The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1863, Page 2

2 THE FIRE AT WILSON’S CRACKER BAKERY Arrest of the Proprietor and Several Others ou Smspicion of Arson. Suteresting tice Dowling, ke, &e., &e. Ou New Year's evening, it wil! be remembered, the ex- sive cracker bakery of John T. Wilson, No. 73 Fulton trect, Wok fire and was wholly consumed, involving $75,000 and the life of a begro workman named Goss, Tho affair bas been under investigation before Fire Marshal Baker for several moutas, and resulted yester day in the arrest of Mr. Wilson, the propetetor of the bakery; Avexander Simpson, the foreman; David fH. Brown Willtam eron and George A. Cameron, workmen, to gother with Mrs. Jeaneite Cameron, Mrs. Mary Wolsh and Miss Lizzie Welsh, The prisoners were taken into cus- lody by Sergeant Kelly, of the Second preciuct, and Drought before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs, where an examination was gone into at nine o'clock A.M. The principal witness in the case, Mrs. Margaret Larkin, is a widow with two childron, Catherine and James, aged respectively fourteen and eleyen years. These chil dren also figure as witnesses, and corroborate tho Statement of their mother in all its esseutial points. The charge against Mr. Wilson and his employees seems somewhat ridiculous; but we must Confess the statements ofthe witnosses for the prosecution are well connected, and are worthy of careful cousidera- tion, Mrs. Larkin underweat a rigid cross examination ‘at the bands of Mr. Sedgwick, the counsel for the defence, Dut so far appears to stand the test pretty well, She lost ber temper several times during tho investigation, how- ever, and confessed that the complaint was chiefly insti tuted against Mr. Wilson because be refused to p ber for tue loss she sustained by tue conflagration, The de- feudant takes the matter very pleasantly, and has aot he slightest doubt of his ultimate acquittal. * MES. LARKINS’ STATEMENT. Margaret Lerkia, boing duly sworn, deposes and says:— 1 reside at No, 826 Chorry street; Lama widow; at tho time of the fire at Mr. Wilsou’s bakery, No. 73) Fultoa atreot, I lived at No, 63 Fulton street; my husband aad one of ny sons worked for Mr, \Vilson; two evenings be- fore the tire Mrs. Camoron, who lived’ on (ue top floor over the bukery, came into my place and told me to get right up, as Mr. Wilson was coming to see tae, Soon aller Mr. Wilson came in and said be wanted wo bave a talk With me, he suid he wauied me to do him afayor; I said, What is it, Mr. Wilson?” he said, “This bakery that we have here is too sani to Uli ders for the goverument, aud by giving this placo a match and burning it down L might be «bie to get a jot on cach side, then buiid up aud have room enough to work,”’ he said if 1 would as. . Cameron to do it he would give me $700 for my nud bave the butiding up again in six weeks; I ‘Mr. Wilson, I couid not stand it; my health is very poor, aud besides "I do not wish to die im the State Prigon,’ Mr, Wilson suid, ‘Oh, psbaw, you need uot be afraid of the State Prison, and if'any suspicion should be aguiust you I hayemoney enough to redeem you; we have a jeslousy between tue gangs of men, aud the suspicion will lie op them,’ my busband then came in; Mr, Wilson said, “Owen, what brings you iu?” my husband replied, “Sometimes I come in ior & drink,’ dir. Wilson sent one of my children fora bottle of Scotch ale, to No. 75 Fulton street, and told the boy that it was for hima (Wilson), and gave him forty cents to pay for it; my husband took a glass of ale; Mr. Wilson did not drink any; Mr. Wilson told my husband that he wanted me to do nim a favor, ud wished bim to sanction it; ny husband said, “What is it”? he replied, “Two evonings from now give a match to the place and burn it down, to help Mrs. Cameron, and that he would build it up again in six weeks; my husband said he to go,'as his bread was in the oven, but Ghat I could do as 1 liked, my husband had not been away long before my gon ‘Terrence came running up stairs, look. dug as white as the wali; **Halloo,”’ said Mr. Wilson, *‘who has been chasing yout”? “No one,” replied my son; ‘but 1 want you out of here; I don’t want you to try to make ‘an old profligate of my’ poor mother, nor disgrace hor Children, if Mrs. Cameron wants to do it she can, but my mother won’t;” he snapped his fingers at Mr.’ Wilson, saying he could set 110 barrels of flour a day and could get work anywhere, and did not care for his work; Mr. Wiison then put on bis hat aud said he hoped we would Keep the thing still; Mrs, Cameron said to mo after Mr. Wilson pad left that 1 was a vlamed fool that 1 did not take the $709; that nobody would have the Icast suspicion Ot us; on New Year's day I saw Mr. Simpson and Mr, Farmer backwards and forwards at the bakery: Mr. Simpson had his wagon with him; I saw three or four caps taken into the store from Mc. Simpeon’s wagon; they appeared to be heavy; 1 saw Mr. Simpson a short time before dark go into the Dakehouse, Mr. Farmer was with him; at ove time | saw Daye and George Cameron in the wagon and eight o'clock that evening I sent my daughter Catha rine and sou J mes into Mra, Cameron’s house to know what time my som Torrence aud his friends would be back from Provklyn,as there were a good many of his frionds in my livtise Waiting for him; in a short ime my daughter returned, exclaiming and screaming, “Oh, mo- ther, the bakehoue ts in a Jamo,” 1 went into Mrs. Ca- meron’s house, and #0 into the bakery from the piazza; the first poston I saw was Mr. Simpson, be sril>—*Mrs. Larkin, did you shut the door as you’ came ini” 1 said «No, sir, I did uot;’’ ther were just starting the fire by the stairs with big banches of straw; the baskets were on firo, Tsaw Mrs. Welsh and her daughter running over a Jot ‘of small wood and paper; Sirs. Welsh caught oid of my clothes and said, “Come along, Mrs. Larkin, Dear a hand; you have got more bread out of this bake: house than I have,” Mrs. Cameron came up, put her hand over my mouth, saying, “Keep still and do not halloa,’” ns I would get as well paid as she would; I did scroain but and a lot of young mien came up stalre after mo; next mors ing I saw Mr. Wilson; he came to the door; he asked me ii my gon or husbend was in; I told him no; he asked me what I was going to do, when | told him I was goiug to report him for burning the bakehouge; he then said, Come up stairs abd teli me ail you lost,” when we went up stairs | told bim I lost flve hundred doliars,and thirty. @ight dollars I had in my b som, and ali our clothing; my clothing was worth two buudred dollars;” “Well,” said Mr. Wilson, “including ali your loss it would make it about one thousand dollars; that same morning Mr. Wile fon sent for my husband and gave bim a note for one thousand dollars, payable in sixty days, apd promised to Pay his wages ‘until the ovens would be ready to work, when the sixty days were up my hosvand asked Mr. Wilson for the money—so my husband told me: my husband informed me that Mr. Wilson arked him to leave the note and be would pay him; bat when Wilson got possession ot the note he kept putting him if from timo to time, aud uever did pay hun, { was pre- Bent, avd saw Mr. Wilson write this note; he sent my boy for a peuuy’s worth of paper, he Landed the note to my husband and he handed it (ome, i put it into my Ron's desk; that same day the note was given Mr. Wilson faid to my fosband and imyse'f “Don't you think it ‘would be best to blame the fire on Patsy Desmond and Jobuny Laker?” I said “ No; 1 don’t know them.” | know Johugon, the night watchmin; | saw bin pass my door, going towards the ferry, avout half an hour before the fire, or not quite so lovg. Cross examiued—Mr. Wilson's bakery burned down on New Yoar's evening: first saw the fire about clght o'clock; have known Mr. Johu T. Wilson about eight years, have bi Mr. Simpson around there about Ubree year i logs of im on the day of the fire, he was bagkwards ar ood Many times, when 1 first saw bim on New rear's day he Was getting oat Of a wagon at the bake- door; Mr. Cameren was with him: they beth went fut the door No. 78 Faiton street (ogether, saw Mr. 2imp Bon take a tin can from tho wagou, It looked like x kero- Beue oll can, and was very heavy; they were not long in ‘my aight, and Just had time to put the can into the store ua th n drove off agaia; saw Mr. Simpson again about Pight o'clock that evening (the witness then related what @he had seyn in the bakehouse pretty much Jn the same language as detailed in her direct xamiuation): while was looking at them Bring the building Mrs. Cameron came up fand put her hand on my moutb,aud told me not to hha!loo, as T would be as well paid as she was; | saw vid Brown and George and William Cameron, Mra. feish and Mary Ann Welsh, who lad seme wood and por tu hor apron; Mr. Farmer and Jerry King, Jr. and it seems to mo that old Jerry King was there Woo, I did not now that Mrs Creightor there; they were @ll work. fir, [saw Mr. Simpson with light, it seemed to me r fh tar on it; ne was ws i it On fire: he told me not close the door, aud 1 raid « ir.’ Mrs. Cameron was Iping Mr. Simpson; Mra. Weigh bad her dress up with Abe chipe and papers in it; she started the blaze over in ome lumber, Mra. Oreighton was at the door to | teow people ‘out, but she was so drunk that I ber, it ocecurred to me that they ‘wore committing @ very great crime; Mrs. Welsh said, F Come, lend @ hand, you have got more bread out of his kery than I have,” referring to me; L thea went down Four tights of staire, hollooing fire occasionally: when I ‘to my house I met my eon, aud told bim the bake- so was gone; he said he «gw the sparks coming over hs ferry and suspected as much, Mr. Kehoe was the firet oiicoman! met; 1 saw some firemen there; 1 told the iris who live in the house underneath me that Mrs, meron and others bed set th on fre, I wi exod bocause I loat my things and got them broken; 1 40 told Mr. Kehoe that it was Mra, Cameron who burned he bakehouse; but he did not a, to listen to me; I Iso told my husband aud son, 1 are gow dead: the ames of the girls whom I told are Dean; thoy scrub out he Post Office, I did ey eT en's Lead uthoritieg until I met the Distr not go him until my husband died, aud Mr Wilson would not y me the note he signed for my husband: this was a ove given by sr. Wilson the next morning after the fire ‘ue loss we had by the fre, my son aud husbana were ng to report Mr. Wilson to the Fire Marshal, but he ‘hem this pote; { fret met the Distri out two OF three weeks after the death of my JF bich occurred oo the Ist of June last, . CATHARINE LARKIN'S EVIDENCE. 4. Catharine, Larkin being vy | sworn, depores and says — | 4 fourteen years of age, | live at No, 326 Cherry street, ith my mother, on the lat of November, 1462, 1 went ‘with my parenta to live at No. 63 Fulton street. my father orked for Mr, Wilson, the cracker baker, at No. 66 Gold rect, and kept No, 73 Fulton street for his store, we Jivod at No. 63 Foiton street ov the Ist of January, 1463; Twas at bome on the night the bakery was burued: was home ail New Years day, on that day, betwees one ind (wo “'cl00K in the afternoon, I first saw Mr. Simpeon @ ight wagon tp front of Mrs. Cameron's door, Dave: ng Of the men who worked in the bakery, was with bit. corge Allen Cameron was ther was a high in the wagon, which id can, about igh, Catooron helped Me Simpson to take this of the wagon, and to take {t into the store. st Bn ine t wag with my father: be waa talking to Dave: [ Wont int) sur house, leaving my father talking to Dave. T (Gah Beh ave ey AMR gal Qiik eur Wall YorW een Bios about the place se “ ” | seven and hat ast eeren o'clock, we beard mor company bad ¢ t neron’® Bouse, & m the sent me up wif ere coming 14, M8 my brother J u's buude. went up to u ne ip her roous and k thid door, aud then ont en (ule Way got into the bekey Ub * Billy ‘and Goorgs Came:on; they Bd we tite Ub of | each had hold of a stick which was vlacod throug! in the tub, and they carried the tub m this way; 6a one bad a whitewash brosis iy his hond, aud they wou | dip tho brush mto the tar and thea plaoter he tar op the wood and ov the siairs, 1 next saw Mr. Simpson on tus same floor, he bad a bunch of straw in his hand, which was all daubed with tar, he came over to the stairs and placed the burning straw against them where they hed boon daubed with tar, aad set them on fire, Mrs. Cameron came over to me and asked mo what | wanted, I asked her whore the company was, she said they bad all gone homo, and told me to run home; fave aud Mr. Kar had wiready fired the b.akels on the Gold street side, they came over and looked at mo while Mrs. Cameron Was epeaking to me, there was smoke sixty da; he came in a few days before the firo, aud sent me for a bottle of porter or ale, giving me a fifty cent stamp to Pay for it; I banded the bottle to Mr. Wilsob, and then left the room in company with my sister; I recollect seoing Mr. Simpson putting papers into the baskets; thea he sot fire to them; be did not have his coat on at tbe poy but when mother holloaed he took his coat, aud ran on Thursday morning. when 1 first went in, bot tt soon aterwarda turned tato a Diaze, t wus alraid of catching fire, 8 1 weat back to the piazza, 1 could see right iuLo the bakery, the baskets were not on fire on the Fulton street side when | went in; Trap down stairs; my brother weat with me, 1 told my mother that Mrs. Cameron had burnod the bakchouse; my father was there, but I dad not tell him because he was ® hte bit drunk; ‘my mother returned with me ts tho Dakshouse, mother saw Mr. Simpson, Mc. Farmer and the others; they were standing together in a bunch talking; my mother Said to Mra, Carneron, * Did you go it?” when Mrs, Cameron clanped her haad on my mother's mouth and Said she would be paid as well as she, the others ran away to tho doorway aud went down the dummy, Mrs. Weisn and Lizzie Welsh went into Mrs, Gameron’s room, T did not see Mr. Wilson in the bakery that night; aboat & month before the tire Mr. Wilson camo to my motber, and addressing her said,-'Mrs. Larkin, 1 want you to do me a favor,’ mother said, ‘whet is it.’ Mr. Wilson said ho wanted her to help Mrs. Cameron to burn the bako “house; my mother said she would not do it? ho then said ho would give her $709, and that Mrs. Cameron o: not do it alone, but that mother, Mrs, Cameron and Welsh could do it; Mr®Wilson said that he would get mother insured, and said he insured Mrs, Cameron $500, altheugh sho had not more than $200 worth of property; he ssid mother had more than Mrs, Cameron, and would get twice $500 for hors; bo also sald that if the placo was burned Qown be could get tbe lots on each side nd build up a bigger bakehouse; just at this time my father came for his lunch, Mr. Wilson then said to futher he wanted him to do him a favor, a8 Mrs. Larkin had refused to do it; Mr. Wilson thea sent for a bottio of Scotch ale; Mr. Wilson asked father i{ he would make my mother do'it; my father shook his head at ber not to do 1, fathor then said she could do as she pleased. LITTLE JIMMY'S TESTIMONY, Jamos Larkin deposed that he was oleven years of age; romembered the burning of Wilson’s erackor bakory; was living at No. 63 Fulton strect with my parents at the time; was with my sister in Mre., Cameron’s room the evening of the 1st of January last; 1 saw a light in the bakehouse; went to the piazza; saw the boy, Jack Came” ron; he said, ‘ Hore, Jimmy, don’t go over there,” I could see into the bakehouse as (ho door was open; I saw Mr. Simpson, Mrs, Cameron and George Cameron, also Mrs. Welsh and her daughter; there were somo others there, Mr. Farmer being among the number; they were sobting the baskets on fire, and had tar all over tho floor; I could smell it; 1 think my sister told mothor about the fire; she came up stairs on the piazza and commenced to holloa; some men followed mother up; 1 then went down stars; that afternoon I saw Mr, Wilson in tho gtrect by the