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THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. rggklffl fails iagle This Paer has the lanrest circulation of any Evening Paper published in the Cnited States. Its value as an advertising medium is thereflre apparent. To Correspondents. No notice can be taken of anonymous Communications.

Whatever Is Intended for Insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer not necessarily (or publication, but as a guarantee of his Rood faith. We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. It is noted as a peculiar circumstance that to be denounced by the Tribune and Greeley seems to be an especial recommendation to the Administration at "Washington, at least so far as the foreign appointments are concerned. Mr. Greeley denounced Wai.

L. Dayton, of New Jersey, as being no better than a Democrat, because he favored compromise. lie has been appointed Min" ister to France. Mr. Greeley had a personal quarrel with Cassius M.

Clay, for the same reason, and called him among other epithets, a coward. Clay got the appointment as Minister to Spain. Greeley had a bitter quarrel with De Witt C. Littlejohn, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of New York. Littlejohn sued him for libel.

He gets the appointment as Consul to Liverpool, one of the most lucrative of these appointments. Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts, was for compromise, and was denounced by Greeley. He gets the appointment as Minister to England. Geo, P. Marsh was honored with his abuse, and was appointed Minister to Sardinia.

Ool. J. W. Webb, an old enemy of Greeley, was appointed Minister to Turkey, and Raymond, of the Times, is offered the Consulship to Paris. This is all easily explained.

It is not because Greeley has abused these men that the President honors them; the difficulty is that he could not select a man of any note, whom the Tribune has not villifled. To procure public servants acceptable to Greeley, the President would be compelled to confine his selection to the free love phalanxes and the depot of the under ground railroad. Greeley seems to have a chronic antipathy to white men, particularly if they observe the commandments and don't believe in a community of househ old and connubial privileges. Not a Theatke, but a Zoological Garden. It is announced that the project of establishing a theatre in Brooklyn has taken a definite shape that the vacant lot next to the Halsey Building3 ortnlght created such excitement all over tho country ued before Sir Cresswoll Cresswell for restitution of conjugal rights.

Tho case was "Yelverton and Yelverton," and the Judge Ordinary there said in effect "this Is a court forEngland. not for the United Kingdom, or for Great Britain. For the purpose of this jurisdiction, Scotland and Ireland must bo deemed foreign countries equally with Franco and Spain." Now, ho thought it well deserved consideration whether, for the relief of our Protestant fellow subjects in Ireland, there should not be established in that country a separate court for di enabled to suo at Westminster. Then there was tho case of Englishmen residing in India. He had Imagined that these persons' would have been enabled to sue in the divoroe oourt at home, but it wos laid down that they had acquired what was called an Anglo Indian domicile, and It was doubted whether they could procure a divorce in any English court.

Since 1657, two divorce bills had passodthlB House, and there could be no doubt that this and tho other house still had jurisdiction: bat the point respecting this Anglo Indian domicile remained in abeyance. Then again, the conflict of law between Scotland and England produced lamentable effects. The Scotch judges insisted on the right to dissolve the marriage of any one who come within the Jurisdiction, while the English judges held that, unless the parties were domiciled In Scotland at the time of the dissolution of the marriage, the dissolution was a nullity. The first case was that of Lollcy, who, having married an EngllBh wife, went across tho border and' procured, a divorce in Scotland. If he had married again in Scotland, the second marriage would have been and bis children legitimate but, returning to England and marrying here, he was convicted for bigamy andwasson tenced to transportation.

Such a conflict of authority led to most inconvenient results He had, therefore, last Session proposed to enact that a divorce which was valid in any part of the United Kingdom should be valid all over Iho empire, but with this restriction, that in Scotland the right of dissolving marriage should not bo exercised unless the parties were domaeiled la Scotland. restriction was necessary, or otherwise the door would be left open to endless confusion. For tho Scotch judges he had tbe greatest respect in no part of the world were the judges moro learned and enlightened; but on this subject he thought they entertained an erroneous opinion. Not only did they claim jurisdiction in respect of divorce overall persons after 40 days' residence in Scotland, but a Scotchman who might have dis tingulshed himBelf in any othor part of the worid might always sne for a divorce in his native country, the judges there holding that they had jurisdiction by means of citation. Such claims were Incomparable with the laws of independent nations.

Story, the great American jurist, laid it cown that a jurisdiction to dissolve a marriage depended on the domicile. Yet in "Hyde and Hyde" the Scotch judges decided that what the English Courts held in Lolleys cose was contrary to law. And in "Tollemache andTollemache," where therehad been aScotch divorce, the parties were divorced again in Englaud. He was anxious that there should be harmony of legislation on this subject. The Scotch judges had a notion that the English Courts wanted to encroach upon their jurisdiction to tho Courts at Westminster.

He denied tho existence of any such wish, his object being that in both countries the jurisdiction resnectinir divorce should rest on exactly the samo may, Indeed, destroy their own Oustoms' revenue they may give additional strength to those vested interests which claim a proscriptivc right to live on tho vitals of lbo community they may ruin tho shipping and orlpplo Iho commerce of tho towns on the Atlantic Beaboard, but they cannot prevont English manufacturers from permeating tho United States from one end to tho other. A glance at the map is sufficient to show this. Tho Southern Confederacy will, of course, desire nothing better than to make Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and Now Orleans depots of English manufacturers, to bo smuggled across the long and imperceptible frontier which separates them from the United States. Nay, it is qnite possible that the great city of New York may prefer to declare il self a free port and to become the depot of an enormous illicit traffic, rather than see its wharfs rotting, its streets deserted, and its harbor empty, because a suicidal folly has driven commerce to the inferior harbors of tho South. The indented coasts of tho Northern States give amplo opportunity for smuggling, and, what is still more important, the frontier between Canada and the Union is virtually traced by the stream of the St.

