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The treaty will, it is said, confirm the cession of Lombardy to | Sardinia, and arrange the matter of the debt of Lombardy, whiié the questions relating to the | affairs of Central Italy will be referred to an Enro- | pean Congress. But notwithstanding this apparent- ly tranqual aspect of affairs, the news from France and Italy is decidedly warlike. Neither France, nor Sardinia, nor Austria,have reduced their armaments since the war. Marshal Neil has recently issued an order of the day to the troops under his command which is regarded as indicative of hostilities, Gari- baldi has summoned the Italians in the Legationsto arms, insurrectionary movements in various quar- ters are reported, and the King of Sardinia has issued a circular for communication to the various European courts, setting forth arguments in favor of.an independent government in Upper Italy suffi- ciently strong to keep in check the domineering tendencies of Austria. It is also asserted that the Pope, on hearing the answer the King of Sardinia gave to the deputation from the Romagna, ordered that the Sardinian Minister at Rome be tendered his passports; and it is further reported that at the news of the cessation of all intercourse between Rome and Piedmont, a collision between the Swiss and neutral stations took place at Cattolica. Hon. John Y. Mason, our Minister at Paris, died in that city on the 3d instant, of apoplexy. ‘The Great Eastern is to leave for Portland, Me., on Thuraday next, provided her trial trip proved satisfactory. The Queen of Spain, ina royal decree, dated at Madrid on 27th September, 1859, signifies her ac- ceptance of the resignation, by Lieutenant General Don José Gutierrez de la Concha, Marquis of Ha- bana, of his post of Governor Captain General of the island of Cuba, declaring herself much satisfied with the zeal, intelligence and loyalty with which he has discharged that office; and in another royal decree of the same date, she appoints to fill the vacancy Captain General Don Francisco Serrano y Dominguez, Count of San Antonio and Director General of Artillery. The Paris and London money markets do not appear to have been materially affected by the condition of affairs in Italy, while the departure of General Scott to the Pacific, to look after the San Juan trouble, had had a favorable influence. Con- sols on the Sth were quoted at 95} a 953. In the Liverpool markets cotton was quiet, but firm in price, while breadstuffs and provisions con- tinued dull. ‘The steamship Ariel, which left Southampton on the 29th of September, reached this port yesterday evening. By the arrival of the overland mail at St. Louis we have advices from San Francisco to the 23d ult., three days later than the accounts received via the Isthmus. The excitement caused by the duel be- tween Terry and Broderick appearsto have quickly subsided, having been replaced by the intense inte- rest felt in the choice of a successor to the place in the Senate made vacant by the death of Broderick. General Denver and Governor Weller are said to be the strongest candidates in the caucuses. Brode- rick’s estate is valued at $130,000, on which there is an encumbrance of about $85,000. He left no will, and the estate is claimed by two persons in San Francisco, who assert that they are cousins of de™ ceased in the second degree. Business at San Fran” cisco was dull. There had been no arrivals or depar- tures of vessels subsequent to the 20th ult. ‘The steamship Star of the West, from Aspinwall on the 3d and Key West on the 10th inst., reached this port yesterday with the mails from California, three hundred and nineteen passengers, and $1,883,670 in specie. She brought no news, her advices having been anticipated by the North Star. ‘The Star of the West was delayed by an accident to her machinery. Our correspondent at St. Thomas writing on the 20th ult. says:—The internal dissensions of Vene- zuela, which do not bear the character of ordinary Political revolutions, but are marked by many atro- cities, have rendered it necessary for the Governor of this island and the Consuls and Vice Consuls piding in Bolivar, to take the necessary steps for protecting the interests and even the lives of their respective countrymen. This island is healthy. Business dull. The steamer Paramatta remains on the Anegado reef. Her back has been found bro- ken, and she is a complete wreck. We have news from Hayti, dated at Port au Prince on the 29th ult., brought by the brig Isabel Beurman. It was ramored that the leader of the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER #17, 1859. last atlempted revolution had landed at Cape Baytien. There were about twenty-five of tho revoluticnists in jail awaiting trial. Some of them, no doubt, would be shot, and others banished. A shock of earthquake was felt at Port au Prince on tho 17th ult., at 7:20 P, BM. Late advices from Paraguay