The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1868, Page 4

The Spanish Revolution----Its Progress to Realization. Proclamation from the “Camp of Liberty” and Marshal Concha’s Manifesto, French Assault on the Queen, the Bourbons and the Priests, MINISTER JOHNSON’S SPEECHES. British Policy Towards China. The Cunard mall steamship Java, Oaptain Lott, Liverpool the 26th and Queenstown tho 27th of aro arrived at this port yesterday morning. The German mail steamship Hammonia, Captain Meier, from Southampton on the 2th of September, srrived at this port yesterday morning. » By these arrivals we have a mail report in detail our cabie telegrams dated to the day of sailing of Javatrom England. It is annoynced by an English medical journal of @authority that Queen Victoria’s heaith is not suim- ciently good to permit her continued residence in London. Mr. Chisholm Anstey decided, in one of the Lon don Revision Courts, that women are entitled to vote ‘under the new Reform act, on the ground that the term “mau” in the gct of Parliament referred to both sexes unless the contrary was stated. An ap- peal was taken io this decision, which, it would ap- Pear, can be supported by plausible arguments. It may be instanced as proving the uncertainty of the Registration law that Mr. Foster, another revising barrister, recently condemned a Quakeress to costs for clatming the franchise, An ofticial telegram received from Lemvig, on the Western coast of Jutland, received in Copenhagen September 26, states that the Grand Duke Alexis had been saved from the wreck of the frigate Alexander Newski, and had landed at Lemvig in good health, Great exertions were being made to save those of the crew who were still on board, The topmasts had been cut away. The sea had become calm. Five of the sailors of the Alexander Newski were drown- ed. ‘The Danish frigate Tyllands had been despatch- ed to Harboore, where the shipwreck occurred. General Dufour has been making a speech at Geneva, which seems to have made a sensation, aad of which a fragment has been reproduced by some of the Paris papers. 1t runs thus:— Should the foreigner threaten our little republic, believing it feeble as formerly and Incapable of de- fence, I would fala have the sireugth to contribute towards showing hin h.s mistake; but I hope that Others than myself will know weil how to prove to him that a smail united republic is a strong State. Did facts not suilice deeds would be there. 1 well know that it wouid be a trial for as, and a dimeult, pera trial; but 1 am convinced we should know Ww to paas through it. They world no longer tell Us, as they have done, that “the neutrality of Swit Zerland is a iction,” No, it is not @ ficdon, bat a truth; it must and will be believed in, SPAIN. Progress of the Revolution—History of the Movements of the Royalists and Insargeute— ‘The Opposing Manifestoes. Telegrams from Paris of the 26th of September, the latest mall date, report the progress of the Spanish revolution thus:—The Moniteur of this morning con- tains the following news from Spain, dated the 23d Anst., received via Barcelona:— Tranquillity has not been disturbed at Barcelon: owing to the precautious taken by the autitoric Some arrests have been made, without, however, ‘ovoking any disturvances, Marshal Pizala had ar- ved at Saragossa. The jnterior of Catalonia is quiet, but a certain re- Yolutionary spirit {8 reported ia the province of Sara- gossa, Santander fell into the hands of the insurgents on the 2ist inst. The telegraph wires were cut and the Failway torn up, in order to delay the arrival of troops, whose approach from Valladolid was an- nounced, The ciy ud rural guards and carabi- neers, with their commander, together with two companivs of infantry, who had rejused to join the insurrectionary movement, weut from Santander to meet the royal troops the forces under Get 1 Calonze, stubborn resistauce, reoccupied Santander on the gith fost. A telegram from Cadiz, by way of Lisbon, states that Generai Prim and Marshal Serrano, together with other leaders of the insurrectioa, had beea at Cadiz ever since the 1vth inst. According to later news General Pavia was on the march to encounier them, but the result of the operations was uot yet known. The Siécle of to-day annonnces that the squadron of the msurgents is now conveying General Prii, with a corps durmece comprising 21,000 muskets, to Barcelona. Communication on the Northern Rallway of Spain is stopped. Tosurgent Manifesto—Preclamat amp ot Liberty.” A telegram froin Paris dated the 22d of September maya:—i send you by te summary of the joliowin m from the proclamation addressed to the Catalans by be chief of the insurrection in tuat province, and as yet unpublistie: CATALAN® my word to you; and een have repaired prinetium ly at to the opportune and vou to it from the i by the few who, by their foresight and patriotism, faithfnily fepresented the popular along far from 18co.min4 oF nm pauajog on the fatal pach Of Immoraiity and by- treats the nation as an enemy and appear to declare Iu the War of Independence our fathers natonished the whole world by their heroism, and received as a reward the erue! and ri Ferdinand VII. Tu ihe eivil ‘war we cop and pow there is not a Fights ignored, tie laws #uandered aid ite best rons p does the Spaniah bation. To arms, Catalans! ior the je can no longer @ndure such scandal and my. To arms! ‘aud tho struggle will be ahort, of society have be fa engerly to de. arms! aod Againat our bre the army, because it fea: one all clasees insuited in thelr honor and offer 4 ioteresia, and all wil hasten ad these and to safeguard their dignity. To we tay not bave to use them ve government distrusts and with reason, that it will not te of wo re ite moral andy) eal regeperation. Until that day shall arrive we Catalans Will justify that title of reves which tyranny eonferred upon us y called us rebes ai the beginning of the Inst con- uty, Vecause w presentiment proper to eral apirit of these provinces and to the tradition of ti fons spurred us to repel the ignomin: gacy an to ¢ile King made of the Spanish nation, and which a foreign Ariny enine to enturce. They treated us’ as con tiered rebels, And rebels we shali be unill victory, revenging our herole hall assure forever our liberty and tat of our fous, Then shall e the most submissive to the aw—to the Iaw the nation mive to iwelf, For it ia time the nation Should assert and assume {ts sovereignty aod #hould dectie On its own lot by means of universal guffrs gonstituent right of modern nations and of took the title which has left auch good memorts among ne. Meanwhile, my dear companion in arma, soldiers of liberty, Whether you belung to the people oF to the army, all those ‘who, esteeming tn ought the ty of my patriotism and the Srmbess of my liberal principles, repair hither to place your Solves under my orders, J have nothing to ask of you nor any- {hing can Toifer you. ‘I will not sek you to be valiant, be- know that you Twill not ask of ee, because I will set you hare ail too Mo consent to. be Inferior to me ‘U hothing, because net you m eaute of wojfp F nor family, and we not admit private p mn eee, We are serving our country, Our country wiiicb, ov the eueration ‘eogniae the serv cos (hat bi eres agataet per, Dat will cancel ali the nominations, wii ounly rewarding, with litle burdey gheertully risk their lives to restore ber tarnished honor. property, V who w ‘The popuiationa may rely that Sanctuary shall ve Ans By by a T trust that no pu 0 MP oF Linkary. I have been requested not to pullteh the signature, Dut it is that of @ well known leader, aud urust be- fore long transpire, Marshal Concha’s Reply. The following proclamation was issued by Marshal Concha in Madrid, September 21:— 1, Manuel Gutierrez de la Concha, Captain General of the Melons Aarmies and Captain General of the Two Castti ‘announce that, under the present grave