Lawrence and tho centre of the great Lakes Ontario, Erie, and Huron. It Is a region which might have been created for the express purpose of punishing the presumptuous folly of seeking to erect tho barrier of Prohibition between nations which have long enjoyed the mutual benefits of commercial intercourse. The smugglor will redress the errors of the statesman, as he has so often done before. The change may occasion delay, loss, and inconvenience; but the stream is too mighty to be choked, and no sooner will the old channel have been stopped than a new one will be forced. At any rate for the present, the great American Union Is effectually divided into two rival confederacies, tho Southern tainted with the blight of slavery, stained with past and by no means free from the imputation of future filibustering expeditions, and called into existence, it would seem, by a coarse of deliberate and deep laid treason on the part of the officers of tho government of Washington.

Iu the Northern confederacy, on the contrary, slavery, if not wholly extinguished, assumes a temporary and provisional character. No treachery has been at work to produce the disruption, and the principles avowed are Euch as to command the sympathies of every free and enlightened people. Such are the widely different auspices under which the two rival republics start into existence. But mankind will not ultimately judge these things by sympathies and antipathies; they will be greatly swayed by their own interest, and the two republics must be weighed, not by their professions or their previous history, but by the conduct they pursue and the position they maintain among the Powers of the earth. Their internal institutions are their own affair; their financial and political arrangements are emphatically oure.

Brazil is a Slaveholding Empire, but hy its good faith and good conduct it has contrfred to establish lor itself a place in the hierarchy of nations far superior to that of many Powers which are free from this domestic contamination. If the Northern Confederacy of America evinces a determination to act in a narrow, exclusive and unsocial spirit, while its Southern competitor extends the harld of good fellowship to all mankind, with the exception of its ownbondsmen, we must not bo surprised to see the North, in spite of tho goodness of its cause and the great negative merit tho absence of Slavery, sink into a secondary position, and lose the sympathy and regard of mankind. LOCAL POLITICS. Republican General Committee. On the adjournment of the Convention the chairman called the General Committee together many ofthe delegates to the former being members ofthe latter organization.

In the course of the proceedings, the KepublicaniBm of the E. D. Times was ventilated and much doub speculation was indulged in as to on which side of the' fence the Times would be found sitting as between the two nominees for the Mayoralty Aldermen Kalbfleisch ana Scholes. Some of the members warmly insisted upon the Republican orthodoxy of the Times, and as a orushing argument on that side of the question, instanced the fact that the proprietor was a member of that committee. The shivering condition of our venerable cotemporary the Star, who has been so shabbily left out in the cold by Sheriff Campbell, was duly sympathised with, but the sentiment of the Committee on the subject did not assume a practical form.

Second Republican mayoralty Convention Air. Kent Declines Nomination Aid. F. Scholes. Pursuant to the terms of the adjournment on Tuesday evening, the Republican mayoralty convention reassembled last night at No.

9 Court st. There was a very full attendance of delegates and spectators. Mr. D. O.

Bradley. (6th ward) the chairman of the convention, called the meeting to order, and the roll of delegates was called, and a few substitutions made for absent delegates. The chairman then said that the committee, authorized by the convention at its former meeting, had waited upon Mr. H. A.

Kent and inl'ormea him of his nomination as candidate for the Mayoralty of this city. They urged upon his consideration the reasons which had induced his nomination for that very responsible position. They found Mr. Kent willing to lend a ready ear to their representations, but he stated that his business engagements were of such a character that reluctantly he was obliged to decline the nomination. Under these circumstances, as chairman, he (Mr.

was constrained to call the convention together that evening to ask their further pleasure and action in the premises. Mr. Henry Bowen (1st ward) said he was authorized to withdraw the name of Mr. George Hall, though that gentleman was the strongest man they could run against' Aid. Kalbfleisch, and he would now nominate Wm A.

Colt of the 6th ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. Secession in England. IMPORTANT ARTICLE FROM THE "TIMES." THE YELVERTON CASE. The Law of Divorce in England. The steanwpip City of Baltimore with Liver, pool dates to the 13th, arrived here this morning Great In the House of Lords on the llth instant, a bill to amend the law relating to the marriage of Protestants and Koman Catholics in Ireland, was read a first time.

Sir Charles Wyke, British Minister to Mexico, was about to sail for the scene of his labors. The new steamer Hibernia, of the Galway line, had made a satisfactory official trip She had exceeded 15 knots an hour. A subscription had been set on foot in London to enable Kossuth to defend the action which the Austrian government has commenced relative to the Hungarian notes In preparation In London. The seport of tb Atlantic Telegraph Company, to be presented on the 18th instant, recommends that the company Bhould still be kept formally in xistenee, ro as to preserve its original privileges, consisting of agreements with the American company, and its direct connection with the governments of England and the United States. A Plymouth paper says it has received Information from a reliable quarter to the effect that the murder at Eoad house has been confessed by Miss Constance Kent, who, it is said, states that she drowned the child and then cnt its throat, ond opened the shutterB of the house in order to avert enspicion from herself.

The report addB tint Miss Constance Kent has shown evidence of derangement and is now in confinement, France. THE DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS. Paris, Tnesday Evening, March 12. The discussion of the address was continued to day in the Corps Legislatif. M.

de Segur criticised the Italian policy, and maintained that the English policy had triumphed in Italy, He said "England wishes to surround us with great States, and to unify Italy and Germany. England is everywhere hostile to the policy of France." M. Plichon asserted that general disquietude prevailed in all the countries of Europe, and said: The armaments are universal, as if preparing for an approachiner rupture." He criticised the Em peror's Italian policy, which, he sait1, was imposed upon France by England. M. Plichon concluded by defending the temporal power of the Pope.

