Ratdwit, Colonel Leo, 7 Joby H. Brower, pe’ Sane, F. Butterworth, George J, Korrent, Joshua Maney, Eeuator Coctoy,” Mobuylor Liviagaton, Teotiert J. Dillon, Mones Taylor, Charlee Seour, Charles Lamont, ST, M. Marlow Janeo B, Nicholson, Benjamin H. Field, min Whitlock, Tones Davis, BS Brower, Gerard Hatieck, inton, Gharion ¥ “thd S. Jervis, William B. Clerko, § ° David Ogden, T. Bailey Myre, KEK , Nobert Tt. Winslow, John A. Dix, Robert T. Woodened, Witson G. Hunt, 4. W. Culbert, Oliver Slate, Jacob A. Weatervelt, Ottver Chariick, Witham & Draytea, ‘Thomas Hunt, Chavles M. Counolly;, J. A. Voisin, (ren or itesording ieorgere Sreah villiam: 4 ry. Spaatdt: Reuben Withers, Andrew TT. Mickie James Renkard, Wrancis Burritt, FAlngham Townsend, ‘William B. Scott, Myndort Van Schaick, John H. Gourtie, James B. Murray, William H. Neilsoa, Gutinn ©. Verptancis, ‘William 8. Wetmore, T. F. Putnam, Wiltare 0. Wetmore, George Greer, William Lamar, Joseph Stuart, Witltam Whitlock, Jr., William H. Davidge, Kernochaa, Jobu Watson, Lawrence, JudgeKawardaMcrropont, Ralph Clark, William M. Clark, Johu A. Stewart, niet Devtin, teing, drew L. Ircland, 0. D. W. Grant, judge Rocaevelt, Anthony I, Robertson, *etietacd Ae! , “Arthur Teary, Netsor, ae ‘ x oda Lo sh T ee a fs: Heancia x 7 Prada weston ile , jenn H_wtitiott, -. a hig " De Paar Camell, Eharica Corey aber, harles Corey Taber, Udalike Walle Sa. Ruscoll, ‘ ore. D. Ml. Hughes, Jay Jarvis, ‘Hebel William @, ‘Lane, Ti. A. Jobuson, Yord, W. 3. Church, George 8. Phillipa, ‘Androw iis, D.D. Withers, William A, Mead, 1. Detmonico, G. & J. Bowdoin, Thomns Smuil, James Kobiason, B. RK. Winthrop, Tlonry. Hilton, James O'Brien, Bradish Johnson ‘William Agnew, Lucius Hopkins, William A. Kobbie, H. W. Hicks, H. M. Schieffeiin, G. W. McLean, Morgan L. saith, Willlam O'Brien, Jobu O’Brien, J. Olwell, M. Olwell, Lewis G. ‘Morris, ‘William T. Coleman, C. Maris, N. H. Wolfe, . i — 3. Lansing, . @. 13, R. A. Reading, George Douglas, Tlenry L. Van Wyck, Stephen Merrihow, 3. J. Henry, Elbridge T. Gerry, H, J. Seaman, John Wataon, William P. Hansford, Israol Cored, Eaward J. Wilson, Henry A. Sinytho, Pierre C. Kano, Kichard Lathera, Joc! Conklin, A. B. Neilson, A. W. Clagon. N. W. Chater, W.C. R. Engilsb, James Brown, John White, Edward Cooper, John J. Doyle, George Bancroft, John Cochrane, Adrien Julia, Aaron Vauderpoel, Joba H. Wykors, A. T. Stewart, Francis H. Wykers, Charles Moran, David 1. Coddington, Greene C. & Hlenry Kattenham, Samuel C_ Neill, Peter Brunjos, Stewart Brown, Hartun Bri John T. Agnew, Hand M. Robinson, Fletcher Wesbray, J. Larooque, Chas. A. Heckscher, KL, Higgi Smith Chit, Jas, Honter, Heury Young, Wm. B. Astor, F. R.Tillou, Blocokor Neilson, Peter M. Bryson, John D. Jones, Wm. E Lawrence, dohn Caswell, \cis Cottenct, B. Aymar, G3. S Dalton, 4.8 opt, Johnson. ‘Aiverhge, ‘Thos. Hope, Howell Willian, ~ B.D Acker, Solomon Townnend, ay 5 ; Peter Moller, Manuel Garcia, | : “Wm. Moller, Tolut Garcia, George Moller, A. ¥rznaga, Christian Moller, Benj. Littio, B. R Melivaine, W. i y David M. Turneure, John Furman, ‘Wiltiam f. Wilmerding, D. Develin, Thos. Woodward, RL Stuart, * John Witmer ting, Ezra Wheeler, Geo.'T. Wivme, ‘Cornelius Agnew, John 0. Woodruff, FT Alcott, Mark Woodruff, Chas. Barkhaiter, Mr. Lees, D. McCready, Wm, Aymar, Geo. 8. Robbins, Henry Chauncey, Hamilton @. Cutworth, Peter Cooper, ‘A. W. Spies, A. 8. Hewett? Richard Pennoll, John Tiers, 3. B. Morrison, KW. Ters, Joseph Galliard, Frank Tera, ‘Wm. Post, W. HL. Appleton, 3. J. Post, Joba 8. Betta, Ktisha Robbins, James Hanter, 3 am, Lavid Draper, Pierre Humbort, Francis dy, Isaac Ames. The incipient stage of this mighty effort of intelligent, honest and influential individuals to reform the democratic party, by inducing the majority to throw off the rulo of adepraved minority, has already made New York 8 beacon to which the press in all parts of the country point with delight. It is a movement which will be imitated in our numberless large cities, and the character of those who are engaged in it here, is the guarantee that its efforts in New York, at least, will be crowned with final suc- cess, Nomanations vor THe Comina Exections— Excrremest Among Tue Powiricians.