circumstances of fation, and desirous fo the exercise of the powers entrusted to me vation of the law with the respect onest persons, I hare consid: neceseary it Owe — 1, Afier the publication of this prociamation ft ts forbidden $0 hold meetings 'o the public #ireets or pud to » oF for aps, Of whatever Dumber of persons composed, Lo assem: Fe Goveenment. oliviaie wre dicected, with. the greatest the gr only ‘sail fon who #liad Posies fhe tnjuaction of the uutborit officials to move on will inevitabiy be ry Bs oF the orders of the rested and placed at LO the alarm signal belog given, which will be a cannon shot Ore by my oruers, wl the inhaUitants who wish to avoid the cov acqiicnc: a of thelr curloalyy or indifference must retire 0 their houses tf ther Would not be treated as enemies liv the o reconcile the 10 FOE Lh NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET, Madrid tro which do Pa! atways had respect for those opinions ‘ut to demand ths iotated form of armed hoatfity, and T bave the ri you shall respect the présent dispositions which are di by may duty. In Catalonia, where public order bas been disturbed, I have {variably re-estab tsbed it; nevertheleas T ‘enjoy tha esteem of the industrious inhabitants, who appreciated the stern demands of duty, even as I on my part appreciated good ven in my adversaries. gaia iny jon, and I rely upou experiencing a similar satisfaction in your Case, assured, um you ought to De, that should public orter be disturbed 1 ‘will immediately re- ablisbit, MANUEL GUTIEKREZ DE LA CONC) Spanish Official Reports. The following telegrams from oillclal sources tu Madrid were published in Paris:— MapaiD, Sept. 23, 1868. The insurgents are concentrated near Seville, ‘They have abandoned Cordova. General Novaliches has arrived at Mengibar, in the province of Jaen, south of the Sierra Morena mountains. General Calonge is marching on Santander. ‘The insurgents have cut the railway communications, -At Grenada the people commenced firing upon the troops, but were vanquished after two hours? fighting. 1t is reported that there has been @ rising at Ceuta and that great agitation prevails in Saragossa. Armed bands have appeared in La Mancha and the people have commenced joining them, The in- surgents in Andalusia are provided with mu- nitions of war, money and provisions, The tron- clad fmgate Victoria arrived before the town of Corunna and demanded its surrender, The gov- ernment authorities, however, refused to comply. Ainost the whole of the Spanish fleet 1s now in the hands of the tnsargents, who are expected to effect a landing in Catalonia, The Queen has not yet arrived at Madrid, It is satd thatin the last extremity she will take refuge in the citidel of Pampeluna, near the French frontier, Manrin, Sept. 24, 1868, The Oftcial Gazette announces that insurgent bands have made their appearance in the provinces of Ali- cante, Leon and Asturias and confirms the news that Malaga, Bejar and Alcoy have pronounced in favor of the revolution, General Novaliches bas arrive: at Carpio, fifteen miles from Cordova. The insurgents have again occupied Cordova and have destroyed the bridge over the Guadalquiver and cut the railway communication, Fresh reinforcements, which had been asked for by General Novaiiches, left Madrid yesterday. Nuwer- ous bands have also assembled in Catalonia, La Mancha and Andaiusia and are impeding the ad- vance of tue troops. ‘The naval officers in revolt are to have signed a document in which they all promise not to soceps: any rank or civil post a8 reward for their services to the revolution, declaring that they have risen to deliver their country from the oppression of a corrupt dynasty. ADKED, Sept. 25—3 A. M. An official despatch announces that General Ca- Jonge has entered Santander, after a great and glo- Houe tight with the insurgents, who ded to ther ships. French AccountsInteryention Rejected. {Paris pent. 26) correspondence of London ‘Tines.) ‘the Moniteur says to-day that “the rebeilion bas nowhere made serious progress, by reason of the attitude of the population and of the military demon- stration of the Captains General. Hitherto the move- ment is contined to towns upon the coast.” — This is in accordance with all the autheatic news received up to tuis afternoon, and it is not unnatural that such should be the case since the insurrection was begun by the navy. everal of the Paris papers, semi-ofMfcial and op- position, reject the idea of intervention, The Deduis has the following tronical paragraph:—We have been much surprised to see a large number of Hug- lish papers hasicning to protest beforenand against any species of intervention m Spanish affairs, France ts the only Power that could possibly inter- fere. Now France has too loudly prociaimed the principies of nutiona.ities to think of preventing the Spaniards from choosing :uch form of government as may plea-e them, or irom eutrusuing to whom they please the dificult task of governing tuem. We did once forget the respect due to every nation’s will and we lad no reasoa to congratulare ourseives upon having done so. Nobody in France, we are fully persuaded, will conceive the unlucky idea of sendiug to Spain the solliers that have only. just re- turned from aiexico. The evening papers are full of the Spanish insur- rection, but do not contain inuch tiat i worth quol- ing. The government papers slow themseives favorabie to the Queen’s Cause. French Assault on the Bourbons, the Queen and the Priests, (From the Paris Siecle, sept 24, Where now 1s Sister Pairocinio? Of what use has been the fact of the Pope's sending to Isabella the Re rose, the embiem of virtue? What! spain 3 Catholic; she has 190,000 monks, bishops and priests innumerable, and revolution pene rates there 48 In heretic countries, The fact is incredible, aud the Queen did not at first believe it; but the intelil- gence arrived more and more alarming, and the reality forced Itself to be at last credited, In these supreme moments crowned heads becui lexibie as reeds, Her Majesty, 80 haughty and so impetuous, is pow softened, and willingly or unwillingly agrees toact. The ministry must be changed, she is told, and at once she charges Marshal Concha to form a new Cabinet. tis in that way Lhat occasions in ec. tremis always commence, The programine of the revolution is perfectiy ciear; tt prociauns the deposi- ton of the Bourbon dynasty, and thus utterly de- stroys the hopes of Don Carios as well as those of iho Jnfanta Maria Louisa, good and honest relatives w: ig ardently covet the succession of isavella, and woul ask for nothing better than to fish up a crown out of troubied waters, Afterwarus a provisional govern- ment is to be substituted and & constituent assem! coavokea, which should decide finally on the aesii- nies of Spain, This scheme is a prudent one; and we hope that all seusib.e men, all goud cit.zens on the other side of the Pyrences who love tueuw Pk 4 will support it, It 13 the doctrive of the Spanis| revolution, of the national sovereignty, and we re- peat that if it is not executed to-day it will be to- morrow, The force of things is what proclaims and Wile it, and not we. The peninsula has two great faults:—First. the monks, an intolerant clergy, who ‘ully cherish ignorance, Janaticiam and the most rulicuious superstiions; second, an unoridued soldiery without any counterpoise. These must ao- soiutely be cured or the patient wilt die, But na- uons do notexpire with their own consent. As to the Bourbon monarchy, it is struck to tue heart, and we sincerely hope (hak the present movement wil rid the peninsula of tt. This first step will be deci- sive. ‘The principal obstacie will be overthrown, Tae reaction of which tue centre is at Kome had three headquarters— Vienna, Naples and Madrid. ‘The first has burst its bonds, tue second threw itself into the aru of ribaidi, and the turd is now going to emancipate liseu irom its