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6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ‘APRIL 17, 1862—TRIPLE SHERT, * NEW YORK HERALD. war ships, and the danger of depend- ing on tfand fortifications for the defence of ® coast line, were debated in the British House of Commons during two nights, a% wo mentioned on Tuesday, Although the whole matter was treated very cautiously and with spirit by the Cabinet Ministers, it is quite evident that the Palmerston government is excited, if -not alarmed, at the position inwhich the coun- try is placed, its wooden line-of-battle ships being valueleas—and a huge additional expense being rendered absolutely necessary for the building of new iron vessels and the alteration and sheathing of old frigates of oak. It is claimed that Captain Cowper Coles, of the British Navy, originated the plan after which the Monitor has been built. The great military landworks, for the defence of Spithead,’ which had just been undertaken, have been suspended at the instance of Parliament. The French iron-plated gunboat which arrived in the Seine from Bordeaux about a year ago, has been lengthened and modified in shape; she is now completed, and being whally roofed in by a casing of iron plates, presents @ remarkable appearance in the water—something like @ gigantic egg. She hastwo very short funnels, two engines, and is pro- pelled by two screws. ‘The Russian government is determined to save every rouble possible in order to apply the money for the fitting out of aniron-plated fleet. The English government had officially announced the retirement of its military contingent from Mexico, with the exception of a small force, which is ordered not to take any part in or give any aid to an advance into the interior. Spainhas avowed her intention not to ally herself with any “‘recon- dite schemes” for the subjugation of the Mexicans; so that the tripartite alliance may be said to be at an end, so far as the idea of a permanent invasion is concerned. France, in the absence of informa- tion to the contrary, is now acting aloe on the soil of the republic, and the Paris correspondent of the London News states that the Mexican ques- tion, as between Napoleon and England, has become of a ‘‘very ticklish" nature. CONGRESS. * The President sent a special message to both houses of Congress yesterday, announcing his ap proval ‘of the act abolishing slavery im the Dis” triot of Columbia. The President has appointed ex-Mayor Berret, of Washington; Hon. Samucl F. Vinton, of Ohio, and Daniel R. Goedioe, for- merly of Nort Carolina, Commissioners to de” termine the validity and value of the claims pre sented under the act of emancipation. In the Senate yesterday, Mr. Hale withdrew his resignation of the chairmanship of the Naval Com. mittee. Bills providing a Territorial government for |, Kanawha (Western Virginia), and for the enforce. ment of the laws of the United States, were refer. red. Mr. McDougall continued hie remarks re- specting the arrest of General Stone, and opposed the adoption of the motion calling on the President for information on the subject instead of the Secre- tary of War. The Confiscation bill was then taken up, and Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, spoke against it. The death of Mr. Cooper, representative of the Seventh district of Pennsylvania, was announced, and the customary resolutions of condolenee adopted. Inthe House of Representatives, a bill appro- pristing thirty millions of doliars to make up de- ficiencies in the appropriations for the pay of the army was passed by a vote of one hundred and ninety yeas to two nays—Messrs. Calvert and May, both of Maryland, voting in the negative. A joint resolution, requiring Treasury certificates to bear date at the time the claims are audited'and settled, was introdaced and referred. The bill organizing the army signal corps was passed. A resolution, reported by the Judiciary Committee, declaring that the government should not interfere with the transmission of intelligence by telegraph, when it will not afford aid to the enemy, was adopted. The death of Mr. Cooper, of Pennsylvania, was annnounced, resolutions of condolence were adopted, and the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Canada, from Liverpool on the 5th and Queenstown on the 6th of April, reached Halifax yesterday. Her news is two days later than that rec y the Norwegian. terest. A long debate took place on ® motion to | now solved. Had the elder Napoleon possessed | The Conservative Policy of the Admfn- | him take his place in the army, Ho dosires to ~ instruct the Internal Affairs Committee to repoft | such an instrumentality, England would have. | {#trstion—Important Speeches im Con- | geht for the flag at Yorktown. Good officers the Metropolitan Health bill immediately. With-| been, at this day, either a dependency of gs are not very plentiful. Let him have a out coming to any decision on the motion the | France, or, if still independent, a fourth rate |, W® Publish to-day two remarkable speeches | ris trial at once. It is the wish of Gen Senate went into executive session, and after- been an island, | €2tivered in Congress—one of them by Mr. elles aay wards took up and debated the bill providing for petty Power, ‘Had England not ~ ’ | Blair, of Missouri, and the other by Judge MeCielian, bis a officer, and there can be peas ta (-aema-tamaate-peneth and had it formed part of the continent of Tho: nos,vof Mi nowt The fp oom no good reason for refusing it. The speech of the Europe, contiguous to France, mo one can mas, of Massach 5p Mr. McDougall in Con; hich we passage of gunboats. Favorable reports were Blair is'impertant, not only on account of the gray pub- made on the bills for the better protection of | doubt that she would either be annexod tothe | | irutters, but because it is an ex- | Late? Yesterday, is deserving of public atten- buildings in this city against fire, and to establish | dominant Power of the Continent, or, at best, sie ae no ad if Mr. Lincot ad his thon. For every injustice done now there will bulkhead pier lines for New York and Brooklyn. | Would hold about the same relationship to | Po*#om of the policy of Mr. Lincoln an be a day of reckoning hereafter. The bill for the reorganization of the State | France as does Belgium or Italy. The insular administration. The speech of Judge Thomas militia and the enrolment of ® National Guard | position of Britannia, and her command is edmirable for its constitutional Jaw, sound was debated for some time, but the | of the seas, protected her against the logic and overwhelming overthrow of the posi- Senate adjourned without making cay disposi- | world in arms. But the battle of Hampton tions of the aboliionists. If Wendell Phillips tion of it, In the Assembly, a special committee | pogag strips her of her strength like Samson and Charles are the bane of Massachu- of five on the apportionment of the Congressional setts, Judge Thomaatis the antidote. While we districts of the State was announced by the shorn of: his hats, Honooforth France is dee- commend the whele of both speeches to the Speaker. A large number of bills received their | *¢d to rule all Europe, Louis Napoleon will ealm and earnest sal of bs nema third reading, many of which were passed; bat the | DOW carry out the unfinished role of his uncle, | 10 1! Oe aes sel be pesinevets ‘ majority of them were only of local or private im- | 4nd his iron-plated vessels, now ready for ac- P pes fe form oe'. Miese paints wostisy o' portance. Among them were, however, those to | tion, will speedily enter the Thames, bombard P a ~ tention. iv provide means for the support of government, to | London, and tame the pride of the limeal de- i. Blalr, who ia fromne slaveholding State, provide means for the payment of the canal in- | scendants of those who chained the mighty and well informed of the opinions of all classes eagle of France upon the lonely rock of St. of the Southern comnraaity, declares: that it is Helena, where he gnawed out his own vitals fallacious to call the iasurrection a “slave- - holdera’ rebellion.” If sueh were the fact, two debtedness, the General Tax bill, to regulate the sale of poisons, to inflict punishment for the use of Before his invasion of Russia he had prepared en tiniecns edition to England; but the de- divisions of the army could have suppressed it false brands, stamps and trade marks, and some — pias particular interest to the people of this arse ee ve Bro Railroad bill was recom: | _ 1. ment of alarming movements on the Con- So Th. fast, bs Perce: Siete tinent, started by the diplomacy of England to wnaee iy put dows babs oon | ° Meleuc’ teats aaah dees fa, that it ie the non-alavohelding whites of the failure; but Napoleon III, has avenged the de- South whe are.the’ rebels, and: that not from feat. Hehas since taken vengeance on tho any love of slavery, but from the natural an- treachery of Austria. It only remains to tagonism of the white race to the idea of equali- avenge Waterloo end punish England. He be- oan ee wee a ele i i pe Pa BOO, S00 IS Sasha eats States of the Northwest to pass Iswe prohibiting In order to be successfal in so great an en- the settlement: of negroes among-their popula- terprise, Napoleon. deems it necessary to bo on tiom Mr. Blairargues, therefore, that it is the a friendly footing with the greatest naval a ere Ree? nc She area eee Power of the world—the United States. Hence Hig pe a ate ee ana ” the visit of Mercier to Richmond. It has been 3 stated recently that Napoleon hed suddenly slaves: which led them to take up arma, Hence changed his policy in reference to the Ameri- yee pcahtaptyiacactas —— 3 2 plied tail org re pvhissa repudiates the ides of a forced emancipation of the belligerent rights of te South. Now, and proposes that it'shall only be accomplished | the object of the visit of Mercier is to tell Jeff. | PY the voluntary actiof the people of the South- Davis and his Cabinet that'they must sebmit at on Seatee} it Congress merely passing tahoe enee; that if they do not France will take part