The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1860, Page 4

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CORNER OF THIRTEENTH STREET AND ANENUE.—Cauironms Menacenia. — a 84 BROADWAY.—Cativonmis Gown Murina Exarst- New York, Monday, June 15, 1960. The News. By the steamships Hammonia at this port, and the Bohemian at Farther Point, we have four days later intelligence from Europe. The success of Garibaldi at Palermo is said to be complete and de- cisive. A capitulation had been signed between General Lanza and Garibaldi and the Revolutionary Committee. The capitulation stipulates that the Neapolitan army, 25,000 strong, shall quit Palermo with all the honors of war, and embark with their materiel on board the Neapolitan squadron. There ‘were rumors that the King had refused to ratify the Capitulation, and that the fighting had recom- menced, but they proved to be unfounded. Letters from Naples state that a grand manifestation had taken place there, during which shouts for “Emanuel,” ‘Garibaldi’ and “Sicily” were freely given. It was thought the Great East- @rn would sail on the 23d inst., but no day had been absolutely fixed upon. Lord Palmerston had granted a steamship for the purpose of making a Survey and soundings for the proposed line of tele- graph from England to America via the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. The Liverpool Cotton market showed a declining tendency, and prices were barely maintained. It was mentioned some time since by telegraph that General Walker, with a party of officers, had Jeft New Orleans in a sailing vessel for some point in Central America, but the fact elicited very little attention from the public. It may be interesting to our readers to learn that it is now stated by parties who are supposed to be well informed on the mat- ter, that his destination is one of the Bay islands which have been recently re-ceded by England to the repoblic of Honduras. We published a short time ago the fact that the people of Ruatan had protested against returning under the sway of the Honduras government, so that they are fat present, as it were, independent. The island is Populated by about four thousand people, of a mixed race, the Indian and West India negro pre- ponderating. The probability is that Walker ex- pects to create some kind of a government organi- gation there, and thas obtain @ foothold for himself somewhere in the Central American region, with a view to future action. In the Human of Sanday we published a synop- fis of the majority report of the Covode Investi- gating Committee, submitted by Mr. Train, of Mas- sachusetts. This morning we give a summary of the minority report of Gov, Winslow, which is to be submitted to the House to-day. The report of Gov. Winslow shows up the objects and intents of the majority of the committee, which, it states, ‘were not to ascertain the truth, buts mere trick and contrivance to obtain evidence to be ased for Purposes. Advices from Arizona Territory, received at St. be doings of the Japanese yesterday, with very interesting sketch of “Tommy,” the speci- men of Young Japan, are given in our paper this morning. The official reception of the Embassy by the Mayor and Common Council will take place at the City Hall at half-past one “o'clock this after- ‘The overtand mail coach, with San Francisco Gates to the 28th of May, arrived at Springfield, Mo., last evening. Incessant rains had prevailed ‘at San Francisco, and but little business bad been transacted. From Carson Valley we learn that 6,000 Indians were in the vicinity of Pyramid and 600 Indians and 200 United troops bad gone to attack them and rear, The rumors of Indian on Butter creek is confirmed, and that neighborhood seem determined The station of the Pony Express at Park had been burned down, supposed to have been set fire to by the Indians. Our special despatch from Baltimore this morn. fog, furnishes os with the ramors, gossip, &c., as to the course of Democratic Convention which is to famemble in that city to-day. ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday were confined to a few FFE anchanged. Wheat opened with more firmness and was to good demand for export, with wwlerably frow glee at full prices. Corn was in good supply and the market heavy, while purchases were to a fair extent; the tern of the market was io (avor of purchasers. Pork few hundred bhda. at full prices. Onflee wae firmiy held, ‘ith Tight qales. There was 6 tm Cassia, nd anion of 40,000 mate wore at 180. & 19}G0. cliques persist in their dissensions, and that is the division of their own partisans, and the withdrawal from the support of all of them by the honest national sentiment of the country. This gives the election to Lincoln by default and the division of the elements opposed to him. ents concur in stating that the dissensions which marked the Convention at Charleston are to be renewed at Baitimore. Resolutions aiming at men and not at principles are to be introduced, to widen existing breaches and to increase the present feeling of partisan bitterness. New bar- meets to-day something like the following returns from the Presidential election in November, as will be clear to every man who