—Pending the approaching State and charter elections, there is a grand nominating rumpus all over the city. Every haunt of the demagogues and wire- pullers rings with it; Tammany and Mozart— twin dens of political trickery as they are—are alive to the nominations; every grogshop and street corner has its knot of scheming poli- ticians, each busy laying pipe for their favor- ites and discussing the merits of rival candi- dates, whose greatest merit is their capacity to plunder the public treasury for the benefit of themselves and their amiable, disinterested friends. Nominations are being made by all parties and fragments of parties for the State Senate, the Assembly and the Judiciary, and arrangements completed for the Cemmon Council and the Chief Magistracy, and the name of the aspirants is indeed legion. What is the moral of all this excitement about the nominations? Simply this, that unless the re- spectable portion of the community—our ar- tisans, storekeepers and merchants, of all par- ties—exert themselves, and come to the support of that body of men who have banded them- selves together at the Everett House and Fifth Avenue Hotel, for the purpose of rescuing the State and city from the hands of the bad men who now control the clections, and the coun- try from the dangers of an “irrepressible con- flict,” we shall see again the seats in the Legislature, in the judicial halls, and all other places of trust, filled by the creatures of the lowest and most abandoned politicians in the country. That is the moral, plain and simple. Suppiies FoR THE ARMY is Uran.—There seems to be a slight discrepancy between the statements of the philosophers: of the Tribune and the elders of the Mormon church, The other day we printed extracts from the dis- courses of the latter, warning the faithful at Selt Lake against the dangers of famine; and it appears by all accounts that the Mor- mon harvest this year will be barely sufficient to support the people through the winter, with- out apy margin for sales to the Gentifes, civil or military, But in the face of these facts, which do not come from Gentile contractors, but from Mormon sources entirely, the Tribune states that the government might save a mil- lion of dollars by buying the ordinary supplies in Utab instead of sending them from the East. Ferbaps the Tribune will explain how the gov- ernment can buy from the people of Utah something which they have not got to sell, and how they can feed an army out of @ crop barely sufficient for their own wants, The National Episcopal Convention— Dincord Betweom the Two Houses. According te our telegraphic despatch from Richmond, tho Houso of Bishops have refused to restore Bishop Onderdonk. Wo have the vote, but no other particulars. The Conveation of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United Stateshas been holding its annual session during the last two weeks in the city of Richmond. Wehave-had the pro- ceedings apecially reported for the Heraxo, | and have devoted a considerable share of our tpace to their publication. On examining these proceedings, however, we fail to discover anything, except the vote on the restoration of Bishop Onderdonk, thathas been accomplished for the good of the church or for the advance- ment of religion by this Convention. The only thing noteworthy in the whole affatr, for so far, is the marked presence of jealousy and discord be- tween the House of Bishops and the House of Clerfcal and Lay Delegates, What the one body resolves to do, the other body is sure to resolve not to do; and in some instances there has been a manifestation of feeling almost as atrong aa took placo in the two houses af Con- | grees last session on the, aybject’ of the Poat Office Appropriation. Wil, i gos sees | «Tn ether respecty the Nationsl Episcopal Conventlog may. be.optly comparod-to. the.na- tional légtsinture, with this difference; that the ono is *resttieted ito thihigs: spiritual, dnd the other tothings temporal, — In their organization ihey are remarkably similar. They both re- present the whole country. Hach consists of two houses, having distinct rules of business; and, save in exceptional matters, the concur- rence of both houses in any law or canon is requisite, In this church congress the upper house is composed of bishops and assistant bishops having charge of diocesses within the United States, and the lower house of an equal number of clerical and lay delegates elected from each diocess. An amendment to the consti- tution, which is pending before the Convention, fixes the number of clerical delegates from each diocess at four, and of lay delegates at the samo figure. That would leave the House of Dele- gates