The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1860, Page 4

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Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, Agoats will please send tn their orders as early as pos- tole. Details of news from the capital of Mexico to the 17th, and from Vera Cruz to the 21st inst., are pub- lished in another part of to-day’s paper. The city of Guadalajara had fallen, after a ly three weeks’ siege, during which the ¢ aflered every kind of hardship and priv he cap- | ture of this city is very important for the Juarez party, and may determine the fate of the capital | sooner than might have been expected otherwise, | more especially if the victorious Ortega should cut | off Marquez, wh» had marched to the relief of Gaa dalajara with a fe h Miramon could badly spare, and certal 1 not afford to lose. The most important item from the capital is the fact that Me, Mathew, the British Charge, had been or- dered by his government to demand his passports, The reasons alleged for this step amount, in fact, to a declaration that Mexico is in too demoralized and yarbarous @ condition to seni merit any respect or attention from any foreign power. In our correspondence will be found state mepts of barbarous and inhuman cruelty on the part of Miramon, wort vwnly of a Tiberius or a Tamerlane, and which might well justify the allega tion. In a country where men and women are 4 to death for little or no cause, barbarism is a very unfair charge. Minister McLane reached Vera Cruz on the 17th French Minister, M. de By the arrive ices from Havan e 12th inst. have »king finely, that had fallen there e new crop being large. s, Capt. Terry, from Havre night, arrived here sterday afternoon. Her news has been antici- ated. By the arrival of the overland pony express at St. Joseph yesterday we have advices from San rancise to the afternoon of the 17th inst. There was but little news of interest stirring. The poli- ticlans were anxiously awaiting intelligence of the vania State election. Tt is reewt of the Penns stated that it was ge Ny conceded that in the event of the defeat of the democrats in Pennsyt- vania C » for Lincoln, The Saa Francisco markets exhibited no change, The rainy eason had fairly commenced. Brevet Brigadier General Clark, commander of the military depart- ment of California, died at San Francisco on the iTth, of chronic Aiarrhera, after an illeess of two | Will be weeks. He served in the army forty-eight years, was promoted for meritorious conduct at the sieg of Vera Cruz, and not long since, by his energy ill, promptly suppressed a formidable com bination of the savage Indian tribes in Oregon. very scarce Accounts from S« States troops, and have been driving lands, One account states had been burned and th ants rendered home: less. It is believed, however, that the reports are greatly exaggerated. \ meeting was held at Lea venworth on Monday evening last to devise mea wares for the relief of the euffering people of Kan and it was proposed t) take up immediate sub scriptions in the East in their aid The long litigation in the so-called anti-rent suits has at last rea@hed a termination. The Court of Appeals having confirmed the jadgment of the ne Court in favor of the landlords, the latter 1 yesterday directed an order that the land- lords have execution against the tenants for Jemages and costs, The landlords, under this Jecision, can proceed at once to issue executions of the jodamertts rendered for the recovery of the amounts claimed, and also the coats of the different actions. Ata meeting of the Police Commissioners yes- terday, the resignation of A. H. Stontenbarg, aac- tioneer of the department, was received. An order was issued by the Board to have the retarns on the night of the election telegraphed to headquarters. No other business was transacted. The case of Horry, the Wall street financier, charged with defrauding Messrs. Quick and Hom- medien out of $5,000, a large portion of which he disbarsed at gambling houses, was taken up by Justice Kelly yesterday. There was a large crowd of brokers and blacklegs present to witness the proceedings. There not being sufficient evidence felonious intent on the oppropriating the funds, tters from the Cherok seventy four h and de- | the accused was discharged from custody. The | magistrate, however, decided to hold the parties ged with keeping gambling houses to answer in $500, and also required Hurry to give bail in the fame smount to prosecate,. The trial of the de- fendants was set down for the 15th of November. The cotton market was steady yesterday, with sales of 3.000 bales, closing on the basis of 1170. ling uplands. The receipts at