loug siavery. The Future Government. [Paris (Sept. 24) correspondence of London Times.) Faiing any likely and popular candidate for tue throne that is expected presently to be empty, tue direciors of the revolution propose an appeai to the nation, and the election of a constituent Cories to deliberate as to th ‘ure and formation of the new government. a4. de Girardin, Who is always ready with advice, even to those who ueltaer seek it nor woul! value tt, suggests that Spain should take a hint from an amendment proposed in the French Nation- al Assemb y on the 7th of Oc_ober, 1848, by M. Grey: to the etfect that the assembly should delegate t execitive power to a citizen who shouid receive the tide of President of the Council of Ministers, and who Should be evecded for an untimi'ed time, but should ‘s lable to be deposed by another vote of the Had the Grevy ameudment, he says, been France would have enjoye. all the advan- tages of @ constitutional government without the su- pernuuy of royalty or of a President of the republic. He advises the chiefs of the present revolution, should it succeed, to convoke the ordinary Cortes, and set te 4, by secret voting anit by the major- tty oF sugvages, @ President af the Councis af Min- isters. The Commanders Against the Queen. (Parts (Sept. 25) correspondence of London Times.1 Of the generais in the Held against the gueen you know the naumes; that of Contreras must be added to them, Of Zabla, Count Paredes, who was at Lugo, we aa yet hear nothing. In Morocco, where the camp Wits and rhyimesters made doggerela on all the geverals, the coupiet re'ating lo hii said;— Quien #¢ bate a salsipueden? (sauve qui peut) Paredes, He ts a very o4 officer, who commanded the cavalry under £spartero in the civil war, and haa proba- bly not acquired energy with years. Of the other generals of the Liberal Union, of whom bo account has been given, there ia Echague, who, while living quietly at his native town of St. Sebastian, was suddenly arrested and sent off to Ivica, whence he was transferred to Palma, in Majorca, where com- manded his old friend and brother’ Chapaigorrt, Cotoner, and thence again to Port Mahon, He is a daring oficer, and if it had been possibie for hun to escape we may be sure he is somewhere with the insurgents. Kos de Olano is another who was ex- ted to rise; bat it 1 said that instead of doing so ie Went with proposals from the Queen's govern- ment to tue insurgents, Who at once rejected tuew. ENGLAND. Minister Johnson's Speeches ta Leeds, [From the Loudon ‘Times, Sept. 24.) Yesteruay tae Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the new Minister for the United States government, who hos recently arrived in this country, visited the metro- oils of the West Riding, He had been staying with Lo Houghton, at Fryston Hall, and Lord and Lady Monuck and other distinguished perecne led his Exceliency from Fryston fall to Leeas. yy reached that town about ono o'ciock, and were met at the Wellington station by Sir Andrew and Lady A. Fairbairn (the Mayor and Mayoress). Twenty-two gentlemen of the Council of the Leeds Chander of Commerce. were also pre ent to welcome the filustrious American. — The Mayor conveyed bin in his carfiage to the Town Hail, where tue Town Council were assembled. Hav- ing been introduced to the corporate body and cor- dially weicouied by them, the fiayor presented an address, His EXceLLexcy replied and Gentiemen—The commission conferred upon me by my governinent will be productive to myself, I have no doubt, of that happiness which #o far has aitended it, From the moment | landed upon your shores up to the present time the greatest ible kindness has been extended to me, very much to my delight gratification, My country will consider It an earnest of the friendly feelings you have for them that all her Majesty's subjects, Tam not only to believe but to know, entertain towards me 80 gracious a feel (Applause.) We are, in fact, but one people. (i hear) Our dispositions are tha same, our political institulions are auhataniiatin Houghton, Sit ‘A. accom, follows:—Mr. Mayor same, and, above all, ‘the same, our religion ts the which the others are the means by bound er, our lai the same. (Hear, hear,) ‘that language wherever spoken, whether by an nglis! an American ~ or an to an Sagilshngn. creates at once feelings of "hood: and, 6 ing from personal ex) from the moment I put footon your 8 ‘not now for the first time—I that, although in one sense [ was in a foreign land, I was not @ 8 rr. The shake of the hand reminds me of e kind- hess with wich [ am met reminds me of home; the rsonal similarity 1 see around me reminds me of ome; and, above all, your ice!ings and sentiments of Political Liberty, which lie so deeply and 40 firmly 98 the 1oundation upon which your goverment rests, Temind me of home. (Applause.) And I shall ever rejoice that the governmeut of my Own country has conferred upon me the opportunity. of more acquainted with the pene of England than could have hoped to be if circumstances had been otherwise, There are but few difgerences now between us; few tn my judgment, and portant—unimportant, because Urey can be amica- by ee ee because that amica- ble jnstment may be accomplished without tarnishing in the test degree the honor of elther nation. Jt would be to me nt ip my gov- ernment @ matter of the deepest regret if in the set- tlement which we are about, I soon to make, another government should sutfer in its own opinion, or in that of the world at large. government will do nothing to detract from its own reputation, | know, but I know also, and with as much certainty, that your goverament will do nut waich can inthe. fest de; tarnish its reputation. Gen- tlemen, all I can do, in conclusion, is to thank you collectively and individuaily for this mark of your re- spect, and to assure you that in my negotiations with our government it will be my earnest desire—and Thave every reason to believe tat desire will be 1ul- filled—not oniy to maintain, but to strengthen the Jriendly relations which have so long happily ex- isted between the two nations. With my best thanks to you, Mr. Mayor, and to all present, I for a time bid you adieu, ‘Three cheers for the United States were called for oe Mayor and given heartily, after which his cellency was conducted over the Town fail and to the Fine Arts Exhibi:iou, where the Executive Committee presented him with an address, Jn reply to the second address Mr. Keverdy John- Son said:—Ever since | have been in Leeds the lew hours only of that day have been fuil of interest to me personally, and will also be full of interest to my countrymen when they shall hear of the proceed- ings of this day. (Applause.) It will satisfy them of what [ aim aiready satuwlicd of and have been from the moment of my .anding on your shores, that the peace between England aod the United States will endure forever, (Applause.) War, a3 far as we are connected, in tue judgment of all reflecting men, aud {£ am satisfied it would in your own judgment—war ‘between your government anu mine would be but a repetition of tne civil war which has desolated our own land, for we are in fact one people descended from @ common ancestry, of Which we are ull equally proud, and destined to accomplisit the Like purpos® lor the good and happiness of men by exicndlug ireedoni Snrough- out the xo plause)—ahd if in the chances of time you shot involved in peril—if peril you can be involved in—and if we should be involved in perili—if peril we can be involved in—it will be our duty, as 1 am sure it will be our pleasure, to sland shoulder to suoulder and resist the shock, Mr. Mayor and geniiemen, you teli me thatl nave been here so short a time tuat I am pot able pro- perly to appreciate the magnitude of your kxhivl- tow, J mave not been here © long as i couid wish, and, if 1 am to decide it, this 13 not the last visit wich I may have tie Loner Wo make