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Ittra (foitsiit ut to muis BY JA.VIES GARDNER. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1857. Superior Court. The April terra of the Superior Court for Rich c ond county, Judge W. W. Holt presiding, com menced in this city yesterday. The following is the list of the Grand Jury for the first week: Wm. F. Pemberton, W. J. Owens, W. E. JohnsonJ L. LaTaste, W. B. Wells, G. T. Jackson, D. Kirkpatrick, Sr., J. C. Dawson, S. D. Linton, Jos. Boullineau, Jas. W. Davies, John Coskery, John Finn, Jesse Ansley, Isaac S. Tant, Thos W. Batte\', W. A. Ramsey, D. Macmurphy. We noticed among the members of the bar in attendance upon the Court, Judge F. H. Cone, of Greensboro’, C. 11. Shockley, Esq., of Columbia, and Alex. McKenzie, of Burke. TimUv, we learn, the Common Law Docket will be taken up. The Criminal Docket will be called on Wednes day. These two dockets will probably occupy two w* eks. After these are disposed of, the Court will adjourn for a week, to enable Judge llolt to hold the Superior Court of driven county. Election for Mayor and Aldermen. The following i 3 the result of the election held in this city yesterday for Mayor and Aldermen : FOR MAYOR Wards Ist 2nd 3rd 4th Total B. Conley, Esq., K. N. 174 103 I«'*s 218 000 Dr.T. B. Phinizy, Dcm. IC4 143 80 157 523 Majority for Conley 77 ALDERMEN —FIRST WARD. F. Blodget, Jr. *...185 1 Edw. J . Walker. ..... 150' Jas. O. Clark 170 S. I). Hard 130 W. H.Tutt 170 1 A. IP. Walton 124 SECOND WARD. JftS. M. Dve 145 | John. C. Snead 118 John T. .Miller 124 J.I), Smith 128 Edw. A. Sibley 118 ! E. Campfield 118 THIRD WARD Win. E. Dealing.. . .113 I Henry Moove 78 John 1). Butt 113 Wm. T. Ingraham... 70 Robt. 11. May 117 | Geo. F. Adam 76 FOURTH WARD. B. F. Hall 210 1 c A. Platt 154 W. 11. Goodrich... .212 ! Wm. 11. Salisb.uy... 157 W. M. Beall 212 jL. P. Duga5........ 14b The Democrats are in italics and Know Noth ings in roman. • The following are the names of persons elected. Mayor. —B. Conley. Aldermen. —First Ward. —Messrs. F. Blodget, Jr., Jas. O. Clark and Win. H. Tutt. Second Ward. —Messrs. Jas. M. Dye, John, D. Smith and John T. Miller. Third Ward, —Messrs. Wm. E. Dearing, John I). Butt and It. 11. May. Fourth Ward.— Messrs. B. F. Hall, Wm. 11. Goodrich and W. M. Beall. The result is decidedly encouraging. The im pression of the overwhelming strength of our op ponents in this city, is completely aud forever dis sipated, and with a proper organization, we can carry the city and county. This is no empty boast, but a conviction so strong thu* it will be acted upon at the easning election for members of the Legisla ture. • - We regret 14 be obliged to statefthat there ivas a great deal of disorder in several of the wards during the voting yesterday. Several fights oc curred—•mq.t of them lit the “bloody fourth." In the afternoon, after the polls had been closed, two men were shot tn a fr.™ whtci. oooarrmi i. .u< neighborhoad of the upper market. Their names were Wii.lek and McCarthy. Willer was shot through the arm, and McCarthy through the thigh. Their wound*, we believe, are not considered se rious. The Next House of Representatives. Twenty-one States have already elected Repre sentatives in the next Congress ofthe United States. These twenty-fine States are entitled to, and have chosen one hundred and fifty-nine members, but two vacancies have occurred in their delegations one by death, and one by resignation. The follow ing table gives the political classification of the representation from each of these States in which elections have been held in the next and in the last Congress: New Congress. Cid Congress. Item. Opp. I»em. Opp. Missouri 3 3 1 o Arkansas 2 2 lowa 2 1 Vermont Maine Florida 1 South Caroiina 6 ® Pennsylvania 15 10 o it) Ohio S 13 -1 Indiana 0 4 - 8 Massachusetts 11 1* Michigan 4 13 New Jersey 3 2 1 Delaware 1 10 Wisconsin 3 ' New York 12 21 3 a0 Illinois 5 4 4 » California 2 A New Hampshire... 3 Rhode Island 2 2 Connecticut 2 2 66 S 3 32 127 From this table it will be seen that the Demo cratic party has gained sixty-eight votes over its strength in the last Houseof Representatives, from these States, hut is still thus far in a minority of twenty-seven votes. There is a vacancy in Mis souri, occasioned by the resignation of James S. Green, Democrat, elected to the U. S. Senate, and one in Indiana, occasioned bv the death of Samuel BRENTON, Republican. The district represented by the latter gentleman is close, and a Democrat may be elected to fill his vacancy. The seat of Lewis D. Campbell, Republican, of Ohio, is contested by Vallandigham, Democrat, and the House may refuse to permit O. B. Matte son, Republican, of New York, convicted of cor ruption in the last House, to occupy the seat to which he has been elected. If neither Campbell or Matteson are ousted from their seats, and the vacancies in the Missouri and Indiana delegations are filled by the election of one Democrat and one Republican, the Demo cratic party, to secure a bare majority, must gain five votes in the States in which elections are yet to be held. We would remind our readers that the ad dress of Col. E. J. C. Kewen, late of the Nicara guan Army, which has been advertised for several days, will be delivered this evening at Masonic Hall. ;gp The New York Irtbane saj-3 the Fillmore men all voted, at the recent election in Connecti cut, for the Democratic ticket. An example, we suggest to ourFiLLMOßEfriendsin Georgia, worthy of their imitation. {3P The Houße of Representatives of the legis lature of Massachusetts, on the 10th inst., by a vote of one hundred and three