has watched the varia- tions of the popular majorities during the last twelve years. A split in the democratic party will give to Lincoln, besides the acknowledged black republican States, the doubtful ones of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana and Mlinois. The running of two democratic tickets in the South would give to Bell, by plurality, the electoral votes of Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and probably Virginia. Houston would carry Texas, and a Southern sectional candidate might possibly receive a majority in South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, This leaves, as a matter for conten- tion between four Presidential candidates, the States of Missouri, California and Oregon. it shows how utterly absurd are the quarrels which the cliques are keeping up between themselves. They look at everything with pas- sion, and their judgments are blinded even to the immediate circumstances of their own position. The extreme Souther men will not see that the action of their stituents in sending them back timore, mond idea, is a rejection of their sectional- ism. The delegates from the acknowledged black republican States will not recognise the fact that, if they drive off the South, and thus lose the prestige of their national character, they never can hope to obtain a majority in their own States. In the Central States the de- mocratic politicians well know that their only hope lies in the nomination of a national candi- date, and hence their readiness to bargain with the extremes, and to cheat them all if they think the winning chance lies elsewhere. The fact is, sectionalism can never prevail in this country, either North or South, if the national sentiment fs left free to combat it; and the only dapger the country now incurs is the triumph of the Northern abolitionists through the divi- sion of their opponents. for them by a set of greedy, selfish and short- sighted political office hunters who have suc- ceeded in obtaining control of the Convention by a vicious system of party organization. There is not a single element of popular freedom in the present construction. A few office holders or office seekers, in the guise of a General Committee, call for primary party elections, and appoint their own inspectors thereto. The polls are opened in some low groggety, and surrounded by a few hired bullies and shoulder-hitters, and after a few hours the inspectors make their official returns to the General Com- mittee, in conformity to the arrangement this body had already prepared. Thus, a ward or county convention is packed, which goes on packing, according to the will of the tion and Attendant Dangers. To-day the adjourned Charleston Convention meets at Baltimore, and the eyes of the whole country are turned towards it, to see if the po- liticians who compose and manage it are equal to the occasion, which requires them to lay aside their personal preferences for the safety of the common good. The crisis is a great one. From one end of the country to the other—in every city, village and hamlet—the true majority of the people desire that the government shall be saved from the control of the abolition fanatics aud dema- gogues that have made a common cause to se” cure possession of it. The destructive tenden- cies of the ideas they have proclaimed as the rule of government sre universally acknow- ledged, and all hope to be saved from the terri- ble ordeal. Safety lies in the union of the na- tional sentiment against the revolutionary as- sault, and this union is rendered to all appear- ance impracticable by the personal contests of ambitious aspirants, and their disputes on abstract differences which have little or 20 connection with the great issue before the people. While they are quarreling for office and spoits, the great mass of the commmnity are learning to hold them in the contempt they merit for ig- noring the common interest in their short- sighted greed. From this state of things there is but one possible result to be obtained if the Our Baltimore and Washington correspond- gains and new treacheries are to be combined, and the final severance of the democratic organization is to be consummated. Such a conclusion to the Convention that at Baltimore will give Here we have the matter ina nutshell, and con- to Bal- instead of supporting the Rich- This is the work that is now being performed mode of party managers, until the last point of @ national conveadion, like that at Baltimore, has been reached, While the system was new and its details were unknown to the public, it worked well enough, but now these have become too transparent to command the public confidence any longer, and the only hope of success that the politicians who compose them can entertain lies in the merit of the candidates they nomi- nate. The gradual decline in the moral stan- dard of the representative men in convention that bas followed the increased confidence which politicians have acquired in managing the public has led the shoulder-hitters to claim the position of Councilmen, bullies to insist upon seats in Congress, and pothouse politicians and shrewd intriguers to aspire to the Presi- dency. This infamous system of party organi ration is approaching its end. The result is hastened by the quarrels of the cliques, and if they persist therein at Baltimore, and do not unite upon a national man, in whom the people have confidence, they will have dug their own grave and Jeaped into it with their iniquitous system, to be covered by the country with a complete and permanent forgetfulness. Crrwe 1x New Yors.