The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1861, Page 4

4 NEWS FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Arabia ‘at this Port and the | United Kingdom off Cape Bace. TWO DAYS LATER ADVICES, The Effect in Europe of the. American Crisis. VIEWS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS, | : South Carolina Commissioners | in Paris. The French Silk Trade and the Crisis. F THE RUSSIAN TREATY WITH CHINA. SATE OF THE LONDON AND PARIS MONEY MARKETS, Rory Ker, kee The Cunard steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, arrived about cight o'clock last ovening with two days later news, She left Liverpool at half-past ten o'clock on Saturday morning, the 19th ult., and Queenstown on the morning of the 20th. She has on freight £262,127—a million and a quarter of | dollars—in specie. ‘The Pohemian, which has arrived at Portland, bas $20,- 000 only. Some of the Paris journals state that a deputation from | South Carolina bas arrived in Paris and obtained an au dience of Si, Thouvenel, Minister of Foreign Atlairs. The Paris correspondent of the London Morning Post | says :— Some journals, T observe, both American and European, epouk of France us likely, if calied vpon, to support si Carolina A friendship ‘and aliance, it 1s a: might be formed becween the South and Franc imperor’s name ig used as favoring the secession. me to corre this error. On New Year's day, when the Emperor received the corps diplomatique, his Majesty held 8 long conversation with the eseututive of America. ‘The kmperor expressed his regret that the slave question should threaten the Union w people of the United States would see the hi taining that bond which had bestowed prosp country and made America go importast a uation in the eyes Of the world, These words were of course sent home to the government of Washington. 1 think I may add thatthe ruler of Frai America, and that is to extend the commercial relations between that industrious people and France. ‘The circular of Meesrs. Aries Dufour & Co., of Lyons, mentions that although the United States take annually about £8,000,000 worth of silk gdots from Europe, the 2B iv prices since the outbreak of the disunion crisis has not been more than between two and three per cent on the superior descriptiors, owing to the limited supply in the market. In the common descriptions there Las been ce bas only one idoa about | of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1861—TRIPLE SHEET. necessary to warn the North? When the President has solemnly desiared that, South Carolina is not constitutionally entitled to aeoede, yet sho cannot, be same revolutionary exercise of her sovere' PS ry ty the House of f tatives here bac | fe majority, that the employment of force cooree the seo diene is omen when the Cus- tom house and ottice are actually worked by Ome rolinian officials; the New York press heads news with the title, ‘Foreign Intelli- meee,” the chance of ‘civil war against which Louisiana thinks it right solemn- y ow 2? ‘Ibis is a question to which no certain answer can be given at present, even In America, much lees in this country. ‘The minds of men across the Atlantic are agitated by occurrences to which nothing similar is recorded in tho history of this coun- try. When tho British oot mutinied at tho Nore, when Ireland was in open rebellion, when Bonaparte was at Boulogne, when England stood alono against sted French Empire—at any of these pori- might be anxious, alarmed, depressed; but confidence in the future; since thoy felt that a can never be destroyed but by its own guilt. ‘Thinking meu in America are probably more discouraged than we were when the sword of a military despotism Was at our breasts. They feel thattheir country runs the greatest of ali dangers—that of being ruined by it- relf. No foreign enemy, no European tyrant, no Sane oligarchy threatens them. The farbie of democratic popular Tight, apd by means ef universal suffrage. Caricatures represent the jubilation of the European sovereigns at the event. Scrmons are full of desponiency. Pubiie peeches in the North have generally affected to doubt the ceriongness Of the movement, and haye expressed a confidence that the separation will only be temporary. ‘This, in fact, is the hope which has opt the North, aad #till more the West, quiet. It waa still indulged at the chose of last year, and {t remains to be seon how far it i founded on a right estimate of things. But, sup- ing the penguine politictans of whom Mr, Seward ia a t to be in the wrong; supposing the gulf between free and slave e0il, when once made, to widen daily moro and. more; supposing the pride, or the political ambition, or tho flecumary interests of tho Southerners to bo satistied by their now independense, what will be the action of the ‘rest of the federation? Will the North give up with the flave States ell the vast continent which lies South and West of them? Are all the dreams of American ambition to be forever foregone by the youth of New Eagland and New York, Ohio and Michigan, the most active and enter- prising populations ofthe republic? If South Carolina se- codec; if Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas Loutslana follow, if a Southern feleration be formed, and take its place among the Powers of the earth, there can be no hope of keeping the border slave Slates. These will be deawa by a natural affinity ta detach themselves from the North and join the slaveholding federatioa. North Carolina, | Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Virgicia, Maryland, | Delaware,’ will then’ be d te from the free ‘Such an event cannot wrded wtthout dismay ¢ rey temist It would, in fact, make the he veal United Stales, as far as tor- ritory présent and prospective is concerned, and reduce the North to what our store would have called a aunch abo “Rump.’? ‘The people of Boston or Philadelphia might be distinguished tur their abuity and enterp: ue thoy would belong to a country with hardiy « ge future than Conada. Every nadural advantage would te on the side of the slove States. Look at the map, aud you will seo what @ narrow slip of eountry comp the Tre the American federation. Ouly th sea const f British frontier to the Delaware—a few ly belongs to it; all the rest, strotebing far nd along a the hands of whers. Mississippt is theirs; ri, aud Arkansas, the great ar r extreme West, are theirs. ' Virgivia pushes a spur of territory to within less than a hundred miles lake krie, and thus divides the Atlantic froo States from the West in a manner highly dangerous to their future union, Indeed, it is doubtful whether the connection between New York and Now Fngland on the one hand, and Llinois and the neigh. Doring States on the other, could long survive the total separation of the south, The North wou'd have a terri- tory a straggling as that of Prussia, and the Western re- gich would scon find it advantageous to dissolve its union y down the with the Eastern. In the meantime, all the riches of tho New World would be in the grasp of tho Southerners. Instead of exploring the inhospitable regions Jn the neighborhood of the British frontier, which would be all ‘a reduction of between six and twelve per cent. Mr. Lindsay, who was lately in tho United States, bas had un interview with Louis Napoleon; and tho talk is, that he bas been more successful in France in promoting free trace in shipping than be was in’ America; that sometanes it is convenient to have only one in a nation to conv ines, particularly when that oue is the State. The gay season in Rome bad fairly set in, and, as it | will be short ()sh Wednesday falling on the 13th of February) there seemed a disposition to make the most of it. It was inaugurated by a brilliant ball, given by Mrs. Stockton in the saloons of