majority, ordered to a third reading the resolution granting one hundred thousand dollars in aid of the free State settlers in Kansas. The Floral Queen or Coronation of the Rose* We were present Saturday afternoon, fora short while, at a rehearsal, by the pupils of Mr. Butler’s Singing School, of the petite Opera of the “Flower- 1 Queen,” which is soon to be presented at Concert Hall. The music and words are very beautiful, 1 and when they are aided by proper costume and scenery, the “Flower Queen” is at the same time a pleasant, musical and scenic entertainment. As 1 we hare not the libretto of the piece before us, we i avail ourselves of the following notice, which ap i pcared in the Dispatch, of Friday afterncon : • “The Flower Queen is an operetta, and the plot jis a very pretty one. The flowers have met in a i secluded dell to choose a Queen, when their songs j arc interrupted by a Recluse, who, discontented I with the world, determines to quit it forever. The i flowers sooth his mind with their cheerful songs, 1 and then proceed to the selection of their Queen. As in our Presidential and Gubernat trial elections, there are plenty of candidates, each of whom pre ! sents her claims. The most prominent are the ! Crocus, the Dahlia, the Hollyhock, the Japonica, j and the Sunflower, each of whom favors the sover • eignty with a stump speech, in more melodious | strains, however, than wo usually hear on such ! occasions. After a good deal of wire-working on. j the part of the candidates and their friends, the I flowers determine to allow the stranger to select a j Queen. Like a sensible man, he makes choice of i the Rose. The sovereignty are all highly delight- ; cd, (defeated candidates among the rest,) the nose I expresses her gratitude, and the flowers separate, 1 each to fulfil its mission of beautifying and adoru | ing the earth. The Recluse has learned a lesson j and is induced once more to return to usefulness, ; and happiness. < l “ The words and music are really very beautiful, i the latter covering one hundred pages, and includ • mg forty different songs, duets, trios, quartettes, I chorusses, Ac. Occasionally a chorus aud several * i spins are all going at the same time, producing a J very fine effect. The entire representation will oc ) cupv about an hour and a half. “ The Flower Queen class was commenced by .Mr. Butler four months ago, and numbered ten , young ladies. It now numbers thirty. They have 1 had regular meetings, twice a week, and the young ! ladies have made wonderful progress, as is plainly shown by their execution of many really difficult I pieces, which are found in the Flower Queen. 111 addition to the hundred pages oi music, the entire j libretto, containing three hundred and seventy-five j lines, has to be committed to memory. The key I changes twenty-eight times, in rapid and constant j succession, but the singers gilide from one to an other without hesitation and ih the most perfect 1 j harmony.” The Rumored American Paper in London. j The Washington Union, of the 9th inst., says: j “ The statement copied into several of the south- I ern papers, that it had been determined to establish I an American journal in London, is, we are re | quested to state, somewhat premature. Such an 1 I enterprise was the subject of conversation during the past winter, wc understood, but circumstances have occurred changing the affair very materially; aud the mention of any names in connection with it is a mistake which was corrected at the time in the paper in which the original rumor appeared.” Good Friday and Faster. We are now in the midst of what is known as the Holy Week, when every day is a day of note to Easter. Thursday, called Shore, or Nativity Thurs day, is » day observed in England by the giving of alms to the poor. The Kings themselves were , in the habit of washing the feet of a number of poor men, and giving almony of meat, clothes and 1 money. Even the haughty Queen Elizabeth is said to have performed this ceremony, and so did James : 11. The washing of feet has been given up by the , sovereigns, and Victoria bestows money in lieu of , all former customarv charities. FTiaar, ts gu"u inewiipposed anniversary 1 of the Crucifixion. Iho day in one moat solemnlv observed throughout Europe with the cxwr*.— JV Scotland. In England the day is attended with almost a complete suspension of business, the churches are opened for divine service, and it is thought decorous for those who attend to dress in black. Then there are a large number of supersti tions connected with the day. Eggs laid on Good Friday are supposed to have the power of extin guishing fires. Spiced cakes marked with across arc eaten, and even in this country hot cross turns are in active demand. Next Sunday is Easter Sun dae. it is always the first Sunday after the first full tnoon occuring after the 21st of March. It is a day of splendid ceremonial with the Catholic and Greek churches, but more especially with the latter. In the sports of the people eggs are a leading source of amusement. They are eaten in large quantities, or dyed, and used for butting. The boys consider this great fun, and if they get hold of a good hard shell, the softs have to suffer some from the conflict. Sometimes the mischievous ur chins get a stone or wooden imitation of an egg — with which they manage to do an egg—stravugaut business, the caved-in shell ofthe bona fide egg becomes the prize by having its covering fractured. The custom of butting eggs on Easter is very common in this country, prevailing to a great ex tent in our Dutch towns. In Russia, writers state, the whole population is egg-mad on