—It is a common complaint that in this great metropolitan city of ours a vast amount of crime goes unpunished. Thare is, unfortunately, but too much truth in the stace- ment, for owing to political and other influences criminals often manage to escape the penalty of their offences. And yet, notwithstanding these occasional perversions of justice, the records of ourcriminal courts during the present year would ——— | The Baltimore Convention—tts Compost- of crime in New startled by them. sell, there were, in January last, forty convic- tions. Seventeen of the prisoners were sent to the State prison, nineteen to the Penitentiary, two to the City prison, and fines were imposed upon them. In February there were, in the same court, sixty-six convictions. Twenty-se- ven of the parties were sent to the State pri- son, twenty-five to the P enitentiary, two to the House of Refuge, and fines were imposed on twelve. Atthe February Oyer and Terminer there were seventeen convictions, of which two were for murder, and two for assault with intent to kill. Thir- teen prisoners were sent to the State prison, one to the City prison, one to the Penitentiary, and two were sentenced to be executed. At the Sessions in March there were fifty-#ix convic- tions. Twenty-four prisoners were ‘sent to the State prison, sixteen to the Penitentiary, two to the City prison, four to the House of Refuge, and fines wore imposed on fourteen. At the tions. Ten prisoners were sent to the State pri- son, eleven to the Penitentiary, one to the House of Refuge, and fines were imposed on five. A the April Oyer and Terminer there was one con- viction, and the party was sent to the State prison. At the Sessions in May there were seventy-six convictions. Forty-two of the parties were sent te the State prison, twenty-three to the Penitentiary, four to the House of Refuge, five to the City prison, and fines were imposed on three. three hundred convictions in courts of record during the first five months of the present year. Besides these there were, at the Special Sessions held in January, 1,207 convictions; in February, 1,201; in March, 1,677, and in April, victed in the Court of Special Sessions during the above term of 5,788. Judging from these facts, we are led to the gratifying conclusion that, notwithstanding occasional failures of justice, the law has been, on the whole, fairly vindicated during the period covered by these statistics. . Triumph of the Sicilian Insurrection— monia at this port and the Bohemian at Farther Point, the details of the fall of Palermo and the capitulation of the gov- ernment troops. The manner in which the assault was conducted proves that Garibaldi possesses higher military qualities than those of a mere guerilla leader. Considering the im- mense difficulties he had to deal with, the dis- parity of his force as compared with the army under Lanza, which amounted to aboat 25,000 men, and his deficiencies in artillery and bat- tering trains, the capture of Palermo may be regarded as one of the boldest and most dashing achievements recorded in the annals of warfare. sources, may be thus briefly stated. By the 26th of May Garibaldi had entirely swept the country around Palermo of the adherents of the government, General Lanza, as was previously mentioned, had concentrated his troops “in a position which enabled him at once to cover the city on the side of the regular approaches from the interior, and to bring his entire force into action when the occasion pre- sented Garibaldi been opposed to him, it is probable that the dispositions he had made would have proved sufficient for the defence of the city. It is the misfortune of military tacti- cians, however, that when they have to deal with self-educated warriors like the hero of Varese, they do not take into account the con- tempt of the latter for the theories and tradi- tions of the military schools and the pedantries of the camp. on strictly correct principles than to guard against the irregular modes of warfare prac- tised by leaders who have not graduated in military science. when the facts come to be investigated, that it’ was to this depreciation of the military genius of the revolutionary chief that the prompt fall of the city was mainly owing. How else are we to account for the fact of 25,000 disciplined troops, under an experienced general, being so imme- diately and thoroughly whipped by a force which there is reason to believe at no time ex- ceeded five thousand men. his opponent's strict adherence to precedent afforded him. At four o'clock he made a sudden attack the town from the suburb called Pepe- rito, which being next the sea, and cover- ed, as it was supposed, by the government ves- sels in the harbor, had been left comparatively NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1860. go to