The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GUKDUN BHANK TS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, | DPFLOB N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BT « TARHS, cash tn adwance. Money rent by mati stil be ut the Mah of the wonder. Postage stamps wot received as mubscrigtion TAR DAILY ABRALD woo come por copy 81 per nen. THE WEEKLY HERALD. overy Saturdey, uf st conte sory, oF $3 1-7 amma the Bur apn Easton coer Wend fants poor COPY, annum to any part of Great Brtiacn, we ose nart ab the Comtinant. beth fo, tnchuite postage; the ay | oe som om the Lt, Lith amd Bet of mach month, at se tents per copy or SL oa THE FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at fowr conta por topy, 7 82 per annum. Volume XKV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Kuxa Laan, WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway, opposite Bond stireet.— Guy Manwexing—Iwo Bony rcastLes, NOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—New Youe As It Is-- Facan nv TROE. a WALLACK'S THEATKE Brosdway.—Puavino Wire ' URA KEBNE’S THEATRE, Mo. 62% wroadway.— NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Caneee or 4 Pine kay —Past WOMEN OF THE MODERN Tiue—KIS8 IN THE DARK. RN OMS AMBRIOAN MUSEOM, Broadway.—Day aud pra AND FS BReTAMEN—Living Cun10st BRYANTS' MINSFRELS, Mechanios’ Hal), 472 Rroadway.— ques, Sonos, Dances, &0.—SCENRS aT GURNEY'S, Buri S SALOON, BronAwny » Ermoriax Boas. z. CASTERBURY muaio HALL, 663 Broxdway.—Sonas, Dances, BURLERQD TRIP &y, October 15, 1860, “MAILS FOR EUROPE, Herain—-Fdition ter Kurope. | The Conard mail steamebtp Canada, Capt, Lang, will leave Boston, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. ‘The mails for Rurope wil! olowe Ww Unie oity to-morrow Aflernoon at & quarter past one o'clock to go by railroad, | fand at & quarter to four o'clock to go by sieamboat The EcRoPaaw Eprom or Ts MikwaLb Wi) be published At ten o'clock Ip the morning Single copies, in wrap perm, ex cons { ‘The content™ of the Scmoraas Epiviow ov Tam Fmmary | will comb'ne the news received by mati and telegraph at | the olfioe during the previous week, and up to the bour *f publication The Few Yo News. ish this morning a lot of correspondence of Mexico, which presents a fair pic- | ture of that unfortunate republic. The striking | features of the news are the retreat—it cannot be called anything ese—of the liberals from before he deteat of Degollado, commander- liberals, by Vidaurri; the complete Miramon's strength, who has, not- srecent defeat at Silao, a powerful army in the field; the postponement of the attack on Vera Cruz by Spain; a new attempt at media- tion by the resident foreign Ministers, and the rob- bery of the conducta by Degollado. There has alko been a sub-revolution in Lower California, where an attempt was made to oust the liboral government appointed by Juarez, but it was sup- pressed, though not without some bloodshed. Not- withstanding so many prophecies, the end is not yet, but far from it, in Mexico. We give this morning some additional intelligence from California and Central and South America, brought by the steamship North Star. The news from Peru states that there is no pro- bability of the American claims against that coun. try being allowed. Nothing now remains, since negotiation has fuiled, but for the United States government either to abandon the case or enforce it vi ef arr om Bolivia we learn that General Belau has assumed a revolutionary attitude; he is said his designs by President Castil- the capital; in-chief of th resuscitation of Withstanding | ported in gence from Ecuador representa that Gene- | ral Flores entered Guayaquil on the 24th ult., mect- | ing but little resistance from his opponents; he is | city, General Franco hav: | a @ account of the sailing of eight ers from England, raised and com: | y William de Roban, with arms and u 8, to aid and assist Garibaldi, will be in the Jetter of our Loadon correspondent, 0-day. e of Wales and his suite yesterday ed Divine service at Trinity church. The services were of the most imposing character, and an admirable and impressive Sermon wat hed by the Rev. Dr. Vin- ton, to wh the Prince appeared to Listen with great attention. A full re- | Port of the sermon is given in.6ur paper to-day, to- gether with repor the foe of the Rev. Dr. | Prothiogham and ev Harris, the subject | of both being the vi Price. A large and fashionable audience was in attendance at Trinity, | and from the great crowd outside the church it | Would appear that the desire te see a ‘real Prince” | In most of the charches of is in no degree abated, } the city refere was made to the visit of the | Prince in the { the pastors. To-day he will visit the Mili omy at West Point where he will «j proceed to Boston, a statement given ia another co at the democratic candidate f. ongressin | t of Pennsylvania was swindled ou , and on Tuesday | nitwitt he | ing the returns of the Fourth | *wore that their nw forge inets had saa ha returns from their pr been altered. The man charged with perpetratin the fraad has been arrested and