Easter, whole dinners are served up in egg-shapes, and presents are sent in egg-boxes. The Emperor bestows upon his favorites beautiful glassware in the same form. ; In a word, everything is manufactured to have if possible, an oral, egg-like form. It has been at : tempted to trace back the consumption of eggs at , Easter to a heathernish custom, which was adopted j by the Christians, but it is not fully made out. ■ ~lt is thought by the superstitious in Europe, that the sun always dances on Easter Sunday; and it was quite a practice amoDg the illiterate English peasantry to rise early in order that they might ' see the sight; but we have no records of the fact that they ever saw the sun indulging in any such unseemly terpsichorean notions. There are many strange customs and superstitions which belong to the observances of Easter and its attendant days, > and one which would require almost a volume to t relate in detail. We refer the curious who may de r sire further information upon the days in holy week, to our Catholic fellow citizens. In the meantime, we hope this hasty and meagre sketch will not be without interest to our readers. Few York Daily News. [ Southern Credit. —A letter from New York, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, speaking of the dry goods trade, remarks: [• The payments from the North and West contin ue very backward and a good many small failures are weekly chronicled in these sections. From the ■ South, on the other hand, prompt returns are made, • and the credit of our friends on the other side of , Mason and Dixon’s line never stood better than it does at this moment, probably on account of the large yield of cotton during the last two seasons, ana the unusually high prices realized therefor. The New Commander-in-Chief for China.—Ma jor-General Ashburnham, who has just been ap pointed to command the troops in the warfare to be carried on against the Chinese, is the son of the late Earl of Ashburnham, and has been about thirty four years in the army. The Major General|is in tfie prime of manhood, and is m person remarkably like the Emperor Louis Napoleon. Indeed, it is well . known that the gallant officer rather affects his Im perial prototype, for the alteration in the fashion of wearing the moustache adopted by the Emperor two or three years back has been scrupulously copied; and but that General Ashburnham is rather thinner and taller, the general resemblance between the two would be marvelous. The resemblance of Lord Talbot de Malhide to Louis Xl V (which was the occasion of the most briliant andjstinging repartee that w r as ever uttered to that monarch) could not have been more striking than that which exists between the present Emperor and General Ashburnam. — Court JourTud. In the days of the blue laws of New England a shoemaker was condemned to be hanged, but on i the day of the execution, they discovered that he was the only shoemaker in the place, so they con -1 eluded to hang a weaver in his stead, for they had more weavers than they wanted! AAIGXJSTA, GKAAVEDNEBDAY, APRIL 15, 1857. BY TELEGRAPH. Arrival of the Steamship Philadelphia. New Orleans, Aprit 13.—The steamship Phila depbia with California mail** has arrived. The George Law left Aspinwal), for New York, on the 4th April, with £1,250,000 in gold. The news from California is unimportant. Negotiations have beeu broken off with New Granada. * The news from Nicaragua confirms the accounts previously reported of Walker’s success. JCol. liOCKßincEis still on the San Juan river making preparations, to attack Castillo. Arrival of the George Law* New York, Apul 13,—The steamship George Law has arrived, with about one million and a quarter of treasure. . t Dates from San Francisco, California, have been received, up to the 28d March, but the news is of but little interest. Col. Lockridge was at Greytown on the 2d April, making arrangements for an attack oa Cas tillo. Nothing reliable had been heard from Gen. Walker. [This is about the tone of all Nicara guan news received at New York, and, as a gener al thing, may be considered as favorable news from (Jen. Walker.] Apprehensions are entertained that there will be further difficulties on the Panama railroad. Com* missioner Morse has entirely failed to settle the questions at issue between this country and Gran ada, growing out of the outrages committed on American citizens some months siue. The receipts of gold dust at San Francisco are large. Reported Capture ol Castillo. New York, April 18.—It is reported by passen gers in the George Law that Col. Lockridge cap tured Castillo on the 30th March, but the rumor is-' doubted. Washington News. Washington, April 13.—1 t is reported that the administration has assented to the Hound dugs treaty. . Charleston Market. Charleston, April 13—6 o’clock, P. M.—Salt*, to-day 2,000 bales cotton, at an average decline of half a cent. We quote Middling Fair 14 cents. New York Market. New York, April 13.—Cotton market firm, with sales of 2,000 bales. Flour tendin£upwards, South ern £0 35. Spirits turpentine advanced one cent, and rosin five cents. Freights easier. New Orleans Market. New Orleans, April 10. — Sales to-day 1,500 bales cotton at steady rates, and sales of the week 17,- 000 bales. The receipts of the week 10,000, showing a decrease of 131,000 bales at this port; and at all the ports 853,560 bales. The stock on hand and on shipboard 221,370 bales. Prime coffee 11 cents. Freights dull but without change. * r Sterling Exchange 8%. New' Orleans, April 13.