the ports since the ot September last bave reached 636 000 bales, against 645,000 for the same period tn 1859 and 660,000 in 1953. The exports have reached 179 000, agains: 249,000 in 1459 And 109,000 in 1868. Stock on han1 463000 bales, Aeninst 450,0.0 im 1859, and $88,000 in 1858. The receipts, ilus far, are 1093000 bales below those for the :ame time last year, The exports are 70,600 bales Jess than Inst year, while the atock ob hand ouly exceeds that for the samo time last year by 15 bales, The flour market was less buoyant aod active for rnperGne State and Western grades, while tho medium avd higher brands were irregular, Mixed lot of Southern tlour were rather easier, while extra brands ere urebanged, Wheat was quite firmly held aod ta good export demand, ales wore tolerably free at full prices, especially for the better qualities Cora was dull and ensicr, with sales to a fair exton at prices given elsewhere, Pork was leas buoyant aud active, with sales of meee at $19.4 $19 1234, and prime at $14 ST @ $14 50. The inclemency of the weather tended check sales in eugars, which were conflued 117 bhds. The market was heavy, with a ten in favor of purchasers. Coffee was rm: a amall lot of prime Rio sold at 1c. a 150. The stock was re duced to 2,220 bags of Rio in frst hands, 197 do. Mara- | caibo, 270 do, Ceylon, 300 mate Jaya and 2,000 govern met bags do. ; tolal, 6,096 packages. Freight to Eogtish ports were firm and active, with more offering for the | Continent. To Liverpool about 120,000 busdels wheat | were engaged, im ship's bags, at 131., flour at 3s. 81, aud | cotton at Yd. A fair business was also doing for London, Glasgow, Antwerp, Bremen and Havre. The Imminent Peril of the Day—Are the North aud the South tn Karnestt One of the most alarming symptoms of the dangerous temper of the times is the levily and indifferent concern with which nearly all classes | of the community speak of the probability of | disunion, and their persistent blindness to the | terrible results that must inevitably flow from such a catastrophe, It is not many years since the expression of an opinion adverse to the perpetuation of the confederaey was looked upon as treason to the highest interests of the community. A few fanatics in the North have for years howled forth continuously their anathemas on the Union | as being “a compact with hell,”’ and an equally small number of fire eaters in the South have | babbled of the power and glory of a Southern confederacy; but the sober sense of the great mass of the people spurned their teachings everywhere. It is only ten years since the compromise measures, which were wrought with so much toil and pain by the united efforts of the second generation of giant intellects that our young republic has given to the world, were accepted with an overwhelming approval in every section of the country. Two years later poor Pierce was elected to the Presidency by the same wave of public opinion, which left to his political opponent, who is the most success- ful and popular military leader now living, only six approving States. No man has ever doubted that this failure to elect General Scott was mainly due to the suspicion that be was too intimate with Seward and the abolitionized leaders of the Northern political party. How different is the scene that the statesman contemplates in the tone and ranging of party organizations of the present aduy. in the | North we see a powerful political party a- | vancing hopefully to triumph, with a motto emblazoned on its banners proclaiming a deud- ly hostility to the domestic organization of | fifteen States. Its leaders boldly utter the | moet revolutionary and destructive theories, | and their hearers laugh and make sport of the | evident fear and alarm of the listening South. Its literature is found in the incendiary compi- lation of Helper, the revolutionary logic of | Spooner, the pure abolitionist writings of Alvan Stewart, the bitter and fallacious speeches of Lincola, Seward, Wilson, Sumner, Lovejoy | and hundreds of others, all of which are circu- | lated in thousands upon thousands of copies among approving multitudes. Yet not one sentiment of these that are so unblushingly uttered by these political leaders in the North, and which convey an evident satisfaction to the ears of their Northern hearers, finds one tingle approver in the South, one single man in public or private station that dare utter them there, or one single reason for believing that, if they were so uttered, bloodshed and ruin would not ensue. In the South, om the o.ber hand, we bebold all political differences subsiding into one com- mon feeling of the necessity of self defence against the danger