avait thenpin the shane’ of compensation... The with the North, and settle the affair very soon. policy of reife pts? colonize them when But if the Southern leaders will’ lay down their beat ch and Mn. Hieir suggests Mexioo aems the Emperor of the'Frenoli- will interpose ke bso America Lh es pai setae song to-save their necks. This reasoning wil! proba- path nay sok palin rrente Parsee has a a re oe, bse tapas a natural antipathy tothe blaek race.. He says if you—I have restored the Untom I will, more- the republicans had: proclaimed this policy of over, abandon Mexico, and: ell! designs wpon se sire we shoutd! not havo had the rebel- anada. Iwant yoursecret - ‘ ship for my enterprises in Europe: At least, I eed ‘ ae Naan =, alco 77 guod' p desize that you will pledge me thet you will |) 7" La piaeennete eres areas ‘meintain a strict neutrality.” That, we think, |'20t love for the King, but impatience engen- f° Pasay Sieky Nelpalate meapiet es; Mf ST candies moe. look out. Nay w master of Pearce and he es be dure to make the |' the pro-slavery democraoyis restored to power, f-other dey in hiladbiphia, at th instance at: ‘best of it. jit will be by similar’ folly on the part of thor}:Mr. Pierce Batter, of Hon. Sien Camerom, : ‘most extreme opponents of stavery.” Mr. Blain |; ‘The Navat Panic in Exgiend. ‘goes on to contend that: “we cannot subjugatest Lnthis morning’s -paper will be found » fall the seceded States without maintaining a vast'| report of the interesting debate. which took army and without changing the -very form off plsee: in the House of Commons-on the 30th | our government.” He-aske: “How long would | ult. in relation to iron-clad vessets-of-war. It }.it be endured by the Northern people that | ,arrested, triediand punished in itis case, he mey will! Be seen from it that oar: transatleatic | . war should be waged upon the people of thait | fhe in a hundzed others, more or less, anc@ithat cousina are in great alarm ati the faets @e- own race at the Southito make the blacks their | /hereafter Mr_Secretary Sewand'and Mr. Secre- veloped in the recent engagement’ between the equais?” He exposes: the absurdity of the [ tary Stanton may be subjected to an andlese Merrimac and Monitor. That: event operated | whola.business by remarking that when Nosth: ff succession efi such troublesome proseautlons. upon'them like a new revelation: It toek out | orn men go South their prejudice against | This initiative experimental arrest of Mr. Cs- of: them the starch of their arrogance ond self- slavory-ceases; and thosoldiers will he-n@.ex- | meron, then, clearly suggests a bill of indem- coneeit, and has left them terribly nervows.and ception to the rule. Om the contrary, ‘jf our | nity, or something of that sort, on the part of anzious about the future. troops.should permanently settle in ‘the South } Congress. Infact, in the absence of any such ‘The motives of this anxiety are-not ezegge- | the lacks would onlychange masters, of which | intervention in behalf of the members of Mr, rated. Never had a nation greator cause to feel | there.aze cortain symptoms already. Lincoln’s Cabinet of the War and State de- troubled. In a single day it has seen netonly | ese are sound and sensible vier rs, from | partments, we may expect, by and by, from its most cherished illusions and: projudises de- | which we dissent only. ow one point, an 4 that is | this example of Mr. Pierce Butler, regular stroyed, but the work of centurics annihilated. | t46 colonization plan. There is no » necessity | offensive campaign from the State prisoners Since the fight in Hampton Roads its naval ¢., it, The labor Gf. the megroes is) seeded in | liberated from Fort Lafayette, Fort Warren, suppemacy has passed oxt:of the realm | the coiton and sugar States. The lab or of the the old Capitol building at Washington end of. facts into that of traditions. Alas! that 60 | white.man cannot sapply it; and it~ would be | other places, and that the Abbe McMaster, muah that is 5 sscpat and. copviviad should | oxs:ome folly to deprive the coun! jry of such | certain Baltimore Police Commissioners, cer- vanish with it. No more at Guildhall Banquets |'24 immense laboring population. . If there | tain late members of the Maryland Logisle- on qonnty oe will the: toast of “Our | pustbe emancipation, let the State’ that decrees | ture, the late Governor Morehead, of Ken Wooden Walls” wake the echoes with stento- | i: take charge of the negroes, inst ead of their | tucky, Dr. Hopkins, of Detroit, and other sup- rian and self-congratulatoxy: cheers, : .. {former masters, and: let vagrant l: sws, compell- | posed Knights of the Golden Circle, and a host It will be seen from what passed im Parlia- | 5,, to tabor, be enacted, and 1c fair rates of | of others, will form a perfect army of prosecu- ment that in the coming age. ofi irom English | yaccg bo extablishad. This wo 1d not be bet- | tors, with the right wing headed by the inex- vaingloriousness still bopea. to. maintain its | ior for the negrose, but infinitel: » better for the | tingutshable