—Sales to-day 0,000- bales. The market is active and Middling quoted at 13% to 13% cents. Receipts 2,000 —exports* 17,00 u. White Corn 70, with a considerable cjoj mand for foreign export. Freights continue inatal: tive. Exchange 8%. gtanify*. / This distinguished actress, vocalist, ana eator, tvii» huH been remarkably successful in/Tier sourthern tour, thus far, will give a series of her novel and interesting entertainments, in this City, at Concert Hall, commencing on Monday evening, the 20th inst. They are a f leasant melange of mu sic, recitative and personation, and have drawn crowded audiences wherever she hßeappeared. In Charleston, where she is now performing, the press has been prodigal of its praise. From the many complimentary notices, which we find in our ex changes of that city, we select the following from the Charleston Courier , of Monday: Miss Stanley possesses charm of expression and charm of manner, a fine figure and grace of mo tion, and a voice of modulation, melody and power. Her talent for mimicry, and power of adaptation, nay, of identification of character, are wonderful— and her entire personation ot “The Seven Ages of Woman” was perfect—the whole performance was without a tiaw—true to the very life. “Miss Flyr tilla,” “The Right Honorable Exquisite Chuckle,” “The Lady of a certain Age,” “Jane Dowdy,” the sentimental, novel-reading house-maid, and* “Grandmother Grey,” were daguerreotypes, as also were the three illustrations of national character, in the persons, or personations of “Magery Dob bin,” “Norah O’Flynn,” and “Maggia McPhail,” enough to set John Bull, Pat and Sawney, all in a roar. We can say, with truth, that we have never seen a superior representative of the comic muse, to Miss Stanley, if her equal, in varied delineations of char acter. To the charm of histrionic action, she adds that of fine instrumental and exquisite vocal mu sic, rivaling our own mocking bird in melody and modulation. Her wardrobe exhibits great variety and richness—“ Flvrtilla, the belle of the ball room and the evening party,” and the Turkish illustra tion were magnificent in the article of costume. In regard to both characters and dress her transitions and transformations were rapid and mysterious, as well as amusing, prompting the inquiry, “ does she dress by steam, magic?” and when she passes from her own real and charming womanhood to artificial manhood—“ How does she dispose of the crinoline?” Miss Stanley is, we learn, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a respectable English actor and ac tress, but she has, for some two years past, re tired from the stage, and devoted herself to her present line of entertainment, in which she is the sole performer, and has achieved eminent success. Her performance affords a recreation at once inno cent and refreshing, and entirely free from the objec tions, usually urged against theatrical or dramatic representations on the stage. In it, there is no incongruous commingly of persons, nor aught that can offend the nicest delicacy«or morality. The Cold Weather. —We had cold weather and frost Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, April 7th and Bth. The vegetables in the gardens have been injured, and the corn and cotton of the farm ers in the neighboring country have suffered a great deal. Mr. Peabody’s fine strawberries have also suf fered, and we fear he will not be able to supply his New York and Savannah friends this summer with their usual share. Columbus Times , April 10. The Ohio Fruit Crop. —ls no untimely frost oc curs, the fruit crop through all this section will be abundant. Never did the trees, and of all varie ties, give better promise. In some sections of the Ohio Valley, that suddenly cold first Sunday of March made a total destruction of all kinds of buds—bnt in northern Ohio the buds are yet free from the first indication of injury. PainesviUe Telegraph . There are two kinds of bores in this world—the rich and the poor. You can get rid of the latter by lending him five dollars. You can free yourself of the other by attempting to borrow twenty dol lars of him. Try it on. Chicago, April 9.—There is nothing definite in regard to the election in lowa. Dubuque city has gone Democratic, except one ward, which has given a Republican majority, being a gain. The < Democrats have carried Davenport city. The I j county has gone Republican. 11 From the Baltimore Sun. Further by Steamer Niagara. Halifax, April 10.—The following additional extracts are made from the files of the Niagara : Bngland. —Sir John McNeil had been offered a baronetcy or an appointment as privy councillor, and chose the latter. Col. Tuiloch has been made Civil Knight of the Bath. Admiral Dundas has been appointed a Lord of the Admiralty. Messrs. J. it. Brown A Co., ship owners in Sun derland, had failed with heavy liabilities. The London and Eastern Dunking Corporation disclosures were unfavorable. The bullion in the Bank of England had increas ed £24,000. The London 71 me*of of the 24th has an editorial on the new American tariff, congratulatory of the victory for free trade principle which it develops. The Reverend Dr. Seymour who read the burial service over Sir John Moore, at Corunna, has died suddenly in a railway carriage in the North of Eng land. France.