the United States Loga tion, where the rank, beauty and fashion of Rome, na- tive as well a8 foreign, were most nuineroualy repro- sented. < A letter from Berlin states that the severe cold which prevailed during the funeral of the late King caused ill- hees among many of the persons who were present. More than 200 of the eoldiers who lined the streets were obliged to go ivto hospitol, and some of them have since died. A number of horses hayo also perished from the seme cause. . Experiments are making in France with a new mortar cannon, of which, it is said, the effect will be much greater than anything yet accomplished by the Armstrong or Whitworth guns. This instrument of destruction can | serve either #8 @ cannon or @ mortar. In the first caso | the mortar forms the breach of the gun by means of a double hinge, which may be attached or removed with he greatest facility. Thedondon Jimes of the 1Tth ult. says:— ‘We regret to learn from undoubted authority that tho report recently circulated in several journals of the gra. cual improvement in Miss Nightingaie’s health is entirely without foundation. Her malady, far from being alle. viated, increases upon ber, and her state, which confines her entirely to her apartment, is one of great exbaustion and severe suffering. In addition to the diamond star from the Thousand which General Turr ts charged to present to Garibaldi, he {s also to offer to Teresita, the ox-Dictator’s daughter, a magnificent neckigco, a present from Victor Emanuel. gy Signora Carlotta Pocchini died in Rome shortly after her confinement, This lady, who must be well known to theatrics! people, was married about a year ago to Signor Pasquale Borri, the well known maitre du ballet. The Anglo-#axon arrived off Londonderry on the morn- ing of the 18th, and reached Liverpool early on the 19th. The Fulton arrived at Southampton on the afternoon of | the 14th January. THE DISUNION MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, (From the London Times, Jan. 18.] ‘The news just received from the United States is the most important that has come'to us since tue beginuing of the mt troubles. No one could road the inteth- gence from Washington and the letter of our Now York correspondent without feeling that the present month is big with thefate of the American Union. We are almost afraid to give publicity to the apprehensions which pre- v Whe excessive confidence ef the Northeners that alt would end well is giving place to sharp ancricty, anu (hough they seem stil t expect the preservation of the Union, it is evident that they look for events which must be most disastrous to American society. “Ybo first step towards what the Southerners and thetr friends speak of as civil war has been taken by President Buchanan. Roueed by the disapproba- tion with whieh bis Message had beon received all through the North, he has adopted a more vigorous policy, aud declared his intention of executing the law and upholding the federal authority, When the Charleston Convention decreed the secession of South Carolina, Commissioners were despatched to Washington to negotiate for the ble recognition of the new nationality. At first were not wanting symptoms that the President that remained to the North, the slave owuers would carry their ‘undeniable property” into lauds blessed witli every advantage of climate, soil and miceral wealth. Texas has territory enovgh to make three or four great States. New Mexico is about to be admitted with slave institutions. Arizona will follow. Mexico must in a few years be conquered, and the Southerners, lords of the most magnificent domain in the world, would control the passage between the two oceans. iu short, if the Union lets South Carolina go, there is no saying What may go withit. It is very well to spo- culate ou the return of an erring sister, but experience shows that secessions, when once made, are not easily recaled. It is the nature of cracks to widen, and both at the North and West there are masses of people so earnest in the aivocacy of strong measures to prevent a disruption that the President may te forced into active measures. For our own part, whatever opiuions Americaus may have of English policy, we beg to assure them that in this coun- try there is only one wish—that the Union may survive this terrible trial. Should Providence decree it other- wise, wo carnestly pray thatthe separation may be an amicable one. Civil war in a flourishing country and among a kindred people can never be contemplated with- out horror by a nation like ours, and we trust that nei- ‘ther the violence of the people nor the weakness of their leaders will bring this*calamity on the American Union. {From the London Post.} The secession movement appears to be taking deep and permanent root in America. We are informed that the example of successful insurrection which South Carolina has set is about to be followed by Florida, Alabama, Mis- sissippi, Louisiana and Goorgia, and that Virginia and Missouri are only waiting the course of events before they decide upon joining a new slave State confederacy, or upon adhering to the Union. ‘The free States, with their wealth and mergantile ma- rine, will be enabled to blockade all the Sodfhern ports und destroy the cotton trade, and this may be accom. plished without the aid of land operations. The slave States will then have to encounter the calamities of a servile war, and, with ruined commerce and fire and sword at home, they may appeal in vain for that assistance which under other circumstances they would have readily and cheerfully obtained. But if South Carolina should suc ceed in becoming the head of a Southern confederation, what useful or beneficial object can be gained? Slavery would be extended by means of a reopened slave trade, Central America and Cuba would be coveted, and possabl; annexed, and in the course of a few years all the great wor of humanity which has marked ‘the history of the past half century would le undone. The national power and influ- ence the United States would be destroyed, and Canada would become dominant upon the continent of North Ame- rica The Case of the Negro Anderson. TO THE EDITOR OF THY LONDON TIMKS. Sin—There is one aspect of th case which has not, I think, received due consi seration. Any contract between two individuals which could be stiaihed to compel one of them to perform an act of in- justice toa third party would be declared by any court of Jaw null and void. If, therefore, the treaty with the United states is 80 framed as to bind our government to do aff act of injustice to Andersdu such treaty is, pro hac vice, pull and void. . By ail moans let the case be decided by law; but if the deoision is adverse to Anderson, I hope our government Will have sullleient moral rectitude to say to that of the United States:— Our treaty with you has been 80 erro- neously drawn up that it enforces upon us an act of in- justice. Any penalty for such an error must fall upoa us, hd not upon Anderson. We will never extricate our- selves from a political dilemma by sacrificing an innocent an”? Tam, sir, your obedient servant, January 17, 1861. J. FOWEL DUXPON. The London Moncy Market. {From the London Herald, Jan. 18 } ‘The Bank Directors separated to-day without making any alteration in their terms for discount. The breaking up of the weekly court was awaited with some anxiety, because a diversity of feeling exiated upon the question. Owing to the attention which is now paid to the provable movement in the value of money, the prices of securi- ties,are readly influenced, and proviousiy+to the fact being announced, consols and ihe other principal desert p- tions manifested’ partial unsteadines#. Throughout the remainder of business hours quictade existed, but an in- ‘would yield to these