and accomplished Mrs. Greonhow superiority at sea. We will not stap to discus’! Fignters, who aranow bound t o support them | and the inappeasable and fascinating Mrs. Mor- how far this expectation. is. well founded. To | ; dim sloknesd 9s - time we may safely leave. the. sotation of the in old age and in sic! W je}l asin health. |-ris. The subject, therefore, clearly calls for JAMES GORDON BENNETT EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be at the isk ofthe sender, None but Bank ville current in New York TUB DAILY HERALD, two cents per copy, $7 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every lay, at siz cents per per annum: the European Edition every Wednesday, {, Or the a Comty: 5 annum to rt of Great Britain, Bg essay tr tk ontnedak lat nae Califormiaa Hidiclon on the 1st, L1ch ind Blot af each month at aie or $2 TS per annum. THE FAMILY UERALD, on Wednesday, at four cents per jp oF $2 ver annum. ial WOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important neres, solicited from any quarter of the world; / used, will be Tiieradly pard for. B@-OUR FOREIGN CORRXSPONDENTS ARB Pawriovcaucy Requegea> To Seat at Lurrans axp Pack. aces wit Us. ‘NO NOTICE taken of axonymous correspondence, We do not r ‘communications, UDVRRTISEMENTS rencwced every day: advertisements in« oe tad in the Wenge HegaLn, (Paine isnato, and tn the Cull ‘ons. JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and des- rs Ove Two Rervarican Factions anp Tae In- TRIGUES 4T ALBANY. —There is @ very mysteri- ous controyersy going on between the Tribune and Times’ in regard to our Metropolitan Health bill; and the officers to be appointed and the spoils, to be divided under it. The Tribune thinks it but litte short of a public outrage that the Mayor of New York and the Mayor of Brooklyn are to be excluded from this new board of health, wiltle the Times eom tends that there ts no earthly necessity for theis appointment om the board. The innocem reader of both or efther of tlose journals doubtless puzzled te make out tle meanfag all this earnest argumentation upon this buat | ness; but we think we can. very easily solve the -No, 105 AMUSBMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Lusty Brormars. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tus Excuanrenss. ee, GARDEN, Broedway.—Damcams Gaounp— \ WALLACK'S TEBATRE, No, 844 Broadway.=1ors ax Morar. mystery. ‘The republican party of New Yortiv ander going « crystalizatiow imto two Mustile fac- tions—the one looking: to Mr. Seoretaey Seward for the mext Prosidensy, and the otifer'te Mr Secretary Chase., The ‘Little Villains” of the Times, from sheer hostility to Groelsy;. have pinned their faith to the’ coatiail of Mui. Sew ara} and-Philosopher Greeley, not yet hwwing had/full satisfaction against: Mr. Seward}. fall logisally inte “the ring” of' the Chase fration. to which, also, Mayor Opdyke and Mr: Col- lector Barney very naturally betong. To cities of these’ repwblican factions the spoils and plundsr’ of this new health» board will" be worth having for future. partisan operations and here’ we reach the milk of the cocoanut Hon. Henry: Jeremy Diddler Raymond is im triguing for’ the seat in the*United Stater Senate now: heté by Preston Kitig, whose tern» will soonexpire: Hon. Philosopier Greeley: while he woutd' become deciédaly wrathy i charged witRiany' imtrigue upoa” the subject still has, m+ doutt, a kind of ‘x glimmering: idea that horisthervery man to filithe place ol+ Preston Kiagy and that Raymond is nothing : but an impudent little nincompoep. We need! not proceed any farther with oursxplanstions. The reader, from:witat we ‘have said, will ses: the wheel within: the wheel at eseb end of the - axletree of this-Metepolitan Heal bill. It is. a tempest in a'téapet; but, for all that, we: shall have, probabty, a little thunder and light - ning from it Before it is ended. Education was, held yesterday afternoon, Wm. E.° Curtis, Esq., in the chair. A resolution was adopted awarding the contract of the mason work of primary school in the Nineteenth ward to Mason & Carey, carpenter work to William Coulton, and painting to Charles Loeber. The discussion in re- lation to military education was postponed. No further business of importance was transacted. The Grand Jury of Paterson, N.J., have indict- ed Mr. Lawrence Holms for reporting, and the Daily Guardian for publishing, reports of a seduc- tion and abortion case, on the grounds of their ob- scenity. - Mr. Holms, who reported the proceed- ings, was attending court as a juror, but has since become associate editor of the Guardian. In this State” proceedings in courts of justice are permit- ted to be published; but it entirely depends upor the good taste of the reporter and’ the supervising editor to judge what portions should be omitted or delicately worded so as not to offend the sense eg the community. ‘The market for beef cattle was substantially the: same yesterday as last week. Some of' the brokers and butchers reported a reduction in-prices; but we found the range about the same. The average prices might have been a trifle lower. Ptices va- tied from 7 cents to 8% cents a 9 cents, with a large proportion of the sales at 8 cents 8:8} conta for prime corn fed steers. Milch cows have been in rather more inquiry; but prices- remain about the same. Veals were steady for prime, but dall and lower for common. Sheep and ‘lambs sold a¢ prices ranging from $5 to $6, according to quality. Swine sold at 4 cents a 434 cents for-still fed, 444 cents 2 454 cents for heavy corn fed, and 3% centa afcents for light fed. The total reccipts were 3,517 beeves, 127 cows, 991 veals, 6,170'sheep and Tembs and 9 23 swine. 