— The customs revenue fertile past month show a trifling increase. The summary of the new postal treaty with the United States had been published The committee’s report on the budget for the year 1353 had also been published. It recommends the abolition of the war tenth on the registration of dues; the abolition of the stamp duty on printed notices and prospectuses, and the impost of an an nual tax of fifteen centimes per hundred francs on transferable securities. The revenue provided is seventeen hundred and thirty-seven million francs, the expenses being estimated at seventeen hundred and sixteen millions, leaving twenty mlilions sur plus. It had been reported that the Emperor of Russia never intended to visit Paris, but that the Grand Duke Constantine would next month. A cabinet council had been held to consider the question of removing political prisoners from Cay enne to a healthier locality. Spain. —The Spanish naval squadron at Rio Plata is to be relieved. The Infante Don Henry, who is brought forward ' -by the Progressists as a candidate for Salamanca, has issued an address to them, in which he de . dares himself the ardent partisan of progress. Turkey, —The government has decreecl a regis tration aud censorship of the press on the French model. It also offers lands in Roumelia and Ana tolia to foreign emigrants bringing three hundred dollars capital. Christian soldiers were to be incorporated in Turkish regiments. M. Pesant, chief British interpreter, had quar relled with Lord Stratford deßedclifi’e, and resign-1 ed temporarily*. The commissioners to the Principalities had all left for their posts. The commission appointed to inquire into the landing of the Polish expedition to Circassia has not yet reported, but has in the meantime ordered the arrest of Gen. Stein and a Circassian, Ismael Pasha, director of posts, for having been active in organizing the expedition. The steamer Kangaroo, on her return, brought eighty-five women and twenty-eight children, Cir oissians, and there was little doubt but that they would be sold at Constantinople. The English au thorities pretended to seize the ship, but proof was wanting. financial and commercial. London Money Market. —The London money market has aguin become rather more striugent, but without uny essential change in rates. American Securities.— Messrs. Bell & Co. report a limited demand for American securities, and prQtOC weak. Liverpool Provision Market. —Messrs. ! son, Spence A C 0 .% report a firm mafVfct for Quotations for new* were nominal, the article btT ing scare and wanted. Old was altogether in dealers’ hands. Bacon steady at a decline of fid. —long ribs 545. a 545. fid.; Cumberland 525. 9d. American firm at sfis. a o«Js. fid. London Iron Market.— The market for iron was steady for both bars and rails. The quotations hud undergone no chatige. Havre Markets. —The sales of cotton mi week ending the 24th or I.larCli, Inclusive, amount* ed to 5,500 bales, at a decline of %f. a If., the market closing quiet. The stock in port was esti mated at 107,000 bales, and at sea 48,000 bales Breadstuff's slow of sale, but prices unaltered. Provisions quiet and quotations nominal. THE LATEST FINANCIAL NEW'S. London , March 2fi, 1857.—The Times 1 city arti cle of Friday evening, says: The English funds opened this morning with a firm appearance at the steady quotations of yes terday, and after a temporary relapse again re versed. In the Stock Exchange, owing to the sale of stocks, money advances on government securities at 6 per cent., were in great demand. There was much activity in the discount market, while at the bank, in consequence of the sums ab sorbed there on account of the revenue at the termination of the ouarter, the applications were excessively heavy and numerous. The French three per cents, show a fractional improvement. FROM LONDON TO LIVERPOOL. London , March 28. —Amongst the other electo ral incidents yesterday are the loss of seats by Mr. Chambers, Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Ricardo. To day’s proceedings will, however, surpass in inter est those of yesterday, as the contests for Man chester, Huddersfield and Sheffield, and above one hundred other places take place. Copenhagen , March 27. —A French note recom mending a settlement of the Holstein and Lauen burg dispute with the German powers, by a Eu ropean Congress, has been presented to the Dan ish government. Vienna , March 27. The Piedmontese envoy, Marquis Cantaro de Cevas, who is recalled by his government, is preparing to leave. From Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce The Newfoundland Fishery Question. Washington, April 6, 1857. The treaty between England and France, by which fishing privileges are conceded to the gov ernment of France, is to take effect on the Ist January, 1858. It requires the assent of the Colo ny of Newfoundland—but so deep is the British government committed to this concession, that it appears probable that it will be made to take ef fect, without reference to the stern opposition of that Colony. The Parliament of Great Britain and the Legislature of Newfoundland are to pass laws to carry the treaty in effect, and Her Majesty has engaged to use her best endeavors to procure < the passing of such laws in sufficient time to ena ble her to bring the Convention into operation on or before the Ist January, 1858. In Gov. Darling’s letter transmitting to the As sembly of Newfoundland a copy of this Conven tion, he expresses “his confidence that the Legis lature will not fail to recognize the weight of those great international considerations which are so anxiously and impressively urged throughout the communications of Her Majesty’s government.” What these “ international considerations” are, may be easily imagined. France desires to advance her commerce and navigation, and provide a nurse ry for her seamen through the fisheries. In the correspondence I find a letter from the Duke of Newcastle, to Gov. Hamilton, calling his Particular attention to the concluding remarks of [r. Addington’s letter, and requesting him to use his best