that menaces them from the North. It is not that they fear that the army and navy of the confederacy is to be used for the immediate loosing of four millions of an inferior and degraded race upon their commu- nity; nor that they believe that Lincoln will proclaim the liberation of the four millions of slaves; nor that the federal courts will be at once so organized that writs of habeas corpus iesued to every negro in servitude; nor yet that they entertain the conviction that | black republican administration will openly | countenance and defend the efforts of fanatics of | the John Brown echool to carry civil and ser- vile war into their now fair fields. But they know, and the whole world knows, that all of | these things are in te logical developement of the theory that “slavery is an evil and a crime;” | that after the proclaiming of the idea the next step in its triumphant march is {ts accept- | ance by a political majority, and its instalment as the ruling policy of a federal administration, and that the results which all should contem- | plate with dread are as certain to follow as the night the day. | Hence do we see in the South that which the North looks upon with real or with feigned in difference and disbelief. Everywhere the peo- ple are alarmed, and the slaves look forward to some anticipated jubilee of riot and uarestraint. | Men on all sides band themselves together to | meet the coming exigencies; mothers bug their | babes closer to their bosoms in view of future dangers; children look wistfully to their parents at their evident alarm; the public authorities take measures calculated to organize and de- fend the State; Legislatures and conveations meet to discuss the peril of the time, and all lis- ten anxiously for words of hopeful counsel from leaders and public men, or for friendly tidings from the North, where the fires of fanaticism , Pennsylvania, which all looked pope F , has enccumbed to them, and now all eyes are turned on New York, the Empire State, as the only ark of safety and of hope. ‘The pulse of the metropolitan city beats true to the Union in thie momentous crisis; but will the great heart of the State respond to the hopes that rest upon it in every quarter of the Union’ We fear it will not, unless our citizens awake from the indifference with which they contem- | priate the multitudinous signs of danyer that are flucblog On Sil aides of them. And whence coméa this inditfereace to the peril that involves us all? It comes from the fact that Northern men will got b-leve that the South is earnest in its fears, Steeped in prosperity, they cannot believe that aaythi can shake its foundations or dry up i's fi Knowing nothing practically of life midst of a servile community, they cannot realize the fears that follow even the whisper that would attend itathunderiags There is but one way in which the republicass of the North can reulize to themeelves the fact that the South is in earnest, before the destructive proofs come irrevocably. Let them catechise themselves and eee if they and their leaders are ia earnest. Do you believe that Lincoln is in earnest in proclaiming that “cbis Union cannot exist halt slave and half free?’ Do you believe that Seward isin earnest in the numberless utter ances of bis waging aa “irrepressible conflict’ with the South till Charleston and New Orleans shall be marts for the productions of free labor only" Do you believe that Greeley is in earnest when he declares his “eternal hostility to tlavery wherever it may exist Do you be- lieve that Spooner is in earnest in his well knit argument that slavery is unconaiitutional, and every slave entitled to the issuasce of a writ of habeas corpus by a federal court? Do you be- lieve that Helper ia in earnest in declaring that the motto of the black republican party i+ “the abolition of slavery and the perpetuation of the American Union,” and that if the South goes | out of the Union with it she shall be brought back without it? Do you believe that the sixty. | eight republican members of Congress who | endorsed these sentiments two years since are | in earneat? Do you believe that Wileon, Sum | ner, Chaze, Lovejoy, Hickman, Sherman and | hosts of others, speokers in and out of Con gress, who are untiring in their denunciations of | slavery, and of the South for maintaining it in its social and political system, are in earnest? Are you yourselves in earnest in supporting these men as candidates for popular suffrage, in sending them to the federal! councils as your representatives, and in your desire to elevate them to the highest posts i2 the government of the land? Yorare in earnest. Then must the South be in eeraest too; and God save you both in the day of the terrible conftict, which must come where such earnestness exists, if you do not now listen to the voice of reason and of patriotism. Union between you cannot con tinue with such feelings, and yor will learn too late to deplore the loss of the infinite blessings it has brought to you, and whichbits eontiau- ance holds out to your childrea. Sevator Wane on THE Inrerreadere Con riicr.