eight times more numerous than the House of Bishops—a disparity about double that between the Sonate and House of Repre- sentatives at Washington. The Houso of Bish- ops sits with closed doors—as the Senate does in Executive session—but the Houso of Delegates is open to the press and the pub- lie. Moat of the business hours of the Convention have been consumed in discussions and moye- nienta affecting proposed changes in the canons or laws of the church. These appear to rofer mainly to matters of discipline, although some of them may aim at ulterfor objeots and special cases; but for so far no progress has been made. On almost every subject on which action has been’ taken there has been disagreement be- tween the two Houses. Indeed, so marked has this been that one of the delegates con- ceived it his duty to make a speech defonding tho House of Bishops from the charge of a ten- dency to. tyrannize and override the clerical and lay members. We may cite one or two in- stances illustrative of this feeling. Tho National Episcopal Convention being ambulatory in its character, tike the political conventions and national fairs, always fixes where the succeeding year’s session is to be held. The House of Delegates took the initia- tive the other day, and after a pretty long strug- gle agreed to meet next year at Chicago. The House of Bishops, to whom the resolution was sent for concurrence, refused to concur in it, and adopted an amendment substituting Phila- delphia for Chicago, and assigning reasons for the change. The House of Delegates took up the matter again, declared the reason assigned by the House of Bishops favalid, and insisted on their former action. Thus stoed the ques- tion at the date of our last despatches from Richmond. Then again: the consecration of four bishops elect being part of the programme at Richmond, the presiding bishop decided that the consecration should take place in the open air, in the Capitol grounds, and under the shadow of the Washington monument. Tho House of Delegates was duly notified of this arrangement, which, to say the least, had the merit of novelty and originality. Although it was a matter over which the House of Dele- gates had no control whatever, they nevefthe- less proceeded to express very emphatically their disapprobation of the arrangements. One delegate wanted to know how the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, an essential part of the consecration service, was to be administered al fresco. Another delegate suggested that the Bishops were ignorant of the Rubric, which evi- dently contemplated that the service should take place in a church, and held that Capitol square was not essentially a church within the mean- ing of the rule. The presiding bishop was supposed to be sitting in his chair near tho communion tabl¢ and this delegate could not see how that direction was to be observed in Capitol square. The delegate then got off an irreverent joke about the disagreeablencss of such a seat for the right reverend father in God, and for those who, like him and like another celebrated character in Virginia— Had no wool on the top of their heads, ‘The place where the wool ought to grow. In conclusion, this free-spoken Connecticut delegate (Dr. Mead) begged to remind the right reverend fathers that they had forgotten the first part of the Rubric, relating to the consecration service. A California delegate regarded the idea of consecration in such a place asa thing “horri- ble to contemplate” and as a “revolting spec- tacle,” and suggested the possibility of a dog fight taking place at the same time, or of old women marketing their apples and oranges in he midst of the ceremony. A Virginia dele- gate declared that there was but one sentiment n that body in regard to the arrangement, and that was entire disapprobation. While this dis- cussion was in progress a delegate announced that the presiding bishop desired to withdraw his mesaage. Leave was granted, the subject dropped there, and the consecration of the four bishops took place in the usual manner. These facts indicate the tone and temper of each of the two houses in regard to the other. The republican members of the House of Repre- sentatives in Washington never evineed any more bitter feeling against a democratic Senate, nor fire-eating Southern Senators against a re- publican House, than these two religious hodies in Richmond, albeit of the same comm inion, have evinced against cach