treasonable emissaries. He received them, aniin@ mauner entered into negotiations with them) though professing to consider them only as ‘dis tinguished citizens of the United States from South Caro- lina’ However, the preliminary domands of these gon tlomen have beeu rejectet by the President. fhe fode ral government will not evacuate Fort Sumter; it will persist in collecting the customs in the port of Charlea- ton; and for that purpose has appointed a col lector who will discharge his duties in a revenue cutter, under the protection of a United States frigate— the Brooklyn—which was ordered to be in realiaess to start for Charieston at once. The Commissioners oonse quently telegraphed to Governor Pickens to put the State on & war footing, and to concentrate all his forces at once, ¥ ts also said that the secession leaders, baving discover ed that the Brooklyn and another veasel were about to | leave Norfolk for Charleston, had telegraphed to their sympathizers to bave the ‘‘minute men” in readiness to voize them. The Administration was on the wateh to provent the act. In short, Mr. Buchanan seomod likely to act vi usly in defence of the Union—so much +> that Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War and @ Sonthorn parti had resigned. On the other hand, there could bo doubt hat all the cotton States would secede within three weeks, and as little that if any attempt re made at coercion the border slave States would give ae Live help to the seceders, and probably join thoir confe ooracy. But for much of this we wore propared. That Georgia, Alabama and the rest would follow the example of South Carolina was certain, and it could hardly be supposed hat the President would at longth make some resistance © the demanis of the seceders. What ismost important ance detarrainatin wate, *virit of the North, and the Jon Wo act with vige 6 dis The Govern ratct with vigor agatnal the di York and Pennsylvan} the of the session of sod weceRs he strongest terme. “To permit or acquiesce in a treasonable conspiracy figainst the national guthorities is tw confess thit Our government is an absoluto failure,’ sige ty of New York. ‘The poopie ‘of wy of New York, in my judgment, are not pro. for such an admission; on the contrary ‘will give to the federal authorities, !n all nocessary measures for the enforcement of the laws, their ) oarnestand faithful support.’ nator Spinola mediately offered a resolution a to tender to the national administra to put down insurrection in one part of th It i# probable that Pennsylvania will be eq getic. The West will certaiuly take up the qu more warmly. ‘We can now underttand the anxiety which preval! tho South, and imagine how a denunciat) tho North ere project of civil war, jike that contained in the speech Of Mr. Benjamin the ottier day, should work foo! ings of the gallerie: io turn city | 1 hat is the temptation to vie gentloman thought it But what is the gr & Violen! course, agnn| crease of heaviness took place when it was reported that values were lower from Paris, through the expectation that the Bank Directors will bé compelled shortly to go higher. Consols for money fluctuated between 914; and ‘4, and for the account between 91% and 4; the four o clock prices being 9134, buyers, for money, and 915, to 3< for the account, In discount circles there was a fair inquiry for money At previous rates, and the lowest quotation for first class short dated bills remains 6% per coat. From that point the price ranges up to7 per cent, the Hank minimum, and four and six inenths’ paper must yet be made a question of negotiaion. Long dated acceptances are more freely taken in some channels, but they are avoided in ‘others, because many entertain serious doubis of the prospects of the future. Tho applications at the Bank elightly increased, the demand iu every respect betag sustained Jt te still said that the prossure on the resources of the Pank of France is severe, and that the drain of gold has cxperienced no diminution. The anticipation in Paris oppears to be that the rate of discount will be again rawed by the Bank of England, and the Bank of France will then, of course, have‘to follow in tho samo steps or adopt some exceptional procesding. The state of uncer: tainty in which things remain is most prejudicial to our trading interests, and the complaints from the provinces are numerous and well founded. ‘The rato for advances on government securities ranges from 53g to 6 per cent for short periods, and for February 6 Ww 6%, are the aversge quotations. There is rather leas stringency in the terms for this kind of accommodation eince the conclusion of the half-monthly accounts. ‘Tbe unsettled state of the money market, with the diminished trafic on some of the leading lings, has at length gonerally atlected railway shares. The receipts of the Midiand have gone down and show a decline, aud an opinion now seems to prevail that trade will be unfavor ably affected by the diificulties assogiated with the ques tion of American disunion. A sum of £82,000 in sovereigns was withdrawn from the Bank, and it is believed they havo been taken for hipment to New York, This etllux seems now to be as g large proportions, and if purchases of bullion are imed for Fraacothe effect will prove extremely | ‘The silver market remains dull and quiet, mh being only 614d. per on. ation of importames has taken place in American 8 in some cases wore rather js the ond of the atter Ilinois Con shares negotiated at 30% and 90 dis- \, leaving off 31 to 90 discount, The paid up shares Joalt in at 8, boing finally quoted 66 to 68. The *7 and $8, being ultimately marked nd Evi wares were dealt 0 83. Grand Trunk dat an advance of having been take y 6 per cont, the « at 2144, and being last quotet 214 preference bonds w alt in Great Western of Canada found were finally marked 10' to Jy It ia said Vane the Bank of France’naes os} further drain of gold to the amount of £2300 000 or £100,000 since the publication of the mouthly return on Friday booat 2 000 of gold in Goraany. ‘in the arent ths ‘Adverse condition the confidence of the eileen still that for {From the London Post, January 18.) Consols, which, on various reports: - counts from America and 8 LR pelle ly ¥ a large purchase of congols, to the extent of £100,000, b abroker acting for Scottish interest. The private vices to-day from New York are not cheering as to political matters, and although the money: ed classes view with satisfaction the decited means now adopted by President Buchanan to haye the rights of the Union maintained at Charleston, and which produced a favorable effect on tho various United States stocks and shares, these forcible measures are by no means certain of success, and few people can bazard an opinion as to what the consequences may be. As regards AERAAg Ns Wi whioh the state ‘of th> money market here depends #0 much, they are quoted wildly at Aeids 9 144 which bier 1 comprises good commercial as well ag bankers? a, an will there- ‘ore still admit of profitable exports of gold from this country. It is understood that a large amount of in roverei variously estimated at from £80, to £100,000, been withdrawn from tho Bank to-day. the agian StL ve eed pate acting for the Pank atill tend to dispose of or borrow money stock. Consol yand cn, stock. i; mols for, money ab O15, a i cloned at 9134 a they opened a 3, at wl ‘they still remain. if {From the European Times, Jan. 19. bape and commercial affairs are: not ” very satisfactory. A, of the increasi ox: Fenditure of the country on maval and military objects, ‘0 the of money increasing M.value in the course of the nt week, and to the increasing diflioul- Mes of the tical question in which the United States are involved, are the causes that affect the markets for government