endeavors to suggest a practical settlement of the question, “ which, if left in its present state, can only lead to collision between Great Britain and France, without any advantage to New foundland.” This was in 1853. In the letter of Mr. Addington, referred to, he remarks m regard to the propositions to be submitted to France for a final settlement of the Newfoundland fishery ques tion, as follows: —“ It would also, in Lord Claren don’s opinion, be desirable to intimate to the colo nial government that if obstacles were thrown in the way of a fair settlement by mutual compro mise ol this difficult and hazardous question, Her Majesty’s government might find themselves com pelled, in justice to the interests of the mother country, either to leave to the colony the future ex- ! pense of the protection of the Colonial fisheries, or : to negotiate with France, without further reference ] to the colony for the adjustment of differences, the < | continuation of which is fraught with serious dan- < ger to the amicable relations now subsisting be- j tween Great Britain and France.” t Here is a distinct threat either to abandon the colony, or to execute the treaty without their as- s sent. The permanent interests of the mother t country require this sacrifice of the local interests r of the colonists. 1 The representations of Gov. Hamilton, in reply 1 to these suggestions, are very urgent, elaborate, and forcible. He reviews the whole subject. He says,"“it is the close proximity of the French lands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, to the southern coast of Fewfoundland, that has led to the very se- c rious injury to our fisheries in that quarter ;”and y he shows that the possession by the French, of r Belle Isle, would greatly facilitate encroachments j. on the neighboring coast of Labrador, and lead to j the same evils there. j In regard to the alternative presented bv Mr. Ad- € dington, he has no hesitation in saying that “ this \ colony, while it still confides in tlie power of Bri- , tain for the protection of its joint rights and the , maintenance of its true an integral part « of the Empire, would, however, if called upon, ac cept the alternative referred to in Mr. Addington’s letter, of incurring the expense of protecting its fisheries, rather tha.i consent to any extension of j privileges to the French.” In the same letter Governor Hamilton says that, 1 while the damage to the fishery on the Labrador . coast, by the cession of the Belle Isle, would be \ a just ground of complaint by the inhabitants of , the United States, and of the other North Ameri- ! can colonies, it would be especially felt by the in- j habitants of Newfoundland. Gov. Darling, also, in a despatch dated 23d July, . 1856, earnestly remonstrated against the proposed . Convention with France. He refers to the impor- j tant geographical position of Newfoundland, ; which is nearer, he says, to the mother country, \ than any of her trans-Atlantic possessions—dis- ! taut in fact only one hundred and four hours’ steaming from the nearest point in the British is- ; lands, surrounding the ocean approaches to the \ British Provinces; and also to the means of elec- \ trie communication, within a few minutes’ reach j of the instructions of the Imperial government, as \ affording reasons for refusing to give a foreign State a right to the use of one-half of the line of ’ its coast. { The protests of the merchants of Newfoundland, and also of its Legislature, against the Convention, are very earnest and decided, and have already been published in our newspapers. In February last, the Roman Catholic and the ( Protestant Episcopal Bishops of Newfoundland, J both of whom are familiar with the people of the Colonies and .their employments and interests, in ] reply to queries addressed to them by the Select , Committee of the Colonial Legislature, made very ! strong representations against the policy of the I Convention. I The R. C. Bishop, the Right Rev. Dr. Mullock, , says: “ The treaty is drawn up solely and entirely 1 in favor of France; we receive no equivalent of any sort. It is a cession of almost the whole Island to a foreign power. If put into execution, New foundland must cease to be a British colony; it will become a desert, a fishery station for France, or be united to the States; for if the French are allowed to monopolize the northern, western, and Labrador Fishery, and the southern fishery by taking bait, whicli is but another name for a fish ery, the people cannot live; they may struggle for a lew years in the Bays of Placentia’ St. Mary’s, and Fortune, but as sure as the French are allowed to fish there, they must leave it, and ship under the flag of the United States.” France, it appears, gives twenty francs per me tric quintal, or Bs. 3d. sterling a quintal, bounty, and fifty francs a man bounty to her fishermen, • while England gives nothing ; and therefore it is i contended that a concurrent right in the bands of I prance, is an exclusive right. This prelate sets, ■\ * fine, “let the convention be passed, and in a few i Sprfl the English flag will disappear from New- T Toundland.” ! The Rt. Rev. Dr. Frelo, Lord Bishop of New foundland, in his reply, argues the whole question, and comes to the dbuclusion that Her Majesty’s Plenipotentiaries have been misled by the repre sentation s of parties interested or ill-informed, and that this is the only solution to be conceived of, for ; the sacrifice of a British Colony by a British Min -1 ister for the advancement of French interests, both commercial aud natural. h ßH‘tif l hkJifcjbejfergotten that American citizens eries, and