to your towo— (@pplause)—but Ibauve seen enough to coavince me tuat you are lovers of tue arie—iae arts the result of peace—the arts which do not iuvolve the sacridce of buiman life, but the correction of the human taste and the humanizing ot the human heart, aud tue spread, above ull, of a Christian and healing resiguatioa—(uear, hear)—and Thave seen enough also to be couviacea that in Wie mauulacture of everytuing wuicn covtributes wo the Wants or elegancies Of man your Lown is Lot benind any in the civilized world, aud inay you continue to rosper, ay You push Uuat prosperity even turther ry aud nt than tue exteut wo wach it bas already gone, and staad forth to ihe word a3 a Community cuevyoled to the arts of peace because suca is the duy of Obristians, and avuorring War because to abuor tt is aiwo duty of Christ (cheers)—and neither of us require war witu each otuer or Wita any otuer nation to establish our martial character, (tients hear.) Upon the ocean and upon the laud we have each at times iliustrated our capacity tur war, ‘a3 well a8 We have illustrated the love wuicn we en tertaln for ; and un the Jest cumpaiga ta Which you have a chgaged—s campaign upon Which you were urged by the obiyauvn to protect your citizeus @ud rescue them frow captivity, thus dis- charging tae duty whicu every government owes Lo its own citizous—you have proved again that in the arts of war, mdeed of glory, on the field, in tae skiil of your geuerais, aud in the bravery of your olllcers and men, you are not bemnd any nation 1 the world. (Ghvers.) And tue iame of the ieader in the war to which 1 aliude is as weil known and as much cherished by us as he 1s ‘Toe name of Napier will be received as ousehold word" in the United States, us i has already become a “bouschoid word” in England, (.pplause.) it was @ War couducted successiully, eminentiy successiul, but by the observance at the Same Lime o. all the obiugations of an enlightened huwauity, the General ravaging moti that he could save, desoiauug nothing that he couid protect; but, ou the contrary, paying for everything us he Wanted it, and treating with the clemenvy Wiick humanity dictaced att wav fell into his power, and at tie same tine, and by vhese means, ruising toa higher piica, Uf Wut ve pus- sivle, the repulution of Hng.und yor tue humantty of her soldiers, (Cheers) After a very graceful compliment to the ladies, cheers were givea for the Uuited States, Mr. Joun- gon, and Mrs, Johnson, who was not present. Irish Opinion of Minister Johnson’s Pledges. [From the Cork Herald, Sept. 26.) ‘The septuagenarian ambassador Ainerica has sent to ‘land is busy day alter day in making a fool of himself, He toid his uudience in Leeus the viher night that Kngiand and America were tue same in religion aad ius.itutions and in fact one coantry, aud that his recepuion ia England would satisiy Ameri cans that peace between Kugland and the Luited Siates wou d endure forever, After tus pronounce- ment on the part 0: ber minister America had better cancel the history and the coustituuon she teacnes in her common scuvois and at ouce oruer @ series of tracts for their use, in which monarchical yovern- meat, @ beavy civil list, an aristocracy of hereditary drones, an alliance vewween Caurch and state, & bionied army and pavy, the exclusion of crtizéns froia the right to carry arms, the drain of abseatee- Isai and @ reat-paytag systein of laud tenure will be set forth as the mstituious of tie country watch Washingtoa and h.s compsuions, aided by & luerty- loving people, rescued iru bugisa turadvin, The Burlingame-Chi: Mission—American and British Agencies and Policy in the Eme pire. {From the London News, Sept. 25.) i. An emiment writer has descrivea “John Bull in some of his rough methods with the Cainese” as literally actng the part of the “ball in a china shop.” If tue Chinese representatives who pave come to London on @ iission Which has for ita ob- ject the establishinent of @ latger and freer relation between their nation and the West chanced to read the wholesa'e charges of treachery and dishonest, put forth by the leading organ of tue present Baglis' government inst the four hundred miitons of their peopie, it must have occurred to them that there may be some tras of Western civilizaton which they can weil allow us to monopolize, The vague character of the attacks which have been made on this Embassy both before and since its ar- rival, aud their direction toward its personnel rather than {is objects, are contessions of an inability to find any Solid antecedent ob,ec'1on to those ovjects. it has already been authoritat. vely announced in America that the envoy has come to Engiand for the purpose of inducing tits goverament to adopt the treaty which has just been ratued, by unanimity of parties, in the United State: examination of this new treaty shows that not alter ems Uuilly Lhe recent treaties betwi he Westera Po! ers and China, but that in several respects it ex- pands them—in accordance with their spirit—aod Unat it makes clear certain points of those treaties in which interested partics in China had aifected to find interpretations at vari: wich their actual in- tention. Tuere are, in particular, two points on which, since the opening of the long closed doors of China to commerce, collisions have so often oc curred and ll feeling been excited that its Em- peror and most eminent men have deemed it best to make # calm appeal to foreign nations concer: ing them. One of these refers to the builyin, and almost violent means which have been ado) to force upon China systems of railways and tele- graphs. That there should be in China an important popular hostility to the introduction of such internal Improvements 1s Indeed deplorable, and there ts rea- son to believe that some of the more enlightened Chinese feel it to be 80, This hostility would seem to rest fundamentally upon the superstitious elements in their character. In the course of ages, the most populous regions of China have become as vast ceme- teries, and beyond thetr severe morality the religion of that people consists to a large extent in veneration Jor the ancestral dust contained in them, Indeed the rock-like conservatism of China, whose first crumblings we seem to be witnessing, is due to the abject submission of chiidren to parents—a submis- sion not limited to the existence of the latter on earth—above which not even the wisdom of Con- fucius could rise. Even that great teacher acknowledged the right of a parent to sell his child, and associated the spirits of the dey with the gods in his ideas of religious devotions. “How vast,"' he said, “1a the power of spirits, An ocean of invisible Intelligences surrounds us every Where. If yon look for them you cannot see them. If you listen you cannot hear them. identified with the substance of all things, they cannot be sonatas from it. bo men to purify ana sanctify their hearts, to clothe themselves with fesiive garments and offer obiations to ther ancestors. * * Worshij the gods as if they were visibiy Present. Sacrifice ancestors as if they were here.’ We are suiiciently acquainted with the popular excitements in Eng- land, and still more in France, caused by the carry: ing of raiiwi through cemeteries, to understand the feelings o1 rm with Which the more ignorant People of China must regard any similar disturbance of the dust which represents to them the sanctity of powerful spirits that once lived on b. about telegraphs seems to refer to rmouch more superfictal superstitions about terres- trial and aerial currentstor ‘lines of luck.” How: ever much we may these superstitions and their effect upon the being of China, their exist- ouce is @ fact, and the only question is, Low shall we deal with them in the prosecatton of our commercial interests among that people? If we mistake not that question his been answered by the good sense of this country for every people, English peo- ple have in and in shown their aversion fro ‘all methods which would make their commerce a symbol of religious persecution or cause foreign peo- [p.es to shrink from accepting its acknowl ad- vantages because of its threatening attitude towards feelings and belfefs cherished more than all og advantages, There is but one rational method in such cases, and it is to depend the influeuce of commerce itseif and the expansion of mind follow- ing freer intereommunication; to educate such na- tions and dually facutiiarize them with the advan- es and innocuousness of the things they dread. In oflicially Soclarine to rapes a ey gk Toate 6 appeal by our agents or mere! an: but Tate argument in this matter there is reason to believe we-shali do more to disarm the unprogres- sive party there, and to advance the tn which abt surely create tinprovements, than if we should build many railways through the territory of an in- sulted and detiant peopie; and there is little doubt that the nation whieh shall refuse such @ declaration must heneeforth find its agents and waders in every Chinese port looked upon with anxiety and sus- picton. ‘The second point of especial importance to the nation which has sent thia deputation relates to the territorial integrity of China, and the cognate right to protect her neutrality in her own waters, There ig an iinportant history connected with this subject, to which it may be necessary to refer more particu- larly hereafter; at present it is sutiicient to state, what the papers our Foreign Vilice abundantly rove, that when Sir Frederick Bruce and Mr, Bur- ingame were earnestly co-operating, as they did from first to last, to conduct the relations of their respective countries with China in accordance with the spirit of recent treaties, they, no lsd than the native authorities, were repeatediy impeded by the claims minor = freign oflicials to confuse their authority over | the persons and property of those coming from their several countries, which China had conceded, with the right of domain over portions of the na- tional territory itself, which China had never con- ceded, ‘The British equally with ‘the American Minister entered into and represented to his govern- ment the just grievances whose recurrence has in- duced China to ask of the United States, through a Minister it had trusted, of England, through @ co- worker with and friend of Sir F. Bruce, also of France, through one who had been ‘on cordial terms with M. Berthamy at Pekin, a restatement of their existing treaties in terms which the most ingenious of oficial minds cannot saeeerree and such ag shad practically secure in China which is theo- retically acknowledged. French Opinion of the Mission. _D Armée Mustree of Paris, in its edition of Sep- tember 24 gives @ portrait of Mr. no Burlin- game, with extracts trom several Bagitan papers, and adda the following paragraph: Owever tha case may be, it is certain the Cuinese Exal will be excellently received in France, not only by the poopie generally, but also in oiflcial circles, which fact will tend to iniluence the teuor of the treaty that Mr. Burlingame intends proposing to tho imperial government, HAYTI. Additional Particulars of the Naval Action at Petit Goave—List of the Haytien Man-of= War’s Officers. HAYTIEN CORVETTA ALEXANDRE PETION, PoKT AU PRINCE, Sept. 20, 1868, The Alexandre Pétion, corvette, twelve guns, hay- ing President Salnave on board, went to Petit Goave to-day, took the corvette Sylvain, ten guns, and sct fire to the Liberté, four guaos. ‘The first vessel sank shortly after in fifteen fathoms. Many were drowned, including two of the prize crew and a Haytien Gen- eral, The Pétion thei continued the engazoment and silenced some of the batteries. I'wo men were killed on board by the enemy's shells. At three P.M. the Pétion ceased tiring, wuen the troops on shore atarmed and took the piace. The 1oliowing is a list of officers attached to the Ha, tien corvetie Alexandre Pétion, lately the Gala- tea:—Adumiral, J, F. Nickels; Lieutenant Com- mander, Chas. Huggins; Lieutenants, Wm. C. Du- mont and Jos. C. Clapham; Master, Alex. F. H. West; Enstgus, Jno. A. Gaillard and Joseph Patrio; Pay- master, Chas. F. Float; Surgeon, James A. Nesbitt; Chief Engineer, Edward Hutchinson; First Assistant, Andrew Kyerson; Second Assistanis, Abram Brown and Jas, H. Lee; Third Assistants, Jones auley and George Brown; Midshipmen, George Sailor and Samuel T. Oliver; Paymaster’s Clerk, Alcide Clede; Curpeater, Daniel Morrison, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Master and Inspection of the Seventh Regl- ment. The announcement that the crack corps of the National Guard would be inspected and reviewed yesterday drew @ large concourse of people to ‘Tompkins Park. The day was bright and warm and the ground was in the best possible condition for marching. Shortly after two o'clock General Varian and the staff of the Third brigade appeared on the around, closely follow: by Generai Liebenau, the inspecting officer. Seventh regiment, neauca by its magnificent band and drum corps, appeared immediately after, and, marching into tue park, formed in order 0; battle on the east side. The line extended the entire distance across tie park. The Teximent was very steady and presented a fine mill- tary appearance, The ranks having been opened and tue battalion prepared for review, the “present urns’? was execu ed with the quickness and pre- cision of inovement characteristic of the Seventh, Walch being duly acknowledged by the reviewing oillcer the regiinens broke tuto column by compan. and the critical movement of the dav—the marc st in review—was commenced. Stepping o the music of tue splendid march se- lected by Grafula for the occasion tue regiment wueeled on the markers very steadily and passed the review.ng officer in excellent order, Each off- cer cpp) gi ghd with his sword, but some of the cCapta.ns did not cast their eyes in the direction of the General at the moment of saluting, as they should have done. With this single exception, which was not a very grave error, the marci past ‘wus well executed, ‘The battalion navi arrived on the original ground was then formed in ine to the left. The dis- tauce between the companies was not very nicely cu.culated, for Wen they wheele| there were seve- rai gaps in the line, The ranks having been opened, as ab the commencement, tue reg'ment again saluted and the review terimmated, The battalion was tuen jocmed juto open colu.ins of companies, rizbt in front, the ranks were vpened, and Major Wentworth, of General Variun’s stad, proceeded with the m: spection, General Duryea, and General Koders, of bada.o, with General Varian and a number of om- cers, accompanied the [nspector. ‘ihe oificers of the fed and staf formed themselves into two ranks, instead of in one rank on a line equal to the front of the coluinn, The arms and accoutremenis of tue men were foand in good conditioa as might be expected, aud tuere agemed to be no room for La- provement in the matter of uniform, which was the Well known vray undress with black belts. ‘The in- Spection being comp.eied each company was mus- tcred in its proper order and marched to the armory. Alihougi very many of the members of the regiment have recenily been dropped from the roils (their tiiae of service having expired), the total number mustered present Was found to be but four less tian last year. Tus muster and inspection rolia redected: muca credit on reve Lieutenant Colonel Louis Fitzgerald, the regimental adjutaat. The following is tie return of the present and absent of each com- pany:— Fieil—Present 3, Staff—Present 2, absent 3; total, 5. Non-comumiussioned stait—Preseat 7, absent 1. Company A—s oflicers, 6 sergeants, 8 corporals, 3 musicians, 76 privates; preseut 7%, absent 19; total, Company B—3 oficers, 5 sergeants, 8 corporais, 3 Musk: aus, 4 privates; present 50, absent 34, total, 114 