establish a creditable degree of energy and z@a! on the part of those who are entrusted with the duty of administering the laws. From the ollowing facts, which we gather from official sources, some idea may be formed of the amount of hard work which devolves on our city Judges. Those who are unacquainted with the extent York will be somewhat In the Court of Sessions, before Judge Rus- ten for manslaughter, April Sessions there were twenty-six convic- The above shows an aggregate of about 1,703;—making a grand total of offenders con- Capitulation of General Lanza at Pa- lermo. We have received by the steamship Ham- The-facts, as they reach us through official itself. Had any other leader than They prefer rather to be beaten It will probably be found, Garibaldi profited by the advantage which on the north side of unprotected. No sooner did he force his way into this part of the city than the people rose en masse and attacked the troops with whatever weapons they could lay their hands upon, and in two or three hours the whole of Palermo was in the hands of the insurgents, with the excep- tion of the citadel, into which the government troops retired. It is eaid that during the con- flict three regiments went over to the liberals, and it may have been the fear of a more gene- ral defection that induced General Lanza to subsequently take the step which, so far as Sicily is concerned, virtually terminates this contest. Be that as it may, the Neapolitan commanders, with the savage ferocity which has distinguished them all through the insurrec- tion, continued to bombard the city during the whole of Sunday, and they killed a great num- ber of the inhabitants, besides destroying many houses and public buildings. On the following day Garibaldi, with the aid of « park of artille- ty, which he had suoceeded in capturing, stormed the citadel. We have no particulars of the assault, but it must have been attended with beavy loas, as it was strongly fortified and well provided with ammunition and provisions. General Lanza must, however, have become aware that his men were not to be relied upon, for after a few hours siege he made up his mind to capitulate, and the articles were arranged on board her Britannic Majesty's ship Hannibal, and the whole force embarked. There is some doubt as to the precise character of the terms agreed upon. In one deapateh it is stated that the government commander was allowed to cularly as he stands urgently in need of artil- lery for his descent on the main land. be made by the government troops garrison- ing the other towns on the island to resist the authority of Geribaldi. It is more probable that the fall of Palermo has been the signal for them to lay down their arms and abandon a struggle which Lanza’s defeat must have taught them is hopeless. Thus, in very little more than three weeks from the date of his landing,, the Italian hero has made himself master of the island and virtual arbiter of the destinies of the Neapolitan kingdom. The London Times, which has alternately petted and sneered at him, may well say that euch a feat of arms has been seldom related in history. ‘The Old East’s Greeting to the New West. Hendrick Hudson's ships kissed the nobl¢iriver | which bears his name, we aocount the official visit of the Japanose dignitaries, who were re- ceived on Saturday with all due pomp and cere- mony. The details of the affair, the splendid appearance of the cortege, the magnificent en- semble presented by our great avenue, the su- perb military display, the immense masses of people who filled Broadway and the adjacent streets, were fully described in our ample respect the reception was a grand affair, and one worthy the occasion and of the city. No more remarkable scene has been presented to the civilized world than that which New York witnessed on Saturday. Japan,a nation which has existed in a compact form during more than thirty centuries, sends a first class Embassy to pave the way for relations of amity and com- merce between the old East and the new West. eran Japan to young America, the ado- turies of age. Through the energy, perseve- verance and diplomatic skill of a New York merchant—one of the few happy selections for diplomatic honors that our government has ever made—the imperial government of Japan has been induced to send its first mission to us, ignoring, for the time being, the European Powers, andgnagnifying the commercial import- ance of the United States to a very great extent. To us the manners and customs of the Japa- nese are as a leaf from an Oriental book; while to them the habits, the speech, the social con- dition, the sayings and doings of the strange people who have made so much of them, must present an inexplicable mystery. This inter- change of relations between nations so widely differing from each other in almost every re- spect is indeed a curious spectacle. It has, however, a deeper significance than may be ap- parent at first sight. All these shows and parades mean something. their rude throats to shout an fron welcome to the Japanesé, a million of people responded most beartily to the salutation, which expressed at once our pride at the magnificence of our city, and our gratification