contradict the re- port of the death of President Lopez. Ho had, however, retired from the active administration of the government, in consequence of severe iadispo- sition, and charged one of his most faithful coun- cillore with the care of State affairs. It was not ex- pected that the son of the President, Henrique Lopez, would leave for the United States as Cum- missioner until after official notice had beea re- ceived that the Senate had accepted the Bowlin treaty, lately negotiated. Captain Page met with marked attention from the Paraguaa government, and every privilege tending to facilitate his highly valuable explorations was afforded to him and his commend, We have news from Ceylon, dated at Colombo on the 30th of August. A letter says:—The promise for the incoming coffee crop continues to be gene- rally very good if only the p.anters get a sufficient supply of labor to gather it. Many estates are ex- ceedingly short handed, and much apprehension is felt. The weather, after a very unusual spell of rein, seems settling into hot and dry. The officers of the ‘Democratic National Com. mittce have issaed a call for a meeting of the com- mittee at Washington, on the 7th of December next, to fix the time for the assembling of the De- mocratic National Convention at Charleston, for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President. The Roman Catholic Church of St. Aloysias, at Washington city, was dedicated yesterday, in pre- sence of a vast concourse of spectators, including the President, several members of the Cabine;, and the foreign Ministers. Archbishop Hughes preached the dedicatory sermon, the points of which are given in an account of the ceremonies, publishod among our telegraphic deapatches. We publish two despatches from Richmond, Va., relative tothe action of the Episcopal House of Bishops upon the question of the restoration of Bishop Onderdenk. There is no doubt but that the special despatch from our correspondent at Rich- mond, which appeared in yesterday’s Hsraxp, con- tained correct information with regard to this sub. ject. The vote stood eight in favor of the Bishop’s restoration, to twenty-five against it. We publish to-day, in another part of the Hxraxp, an elaborate report of the trial in the United States District Court for the confiscation of obscene stereo- scopes, together with the arguments of Hon, John Cochrane for the claimants, and Mr. C. H. Hant, Assistant District Attorney, for the government, and the charge of Judge Betts. The case is peca- liar, and the readers will be instructed both in the code of morality and in the laws that govern us. Anumerously attended meeting of Germans was held last evening, at the Cooper Institute, for the purpose of initiating measures for the better obser- vance of the Lord’s Day. Several German and American gentlemen addressed the meeting in far- therance of the object, and finally a series of reso- lutions were adopted, in which a German popula- tion, as represented at the meeting, protested against the perversion of Sunday from a day of rest and devotion into a day of noisy excitement and dissipation. The provision trade of New York anxiously awaited the arrival of the Africa, expecting that she would bring the result of the bids for beef and pork contracts for which proposals were invited by the British government. In this, however, there was some disappointment, as no official decision had transpired previous to the departure of the steamer. It however became known on ’Change in London that the Irish bids for beef were con- siderably under those made by Americans, and which ranged from £6 to £7. These figures were considered to be rather low. Bids for American pork being excluded, the Irish tenders ranged from £6 19s. to £7 10s. It is believed that,in consequence of the Chinese war, double the quantity, if not more, of the articles embraced in the contracts will be called for. In this event the supplies in the Liverpool and London markets, derived from the home production, will be so far diminished as to create some better consumptive demand for Ame- rican provisions. e ‘The sales of cotton, Saturday, embraced about 1,000 bales at unchanged prices. The stock was moderate, and the range of assortments adapted to the wants of spinners was restricted. Flour was more active, and common grades of State and Western advanced about 10c. per bbL, while good to prime extras were unchanged. Southern brands were also firmer. Wheat was firmly held, while sales were limited, inclading Kentucky white at $1 45, Michigan white at $1 42};,red Southern and Texas at $1 20 and No. 1 Milwaukee club at $1 07. Corn was steady, while sales of Western mixed and yellow were made at $1 per bushel. Pork opened heavy and lower, but closed with gome better inquiry. Sales of mess were made at $15 15 $15 25, clear do. at $17 25 and prime at $10 65a $10 76. Sugars were unchanged, while sales wero limited to some 300 