door; I saw Mr. Simpson tifat afternoon in a wagon belore the door; George Cameron waa with him; after the fire Mr. Wilsou came to our house aud wrote something on a@ piece of paper about the loss sus tained by the fire; I heard bim say something about ; Lhad seen Mr, Wilson in our house before; jown stairs. ‘Tho investigation was horo adjourned until nive o'clock IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. OUR ST, PETERSBURG CORRESPONDENCE, The Russian Cabinet and Press Main- tain the Cause of the Union. Letter from Sir Percy 8. Wyndham, M. P., Denying the Identity ef a Union Officer Claiming His Name. Lavmch of a Rebel [ron Ram at Liverpool. Teff. Davis and Maximilian on the Recoguition of a REexican Empire and the Southern Confederacy. ITALY PREPARING FOR WAR. Mile. Tietiens? Debut in the Opera in Paris, &e., &e. &e. Our European Giles by the steamship Hansa, from Southampton, are dated in London and Manchester on the 2d of Se; tember, details of the news to th it named day, which wo The papers contain very interesting publish in the HeRatn this morning. ‘The visit of the Prince of Hebenzollern, the cousin of tho King of Prussia, to the French camp of Chalons. has given rise to a variety of rumors in Paris, most of them having reforence to a settlement of the Polish question, in which Prassia will make herself safe. Sweden and Denmark are drawing more closely the en- tents cordiale. Even with our favorable harvest prospects, says tho Sligo (Ireland) Champion. the emigration has not ceased. This ia, to a great extent, owing to remittances forwarded from America to re'atives in this country, and to the very moderate rate of passage mouey required for first class steamers The Catholic Archoighop of Dablin writes to Mr. Charles F. Donnelly, of Boston, thus: — 1 have the honor to acknow ledge the receipt of £149 6d. which you have forwarded to me, on the part of the Mont- gomery Union Axsociation, for the reliet of the poor of Ireland, 1 wjil get your generous contribution distributed in the pooreat didtricts of the country, by an excellent relief committee which wo bave bere in Dublio, and which bas rendered great services to the poor. 1 need scarcely add that we afe all here Giled with admiration when we see 80 noble @ spirit OF charity manifested by our breth ren i America in the very critical circumstances in which they themselvés are placed. May God restore peace to your noble and powertul republic In the year ending December 31, 1859, the railroads of the United Kéngdom of Great Pritain and Ireland acquired £25,748,602, ten thousand and two miles being io opera. tion; in 1860 the receipts rose to £27,766,622, the number of miles at work being advauced to ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three; in 1861 the earnings further increased to £28,565,3'6, the extent of effective lines be- ing ten thousand eight hundred and sixty-five miles; and in 1862 there was a further expansion to £29,128,558, produced by eleven thousand five bundred and fifty-one miles. Lord St. Leonarda, reviowing the position of England in a recent speech, said — France wont to Mexico with England and Spain to get justice done to their svbjects. The two latter withd when this was accomplished; but France remained to form an empire. The state of aifairs in America was then glanced at, and it was observed that with all our care we might Gnd it impossible to avoid getting into war with Ube North, and France would be delighted at it, just Lroken the apell of the Monroe doctrine. ( was Tree to leave vs to-morrow if she liked, but she loved us, though his lordehip censured the niggardiy way in which she showed her love in refusing to place ber defences in « state of efficiency. Consitering the state of sensation the North was now in, it was UDWise not to maintain an ef. fielont foree: but, if attacked, he felt sure sne wonld do Niko Eng'aad, and rige as one man to resist the attack, Our St. ersburg ‘respondence, Sr. PReensnora, August 27, 1862. Return of the Emperor to Tearskoe-Selo—Journey of the Empress to the Orimea—Pacifc Attitude of England Relations With the United Sates and Mexico—Arrivat of Grand Duke Constantine—Iis Il! Su cess in Poland— Sta’e of the Insurrection—Advices from the Cauca. mut, de, de The Emperor has returned to Trarskoe-Selo, after aa- corting the Empress on ber Journey south as far as Nijal Novogorod. Her Majesty's eof health not allowing hor to take the straight road from here to the Crimea, which ia only adapted for robust travellers, she procesd ed by rail via Moscow to Nijui,and then steamed down the Volga to Taaritain, From thence sho ercased by the new railroad to the Doo, when she again took ste1m down that river to Taganrog, ot which port the {imperial yack Tiger ts ta wailing to garry gor to [iveth, She is accompanied by her @ons Aloxts os) «do numergus cod beittiant suite, head- Gd hy tt hal Co ut soouvaloif, and the Aid- det Cone ro°. 1 is arranged that she is «bole wamter in the © umea, the climste of » suitable for invalids than that of our North- t there is not the least truth ia & 6e wed us by way of Parws that sue 1s gounage to Jerusalem. As it is, ber leaving lv ¢ 18 @ Bigu that no immediate apprebea- *) ne of war are entertained, at least with England, since (a | thas eyent the Bivek Sea would be the first seeue of hos tilities, whereas, if Kogland remains neuter, the provi- sions of the treaty of aris, which cannot beset aside by France, alone preciude any warlke operations in that quarter. That @ rupture with France is sooner or later Inevity le continues to be (he gonoral impression, which is confirmed by the answer of tho Emperor to an address presented ty him by the citi zens of Nijai Novogorod, in which he says that bo dos nob yet despair of maintaining peace, but that under alt circumstances he depended upon the support of bis peo plo to save the empire, Such expressions in the mouth of the Czar himself are extremely significant; in fact, iv tho peculiar position of Napoleon ML, it is thought bere that it would bo as much aa his crown is worth for him fo sit down tamoiy under the rebuff he bas received from Prince Gortachakoff without seeking to revenge it. You Were toformed in & previous communication that tho change in the attitude of Englaid, who, after taking the lead in the action of the three Powers, has suddouly bout a retreat, was.attributed by somo of our politicians to her fears of an alliance between Russia and the United States, about which there have boen rumors in circulution for some time. By many “porsons these rumors wore looked upon as premature, but by the accounts from your sido and by certain indications in our own governmeat circles, it would appear that such a combination is by n0 moans 60 romote aa wes imagined. It is noticed that Prince Gortschako! and General Clay have frequent inter- views, and the two diplomats are ovidently on tho best of terms, whilo the Duke of Montvbello is univorsally shunned;* and baving also quarreled with Lord Napier about the indisoreet publication of their private conversation in the English Blue Book, the Freuch Ambassador is completely isolated, and must lead # very uncomfortable life of it, There 13 a report, too, that 4 Mexican agent has arrived here, and that our govern- mont will make a demonstration against France by ac knowledging the Moxicai republic and officially receiving an cuvoy (rom Juarez; but as the prospects of the ‘latter are not very fattering just now it is the question whether @ step will be taken that would irritate Franco without any direot advantage either to Russia or to Mexico. Our press, however, takes the part of the Mexicans with great energy, contrasts tho proscriptions and confiscations of the French in Mexico with their indignation against tho proceedings of the Russians in Poland, and ridicules the project of erecting a throue for an Austrian prince under the shadow of French bayonets. It doos seem as- tonishing that 60 wild an idea should havo entered the head