The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1860, Page 6

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Lott, will leave this port to-morrow, for Liverpool. ‘The mails for Europe will close in this city at ten o’clock to.morrow morning. ‘The Evrorgay Eprmoy or mun Heap will be published at half-past nine o’clock in the morning. Single copies in ‘wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Naw Yorx Herat will be received at the following places ‘a Europe :— ‘Lompon....Sampeon Low, Son & Oo., 47 Ludgate Hill. Lansing, Starr & 0o., 74 William street. Parm...... Lansing, Baidwin & Co., 8 piace de la Bourse, Livmnroot. . Lansing, Starr & Co., No. 9 Chapel street. R. Stuart, 10 Exch street, East. Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 rue Corneille, ‘De Chapsauronge & Co. ‘The contents of the Evroray Eprmon or ras HERALD ‘will combine the news veceived by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of publication. The News. Our files by the Canada brought us full details of the European news to the 28th ult., telegraphed from Halifax, which has already appeared in the Heratp. We publish to-day an interesting résumé of the cotton and slavery questions, as presented to Parliament by Lord Brougham; the great An- glo-French free trade movement, as attacked in Parliament by an English free trader and defended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the report of the French Minister of Finance to the Emperor. By the arrival of the brig Echo at this port, we have been put in possession of Haytien news to the 2ist ult. The principal topic of the newspapers of that date was in regard to the hanging of the traitor John Brown. It had created unusual excite- ment. One of the papers, Le Progres, appeared in mourning for the “martyr.” On the 20th of January, to use the language of the paper above named, a mass was chanted in commemoration “of the frightful martyrdom of the abolitionist John Brown, by the infamous ruffians of the Southern portion of the American Union.” All the papers devote much space to editorials on the general subject, besides full details of the hanging; indeed, the papers are so enthusiastic on the sub- ject that matters of more importance are totally neglected. The country appears to be quiet, and the government is vigorously pursuing its measures of improvement and amelioration. We have files from Bermuda to the Ist instant. The weather remained exceedingly fine; but on the 28th ult. a very heavy gust of wind, lasting about twenty minutes, was felt at the Islands be- tween half past five and six o'clock in the morn- ing. Four soldiers of the Thirty-ninth regiment, one of them a sentinel on duty at the time, had stolen a government boat and proceeded to sea in ber. They had been outa fortnight and were not heard from. Governor Murray was daily expected on his return from England. From Barbadoes, on the 11th ult., we learn that the canes were rapidly maturing, and sugar making would be very general throughout the island by the end of that month. Gov. Hincks had returned from England. The return of sugar exported in 1859 shows 39,695 hhds. A service of church sil- ver, worth £250, was stolen out of the vestry room of the Cathedral on the 26th December, including the collection taken up on Christmas day. There was a surplus in the treasury of £37,899. We have received Demarara files of papers to the 7th January. Two vessels, with coolies from Calcutta, and one with Portuguese immigrants from Madeira, had arrived, adding nearly seven hundred laborers to the population of the colony. Upon the faith of severe injury to the cane crop of Louisiana from frost, sugar had advanced in Dema- rara, and speculators were shipping that article to the United States. Antigua papers to the 7th ult. have been re- ceived. The House of Assembly, after seyen years’ existence, had been dissolved, and writs issued for the election of a new Legislature. We have advices from Jamaica dated at Kings- ton on the 26th ult. A mercantile paper says:— “ A fair business has been done in our market since last fortnight. The arrivals have been very limit- ed, and stocks, in consequence, having been small, the operations have not been forced. We consider that the transactions have been satisfactory, and made on a more healthy basis than ordinarily.” We have news from Havana to the 10th inst. The sugar market remained about as previously reported. ‘We have Sandwich Islands papers to the 31st of December, but they contain nothing more impor- tant than the news received by the overland mail. ‘The weather, as usual in the wainter months, was paltry and depressing. At the latest dates from Kanai, the weather continued so dry as to retard the sugar grinding. Our Port of Spain (Trinidad) files record the death of the Hon. J. 8. Wainwright, one of the oldest and most respectable merchants in the West Indies. He had been a member