hhds. at steady prices. Coffee was quiet, pend- ing a public sale to come off next week. Freight engago- ments were limited. Among the engagements were 2,500 bbls. flour to Liverpool at 1s. 7344. a 1s. 9., and 500 boxes obeese, in sailing vessel, at 253. The Great Uprising of the People Against the Tyranny of Rowdyism. The impetus which was given to trade, com- merce, agriculture, manufactures and finance, by the annexation of California, together with the gigantic strides that have been made in the means of international communication—open- ing markets all over the globe—have resulted in such an upward bound to the already vast developement of the resources of the United States, that wealth, and the education, training and intelligence which competence bestows, have been brought within the reach of every prudent and industrious citizen. The thoughts and energies of all Who are not drones in the great national hive, have been since directed, with an approach to exclusiveness, to the ac- quisition or augmentation of property, and affairs of State have been comparatively left to take care of themselves. Laborious, intelli- gent and upright merchants, farmers, mechanics and laborers, have not, it is true, abstained altogether from participation in politics; but, while they have, occasionally, voted, at elec- tions, for the least mischievous candidates for office, they have neglected, under the fallacious plea of being “too busy,” those indispensable preliminaries of good nominations and wise government, without attention to which the practical exercise of power, especially in our large cities, was sure, sooner or later, to fall into the very worst of hands. The consequence of this culpable apathy of the sound and conservative portion of the peo- ple, has been the same, in gifferent degrees, in nearly every largely populated place in the Union. The grave political cares ‘and respon- sibilities which right minded, intelligent men had so improvidently cast off, have been gree- dily snatched at, for the sake of the power, pat- ronage and plunder, which the possession of government gives, by that idle, dissipated, de- praved scum which floats upon the surface of society and constitutes its most degraded ele- ment. Hence the local rule in New Orleans, Savannah, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadel- phia, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Washington, Brooklyn and elsewhere, as well as in New York, has grown to be as bad as itcan be. Organi- zations, similar to those of Tammany and Mo- zart Halls, the Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits and Blood Tubs, who number in their ranks gradu- ates from penitentiariee, brothel owners, pot house proprietors, gougers, stabbers, maimers, nose-biters, shoulder-hitters, with whom it is dangerous to associate, have become the arbi- ters of taxation, justice, personal safety, and of liberty of opinion itself, This vagabond off- scouring, does not bear more than the propor- tion, in society, that disease does to health; but the evil is as spreading and tenacious as lepro- ay, and has gradually assumed forms of tyran- ny that are intolerable. The number of voters in theeity of New York epproximates to from seventy-eight to eighty thousand. Seventy-five thousand of these, pro- bably, are order loving citizens, who shrink from active connivance with the evils by which the community are oppressed, and would readily co-operate with any legitimate move- ment for its relief. There infest New York, however, some three to five thonsand persons, whose only means of existence are politics. They live by place, and consider the funds in the federal and city treasuries to have been created for their benefit. They call themselves “active politicians,” and are.either strong in muscle or still ‘more powerful in knavery. Each among them, from the bloated contractor and venal office holder, down to the most truculent of the seedy denizens of the Pewter Mug, is a part of a rottdh close corporation, whose right to dictate nominations, hocus pri- maries, and be bribed by aspirants to office, has been considered unquestioned. The des- potio sway of this rowdy minority, his been so , fully resisted by the large masses of our re- : spectable and intelligent men, that {t has been : a practical impossibility to obtain a nomina- tion or an election, without having, previously, } purchased their aid. As taxation haj increased § by millions, from year to year, and public robbery has ceased to hide its nakedness, faint efforts have been initiated to shake off the ter- rible iron yoke; but through miserable petty jealousies, indolence, and lack of zal, perseve- rance, and unity of action, they have been successively howled down by the Tammany corruptionists. The memory of past weaknesses influenced the Fifth Avenue Hotel Democratic Reform Committee, of which Mr. Watts Sherman is the energetic Chairman, in appending the