Company U—3 omlcers, 5 sergcants, 8 corporals, 8 Musicians, 56 privates; present 54, absent 22, tal, 7. Company D—3 ofiicers, 5 serjeants, 8 cor: porais, « musictins, 65 privates; present 54, absent 23; votal, 84, Company E—S officers, 5 sergeants, & corporais, 3 musicians, 61 privates, present 68, al- sent 14; total, 80, Company F—3 officers, 6 ser- geants, 5 corporals, 8 musicians, 55 privaces; present 65, absent 20; total, 75. Renee aoe G—3 officers, 6 sergeants, T corporais, 8 musicians, $7 privates; pre- sent 58, absent 17; total, 75. Company H—3 oficers, 6 sergeants, § corporais, 3 musicians, 75 privates; present 64, absent 41; total, #4 Company I—3 ofll- cors, 6 cerveants, § corporals, 8 musicians, 63 pri- vates; present 60, absent 22; total, 82, Company K— 8 officers, 6 sergeants, 8 corporats, 3 musicians, 64 | rap present 62, absent 31; total, 83. Band— resent 14. Aggrogate present 678, absent 241. Ag- vegate present and absent—3s officers, 68 sergeants, 9 CUFPO! als, 74 masicians, 666 privates; total, 919, THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON RETRENCHMENT. This comtittee, whose proceedings are watched with no little interest at present on account of ite connection with the Binckley-Rollina embroglio, seems by its course since its arrival in this city to be determined to shroud its action in mystery. Al- th ite chairman arrived here accompanied by resentatives week, no movement on ita part bas et been visible. “Mr. COW Pay! Van lise is visited daily by members of 6 Republican State Committee at lis private room in the Astor House, and frequent pow wows aud rather mysterious incomings and outgoings are dis. cernible; yet an toquiry for the committee is inva- riably met with the answer, ‘There is no committee sitting here.” Mr. Van Wyck has @ private room ent but there is no investigation “going on there.” If there is any such matter “it is at the rooms of Mr. Jenckes, at No. 20 Broadway.” A call at Mr. man Jenckes’ rooms is met with the answer:—"Mr. Jenckes is at Khode Island. We Know of no committee.” So whether the Co sional Committee on Ketrenchment means business or not Is only known to the members and to those ‘who are, figuratively speaking, behind the scenes, OaTHonto Fatn.—The fair for the now Catholic church, Lexington avenue and Sixty-fifth street, in charge of the Dominican Fathers, will open in the New fammany Hall, East Fourteenth stroat, to-day, and continue two weeka. RAILWAYS IN THE UNITED 834 Twa New Yor, Sept. 26, 1868. Hon. HENRY G. Sremsins, President Atiantic and Great Western Rauiway Company:—~ My Der Str—The Atlantic and Great Western Rafl- way was in @ position of extreme peril when you bronght to its assistance the association of your name and the support of your counsels, Into the causes which led to its humiliating position I ueed not enter—time has shown they were not radical. On your acceptance of the Presidency dimiculties rapidly vanished, and a few months have brought us to tho beginning of renewed prosperity. Railways generally, in the United States, have singularly failed in realizing the chief objects of their construction—they have failed in remunerating the original shareholders, who, as a class, have ceased to exist, as no one now dreams of subscribing for shares in a new railway, and they have fatled in providing what Lord Bacon called one of three things which make a nation great and prosperous— “an easy and cheap conveyance for men and com- modities from ono piace to another.’ In the United States we have a population en- Ughtenea, active, euterprising, producing more by many fold than any other of the same extent, and we havea country teeming with wealth, through which great railways have been constructed for exchange, of traMlc between these people, with what resul The vast og) which by 4 series of laborious financial matituvres finally represents Many mil- lions of dollars, is allowed to remain idle for twenty hours out of the twenty-four from want of equip- ment to keep the permanent way employed or by excessive charges on ti tion, - Twenty hours out of twenty-four means months io the year, during which the railway is closed inst revenue, but remains open to depreciation expenditure— we know what would happev to the banker or ni@r- chant who would so administer his capital. ‘This timid management—to use a mild pi achief cause of the wonderful non-success of our railways in remunerating the shareholders and ac- commodating the wants of the community, ‘The whole through nger trafic of the four trunk tines westward does not much exceed the foreign immigration, and one street railway in New York carries about as many passengers In @ (lay a9 either of these companies carry through one way in ayear! There are dozens of commercial houses whose business exceeds in tonnage the whole through western trafic of any of them. Yhe great West ‘has no monopoly of its stapes, therefore freights must be x0 regulated that. the producer will be able to compete in foreign markets with foreign produce. ‘The sem!-barbarous inhabitants of Eastern Europe are more tau & match for the civilization of Western Amierica in supplying Western Europe with breadstuffs. I suail be able to prove that a rate per ton of one cent a mile wil! give our people the advantage in te competion and give great profits to the rail ways who wil ‘have the courage to inaugu- rave the system and pertinacionsly stick to it, so that merchants may make extended contracis in conf- dence that thelr plans will not be frustrated by a sudden jump in rates. To mcrease the profits of the railway, add to the value of land and assure the prosperity of the couairy, rates must be low aud tixed, and this system I shall advocate with all my might until our permanent way is fuily occupied. You once fromm your place im Congress startied the country by proclaiming that the United States could raise turee hundred wilJions a year iv support of the war, and 10 @ year found you had not stated half the truth, Something cf the same euergetic spirit which had the sagacity © measure our nancial strength by the vaiuation of our dormant resources 1s now required to arouse railway proprietors to the evils and dangers of thair position. We have no first class passenger trafic because those who should pay for the best accommodation generally manage to travel free; the only paying passengers are those-few citizens who have no ac- quainiance with directors, wiile the working classes receive no suitabie acco nmodation, ‘Che great mass of the inhabitants of the Eastern cities, who would become prosperous citizens in the West, are kept in the sternest competition for a livelihood from want of means to travel. J belive that emigration from Eastern cities would vastly exceed the immigration — ane. if the rates were adapted to the means ie people. The Governor of Wisconsin lately writes:— ‘There ts no need of able-bodied men and women suffering the placings of Uf poverty, winle in all the young Wea- teru States there are miluoua of acres yet wosuid, ther gea- erous soll und delight/ul location otferiig homes and fortunes to any who will come and take them. sone who are blessed with health need remain poor among us. ‘The vast resources of this fertile region hare as yet but begun to be developed. Notwithstanding the great tide of emigration, from the Eas- torn staies and foreign counizies which has for years been pouring {n upon us, the West fs still comparatively sparse! Retued, and In every brancu of industry there ta yet abund- ance of room. ‘The Governor ts right as to the advantages of mov- ing westward, but if the published figures of throush traidic on our raliways be correct, | fail to soe ai parucuiar “tide” of emigration at present, thoug! Taulways, by cheap fares, could create & grout flood. Though I bave a higa opinion of the merits of the broad gauge, yet a8 matter Of policy and to secure connections over the narrow gauge