Paris, Tuesday, March 32. 3:30 p. m. The Bourse was dull, and Kentes closed at 68 5. The Tatrie announces that Augnste Blanqni and Senique, the latter of whom is a journeyman turner, has been arrested on a charge of belonging to a secret political society.

Both had come from London. The Fairie also says the Conference on the Syrian question held a Bitting yesterday. It is said that an agreement on this question will soon take place between the representatives of the powers. Russia. The Austrian journals publish articles on the disturbances at Warsaw most hostile to Russia, The Press of Vienna says "At the moment at which Russia iB preparing to extend her hand towards the East, with the aid of France, and to give the coup de grace to tho Ottoman empire she is warned that on the Vistula she is only a despotic Asiatic po wer, and that Poland is the vulture that preys on her." The Austrian Gazette speaks to the same effect, and envelops France in the ditgrace of Russia.

Italy. Rome, March 10. The Duke de Grammont has been charged to announce to the Pope that the Emperor has disavowed tho speech of Prince Napoleon in tnc Senate. Several persons have been exiled. Reports current among the people fix the date of the arrival of the Sardinians at Rome for the 18th inst.

A consistory has been held for the proclamation of some new bishops. The Frenchmen who had come' to Rome to take service iu the Papal army have formed a club, and are about to establish a new newspaper. Portugal. Madrid, Tuesday, March 12. According to advices received berefrom Lisbon, the Portuguese governmuit has submitted to the Cortes a project of law for the re organization ot the Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods of Charity.

TbeMinisters are said to be divided on religious questions. Dissension likewise prevails in the Courts. It is asserted that a change of ministers may be expected. A ministerial combination between the Duke of Saldanha and the Marquis of Louie is seriously spoken of. SECESSION IN ENGLAND.

Withering Denunciation of the RepublU cans hy the London Times Effects of the new Tariff in England Probable Union of the Western States with Canada and the establishment of Independence by New York No objection to a Slaveholding Empire Smuggling to Defeat Prohibition. From the London Times. Wc may be said to be already in possession of the first fruits of the American disruption. The secession of so many members of the two Houses of Congress has conferred unon the North an undisputed maioritv. for the first time.

They have not been slow to avail themselves to the utmost of this advantaee. Thev have, indeed. done nothing appreciable towards healing the wounds of their distracted couniry. iiioy nave tanen no decided measure cither of conciliation or coercion. The South has been allowed to mature its preparations, to soize the Federal arsenals and forts, and to organize a now Gov ernment, without even an intelligible protest from tho Legislature at Washington.

There was much excuse for this. The period between the election of the now President and the surrender of ofllcc by the old is a sort of interregnum, in which it may bo said all legislative and executive activity is paralyzed. But, though unablo to do anything for the cause of tho Union, the Senate and tlie Congress have employed the Interregnum to strike a second blow at the commerce, the finance, and tho general prosperity of the country infinitely more fatal than any abstraction of territory 6t diminution of population. Tliov employed the laBt week of what is Brobablv tho last Session of the last Congress of the United States' of America is undoing an tne progress that has been made in the direction of Free Trade, and in manacling thclr country once more in tho fetters of a Protection amounting to prohibition. We fear that the bill has already received the assent of the President, and that at the present moment the twenty millions of exports which England sent last year to the United States have, as far as law uiid regulations can effect it, been virtually excluded.

If Americans wjBD to Know with wnat reeling this bill has en regarded in England, they have only to turn to tho Trade Reports of The Times, and their curiosity will bo gratified. Thus we find from liirmingliam that a hardware and cutlery trade of 3,8 0,000 is looked upon as worthless. South Staffordshire is in dismay. "The conduct of Congress on the Tariff bill has much changed tho tone of nublic fcellne with reference to the Senns. sionists, nnd none here, even those whose sympathies are with the Northern States, attempt to justify the 11 course which the Protectionists in Congress have pur sued." In Manchester tho proposed increaso of duties nn Ant.

ton coods in the United States Is causing ercat atmntinn. In Newcastle it is considered that it will bo impossible to do business with the United States on the terms set out in the Tariff, while the business with tho Southern States is oescnoeo as sausiaciury. in onemeui considerable apprehension is felt as to the effect of the new TnHff thn steel trade. In Wolverhampton tho anticipation that tho arm nas oecome law uaracos tne already gloomy prospects of tho iron trade. When it is remembered that all this ill will nmt tion of international tics and sympathies, which were becoming closer every day, ond which America nevor needed more than now, Is to he effected for no belter object limn mufc ijjuuiMiiiug oiliwj iimeiice oi an artificial manufacturing system, raised and nurtured at ihe expense of the shipping and trade of tho country and by levying an odious tribute from all classes not concerned in manufactures, we cannot but wonder at the madness of democracy and its utter inability to opnrchcnd and retain he most obvious principles of economical science.

Protection was quite as much a cause of the disruption of the Union as Slavery. In that respect it has dono Us worst, but it is destined, if we misiako not, to bo tho fruitful mother of other disruptions. What interest have Hie great agricultural Western States, for Instance, In being made tributaries to tho ironmasters of Pennsylvania or ihe cotton spinners of Lowell? They will desire, as the South have desired, a direct trade with England, and the peculiar position of Canada, with its facilities of communication hy lake, river, and railway, will tlnv tliem tlie readiest mennB of obtaining a direct trade by a fresh separation possibly by an amalgamation with "our own colonies. These topics aro so obvious that we forbear to insist upon them, but wo beg to po'nt out, for tlio cjtufort of our own countrymen nnd ihe warning of the Govornmont of the United Slates, that In attempting to exclude, at one blow twenty millions of exports from liieir territory, they havo undertaken a tusk quite boyoud their power They THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 28. The Foreign Intelligence.