held to bail } Mesars. Howland and Aspinwall, the agents of the Galway line in New York, inform us of their intention to set on foot a subscription of a hand: | some character as # testimonal of how the Ame rican public appreciate the n 4 valiant 0 duct of Capt. Jobr » brig Minnie Behaffer, in resouing lred homan beings from th f 2 of the steamship Con nanght. It is pre © that when the facts are | known to the company in Galway, that they also | will recognise the conduct of Captain Wilson in an | appropriate and becoming manner rning the final proceedings of n, held in this city fo ¢ evening of adj ment a Mr. Mu made t attack oa Jesus Christ, contending that al ever existed, and at some length | a Ray a views of the Christian Sabbath ‘The proposition to erect an Infidel Hall in this city was lost. ‘The cotton market on Saturday wae active and arm. | ‘The salen embraced between #000 and 7,000 baine, singing | Grm on the basis of Ne wo 11We, chietly at the inside | figure, for middling upknts, Lnchwied in the salee wore | some parcels on epecuiation aad for export, with 2.000 | readme, ‘The Goor market was excite! and active, with heavy ales, st an Advance Of 100 per barrel, and ia | ome canes at Lic. Wheat was also quite setire, with large mules, both bere and to arrive, at an dvance in prices of Bo. Ww bc. per bavhel. Oren | ‘wwe without change of moment in price, r Shir mics at Tle. a TLC. for Westera mixed, and « frood do. at T2e. Pork was irregular, with moderate ania incloding new meas, at $19 16 0 $19 90, and of new — APES T1L HO «gare wore quite steady, with sailor Of sbou\ TOO bhds. and 7% domes, Coffee wae quiet | cannot | men. Freights were mp -hangs!, while eng rate. Among tbe shipmonts were » 136d. wIBKA, in age; corto wt 7-22 per 810 low, and dour ai 88 Lixd. rocta ab 3a, Conservative Untom Upsum the Congres- atonal Tickeus. The black republican leaders are confident of the success of the Presidential ticket since the election of Pennsylvania, though they have yet to win New York, without which they calculate upon the result. That they may yet be disappointed there ia some | reason to hope, The leaders of the Union | movement are in high spirita, and the inane picious event in the Keystone State doea not depress them as much as might be expected; on the contrary, they do not regard it as by any means decisive, and epeak confidently about the defeat of Lincoln in the Empire State, whose proud title they expect to vindicate now a8 heretofore; while Pennsy!yvania, by the trea son of Forney and others, has lost her peculiar place in the arch of the Union. New York holds the balance of power, and the Union men have a strong and abiding faith in the resait. But the black republicans, while they appear to be equally confident as to the Presidential conflict, cannot conceal their apprehensions in regard to the Congressional elections. They are afraid that a conservative Congress will be returned, which ina great measure will take away their control of the spoils, while it will prevent their carrying ont their political pro- gramme, and generally paralyze their party. Hence the Republican National Committee have iseued the circnlar signed by Governor Morgan, of this State, appealing to the rank and file of the republican party on the important question of the Congressional elections—sa ques- tion scarcely second in importance to the Presi dential election itself, Indeed, in come respects it would be better to have a conservative Con- grees’ and a black republican President than a black republican Congress and a conservative | President. The republican party coasists mainly of two classes—fanatics, and office seekers and spoils- If the republicaus could only secure & majority in the House of Representatives, the expenses of the government would amount to $100,000,000 a year, instead of $80,000,000, as they are now. They are as hungry and vora cious asa pack of hounds in pursuit of an un- fortunate deer, and if they only eucceed in gain- ing the prize, they will tear it to pieces and worry each other to death. The spoils in any event, if they are successful, will prove the ulti- mate destruction of their organization. But the catastrophe would be greatly hastened if the spoils are reduced to the lowest possible amount by the election of a conservative Con gress. For such a ravenous multitude a limit- ed public plunder would be like the five barley loaves and two fishes io the crowd that followed our Saviour, till they were multiplied by a mira- cle. But the republican leaders can work no miracles of that kind unless they get possession of the House of Representatives as weil as of the President's chair, If they cannot make good their liberal promises to their followers, the latter will fee] disgusted with a party out of which they can make nothing. Demoralizatiou and a breaking up will inevitably ensue. The republican leaders, theretore, deem a majority in the House of Representatives us essential to the security of ample «poils and piunder for their hungry followera, and the preservation of their party after the next four years, as well