following clause to the circular which called together the late enthusiastic meeting of the new organization:— If, however, by continued indifference as to their repre- sentatives, the people of Now York choose to allow, with- out interference, the selection of candidates who ‘do not fairly represent either the whole party, the taxpayers, or the commercial interests of the city, it must be inforrod that the acknowle; evils of our party organization, and of our muni government, resulting therefrom, are not yet sufficiently oppressive to enlist your active co- operation in producing a remedy. This signifies that if the intelligence, intellec- tuality, honor and integrity of New York, do not recognise the appalling dangers by which the city, State and country are surrounded; if + they can be hissed or yelled into cowardly in- action, by the vituperations, falsehoods and sneers, with which Tammany and Mozart Hall rowdies and their leaders will seck to over- whelm them; if they will not have patience with the well meant garrulities and prolixities, the fretful carpings, and the eloquent puerilities of some of their coHeagues; if they are not pre- pared to encounter with firmness the usual de- fection of the feeble, petulance of thejealous, intriguings of the ambitious, and snare of the traitors, and interlopers, they are deserving of the calamities which their own folly will have occasioned, and they must not complain of being the helots of a vicious minority, whom they outnumber at least fifteen times. The wise foresight with which future dangers were comprehended by the thirty-one gentlemen, who composed the original executive committee of the Democratic Reform Association, is one of the surest guarantees of its success. Its members are resolved to persevere in endeavor- ing to accomplish what is right. Adjunct ward and district associations are emulating their example, and are ready to aid them at the proper moment. They have the sympathy and promise of co-operation of influential demo- crats in the interior. There will be petty troubles and annoyances; but these will be borne in a business like, sensible manner, just as the every day anxieties of life are met, en- dured and forgotten. Two reasons make it patent that the efforts to secure the downfall of the plundering tyran- ny of rowdy, shoulder-hitting cliques, must, if continued, blot them out of existence. These are the present terror of these latter, and the fact that the bone, sinew and heart of this city, are not debased. Were Tammany and Mozart Halls true representatives of the democratic party, and of conservative feeling in New York, we should have to record that, here at least, the experiment of free government had failed. Were parties similarly decayed throughout the Union, a military despotism would be a relief. This, however, is not the case. It has required a mighty shock to elicit the spontaneous out- burst of wrath and indignation, against vio- lence, treachery and misrule, which is now wit- nessed in the democratic party; but it is a per- manent revolt of the industrial purity of an immense majority, against partial rottenness in the community. It has met with a hearty re- sponse throughout the land, and it is the com- mencement of a work, the beneficial effects of which will extend beyond the present genera- tion. Tae Nationa, Eriscora, CoxveNtIoN ON Manirest Destixy.—Politicians do not alto- gether monopolize the doctrine of manifest des- tiny, nor are they alone in their desire to ex- tend the area of freedom. The Protestant Episcopal Convention, now in session at Rich- mond, seems to entertain views on those sub- jects not very dissimilar to the views of the most advanced “manifest destiny men.” Last week a resolution was offered in the House of Clerical and Lay Delegates, and was referred to a special committee of five, providing that whenever a church or congregation shall have been organized in a foreign country, not within the limits and jurisdiction of any foreign mis- sionary bishop, and shall by its constitution recognise the doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and shall ask to be annexed thereto, it shall be placed under the jurisdic- tion of the presiding bishop of the House of Bishops. This is a proposition to carry out in matters of religion the same course of policy which our greatest advocates of annexation propose to carry out in temporal magters. It‘is tanta- mount to a general charter to go out, make dis- coveries among the heathen, establish Ame- rican institutions there, and annex those coun- tries to the United States, Of course it em- braces the idea that where churches aad con-] The Late Blections~The Despera te Com- gregaiions, alieady formed, throw off their al- legiance and seek annexation to the American church, they shall be taken under its jurisdio- tion. If this rosolu be adopted we may expect to find in the bishops, pricate and lay delegates of