The chief interest which attaches to the foreign intelligence which we publish to day, conveyed hy the Steamer City of Baltimore, arises from the intense interest which American affiirs now ex. cite in Europe, but particularly in England. The article which we copy from the London Times is in the most thundering vein of that powerful journal, and it may be accepted as an indication of the feeling excited Dy tlie contrast between the free trade policy of the South, and the prohibitory legislation initiated by the He publicans the moment they got possession of the torms of government. As the Republican party and its organB, more particularly these of decided anti slavery tendencies have always enjoyed a sort of fellowship with their English brethren, gloried in the universality of the anti slavery feeling in that country, they also feel a great sensitiveness on the subject of English opinion, in regard to political parties in this country. It must be with no very pleasurable feelings that they now hear the sentiments of the exponents of public feeling and opinion concerning the new slave coir federacy ol the South and the free North, which up to this time was only mentioned in connection with the South for the purpose of exposing tho latter to odious comparisons.

It is but a few weeks ago that theRepubliean journals laugh ed to scorn the idea of England acknowledging a new government which recognised the existence of slavery in its own dominions. And we were given to understand that the statesmen of England, who humor the fools and fanatics of Exeter Hall in their denunciations of negro slavery because they could thereby flatter the degraded white serfs who people their own factories and coal pits with the idea that their position was less oppressive than it is, would disregard the material interests of Engiand, and the means by which millions of her people subsist in order to gratify a hypochritical philanthropy which they professed with their tongues but despised iu their hearts the fools who believed them serious. The time is come for throwing aside the mask and we are told that slave holding empire, like Brazil, may be a far nobler power than such a government as the Republicans have established at Washington. It is not a very flattering sort of self knowledge which arises from a sight of our failings and short comings "as others see us." And as the Republicans have always laid great stress on foreign opinion, particularly British, they must acknowledge the force of the scathing expose of their incompetence, which now emanates from a source to which they have been wont to appeal. The censure is severe, but the pity is 'tis true.

No such lamentable consequences of blundering incapacity on the part of men undertaking to conduct the affairs of a nation ever befell a people as those which have already flowed from the ascendancy of the dogmas of Republicanism tmd the contrast which the Times draws between the two confederacies is perfectly just, however humiliating to the North. On the one side we see men going deliberately to work to sever their relations towards the existing government and set up for themselves, and although the whole movement was described as a temporary ebullition of the mob led by designing politicians and traitors to their country, yet going steadily forward consolidating this popular enthusiasm and congealing and solidifying it into the forms of permanent institutions. And 6uch has been the foresight with which they have conducted thtir proceedings, that while the ruling power in the government from which they have separated, has placed the North in a wrong and unfavorable position abroad, hy the capacities of statesmanship they have exhibited, they have eouquer red foreign prejudice, secured the recognition of their independence abroad, and won to themselves the commercial advantages which the stupid and suicidal policy of the Republicans of the North has alienated and thrown away. They have gone steadily forward, never receding an inch, never running into empirical speculations, to be tried to day, thrown aside to morrow, while the evll.re sults remain. On the other hand we see the dominant party of the Nortb, into whose hands the federal government has unfortunately fallen, raising a cry of war and carnage which pai alyzed industry and created harrowing anxiety in the bosom of every family of the land and immediately on assuming power recede from their war platform and subsiding into the passive spirit of a convention of Quakers.

And they show themselves incapi ble of conducting even a peace policy. Fort Sumpter is' to be evacuated, but the event is delayed for the purpose of convincing the country that it is the result of imbecility and not of choice, that it is not prompted by magnanimity, but that' malicious cowardice which hesitates dislike la willing to wound and yet afraid to Many doleful prophecies were made of the evil results to flow from the election of Lincoln, but none approached the reality. The "Special Dispatches" from Washington and the South in the New York papers, are the baldest inventions, and the papers themselves are exposing each other, each claiming that its dispatches are genuine, bnt the rest all spurious. The special of the Times this morning asserts that the "Washington" dispatches relative to Fort Sumter, published daily by the harlequin Herald, are entire fabrications the product of random guesses, and unbridled romance. They are the laughing stock of the Executive Departments, he says, and not worthy of imitation by any newspaper aiming at the slightest character for accuracy in its facts; and he adds that the result of the Fort Sumter matter will prove that nobody outside the Administration Itself and Its officers had any knowledge of what the Government is doing.

This is about the only truthful paragraph that has appeared under the head of special dispatches for weeks. None but the members of the Administration and their officers know what is being done, yet the fellow who utters this truth has himself been i iving oracular reports of definite acts and discussions of the Cabinet on this very matter; and as the author of the plot of the statesmen and bankers to assassinate the President, he proved himself the greatest (ouhemouche of the Paul Pry tribe. The only truth these dispatches in the morning papers contain, is what they Bay of each other. Death op George Hosmeu, of Avon. Word was received in Rochester on Tuesday, aunounc.

ing the death of George Hosmer, at Chicago, where he has lately been on a visit. Mr. Hosmer was a lawyer of distinction, a pioneer of Western New York, and the father of W. H. C.

Hosmer, the poet. In the early history of the State, says the Rochester Vnion, xe was connected with some of the most important trials in Western New York. It was his province to follow the Courts from Utica to Buffalo, attending all the Circuits. By the Livingston Circuit, with which he was subsequently connected, he was looked upon as a father. Tenth "VVaiuj.