as the carrying out of their revo- lutionary programme. The conservatice lead- ers, on the contrary, deem 4 majority against black republicanism as essential to the mainte- pance of the integrity of the Union, and the crippling and ultimate dissolution of the repub- lican party. Lastly, the effect on the South would be most salutary, for it would take away their strongest argument from the fire-eaters and secessionists, who are looking for a good ex cuse to break up the Union, and form a South- ern confederacy. Now the people have this matter entire- ly in their own power in the several Congressional districts, and they will only have themselves to blame hereafter if they permit two or mere conservative candidates to run in any district, instead of concentrating all their strength on the best man, about whom they can easily agree if they will only take the trouble. Let them hold meetings and rehuke and frown down all who will persist ia ronning separate and independent instead of Union Con gressional tickets. Let only one man be ran, whether he cntls himself a follower of Breckin | ridge, or ef Bell, or of Douglas, provided he is opposed to Liscoln and his party. That is the one thing needful. New York city, and ali the conservative counties of this State have « er responsibili.y thrown upon them, they have » great game in their bands if they do not re lessly throw it away, as the Presidential eieo- tion has beea thrown away almost beyond the power of recovery. The vory best means of ave restoring this nearly lost battle is the adoption of Union tickets in ali the Congressional district. It wonld have an excellent effect on the Presidential straggie, and perhaps be the means of turning the scale in ite favor in a State in which the contest will be so close, and may be decided by iwo or three hundred votes. Let only one baaner be seen everywhere, and let it be nailed to the mast and inscribed with the words, “ Union for the sake of the Union.” The motto of tt republicans is, “Union for the sake of dis union.” The friends of conservatism are more Qumerous than they are. Let them only unite and victory is ag sure as that to-morrow # sun will rise. Tre Tunoes or re Sick May.—Our private Correspondence from Constantinople states that Riza Pacha bad recently brought before the Su¥- tan several persons who gave him indubiteble proofs of the existence of a conspiracy against his throne and life, in which the representatives of some of the European governments are indi- | Tectly involved. The sudden death of Hamy Pacha ts attributed to these revelations. The Sultan has addressed a remonstrance to the go- vernment of Great Britain touching the origin of the plot. Fuad Pacha is reported to have quit ted Damascue—s reaction in favor of parties concerned in the late massacres having com. | pelled his departure. The interpretation of all thie we take to be that the fatal influences which were hurrying the Porte to its ruin, and which compelled the European governments to adopt the policy of an armed intervention in Syria, are again winding themselves round the | Sultan, and that be is abandouing bivaself en- tirely to the conirol of the reactionary party, If this he co the dismemberment of the Turkish empire is close at band. sessment Writteh Oritictsas om American Jour. | malism, Our attention fs called, not for the first, the | tecond por the tweatieth time, to the tone of the English press in commenting upon the re Ports of the leading New York journals describ ing the incidents of the Prince’s tour in Canada. The London Times is at the head of the Eng- lish prees in this, #8 well as in most other mat- ters. The Times, in slluding to the New York Henacp aod its confreres, assumes 4 very patronizing air, aod epeaks in a most snobbish way of our “ eccentricities.” » eocentri- ctty”’ of our reports cousiste ana the fact that we bave described the invidents of the reception of the Prince of Wales exactly as they occurred, our correspondents following the royal party, step by step, from Newfoundland westward to the prairies of [lingis, and thence through the central States to the com- mercial metropolis of the Union. We have given the details of the Prince’s tour to the English as well asthe American public, The London Times jiveelf bas received from the New York press come very valuable lessons in the art of journalism. it is oot our fault if this inairuc- tion bas not been tendered in the pleasantest way. We have been so unfortunate as to dave eyttematicaily beaten the London Times on its own ground; and it is pot remarkable that Mr, Bull, who pas been compeiled to adopt our reports, should growl at them. ‘har is the way in which your bold Briton often expreases his acknowledgment for favors rendered. We believe, however, inat the lesson which the independent American press has tangbt the British journalists will aot be forgotteu. Iu due time they may succeed in preventing us from giviog them the news » week before they receive it from their sp-sial correspondents, The great distinction between the British and American journal is, however, overlooked