of a practical politician like Napoleon I , who myst know very well that as e00n as (he Americans have set- tled their domestic affairs they will immediately turn their attention to the South, and toach bim that the Mon- roe doctrine is not to be violated witb impunity. The insidious encouragement of the English “leading journal’ ought to open bis eyes to the dangers in store for him and bid him pauso bofore he repeats the mistake committed by his uncle in St. Domingo. Last evening Grand Duke Constantine arrived quite un- expectedly at Tzarskoo-Selo, having left Warsaw the day before in consequence of @ private telegram received by him from the Emperor, No one knows exactly what brought him here. Some think that it is to be consulted respecting the notes that are to bo sent to the Western Powers in reply to their last despatches. Others assert ‘that a final effort will be made to conciliate the Poles by proclaiming’ the constitation of 1815, which has been strongly urged by the Grand Duke, and that he has como hore to support such a moasure by his personal influence, This is not likely, @a- the fate of the amnesty has shown how conciliatory measures are appreciated. It is more probable that tho Grand Duke his at length discovered that his presence at Warsaw does more harm than good, and that he had better resign a post which he should never have accepted, You will remember that at the timo of his appointment I predicted it would boa failure; that he would only ruin himself in public epinion, without succeeding in his work of pacification; and this prophecy—which was not difficult tor any one to make who knew the charactor of the Polish movement and the real object of its teaders—has been fully borue out by vents, The very day of his arrival at Warsaw hie life was attemptod, the reforms he offored wore rojocted with contempt, and an insurrection flually broke out which bas doluged the country with blood. His heaith is coriously shaken, and it is bolieved that In retiring from the vice- royalty he will sail at once for Madeira, to pass the winter there, after being joined en route by the Grand Duchess Alexandra and her younger children. [t is doubtful, in- deed, whethor be will over recover from the offecta of the disappointment and agitation hehas gone through. Or propagfshy chelcveck (he i3 a lost man), said an oldjtninis- ter of Nicholas lately, who was removed from office through the influence of Constantine, af still owes him a grudge. For the successor of the Grand Duke there are only two candidates spoken of—Nicholas Mouravieil, of Kara, and bis brother Michael, of Lithuania. The military reputation of the former and his charac- ter for firmness point him out as a most eligible person for the difficult office he would nave to fill; but be declined it once before under the plea of his advanced age (be is in his seventieth year); whereas the success of the younger Mouravieff in crushing the Lithuapian rebellion justifies the hope of a similar result in Poland. Just now, too, he is about the most popular man in Rus sia, though he was quite the reverse at the time when he was Minister of the Imperial Domains, and his nomina- tion would meet with general approval; but in Western Europe, where he is represented as a sort of ogre, the im- pression would be very different, and it is perhaps for that reason that government may hesitate to appoint him. Anyhow, it will require a strong band to put down, not so much the armed insurrection, as the anarchy that prevails iu the civil administration of the kingdom, which {s etill almost exclusively in the hands of native Poles, whose fidelity to Russia is more than questionable, It is even suspected that the secret commmittes of which we bear so much is composed of officers in the pay of the Russian government, and not of inferior rank either, which would account for the ‘ailure of the police to det them; but the Grand Duke always refused to proceed against any one who was not actually couvicted of treachery, so that even the railroad officials, whose complicity with the insurgenta was notorious, were only dismyssed quite lately and replaced by Ru: and Germans. Mouraviefl would soon make a ele ians cep ilar of these gentry, ar he did in Lithuania, where a state of ny sted. The chief forces of the insurrection are concentrated at present in the province of Lublin, where the mareby and woody country is favorable for partisan warfare, and the vicinity of tho Austrian frontier offers them a safe retreat in case of disaster. The various ban’s hovering about there are estimated at from five thousand to six thousand men in all, commanded by Keuck (which i said to be the nom dé guerre of @ Galician nebieman of bigh rauk), Tasivski and others, who bave almost daily skirmishes with our troops under Colonels Mednikofl, Emenoff and Jeltukhin, which as yet have led to no decisive results. 1p the province of Cracow; since the total rout of Chimelnski by Prince Shakhoffkor, and his ficht into Galicia, everything i# quiet, in Sandomir the same; but in Katie the active Tachanooski still manages to keep his men together, though defeated engagements by Generals Kostanda and Kramokutsky; and in Augustovo there are numerous bands who ‘hi the 16 ‘or of govern: ment, and have asked for arms io defend themeelves against the roving detachments of rubela, which request has been readily granted them, Ju Warsaw assagsination is the order of the day, bat as long a8 the citadel frowns — Se capital no serious oufbreak need be ap- ended. PrNdvices from the Caucasus state that since the local disturbances at Zakataly occasioned by the proselyting mania of the Governor, Prince Shaliko;t, and which were maguified by Constantinople telegrams into a generabee- voit of the mountain tribes, no furtber disorders have oc curred; and the best proof that none are expeoted ig af- forded by the fact that the Fighteenth division of in+ fantry bas been sbipped off from thence to (dessa to re- ipforce the corps of Observation io Bessarabia. Letter from Percy Wyndham, M. P. Horen Briston, Panis, August 19, 1863. Jamna Gonpon Bexwert, Eeq., New York City Sin—In a number of your paper of August 4, which I saw yeeterday at the Circle Imperiale, 1 was surprised at reading an account of & fele given by “Colonel Sir Percy Wyndham,” and, a8 1 am the only person of English origia and family Who is entitled (0 bear that mame, f vontare to ivtrade on your comrtesy to allow me to say that if there be any person in the United States claiming or using that name be is ou impostor, The name of Wyndham fs borne by but one titted family im the king- dom—that of Baron Laconiel: basterd son of the third Far! of Egmont, his son Henry being the heir to the title, and aged thirtyioar, Of the family to which | belong there are four surviving brothers of u—Henry, John, William and myseif—Licuteaant Colonel Charles Wynd ham being of another branch. We ali of us have for some time been making mutual inquiries of one another ‘as to who can be this Sir Porcy Wyndham, but with Qut satisfactory comult, Cadeed, my soleiorg Baye SEPTEMBER 16, by m,* lnstructions been in correspondence with all the koe? {unilies of Wyndham; but mo one has tho amullegt , “POW18d8® OF don oF the person.Damedaave 000, viz: Chari, W2Bdham, of near Warwick, who rojlied to tho effect that be, © bad been puzzled, and bad ar- rived at the foltowimg x 8 Jo 1860, when Garibatay ,W%* #! tho height of bis popu: Lority in Fogland, there airy, "@ Porton styling himbelt “Major Peroy Wyndham’ Wi @oiin,’ *4DsC>tptions, though having no authority from Geboral arbaldt. Chartos Wyndham, thinking bim to bea roiativé, called on this person, when tho latter said that be realiy gvas@n Aus (rian, and had taken the name of Wyndham as ax) 100m: mon one, because his real name near Garibaldi would wt serve him 0 well as an Eugtish ove, aud aso that if eap- tured by Austrians he would be tried and shot a8 a de- serter from the Austrian cayalry, io which he had been