and other securities; whilst the general trade of the country has sullered from the American news and the late long continved severe weather, which is, how- ever, now changing for tho better. Withdrawal of the French Fleet from Gaeta. {From the Paris Moniteur, Jan. 17.) ‘Tho sending of the squadron of evolutiou before Gata was Gone to prevent King Frances IT. from boing suddon- ly myested by land aud sea in the fortress to which he had retired. “The Emperor folt bound to give this tosti- mony Of sympathy toa Princo cruelly tried by fortune; but his Majesty, faithful to the principle of non-interven tion which has regulated all his conduct in regard to Italy since the peace of Villafranca, did not attempt to tako an active part in a political striggle. By prolonging it be- yond the accomplisument of the purpose aimed at this demonstration would have forcibly changed its ch sracter The presence of our flag, destined only to cover tho retreat of bis Sicilian Majesty under conditions requisite to preserve his dignity, became an encouragement to re- sistance and a material support. There soon resulte] from this incidents which imposed on the Commander-in- Chief of te squadron the duty of pointing out, sometimes to the Neapolitans and sometimes to the Pieimontese, the atrict line of neutrality which was prescribed to bim, and which it was almost impossible for him to ob serve. It became the more important for the govern- mentof the Emperor not to accept the responsibility of such a situation, in order that tho frank and reiterated declarations whioh he made should not give rise toany mistake as to his intentions, From the end of October, therefore, e Admiral de Tinan was required not to leave King Fraueis in ignorance that our ships could not remain indctinitely at Gacta, as_impassible witnesses of a struggle which could only end in a great effusion of blood, ‘The same advertisement was given repeatedly to his Sicilian Majesty , whose courage has done honor to his cause. In the interval the circumstances which we have mentioned were aggravated, and, wishing to reconcile the exigencies of a policy of noutrality with the first idea of aflurding to King Francis II. a free moans of de- parting, the government of the Emperor made ifself tha intermediary of a proposition for an armistice, which was accepted by the two belligorents. Hostilitios hay- ing, in fact, ceased on tho 8th of this month, they will continue suspended until the 19th January, and at the same date Vice Admiral de Tinan will leave Gaeta, The Rassian Treaty with Chi: [From the London Post, January 18.] Tho Russian government delights to take the European public by surprise, and the Gazette of St. Petersburg has just furnished a case in point. This is no less than a treaty concluded with the government of China, at Pekin, en the 14th of November last, signed by Prince Ki and General Ignaticff, the Russian Ambassador thore, ratified by the Emperor Alexander on the 1st of January. Thus it dates three weeks later than the Chinese treaties with Great Britain and France, which date from the 24th and 25th of October. ‘Tho Court of St. Petersburg ap- pears to have been resolved that it would not be behind Great Britain and France in obtaining new treaty privi- leges from China; and while the two great {maritime Powers proceeded, with world wide notoriety, to enforce the observation of the treaty of Tien-tsin at the head of a considerable eXpedition, the Russian government quietly slipped into the pocket of General " tefl terms which it resolved te obi at so favorable an opportunity. the Chinese authorities im Pekin besought the Russian Ambassador to mediate between them and the allied armies advance! ‘on the capital, the shrewd Muscovite no doubt saw once what an excellent card the Celostials had put into his hand. His government would mediate, but it must be paid for its mediation. The Court of Pekin probably yound that beggars must not be choosors, and it was doubtiess glad to purchase a mediator of peace at the ex- pense of a new concession to the Russian government. What the extent of this concession in intrinsic political mportance may be it is at this moment too early to de- termine with absolute precision. The treaty divides itself into two parts, it provides for the reconstruction of the Russian frontier in Eastern Siberia, along the valley of the Amoor, and it defines the trading rights and other privileges of interchange of the Russiaus in China and also (for the sake of a nominal reciprocity) of the Chinese in Russia. To deal first with territorial or frontier question, the Russian boun- dary is by Uhia treaty extended to within eight hundred miles of Pekin. This proposition is clea ee by the first article of the treaty. Had Amoor been recognized as a boundary throughout, the Russian frontier would have been covsiderably more re- mote from the Chinese capital. The river Amoor flows pearly cast and west through the vast district known as Mantchuria, between the ae ue of Irkoutsk, in East- ern Siberia, and the Sea of Oc hotsk, which washes the Asiatic coast to the northward of the Sea of Japan. Pre- viously to the Russo-Chinese are 1857 tho whoie district of Mantchuria through which the Amoor flowed was Chipese territory, But by that treaty Mantoharia to the northward of the Amoor was ceded to Russia, who thereby came into possession of a fresh territory ‘equal to the superficial area of Germany. By the pre- sent treaty of the 14th of November, 1860, it is pro- vided that, while the Amoor shall still form the Russo- Chinese boundary, fromthe Point at which it emerges out of the remote and inland province of irkoutek, 80 far ag its confluence with the QOussouri, about two hundred and fifty miles from the ea, that boundary shall thence take the course of the Oussouri, which flows nearly at a right angle with the Amoor, and shapes ite course southward ina line parallel with the seacoast. It follows from this that the Russian boun- dary includes, as Russian territroy, all that district be- tween the Oussouri and the sea. The treaty further do- fines that the frontier shall pursue the course of the Sou'- gatcha, a river which is @ continuation of the Oussouri, as far as the Loke of Hinkai, which it shall bisect, one- half of the lake belonging henceforth to Russia and tho other to China. This lake is within a hundred miles of the Sea of Japan, on the southern seacoast of Mantchuria, near Victoria Bay; and commissioners from the two go- vernmenta are to be appointed to detine the remainder of the Russo-Chinese boundary. Between the mouth of the Amoor, on the Sea of Ochotsk, and the Bay of Victoria, on the Sea of Japan, there intervenes some seven hun dred tiles of seaboard, now in the possession of Rus- sia, This seaboard Hes just opposite the Japancse islands, with the Sea of Japan, there about three hun- dred miles wide, intervening betweea the Russian seaboard and the Japanoso insular empire. We do not Know that there is anything in this Russian acquisi- ton to render the Tycoon eg and his Ministers much much more appreheasive of Russian powor than they were bofore, for a broad channel must always divide them from the present Russian seadoard, and Russia has nevor possessed much maritime authority in distant seas. But this distinct definition of the Russian boundary on the side of China proper convinces us of the magnitude of the stride which the Russian empire has made ia that quar- ter of the worid. It is remarkable to percetve the freo-trading dostrines which here suddeuly receive a practical acceptance from the two most exclusive governments of tho world. The fourth article of the gee! ham f Provides that trade shall for the future maintained along the boundary thus defined free of all duties. Yet Russia is a