by our critics on the other side of the Atiancic. The English newspaper is only ‘just emerging from the trammels of ignorance and presi tice In the last century newspapers were nothing more than official gazettes, or vebicles for ine dissemination of slang aud obscenity, The government kept the printers under the strict est curveillance. They were not permitted to report the Parliamentary debates. and the ear- liest accounte of the proceedings of the House of Commons came from the pencil of Woodfall, who, crouched in the strangers’ gallery, was always in mortal fear of the sergeant-at arms. In time, as the spread of intelligence became general, the reetrictions which skackled the press were gradually relaxed, and the news paper became a power in the land. Some writers ‘went so far as to call the press the fourth estate in the realm—a claim the vatidity ot which has been latterly denied by Disraeli and other statesmen. The British journalist is now tolerated only. His columns are used as a matter of convenience by politicians, who employ every avenue to the public mind. In this way the London journals secure abie arci- cles; but in news matters they are far bebiad us. They seek, therefore, to make up in arro ance and pretension what they lack in business energy, enterprise, tact and originality, On the other band, if we look at the American prese—we refer to the leading metropolitan journals—we find that it is really the tiret estate in the land. Neither king nor kaiser has such power as @ cheap, free press in proper hands, It was an axiom of Napoleon that the world is governed by ideas, and it bas been reserved for the independent American press to prove the truth of that celebrated maxim In the Bill of Rigbte the founders of our government made a wire provision for the utter aud entire freedom of the press. Thus left to itself, the institation | bas flourished. [thas grown with the crowth and strengthened with. the strength of the re- public. It holds the popular heart in ite grasp. It is the throbbing pulse of the great nation— the very lifeblood of tne body politic. In this great mental arena all subjects of interest are disoussed from every point of view “Error,” esid Jefferson, “is a0 longer dangerous when truth and reason are left free to combat it.” And herein ties the whole secret of the power which we and our cotemporaries wield. The British has no such power, because writers and readere have more less of deference—we might say servile defer- ence—for the constituted authorities, the royal femily, the peerage and the whole family of Tervacies, We know of no such thiug bere A Congress le elected for two years, aud thea divsotves A President ie chosen for four years, ad then descends to bis political grave, with wone se poor as todo him reverence, Great polldeal parties, wielding appareatly the desti nies of the nation, break up ia « week, aad thelr leaders rnp bither and thither, (rantioally voring to rally the broken, ragged and ed columns, Obarch organizations fall grea! financial etorms sweep over the land. destroying the oldest and apparently the most rolid commercial bonuses. All this time he independent journal holde steadily on ite never for & moment deviating from th: crand yet simple principles upon which, te be «ful. it must be condu ernment freely; organizes or brea press its or dine arunder couree, ed. It critivis cal parties, and consigns stupid or i mu merited obscurity. Tis a polit peteni stateemen te permanent inetit Dot for a day, br all time, Abe the news, and «peaks to the people in ange What the London T ‘entricities’ of American jc eccentricities at al) ral outpourings of a free people, with agute mental perceptions and a the tndicrons. well of a keer ception of the serioags side of human The difference between us and our Iritish cousins is very simple. They are of the opin- fon that to be respectable they mug be dull, heary, sedate and formal, and they therefore imitate that owl-like stupidity under which the uninformed Englishman attempts to bide his ig- norance, conceal his defects, or cover up bis | shoricomings. If the British public like that fort of thing they are welcome to it, We know very well that our people would not have it at any price, And we believe from certain tnfalli- ble indleations that the British public wil, before tion and all e it gives the news, e 3 They repre lively se “ stare, | long, eustain cheap papers, published on the | | Amertean plan. Experiments which cause the | | Canse oar people, through their meat popular London Times people to thake in their shoes | are nirendy making. i If we write warmly upon this subject it is be | institution, have been too often eubjecied to the } taunts aod ereers of second rate Noglish coribem. | It ie quite time that they should be told litde | plain truth, and that their arrogant aesomption | should have a quiet dressing down, And we may say, in conclusion, that the statesmen and jourvalists of England will do well to sindy the accounts of the reception of their hereditary Prince in the commercial metropolis of the Weat- erp World, They will