eub-leutovant, Charles Wyndham, thinking it no busi noes Of bis, laughed and said no more about the matter; but your “Perey Wyndham, if it bo be—wbich I am assured it really is—calied and wrote himself at that timo “Theodore” Wyndham, So you see there is much wrong. Subsequently Charles Wyudbain says he discovered that (ats same person had been originally a boy in the French bavy,to which he had served somo five yoars, and had then returned to Austria and evlisted ia the cavalry , that ho bad goue out to Garibaldi, but had left the Stalian camp, in 1861, in rathor bad odor, and had gone to Ame- rica, and by letters he bad managod to get to partios there, bad gradually got employment and promotion, chiefly from his knowledge of German and French. Wis English, though very good, may roadily be selected as « broken,"” Now you will naturQlly feel surprised at this informa. tion; but I guarantee tts truth. If he deny it, let him, aa be can casily do, prove bis origin and antecedents, The matter of mame impiies little intrinsically; but when a stranger surreptitiously appropriates a name of some im- portance, and one up to this moment unsullicd, [ asi you caudidly if it is not rather too much, For myself indi- vidually I have serious and urgent objcotions te such a thing, it being essentially my own name,without the “Sir;’* for thore is uo Sir!’ P. W., and { contest tho right of any other person but mysel! to bear the name of Percy Wyudhom,” Ono unpleasant consequence of this man’s assuming my patronymic has been to make mo the re. Cipiont during the past threo years of many letters, in- tended for the soi disant P. W., reclaiming money for debts due by him, to say nothing of demands of a more serious nature, Tam heartily in for tho cause of the United States and its prosperity, and have opposed by all means in my power the acandaious conduct of our government; but [ emphatically protest against the appropriation of my name by aperson whom I know not, and whose antece- dents are not ofa favorable description, In this, I am sure, you will not, as a gentleman, think mo oxacting. I therefore beg you, as an act of courtesy, since you have published 40 much of this man, to publish a line convey- ing the sense of this letter. It is not for me to taterfero with the United Siates govornment on his account; but I clearly have a right to ask common justice at your hands. T havo the honor to be, sir, with the bighost reapect, PERCY 8. WYNDHAM, M.P., Ot 44 Beigrave square, Loudon. THE AMERICAN QUESTION. The Anglo-Rebel Iron Rams. LAUNOH OF A SKCOND ONE AT LAIND’S YAKD—THRY HAVE FRENCH NAMES AND FLY THE FRENCH FLAG—DESCRIVTION OF THE FORMIDABLE VES- BELS, ETC. {from the Manchestor Examiner, Auguat 31.) Ono of the two iron steam rams built’ by Messrs. Laird, at Birkenhead, was launched at their works, oa Saturday, August 29, tn the presence of a large crowd of spectators, who were freely admittod into the yard. ‘The vessel launched on Saturday was christonod the El Monsesir, or Victory, her consort launched a few weeks ‘ago being named the Toussoun, When launched, both v — the English flag astern and the French flag amid- ships. kach gre two hundred and thirty feet long, forty-two feet ‘beam and nineteen fect deep. Their mossurement is one thousand eight hundred and fifty tons, and their engines tre of three hundred and fifty horse power. ‘They are plated ith four and a half inch trou on a teak backing of great thickness, boited on to the frame of the sbip, which sup- ports the inner shell. The decks are also iron plated, aud the iron bulwarks are hinged at the lower edge, soastobethrown down in action. Each “ram” is pierced for six guns on each sido, and they fitted on the deck with large cupola towers on Cap tain Cole’s plan, with two guns to each cupoia, Their bows proect under the water so as to form a “ram,” The iron plates are so beautifully planed and fitted that it ts almuet impossibie to tell whether the vouscls ave plated or not. The cupolks are fore and att the engine house, and hive an extreme range nearly tore and aft of tho vessel. Fach “ ram” is bark rizged, having the lower masts and garda of iron. The officers and men have accommodation above deck, iu the poop and forecastle at each end, and below the deck, When launched, the £1 Monassir was takea into the four hun . died and ‘i'ty feet graving dock, alongside of her couaort, the El Tous-oun, which is expected to be ready for sea in abont a month, ° Groat secresy bas been exercised during the building of the** rams,’’ but in spite of this they have long excired the suspicions of the federal officials and sympathizers tn thia country Mt the article In the Zhes of Friday last apropos of the memorial of the Fimancipation Seciety to Lord Joha Russel! has more recently excited the public curiosity respecting them. It was stated at the launch, on Saturday that, in spite of all their precautions, the federats have managed to get spies into Messrs. Laird’s yards, and we ehall doubtiess soon hear their opinions of these formidable “ rams.” THE CREW OF THE ANGIO-SAXON TURNED ADRIFT IN BREST. (Paris (August 30) Corresponderce of the London Tete graph | I give you the following from L’Ocean of Rrest:— Twenty-four persous were landed here on August 24 from the Confederate corvette Florida and turnet adrit streets, Twenty-three of these men are Northeruer come out of a federal ship of one thousand nive bundred tous, captured and burned by the Florida not far off the English coast, The twenty-fourth is an English pilot. Irish Advice to Irishmen in America, {From the United Irishman (/:biin), August 29 | From the tone of the British jouruals we sre induced to believe that Pnglaud is at the bottom of the resistance to the draft for the federal army. It is quite vata! that men should be opposed to conscription of the kind, and that such a,measure would be more especially unpopular in a free country like Americ it ts, therefore, the more easy to stir up opposition tot. Foglish gold is a work in New York. Her emissaries are there taking advantage of the popular prejudices and doing more t» damage the cause of the Union than if she had actually recognized the independence of the Southern States. © * ‘The London Times has an article, glosting over the auti. Cipated resistance of Governor Seymour to the draft. It would certainly be playing t me of the enemy to perfection. nd would give the Governor a million pounds sterling if he could be Induced to take such a step. Itmight tend to the projongation of the war or the destruction of the Union, but mat unquestionably to the comple’e annihilation of Irish influence im America, and an end of all hope for the freedom of fatherland in our generation, Let them stand, li (he last, by the flag that has been Lorne alongvide their own in ‘battle, and under whose folds alone ‘hey can Jind freedom and pro'e-tion Earl Rusecti’s Forcign Diplomacy, (From the London Saturday Review, August 29 | not to be supposed thet Lord Russe}! will confine recreations (0 such @ very nfl kendyo! ex indulgence of the,tgaditional whig ten. dency to nepotism. He will (eel it tbe necessary to nis importance as former leader of the liberal party to make a sensation of some kiud by bie foreign policy What particular part of the world he will select as the theatre for such an exhibition, must, of course, be a matter of pure conjecture. We ‘can only predict with certainty that it will not be any territory belonging to a strong Power, and that, after all, will be a great consolation to ple Of a Hervous disposition. It is very possibie that be may faduige in the composition of some of thosetsharp episties by which he bas made himself famous ov more Uhan one Occasion; and (hat he may, iu some peculiarly capricious Moment, despatch them to Ames or France, or Fussia. But when he receives a still sharper reply, as be undoubtedly will, it will bave no effect in aggravat: ing the hostility of bie langongegy demeanor. On the covtrary, the rebuff will immediaielY produce a