system | advo- cate putting down a third rail upon the Atlantic and Great Weatern iailway: 1 hana the Ome end Mion sippt (with which we have had no reason to be other than in iriendly accord, @.though the connection has not been proiitable to either party, from causes which | believe can be remedied) and the Erie (which has througiout our existence acted toward us with the most consistent wliberality) will also adopt this third rail. It t- said that the broad gauge cannot be worked with the same economy as the narrow gauge; Great Western of Engiand—a seven feet gauge— works at a less percentage of revenue than any of the leading narrow gauges—viz, forty-seven per cent— and i may aca when the transportation expenses and maintenance of way and works of any important railway in full work exceed fifty per cent the ac- counts should be received with foie suspicion. A writer in the London Times, in to English railways, has said:— What ts required is a little moral ands Knife, | Unnecessary expenses, things and persons shoald be dowa or cut away. Let any bewlidered chairman of » raliway company, and puzzied director who is really in the dark and caonot understand how it is that so iitle 1s left for the slarebolders at the end of the half year—let him, I say, put himself in contideatial communication with two ot three seusibie, but poor, because unpald, workmen along the line, at the railway stations, {a the carriagemak- ing" depar or the timber Let promise to shield these men from the spite, petty tyranny, the open oppression at the hands of ofticlals and ovecioo, a, unnecessary fureinen and half ignorant of their business, paid (or doing ings but @xalied by favoritinm aad private in- these are some of tue secrets which would be dis- closed. Jara not sure that Ch thrown outa bint whieh wilt the apirite of I trust the general interests of the several broad @ auge tines can be made to harmonize more than herewofore. But tf other companies cont nue to make through trame impracticable we should not be @ paity to ther policy, Our road was constracted for Western traMic—we do not receive it—there is no reason why we siould not have tt except the hos- Ulity of connecting lines, and antil a more senstbie policy prevails the interests of our local business should alone be lookea to. banc epiom § the splendid territory possessed by the Atiantic and Great West- era within iiseif, anu the various resources which it absolutely controis, I think we shall be justified in altoge(her abandoning the through trafic, which has been altherto conducted so loosely and tamely as to create woudor that geatiemen controlling properties which have cost so mach should neglect the supera- bundant sources of revenue whose developinent would so ricky repay them. Our local traiic will mect the interest on our bonded debt and give a sat- isfactory return to the sharevolders, Our Tailway passes through 100 miles of the best coai fiekls in the world, while for some hun- dred miles west, south and north of us there is no coal, but we have heretofore strangled this busi by excessive rates. I propose we shall cut down these rates and stimulate an enormous production of tue bread of industry, a8 coal was felicitously calied by M. Rouher, recently In the French Parliament, 1a ade- bate on the ment of railways. These low rates should not be iniermittent or ble. 1 think if we can introduce the elements of cheapness and certainty into our rates our secure & volume of business which will raise its income to an amount per mile hitherto auequalied in the United ‘The Atlantic and Great Western Railway is said to be overburdened with its capital account, Appa- rently our Corry ts in excess of some,other qall- roada, but it isall capital. We did in dive years what other great rations, with constant appeals for personal, municipal or State subscriptions aud eas took twenty ycars to accom! aided the revenues during all these cou struction of the Atlantic and Greal Western has been solely from capital, while other ratlwaya have been conatruc donations ‘ted from capital, revenue combined—that 1s the difference and in the long rua my pian wiil prove the most economical. After all, the value of a thing is what it will bring, and not what it costs; and as the Atiantic and Great Western earned @ gross revenue of ten per cent on ite full capital within three years of its opening there is some assurance that it will be able to take good care of it in the future. You will remember the Paris, and Mediter- ranean Railway, one of those col works which Will be forever associated with the name of my es teemed friend, Sir Morton its chief constructor. With its branches, it is al the same le! as the roml gauge from New York to St. Louis, 1,200 miles; it passes ugh a country in rison ‘Wjth the district we traverse; it has neither minerals or, except at manufactures to support 4 snd Tot ha catteal 18 not less uh and tis revenue nearly o $ 1,000,000 week. Now what ts there in that railway which Justified its enormous cost, and, more remarkab! still, what is there in the country it accommodat which enables it to produce such @ revenue? It has one quarter of France as ite feeder, but we have at a ae & country superior in powers of production all Europe, ‘The rolonged And embittered contest for control of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company is now happily ended, I have writien this letter to place before you a con- densation of my views on railway adininistratio arrived at from long and anxious experience, an indicating the moans whish will assuredly restore t ns our earis profits, so rudely and so wantonly checked. ‘These wre oe camtiiihs catia os S sm adnaatowa providns.’ fachities for wradic and dant roiling stock, a a To counalee boldly with the water eommunica- ton for freight. a 3, Sesecure an increase of passenger traffe by graduating the ree ane the accommodation to the copulation, Wants of the yercnizing with high satisfaction the ; Recetver, General R. B, Potter, suility with whion ths vm 1 deaire to place on res Cord that to yon especially aro de tii present streagth Gnd prospective prosperity of the Atiantic and Great Western Railway. ak em most ithfally our Lit your MIAMES McHENRY. COLOMBIA. The steamer Ocean Queen, Captain King, from Aspinwall September 28, arrived at this port yes- terday. The following is the list of treasure by the Ocean Queen:— From San Franctsco, Eugene Kelly & Co. San Francisco, Weils, Fi & Oo, berths in Francisco, Frou st 408... From Manzanillo, F. Probst 6,600 From Arica, D. U1. B, Davis..... 3350 From Panama, Wells, Fargo & Co. 10,000 From Aspinwall, 8. 4, Isaacs & Ash. . 600 Trevor & COlgAte......esercereseees » 108 Total. ..csscesseever seeeeeeeeeee ces +8202, 028 Horrible Murder and Attempt at Suicide Accounts of James L. Baldwin and Mr. Pare ker, the Parties—More Troubie in Chirigni= Marshal Falcon, of Venezuela, at Panama Newe frem the Interior. Panama, Sept. 28, 1863. If I cannot chronicle a plague, an earthquake, an inundation or a revolution by this mati, my letter will, nevertherless, not be void of sensation, for it will lay before your readers an account of the most ¢old-blooded, unprovoked and unjustiflable murder ever perpetrated by one foreigner on another since the first emigration across the Isthmus, ‘The assassin is James L. Baldwin, well known to all old Istmentans 98 fhe associate of John L. Ste- phens and Mr. Trantwine, im the surveys of tho Panama Railroad route’ in 1848, "49° and 'S0) and from ’his® connection subseqrently with Cotongt ‘Totten and others in the cntire edsstraction of the Toad as assistant engineer until thé sume ft was finished, at which time he was obliged td’ Jeave here to avoid punishment for causing the déath of @ Carthagena negro, ® laborer on the road, Baldwin has always held a gooa position as an able civil engineer. After leaving the Isthmus he’ went to Chile and worked on the