of the Legislature for many years. Our Buenos Ayres correspondent, writing under Gate of December 11, states that in addition te the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET, diffoulty growing ont of the imprisonment of San- tiago Constant, a British subject, the government ere likely to have a lively time with England on account of the sinking of the British merchant steamer “Little Polly,” in the river Parans, on July 11, 1858, by a Paraguayan war steamer. On December 6, theship Parana arrived at Buenos Ayres, bringing General John T. Cushman of Mississippi, Minister to the Argentine Confede- ration, He proceeded up the river in the steamer Asuncion on Friday, the 9th of December. His secretary, George Lee Brent, Esq., of Richmond, Virginia, had arrived before him, and he has lain ill in Buenos Ayres for some weeks of aslow ner- vous fever. The Brazilian government has just established a line of steamers between her oxtreme interior town, Cuyaba, and her capital. The path is along the coast to the La Plata and then up the interior rivers to the village of Cuyaba. In Congress yesterday the death of Senator Bro- derick was officially announced in both houses, and cach adopted the customary resolutions. Eulogies on the life and character of the deceased were de- livered in the Senate by Messrs. Haun, Seward, Foster and Toombs, and in the House by Messrs. Burch, Haskin, Hickman and others. The House ballotted thrice for a Printer, without effecting a choice. Nothing of importance occurred in the State Senate yesterday. In the Assembly several bills were introduced; among them one for a railroad in ‘Tenth avenue and other streets, and one authorizing the Second Avenue Company to extend their line and construct new tracks. We publish elsewhere a complete list of the acts that have passed both branches of the Legislature during the present session; also a liat of acts that have passed each house, together with a list of the measures intro- duced directly bearing upon the citizens of New York, At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday an important report was received from the Comptroller, showing the condition of the city’s finances. We publish this document in another part of to-day’s paper. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, but trans- acted no business of general interest. The Board of Councilmen disposed of a large amount of routine business last evening. The Comptroller submitted an interesting statement of the present condition of the Sinking Fund, an ab- stract of which will be found in our report of the proceedings. No clue has as yet been obtained to the murder. ers of Mr. W. L. Tuers. The Coroner’s investiga- tion commenced yesterday morning before Coroner Jackman, and a report of the first day’s proceed- ings will be found in another column. , The only new feature in the case is the arrest of a woman supposed to be the one seen in company with Mr. Tuers on the fatal night, and who subsequently got into a stage in Whitehall street. The person so ar rested, Mrs. Sarah J. McClester, of No. 176 East Twenty-eighth street, the stage driver positively identifies as the one who got into his omnibus on Fri- day night. Her evidence, as well as that of her hus" band and other witnesses in regard to herself, will be found to be the most important part of the investi- gation. The inquest will be resumed to-morrow morning. An anti-slavery meeting was held last evening in the Church of the Puritans, corner of Fifteenth street and Union square. The meeting was pre- sided over by Mr. Gilbert, and continued up toa late hour. The Rev. Dr. Rogers addressed the meeting, and was followed by several gentlemen. The absence of the colored minister from Dema- rara was regretted. The announcement of his pre- sence, no doubt, was the cause of the full attend- ance. Owing to press of matter we are precluded to-day from giving a full report of the meeting. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 455 deaths in the city during the past week, a decrease of 15 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 10 more than occurred dur- ng the corresponding week last year. The reca- pitulation table gives 4 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c., 93 of the brain and nerves, 7 of the generative organs, 16 of the heart and blood vessels, 178 of the lungs, throat, &c.,5 of old age, 64 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 4 stillborn and premature births, 36 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 47 ge- neral fevers, and 18 from violent causes. The na- tivity table gives 326 natives of the United States, 78 of Ireland, 27 of Germany, and the balance of va- rious foreign countries. We are informed by a note from E. Cunard, Esq., that the report from Bandy Hook, in yesterday morning’s papers, that the ‘steamship Etna had been in collision with something,” is incorrect. Her