other. We hope that the remaining sessions of the Convention will be marked with more harraony, and that bishops, priests end laymou may realize how good a thing itis “for brethren to dwell to- gether in unity.” As to the case of Bishop Onderdonk, it went before a council or commitlee of the House of Bishops, and it now appears that his full reato- ration has been voted down by a large ma- jority. His temporary restoration on condi- tion of his resignation was pending yesterday. ‘The Opening of China—Kaglish, French and Russian Policy Towards Colontes and Commorece. The most important phase of the China war and its corelative questions in Eastern Asia is their commercial aspect and the effect which events may have upon trade there. Our commerce, not only with China, but with the possessions now held by Russia north of the Chinese wall, is a growing trade, pro- mising, under favorablo circumstances of de- velopement, to produce great changes in our own domestio industry, We will take one branch of it to exemplify our idea. The coarse cotton goods of this country are preferred by the Chinese because of their greater durability and longer wear. This quality, we believe, is owing to the fact that our domestic goods are made entirely of American grown cotton, while in-these‘of Eagland-our cotton is mixed with _the “shorter and inferior staple of India and Egypt; because.of: their cheaper price. When the markets of China come’ to be effectively, * opened-to our trade; tf each: of her population of three hundred millions consumes only two dollars worth of cotton goods a year, it will take all of our present cotton crop to enable the mills of New Eng- ‘land to supply that trade alone with American fabrics. This single calculation shows how great the commerce of China may become, if it is opened in the rightway. A similar calculation will apply to woollens, and many other articles, and it proves at a single glance how great may be tho impulse given to the industry of the civilized world if an ex- change of products with the many millions of people in Asia is established on right princi- ples. This leads us to the natural inquiry whether England, or France, or Russia, is seeking to establish true commercial principles and a wise policy in Asia. Each of these nations is push- ing its efforts there with an ultimate view to dominion. With France we have no very widely extended experience of her colonial policy. Such as we have, in Algeria, the French West Indies, Cayenne, the island of Reunion and Algeria, does not give us much hope of great results. Her policy is military rather than commercial, and its fruit is glory and not production and exchange. England claims to be animated by a wiser spirit, But yet her po- Hoy in Indis gives results that are very little Inds better than those of the French system, Hin- dostan, with one hundred and eighty mil- lions- of people under ber rule, does not consume cotton goods to the value of anything like one dollar a_ head. Instead of endeavoring by her legislation to improve the condition of the many millions, stimulating their labor by seouring to them its fruits, and thereby enabling them to purchase and consume more of the products of her own industry, she has ground them to the dust, and forced millions to perish by the roadside of famine. If European civilization cannot pro- duce in China better fruits than these it may as well not be extended over it. ‘Russia bids fair to carry her pewer over a large portion of that populous country, The wise policy which Nicholas II. established in Chinese Tartary, and in the new settlements on the banks of the Amoor, opening their trade freely to all nations, produced at once the most beneficial results. Nota few of our own coun- trymen carried thelr spirit of enterprise there to help build up the new dominions of the Czar. But we learn by 9 recent correspond- ence from there, which we have published in our columns, that Alexander IT. has abandoned the policy of his father, and closed the chan- nels of trade in Russian Asia to all but native Russians. Such a course may be to the private advantage of a few Russian traders, but we doubt very much if it is conducive to the good of the whole community on the Amoor. It is not the nationality of a man that makes his labor more or less beneficial to a country; it is the ekill fn his art, knowledge of the supplies and wants of other markets, spirit of enterprise that animates him, and