the Protestant Episcopal Church the strongest advocates for the purchase of Cuba, the invasion of Central America, the acquisition of Mexico, and the general subju- gation of all heathen and Catholic countries. Good for the church militant. The Nows from Burope—The Italian Question Unsettled—Warlike Aspect of Affairs. The North Britain, with dates from Liverpool up to the 5th inst., arrived off Farther Point, on her way to Quebec, yesterday morning, and we lay before our readers to-day a full sum- mary of her news, received by telegraph last night. ‘The intelligence from. Europe is important, and by no means indicative of a lasting peace. The most striking part of the news is relative to the affairs of Italy, which eeem to be in a most critical condition. At the Zarich Confer- ence the six plenipotentiaries met together for the firsttime. The result of their consultation is stated in the Paris papers to hayo been the settlement of the affairs of Lombardy, as far as regards her debt—-a great portion of which Austria consents to assume—her boundaries and the confirmation of the cession of Lombardy to Piedmont, agreed to at Villafranca by the two emperors. Treaties of peace were also entered into between the three late hostile powers, France, Austria and Sar- dinia; but the other Italian questions, touching the future destiny of the duchies and legations, are left to a European congress for adjustment. But while these pacific arrangements are agreed upon at Zurich, Italy is giving utter- ance to tones of discontent and defiance which breathe anything but a peaceful intention. Tuscany, Modena, Parma and the Romagna are in a ferment, and threaten a renewal of war or a strong united kingdom in Upper Italy as tho alternative. The duchies insist in terms of un- mistakable determination upon aunion with Sar- dinia, and proclaim their fealty to Victor Ema- nuel, Garibaldi has appeared at Bologna, in the Roman States, where he was received with immense enthusiasm, and issued an address calling the people of the Roman Legations to arms, while the Sardinian government itself has promulgated a circular of a very significant character, which, in connection with the tenor of the King’s late address, has caused, it is said, such uneasiness at the Vatican as to pro- cure the dismissal of the Sardinian Ambassador’ from Rome. Again, despite the apparent pacificatory com- plexion of the Zurich Conference, it is remark- able that neitherFrance, Austria nor Sardinia is relaxing a pariicle in its. preparations for war. Another hostile feature in the state of affairs is manifested in the or- ders of the day issued by Marshal Neil to the French army at Toulouse, in which he speaks of the improbability of a permanent peace, and which, taken in connection with the addresses of Garibaldi at Bologna, and of General Fanti, the Commander of the Army of Central Italy, all breathing the same spirit of war, cannot be viewed as an indication of an immediate settlement of the Italian difficulty. These are all portentous signs—specks on the horizon which may in a moment assume the form and dimensions of a thunder cloud. Looking at this news in its various aspects, it seems as though a great crisis was at hand in Europe. Certain it is that the Italian question has not yet reached a satisfactory solution, and it may be that unless the determination of England, Russia and France that the Italian people shall settle their own affairs be vigor- ously carried out, nothing can prevent a re- newal of the war which has just closed. Msrrorouiran AmtsemeNTs—Tue Orera.—It is high tide with our public amusements just now. No city is more theatrically cosmopoli- tan than New York. There are in this metro- polis no less than thirteen regular licensed theatres, wherein four languages are spoken— English, French, German and Italian. Thereis also the African opera, which is sui generis. Among all these elegant and agreeable places of resort, the Academy of Music holds the pre- eminent place. Although the price of admis- sion is always double that of the theatre, and notwithstanding the fact that only a small por- tion of the audience understand the language in which the opera is sung, yet the Italian lyric drama is more run after, more talked about, and more numerously at: tended, than the most popular theatre. The Opera audience proper is made up of what is called the fashionable world, with a sprinkling of amateurs and connoisseurs, and the wealthier portion of the foreigners residing or sojourning in New York. This audience is not, however, sufficient in itself to support the Opera in the full and complete way in which it must be given. Every other metropolitan Opera house in the world has especial aid given to it, either in the way of government subsidy or the sale of boxes to the aristocracy at exceedingly high prices. Here there is no aid for the Opera ex- cept what it gets from its actual receipts; and unless by