bowsprit was carried away in the gale on Friday off George’s Shoals. The trial of David Beach, who was charged with forging a check for $3,100 on Robert Bonner, was concluded yesterday in the General Sessions. The jury failed to agree upon a verdict, and were dis- charged at seven o'clock last evening. The Court of Oyer and Terminer was adjourned yesterday to this morning, in consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Waterbury, the District At. torney. The Issue and the Hairsplitting Sena- tors—The Platforms Already Made. Our Washington correspondents advise us that the democratic Senators had been holding a caucus in order to manufacture a platform for the Charleston Convention and the coming nominee of the democratic party. We are sorry to see this. Weare sorry to see that the democratic Senators so little under- stand the position of the country and them- selves as to undertake such useless labor. In doing so they act not like statesmen, but like a parcel of children. They do not see the great facts that loom up before them and over- shadow the whole country. They have yet to learn that the issue on which the coming fight is to be made, and the plat- forms upon which the candidates are to be placed, have been formed and completed. The black republicaneaders have been working at and fashioning them for the last four years. In making the issue on which they have deter- mined to stand, they have made it for all par- ties. That issue is the abolition of slavery, im- mediate or eventual, and the preservation of the Union by force. This is the proclamation of a violent revolution, which cannot be consummated in this country without the utter destruction of society in fif- teen Southern States of the Union, anda cor- responding breaking up in the Northern States. Before such an issue as this there is but one po- sition to take and but one platform on which to stand, and that isa united and unhesitating opposition to the revolutionary schemes of the black republican party. When grave Senators meet in caucus to refine parcel of metaphysical abstractions, and dis- cuss and dispute whether this or that distino- tion, without a difference, shall be advanced as the creed of the party—whether squatter sove- reignty, or the jurisdiction 9f the courts, or the power of Congress to legislate in the Terri- tories, shall be put forward as the theory to be defended—they ignore the mighty truth that their antagonists have proclaimed that the con- stitution is an anti-slavery constitution, that it should be administered in an abolition spirit, and that they will attain its administration, if possible, and so administer it. We cannot be- Lieve that this shortsighted fol'y on the part of the democratic Senators comes entirely from incompetency on their part. There is an- other cause for it, and it is @ pro- Vific cause of public evil in and out of Congress. Very many of them, if not all, are their own self-elected and self-sufficient candidates for the Presidency, and as such each strives to become the head of some political school within the pale of the party, in order to be admitted as a leader, and to prepare the way for his nomination. Hence the curious exhibitions of metaphysical logic, which mean nothing, amount to nothing, and do no good whatever—not even to the candi- dates themselves. If some power would give them the gift that the poet asked for, to see themselves as others see them, they wouldsoon give up the foolish antics they now cut under the belief that they are making an impression upon the country and the Charleston Conven- tion. The great issue that is to be fought over has been stated over and over again by the repub- lican leaders and orators. Seward proclaimed it at Rochester eighteen months since; Helper printed it, and sixty-eight republican members of Congress endorsed it a year since; John Brown practised it, and has become the martyr and saint of the party. Theodore Parker postulated it, and Wendell Phillips and Joshua R. Giddings are now preaching it, and will continue to preach it until the November elections have taken place. Senator Wilson, one of the most elo- quent stump speakers the black repub- lican party possesses, whose master was Wm. Lloyd Garrison, and whose preacher is Theodore Parker, has stated it distinctly on the floor of the Senate within the past three weeks. We give in another column several extracts from a reeent speech of his. He states the question squarely in his opening. The con- test is with slavery; it is a moral evil, a deadly sin, a covenant with hell; it is growing strong, and must be weakened; it is extending, and must be restricted; it is living, and must be killed. Taking advantage of the arms fur- nished him by the metaphysical distinctions of democratic Senators, he winds up his perora- tion with a fling at the extension of slavery, not directly at its existence. But neither the subtle art