ascertain from,tbe inde- pendent Amerioan press that no lees than half a million of people turned out to receive a nild, amiable, well maunered young gevtleman, whore mother happens to be sovereign of Eng- land, They will find that these people were pot incited by mere vulgar curiosity, nor were they animated by any special deference for royalty. They ouly wished to assist at doing the bandsomeet thing that couid be done for the reception of the immediate representative of a friendly power and » kindred race. And it strikes us that these British editors and states- men might take @ lesson in magnanimity—eome- thing they never or rarely show to our péo- ple—from this courteous and graceful reception of the Prince of Wales. The grand question is, will they do it? The News from Mexico—Tae Coming Event There. We give to-day our letters from Mexico, which present a perfect picture of the disor- ganization, destitution, aud almost despair, that prevail in that distracted country. Miramon bas concentrated the greater part of bis forces in the city of Mexico, and those of the constitutional government have gathered in great part at Queretaro, It is not yet certain where they will make their attack, or whether they will make apy at all. The general opinion is, however, that operations will be commenced against either the capital or Guadalajara at an early day. In the meantime, General Degollado, commander-in- chief of the constitutional forces, has committed the blunder of seizing a con- ducta with a million and a quarter of dollars, thus placing his government in the rame false position ia which # similar act by General Mar quez placed tbat of Miramon some months since: Miramon bad the energy to seize Marquez, aod bas heid him in prison for four months for that robbery, only liberating him a few weeks since. It remsins to be seen whether Juarez possesses suflivient energy to deai ina similer manner with Degollado. {n stress of money the goveroment at Vera Cruz bas been opliged to use the funds of the Eog lisb Convention lying in that Custom House— astep that has heen taken with the probable consent of Captain Aldham, the British naval commander— while Miramou has resorted to melting down the church plate and his old sys tem of forced loans in the capital. Eveuts seem to be preparing in Mexico for some great change, thougo what that will be no one can foreshadew, for the course of affairs in that republic alwaye defies all analogy with what occurs, or would occur, in any other part of the world. The contending forces are appa rently preparing for @ struggle which may not take place; diplomatic intervention between the belligerent parties is attempted, which shows no sign of success; exteraal force i+ threatened by Spain, aud may not be used; changes in the liberal cabinet are supposed to be urgently pecessary, aud yet ure cot made; the time is approaching for a Presidential eleo- tion, which may vever come off; and another as- sault is threatened on Vera Cruz, but no one sees bow it can be made. In the mean- time the country is ravaged by bands of robbers everywhere, the fields are untilled and deserted, the population is crowding into the towns and cities, where starvation stares them in the face: trade is ruined and the merchants hang on the verge of bankruptcy, and property of every kind is melting away—those who were once es- teemed rich finding themselves now poasessors only of large tracts of depopulated and value- less lands. Thie contest is seemingly one for political principles; but aa the ruin which inevitably at- teuds it becomes more and more developed, it is evident to the philosophic observer that it is ip fact a melting away of old things to open the path for the new, The vigorous wave of popa- lation which ie yearly throwing its thousands op the northern frontier of Mexico requires even now ouly a leader capable of organizing existing elements and statesman enough to com- prehend that society and goverument must be established and goveroed on the equal basis of public law and public order, to throw a flood over Mexico that wiil change the entire aspect of the country and is affairs. This is the coming movement on this continent, and every mail from Mexico only proves that the elements are being prepared there for it, and the old bar- riers that might resist it are being swept away. Fuancsterixm ty Costa Rica —Our advices from Panams yesterday brought the important intelligence that ex-President Mora, his brother, General Canae and Colonel Arancibia, who had made a dlibuster descent from San Salva- dor on Costa Rica, had been defeated and cap- tured at Punta Arepas, and incontinentiy shot. There is a curious coincidence in the deaths, at eo nearly the same time, of Mora and Walker, and under such similar circumstances, When Walker wae ut the highest of his career in Nicoragus, Mora waa President of Costa Rica, snd was the soul of the Gesperate resistance to the then advancing wave of filibusterism. Both exhausted themselves in the struggle, botb aimed fo regain power by the same lawless means, and borh have met death in the attempt. There