some managerial cot’ the attention of the outaide public is secured, the Opera will not pay. It is for this reason, undoubtedly, that the managers of the Opera find it necessa- ry to conduct their business on the sensation plan; and no one objects to that, provided the sensation is an agreeable one, The sensation promised for the present season, which com- mences this evening, is certainly not disagreeable at first sight. The mana- ger has made a foray upon the small towns of Italy, and carried off from Brescia— made immortal by the wonderful retreat of the Hon. Jefferson Brick—a prima donna of whom no one knows anything, except that she is young and pretty—which, 6 be sure, is an ex- cellent thing in woman. There are other artists to be introduced in the same mysterious way. Two advantages are claimed for this ex- pedient of the manager. One is its originality, which excites the attention of the public; and the other a well-grounded belief that singers are not materially improved .by singing in London or Paris, while their pecuniary ideas are elevated to an aerial extent. Thus, then, the matter stands. The regular | winter season of the Opera commences to-night with a mystery. The public is naturally curious about the mystery, and therefore everybody and his wife will be at the Academy. Whata pity it is for the managers that all the perform- ances cannot be first nights. dition of the Demecratic Part) * The democratic party—the late. all-pows tful national democratic party—has, we apprehem’, finished its career. The recent Northern etec- tions, from Pennsylvania to Minnesota, all tell the same story of its demoralized and sinking condition. We presume that New York and New Jersey will sing the same music in Nevember, and that thus the opposition will be found in the substantial occupation of every Northern State this side the Rocky Mountains, ‘The old whig party was first broken down in the South from its affiliations with the anti- slavery sentiment of the North; and the demo- cratic party has been prostrated in the North from its mischief-making concessions to its Southern pro-slavery leaders and managers. ‘The whig party was brought to a violent death in 1852, and the democratic party would havo suffered a similar fate in 1856, but for the sav- ing personal popularity of Mr. Buchanan. Ever since that day, under the management of its quack doctors, who have substituted their nostrums for the healing medicines of the ad- ministration, the party has been sinking as from rapid decline. Possibly it may rally in 1860 for a desperate charge against the tremendous forces of the opposition; but it is quite ag likely that in the Charleston Convention, instead of being sgain reunited, it will, be finally broken up and disbanded. In the meantime, the republican party of the North, having secured the two members of Congress from Minnesota, will lack only some four or five of an absolute majority of the House. These, on the basis of the spoils, they may pick up without muchdifficulty, and without any party negotiations with either the anti-Le- compton democrats or the Southern opposition members. It would not be very surprising if even a Lecompton democrat or two were to find it convenient and profitable to assist ina republican organization. Let the Southern op- position members, therefore, look well to their position, or, between the Northern republicans and the Southern democracy, they may be crushed out without a warning. Everything now, in the events of the day and the signs of the times, indicates an “irre- pressible” sectional conflict for the succession— a conflict in which the conservative opposition of the South and the democracy of the North will each be borne down by the superior pres- sure of a sectional party. In this view, as the chances of Mr. Douglas at Charleston are no longer saleable in the market, it is probable that most of his anti-Lecompton followers, bag and baggage, will go over to the republican camp, in this preliminary Presidential business of or- ganizing the House. A fusion of this sort will be equivalent to the repudiation $f the Southern opposition party, unless they are vigilant and active to prevent it, We have said that New York will in all pro- bability be pqgmted by the republicans in No- vember. We dare say that there is not an in- telligent democrat who does not entertain this opinion. The treacherous proceedings of the Regency at Albany, their shameful ruffianism at Syracuse, and the disgusting rowdy elements of Tammany Hall, have all operated to demo- ralize, disorganize and break down tho demo- cratic party. ‘Thus, against the general drift of the Northern tide, it would be absurd any longer to consider our November election a doubtful affair. The managers of the rump of the late Ameri- can party have undertaken to give, its 60,000 votes to one-half of the republican and one- half of the democratic State ticket. Should this be done