of Wilson, nor the foolish ab- stractions of Douglas, Jefferson Davis and other ambitious democrats, can change the issue. Ifthe republicans elect their President the constitution is to be interpreted as an anti- slavery instrument, and to be administered as an abolition compact. The army and navy of the United States are to be used for the work begun with John Brown’s pikes. This is revolution. This is civil war. This is the destruction of the principle of self- government, and the proclamation that a small part shall govern the whole. This is the inau- guration of the reign of fanaticism and frenzy. It will sweep over this Union like a whirl- wind over a prairie on fire, scattering flames and bloodshed in every quarter, destroying property in the North as well as the South, and breaking up every bond of the Union, every family tie, every hope of leaving our present inheritance to our children. Let the demo- cratic Senators and the party look the evil and the danger square in the face, and, throwing overboard such foolish hairsplitters as Douglas and Davis, take up the defence of the conser- vative cause and save the country from the ruin in which the revolutionary black repub- licans would involve it. Tae Aso.ition Press Upon tHe Hickman anp Epmunpson Drrricutry.—Some of the, black republican journals of this city are endeavoring to make an excitement out of the recent personal conflict at Washington between Mr. Edmundson, of Virginia, and Mr. Hickman, of Pennsylvania, arising out of some offensive remarks of the latter made in the House. These papers would represent it as- another Brooks and Sumner assault, and at- tempt to draw the inference from this personal rencontre between two individuals—Edmund- son and Higkman—that an organized assault is designed by Southern members upon their Northern fellow members; and they would hold the entire South responsible for the hasty, foolish and reprehensible conduct of a few individuals, charging the South with brutality, violence and all that sort of thing, which is manifestly unjust. This recent collision, and the cause which pro- duced it, is only evidence that some Northern members, as well as some of those from the South, are violent, discourteous and unparlia- mentary in their language. In this instance Mr. Hickman charged the South generally, and Virginia in particular, with cowardice, poltroonery, and so forth, saying that the State of Virginia had been frightened by seventeen white men, fivenegroes and a cow, or something to that effect—language which Mr. Edmundson, of Virginia, thought pme- per to resent bya personal attack upon Mr. Hickman, in which he was restrained by Mr. Keitt and Mr. Breckinridge, gentlemen who have some experience in affairs of this kind, and who have learned prudence by that expe- rience. Some time previous, Mr. Pryor, of Vir- ginia, in the course of a speech, used unparlia- mentary andimproper language to Mr. Hick- man, designating some statement of his as “false;” and because his conduct was com- mented upon in a moderate fashion, he became savage, and abused every one that came near him. A confederate from another Southern State followed up the quarrel by moving the expulsion from the House of the reporters of a paper which very properly and truthfully styled Mr. Pryor’s language unparliamentary. The truth is, that members of Congress, frem the North and the South alike, are too prone to make words used in debate on public questions the subject of personal difficulties, than which nothing can be more absurd. It would be well if speakers could confine them- selves within the limits of courtesy and parlia- mentary rules, and it is most unseemly to de- ecend to offensive language in debating upon great isques such as that now agitating the country. Language such as that employed by Mr. Hickman was, no doubt, calculated to ex- asperate Southern members; but our advice to these gentlemen is, not to allow themselves to be provoked into any display of personal vio- lence, which only serves to expose them to the unjust and partiai gensure of abolition jour- nals, which are only too glaa Qf the opportu- nity to throw the onus of individual errorapda the entire South, and misrepresent every {fair of that character as an evidence of Southern violence and brutality, whereas, unfortunately, asfar as Congress has furnished an example, the charge should rest equally upon members from beth sections of the gguatry. Presidential Electioncering» As the period spproaches when the Pre- eldential Conventions will assemble at Charles- ton and Chicago, the electioneering, as it is technically called among the lead- ing men of the various factions, grows more and more warm every day. We have already alluded, at some length, to the operations in the republican camp, which is di- vided into two cliques—one engineered by old Blair, of Silver Springs, and going for Mr. Bates, of Missouri, and the