Last evening a number of citizens irrespective of party, assembled at the house of Henry Rathgeber, S72 Atlantic street, and unanimously agreed to support the ticket bearing ite names of Charles 13. FUh for Supervisor 1 homos Conway for Assessor, and Francis Me Cormack for Constable. has been purchased, and that a theatre to cost 175,000 will be at once commenced. If this information be accurate, very little noise has been made about it. The New York Dramatic Association is put down as the originator of the project.

We know of no incorporation distinguished by any such title there is a New York Dramatic Fund Association, but its mission is not to establish theatres, but to succor "poor players." That there will be a theatre in Brooklyn before a great while we have no doubt but we fear the present rumor, notwithstanding its authoritative air, has no foundation in fact. The site mentioned would be a very excellent one the lot fronts on one of the greatest thoroughfares in Brooklyn and runs back to Adams street. It is suffi" eiently large, too, we believe. It may be well to say here that no second or third rate theatre will succeed in Brooklyn that a first class theatre, with a first class company, conducted properly, would, we have no doubt. The HeralA in chronicling this rumor, says "The erection of the theatre is the result of the course pursued by the directors of the Academy of Music in refusing to let that building for the performance of the choicest plays by our best artiste.

The Puritanical scruples of these gentlemen have operated, first, in depriving the Brook It nites of the opportunity of witnessing standard ploys, without crossing tne river to jxew lork secondly, in keeping thousands of dollars from the pockets of the stockholders, and thirdly. In the creation of a theatre at which doubtless all sorts of plays, from the highest to the lowest, will be presented. This is only another instance in which so ridiculous and unintelligent a policy defeats itself, and hastens the very thing it was designed to prevent." To this it may be answered that the Academy op Music was intended for an opera house mainly; for musical performance of a kindred character and for such other entertainments as the directl ors believed such a building properly be used lor. If it has answered this purpose and the stockholders who gave their money to build it are satisfied with the investment who ha a right to complain. As well might it be B3id if a theatre had been first erected that because the owners of it did not see fit to turn it into an opera house, therefore there was reason to complain.

As to threat "that all sorts of plays from the highest to the lowest will be presented," everybody is well aware that if it be eirried out the men who invest their 175,000 will find themselves sometime without any return for their mo. ney. We suppose Mr. Wulla'ck might if he choose bring the Canterbury nail troupo to his theatre, but he could never again bring back his present patrons to their old resort. A first class theatre we think will pay.

A city of 300,000 inhabitants ought to be able to sustain both it and the Academy of Music, and the advocates of one need not abuse the other. P. S. Since the above was written, we have learned what we suppose are the facts in the case which gave rise to the above rumor. The groand mentioned, has been purchased by a number of gentlemen, who will proceed to erect a building upon it but the edifice to be erected is not intended for a Theatre, but for a Museum which will combine a Zoological garden, a extensive aquaria, and such other attractions as are to be seen in such places.

There except such as is required for the purpose of a Museum, will be no stage within the building, and of course no attempt to give theatrical performances. Doubtless the gen tlemen who have undertaken the project, have calculated the chances of success, and we hope they will realise their anticipations. At a meeting of the Union Ward Committee of the 4th ward, held on Wednesday evening the 27th instant, the following ticket was unani. mously nominated Supervisor, Isaac Badeau Assessor, Clinton W. Riley Constable, John H.

Booth. These gentlemen are also the Democratic nominees. New York City News. TjNIYEKSITr OF TUB ClTr 6F New YORK. The annual exhibition of tho Junior Class oamo off this morning at tho Chapel or the University, Washington Square, the Chancellor of the University, Rev.

Dr. presiding. Tho attendance was fashionablo and very large, and the exorcises went off to tho extreme satisfac tion of the audienco and the credit of the young gentle men composing the class. Brooklyn was worthily represented by four members, and they acquitted themselves admirably indeed. Their addresses were received with much favor, and will bo published in to morrow's Eagle the late hour at which we write precluding their publication to day.

Fike in a Fancy Store Two Ladies Burnish. About 0 o'clock lliis morning a Are broke out in tho fancy dry goods store of the Messrs. Ostrander, No. 491 Third avenue, totally destroying the stock, fixtures and furniture, valued at $1,000 and upwards, on which there was no insurance. The flro canght from a fluid lamp, which one of the female attendants accidentally placed under some dry goods hanging against the wall.

Two ladies then in the store had their hands and arms severely burned in attempting to extinguish the flames, beside which they lost all their clothing. Tho damage to tho building, which is owned by Mr. Thomas E. Cooper of No. 457 Third avenue, is $200 insured.

Special Dispatch to tho N. Y. Tribuno. Wasiiinoton, Wednesday, March 2T, 1861. Orders were sent hy a special messenger ou the 14lli to land the 400 troops on board tho Brooklyn, at Fort Pickens.

As the mail communication with that point is entirely cut off, no Information has been received by tho goycrnmentconcerning their execution. Tho telegraph is in the hands oflhe secessionists, upon all matters of thin sort, and, therefore, the return of tho mossenger must be awaited, or intelligence be received through tho local newspapers. It Is not disguised that some apprehension is entertained here of a possible attack by tho revolutionary army Gen c'S'th, riclteD8' und" command JSl though wiser counsels uro hoped mc Government uoeB not regard this movement as a re enforcement, and if trailed as such hy tho sraesaion leaders, they must tnko the cocqucn No hos demonstration is designod, and no attempt will be mX to retake the other torts and Navy Yard, which wore ol. lained by tlie most infamous treachery. In transferring these troops from a sloop of war, which lias been stationed oft" Pensacola for two months tlio Secretary oT 'War intended to protect Fort Pickens against surprise or surrender, and if their landing is resisted, ro enforcemcnts will bo immediately thrown there, bo tho consequences what they may.