charming acerss of courtesy and compliance, “There has never been a’ minister with whom oreat Powers must have found it to pl mt to deal as Lord Russell just after he has been anu ~ * © © He bat maden great many remonstrances to 11 @ federal government jor gross i!legalities, the smal- lest of which would bave brought down condign punish meni—reprisais at (he very lewi—upon @ weaker Power. So (vP as redress is concerned, these remonstrances have been tremted with entire contempt, Lord Ruseeli cannot bear such treatment without resenting it, bat he does mot Nike to resent !t vn Mr. rd. it has been, therefore, a surprise to bo ope who is familiar with the workings of is inind that we should bave made our demands upon Japan mm unosually ptory terme, aod abould be rapidly drifting into a war tor ihe parpore of extorting a submission to (bem, which the Japanese goverament is in ne condition to give. Japan vs exaeily a type of the clase of Power which ihe Foreign Seoreary likes to discharge teeverath which hat accumulated in disputes roth larger states. It is too distant to excite very keen interest, too barbarous to niake ils case Known i England, and’ too weak to Offer any resistance that might be damag- jag. IM we may ventore on a prediction with regard to his proceedings at sone later period of the autimi we should gelect some sta! & similar clase is big receive victim. Chile or Siam wil} probal ie earliest consideration. He has already hada brush with the Iattor Power at a place called Trioganu, which wholly failed to excite any attontion in England becanse wily Kuew where to leek for Ui of war upon the map. The Inauin of Moseat and the of Made: gacear also present favorable opportunities for a display Of heroic valor on the part of this county, of which tt is quite possible that Lord Ressoll may avail himself, But of course (heir (reatment wil depend on the sort of re- s he may receive Frown Ruama or America. Wry aren eit ot ect etn ardor year. He wil wit iv ot 10 et core plications nearer home, but bie meddling wii not lead Lo war. doubt be has « pian of bis own for the reconstruction of the German empire, aod bas sont it in A curt despatch to the Kiog of Haw! gooius (Or Comstituional loguiatiog bas, of cowge, led 1863.—fRLP LE SHEET, presen! ing upon this delioate point, Fronoh are still in possession; for ho has an which he cannot overcome, to sending tm spatchos to Parw. How far, in the present tempor io a tga is bis ‘Ministers, ho will veoture to Foe 42 them waluable advicg ir present dif- culties, is a maser Sf AOyds. M ba Benak ta 20 completely his superior in the Ait OP ingglence that be asaally refrains from mentioning Magna Charta to the Prussian Cabinet. Another Reform biil for Poland, a tecture to Italy upon the advantages of peace, and a homily to Spain.upon the duty ot retigious toleration will probably complete his labora in tho department of exhortation, But these will be purely of @ pacific kind. ‘Thoy may provoke the interebange of hard words; and may possibly draw upon England a revoke to which it is ory undignifiot in her to submit. But they wil keop Pont Russoll’s name be'ore dhe pybdlic: aud will enablo hint to console himself with the resection that after all Lord Palmerston has nob got overribing, aud that a grea part of the management of the affa’ns of the world is still in genuine whig bands. And aftr all, when we reflect upon Gl that he has to endure al the hands of Mr. Seward, it is hard (0 refuse hiva the con-oiatiwn of at least the show of energy and valor in other quart v6 The British Aristocrats om Reunio THE AMERIOAN CONSERVATIVE PLATLOKM AND THE NEWSPAPER OROAN OF THE PEOPLE OP AMBRICA, = the London Herald (Derby organ), August 31.) f, aa by somo authorities we bave been assured, the overrunning aud occupation of the Southorn States by the Northern armies is simply & question of time, it promises to be a timo that is practically indefinite, No given pro- cise limit can asgurediy be assigned to it. All the boasied successes, due to odds in favor of the North ot turee to ‘one on laud, and the absolute, exclusive command of the Gen and tho coast, have up to this timo lett tho federal government as far off ag ever from restoring its pretond- ed authority over the Southern people. It is but a quos- tion of tims, some astronomers tell us, when the earth will fail into the sun, The resisting modium which pervades our system being eo much deducted from the centrifugal, and added to tho ceutripetal force which draws us towards the great central lumina. ry, we must ome day or other be absorbed into him, causing, according to the dynamical theomy of heat, a sudde» blaze of increased light, which will irradiate and astonish the inhabitants of Neptune and the still more distant planots, But while it is tho resisting medium which will have the effect of precipitating ovr sphere into the sun, it 18 the resisting medium which exiats bo tween the Confederate States and the Northern hordes which prevents thom from reaching their desired desti- nations, The last mails bang us tidings of bombard ments avd rumors of bombardments on the most “ire mendous’? soale, directed against the defences of Charleston all to no purpose. Tho federais, like Mr. Winkle, were ©going” to begin for some days, and muking a formidable show of batteries, “mousters,” Monuors, rams, and other anviable engines and of destruction.’ At last the great experiment was mato, and the result @eema to have been the ditoovery tht their forces were insuflicient. * * * And we observe that the Governor of New York himself supports this manifesto (General Dix'’s address), and recommends peaceful submission to the draft. If free republicans will not go to be Killed in the South, they shall be shot down in the streets at home. They are on the horns of a dilemma, and it can matter little to them which alternave they embrace. AS to recruiting tho ar- mies on either side with biack soldiers we should hardly have apy more faith in the rumor of tho project than in the probable success of it. Would the blacks fight against each other, or would they fraternise and turn upon the whites, using them as tools? The fecerals cannot even raise the negroes of the South to strike for their freedom against their masters, through toeir sluggish, apathetic mature, aud it seems hardly fvasible that the Confederates would venture to arm theso stol d creatures, not peculiarly sharp al penetrating mo- tives, against their professed deliverers who come, a6 they loudly pretend, to give them freedom. Both Con- foderntes and foderalists are likely to coincide in thoir estimate of the danger they would incur in placing im th fleld large armies of drilled and disciplined negroos. But, apart from ether considoratione, it will probably be found that, as regards the buik of the blacks, North or South, they have « strong disinclivation to cut cach ethor's throats in the white man’s war. ‘Tho political war waging among the federal parties at home goes on as usual. The conservative party have held a convention to organize their plans (or the noxt Prosidential election, ‘Their “ platform equally op- posed to abolt'ionism and to secession; they are for the Union ‘and the constitulion, for suppression of ihe “rebell.on,”” and « fidelity” to the government; they uphold tho © rights of property, including aiaves,”’ an? they trlo al foreign in- lervention. The slave quéition, according to their gramme, isto be leftto each State to stile fo itself. would put dowa the ‘rebellion’ and uphold State rights. These are comprehensive principles of organization, and that New York journal which, whatever us character or reputation may be, un: honably speaks the wiews of the jority of Americans, thinks that Cis party will retern the next Precident. The majority apparently is for carry. iog on tho war, but not for the sake of the abolition, but for empire, or,'as they torm it, « restoration of the Union”? by the subjugation of the South. American news would not be complete