other worked by Thurlow Weed, in the interest of Mr. Seward. The object of both these experienced politi- cians appears to be to make the choice of the delegates to Chicago fall upon Bates or Seward by consolidating their respective strength upon those candidates to the exclusion of all others. The republicans have a very plentiful crop of candidates, but Seward and Bates seem to be the only ones for whom there is anything like powerful and effective election- eering. They have been prepared for the field in the most artistic way, and their chances seem to be about even, so far as the nomination is concerned. On the other hand, the demoerats, who have high hopes of ultimate success, whoever may be taken up at Charleston, are gradually set- tling down to the programme of operations not unjike that of the other side, As many as eight or ten men have been named prominent- ly for the succession. We have had Wise and Hunter, and Stephens, and Toombs, and Sli- dell, and Johnson, and Jeff. Davis, from the South; Lane and Douglas from the West, and Pierce from the Northeast. Matters seem now to be settling down, so that Douglas and poor Pierce are the chief candidates in the field. Mr. Douglas has many powerful and hard working friends in the North and West, who are making capital for him by claiming a great deal of strength in advance. We are told that delegations are pledged even before they have been selected. Of course, Mr. Dou- glas will have considerable strength at Charles- ton, ashe had at Baltimore in 1852, and Cin- cinnati in 1856. No onecan tell exactly how this strength will be distributed, or how much of it will come from the South and Southwest, which is the important, we may say the vital, point of the whole matter. Meanwhile, it is believed that Jeff. Davis is engineering for poor Pieree, and that his new move with the democratic Senators has been made to help along this game. If Davis could bring about poor Pierce’s election, it would be the best thing for the Mississippi Senator that could happen to him, next to being President himself; for poor Pierce would be nothing more than a puppet in Davis’ hands. Poor Pierce’s friends are very hard at work in his own State. The general election there comes off next month—just in season to operate on Charleston; and if they can manage to carry the State for the democracy, they think they can have matters in the National Convention their own way. The home organs of poor Pierce—the Concord Patriot and Boston Post— persist in denying that he déiires the nomina- tion; but the Democratic Standard, printed at Concord, is out with an artiele which positively avers that Pierce isin the field for the succession. ‘The proofs to support this assertion are the recent publication of the correspondence between Pierce and the members of his Cabinet, which was exhumed after haying been buried more than three years; the choice of two of his friends and confidential agents as delegates at large from New Hampshire te the National Convention, and other straws that show which way the wind blows. The Standard states that Pierce’s present game is the same which he played at Baltimore in 1852; that his expedi- tion to Bermuda is a mere “ruse to gull the flats,” and soon. The Standard is opposed to Pierce, and declares that he is as much of a traitor to the democracy as his friends, Forney, and Hamilton of Maine, both of whom have gone over to the enemy. Pierce’s nomination would “ swamp the democratic party irretriev- ably; it would fall like the pall of* death upon the democratic party of the North, and insure its inevitable defeat. He could not carrya single free State.” All this, and much more to the same purpose, is said very emphatically by our Concord cotemporary, whose platform is, no reelection, no restoration—one term Presidents. It appears, then, that, so far as the North and West are concerned, Mr. Buchanan being po- sitively out of the way, the choice at Charles- ton is between poor-Pierce and Douglas. The latter is working secretly, while the former is oiling, and curling, and cutting, and shaving and dressing himself—making his political toilet, in fact, for Charleston, while his friends are endeavoring to smooth his path in advance There is one circumstance, however, which does not seem to have occurred to the political phi- losophers who are doing all the electioneering. With one or two exceptions, the wirepullers for Douglas and poor Pierce live in the North and West, and represént no Southern strength. Pierce’s men are nearly all from New England, which would not give an electoral vote for the angel Gabriel if he run on the democratic tick- et. They are either placeholders or ci-devant spoilsmen, who hope to get another dash at the Presidential kitchen, which was so fat in Forney and Sidney Webster’s time. Douglas is a little better off, but not much. In the North and West there are a few doubtful