govern. ment which, not content with maintaining an oxhorbitant rate of duties along her enormous frontiors in Kurope, has also maintained four or five distinct lines of custom houses between ber Polish frontier and Moscow or St. Peters- burg. Nor has China been much illiberal, while she has been far more ant. Russian merchants are to meas the privilege of travelling in the Chinese pire, subject to the reservation that they are not to congregate in a greater number than 200 in the same locality. Kither government is to possess the privi- lege of maintaining Consuls in the commercial cities in the torritory of the other. Boards of arbitration are also to be appointed for the settlement of the commercial dis- nites of Russians trading in China and Chinese trading in Kussia; although it is to be assumed, from tho charactor of the latter people, that they will rarely become domt- miliated in the Russian territory, Indeed, while a carefal reciprocity is in many other instances exhibited in the concessions of the treaty, it bears evidence for the most past of being constructed in the interests of Russian trade. An abgolute right of extradition is also bargained for by the Russian authorities whonever any fugitive from justice takes refuge in the Chinese territory. Many other conditious with regard to posts and couriers are also contained in this document. So far as the trading relations of the Russian and Chinese governments are concerned, we shall be glad to witness the introdnetion of any system which may promote the commercial in torchange of their subjects; although we reserve, for the moment, a decided opinion of the bearings of the recent territorial settement made to the advantage of the for mer State. But an empire which stretches almost as near to Pekin and Jeddo as to Vienna and Berlin, would be for midable enough if it were not so barren and uncivilized France and Prussia, ‘The fellowing the remerks on the apeeoh of the King of Prusaia on the opt the Chambors = Except the paragraph x to the conflict which existe between the Germ lvration and Don mark jeveryth desire and and tt will the King found: ‘throne is ltkewise a ‘are multiplied betweon 8, the more prejudicos are dieses} » intereats identified, aad the more protitable aad necessary does peace become to all. * Denmark. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS, ‘War has caused the whole of the ihfantry to be supplied with rifled muskets, and that steps have been taken to increase the number of horses for military pi for the speody recalling of the soldiers on'fu ‘The same journa! also says that preparations are bei made for the evacuation ef the of Rendsburg. The military corps of Enginvers has been ordered to submit to the government plaus for the extension of the fortifications of Danonwicke and of the redoubta of Friede- ricia, The artillery isto receive several rifled batterios, FRANKFORT-ON-THE MAINS. In to-day’s sitting of the Federal Dict the two commit- tees appointed to consider the proposition of Oldenburg submitted the following whe ‘That, a8 the patent of the 25th September, 1859, and the Onancial law of July, 1860, must be considered as ille- al—they not having been sanctioned by the States— nmark should be summoned to mike a declaration within six weeks in reference to her fulfilment of the Proviaorium, in conformity with the resolution of the Federal Diet of the 8th of |, 1860, and that im the event of her non compliance federal execution should be declared aguinst Denmark. hatin Hungary and ‘the Danubian Principali- Coxstantinorx, Jan. 12, 1861. Pree: Klapka is in the Principalities for ri ‘Hungary. The Danube is now closed by ice, The arms brought by the Sardinian ships are to bo landed in Montenegro, whence they willbe dospatched to the Banat. Conclusion of the Beyrout Trial (STANTINOPLK, Jan. 12, 1861. ‘The tria's at Beyrout have been concluded. The Drugo —— were sentenced to death, and the Turkish to exile, Russia. It is stated that the Russian government had sent a circular to its ministers abroad, to be communicated to the Courts to which they are accredited, remonstrating, if not protesting, againg the warlike projects attributed to the Gorman’ governments relative to tho designs of Prussia on Denmark. It shows that the stato of South. ern Europe is suflicieatly complicated without exciting any more diflioulties ip the north, THE LATEST BY THE ARABIA, . Lonpow, Jan. 20, 1861. Sir Thomas Kaward Colebroke, Bart., M. P., Lanark- shire, will probably be selected to move the address in the House of Commons in answer to the speech from the throne. ITALY. Navies, Jan, 19, 1861. Admiral Barbier de Tinau, with the remainder of the French fleet, left the waters of Gaota to-day. Toni, Jan. 20, 1861. The whole French squadron has loft Gaeta. Gexoa, Friday, Jan. 18, 1861, Troops embarked here yesterday for Nuples. Two fri- gates have loft for Gaeta, Genoa, Jan, 19, 1861. Tho Courrier Mercantile publishes lotters from Naples, dated 15th inst., stating that several thousand Bourbo- nians, under the command of Gen. Loora, had entered the Neapolitan provinces through the Roman territory, and defeated the less numerous Italian forces, near Taglia- ezzo, compelling them to retire on Avezzano. General Tonnez has left with reinforcements for Nora. FRANCE. Panis, Jan. 19, 1861. The Moniteur publishes a decree reducing from 40 to 10fr. per hundred killos., the figure at which merchan- dise imported into France is taxed according to the net weight, EVENING NEWS. Lonvon, Jan, 19, 1861. Extreme depression prevails in the market, owing to @ pressure of sales by speculative holders, all stocks havo fallen. The funds show steadiness, but an improyement of 34 was not sustained. . ‘The Globe #ays an influential firm is in difficulties, with liabilities estimated at from £300,000 ta.£400,000. ‘Ube death of Lord Elphinstone ts announced. A PRUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN ALLIANCE. ‘Tho Prussian-Austrian Gazette again states that a treaty between Prussia and Austria guarantees to Austria tho possession of Venice. Tho meetings of the Cabinet will be resumed noxt Friday. The King of Prussia on the 16th inst. met all tho Generals present at Berlin, and according to the Gazette, thus spoke to them:— 1 have been called to the throne at an epoch full of dangers and with the prospect of combats, in which I al perhaps have need of all your devotedness. If I and the princes who aid me desire the maintenance of peace, and do not succeed in turning aside the storm which ig rising, we shall have need of all our forces to defend ourselyea. Do not indulge in any illusions, If we do not succeed in turning aside the conflict, you shali be engaged in a combat in which we must Vanquish if wo are not willing to perish. Addressing the Minister of War, he said: You must courageously en- deavor to make the army what it ought to be for the future | hogy of Prussia, The Paris correspondent of the London Herald says, this _ hes created = sensation in that capital, and that the King of Prussia is aware that Denmark is only bis nominal enemy, and the real question is, whether France is to have the Rhine. Markets. BARING BROTHERS & CO.’S CIRCULAR. Lonpos, Jan. 18. 1861. Our colonial and foreign produce markets Mgivecen quiet this week. Sugar dull. Coffee and be Uy ults eady. Cotton very active and dearer. Moneyst®, od mand. The Bank of England minimum rate of dt@unt remains at 7 per cent. Consols leave off 913 a 913, %or money, 91% a 915; for the account. Bar silver 58. 1d. Moxican doilars 68. 04(d. American eagles 763. Td., to- minal. Doubloons—Spanish 76s. 6., South American Tas. 64. per ounce. Axmnican Srocks.