may be brought Convention into collision with the French fisher men. From the New York Herald. Mrs. Iltiimingsen’s Letter 011 the Recent •News from Nicaragua. Ma.f Bennett— Sir : Some newspapers in this city have called into question the authenticipr of the extracts furnished to you for publication from letters from my husband Gen. Henningsen) rela ting to the cannonade of San Jorge by the Nica raguan army, on the 18th day of March, and the subsequent victory over the allies, won by Presi dent Walker on the evening of the same day. I received a letter from my husband, dated at Rivas, March 19, 1857, and extracts from which you published on Monday. A package containing this letter and tw T o others from Gen. Henuingsen, was received through the post office, by Dr. Carno chan, of this city, late on Saturday evening and , sent immediately to me. After reading the one addressed to me, and another to a friend, from my husband, I sent the original to you at the Everett House, late the same evening, upon which I pre sume you wrote your editorial in the II rail of Sunday morning. The letters were returned to , me the same evening by the friend who carried , them to you, and on Sunday I furnished the ex- , tracts for publication. Besides the two letters , from which extracts were published in Monday’s \ Herald, there was in the packet, directed to Dr. j Carnochan, a third note from Gen. Henningsen to \ George Law, Esq., from which I furnished no ex tracts—as it was sealed—but if application is made to Mr. Law, I have no doubt that he will satisfy j the most skeptical. The steamer Texas arrived here on Thursday night. My inquiries for letters, anxiously made € on Friday and Saturday, were fruitless. That the 1 packet received by Dr. Carnochan late on Satur- daj- evening, was forthcoming, I have no doubt is j attributable to your editorial of that morning, al- j hiding to letters and despatches having been in- r tercepted. * Os the authenticity of the letters and accounts r which have been published in the Tribune, Sun j and Times on Monday and since, I have no means j of judging. 1 know nothing of them. There ap- ( pears to be some confusion of dates and places with respect to them. They seem to refer to a battle on the 16th of March at Rivas, and brought r on by the allies attacking that place. My bus band's letters do not mention any such engage- 1 ment. He refers only to a cannonade by the Ni caraguan forces, of San Jorge, and a battle near that place on the 17th of March. Besides the let ters just mentioned, the rumors and accounts brought by the Texas are published in the papers . on Friday, also allude to a battle aud victory, on ' the 16th, at Rivas. The Wilmington hoax of the i Ist of April in dates singularly agreed with these , accounts. It is possible there may have been two j battles and two victories—one at Rivas on the 16th, and another at San Jorge on the 17th—and also possible that Gen. Henningsen may have given an account of that on the 16th in his letter of the ISth, which has never been received, and which is referred to in his letter of the 19th, giving an account of that fought on the 17th. His letter of the 13th, and the return of the killed and wounded in the battle of the 17th, I am convinced, must have been purloined on its passage. The Tribune's suggestion that the Costa Rican 3 probably robbed the express between Rivas and San Juan, is a strange one, when it is considered that the same express brought the letter of the 19th of March, and when also it is recollected that the allies haa just been defeated and scattered, none j remaing near the route. lam also inclined to en tertain the opinion that possibly there may have j been two victories, as otherwise the conclusion j would seem to be irresistible that the letters in the i Times and Sun were not genuine, which I should - be loath to suspect; for though I can well imagi that the enemies of Nicaragua on the route tr San Juan del Sur to this city, and m this may suppose it to their interest to intercept SU p_ press correct information, and f a ]ge ac counts, yeti cannot conjecture any inducementfor others to do so, and surely amotion to rival the Herald in the acquisition of could not prompt gentlemen of character to resort to such means. vol. -m 1 solve all mvstlfj^^B jb r jv- v jBHRji 111 l • i|H ,/' -., - . f j£s£\x> i £ before our news by the^H BR v?f S f'.'" 1. §■- Hll u r, '*4®! have represente^^B jߧ state m r ' 'f.^ 'f '3 *~ff t v v's" < '"*!' ” ■ Your *m ' B B. ■ BHI a we ayi ‘’Bs v’’s fT % ”" *\"' ' "5: il ;/<> I * v fc‘^ - "‘nfi ' /' J^",%', 1- -tjft &* mk *** ' - ” %/:V'*^ : *!i y• money, has not T>^BH from, perhaps will be by tlie Orizaba. I have^^B another man in the bakery. The schooner John Brown is in. San Juan,( this San Juan del Sur,> we may be able to get flour from her to bake. I am repairing the house; all the Stores that are in order are rented. You ought to see the boys since the battle—they are perfectly elated; should the enemy not run away from San Jorge, they will soon route them from it. The cut-throat Xatruch ain’t the one to command sol diers, as cut-throats are always cowards. Yours truly, N. Brown. San* Juan*, (Del Sur, ) March 20, 1857. Mr. Bowlt —Dear sir: Your goods came as un expected a3 acceptible; I was very glad to have only one hundred and fifty dollars to pay on them, for that included all the cost except fifteen dollars for carting them from the wharf to the house. The same steamer, Sierra Nevada, brought two hundred dollars worth, besides what I sent for to Panama. And then the rush for goods—l never saw the like since I have been in the