is something significant aud bopetul for the fotare of Central America in the rapidity » | and energy with which the cause of law and | Public order bas been vindicated on the per. Sacred as is the | scone of Mors and Walker. righlof revolution, its sanctity must be pre. served from profanation by desperate men, , Who profess to believe their country in danger whenever (heir Own purses sre empty, and hoster to draw their swords to save it, when their own ambitious designs constitute really their only patriotic promptings. It can be thus preserved ouly by making success the inexor- able alternative with death This pricciple has long characterized the po- pular impatse of Costa Rica, and it ie in a great measure Wal bas preserved that repablie from the revolutionr that have been eo disastrous to many other of the Spanish-American communi- ties. President Morazan, the greatest patriot Gentral America has known, met in Costa Rica 4 similar fate to Uhat of Mora, wonder similar cir. enmetances, and the retult was that oonstita tional law ruled there until Mora was suddenly own last yeat because his policy violat ed constitutional rule. The example that bas been set in the cases of Walker and Mora wili long be felt in all the aie Americaa repub Hoe, and it will be well if Guardiola in Hondn rae, Carrera in Guatemala, Barrios ia San Sat vodor, en@ Moctives in Nicaragua, learn from overth NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1860,—TRIPLE 8 the history and fate of Mora the wisdom and moderation that are required to preserve them iu their seats. They represent in their respec- tive countries the principles that Mora repre- sented in Costa Rica, and, by making constitu- tional government merely an empty show, they incur the danger of the same fate that attended him. ‘dhe Prince of Wales’ Departure from New York, Our royal guest takes his departure from the metropolis this morning, carrying with him the cordial good wishes and regrets of its inhabi- tants. He leaves us under just such circum- stances as should mark a visit of this character. All feel sorry that be is compelled to quit us so soon, whilst on the part of himself and suite we are assured that the feeling is reciprocated. Short, however, as has been his stay amongst us, it has shown him more of the true character of our people and given him # jnster conception of our institutions than he could possibly have acquired in his visits to ihe other cities of the Union. To-day the Prince proceeds to West Point, where a grand reception has been arranged for him by General Scott. There he will be in- troduced to a class of men of whom the coun- try feels justly proud, and who rival in mili- tary qualifications and scientific attainments the best officers turned out by the Sand- burst and Woolwich schools. He will find from his observations there that, although we rely upon our volunteer force for the defensive strength which a standing army is supposed to give to other governments, we not the lesa carefully cultivate those ebstruse branches of military knowledge which consti- tute what is technically called the art of war. This visit paid, the Prince will have received a@separate and equally cordial welcome from all the classes of which our community is com- posed. He was received on landing by our citizen soldiery, which is made up for the most part of the sons of our wealthy merchants and their employés. The striking ensemble which this magnificent body of men presented so im- pressed his Royal Highness that be paid them the highest compliment that can be offered to a military force—that of reviewing them in upi- form. Then followed his reception by the maases, which was a spectacle such as no other country or city could have presented. Nearly half a million of people, embracing representa- tives of almost every nationality, poured into our leading thoroughfares to join in this com- pliment to our young guest. It was one of the grandest and most striking scenes that history records—that of the freest people on earth paying this spontaneous tribute of respect to the representative of the freest monarchical go- vernment of Europe. And it was the more im- pressive frem the fact that, although there are in our midst numbers of political refugees who are violently ultra in their republicauism and who bate royalty in any shape, every hostile feeling. every dislike and discontent, was hush- ed in presence of the overwhelming demonstra- tion gotten up by our citizens on this occasion. The Prince’s reception by the pseudo aristo- cracy of our city was, though well intended, productive of only one result, that of leaving on his mind the impression that aristocracy is and mustever bea failure amongst us. We will not wound the susceptibilities of the vene- rable gentlemen concerned in that fiasco by dwelling further upon it, and therefore pass on to the ovation offered by the Fire De- partment to our iMustrious guest, which is admitted to have been the most imposing spectacle of the kind that has ever taken place. The New York firemen ,are, as is well known, composed almost entirely of