—The redou'ytable John [Hickman of Pennsylvania will have to look to bis laurels. He was the firet to throw down the gauntlet to the South by announcing in his place in the House of Representatives last winter that the eight million white inhabitants of the South would be found no match for the eighteen mil- ings of rebellion, nor the terrible devastation | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1860. | ecules of Limcoin’s tection Upor the Condition of the Lavoring Ola *e# | As the weaker class of stocks are the “(rst to | feel a Gnencial convulsion, eo are the labor. 10g | clasrea the first to enffer from the same cause | Capitalists can atford to make sacrifices—to part with @ portion of their means, and live on the | remainder; but laboring men cannot live | without employment. One of the first effects of the revulsion in | 1807, cwused. at that ume by the break down of the South, was to throw large numbers of persons at the North out of employment. which led to much individual eufferiog. We recollect walking along the shipyards of the East river at the time, and theg looked as they now do om Sunday, or rather worse. Not « hammer was to be heard in the most of them | Able bodie@ and skilful mechanics and ship carpenters were idle, or were compelled, as beat they might to seek the means of subsistence emselvea and families in other temporary pursuits. Real estate could not be sold except at enormous sacrifices. Houses and stores were vacant and bills ou them to let by hundreds. Many persons left the city in despair and sought osyiuma in the country. During the panic of 1857 things took the same tur, and it ouly differed from that of 1837 iv Curation. It lasted long enough, however, to throw thousands of helpless females and other laboring people out of employment. At Lowe, in Massachusetta, indigent factory girls were discharged by thousands. The Boston ‘ ‘er of the 10th September, 1857, at the commencement of the panic, ‘said that within a brief period two thousand five hundred haads bad Seen discharged from the mills. Thus | hundreds of operatives, by “this stern commer- | cial necessity,” were compelled to leavethe city. Our population for the time is diminishing; real estate is depreciating; houses are being vacated by their occupants, and nearly every de- partment of business will share in the present de- pression.” The Hxrap, ia the months of Octo- ber and November, 1857, gave lists of thou- eands of discharged laborers in all the depart- ments of trade and manufactures in this city. Fortunately for them, while the Western trade went to the dogs, the large crops of cotton at the South brought out a large and active South- ern trade, which drove away the panic, and re- stored confidence and prosperity, that have continued up to the present time. From former revulsions the people of this country, with cl eections working in fraternal unison, have by their persevering industry soon re- covered. The silent builder's trowel, the ship carpenter's hammer, the hum of cotton spin- dies, with the cheerful songs of labor, were egain heard on all sides; while real estate advanced and wages improved, and the whole gountry moved forward with renewed energy. But the revulsion of 1860-61, when it shall come—and the danger is imminent, according to the signs at the South, that it will come—will prove beyond doubt the worst of all. It will differ from all former calamities or revulsions by its permanent continuance: Let but a single lion free people of the North. This entitled Hickman to be considered the chief candidate for the post of generalissimo of the Northern army Witeuevee the irrepressible condict would pass from the arena of debate into that of war. But it eeems that the abolition Senator of Ohio desires to be considered a competitor of Hick- man for the command. Mr. Wade, in his three hour epeech at the Brooklya Wigwam the other night, was quite bellicose. He menaced the South with the power of the great West, and gave warning that if any section of the nation should attempt to execute the threats of soceseion, it would find a sleeping lion in its path. General Taylor was his beau ideal of an executive officer, for if that old hero had lived to hear the threats of Texas, he would have undertaken to hang every man