one-half the democratic State tick- et will be elected; but this mongrel movement of Scroggs, Ulmann and Brooks has already collapsed, and the probabilities are that the whole republican ticket, from these American accessions, will be elected by increased majori- ties over those of last year. This conclusion is strengthened by these October State elections, in which the disappearance of the American party and an increase of the republican vote are found to tally with each other. Finally, if the moderate, Union loving con- servative men, ofall ecctions and parties, would prevent an “irrepressible” sectional conflict in 1860, they should lose no time in putting their heads together.. With an anti-slavery sectional party in full possession of the North, and an ultra pro-slavery sectional party in the almost undisputed occupation of the South, the safety of the Union can only be secured through the intervention of some new national party organi- zation. For this purpose there are materials enough}but the interested politicians are like the crew of a ship, debating and hesitating what to do, while sails and engines are bearing them to the breakers. Tun Latest Boston Norton.—Our Eastern cotemporaries have as a rule a fearful and won- derful way of conducting their newspapers. The metropolis being the depot for news, they have little to do but to take their telegraphic despatches, and hunt up such important local intelligence as that Mr. Winthrop has gone upon an excursion to Hull, Mr. Everett has stubbed his toe, Mr. Lowell has dined with Mr. Longfel- low, or Mr. Smith has received a new stock of dry goods. Politics are rarely discussed, the State being comfortably lodged in the pockets of Messrs. Banks, Wilson and their coadjutors, who slew the old whig giant some time ago, and succeeded to all his possessions. It may be imagined, then, that the Boston papers do not afford the most entertaining literary feast for people who are so unfortu- nate as to live outside of the modern Athens. Once in a while, however, some pestilent fellow, like Wendell Phillips or Theodore Parker, will stir up the old fogies to exceeding great wrath, and then the way that the vials of classic indignation are uncorked is a caution to the nervous mind. Theodore Parker, having argued himself into a comfortable bronchitis, has temporarily ,retired from the forum, and Phillips has all the work to do by himself. He seems to feel the responsibility, and, so far as bile goes, to be quite equal to it. The other day, in the course of a lecture, he assailed the memory of Mr. Webster, and suggested that it would be a good idea to decapitate his statue which has just been set up in what are faco- tiourly called the “Capitol Grounds.” As everybody in Boston speaks the Attic tongue, Mr. Phillips compared Mr. Webster to Demos- thenes, and alluded to the speech of Aschines when it was proposed to give the Athenian ora- tor a golden crown, and used as an illustration the warning of A’schines to the’ Athenians that in rewarding bad men they corrupted their own children. The Boston Cowrier, which has | the reputation of Webster under its especial charge, and a Greek professor as one of its edi- tors, comes down upon Phillips with an article over two columns long. Webster is lost sight of altogether in this treatise. It isan elaborate puff for Demosthenes, Ctesiphon & Co., and a violent denunciation of Aeschines sod ths’ Macedonian party. Mr. Phillips, we need hardly ey, is entirely used up; and at the end he is told that Aéschines “ended his days teaching boys rhetoric ona distant island in the Agean sea,” “Perhaps,” says the profes- sor, significantly, “perhaps others’ will bring themselves to a pvsition equally Inglorious.” Phillips had better be careful. He may yet be compelled to teach Greek to the boys at Cam- bridge. —_———_—_. Tux Coxvrrion or Mrxico—Our Mar ow THE Rervsric.—The latest news from Mexi- co would lead us to infer that a worse state of anarchy exists there than ever, and that the whole republic was in fact about to fall to pieces. The unfortunate condition of Mexico at the present moment ia of the highest importance, not only to this coun- try, but to England also, because of the inte- rest which British bondholders have in her wet- fare and the stability of ber government; and as a good deal of mystery hangs over the vari- ous complications which beset her, we have prepared especially for the Henaxp, and will publish to-morrow a map of the Mexican re- public, showing the geographical division ef the whole territory between the church party under Miramon, and the constitutional party under Juarez, as well as the present locations of the different corps d'armée and the head- quarters of the generals. It will be ceen from our map and the descrip- tive article which will accompany it, that the clergy party occupy but avery small portion of territory in the southern part of the country, running