It Is not true that tho Government vessels at Ponsaco ia are short of Bupniies, or they need not be, with Key West so near at hand. Tho transport containing all tlio necessary provisions for tho Homo Squadron was detained at New York, but must have roicliod I'onsacply by his time. principles. (Uear.) He should be perlectiy ready, if ears and to provide that if there had been during tbat time a bona ftde matrimonial residence either in England or in Scotland, the respective Courts should havo power to dissolve the marriogc. He should have been nrenared to introduce a measure on the whole subiect.

but thought it would be moro discreet to appoint a committee of inquiry, and he hoped that, as the result of their full investigation, some legislation would take place before the close of the Session. (Hear.) He concluded by moving for the anpointment of a Select Committee. Vesture of the King of Prussia with the Order of the Garter. The ceremoDy of tbe investiture of the King of Prussia with the decoration of the Order of the Garter took place at the King's Palace, Berlin, on Wednesday last, as already announced by telegraph. The Marquis of Breadalbane, who was commissioned to confer the decoration on His Majesty, with the other members of tbe deputation, was conveyed to the Palace from his hotel in handsome Court carriages, and on their arrival they were conducted to tbe Black Eagle Chamber.

The King, having mounted the throne in the Whitehall, gave instructions that the deputation should be admitted and on their arrival before the throne the Marquis of Breadalbane announced la a speech in English the object of the mission, and then handed to the King his letters of credence, which His Majesty delivered to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who stood on the left of the throne, near the lowest step. The Marquis of Breadalbane then handed the statute book of the order to the King, who delivered it the chief officer of the household Count von Redern, who also stood near the lowest step of the throne, bnt on the right Eide. The commission in Latin empowering tbe Marquis to confer the distinction was next resd by tbe Baron von Schleinits, and then the members of the deputation proceeded to place the garter below His Majesty's left knee, during which tbe King at Arms of the Order repeated the usual Latin formulary. His Majesty then descended from the throne, when, according to the customary form, he was invested with the mantle and insignia of the Order. At the conclusion of the investiture the.

King again ascended the throne, and the deputation was conducted to the Black Eagle Chamber. The Marquis of Breadalbane on presenting His Majesty with the insignia of the Order of the Garter, said "Sire, By order of tho Queen, our sovereign, wo have tlio honor to approach your Majesty. Animated by tho ardent desire of giving your Majesty a public mark of her sincere attachment and of her esteem, the Queen has elected your Mojesty a Knight of the Noble Order of tho Garter, and has charged us to invest you with the insignia of that Order. This eminent mark of the high esteem ofthe Queen mustboan evident proof of her desire to cultivate friendly sentimentB between the royal house of your Majesty and that of Great Britain, and to draw still closer the bonds which already exist between them. In obedience to the orders of Her Majesty, we request permission to present to you the inBignia of the very noble Order of the Garter.

Let me be allowed, Sire, to express also on this occasion, with a grateful heart, how highly I appreciate the honor conferred on me in being chosen for this high mission, and being the hearer of tho assurances of the invariable attachment of the Queen for the person of your MajeBty," The King replied "I receive with Joy from your hand the inBisnia of the very noble Order of the Garter, of which it has pleased the Queen your Sovereign to name mo a knight, Tbev are to roe a precious "pledge of tho sentiments whicn animate Die august Sovereign who is the chief of that venerable Order for mo and my House sentiments in which I most heartily participate. This circumstance reminds me of tho time when my P.oyal father, of happy memory, received in my presence in London the samo Order; I remember the words of my late brother and King, when ho designated as the finest day or his life that on which he received the same insignia from your august Queen. Those are reminiscences of a flue epoch, winch Lave since led to tho formation or sacred bonds uniting our two houses. On entering into this high brotherhood I find it a fresh pledge that those bonds will be more closely and firmly strengthened for the happiness of our cbirdren and for tbe continuance of tho cordial relations of monarchs, as well as for the happiness and prosperity of our people. I am pleased to tell you, Marquis, that I am happy that tho Queen should havo chosen you for this mission, and I beg you to present to Her Mojesty the expression of my sentiments and of my gratitude." The success of Prince Napoleon's speech in the Senate may have induced the Emperor to withdraw prohibition against his cousin's traveling in Italy, which I mentioned a week or ten days ago.

It is true His Mojesty disapproved tuc Bpeecju iu euwiuume, out cougratuiateu me Prince on the one he delivered in the Senate. Be this as it may, there are rumors that the Italian excursion will now take place. The Prince intended going somewhere else after receiving the Emperor's commands not to think of Italy for the present, and a visit to Egypt was serious Ihoughi of. Bacing in France. Baron de la Eochettc, Count Alfred de Noaillos, and" Count II.