4 ‘The stock market was firm yesterday, General Grant’s official report having silenced the fears of the doubters with regard to the battle of Pittsbergr Landing, and rumors with regard to the object of M:.Mercier’s visi¢ to’ Washington tending to encourage hepes of « ces- sation. of hostilities. Governments improved 3. Mo- ney continued very easy—call loana 6.06 per-cent, Ex- change inactive; gold 101% 2101%. The trade tables for the month of March will bo found in themoney arti- ¢te, in another column. ‘The cotton market was again active ydsterday, and firmer, with sales of 1,800 bales—a good part to spin- Rers—olooing stiff on the basis of 283¢c. for middling up. lands. Some holders demanded 29c., and refused to sell for less. Mo. Samuel Smith’s Liverpool circutar of the Ist of April’ contains the following statemea regarding movements in India cotton:—The export ef eotton from India is disappointing expectations. The shipmonts from Bombay to-Eurepe in January and Februaryshow a def ciency of more than 60,000 bales as compared with last year, and the arrivals from the interior-continue on a very moderatescale. Ho gives the imports into Liver- pool tothe 28th of March, as follows:— American. Real all kinds. 1802, bat 7,000 180,000 LAURA KBENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.— Os@TeY; OR, Tae Paxr oF Day. ~ ty TRE, “Bowery.—Duio Huart— NEW BOWERY THEA! Buw Tum Loarswa N—oaw bOOTMAN BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Com. Norr—Living Waaua, 40., at all hours.—Hor o Myr ‘Yuuatn—Lessons rox Lov ftermoon and evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 672 Broad. Way.—Wue Simvcx bILLy /atreason, MELODEON CONCERT HALL, 539 Broadway.—Rouns TeLAN PER O&MACK>, SONGS, Dancus, BuRLesques, 4c. CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Soxas Danoxs, BURLESQUES, £0.— uv wsomn. GAIRTIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Daawine Room Entauraimnnts, Baviars, Pantourmxs, Fances, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Jmarous Dakaxy—Raic20ad—COLUsion—JOLLY ALILLERS. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery ~ Bumcesquea, Songs, Dances, &0.— ear a3 4 1031. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 663 Broadway.< Opeudaily trom WA-MAUhS Ew ner TEMPERANCE HALL, ¥ wooo's ee, Princeton—Srivastme BLERcan's TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, April 17, 1862. THE SITUATION. The correspondence from Yorktown, which we publish to-day, will give our readers a very accu- rate and interesting description of the progress of affairs in front of that city. It will ‘be seen that the greatest activity provails in both armies: Firing from tho rebel batterics is an every day event, and meets with an occasional response from our artillery, while preparations are being made ‘by the commanding genera! for-an assault, which tmaust-prove of a terrific character, A skirmish. took place on Saturday, in which @ scattering fire. was kept upon both sides. The skirmish was con. tinued on Sanday morning, but with what effect on the enemy was not ascertained. Our loss is insig- nificant. The Petersburg Express describes it as 4n important affair, and says:—‘‘We did not hear the number of Confederates engaged, but it la tated that three of our regiments sus- tained considerable loss in killed and wounded.. The Yankees are thought to have suffered greatly. Had the enemy been allowed to fortify he might, with a very small force, have menaced and held in check a large body of our troops, while he could have sent off a greater portion of his to co-operate Yo other fields.” The same paper adds—“It is stated, farther, that a general battle is imminent oa the peninsuls, and not a few in our city yester- ‘day were prepared to hear of active fighting at any moment. . It is now known with certainty that McClellan, at the head of an immense army, is there, and it is also known that our generals have made ample preparations to give the enemy a des- perate fight the moment he offers battle,.”’ The Merrimac still lies up quietly at Norfolk. ‘We publish to-day the official report of General Tue ArrestoeMa; Ex-Srcret.reCamenon—- )& New Svsse7e eos: Conaness—The. arrest the per week,which is thought to be the lowest point it cam: reach. This will increase, ecpeoially if trade revives at all, in Manchester. Applying this weekly reduction to the stock. oo hand, and it will be easy to estimate the steady-exhaustion of sup ply going on in Great Britain. The-cotton afioat on its wag to England on the 28th of March, thecircular—which is regarded as very good authorityin the trade—states as follows: — . Am: rican. East India Grant of the battle at Pittsburg Landing, or Shi- | ;).. | .verpool cotton market tended upwards on | 1862 Nii 210,000 1» | In the event of omaneipation * ome such systein | the intervention of Congress or the Supreme lob, aa it may perhaps more properly be called, the 5th instant, but the quotations remained un- | 2861-. 218,000 245,000 - ermal a «ao prgphic Aas as thls should be adopted as .o substitute. To | Court, or for the action of both, as soon as and also the report of General Sherman describing | changed. Flour was steady. Provisions yomained | Decrease. 218,000 25,000: tthe fatare when the. ground on which 4he| © the blacks. the same p political privileges | possible. and franchises aa the whites ; of the South, and make them equally free, is an absurdity of which nobody dreams b mt Utopian aboli- tionists like Greeley and Sv gmner or Phillips and Garrison. Equally important is, the speech of Mr, Thomas on the consti tutional question, He shows that this isa war for the constitution, and not » war to over! row it. He completely vefutes the doctrine ‘sf Sumner, that the State organivations can be, destroyed, and that States have forfeited their existence by rebellion 3 for ‘thexe is nothivg im the doctrines of secession more disloyal to the constitution and more fa- tal to the Union than the doctrine of State sui- cide. Itis the gospel of anarchy, the philoso phy of dissolutjon.” The constitution has a door for States/to come in, but none for a State to go out. An ordinance of secession has no ‘The flour market was heavy and lower, and fell off from. 6c. to 10c.,and om some kinds, especially of comuwa. and medium grades, 150. per DbI. Wheat was easier and irregular, while sales were moderate. Western mized was in fair request, at S8c. a S8i¢c. in store, and 69¢. a 60c, delivered. Pork was lower, but active at thecon- cension, with sales of new mess at $12 623 a $12 75, and of prime do. at $10 a $10 3734. Sugars were steady, with sales of 600 hhds. Coffee was quiet. Freights were firmer, with a fair amount of engagements at raies given in another colama. steady, with a quiet market. Consols closed in London on the Sth instant at 93% a 94 for money. Our advices from the continent of Europe are not of much importance. ‘The French papers very generally comment on the recent naval conflict at Hampton Roads, be- tween the Monitor and Merrimac, and on the com- plete revolution which has thus been caused in na- val warfare. They make particular reference to the excitement caused in England by this change, and to the assertions of the English press that a new navy must be built. The Opinion Nationale hopes that these new inventions and improve- ments will make naval warfare so terrible as in the end to prevent it altogether. The Courrier du Havre thinks that if England, France aud the United States were to spend large sums of money, and each were to be possessed of an invulnerable steel-clad navy, the position of affairs would scarcely be altered, as neither Power would be able to make any impression upon the navy o¢ the other. It also argues that the cost is too enormous ever to allow iron vessels to come into such general use as wooden ships. All the papers, however, coincide’in the opinion that iron vessels will henceforth displace all others for harbor and coast defences. ‘The Canada reports, under the head of the very latest news, that the New York packet ship York- town, trading between New York and London, had been captured by a rebel Southern privateer. Our telegraphic report by the Canada does not contain any particulars as to the situation of the veasels at the time of the seizure, the name of the privateer, or the destination or cargo of the Yorktown; but as the Canada left Queenstown on the 6th instant, and the fact is stated as @ portion of the latest Liverpool news of the previous day, it is to be presumed that the occurrence took place in the near neighborhood of the English or Irish coast, and that both vessela were in some one of the ports of Great Britain when the Canada took her departure for Boston. The ship Yorktown was builtin New York, by William H. Webb, in the year 1847, She is eleven hundred and fifty tons burthen, and has three decks. She'is built of oak, draws twenty feet of water, and was metalled in June, 1860. She is owned by Mesars. Gginnell, Mintorn & Co , and her measurement shows that she is one hundred and seventy feet in length, thirty-eight fect in breadth, and twenty-two feet in depth. The Yorktsirn Wis last strveyed ia {his port in “Boars Correspoxpence anp Swixptina Ex- tnas.”