from the western border of the State of Vera Cruz to the Pacific, and forming an insignificant strip of land, while all the rest of tho republic is in the hands of the constitutionalista, “Round the por- tion held by the church all the liberalist gene- ralsare concentrated, being. aware that thecity — of Mexico, the seat of the church government, occupies the'same position to Mexico that Paria does to France. The constitutionalists are strong in territory and population; but the clergy are strong in money; and the city of Mexico is their great contre and dependence. Upon the capital, therefore, the whole force of their adversaries is directed, while Miramon, it is sai¢, contemplates carrying the war inte the enemy's country by aseaulting the city of Vera Cruz, the seat of the Juarez government. But while it is true that the church party have immense wealth, the liberals hold all theseaports except one—that of San Blas—and all the cus- tom houses both on the coast and the frontier. In this respect the chances of both parties are almost equal; but it is clearly the interest of the constitutionalists to cultivate the sympa- thies and aid of the United States; and it strikes us that, the best thing the Juarez govera- ment could do would be to take the responsi- bility which some one will soon be com- pelled to take, and sell us the northern part of the country, and thus furnish the sinews of war to contend successfully with their more: wealthy opponents. Sonora and Lower Cali. fornia are of no use to them in the prese state of affairs; they are but the battle ground’ of two warring chiefs, and their,possession does: not strengthen the hands of the liberals. If they are not disposed of to this country, and the purchase money applied to the maintenance of the war, to bring it toa speedy termination, there will be no end to the confusion and anarchy reigning in that unfortunate country, until the republic of Mexico is gone to the dogs. Bisnop Onperpong’s Restoratiox Rervsew By THE Hovse or Brsaors.—The House of Bishops, now in annual session at Richmond, has had before it the application of Bishop On- derdonk for a remission of his sentence, and for his restoration to the office and duties from which he was suspended somo fifteen years ago, and has absolutely refused to grant his prayer. The vote, which was taken in secret session of the House, is represented by our special reporter as being twenty-five against Onderdonk’s restoration to eight in favor of it, while the general newspaper despatch gives the figures as twenty-one to six. The first figures are probably nearest to correctness, for the names of thirty-six bishops were given as having taken their seats in the House. At all events, it is clear that the majority against the proposed restoration is quite large—in the proportion of three to one. This settles definitely the question of Onder- donk’s unconditional restoration to the episco- pacy; but it seems there is another branch of the subject still before the House of Bishops— that is his restoration on condition of his re- nouncing all claim to the exercise of episcopal functions. We have little doubt that the tribu- nal which has so sternly set its face against the one will be found as consistent in regard to the other. If Onderdonk was fuirly tried and impartially judged by the court which decreed his suspension, his restoration, conditional or unconditional, would he a disgrace to the cburch; if he was not, then the pardon should be full and complete. There is no room for compromise. We are gratified to see the House of Bishops manifest a higher regard for re- ligion and virtue than was manifested by tho late Episcopal Convention in New York; and we hope that this matter, once disposed of by the highest authority, will net be revived, te the detriment of public morals and to the scan- dal of the church, Tae New Stare ov Kansas.—The people of Kansas have recently ratified a new rigidly anti-slavery constitution; and in December next it will be presented to Congress, with a republican member of the House, and two re- publican Senators close behind it. It is sup- posed, in some quarters, that the Southern ul- tra democracy will endeavor to resist the ad- migsion of the State, on various technicalities, and especially on the ground that the people of Kansas have not regarded very exactly the instructions ef the English bill. We trust, however, that the Northern and Southern democrats of Congress, especially of the Senate, where they have a decided majorly, will con- sent to make the most of a bad bargain, and be done with it, by admitting the new State into the Union. True, the democracy, North and South, have been egregiously taken in with this beautiful “popular sovereignty” whistle of, Mr. Douglas; but as thoy bought it, trusting to the geller’s recomznendations of the article, they are bound to pay the price, Let them d sont once, and grin and bear the damages