that attempted to stand up against the general government. He taunted the South with its weakness, saying that they were but one-fourth of the American peop!e, “and mise- rably poor at that”—that not a Southern State could afford to keep five thousand men in the field for six months, and that there was no more danger to be apprehended from them than from a lot of three year old children. Echoing the sentiment of a precoding speaker, that if Lincoln was not to be inaugurated on the 4th of March next, there would be two hun- dred thousand Wide Awakes who “would know the reason why,’’ Senator Wade boasted that the Wide Awakes of the country, almost as ubiquitous as the northern lights, were every- where organised and marshalled for the great battle of right; and he indulged in this signifi- cant prediction, that secession would be “a universal edict of emancipation all over this land.” In view of these warlike enunciations of the Obio Senator, we think that he is a little ahead of John Hickman in his claims'to the position of commander-in-chief of the army of liberation. But, in the meantime, what say the citizens of New York to this programme of civil war! Let them give their answer at the polls next Tues- day. A Great Retmr.—We perceive that the executive committees of the four Presidential parties at Washington have come to the unani- mous decision not to send out any more cam- { For months past the whole coustry has been paign documents, as the election is so near at hand. What a merciful relief to the people ! | fooded with this worthless trash, which nobody reads. The mail trains have been weighed | down with it, and there will be now some | chance of people getting their lotters and news- papers through to their destinations ia some- State secede, and no man can see the end. Whether it result peaceably or civil war follows, the result will be equally fatal; the present union and prosperity of the country can never be reswrea—s oceversiva would settle permanently upon us like a dark cloud far more dismal than those of 187 and 1857. Let this occur, and what is to become of our laboring classes in this city, to say nothing of other sections’ Take one branch of business alone--that of the wholesale clothing manu- facturing. trade for the South. There are a large number of extensive firme engaged in this business, whose capital invested ranges from $100,000 to $500,000, and in some few cases probably reaches nearly $1,000,000. These houses, we learn on inquiry, give employment to from 20,000 to 30,000 operatives, in- cluding males and females. During the height. of business many of them pay in wages £1,000 per day! The people they em- ploy comprise poor American, Irish and Ger- man families. There is scarcely a tenement house within ten miles of the city in which the needle is not plied and the olick of sewing machines heard. Owing to the present agitation and fear of financial troubles at the South, in case Lincoln is elected, many large houses are not giving out work. At this season of the year they are usually busy in supplying work for the South- ern trade, which commences in the latter part of January or about the Ist of February. They now, to a considerable oxtent, refuse ap- plications for work, and many poor people are already thrown out of employment and depriv- od of means with which to meet the rigors of the coming winter. If Lincoln is elected it is to be feared that some 15,000 to 20,000 of these uafortunate people may be thrown ont of em- ployment, and thus greatly augment the ex- penses of the oity in supporting the poor. They will be unable to pay their rents, which will be followed by =.decline inreal estate. But what do the black republican revolutionista care for the poor white people’—for the suffering women. and childroa pinched with cold and hunger et the North? All their love and sympathy are for the negro a thousand miles off. For him they are willing, without any possibility of benefiting his condition, to ruin their own white brethren, North aad South, and involve the count:y in civil war and bloodshed. The revolutionists blaephemously set them- selves up as the vicegerents of God upon earth, and proclaim their intention of doing wha’ the Creator, in his infinite wisdom, failed to do—and that is, to make the blacks and the whites equals. Christ said that the Bthiopian thing like proper time. We know of no greater relief the public could experience than this de- cision to stop the flood of stupid campuiga documents. Tus Privce or Wares’ Recertioy Bers. — What a punctilious set of individaals onr Alder men are, and bow scrupulous about the honest dispensation of the people's money. The re- ception of the