States; and such is the demoralization of the democracy that the number does not increase materially by the lapse of time. Count out New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois, and the free States are irretrieva- bly lost to the democratic party. The man, whomsoever he may be, that is put up at arleston, will owe his nomination, as well as election—if he should be elected—to South- ern votes; and the Southern delegates, not being mere politicians who count on being plaeeholders of some grade, high or low, will not be found such convenient tools as the wirepullers may imagine. As the bulk of the democratic vote, pure and simple, must come from the South; as Mr. Douglas has declared that he -will accept the Charleston candidate and platform, whoever he and whatever it may be; as the conservative vote of the North may be relied on by the South in any event, then it is quite clear that it is the South and not the North which will select the candidate. The South has the game in its own hands, and the delegates from that section will not be such fools as to be blind to their own advantage. Perhaps it would be just ag well for the ad: herents of Mr. Donglas and the supporters of poor Pierce to turn over these little matters in their minds. They will not find the South so pliable nor the climate of Charleston 80 genial as they may hope just at present, British Subscriptions for Creating Revo- lutions im the United States. In the last number of Garrison's sbo- lition paper appears a list of the names of those who have contributed to the abo- lition cause in the United States—the cause of revolution by bloodshed, for which its advo- cates claim that John Brown died a martyr. We find that the sum of six thousand dollars was contributed in all,a large proportion of the amount being from England. Among the subscribers are:—Thomas and Esther Sturge, of Nortbfleet, England, $1,000; Mrs, H. Payne, of Bolton, do., $110; Miss Whitlegge, of Manches- ter, do., $60; Mrs. Stephens, of Bristol, $230; | William Robson, of Barrington, $175; Mrs. Thorp, of Halifax (Eng.), $110; J. Lupton, of Leeds, $135; Andrew Paton, of Glasgow, $175; Mrs. Wigham, of Edinburg, including the subseriptions of her friends, $260; Mrs. Edmundson, of Dublin (Ireland), including subscriptions of friends, $150; the Haughton family, $66; R. D. Webb, of Dublin, for self and friends, $155; Madame Meynieu, of Paris, being the only subscriber from France or the Continent of Europe, $8. The list now pub- lished is only an instalment of what is yet to come through the operations of Fred. Dou- lass. & ‘This is an attempt made to revolutionize the United States by British subscriptions, and the recipients of the money here openly invite British and French arms, and the arms of Eu- ropean nations generally, to attack this country, which they guarantee will become their easy prey on account of its weak spot—slavery— which only wants a breath of pure air wafted across from the other side of the Atlantic to fan it into an unquenchable flame. John Brown, it is in evidence, was in England before he en- fered upon his revolutionary crusade in Kansas, Missouri and Virginia; and it appears from the testimony of Governor Robinson, pub- lished in Saturday’s Herat», that Realf, Hinton and Kagi, Phillips and Redpath, who were aiding John Brown in Kansas, were foreigners, and that their mission was to: prevent peace in the Territory, in order that the flames of revo- lution and servile insurrection might spread over the whole Southern States. This is their own confession, made to Mr. Robinson, a leader of the free State men of Kansas, who thus cor- roborates the admissions of Colonel Forbes— another Englishman—and the statements of the Kansas Herald of Freedom as to Brown and his companions. Governor Robinson swears that “Brown did not go to Kansas to settle, but on account of the difficulties which he expect- ed would extend until the country generally sheuld become involved and slavery be abo- lished. His object was not peace, but revolu- tion, arid differed in this respect from the free State men generally. The only other person whaavowed to the witness a similar object was James Redpath. After he had lost all hope of accomplishing his object, he related to the witness the designs of himself and some others whe were operating with him. He said but few were in their secret, although many were operating with them. The reason of his opposition to taking possession of the Territo- rial and Lecompton State government at the ballot box was because he saw. in such @ policy an end to the disturbances, and consequently to his hopes of revolution. Hence he andthose with him, who were chiefty reporters of the press, made war upon all who were likely to aid in securing quiet, in order to destroy their influence with the people.” Redpath did well to run away when served with a subpoena, which could. not be made to