Qreffulhe, as Btewards of the races of tho So tliete d'Encourngement pour I'Amclioration des Eacos do Clicvaux en France, have just addressed a report to tho Minister of State, In which, after referring to tho recent modifications made in tlio State breeding studs, they mention that tho society, on iis part, will continue to labor for the improvement of the breed of horses by "concentrating its attention on what in its eyes Is the most important matter of all the Increaso of thoroughbred cattle by means pf In support of this vlow they affirm that "thointcmi'nro of thoroughbred horses in crossings with common breed8 bJ heon ono of tho principal causes of the superiority me production of horses In England and that races o2 flat ground ore therefore an essential condition of progress." They then state that the society has departed from the English system of "shortening without reason tho distance to bo run, diminishing weights excessively, Increasing tho number and importance of handicaps in such a way that a dissimulation of the merits of horses becomes the best chance of obtaining great successes and, lastly, giving Euch sums for two year old races as to enable horses of that age to remunerate their proprietors without, however, developing their merit." Cr.Tlms, in 1 ranco, out of 100 races thero are only five of which the distance is less than 2,000 metres (lmile.) only five for two year old colts, ami not more man nluo Handicaps; whereas in England there are 03 of less distance than 2,000 moires, 41) fur two year olds, and 83 handicaps. Even in handicaps, too, the minimum weight in France is more than 10 lb. above what II is In England. The Btewards then go on to recommend that, in ordor to remove, or, at least, to lessen, the objections which exist to 2 yeai oltl races, the animal of that age shall not run before the autumn in each year. They next Blate that both the administration of tlie llarus and tho society have made a new distribution ofthe sums to bo run for, suppressing those of certain races, and increasing those of others, reserving the most Important sums to races tor 4 year olds and upwards, at the same time requiring such horses to carry heavier weights and run longer instances.

The Administration des Iliirns, for examplo, instead of dlvi ed into 27 races, is to give divided among 1G, and ns much as 77,0001. of this sum is reserved for 12 of tho 16. As to tho soeloty, it maintains 11 prizes rtcently established, augments others, and founds Ihreo new on. s. On the whole, will bo glven'this year at Paris nnd Cliunlilly, which Is 27.600f.

moro than was accorded last year; and of that increase 22,50 T. Is ralsod by the society, and D.OOOf. it' to como from tho Administration des Haras. To tho' races ut Versailles, Angou Moullns, Mont do Marsan. Toulouse, and Valenciennes libera! grouts are made, and it is at Amiens, lilois and Marseilles that threo now prizes have evn established.

European Recognition. (From the London News, March 12th.) Mr. Gregory has given notice that on an early day ho will call the attention of her Majesty's government to the expediency of prompt recognition of the southern confederacy of America. There is no occasion for Mr. Gregory or any one else to be anxious to get our government to acknowledge the so called southern confederacy of American States.

The practice of the British government in such cases is firmly established an well understood, to recognise all de facto governments, irrespective of opinions, origin, or any circumstance but the fact of being the actuallv established ruline Dower. If ever, and whenever that happens with the Southern States, which now profess to be a confederacy, there can he no doubt about their being recognized by all the European powers and by England, with tho utmost certainty ana aisttncmcss. isut me case nas nos reacneu this stage and it Is very far from reaching it. The secession leaders who have assumed office do not pretend to be more than a provisional body no appeal has been made to the people of their States none of the constitutional conditions of republican organization have as yet been complied with and none of the antecedents which specincu by the tounuers oi me repuoiic as juamyiug rebellion have occurred. The movers in the case have begged tho question in regard to the right of secession and there has as yet been no opportunity of reply on the other side.

The whole matter remains for treatment and. in the most democratic country In the world, the great body of the people have been silent during a whole winter of crisis, from want of an opportunity to declare their opinion and will. There can be no recognition from without of any new claims put forth in such an interval and tho American nation has a right to expect from its foreign allies patience to wait till Hie people havo spoken and taken iheir course of action. An English Literary View of Secession. The.

Republican journals are in the habit of claiming that all the English literary men syiu patbifc with abolition. They have, it is true, recently discovered in the columns of the Thunderer a violent opponent of their own violence but this is put aside as done lor effect. The Times is time serving, they say, and unreliable. Listen, then, to ihe utterances of one of the ablest exponents of the views of British literary men tho famous London Athenaeum "The fanatics of the free States and the penniless in cendiariCB of the Carolinas may persevere in howling for bloodshed and devastation but the thoughtful and trustworthy members of both parties wm, we cuuiioent ly believe, aeree, in the name of humanity, to make all objects secondary to the preservation of the Union. "By the determination with which both sides continue, under great temptation, to abstain from acts that would render reconcilement impossible, they declare, in the most forcible manner, their anxiety to be onco more friends.

The men of the North, say in effect: We are sorry you've left The men of the South reply 'Give us security, and we'll soon be with you Still game is a perilous one. An attitude of defiance must sometimes bo maintained out of a sense of dinity, though it was first taken up in haste, and has been repented of with sincerity. And nothing is more likely to goad the South Into an obstinate perseverance in their present position a reiteration of the charge that they are mere wordy braggarts. A moro foolish calumny than this was never uttered in the heat of political warfare. That which is grandest in tho history of the American confederacy is to be found in the biographies of Southern men.

Tie South has her faults, but cowardice and trickery are not among them. Tho auibor of A Memoir of Abraham whoso scanty and barren pages have no strength save that of acrimo nious paruzansnip, sneers at me oiusier' ot tne hot blooded South. lie may be assured that the English, to whom he especially addresses himself, by no means attribute a preponderance of transatlantic 'bluster' to the South." The Yelvertou Case. The Eastern Counties Herald, published at Tvhtre Mr. Thelwall.the plaiutiff in the now femous action resides, gives the following in the course of some comments on the case generally We think Mrs.

Telverton has never been fairly represented regarding the motive there was for keeping the marriage so profound a secret In the course of tho trial no reason suffiSieutly satisfactory has been assigned on this point. But wo believe we are correct in stating that there was a very sufficient reason given by Yelverton to his wife, and one in the truth of which she (irmly believed. It was always alleged by Telverton that ho was under pecuniary obligations to a relative, whoso particular interest it was that tho heir to tho litlo of Avonmore should die without issue. Under these circumstances Tclver tou'B story always was that he had promised to remain single; and that, should tho knowledge of his union with Miss Longworth come to tho. ears of his relative, he would be a ruined roan.