—We invite the attention of our readers to the beautiful disclosures on this subject, in another part of this paper, from the St. Louis Democrat. It will thus be seen that, while some of the Iate pretentious descriptions of battles published in the New York Tribune and World are bogus, counterfeit, spurious—mere tricks to obtain a little credit upon false pre- tences—we have, on the other hand, the most conclusive evidence that the ‘battle field letters of the New York Heratp raay be traced to our industrious and enterpr? sing correspondents in person on the battle field . The proof against our contemporaries and in our vindication is perfectly conclusive. Ov r readers will thus perceive that, while the ) denatp may be relied upon as ® genuine new spapor, some of our noisiest contemporaries are but jackdews in borrowed plumage. , Corporation ADVE) :ristnc—Tue Post AND tun Trpuxe.—The Er ening Post is an advocate of that comfortable o !d plan for the spoilsmen, of limiting the Corp oration advertising to our city newspapers of the smallest circulation. This is quite natur al; for the Post is one of this class, and has a c} ironic hankering for a alice, with some of th o rich stuffing, of the public goose. Greeley , however, who is a vegetarian, scorns to look! upon the subject in that light, and,as a guar? ian of the public interests, pleads the sound doc trine that the Corporation adver- tising should. be given to our public journals of tho large st circulation. It is simply case between th.e spoilsmen and the people; and so glad are ‘we in this instance to find him on the right sid’s, notwithstanding all bis curious kinks and crrtchets, that we second the motion of Greeley. the pursuit of the enemy towards Corinth. The account of the fight, which we give from the South” ern papers, in another column, will be found very interesting. . Despatches received at-the War Department yesterday from Kansas City, bring official intelli- gence of the battle at Apache Pass, in New Mexico. Our loss is one hundred and Gifty killed, wounded and missing. The enemy acknowledge their loss to be from three hundred to four hundred killed and wounded. Ninety-three rebels were taken prison- ers, thirteen of whom are officers. Our forces cap” tured and burned sixty-four wagons, laden with provisions and ammunition, and killed two hun” dred mules. The Texans attacked our battery four times, the last time coming within forty feet of our guns, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The Texans fell back to Santa Fe after the fight. Tho Secretary of the Navy received a despatch yesterday from Cairo announcing that Commodore Foote had advanced with his flotilla to within three quarters of @ mile of Fort Pillow, General Pope's command occupying the Arkansas shore. Ten mortar boats were in position off Fort Pillow, end had opened fire at six o’clock on Tucsday evening. Commodore Foote states that he is con- fident of reducing the fort. The New Orleans Delta announces that seven or eight of oar vessels—Porter's mortar boats no doubt—had made an attack upon Forts Jackson gad St. Philip, without mentioning the date, and that as they retired upon being fired on by the forts, it was evident that @ reconnoissance only ‘was intended. By the Canada, at Halifax, we learn that the New York packet ship Youktown had been cap ‘ture’ at sea by @ Southern privateer. No particu. lors are given, but as the fact is announced under tuo head of the very latest news, we presume the @eizure must have been made near the British const. > The revolution in the mode of waging war at English Parliament is-urged to, the reconsizuc- tion of its navy by the speakers on this occa- sion is apprehended: danger from this country. Danger of what? We. have enough to cacupy us at home*withous.seeking fe carry aggression into the territories of osher governments. Neitber are we so.unnaturad as to imitate the example set us of seeking a pretext to cut the throats of our own kindred. John Bull need: not be afraid of us. We prefer feeding him ta fighting him. This fear of us, however, is mevely put on. It is not visions.of Yankee Merrimaes and Mazi- tors that disturb the stumbers of our Engtish cousins. They now well tat it is not our intevest to pick a quarrel with them. But they are not so sure of the continuasce of the same pacific disposition on the part of their imperial neighbor. The + this kind would take » French Minister from | Gallic cock has begun ta crow rather loud pooh re cede SE sem ony the capital of the United States to the capital | since the news of the sea fight in Hampton State cannot be indicted “You cannot,” of the seceded States at such a moment as this: | Roads, and the nerves of the braggarts who Burke, “indict a whole people » The lo: a} ar It would be beneath the dignity of the repre- | bullied us when our hands were tied have eens in the Southern States ‘ind hot pba ee sentative of the French empire. It is far more | become painfully sensitive. They have sud- and cannot be treated as such under an: 4 likely that the visit is purely diplomatic, and | denly awakened to the consciousness of the fact ral law. A broad distinotion ought to os as that it has grown out of some of the recent } that whilst they have been theorizing on iron- fiteeen the leaders