capital which he brings to sssist his labor, that constitute his true value. Russia may possess all these to spare for her eastern settlements, or she may not. But whether she does or not, in stopping the flow of American enterprise and capital that was seeking a new sphere of action in Nicolaefski,she deprives herself of an advantage, while at the same time she inflicts an injury on the rising commerce of our States on the Pacific. This new act of the Russian government leads to the further doubt whether she is the nation to open the populous regions of Eastern Asia to their proper intercourse with the civil- ized nations of the world. If she adopts an unwise policy in the northern, will she not fol- low it in the central and southern regions? The exclusive system can only provoke the conflict with other nations which the British merchants are already foreseeing in the coming meeting ot Russian and British interests on the shore of China. The question of supplying tho hundreds of millions of Chinese with cotton and woollen goods, with hardware-and the nu- merous other products of the loom and anvil, is not one that can be met by anysingle nation; nor can @ mofiopoly of the trade in tea and silk be rightfully claimed by any one. An exelu- sive commercial policy is. opposed to the en- lightened spirit of the age in which wo live, atid we doubt that it can be successfully pur- sued in China or anywhere else. The policy of Nicholas in Asia had awakened a sympathy with his progress there throughout the greater part of the world; that which is now adopted by Alexander can only divert that feeling to other objects, if it does not kill it outright. Tae Retier or Broapway.— This oft mooted and well debated question is thrust upon pub 4 ic attention with periodical perseverance, though it has been shown again and again that the remedy for the over-crowded condition. of Broadway is naturally working itself out, We publish a communication in another column to- day suggesting that several blocks at the west side of the great thoroughfare shoud be ent through 60 as to form anether parallel street for the relief of Broadway. We have all alang oppored jobs of this kind, on the ground that Brondway was relieving ir self; but if the properly ownsre in that district wish to open a new street for their own, benefit, _—_ at their own expense, we have no objectios, ‘The fact is patent wo think that a great maay atreets in the city are rapidly becoming Broad- wrys, both up town and down. Business ls se diffusing itso ‘1 that no one portion of the olty will teefore lon ghave any claim to the exclu- sive tithe of the tusiness portion of the metro- Polls. Trade of al! kinds is emerging from the narrow down-town streets—once its great marte—and spreading itself all over the island ; and when we have large steamships, of the Great Eastern calibre, anchoring up in the East river, the city will bo literally turned round. It ts useless then to advocate the ques- tion of relieving Broadway by opening now streets or widening old ones, Let us leave it to the natural progress of the city in the direction ithas now taken Tux Frewsy’s Panape To-Mogzow.—tTe- morrow the firemen of this city will make their second triennial parade, and we venture to say that the display on that occasion will be the grandest civic representation ever witnessed tm any city in the world, for the splendor of the decorations employed, the regularity of the dis- ciplined mass, and the muscle of the individuals who compose it, ‘The: cost: ofthe parade-whieh from its ‘as: on. annual, but a. three” years! -eetobra- | tion—will not be less than a hundred thousand “dollars ‘to’ those participating im it. The firemen have laid the pictorial art under heavy contribution in the decoration of their apparatus, and we may expect to see ia the ranks to-morrow works of art which, fer design and execution, are worthy to grace the walls of no mean picture gallery. Fine speoi- mens of silverwork, too, are quite common as ornaments to the machines, in which the fire- man takes so much pride. In short, thore is hardly a branch of art which does not find a re- markable representation in the appurtenances of the Fire Department. But what is all this compared to the body of firemen themselves? A volunteer army—for the most part young men, banded for the noblest purpose, toiling and risking life with- out any other remuneration than glory and the self-eatisfaction of doing their