Mis wife, believing this account, and placing full confidence in his honor, consented to the marriage being kept secret, stipulating only that her own sister and her friends Mr. and Mrs. Thelwall should be made privy to tho arrangement. This was accordingly done, and these truo friends becamo her confidants from the beginning. From the time that she was deserted by her husband, Mrs.

Telvcrton's great anxiety has always been to have her case gone into. Baffled in her attempts to obtain justice on three different occasions and before Ihrce separate tribunals, she did not despair. It had become the sole object of her existence, and for llireo years she devoted herself to the task of bringing her delinquent husband to the bar of justice. How is it possible that nny Wt.ian could havo labored so long and so pirseverlDgly for the of such an object if elic did not feel herself sustained 7 1,10 consciousness of vir'itc arid of truth? She well knew tho circum stui.ecs t'f her courtship would be thoroughly au(l poradt before the world. Slio knew the trying nature of ihe searching cross examination to which she would be subjected, bnt she was prepared to bruve it all.

'1 he Law of Divorce in England. Tlie Lord Clianctlllor, in moving for a Select Committee to consider the law respecting the parties who are en tilled, or ought to be entitled, to sue in the Dlvorco Court in Ei gland and in the Conrt of Session in Scotland for a dissolution of marriage, said he had no intention of entering at present Into the constitution of tho Divorce Court. An Act was passed last Session which would expire in 803, and by that time it would bo seen how far it would be necessary to add to tho judicial strength of the Court, and he would only express his belief that int had not been for tho long Shcdden case, Sir Cresswell Cresswell would have gone a Jong way towards off the arrears. What he wished now to bring before the House wub the important subject of what parties were entitled, or ought to be entitled, to sue in tho Court. Until very recently marriage was considered indissoluble In this country that was, no Judicial tribunal could dlssolvo it but, practically speaking, any person who was sufficiently wealthy might obtain an Act of the Legislature to dissolve his marriage, having first gone through thu preliminaries of bringing an action for crim.

con. In tho common law courts, and obtain a divorce a mensa et Uioro in the ecclesiastical courts. This generally cost from 1,000 to but those who wore not wealthy enough had no remedy. A commission was issued which took great pains to inquire into the subject, nnd by which, with the assistance of its able secretary, Mr. Frasor Macquecn, who might bo said to have devoted himself to this subject, a report was produced, which recommended that dlvorco should bo entirely withdrawn from the ecclesiastical courts, and that there should be a clv.l tribunal which should dissolve marriages for the cause of udultery.

This Court was intended to be open to England and all tho dependencies of tho empire; the law at present existing in Scotland was to be left untouched, and a Court similar to that in England was to be established in Ireland. In ISM a Bill was passed establishing a Court for England, but, unfortunately, all attempts to extend the change to Ireland had as yet been unsuccessful. The proposal to establish a Divorce Court in Ireland excited groat alarm there, and it wos then propostd to allow Irishmen to suo in the English Court, but that proposition mot also with great opposition. The Irish Protestants, therefore, had now no remedy, except by going through the old expun sivo process. It had been decided that Sir Creswoll Creeswell's Court had no Jurisdiction in Irish caseB.

Home tb.no ago tho lady whoso case had during tho last ward. Mr. C. J. Sheppard understood that Aid.

P. Scholes would accept the nomination for Mayor, and would therefore move his nomination be made hy acclamation. The Chairman thought it would be utterly impossible in a room so filled as that was, to tell whether the delegates were voting on the question or not, without cilling the roll. Mr. Ford (1st ward) said it would be better to call the yeas and nays.

Mr. C. Jones suggested that the original motion had better be put. They could easily see how many noes there were. Mr.

L. W. Murry moved that the convention go into an informal ballot for candidate. Mr. Fitzgerald moved that Mr.

Shepherd's motion to nominate Aid. Scholes by acclamation, be laid on the table. The motion was voted down by a large majority. Mr. Shepherd then withdrew his motion, and Mr.

Stearns moved that they go into an informal ballot for candidate tor Mayor, which was agreed to. Messrs. Fitzgerald and Heath were appointed tellers. An informal ballot being then taken, the following result was had Number of votes east 55, of which F. Scholes received 39, and William A.

Coit 16. Mr. Stearns then moved that the nomination thus made informally, be made unanimous, which was agreed to amid loud cheering, and cries of "bring Mm in Scholes Scholes," Messrs. Heath, Van Brant and Hodges were appointed a committee to acquaint Aid. Scholes of his nomination and bring him before the Convention.

After a short absence the Committee returned, accompanied by Aid. Scholes who was reeeivea with enthusiastic applause. The Chairman aduresslng Aid. Scholes said that as presiding officer of that convention, it became boihhio pleasure and duty to tender to him the nnanimouD nomination as candidate for Mayor of this city, and he hoped he would accept it. Aid.

Scholes in reply could only say that this was an unexpected honor one he had not ex Eected. He had hoped and expected they would ave nominated a standard bearer from the western district, as the opposition had selected their nominee from the Eastern district. However, the convention having given him the nomination, he would accept it thankfully. They could elect him. Having received the nomination from their hands, he would be disappointed if they did not elect him.

He considered there was a feeling at present existing in. the Democratic party that would not allow that gentleman (Mr, Kalbfleisch) to succeed, if the Republican party went to work. There was time enough to carry the election if they willed it. He accepted the honor ofthe nom ination it was one that he did not expect from their hands, and took him qnite by surprise. He returned his thanks for the honor done him, and retired amid loud applause.

On motion of Mr. Murray the convention adjourned. Repotmcan Nominations. The Republicans of the Thirteenth Ward have made the following nominations For Alderman, Dcmas Strong for Supervisor, Joseph H. Adams for Constable, John R.

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