without some throat or insult levelled against England. Tho form which this pecma- nent item of hows assumes On tho present occasion is that the owners of the ship Nord, recontly destroyed by the Alabama, which thoy quality as a Britiah pirate, have filed a claim with the American government for $80,000 against England, to be eufurced when convenient. THE INVASION OF MEXICO. Wil Maximitian Accept the Throne? AFrench journal having stated that the Archduke had Already commenced to compose tie list of persons who were to accompany him ty Mexico, the Correspondance Generale denies the statoment, ant says:—We learn from the best source that thore never has in the compe- tent ciicles, a question of forming a court, and tbat no one anywhere as been addressed confideatiaily ou that subject. According to a despatch from Marseilles the Archduke was to go to Rume to ask the Pope's advice. An Envoy from Maximtitan—Jeff, Davis to Recognize the Empire {From tho © anchoster Guardian, Angust 31.) According to La France, an aid-de cmp of tho Arch duke. Maxitnilian will embirk for Mexico on Wednesday and the same authority says that President Davis bas promised lo reooguize tbe Yfoxioxn monarchy. A New Imperial Candidate, (Paris (August 80) eorresyondence of the London ‘Tele- graph. | ‘The nows just arrived by telegram from Vera Cruz is held to be very favorable. The French press agrees to consider the Mexican aflair 9 eettle’. “Juarez is vainly seeking to raily some of his old soldiers,” says the Con. witutionne?. ‘He will not be able to make a stand at San Luis de Potosi, and fn a few weeks no trace will be le t of that iniquitous and detestable government of which he was the worthy head” So, 00 paper at least, the great Mexican question is happily and finaliy settles, ' There are still, however, skeptics who do pot belleve oo much We bave auber candidate for the Mexioon throne if it is refused by Maximilian J, Wh» do you guess? “Je wuts le donne en dir,” ag Mme. de Sevigny rays. Prince Mu- rat, now a cavalry officer. So it was said io sa'e last night, when the company was tred of praising Tietjeus. The France tells us that the Archduke hat already seni off an aid de-camp to Mexico ou a spocial mission. I fear Murat’s chance is a blank. Mexico to Acknowle the Rebelsa—Re- coguition alf Around. The London Herald, of August 31, thinks tat the fm. peror Napoleon will’ cause Mexich to scknowledge the southero confederacy, and mainiain nia tered his osten- sible position of a neutral, but states that be will net avoid responsibility by this course. He will increase the debt of resentment America owes bim for his persistent eflurts to jasure the oo-operation of the European Powers im waterveatio {From the Dublin Freeman A Paria letter of Saturday oveniag town is pretty much oce the Franco-Ameriow difficulty ; for, notwithy rain assertions to (he nimated couversatic of the Monroe doctrine, and Seward and !rouyn de Lhuys and Dayton, and, as if to reader stil more grave the ctia racter of the dispute, to lessen the chance of its entering a pacific channel, comes the Mexican proposition that the provisional government of that country shoyld recognize the Southern eoufederacy. in fact, there wodld seem to have been some preconcerted action agree? upon between the governments of Davie and Almonte and his colleagues. The French mei ot of the Mexican rt ‘01 (Translated for the New York Hrnarp from L’Opinion Nationale of 26th August. | Up to the preseut the blockade of the Mexican ports been rigorously enforced. Admiral Jurien de la ‘de Admiral Bose, had sown the greatest tolerance to commorce other than contraband of ; and several ports, Matamoros among others, bad even remained open. Matamoros, situated on the Kio Bravo dei Norte, at some distance from ite mouth, had, for the lant two years, assumed great importance ov account of the war between the North and South, and on account of the Mexican intervention. {t is through this port that Juarez received arms, munitions and supplies, but the inbabitants could not have found jn that trade asu‘Tojent source of wealth to account for the immense exteasion which their town has taken. The rea! source of their weelth was all in the illicit trade which they carried on witb the Southern States. tamoras had become the port of entry and departure of the & uthern confederacy. All the yousels sent from England to Matamoros had ‘or ae vat object of their destination Texas aud the tates. It is by that way that the slavebolders have received arme coming from the best English manufactories, muni. tions, medicines, cloth, ae. But Juarez baring taken refnge in tbe neighborhood of the Rio Grande, Admiral Bosse eee bal rigorous blockade of the northeast coast, so ent ou from bim the means of sagply. This measure, dictated by pru- dence, ine & id result. It alfeets Juares, but it Sots. pa ‘the Richmond government, comes wo the aid of the efforts of the Wash gton gow to intercert the comtraband trade with the South, Already several vesse! ong which was an Engliah bark with a cargo of valued at hundred thourand dollars, intended for the South, terse ween captared by the French squadron. The rigorens of Matamoros is a fatal (dow for the stave confede- roen; and if tt had been sooner applied (he war would pro- bainy be a! an ent. States—A Defence of Feance, (Transiated for tho New York Hewaco from the Revue Diplomatique. Journals which have never ovased combatting and oti. ticising the Mexican expedition have been for some days past threaten tho Fronch government with tbe wrath of the United ‘Staton. It is now announced that a note, emanating from Mr. Seward, i# on its way to France, aod that Mr. ~ Will Soon SeMd if to the Cabinet the Tuileries: © are enabled ve the most formal douinl Ww aewe Cumors, Uy W Hay uragoe! ce Gat | domme during the aoue ? Hi 25 aS competent judges of what suics their country ; and up: of up.oss be would deny to tho Moxicans the lng their own allairs, the Washingion Secrotary of State would be obliged (0 accept aa legiti? phat right is based upow the duty” incumbent upon, ever govenniaent worthy of of ite flag aod to protect 18 justiied bes sts involy . These facts must not be lost sight of, Our commerce with Moxico representa the filth of the tolal Commorce Of that counwy. It is second only to the Kng- ligh commorce, and is more than double that of the com- merce of the United States. The importations from France to Mexico form more than a fourth of the whole. They amounted im 1861 to more than 24,000,000 of francs out of cighty-cight millions ($5,000,000 out of $13,000,- 000). Those of the United States did not reach twelve millions ($2,500,009). As to the exportations olher than the precious metals, France boids the firsi rank, absorb- ing the third of the Mexican products by tera Can the United States put forward ag an excuse for interfering im Mexican affairs the care of their commercial interests, when thoir commeree with that country is not quite the Ath part of the aggregateeemmoree of France and Eng.» — Our rights would necessarily take procodeuce of eis, Hf, on the contrary, they should set up a political rea- 00, if they abould pretend that republican inatitutious are better caiculated than a monarchy to reetore cali and peace to Mexic>, and to assure there the safety of all interests, the enawer would be too easy, It would suiflee to invite Mr, Seward to read over again the messages of President Buchanan and the reporta of the United States Ministers to Mexico, Tho United States know how to reckon. They will not put the question on the commer cial ground , their memory is too good to pul it on the po- litical ground, - The German Congress. REPORT OF THE MEMBEKS ON REFORM. PRanavorr, August 30, 1863. ‘The report of the Congreas was brought up to.diy, and the establishment or the protocol will take place in tho course of the week. It is asserted that Baden has hither. to maintained as entirely negative attitude towards the propositions for re‘orm. Upon the 