duty—they pre- sent in vigor ‘of frame, activity, daring and discipline, a corps d’armée which cannot be excelled, perhaps, in the world. The firemen have had many times to labor under the onus of misrepresentation, and to hear themselves called by harsh names, but when we remember the scenes enacted sometimes in Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities, it must be ad- mitted that the New York firemen will bear a most favorable comparison in point of reapec- tubilily and good conduct with ony similar body in the country. It is true, we hear of firemen’s fights occasionally, but it almost al- ways happens that it is the runners and rewdy hangers-on of the engine houses who are the instigators and participants in theso affrays, and not the firemen themselves; and the alacrity with which the fire companies hasten in such cases to disabuse the public mind, and clear themselves from charges of rowdyism and vio- lence, shows that they are intensely sensitive and jealous of their good name. It is impossibie to keep idle rowdies entirely away from the banda of firemen during «fire. The alarm bell is the signal for all the loafing and ill-disposed classes of our youth to hasten to the scene, whick presenta equal chances for fun or mis- chief, and it is not always safe or fair to hold the firemen responsible for the conduct of these persons. There is no doubt, we think, that tho present efficiency of our fre department is, in » great measure, due to the chief engineer, Mr. Harry Howard, whose extraordinary energy and self- devotion to the interests of the Department have reduced a giant constitution almost to debility, and a frame of iron to partial helplessness. Should the weather to-morrow prove propi- tious, New York will probably witness oue of the finest sights ever offered in her streeis, and something of which the metropolis may feel proud. Decision my THe SANcHEZ Casc—SENTENCE TO BE Execuren.—We print elsewhere the de- cicion of the Supreme Court, general term, ren- dered yesterday by Judge Roosevelt, in: the matter of the condemned man Sanchez. It will be recollected that Felix Sanchez was con- victed in the Court of Sessions, before Judge Russell, of the murder of his father-in-law, in Sullivan street, by stabbing him with the blade’ ofasword cane. Exceptions were taken, and application for a new trial made on several grounds. One ground was, that 9 juror was allowed to sit on the case who had read an ac- count of the homicide, had a preconceived idea in the matter, but had no bias or prejudice for or against the prisoner. Judge Roosevelt, in overruling that point, remarks that if an idea or impression were to render jurors incompetent, no competent juror could be found to try such cases, because ina land of newspapers no man can be well informed without reading, and no man, with a sound judgment, can read without receiving an idea or impression. Another ground was that the indictment was defective, inasmuch as itdid not specify the particular part of the body in which the wound was inflicted. Judge Roosevelt decides that ground to be wholly untenable, Another objection was that the Judge be- low had not allowed inquiry to be made in regard to the prisoner's hearing of the ind.elity- of bis wife, and being thereby goaded. into frenzy. Judge Eussell’s ruling on that ppoint is sustained, for the good reason thateven if such proof were before the Court it cenid not affect the guilt of the prisoner in taVing his wife's father or reduce the grade of tht. offexec from murder to manslaughter. On these and all other poimts raist-a by: the counsel for the prisoner, the rulings of J; udgo Ruseell are fully and completely sustained by thogeneral term of the Supreme Court, San- chez will, therefore, have to suffer the death penalty, unless the Court of Appesis ar the Governor should interpose io save hina. Tak Scxpax Movement ww Lonvox-—By refe- rence to our news columns it will be seen that the people ©f London, not satisfied with the instalment of freedom they already enjog on Sunday, are seeking the full mensure of their rights, and demanding to have museums, bibra- View, galleriés of art, and other institugions of %\ ‘similar kind, opened to them on Sumday, in order that those who are uaeble oc unwilling to travel into the country to refresh. the body and spirits with pure air and new scenes muy train and invigorate the mind In literature, sci- ence and art, on the only day in which they