Valparaiso and Santiago road, I believe, under Mr, Evans; but he staid there a Very short time and returned to the States, where he remained until the end of 1867, when, at his ur- gent solicitation, he was sent out to this Isthmus again in the employment of the railroad company, Although placed in a high position on the road he seems to have been possessed with an idea that he was entitied to Mr. Parker's place and frequently sald so, and this idea appeared to have worked so much on his mind as to become a monomauia with him and caused him to feel the highest enmity to Mr. Parker, who, notwithstanding, always treated him. with the greatest consideration and kindness, Recenily the superiotendeat’s health became 80 feeble that he resoived to make a trip to San Francisco, and his wife and daughter had already arrived oa the Isthinus to we company him on the steamer whicu leit here on the 25th inst. About seven o'clock on the moruing of the 24th Baldwin and other employés of the radruad were standing on the balcony ef Mr. Parker's itive conversing about some business matter, Mr, Parker at the time siting at nis desk inside, just behind tbe balcony door. Everyshing was going 0a 10 tie must quiet and friendly manner wien Buidwin, without 8 & word, stepped inside the oilloe, went up close to Mr. Parker, drew his revolver and delibe- rately shot him; the ball entered tue rigit side, bi the seventh rib, passed through tue lungs and heart, broke a rib on the leit side and lod ia the ligaments under the skiu. The wounded man fired, breaking bis arin; he thou. appusd te petal ire ‘un; he theu app! Ue Pro! to his own ear and ’ discharges the contents, the ball lodging in the brain, and feil senseless on the floor. Mr. Parker lived about twenty-tive minutes, but was unable to speak. The assassin soon recovered his seases and was conveyed to the hospital, where he was at lai unis, With very slight hopes of his recovery. fe {3 a native of Troy, State of New Roane nere be has a wife aud daugue ter, and is about fifty-two years of age. By the very latest accounts receive. by telegraph from Aspinwall previ us to closing this letter 1 ieasa that ldwin ia rapidly improving wud ave bo walk about hisroom, He expresses uo regret whate atthe act he has comumitted, aod on being told Ve Parker's a said ne ome, * upoa ma ice ept an an Pea a Pusover sudfersatiy he will be. ay onc lodged in jail to await his triai for murder. The deceased was & man of upwards of sixty years of age wand one of the kindest and mosi peaceable nen that lived. He was socially held in the grows Tespect and esteem by every one and ihe deep: grief hag been expressed at his sad death. His re inains were conveyed to Panaina and inierred in the foreign cemetery, whither tucy were avcompauied by a pre of several hundred Sumong them the President oi the Stave and stad, tue foreign Consuls, the commanders of tie British and Ameri can vessels of war, 4c. Mr. Parker was 4 native of New Jersey and weil known in tue Northern states from his connection with railroads there. On tafor- mation being given to Mrs. Parker of the suocxing occurrence her first act was t) fail on ner ki raise her bands to heaven aad pray that God migh! haye mercy on the unfortunate mau who had kiited her husband and bring consolation to the murderers wife and daughter. This assassination is looked upon as the most cold blooded and unjustifiable ever committed on tus Isthmus, Should the murderer live the severest pun- ishiment that can by tne laws of tis State, be ine flicted upon him wili be ten years in tue cuain gang; but the probability is, should he get betier, that will take the earliest opportunity to put an end to wg miserable existence. 1 have been tuusiengtny in the detaiis of this horrid crime as boch ihe pardes con- cerned there were wideiy known turvuga the North aud West and in Cuioraia, and the detaus Sole have au interest for all your Penawa news seekers. Our political world remains much the same as at last accounts, but we are dally expecting news of farther trouble in Chiriqui. A few oi the vee from some of the departments to the Consutaeat Assembly havo airived in Panama. ‘The ses8.on we to open on the 1st of Vetover, If another revolution does not interfere with it, A peace commission was sent by President Correoso to treat wiih tue troubie+ some Conservatives tn Chiriqul, but it ts though: tuey will be unable to effect uny sutisfa-tory arrange ment, Since the last steavier’s sadig Several po litical arrests have been made, among them a young man pamed HKusseill, acierk in tue ralirvad 0.1108, and Tomas Herrera, purser of tue company’s sceamer Salvador. They are still i jail, wituout any caarges having been preferred agaiust them. On the 2uth President Corveoso issued a prociama- tion addressed “fo tue citizens of honor aad to the foreign residents in this city,” in which be says that his first desire on taking charge of the Executive ‘Was to open an era of peace, of concord and fraver- nity for the peopie of ths unforvunate country, which hag of late endured so much evil; but that he finds that ceriain parties are conspiring to upset public order, and tat they have received ali we elements they deem necessary for this purpose; thas these ma desire to prevent the reuuion of the Assembly and to revive the almost forgotiea legid- mate government, and that they Have calied to thew aida lot of adventurers from over nations, who have no interest in the world beyond pillage, aad vile mercenarimess; but that, as Chtef Magisurate of the State, he has the power and tue will to act at @& gow moment with ail the enersy which the case lemands. At the same time he wisnes to avoid any conilict, and for this reason he has dictated the meaus which may lead to the prevention of so anevil. Le tells ail foreigners that they can count on the loyal and decided assistance of the people of the isthiuus, and assures them that he has the power to give them in any event the guarantees which are due to them and which they so well merit, A young man named William Riley, a native of Troy and recently @ resident of Washington, whe Came to tuls isthmus some months ago with Colonet Arinit Speciai Inspector of Customs at Aspin- wail, died in this city of yellow tever on the 26ch inst., after a couple of days’ Uiness, General Blair, United States Mintster to Costa Rica, and Colonet Caldwell, United States Minister to Bolivia, arrived on this isthmus on the 26th inet The former sai.ed heuce for his post on the 26th int. = Jatter will leave for La Paz on the 1st of Uo- The ex-President of Venozucia, Mariscal Fal is at present on the Istnmus, having arrived steamer Chilean from Curacoa on the 23d, en rowle for Buroy Our dates per the Chilean are frou Puerto Cabello 16th, Laguayra 16th and Caracos 19th, ~The news from these ports is unimportant, everything being quiet. By the ‘iaica we have late dates from the interior ofthe republic. The report of the anticipated re- turn of Mosquera had caused some alarm in the State of Antioquia, but had not produced any 6¢- rious effect either politically or ¢ ys The Gutierrez government was ing satie- factorily and the State remained tranquil, In Boyacé the Assembly met on the 7th of Aq The taxes are ‘complained of ag exorbitant, and the treasury is empty, from the fact that the collectors keep al the money they collect for the support of the rnment, .. ndinamarca is in oat unsatisfactory con- ¢ n, and the Executive i# unable to eniorce the jaws From Cauca there is nothing of importance, #t Centineta publishes a very eul tie article on Gone- rai Mosquera and says his reputatioa is so great Wat he can never do ing to disioaor it. ‘ A company has formed in Santander with @ capital o 000, divided in s#ares of $600, for the urpose - factiitating the growing of corfee aad ia- Rigo by making 1080's to agricuiturists at the rate of tweive per cent pee annul, ana ovuerwise aiding them.