29tb inst. Gount Rechberg issued a circular wo tho German sovereigns, urgently recommending the ac- ceptance of the reform pro ect on bane. in the nighé of the 28ih an Austrian memorandum was handed direct to the princes. The memorandum declares ‘that at the final vote upon the Reform act Austria can only admit accoptance or rejection, The #ole reserves pormisaable relate Wu the acquiescence of Prussia and be assent of the respective chambers. In yestorday’s eitting of the Congress a proyosal made by Mecktouburg Schwerin to submit the entire transac tions to Prussia for tho expression of an opinion, waa re- forred to a sub.con miites after an animated debate. Tho juestion of a directorate was solved iu accordance with the proposal.of Saxony and Naazau. The fiitn membor is to be nominated by Baden, the two Heases, Luxemburg, the two Mecklenburgs, Nessau and Bruuswick. The reia- tivo weight of the votes tu be tn accordance with the full sittings of the Foderai Diet. Unanimity to be requisite in Chances of the constitution. ‘The fiual vote of the Congress will take plico to mor- row. FRANCE AND RUSSIA ALARMED AT THE PROGRESS OF AUSTRIA. {Paris (August 80) oemereainet ‘of the London Teie- raph.) By @ rapid turn of the political wheel Poland ws for & moment quite out of sight, and ihe eyes of every politi- cian to Paris are turned towards Austria, A grave pais Ohare! on men's minds as to the oflects which might be produced if the Empordr of Austria should sac- ceed ip his attempts ou the German supremacy. | have already told ‘that this fooling existed in very bigh quarters, and to such a degree aa to render possible am arrangoment (or the fiiture of Poland, if sho would accept it, in which neither Austria nor England would bs con- sulted; aud this view ia consifered by many to be con- firmed by the presence of Prince Orloff, who is now im Paris, sent, 60 Bays rumor, by the Emperor Alexander to seitie everything wath the Emperor Napoleon. ‘The press bag now taken up the question, and both the Constituéion- nel and the Deba’s have spoken words of warning againat the ambitious and davgerous policy of Vienna. ‘Taking for its text the Ofth par of the oighth article of the projected re‘orm, the P preaches a sermon which reads marvelously as if it were inspired The words of tho clause are in truth suMfciently striking:—“If @ war threatens to break out between one of the Cor federate States which has possessions without the federal territory and @ foreign Power, the Directory must call Cor a resohition of the Federal Council on the sub ect of federal participation in this war; such reaoln- tion to depend ou a simple majority of voices.” And from this the Debats very naturally draws the conclusion Unat Austria _kuows that she, if ead of the federation, ‘could depend on ‘a simple m jority of voices,” and, there: tore, would have all Germany to de'end Venica and Hon- gary. ‘Austria,’ coutiwues the article, “twelve years ago mManmuyred to got admittance nto the German Confedera- Con for al! the provinoes of bor empire, without exception. Trance euergeticaliy ed ter; it was ber right and er duty. Now Austria, who has bever renounce’ one of hor idens, tries to arrive at ate same end by a different route. We may doubt if she will succoed with her con- ferates, but, i she did succeed, cortainly Karope would protest. Could France and [taly accept astate of things which would be a standing meaace to their frontiors, and which would be a ha prsgesestny thon against the stipulations of Villafranca and Zurich? When in dauger and dif. culty we are apt to think of the friends on whom wo cam rely. We may bave negiccted them a little, but qite vowles w We did pot want anything from them just then; now it is quite diferent. Thus France, alarmed abous the hor Austria, is taken with a sudden teudeucy Italy Preparing tor War. {Milan (August 20) correspondence of the Official Bots- The military oaeaens fe Ly z ir} reparations which, Vvernment bas been iutely making appears to ptt by far what can be required for home tervicgyp Ollicers of every branch of the service are travelling abroad with the ob- fect of making contracts for the safply of arma and ma- tertals of war to the Italian government. A major in the reg'ment of lancers stationed here is at prese: and has a carte blanche to pareli dies and bridles for the cavalry and the same aumber of holster pistols. Lie: t Coloual Castellart ts ia Rag sand, and goes from there to Relgi to purch se firty thousand firet rate rifles for the army id forty thousand = gun barrels for the National Guard. Captain do” Benedictis, of the Kugineers, is gottg to Stockholm and Liverpool to study certain’ ar rangements, the introduction «of which would faeili- tate the provisi ning aa army in case war broke out, Two naval ollicers will algo go to England to inspect the construction of @ new sort of iron clad ships, on which system the Italian goverument intend to have their bow tron plated frigates coustructed. ‘The secondeknginesring division here im Milan hag received the order to draw ont & plan of a great po magazine, which is to be constructed for tie mobilised nal Guard. All the superin nts of military stores have received notice that they must see to it tbat their ammunition ots are provided with the maximum quantity of war it. 1 is only surprising that in its present flaan- al straits the goverument can find the money for ait tbeve expenses, The month of October is appointed. aa tho | eried for & strict inspection of a!l the troops and all the stores, The King himself is exposted bere in the middie of september, and great miltiary prejperations »re making to view of this eventuality, The Opera, MME TIETJEN'S DEBUT IN PARIS. (Parts (Aug. 23) Correspondence of London Telegraph.) 1 have just returned from assisting brilliant and triumph of which the Grand Oper jas the scone, e debut in Parts of Madame Tietjers the occasion. Haguenots”’ was the work selected (or her frst appear an it is no small achievement to have filled that house out of the season, aud on one of the hottest nights of the summer, aud it is @ much greater boast to have sent away (hat vast audience in a state of delight, after « performance which jasted four hours and a balf. Both there things has Madame Tictjens done, and she may go te sleep in the (ull oomfidence that, like Byron, she will wake and find herself famous in Paris. I should tell you that the frame was scarcely oual to the picture—the gem wo costly for the setting, the best of the company coult not sing up to their prima donne, Madame Hamakers sang the part of the Quoen - fully and with good taste, and Faure—whom | think you ‘win London—performed the Count de ers ey but still they are not first class executar ts as for Gucymard, who sang the music of Raoul, he I acter, with a feeble voles, bad) anu s pees, umeelf into al positions, aod extricating himself from vocal aiMeulti by a0 enor. mous abuse of “falgetto,”’ which i# the resource of the © foreibi 4 For instance, , uette with the Queen im the second uct, he ruined the whole efiect by a note which, for want of another term, | will call @ prolonged scream. His best acting and singiog wore in the last act; but nowhere was be equal to his Va. leutine. The debut of Madame Tietjens hae created a great ex- citement iu this city, empty as it is; and even bets wore jaid Inst oight st the Maison Doree that we should get aeither box wor stall for to-night. Indeed, this morning there was as great a crowd, and as & “queue” from the Bureau de Location, in the Roe elletier—where they shot at the Emperor—as there was in 1660 to lend money to the Italian war loan. Prices ranged above the average, wnd (he resalt was that, excenting » boxes, the private y of families “aux Faux," there was not # seat to be bad before three coups called cbestra to attention, The overtare was well Fee bag Spanisa—who literally abound ot the opera—till the third act, ily begins—foll very flat, By 4 droll seusation to Madama a str Nena eee ee