Prince of Wales, which every one admits was a very handsome affair, cost the moderate eum of four thousand and odd dol- lare; but the conscientious and economical Aldermen demur at paying the little bill, in the running up whereof they fortunately had no hand, or it would amount to twenty times the could not change the color of hie cain. They say they can make him a white man, both in skin and brains. To elevate the negro they propose to pull down the white man, They recommend amalgamation to others, but never adopt the advice in their own families. The poor laboring people of the North, not aware of the gulf to which they are being led by tho “Jack with a lantern” blue ligkt aboli- tionist, are to be pitied. They will find, per haps when it is too late, that they have been traiterously and lyingly betrayed to their ruin. ‘The conspirators, in the form of subsidized presses and demagogue orators, intent alone on plunder, are more to blame than the people they overthrow. And when the working clase- es turn with withering scorn upon them and de- mand redress, they will “eall upon the moun- tains and bills to fall upon them” and hide themselves from the wrath of those they have 80 outrageously wronged. We understand that the large manufacturing clothing houses in this city, taking pity on the poor German sewers ia their employment, have -_- determined to call them together ic pnotic meetings, one of which is to be held t- night, and explain to them the dangers which await them in the result of the present election. and to tell them, if the revolutionists snoceed shoth employers aad the employed will all suf- fer together—they ia the logs of busiaess and capita.’ and the latter fa the loss of work, foi- lowed by all the gloomy Contingencia® atlea- Guat upon exch @ Condition of things. Goverson Mozgay aNd tue Horse Kerr exa.—We have alluded already to the circum stance that Mr. James L. Mitchell, of Albany, Quartermaster General in t#e Governor's staff, was excluded from the state d®mner given to the Prince of Wales, becquse it bo»pened that Mc. Mitchell wae the keeper of the hotel wherein the Prince lodged on the occasio2 of his visit to the State capital. The matter has been wry generally noticed by the press threnghout the country, and we have yet to find that the Gover- nor’s conduct basa single apologist. Mr. Ed- win D. Morgan, from very small begtanings, mapoged to make himself a wealthy grocer and a euccessfl politician, and certainly it was not for him to etight a hotel keeper to whom he had given the epaulettes of a general officer. We bave heard of a case im Canada which may be interesting in this connection. When Lord Sy- denham came over as Governor-General, he waa for ome time the guest of a gentleman who kept a hotel in Toronto. Very frequently the hotel keeper attended the Governor- Genera! in person, and labored to make him as comfortable as porsible. After the government house had been prepared for the Governor’s residence, he removed to it, and gave a dinner to the Mayor and Corporation, of which body the hotel keeper was amember. The Ciov- ernor-General treated bis former landlord with marked courtesy, and always asked him to the government house on festive occavions. When we recall the fact that the Governor General of Canada is the immediate representative of royalty, and always travels with regal sur- roundings, the conduct of Lord Sydenham comes out in rather bold relief against that of Governor Morgan. The hotel keepers of the Stote are naturally very indignant at the slight put mpon one of the most popular, and, we are assured, most pre- scentable and agreeable members of their order, and they intend to do whatever they can to de- feat Morgan. They also have resolved to give Mr. Mitchell a grand banquet, a splendid affair, to come off soon after the electton. The hotel keepers are. perfectly right in this matter. Tus Cuevatmer Were on THe Pantc—We have printed elsewhere a very remarkable, pro- found, deep, philosophical article upon the re- cent panic in Wall street. We need hardly say that this wonderful document comes from the pen of our oracle, the friend of Palmerston and Louis Napoleon—the Chevalier Webb. Whenever we are a little in doubt as to the causes of any cud- den social, political or financial, revolution we always wait for the Chevalier Webb’s opinion with the utmost anxiety. As to the panic ameng the brokers; we have heard various causes as- signed for it. Some people said the Herat did it, others that it was created by the Pennsylvania election, onda third party that it was owing .to the eececssion ntterances from the cotton States. We were not satisfied, however, about this mat- ter until we