the industrious mechanics and workmen of the metropolis, and oo e#mali proportion of them are German or Irish. Taken collectively, they are the finest and most intelligent body of young men that cap be found the world over, and may be truly said to represent the bone and sinew of the country. Few if any of them absented themselves from the parade, even the Hibernian Hook and Ladder Company, which bas only been recentiy formed, making up its full number for the occasion. In the fact that all the members of the department as weil as of the militia turned out in these several recep- tions, at their own expense and uncompelled by any order, the Prince will estimate the sin- cerity and unanimity of the welcome that was given bim by all classes of our community. If it was not marked by the servility of some of the Canadian demonstrations, it was much more to be valued, because it was entirely disinte- rested and free from the suspicion of toadyism to rank. ‘These facts cannot fail to be fully apprect- ated in England, where the political intelligence of the people wih enable them to detect at a glance the difference that exists between the motives of the reception which greeted their future sovereign in the British provinces and that awarded him bere. But its moral effect upon the despotiems of Europe will be still more important. They will derive from it the wholesome conviction that in all conflicts between the principles of progress and political retrogression, the policies of the two countries will be henceforth as identical as are their in- terests. Gexerat Paez ww Dirtomatic Posrrion at Wasuixoron.—The government of Venezuela bas taken a wiee step in appointing General Jose Antonio Paez ita Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington in the present critical circum- stances that attend its path. A revolation, grow- ing out of the policy purened by the Monagas family in their ambition to rale their country— slirring up the lowest elements of society with all the arte of demagoguiem—now mennces not only the government, but ell the interests of the body politic with destruction. At the same time, the inopportune preseure of Spanish claims hes brought about a rupture of diplo- matic relations with that government, and there are not wanting shrewd observers who believe that the active military preparations now be- ing mede at Elavana are intended for use, in part, in Venezuela, and partly io St. Domingo. In these critics! circumstances it is not ftrange that the republic of Venezuela should look to Washington for counsel and moral sup- port. To attain these no man is better'fitted than Geners) Paes. Hie name is almost a synonym for freedom in his own country, and his heroic past, bie bigh character and bis eminent perso- nal qualities entitle him to respect and sympa- thy from the government and public men of the ficet republicyef the world He has filled even the higbest station of public trast and honor at home, act bis large aod varied experience in pubtic affaire insures to hie countrymen the ablest defence of their interests abroad. At Weebington be will be received with respect by all, and listened to with attention by those who have the direction of pablic affairs, and we doubt not that his counsels will redound to ete of the highest interests of both ns- ‘The Fizemen’s Parade and the Prince of ales wi ‘ Notwithstanding the disappointment of some three hundred thousand persons who could not see the Prince of Wales on Thursday, out of one million of population, besides the mul- titude of strangers, the ardor on Saturday night was unabated, and the numbers thronged to see him and the were greater than ever. All around Ffth Avenue Hotel and Union square one dense masa of human beings, whilst from Fourteenth street through Fourth avenue and the Bowery to the City Hall, and back thence through Broadway to Union square, the side- walks, more than half the streets, and the wim- dows, doors and stoops of every house, were filled with buman beings, independently of the five thousand who marched in procession, Thousands were brought together from the de- tire to eee that procession in which each had some friend, as well as from curiosity to see a live prince. It was grand carnival of the citizens; and what was 6o gratifying, not an a0- cident occurred, nor any approach to a riot. Where else could such an exbibition take place without both Where else, indeed, would their rulers permit the people to assemble in such vast masses as they did in New York during the last week ? The parade of the firemen on Saturday night was one of the most brilliant spectacles ever witnessed in this country or any other. Whether we regard the variety of the decora- tions of the various engines and carriages, the splendor of the illuminations and the profusion of fireworks, or the numbers and character of the men forming the procession, and the steady discipline and order which they exhibited, it was ssight of which the Empire City has a right to feel proud, and which must have been highly instructive to the statesmen who accom- panied the Prince of Wales in