country, and there were no wry faces nor muy caros neither. Send more goods, calicoes—you c»n’i send too many. Walker has killed more greasers in his last bat tle at Rivas, than he has since the war commenced; but he don’t get the river steamers back, and that river party are still fighting their way up. The steamer brings in twenty-two recruits to-day from San Francisco. I have not done anything in re gard to your protest against Costa Rica ; am await ing for your formal directions in regard to it. The St. Mary is here yet, and probably keeps our neigh bors, the Costa Ricans, at a respectful distanae from our port; they, however, come out on the Transit road, and lay in wait for any weak party of Americans they can cut up, but never come any nearer than the half-way house. Captain Fayafeeux is very sick, he leaves on the steamer to-day for Pan ama, for his health, but I don’t think he is going to get well—at least, the short trip to Panama and r back is not going to cure him; he sends kind wishes and remembrances to you. ’ Jim Corkbill, of the schooner John Brown, came in yesterday, from La Union, with a load of flour, coffee and‘assorted liquors. He says the enemy had taken Chris. Lilly’s vessel from "him, and put him in irons, but he had escaped. Tom Temple has gone to the States, probably you may see him. Yours respectfully, Mary It- Fashionable AmusvmxTS. —A Q*>rrespondent wri ting to a rural paper from Albany, thus refers to a new amusement introduced at fashionable parties: New fashions have been introduced into Albany by the wives of “Hon.” gentlemen from New York Jae »t followed by the country girls, *rode the elephant' for the amusement of the party. This is performed thus: Two gentlemen stoop down on hands and knees, pillows and blanketsare piled on their backs for saddles—a tale and trunk are made of suitable material—when the rider-ess is placed upon the saddle and carried around the room ! 1 expect to hear that ‘riding the Elephant’ is ‘all the go' in the rural districts ?” The Albany Atlas admits the fact, and thus de cribes the modus operandi of the performances: “The gas in the parlors is partially turned off, so as to produce a sort of twilight darkness, when two gentlemen, the tallest present, are requested to take their position in the back parlor. Their position is that adopted by boys when playing leap-frog. A large cloth of "some subdued color—dark gray, for instance—is then thrown over them, and anoth er rolled up, is attached to the front, which consti tutes the trunk. Two sheets of white paper are then rolled tip and tacked on, one on each side of the trunk. These represents the ivorv tusks. The Albany elephant is now complete, ’fhe lady rider takes her seat on its back, amid cushions, etc., and under the guidance of a leader, the monster pro ceeds with heavy tread to display itself and pre cious load to the company in the front parlor. The arrangement is unexpectedly perfect, and sugges tive of life in the East The play of the * elephant’ is a success here, and we will not be surprised to hear of its adoption in the rural districts. ’ Capt. Rynders in New York. —Capt. Rynders is proceeding vigorously in his new office of Uni ted States Marshal. He says he is determined to do his duty at all hazards; that he means to set an example of efficient service, and compel all under him to do the same or be discharged. “If,” says he, “a fugitive slave is to be caught, I’ll catch him; if a slaver is to be prevented from saling, I’ll stop her, and do the latter duty a little more readily than the former, and if fillibusters attempt to“break the law of the United States, they shall receive no favor at my hands. I approve of filli bustering; but, as I said at the Tabernacle, my feelings as a man are one thing, my duty as an officer another.” Reading for Churches and Religious Societies The Boston papers announce' the publication, in pamphlet form, of the great argument of R. H. Dana, Esq., in the adultery case of Rev. Isaac S. Kalloch, “churches and 'religious societies being furnished with the report at $4 per hundred.” “You can do any thing if you have patience,” said an old uncle, who had made a fortune, to a nephew who had nearh* spent one. “Water may be cairied in a sieve, if vou can only wait.” “How long ? ” asked the petulent spendthrift, who was impatient for the old man’s obituary. “Till it freezes! ” was the uncle’s cool reply. “Bob, Harry Smith has one of th- c greatest cu riosities you ever saw “Dz a 't say so—what is it?” “A tree which new. f S p ro uts, and which be comes smaller thg jider it grows.” “Well, that is a curiosity. Where d.id he get it ?” “ From Cali fornia.” “What is the name of it?” “Axletree! It once belonged to a California omnibus.” Scene closes by Bob throwing an inkstand at a half closed door. New York, A pr il 10. —The frigate Niagara, which was to ss ji to-day on her trial trip, met with a serious accrj e „t just after weighing anchor. She bust her CT”i ll( j er .head, disabling the machinery, and is u' iia y,i e to pi ,t to sea until a new cylinder head “a cast. Everything had been arranged for leav .mg this morning at eight o’clock. At six ! ‘j.am was got up, the men mustered at seven, and at eight she began to weigh anchor. After taking a short run>ip the river, she rounded to and headed for the Narrows, when, just off Bedlow’s Island, a crash was heard, and immediately it was discover ed that the cylinder-head had broken in two. The Niagara immediately anchored again, and the steam was let off. The explosion was caused by a flaw in the casting. Men were set to work this,af ternoon to make the necessary repairs. ’