compel his attendance, on account of the prevailing disaffection in Boston, and the sympathy for John Brown. He has escaped “to parts unknown,” which tells a tale for the. loyalty of Massachusetts to the Union and the constitution. He will probably turn up in England cheek by jowl with Fred Douglass. He and the other Englishmen engaged in the business are in the pay of the British aristo- cracy, and are emissaries from. Stafford House and Exeter Hall. John Brown got the princi- pal portion of his funds from England to carry on the revolution; and Lerd Brougham, we hear, is to agitate the subject in the British Parlia- ment, in order to counteract the reaction on the subject imdicated by the London Times. The report of the Anti-Slavery Society, which accompanies the list of subscriptions, says its correspondence contradicts that journal as to the changed temper of Great Britain towards abolitionism. One letter “froma leading mind in London,” says:—“The name of John Brown is knowa and revered throughout England, even inthe kitchens and cottages. Our servants read all that has appeared about him with an avidity and sympathy and admiration of his character which I could not describe, while the ch@ap publications have borne the facts of the affair into the humblest peasants’ cottages in all parts of the kingdom.” Another letter says:—‘‘As to the feeling in England, you cannot doubt it is entirely with you.” The report adds:—“All our English correspondence shows that the Daily News and the Morning Advertiser are the organs of Eng- lish public sentiment—not the Times.” All this, however, does not get rid of the fact borne witness to by the London 7imes, that the British West India Islands have been destroyed by abolition. Does “English public senti- ment” desire the same fate for half the States of this Union? Meantime, might it not be as well for the British abolitioniste, of both high and low degree, to expend alittle of their sympathy and their money on the serfs of their own country and the miserable objects which meet the eyes of all travellers in their towns, whom the author of “Alton Locke,” one of their own writers, describes as ‘savages, without the re- sources of a savage—slaves, without the pro- tection of a master—to whom the cartwhip and the rice swamp would be a change for the bet- ter—for there, at least, are food and shelter.” Tue Fixe Arts In THE Provinces.—We see that Page’s “Venus” has been shown in the principal cities and towns throughout the country, and, judging from the journals, its ex- hibitor has made rather a good business opera- tion of it. In Boston the picture was admitted within the classic portals of the Atheneum; but at Philadelphia it was rigidly ruled out of the Academy of Fine Arts. The Puritans of the Yankee Athens, who claim a greater de- gree of catholicism in art than can be found elsewhere in the country, declared that there was nothing indecent or impure in this picture, the work of an artist who had been encouraged and patronized by some of the first men in Boston, while the Quakers in Philadelphia took exactly the opposite view. The provin- cial newspapers generally praise the picture, the editors eee nothing impure about ft, and givett » high srsce cae of th art word. fs sutue weala not to take it to Chicago, Judging by recent de- velopements of social life in that city, the exhi- bition of a picture which has attained the pecu- liar notoriety enjoyed by that of Mr. Page would prove exceedingly lucrative, res The Position of the Pope—What Is to be Dome with Him?t=—The Mecca of the Catholic World. The revolution in commercial circles ig Europe, caused by the bold free trade policy of Napoleun the Third, had the effect of hiding the Pope from view for alittle time. But now that the now commercial system has been fairly inaugurated, much of the surprise and excitement has passed away, and the old ques- tion once more arises—what is to become of the Pope and the Popedom? The question is one of vast impor‘ance, whether we consider the influence it exercises on the civilization of the world, or the imynense numbers of people who are interested im its solution. Independent of the millions of Catholicsall over the world— ® great proportion of’ whom are opposed to the temporal dominion: of his Holiness—there are thousands of other people watching the developement of the probi‘em with the deepest interest. But although thre is a thick sort of nebulosity still settling ove t the Eternal City, the question of the temporal , sovereignty of the Pope may be said to be alre, wy settled. His Holiness is perfectly helpless, and must fall back upon the spiritual inherita 1ce of his pre- decessors before the era of Conm ‘antine and of Pepin. In those good old times the succes- sors of St. Peter had not a rood of land that they could call their own, and yet they found their spiritual charge arather difficult matter in itself. It is