heard from Webb, who knows all about banks (he bad fifty-two thousand and odd dollars worth of the old United States concern), stocks, especially Morris, and the great movements of trade, commerce, the currency and finance. So we waited for Webb, and-we have not waited in vain. Here he is, as deli- ciously absurd as-ever. Webb declares that a number of Wall street operators, being moved by a patriotic desire to defeat Lincoln, agreed to eacrifice their stooks at a loss of from four to six per cent, and so combined to do themselves out of several millions of dollars. As Webb sententiously remarks, “swindling is a crime which essumes various phases;” and the most curious phase we have ever heard of {s- this last operation upon the Wall street stock gam- blers, who, in “ order to save the Union’ —we quote Webb—hbave absolutely thrown their own money inte the street. This is tho- most wonderful case of public virtue that ancient or moderna history affords, and it has been left for one of the greatest publicists and statesmen of tho day to chronicle it in proper terms. We trust, therefore, that no lover of his country will fail to read the Chevalier Webb’s last and greatest work. It isone of the finest pieces of rhetoric that we have seen in many a day. Cuime Axona Tux Youtu or tur Merroro- L1s.--The proceedings of the Court of Oger and Terminer on Monday afford a painful evidence of the depzavity of the youth of the metropolis, aad the rapidly increasing habit among that class of the use of the knife asa weapon of asault. No less than four persons, and all young men, were convicted on that occasion of homicide, in three cases the knife being the in- strumeat of death. The exemplazy punishment meted out to the prisoners by Judge Gould will be likely to have a salutary effect upon their confrerss in crime who infest the drinking saloons and sidewalks by day.and night, cad Were it mot for the late death penalty law, doubtlers ptt Borthern Legislatures and con- ventions in motion upon the question of dia- emon; but while we know they will require some time for their deliberations, we know not what they may do It is enough to know for the present that the safety of the Union will be secured only with the defeat of Lincoln. The Prince American Recep- tion—Its Effect in Engtana, The English press is, we are glad to perceive altering its tore in reference to the receptin’ given to the Prince of Wales in this comh y- The sneering, digrespect- ful manner om which it was disposed to eat our effrte to do honor to our young visiter baw giwen place to a more serious and becoming cozsitevation of them. It was, to ray the least of ©, i¢ the woret possibie taste for the entertained to disap. 2rage the frank, cor- ial hoepitality of tke emtertainers, But let that pars; we are pot dispesx d to bear malice when the amende honomtile ts 1ade. The best proof of the bene isl effect which the Prinee’s warm recep#on fea @ has produced in England is, that it is now in ea ‘templation to rend him to India, It is jresthy wn tued that if the results of these royal jourpe viags have proved so satisfactory in the ome case they must prove doub)y so in theotier If, ia a ountry where aristocratic institttions® find no place, and where al} men stand oman eequality, the effect of this act of courtesy-hes ,been to draw closer the ties of consanguinity and | friendship whick bind it (0 England: what may not be hoped from its effect in Fuéfn, w here the prestige of royalty is so great? We believe that, next to the reforms which tiue a a0- mslous condition of thet vast empire 2emeanc la, the visit of its future sovereign would prove the most effectual check wpon disaffec‘ton aad rebellion that could be devised. What a nmtagt pifieent spectacte would be tbe progreso of th? young Prince through the Indian domini¢ns ot his mother, receiving the homage of the pettw sovereigns and princes who have been subjoctedt to her sway, and examining into the condittom of the populations released from their oppres- sions, birt still ground down by the exactions vf" British agents. A finer scheol for the educa+ tion of a ruler on whose empire the sun never” sete, and whose responsibilities will be greator* than those of any otlier sovereign on earth, can not well be imagined. It is-to be doubYed, how-- ever, whether such a visit, undertaken at the pre- sent time, would be productive of all the benefit with which it would be attended two or three years later. To improve the condition of the peo- ple of India the Prince must bereleased from the tutelage of those by whom ke is surrounded. He must go there under circumstances of greater independence and armed with as much authority as the jealousy