—Business has been very limited this week, with a downward tendency. United States 6's are freely offered at 86, and may be had at 85. A smail amount of Massachusetts sterling 6's has been sold at 100%, dividend on, and some Pennsylvania 5's, bonds #4, ‘also with dividend on. New York ant’ Erie 4's bonds, third mortgage, 78; shares, 224. Tliinois Central bonds, 88; shares, 30 disconut; ‘Michigan Central 8's, vouds, 89. Canada 6's par, ex’ dividend. New Bruns wick 6's, 106 RICHARDSON, SPENCE & CO.’S CIRCULAR. Liverroot, Jan. 18, 1861. Cotton—The character of the political advices from the States being of an exciting nature, this market has been favorably influenced thereby. The trade and speculators, irrespective of the proepects of dearer money, have been active buyers throughcut the weok, the daily sales ave- raging over 20,000 bales at gradually advancing prices, it is necessary to raiso last woek's quotations 1b. all round. Sea Islands dull of sale. Surats in active request and sd. a \<d. per Ib. dearer. In Mafichester there {8 quite a pause in business, and though prices are called firm for goods and dearer for yarns, there is not enough doing, an. to test thom. The one. are, middling Orleans, 79-16d. per 1b.; Mobile, 7 7-16d.; uplands, 734d. Brxapstvrrs.—During the week we havo again had hard frosts, and although since yesterday a slight thaw has set in, its continuance is doubtful, and tho difficulty of in- land communication remains ‘as great as before. Tho trade in consequence has ruled dull, and on Tuesday, with # small attendance of buyers, wheat sold only to a limited extont, at about previous rates. Flour was 61. per bbl. cheaper, and slow of sale. Indian corn in rather better enqui, at 386. to 388. Ud. for mixed. Since Tues- day some business has been done ia flour, at low rates, a sale of 8,000 bbls. extra Ohio, just asrived from Baltimore, haying been made at 30s, 6d. por Db, | from the quay. Extra Stator have boon soll at 208. 64. to 298. 9d. in store. To-day’s markot was poorly attended and little business was done, Wheat in very small demand and rather casior in price, Flour dificult to soll at our reduced quotations. Indian éorn more freely offered; mixed obtainable at [38s in store; white soils only in retail at 40s. per quarter for prime. We quote wheat:—Red Western, Ls. 6d. to 11s. 6d. for Chicago; 11s. 64. to 11s. 8d. for Milwaukee; 12s, 128. 4d. for winter; Southern, 128. 9d. to 1 Westorn, 138. to 138, 3d.; Southern, Lis. to 15s. ibs. Flour—Philadelphia superfive, 298. 6d. to 308. 6d. extra, 0s, 6d. to Ula. Gd.; extra Obio, 308. 6d. to Bas oxtra State, 208. to 298. Od. per barrel. Indian corn— od, 388. | yellow, 388. to 38a, 64.; white, 398. to 40s, w 480 ibe. “io in very limited gale and nominally unaitorod in value. The arrivals this woek are considerable, and tho stock increasing Pork quiet at previous rates, Bavon slow of sale and prices again easier, Cumese in moderate inquiry, without change in prife. Lano, under arrivals, again lower, about 76 tons choice American haying boon sold at 88, 64. a 598.; good ro- fining nominal, at 678. to 688. por owt. Tauow continuesin fair request, but North Amorican having arrived in considerable quantity and being frecly offered, bas declined in price, 688. being taken for Butchers’ Association, aud $78. to 578. 6d. four New ¥ ck clty rendered. QuEKCIMON BARK sells slowly at late qaotations Tostx.—About 4,000 bbla. soliat 4s. dd ade. 4d, common, and 48, 84. « 63. for low mediura. ‘Ska. There is nothing doing in clover, flax or timo- thy, and prices are nomiuaily unchanged, K. F. SATTERTHWAITR’ > CIRCULAR, Loxpon, Jan, 18, 1861 ‘The market for American securities, during ‘the past for has been dull, expecially for federal and Statos’ stocks and ralirc naa. the prinelpal Vusinoss has . ‘ois nnd Krie shares, which continue to be a ae prices th Now York and London analogy to each other. The last price nie shares, on Sth inst, was 204 Tourt whilet hore the price is ‘82 discount, ant # h here are M1, a et Bas in York itloal troubles have at last frightoned th American pe . Another is only how to get out of fete ihe oper rom. ta tare British public, and the desire is only got their American Money remains tight. Consols close 01}; for money, and 9134 to % for account, 7th February. LATEST MARKETS. “ Livenroot, Jan. 20, 1861. Cotton—Salea yesterday of 20,000 pales, including 10,009 to speculators and exporters at very full prices. Breadatuffs quiet but steady. . Provisions dull, Lonpos—Evening. American seourities slightly declined to-day, Ilincis Central shares 36 a 36 discount; Erie 30. Console 9134 914g for money, and 91% for account. The Arabia ook £226,000 im specie. THE NEWS BY THE UNITED KINGDOM. Care Race, Feb. 1, 1861. The steamship United Kingdom, which sailed from Glazgow on Sunday, January 20, passed Cape Rave at eleven fo’clock on Wednesday morning. The Glasgow papers handed to the lighthouse keeper by the officers of the United Kingdom contain the following intelligence:— ‘The steamship Anglo-Saxon, from Portland, arrived at Liverpool on the 19th, ‘The Paris correspondent of the London Morning Post expresses the belief that the fire at Gaeta would be re sumed on the 2ist, and that an attack by sea would be commenced without delay. ° ‘The new Ministry at Naples possess tho confidence of the people. Tho French army is to be increased by seventeen Togiments of infantry, General Klapka was preparing for a rising 1a Hun- gary. ‘The trials of the Beyrout assassins bad been concluded. The Druse prisoners bad been sentenced to death, and the Turkish to exile. Our Honduras Correspondence. Beuzx, British Honduras, Jan. 12, 1861, ‘The Prospects for the Woodcutting Season—Markets—Some of the Effects of Walker's Expedition—Departure of the Atterney General—Progress of the Government Survey— Partial Failure of the Sugar Orop, de., de. Our last packet brought down a very large sum of money, Which iu a great measure relieved the tightness of our mosey market, yet its late arrival was the cause of a more than usual dull Christmas. There bas beon less disposition to spend mouey 1anifested by the majority of our mahogany cutters. The large houses have hired freely, and at good wages, and, if the seasons are propitious, from nine to ten mil- lion thousand feet will be got out during the current year, Logwood is rather dull and has a downward tendency, with the prospect of more than ordinary supply for the year, Sarsaparilla and hides are very dull iadeod, there being no fixed value for either of those articles, Some small lots of the latter have been sold at public auction for cash at prices ranging from 25 cents each hide to $1 25. Of course they could not be bought in any quantities at those prices, but the poorer driers have made sales at these prices. Cochineal and indigo are among the things that were in Belize. The steamers on the Pacific and the Panama Railroad have directed nearly all of our trade in those articles from Belize. ‘The disarrangement of our trade in Honduras, caused by Walker’s taking Truxiilo, has not yet been overcome, but matters are now gradually assuming their former shape. Our Legislative Assembly will meet on the 28th inst. ‘The session will most likely be very short. Our Attorney General, Mr. H. J. Ball, owing to severo indisposition, bas to leaye this country. When he has gone there will not be a full commissioned oflicer of the government in Belize. The Superintendent, the Chief justice, the Colonial Secretary, the public Treasurer and i ee General’s offices will all be filled with acting oflicials, Major May, the government Surveyor, and his suite have been in town for the past two weeks. They have been down to the Sarstorn river, and surveyed and open- ‘ed the lower or southern side line are now gone up the old river to Garbold’s Falls, to ix the northern line; after which the back or westerly line will be