plain that Pius the Ninth has to come back t¢ ‘the old spiritual plan, which is by far the best; for the church and for hgnself. If there be a Cor 1gress for the arrangement of the affairs of Haly *, the question may be resolved by that august bh 9dy; but if there be no Congress, then the Burpe tor Napoleon will himself dispose of it. In fa ct, the progress of liberal ideas and the merch of human freedom have made such giant stride 8 of late, that such an anomaly as the Popedom— - half spiritual and half temporal—can no longet * be permitted to stand in the way of eivitiaw - tion. Situated as his Holiness now is; he will before long find himself compelled to:ac- cept the liberal terms offered him by the Em-! peror of the French. The result will be thas. Italy, which will then be very nearly free “from the Alps to the Adriatic,” will be con- solidated and become the sixth great Power of Europe. The Pope will exercise a spiritual rule over this new confederation of twenty- seven millions of people; and'the Italians, who are now so testy and ill hamored under his temporal rule, will be loyal, patient and obe- dient to him as their spiritual shepherd. Pine the Ninth will thus be necessitated to fall back upon the position of the Popes in the time of Charlemagne; and it will be impossible for the Catholic church or apy other hierarchy to stop the progress of the world for the future. The spiritual mission of popes and priests is more than enough for thom, without dabbling in the science of human gove ernment, of which they can Enow nothing. | Trained and educated in convents and in clois- ters—shut out from the great humanizing in- fluences which are continually at work in. the world about them—they are not fit to grapple with the duties of the statesman and the legislator, but are especially designed to deal with the musty themes of theology and polemics, || Their mission is exclusively to the souls- of men; and while men have to labor to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, they will never be brought to submit to any rulers but those who are willing to advance with the progressive impulee of the age. Priestly rule being entirely opposed to this, their places must be filled by those who will encourage in- dustry, foster commerce, and give the widest impulse to a country’s developement. The ol@ Catholic idea, as we all know, has always. been restrictive. To the Catholic church it has been nothing but good pictures, good statues, and very good souls, But these ideas now motheaten, exploded and decayed, and can no longer stand in the teeth of the en- lightenment of mankind. But although the Pope must be shorn of his temporality and his mimic sovereignty, yet hia position wilt be a desirable if not an enviable one. Falling back upon the great old city of Rome, with all its historic recollections, its intellect, its architecture, its science and its art, his Holiness will be able to build up for himself a monument more lasting than the brazen memo- rial spoken of by one of the most favored poets of ancient Rome. By con- tenting himself with the exercise of his spiritual authority, he will find time to collect all the ancient wonders and curiosities of the Eternal City—to concentrate them in some central focus, and to make the Seven-Hilled City the great museum of the world. What a tri- umphant work would this be for the Pope. People would flock to Rome—like the Mahom- medansto Mecca—from every part of the civil- ized globe. That splendid city would form the greatest world’s fair that has ever been known under the direction and con- trol of the Pope. It would be a Bar- num’s Museum on a large scale, without any of the humbug of Barnum’s enterprise. All the magnificent paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, of the ancient as well as the modern school, would be brought together, and in the elaboration of such a great civiliz- ing work, the Pope and his cardinals would find abundant and useful occupation. They could then well afford to leave temporal princes to take care of themselves; and when diplomats grow old and enervated—like Met- ternich—the Pope will be there in his turn, as a spiritual rock, for them to fall back upon, as Charles the Fifth did in the sixteenth century; and as earthly scenes begin to fade from their sight, he could calmly step forth from his great modern museum to soften their dying pillows and to help them forward on thelr way toHeaven. This will be a more glorious work than being compelled to shed the blood of the faithful, as at Perugis. ———$<——_—- Tux Pvsuic Parting Scrampee.—The House made an effort yesterday te elect a Printer. There were two ballots, when the death of Sena- tor Broderick was sxymounced, and the matter was postponed til] to-day, The struggle is now between Defrees, the Weed candidate, and Glosebrenper, the late Sergeant-at-Arms, the man who kept the members in funds daring 4 \ f ;