and those aie have b ee events ofthe war. A day or two before tho | plated war vessels and batteries France bas forced into the rebellion. The duties of ic visit the Merrimac communicated with the | been silently multiplying them. She bas at gianco and echection are veil al. The fede- French eteamer, probably with a reply to some | present about three timea the force of both t ‘ ani has not ghee its d communication of M. Metcier. Let us unravel | that England, with all her boasted resources in hes wie fy to be too ‘anes pry part the mystery. iron and engineering skill, can command” parsed geatiana citizens, under such ciroum- ‘The late naval battles in Hampton Roads have | Were war to break out between the two perro Ppa ht to have rein Hence the whole- thoroughly alarmed the British Parliament for | countries to-morrow, there would be nothing ole vved * confiscation proposed is not onl: the safety of their coast. Their wooden walls, | to prevent the French steaming up the Thames und dishes be but pe or unjust. his and‘even their stone walls, avail nothing against | and shelling and capturing London. is Mr ‘Thomas’ ren of argument, Thore is jron-plated steamships. The English coast is | This is one of the first points of the great | 4 sontonco in his speech which deserves to be vulnerable at any moment to any Power which American revolution. It has exposed to the han fn loteore of ors It is this pps seok- possesses these terrible vessels, Now it is | maritime governments of Europe the weakness ing to change the constitution by force of arms known to the British oligarchy that Napoleon | and unreliability of their prosent navies. It}. \, seid rebels we are striving to sub- possesses these ships in abundance, and that he | will soon lay bere, in the same unpleasant iis , Let Greeley and Phillips, ‘aha and has been silently and secretly constructing | manner, the feeble points of their political the othor leaders of the revolutionary abolition them for @ long time. Hence their alarm: | systems. The ordeal through which de. | pty at the North “read, mark, learn aid ine Hitherto nothing prevented him from carrying | mocracy is passing here will necessarily havo wardly digest.” They aye tabula of the black- out the policy of his uncle, and chastising | the effect of purifying and fortifying it abroad. ot ava Let them beware of the consequences England, but the barrier proscated by her | Once our domestic troubles are at anend, the | , navy, and in some degree her coast fortifien- | political anxigtios Qf foreign govornments Srove.—It is contrary to tions, The inyention of jron-plated vessels | pogin, Our first war of independence set ‘le of justice and of public policy Practically Bone Hampton toads, hestat. | ‘tine the ball of revolution in Europ The | to kee p Gov. Stone in continuous confinement, The New Policy ef Napoleon in Surepe and America. We published yesterday the important des- patch that M. Mercier, the French Minister at Washington, had proceeded to Richmond by way of Fortress Monroe and Nosfolk. Much speculation is affoat as to the object of his vieit to the rebel capital. Some think it has some- thing to do with tobacco, in whigh the I'rench government has an interest. But nothing of ND Tae “Droopy Dav” ov Bartimons.—The Common Counc , of Baitinvore have requested the citizens of that city ty display the national flag from the housctops and the shippling in that port on Saturdey noxt, April 19, ‘‘agm manifostation of gratitade for their deliverance from the davgers which throatencd on that day to ‘ostvoy their city and Stato, on the occasion of tho passage of troope through theycity to protect the capital of the United ‘Staics.”” Bea, p Ste engages betweon the qaniday hee ws tie hier, boll for | agred these balwarks of no account; and well | English and French journalists and politicians, | without giving hima trial or even preferring | | 2 sackson, the breasuren ‘ah Mferriniac and Monitor, is acknowledged as fully | fe 4 he Ce onnpieeprclioentemond may the aristocracy of Englaud tura pule. | who are coutinually sneering at “the fruit i ch against Lim. If ho is guilty of any of- lucia aanemeighonant, takce his, aést: boseil U6 2 feomplete by England, The qnostions of the necos, | ™ nape hg wtday, ¢ nt | ‘Thelx sheet anchor 14 gone. They are now at | character” of our present struggle, will, n be tried, convicted and punished | eG ie and tie clevar comodionna, dis bbity of an immediate construction of an icon: | gout feands upon lat Atul othect copie te | the werey of their more warlike Gallic neigh- | hups, soon discover that it is not entirely 1 t0 the extreme penalty of the law. Jf be | ying, wilt end their aa this oocnsion. The ure vands upon laborers and o ing em. | He mercy 4 we be ‘ let hi 8 discharge na of righ promi pomargd Goft, of te inotility of woodwrn ! ployment was passed, ao Well as others of lows ia. ! bor, The problem of & sugccssul invasion is ' ren gi conseuuences to themselvos, is not, guilty, les him be disgharwed. and Let! gramme iv on of rich promigy,