opened, an then the bounds of British Honduras wil be finally and definitly arranged and settled, so far at least as the States of Houduras, Guatemala and Verapus are concern- ed. Thus while your politicians and public men have been squabbling about slavery, the Monroe doctrine and like topics, Great Britain has quietly, but sarely, secured our fifteen hundred square miles of territory, in which are millions of acres of the nest sugar and cotton lands in the world. The promise of the sugar crop for the coming year is not as good az usual, owing to the great quantity of rainy weather we have had lately; but if we have good dry weather for the next four months I have no doubt it will come up to, if not exceed, last year’s crop. ‘An unusual quantity of new land has been cleared the past year, and will all be planted out in canes this year; and with good weather and labor an excessively ge crop will be realized in 1862. Guatamala ‘Gaurd a Coasta schooner Velocitad,’’ with a bevy of officials, has been here and at Corosal, tho past fortnight. Some dancing, racing and bull and cock Dgbting have beqp furnished’ to them by H. M. Acting Superintendent and his friends, who have tried to show them the elephant, and have seen it themselves, if they were not successful in showing it tw their guests. Interesting from Arizona. OUR CALABARAS CORRESPONDENCE. Catapanas, Jan. 6, 1861, Five More Murders—A New Yorker Among th: Victims— Jwo Women Captured by the Apaches—United States Cus- tom House, de. , de. On my way to Hermozillo and Guaymas, in Sonora, I tarry at this place for a day or two, waiting for my tra- velling companions, it being, on several accounts, unsafo for Americans to travel in Sonora except in parties, well armed and mounted. Isent you for publication, some time since, a list of Persons murdered in Western Arizona since January 1, 1858—two years. Since forwarding that list I have add ed others, making the umber sent sixty-six. During the last week of the past year five more marders or violent deaths have taken place, making the total for two years Seventy-one, Americans and Mexicans, killed in Western Arizona, which has an American and Mexican pepulation resident of not over 3,000 souls, exclusive of the mili tary. Does not this show a horrible state of things? And when it is considered that in Eastern Arizona, em- bracing the Mesilla Valley and the Pino Alto gold minas, ‘no less than one hundred violent deaths have taken placo in the same time, it shows a state of sooiety absolutely terrible. But to go on with the number of victims. On December 28, a purty of Apaches attacked a ranch near tho silver mines at Ariveea, killed one Mexican, and car- ried off two women captives. No attempt on the part of the military to recover the captives. Had they boon American Women doubtless a great excitement would have ensued. Latter part of December two Americans, one named Columber, of California, name of the obtior unknown to me, were murdered while asleep by Mexi- cans on the Colorado river. On the 26th of Decomber, P. H. MoGovern, of New York latterly, a native of tho North of Ireland, was shot by a Mexican in Tubac. Ho lingered a few days, died and was buried in tho old church yard at Tubac, by the sido of five other Americans murdered by Mexicans. Mr. McGovern was a very intel- ligent and respectable man; had formerly beon in tho employment of the United States Quartermaster as wagon master. He has rolatives in | -y city of New York, who can have the disposition of bis property by addressing Theodore Mhorman, Esq., Postmaster, Tubac. MeGovern’s catate will probably amount to nearly $1,000. 1 do not cite all theae cases for the Purpose o injuring the coun- try (which is scarcely poasible), but only to show fhe state of civiitzation which exists and tho necessity for tome wort of legal, restraint. “Some people will naturally conclude that with such @ formidable list of mur- ders, added to constant fights, shooting affrays, Indian tions, border warfare, &c., &¢., Arizona must be an exciting place to live in, and so it is, aud it is ho more than justice to advise mook spirited, moral sua. sion, sanctified individuals of the abolition school to keep away. This country is no place for them. At Calal is the only United States Custom Houso between the Rio Grande and Colorade. It is located about ten miles from the Mexican line, at the ruins of the Calabaras buildings, belonging to ex-Governor Gan- dara, of Sonora, Tho reyenue officer is Captain John Donaldson, of Kentucky; salary $1,000 per year, about half what {t ought to be. The revenue of the ollice is considerable, derived from duties on provisions import- ed from Sonora, The person sent out hore to succocd Captain Donaldson should bea firm, resolute man, ac- customed to the frontier, and having’ knowledge of tho — language. Without these qualideations none wuld apply. On te freatier of Sonora the revolution is a, ox. pected to breaksont anew, while in the south the Yaqui war continug, No goods have yet been imported to Arizona via May mas, somo doubt existing as to the con- struction of the decree. Iam now on iny way into So- nora, and if not taken prisoner, shot or murdered, you will hear from me in reference to the true condition and capacity of the country. _ Supreme Court—In Chambers, Before Hon, Judge Barnard. 7. P, Honwel & Co. vs Thomas H. Penny et al.—Motion Cenied with §$.v costs, Inre. of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Duane street. —Reforred to Samuol Jones, Esq. Inve. voluntary dissolution of the Artisans’ Fire Insur- ance Co.—Ordor granted. Reference to Samuol Jones, Henry Morrison, v8. George Walsinger e al.— Motion to set aside jutgment dented with $10 costs. Henry Whitlock, Ji Henry Rhode.—Motion donied with costa, William Train et al ve. Charles 8, Brown.—Motion for a new referee denied with $10 costs, Inre. Henry Clay Fire Insurance Co.—Order discharg- ing receiver granted. elton D. thiuard etal va. John J. Wizeman.—Motion to sot aside judgment deniod with $10 costs. iqney ve. Tallmadge et al.—Motion for resettlomont of wetone made Derure me denied. The order mado by witherland mustthe resettled by him am Young va John Roach.—Motioa ayerruled with » he takon as coste of comurrer to the party suc cessful on thaargument Fine Arts. Church is hard at work, and getting on finely with the “Icebergs.” It will be his grandest effort, Such rich- ness of thought and feeling! euch an overflowing of gro- teeque and fantastic sentiment! So gorgeous im intense delicacy of color! One acknowledges that mortal hand haa at last wrought a fitting homestead for the naiads and the gnomes, the Undines and the mermaids of the old Roscicrucian philosophers. T. L. Smith, of Albany, a young and rapidly rising ar- tist, bas just complotea a winter scene, which is partiou- larly distinguished for exquisite poetic feeling, making it an idy! in its way. The criaped snow, the Jeafloss trees, the village street wrapt in winter raiment—ali are done to the life. It ia just the gort of picture to coo! you im the heat of dog days, . Palmer has lately completed one of his superb female busts—one that lives in your memory after seeing it, like the works of the great old Greek masters. The caverns of that man’s skull seem full of the graces, who come forth, one by one, at the harmonious touchings of his chisel. Huntington’s long expected picture of Webster, Irving and Bryant is rapidly approaching completion. Webstor’s head is grand as the old Apostio’s, and looks something like Correggio’s St. Paul; Bryant's is like an oak-crowned Druid, while Jeving’s is the single face whose contour be- longs to modern days. Warron is painting in the country, and’ keeps good landscapes to town. , Richards, of Philadelphia, is getting up a unique repay tation a8 the best of our pre-Raphaelite landscape painters. 