of English institutions will accord him: All this is of course denied to him until ke comes of age; Until then he will employ his time profitably im visiting other countries, in studying: their various forms of government, and in comparing their influence on the welfare and heppiness of the masees with what he has witnessed in the United States. But of all thet-be may see and investigate in the course of histravels, nothing eise will leave on his mind 80 deep and profitablean impression as his experiences on this continent. He has had an opportunity of contrasting the opera- tion of monarobieal-in close juxteposition with republican institutions. The diGerence in the condition of the-peoeple of the British provinces and of the United States must have struck him unpleasantly, as it does every Eprlishman who crosses the line which divides Canada from this country. Im the one he fownd stagna- tion, poverty. and want of energy; in the other activity, enterprise and comfort. And this difference was as strongly mocked in the character. of his reception as in the disparity of condition that attracted his notice. In Ceaada there was always some drawback on the warmth with which he should have been greeted—at one time arising from the unpopularity of the Governor General in cer- tain locatities; at another from the ancient feuds of the Catholics and Orangemen. The feelings of loyalty and hespitality which- should have overborne all these influences were wholly forgotton in the vanity of individuals cr in the jealousies of parties. Whet a contrast did he find here. Mosooner had ha set foct-upon our soil than he entered on ar entirely new world, whore, if orerything was otrange to.him, it was at least dashed by no oppleasazt associations. If he met with no eervility, he was greeted witha warmth and a siacerity taat must have been as grateful as they were novel to a youth reared iw the atmos- phere of courts. In the course of a few weeks ho got rid. of more prejudices and acquired a greater, etore of vainable knowledge than e life of training under political ‘mtors could have enabled him to do. His quiek perceptions and.admisable tact ena. bled him to steer clear of everything that might. wound the susceptibilities of bi hosts, whilst a&. the same time they placed.him ina position to appreciate all that was really enjoyable. Aud thot he did enjoy himealf we have evidence ia his daily course of life, as well as ia the strong torma in which he expreased himself on lerving na Toa lady in Boston he said that he was 60 pleased with the coxatry that it was his inten- tion te pay it another visit as soon as ho-could which leaves the Court without power to pase | retura without bis“ nurses.” Nothing could be. sentence for murder in the Gest degree, one at least of these young despesadoes would have been given to the gallows. As it is, howeve., the law has condemned them to perpstual ia- prisoument in Sing Sing, where they can do no further violence upon their fellow citizens, and from which it is to be hoped neithar executive est inventions of the enem7 is the fabrication that Mr. Buchanan is identiied with the South: ern disunionists and their plan of operations, in the event of a black republican victory in thie Presidential election, and that “he will 7 j aspect of our political apprehend, however, that step requiring the President with the }, OF treasury or public archives eafEER ti t more expressive of his keen appreciation of the freedom and indepen leace of Americana babite, avd of his general en‘isfaction with the country. It is no doubt to the communication of the opinious formed by the royal party that we owe the striking obange that bas talien place ia the tone of the Londén journals. The flunkey- iem of some of the leading English papers ia only equaled by the bitterness of their anti- American prejudices. It is a fortunate ciroam- stance for the good feeling created by the Prince’s visit that the one foolish influence should, be so promptly corrogted by the other. A Japanese Cixptnare.— We understand that Mr. Obanler, the Tammany candidate for Cougrees against John Cochrane, is not without & powerful influence te back him up—that Mr. Chanler, in fact, was beought out by and is the special protege of Alderman Boole. This fact thould recommend Mr. Chanler to all our tax- payers who are in favor of fat Japanese jobe and rich lobby pickings. Those opposed to. such things will prefer Mr. Cochrane. And ao lot itbe. ———— Br Scere You Ang Reorsrersy.—This ie the last day for the of voters. Let all 00d oltizens who intead to cast thelr votes next ~ .eeday in favor of the Union and the constitn- tice take @ little extra palpe to pee that there