that it should be thus honored over and above the great cities of the Old World, for this is fnot only the first Japa- nese mission, but it is the first important Em- bassy from the far Orient ever sent freely to a Western power. the imperial city of the West in its finest aspect. We gave them the types of the new civiliza- tion towards which they are advancing. Japan has now reached only the medieval era, the feudal period. We, on the contrary, have passed far beyond that, and are trying the ex- periment of free institations, perfect equality before the law between man and man, the abo- lition of all bereditary distinctions, and self- government in its most active sense. The sys- tem has never before been tried upon a grand scale; and while it has its imperfections, like all other human inventions, we have managed under it to present to the world the most won- derful example of national progress that it has ever seen. These facts will recommend them- selves especially to the attention of our guests. They will notice as well the great diversity of © with him bis war materiel, and no men-! gr the other + “a ever, We have thé Japanese to niaae much of for the next week or two, and by the time they have departed the Great Rasteta will be float- ing in the waters of the bay, the pynosure of all eyes, metropolitan snd provincltl probability is that the monster ehig @ill re- main with us a month or two. That, howeve" depends upon the amount of enthusiasm she may create. The Prince of Wales is to leave England for Canada about the middle of July. and, as of course he will travel over his royal mother’s dominions pretty thoroughly before visiting the United States, he cannot be ex- pected in New York before the middle of Sep- tember. Thus it will be seen that our metro- politan sensations are most fortunately arranged by circumstances so as to extend over the en tire summer. tion is madé of a stipulation that the troops should not be landed at some other point of the Sicilian coast. Chivalrous a3 he is, we think it very improbable that Garibaldi would omit providing for these two points, the more parti- It is not likely that any further effort will reports. We are gratified to say that in almost every This Embassy comes from vet- lescent giant of the West, as yet not three cen- When the cannon from the Battery opened We presented to the Japanese on Saturday religious opinion which prevails among us. They will find here representatives of all the different sects of Christians which sprung up in Asia Mi- nor—the Jew and the Gentile alike free to wor- ship in such form and manner as may seem to him best. They will perceive, too, that the wise action of the founders of our government has prevented any evil results from arising out of this conflict of theories; that religion with us is, as it appears to be with them, asocial and fami- ly matter; and that no particular, creed or sect has official recognition here. They must per- ceive that to this perfect freedom of opinion, this careful limitation of the powers of the go- vernment, this jealous shielding of the natural rights of the individual, the great prosperity of the nation, its vast commerce and material pro- gress, is in a great degree due. Thus jthe ef- fect of their visit cannot fail to have a most im- portant bearing on the social and political condi- tion of Japan, while it gives us @ proper recog- nition as the Power which will yet be, if it is not now, freely acknowledged as commercially the first in the world. It is eminently fitting, therefore, that we should all unite to pay due hospitalities to the Japanese Princes. Let us send them away from the Empire City with the confirmation of their preconceived and most correct idea, that New York is America. Tre Programme or Scwmer Seysations.— ‘The opening scene in the drama of metropoli- tan eummer sensations was enacted on Saturday with an eclat anda brilliancy which equalled the highest expectations. The curtain rose upon the entree of the Japanese Embassy, and presented a spectacle which, for novelty and enthusiasm, has never been equalled in New York. It was thought that the sensation programme would prove too crowded, and that the rapid succession of great sights would spoil the in- terest in some of them, and damp the ardor of the populace; but, by a lncky circumstance, it irns out that the programme as arranged is about as perfect as the best friends of the New Yorkers could desire. Had the Great Eastern eailed on her appointed day she would have been here at the same time as the Japanese, and the interest in either one event Has the Governor of the State any Right cided in the negative by the Supreme Court, sitting in this city. The question came up in the case of the Metropolitan Gas Light Compa- ny, whose adversaries contended that the charter was null and void, as the act creating it was not signed by the Governor 4 session of the provides that all bills which have passed both houses shall be presented to the Governor for consideration, for his approval or rejection. “Jf any bill shall not be returned to the Legisla- ture by the Governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature shall, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.” language is plain, explicit and emphatic; nevertheless, Metropolitan Gas bill several days after the adjournment, which adjournment “prevented its return” to the Legislature, bringing it clearly within the provision that “it shall not be a law.” The Court have unquestionably rendered acorrect decision, which will be sustained by the Appeals bench, should Messrs. Bowen & Oo. send the case up to that tribunal. inspected by Pearsall’s patent tube. Signed by Gov. Morgan May 3, 1860. must haye suffered. Now, how- to Sign a Bill After the Adjournment of the Legislature? This mooted question has recently been de- uring the The constitution This Governor Clark signed the In signing this, as well as other bills, Gover- nor Clark no doubt followed various prece- dents. Other Executives preceding him have done the same thing. We know that the pre- sent Executive has signed bills, in numerous instances, several days subsequent to the ad- journment of the Legislature. His excuse for doing 80 was based upon precedent, justi- fying himself by stating, through his private secretary, that ex-Governor Sey- mour had Now we are not the apologist for any of Seymour’s official acts, but in searching the laws passed during the two years of his sdministration, we do not find a single one bearing date of approval subsequent to the day of the adjournment of the Legisla- ture, Perhaps the archives of the executive chamber contain evidences sustaining the ex- cesses of the present Executive. We have been at some pains in making inquiry, and we learn that Goyernor Morgan signed several bills after the adjournment of the last infamous Legisla- ture. There were some ten or a dozen of them. Their “approval” is dated generally on the “27th of April,” so as to come within ten days after the adjournment, his Excellency supposing that the ten days’ grace was allowed bim, whether the Legislature were in session or not The bill purporting to “prevent encroachments in the harbor of New York,” though signed, as appears, on April 27, was not permitted to be presented to the “public eye” until the 30th of April, exercised the same right. No doubt Governor Morgan entertained the belief that he had the power to keep bills under advisement for an indefinite period of time after the adjournment of the Legislature. Among others thus under consideration was the Bankrupt bill, gotten up expressely to wipe out the indebtedness of bankrupts of the higher class. The Governor was urged by Mr. Speaker Littlejohn to sign it; but it was kept in abeyance until near the middle of May, when the Albany Journal made the semi-of- ficial announcement that Governor Morgan had finally decided to withhold his signature, under the impression that another bill, less objection- able with regard to trustees, executors, &c., might be passed the Ist of April next, we Can arwart las vn become effectual, so that no material injury would result to the gentleman bankrupts. Let honest debt paying people ponder upon this fact. There is nothing in the constitution au- thorizing such conduct. If a Governor does not sign a bill, and can keep it in his pigeon holes for one or ten days, he can hold on to it until the next succeeding Ist day of January with the same propriety. It is well that the Supreme Court has set the matter right. We shall not take the pains to make any further examination than to allude to those of the last Legislature coming under the decision of the Supreme Court:— To authorize the purchase of flour and meal Amending the act for the incorporation of the Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses, Signed April 27. To prevent encroachments and obstructions in the harbor of New York, and authorizing their removal, and to correct the Harbor Gom- missioners’ lines. Signed April 27. To provide for the payment of work done and materials furnished on and for certain parts of the Erie canal. Signed April 20. This claim has already been referred to a committee of the Canal Board, as we understand. For the relief of Wm. Johnson. Signed April 20. This is also a canal claim. To establish the grade of Flatbush avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, &. Signed April 19. In relation to the Colonial History. Signed Apail 19. This act provides for distributing the work to the very deserving members of the last The Secretary to the Regents of Legislature. the Wniversity will please, therefore, suspend |- sending forth any more of those volumes until further orders. For the relief of Anna ©. Stannard. Signed April 19. “This is a land claim. The Legislature adjourned on the 17th of April, consequently all laws bearing the Gover- nor’s approval subsequent to that period are ren- dered nugatory, ineffectual and void, so long as the recent decision of the Supreme Court shall stand as the judgment of that tribunal. ‘The practice of withholding laws on the con- fines of the executive department for several days-after the adjournment of the Legislature, ig One which should no longer prevail. Hun- reds of laws, beating the sign manual of the Governor, are not allowed to be placed before the public until several days after the ecssions close. If the laws contain an endorsement that they received the Executive approval previqus to or upon the day of adjournment, it is prima facie evidence that they were signed during the session. But to make the matter certain and uneqhivocal, every bill should be returned to one house or the other, whether the Gogernor or not, beforé the by ution of the Legislature, A law to that effect should be adopted. et et Waat tax Mayor anp Ativan Cen ayo Ovaurt To Do.