bis tour, if not to the Prince himeelf. In the chief city of no other country in the world is such a spectacle possible. These citizen firemen and the citizen soldiery who passed the Prince in review on Thursday are organizations peculiar to our free demo- cratic government. With euch defenders the American people have no need of standing armies, and have no fear of any hostile combi- nations egainst them. Their courteous recep- tion, therefore, of the princely representative ofa friendly Power cannot be construed into a timid servility, but must be regarded as the generous greeting of a nation confident in its own invincible strength. Were - the United States less powerful, New York might well hesitate before it so la- vishes ite hospitalities, But it can afford to be liberal without the imputation of meanness in its motive. Nor can any one suppose that the reception which the Prince of Wales met with in New York is a tribute to royalty, for it is so cordially rendered by the whole community that it forbids any idea of that kind. It is sim- ply the expression of triendship and courtesy from one nation to another, without regard to the form of government—a recognition of the ties of kindred and commercial relations. And, in addition to this, it partakes of the nature of those frolics in which New Yorkers love now and then toindulge. We are earnest and grave and careworn in the pursuit of wealth; but we must occasionally have ovr pleasure, aud when we do relax we do it not by halves, but ins burst of enjoyment which astonishes not only Europeans, but the inhabitants of other Ameri- can cities, But whatever may be the motives which as- sembled such multitudes in New York, the Prince of Wales cannot fail to derive instruction as well as pleasure from what he has witnessed. He has never seen in any other city, and never will again, #0 many well dressed peopie. If any rags met his eye they were those of late- ly arrived foreigners. The impression made upon his youthful mind must be favorabie to this conntry and towards democratic instita- tions, and may bear good fruit at a fature day. He has seen that an intelligent and educated people may safely be entrusted with self govern- ment, and that there is no government so strong aa that in which every citizen bas a direct interest and a legitimate control. We trast the visit of the Prince of Wales to the United States will not be without effect in enlarging the free- dom of the British people and expanding the democratic element in English institutions. Operatic and Dramatic Matters. ‘The great influx of strangers to eee the Prince of Wales Giled the theatres and other places of public amusement every night last week. The Opora reason closed on Moa day. The artista gave “Martua’’ and the first act of the “Traviata” at the Philadelphia Academy. The Prince of ‘Wales and suite were present #! this performance, which ‘was an excelleut one in every respect. The managers bow announce that they will euspend operstions watt! after the Presidectia election, aod that she acw season ‘will commence about the 7th of November. Mr. Forrest bas given bis graud performane, of King Lear” three times, at Niblo’s Garden, The same play will be repeated on Mooday, “eleesday aud Friday of this week. ‘Mies Charlotte Vushman has been playing Meg Morriliee all the week to crowded Lousea, and a the demand for feats ie vosbated, the piece will probably retain ite Place on the bill this week. Among theatre goers the appoararce of Craritte Cashman im this her great cha Tecter ia an event of scarcely love moment than the arrival of the Prince of Wales, Those who fall to goaad feo her will regret tt. At Laure Keene's theatre the new Irish drama, “Aileen Aroon,”’ is still ranaing, and Gnds favor with re- munerative audiences. “Aileen Aroon’’ will be played every night (bis weet, Mr. Waliack bas found @ gold mine in Joba Brougbam's famous comedy, “Piaylog wth Fire,” the attraction of which tnorsase with each performance. It is one of the pleasantest comedies in the language, and i most ad- mirably acted. “Paying with Fire” every night cw further notice, which is ® loog way ol Mr. Brougham was to open in this comedy at the Hay market on the 6m of Ubi mouth, At the Bowery theatre Mr. Chanfraa has boon re engaged. He plays this evening in “New York as it Is,’* and “Palse and Troe.” At the New Bowary a cew local piece, ‘The Career af 8 Fireman," will be produced this eveaing. The plese has bean gotten up with new scenery and appropriate tableaux. The third act of “Fast Women of the Moder ‘Time,”’ and “A Kiss in the Darke,”’ will also be played. Rarnom's Moseam, which now haga historic distiss- oa, baving been visited by the Prince of Wales, haw been dotng a fine business with ‘‘Josaph and bia Breth- ren,” which will be repeated every afternoon and eve- ning of this ween. The Ethiopian Opera ts not troubled by the storms, re- volntons and crines which overtake ite Irving piace com- petitors, Ao ail of Bryant's and Hooley & Canpbeli’s ar- iets are in the ben condition. Some tndicw on an to thete doings for the werk will be foaed tn cur