3 Gifford’s new pictures are fult of the goldon sunlight of true genius. 4 Wm. Hart's best effort—“Sea Shore at Sundown” —is on exhibition at Goupil’s. Eastman Johnson is in Maine making studies for a pen- dant for his graphic picture of “The Old Kentucky Home.” It will be a brochure of real New England life—characteristic and clever. The American Van Dyke, Elliott, has upon his easel seve- ral heads which keep up his already enviable reputation. Vigorous and truthful,‘his works will become standards of excollence as time rolls on. Williamson has taken rooms in Brooklyn, where his studio exbibits a summer of untiring industry, It is literally crammed with sketches, He is, par excellence, the painter of the prairies. His Western scenes evince a nice perception and a ready execution. Wenzler’s landscapes are open to criticism, but no one can say hia most startling and extraordinasy efforts are not the result of careiully adopted theory, and the” way he sees nature is much better for art and its higher de- yelopement than the most beautiful of pictures by ser- vile copyiste. E, Gay, of Albany, who exhibited some pictures of great promise, is realizing the hopes of his mang friends. His ‘“‘Mountaiu Stream’? is well calculated to be a sure round in his ladder of future successes. It will be in this year’s exhibition, where all will be able to judge of his rapid improvement. Moore, of Tenth Street Buildings, is among the first of the rising men, and no one can look at the exuberant fancy and genial invention by which he gives us clouds, trees, distance and foregrounds, without feeling, in. the homely language of Hogarth, that “he has the stuf im him.” Launt Thompson’s ‘‘Hunter’’ is highly spoken of as one of the best of his designs. It is an epic of American oo- cupation—a backwoods knight errant bent on adventure, whose dulcinea is gain, whose windmills are’the wolf, the otter and the deer. It is the truest type of American Forest Life, and in vigor is unsurpassed by the works of any cotemporary sculptor. , At the last artists’ reception was exhibited for the firat time James M. Hart's ‘‘Summer’s Day in New England,’* one of his largest and most elaborate pictures. Before it admiring crowds were awakened to its grand and quiet breadth of effect, possessing, as it did, an out-of-doors coat of effect, as if you looked from an open window—its superbly delineated perspective, and the overflowing sentiment of dreamy atmosphere, the inalienable heri- tage of all August afternoons. It is a picture to be felt, net described. Those arborescent princes of the farm- ers’ flelds, the elms, reign in the supreme of graceful beauty. The silvery tone of the sky, draped with fleecy clouds, bespeaks a deep study of aorial effects, while the grazing herds soattored over the flelda give @ tranquil, homesome interest to the scene, that all of us, amid the din and clamor of crowded strects, love so much te think of and so fondly to contemplate. These who have wituessed James M. Hart’s triumphs in our wildest forest landscapes—pictures that will render the old North woods a classio land of sylvan beauty—could hardly have belioved him capable of a success so entire #6 this—a style so different yet so redolent with the opposite sontiment—a sort Of Arcadia of Christian eivili- zation. Oertel’s last cattle piece has hosts of admirors. Innes is laboring, though in feebie health, upon his his fine effects in color. Kensett is full ef engagements. A rare scaside gom of bis will grace the annual exhibition. Durand, the Nestor ef the landscape school of art in this country, is still active as ever, All his things may well bo termed “An Old Man's Memories; and they are indeed luminous with the brilliancy of past siudy. God grant him long life to look upon that nature he has so often and so well represented. The French exhibition will close on the 6th, when a two days’ unreserved sale will take place of its contents. ‘Those who desire to possess genuine pictures by some of the best modern artists will do well to profit by this op- portunity. The Cosmopolitan Art Association have issued a notice extending the period for closing their subscription liste from January the 3ist to April the 18th, 1861. This alteration has been adopted “to accommodate a large number of old subscribers ,who, owing to tho disturbed condition of the political and financial affairs of the coun- try, have been unable to renew their memberships.”” Ritchie & Company, of Broadway, have published a fine engraving of General Jackson, from a portrait painted expressly for the purpose by Mr. D. M. Carter. Mr, Carter's recollections of Old Hickory, aided by a like. ness taken of him at Washington, during the socond year of his Presidency, have enabled him to produce @ picture which is acknowledged to be life like by all those who have seen the {llustrious original. We see by the London American that Mr. W.L Barney, of Baltimore, tho landscape and figure painter, who bas been residing for several years past in Paris, is now in London, whore he is engaged on several largo works il- 1 strating incidents in the American Revolution and Indiag life. Among the new resident artists well deserving of no- tice, Rondel, formerly of Boston, must not be forgotten. Ais cabinet pictures possess intrinsic merit from their ekilful artistic treatment. He isa sort of Lambinet. Ia quiet, delightful simplicity he has uo superior. He only attempts every-day nature—mot her startling effects—and be achieves in truth what he attempts. No collection of colemporary art will be entire without he is repre- sented. A sportsman as well as a painter, hunters and their dogs wandor through his scenes at will. They are pleasant romindsrs of dolightseme shooting in field and forest. “Mount Washington at Sunrise,” byG.L. Brown. This charming picture s noarly completed, and from the original mothod of its treatment, ite grandour of design and brilliancy of oxecution, it will rank with the produc- tions of the first landscape painters. It is a eompanion picture of the Prince of Wales’ “Bay and City of New York,’’ and will be exhibited in London, where, we doubt ‘not, it will meet with the same favor and candid treat- ment as Church's ‘Heart of the Andes’’ or ‘“Cropsoy'a Hudson River at Cornwall.’’ It represents a portion of the chain of the White Mountaias, including Mounts Jefferson, Adams and Lafayotte, just as the sun trana- mutes by his :ising the range into Titanic piles of ame. thystine light, streaking with golden bars the forests at its feot, whilo the mist rises up from thia chalice of a valley as ineense floating before the radiant presence of the God of Day. The foreground, photographically true, mineralogically as well as arboretically (for the artist had every point sketched from nature), is covered witha wild, tangled growth, embracing the trunk of a fallom tree. The mellow richness of tho autumn foliage givos it a Jonely, deserted, Salvator Rosaish effect. To the right a mountain stream struggles along, omerging from a thiek foroat, with eddying swirls upon its surface, reflecting faintly the tints of airy clouds that float as lightly aa those that poets see in the landscape of adream. Ia fact, the picture must be seen to be appreciated United States District Attorney's Office. RESIGNATION OF EX-JUDGR ROOSKYRLT. Fen. 1 Woe are authorized to state that Judge Roo. volt, the presont United States District Attorney, has sent in his reeignation to President Bachanan, © take effect on the 4th of March next. Jadge Roosevelt has also written to Mr. Linooln, the President elect, informin, him that on the day of his inanguration fio office o United St Instriet Attorney for tha Souihern district of New York will be vacant,