—The judicial solution of the dif- ficulty concerning the City Chamberlain, by which Mr. Stout has been removed from that office, has a very important bearing upon our tion of guardian of the city funds. sion of the Supreme Court has established the principle that the Mayor and Board of ;men have conjointly full power, under highest branch of the legislative departmest of the municipality can, if they choose, provid us with proper officers to discharge the publidu- ties, and with this power in their hands hey should, of course, be held responsible forthe conduct and character of the men to whom hey entrust the administration of affairs. The prime difficulty in our city governyent has always been that its business is entruted to a eet of small politicians, and that the gped of office and the intrigues of party have had more weight in regulating the appointing pqrer than any consideration of the efficiency ofthe appointees or the public welfare. The Mior and Aldermen, it appears now beyond tion, can give us a good staff of officials are 80 disposed, by removing all incomptent or dishonest persons; and if that power ® ex- ercised judiciously, and with a view to thepub- lie good, we will have reason to rejoice tht the courts have confirmed them in it; but if, @ the contrary, it should be exercised for mere arty purposes, to exalt one clique at the expere of another, or for the removal of competent and faithful men through any mean partisan\mo- tives, no good whatever can come out ¢ it. By removing all the rotten sheep from themu- nicipal fold, and by retaining in office tose who are faithful to their trusts and qualifiedfor their positions—such, for example, as the jre- sent City Inspector and Street Commissione— without any regard to political differences, he Mayor and Aldermen can do tuch towaids procuring an honest and economical city ge- vernment; and more than this, they may plaqe the affairs of the metropolis upon such a foo- ing before the election of the next Legislatwe as will insure the selection of a legislative body at Albany who may be able and willing previous Legislatures. © restore to the municipal government all the rights, privileges and authority of which it bas been so scandalously robbed by the last aad Tue Rerve.ican Party on tHe Sunpar Law.— We see that the warfare against the republican party, on account of its pet measure, the Sun- day law, is maintained with rigor by the Ger- man journals, and that the republican papers, in their endeavor to worry themselves out of the responsibility of the act,as a piece of party policy, are, as usual with habitual falsif- ers, sinking still deeper in the mire. The republican journals cannot deny that the argument is against their assumption from the start. The men who formed the republicm party came from a pious clique in this country, who have been for the last forty years endes- voring to legalize their peculiar religious view. They belong to the order of the person whe wrote to the Post Office Department to reques: that his letters might “lay over” on the Sab. bath. They have not only attempted to stop Sunday travelling, but they have always been in favor of laws which tend to deprive the citi- zen of his right to enjoy tires which they level joined paragraphs, a tance with political his leisure hours in such manner as he may think bes provided he respects the public peace and reepecta the rights of his neighbors. .°ublic opinion on this matter is liberal enough, and public opinion is decidedly against the action of the republican party in the matter of the Sunday law. But the last Legislature paid m sort of respect,to public opinion upon this ¢ any other subject, as our readers are very wal aware. The Legislature of 1860 was fourths republican, and the cn hy cord. It is possible that some of the pious leal- ers of the party may have frightened the mes- bers into something like a twinge of conscience, and that they thought, by enacting a Sundy law, to get absolution for their sins. Insted, however, of doing penance in their own projet persons, they laid the lash on the backs of he working classes in the metropolis. They nay rest assured that they will be paid back vith interest at the polls next November. Iurortast News @mom Tux Untren States wu Evouanv.—Our British cousins indulge occasionally in pretty sharp criticisms vpom occurrences in the model republic. Ii is only occasionally, however, that they are sufficiently informed as to the facts upon which they comment as to» justify the sa- at us. Such, how- ever, is not the case with the editors of the Me chester Times, who display, in the <1 degree of <quain- movemen* i could have only been obtained »¥ elaborate research and intense application, In mary of news from the United the sum sates the read-