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Willi! i i i i Prtblio fecbool Do, 94. European Gossip, Compiled from our fbroign illos' by the Persia. The Hard Times in England. As the com Views tf Correspondents Water Works. Mm.

Editor, The more carefully we examine dered. He had the frontal bone of hlr skull broke in and stabbed in one or two places. ECis watch and $80 was found' in his pockets. lB1b body was warm at first. No duo could be formed or suspicions Mthfle the in position before tha community.

As a result which could not have been secured had it been otherwise, they succeeded afterwards in obtaining from the Corhmon Council the right of charging a uniform rate of five cents instead of four cents on the Greenwood, and Myrtle avenue routes; as by the original agreement: They havo since, grqwingrqnt of apparent demand of the' people, procured the prtvileger "of Tunning their cars on the Sabbath. It may be well for them to pause and consider whether they are really so independent of popular favor and legislative control as the Superintendent's position of defiance places them. Sinco the Company first broke ground for laying their tracks, an import of Public School No. 24 took place on Thursday afternoon at the school house in Bushwick avenue. No public notice wan given of.

the exercises, consequently there were but few present, and these parents of the children. A short programme had been prepared by the Principal, Mr. Wm. M. Kerr, and was intended to combine all the principal elements of the progress of the school.

Several exercises were had, among which we note songs by Miss Anna Con selyea, Miss Eleanor Elliott, who gave a most inimitable representation of Mrs. Stowe'a "Top sy," and sang another song very sweetly Miss Pauline Moss, a young lady of some thirteen summers, also sang a very pretty song, which, with the others, were deservedly encored. Dialogues were recited by Masters Haviland and Putnam. The exercises closed with a sbort address from the Principal, who remarked upon the progress the scholars had made in their studies and hoped that the recreation afforded them through the holydays would not incipacitate them for study on the re opening of the school 6ii the first Monday in January. He directed their attention to the necessity.

of education and the opportunities afforded thern for obtaining it. These opportunities should not be neglected, as they were the golden hours that once passed and gone oould never be recalled The school was then dismissed, after a hearty "merry Christmas" wish from the scholars io their teachers. The average attendance at this school is larger than it has been at any previous time. It has 350 scholars in regular attendance. The school is under the principal 'charge of William M.

Kerr, assisted by Miss D. Jano Cor win as principal of the female department, Mrs. Brading 1st assistant male department, Clara B. Evans, assistant female department and Ellen E. Mowbray in the primary deoartment.

This school is in a very flourishing condition and reflects great credit on the principal and bis valuable assistants through whose endeavors tho school has been built up. It is rapidly attaining ft position among tht schools of the Eastern Dis trict and deservedly. Among the pupils are some of the sweetest voices that can be found in the city as the former exhibitions and concert of ths school can well attest. A regular examination day will ba had simo time next month when the publicjwill be able to judge of the qualification of the scholars in their peculiar branches of instruction. The Rochester Murder.

Further develope ments in the Rochester murder case were adduced in the inquest on Thursday, confirming the guilt of Mrs. Littles and her brother Ira Stout. The jury rendered the following verdict: The jury find that the body viewed by them is the body of Charles W. Littles that he came to his death in the city of Rochester, on the night of the 19th, or the morning of the day of December, 1857, by wounds upon the bead, from some weapon to the Jury unknown, or by being thrown from the precipice of the Geneste River. And the Jury have probable cause to believe that said wounds and injuries were inflicted by Ira Stout, otherwise called Marion Ira Stout, and that Mrs.

Sarah Littles was accessory thereto, and also some other person to the Jury unknown." Resolutions were also passed by the jury ex honerating Eli Stout and his wife from all suspicion. Mrs. L. and Ira Stout have been committed for trial. Police.

Assatjltikg ak Ofiickr. Tli 03. Hick and James Doucli crty were arrested yesterday for committiug an assiuit battery upon offlcor Keolaa or tha 2il precinct police on the corner or Plymouth and Gold sts. it appears 10 havo Often mi tinnrnunl nrl atfn.l an Justice Cornwelf and gavo bail for examination. Stej.li.s from Milk Wico.v.

James w. ji roster! liv nftlfpr Pn r.r (Kn V. stealing a pair of stockings and S3 in ponnios from a milk WaPOn in Irfilin sr. fhn nr ni lagher slated that Thos. Brinan had stolen the moiu'v he was also taken into custody by oousiablo ami locked up for a hearing.

Aixecied 0cnti.OBOT0.vi Femals Daniel McKinnev was JwJJi? vy omcer uaas. Frost on complaint ot Mary Nellis, who charges him with eutu iu her into ammoccuninii hniiHinrrin ter and Plymouth and there beatan.l abused her in a h. Ilrjtl mnr.nO, TK. I vvia urougnt oecro jus; Oornwell this morning for disposal. CanisiMAS Dbusks.

Tbero wero quite a lot of dnuiKvi. e.u:n3 hfiii i thn muruiug, aimougn ceiv atiy but those who became hoggish drunk woi taken uh Nnt Dllndlunninir tltn Mr.t i. jarge, an appeared determined to spend Christmas iu swillina selves of bad rum. All wero disposed or in tiio uual way, 811,50 ano or imprisonment in the Co. Jail.

Snuireo i Blanket. Georgo Miller and Patrick Martin were arrested by officer Waddy of tho 4th product i Wednesday, on tho chargo of stealing a blanket from a wagon ia Myrtle avenue. They were taken before Justiea rehouso and committed. ArtBEsra jnd Ijjdgers. Tho Police returns show tlio lolj lowing number of arrests and lodgers on tliu night befvi Ctmstmas and Christmas night, namely 125 arrests FURS SELLING OFF CHEAP.

We ro now selling our FURS at the following pi 1 rs MINK VICTORINES 31o VS 8 to 1 HALF CAPES 18 to 2 Andallottaer FURS In proporUon. Ourgoodsnre msnuhclw ed for City Keiatl, or the best mi erij and in a. superior manner. j. WILLI ds61t 219 Pultonslreet.

CHINA AND GLASS. HOLIDAY 0 Ihe oltltens ofBrooklxn ore requejttd' to call and olimino nn extensive assortment of the above goods, comprising RICOLY DECORATED CIIINA, CUI AND ENGRAVED BOHEMIAN BH.D FINE PARIAN WARE, VASES, MANTEL ORNAMENTS, 4 j. All to be sold at very low prlcei. OVINGTON BROTHERS, 218 4 220 Pulton Brooklyn. GREAT BARGAINS FOR THIRTY DAYS.

Our whole toek or Goods, consisting of WATCHES, DIAMONDS, SILVER AND PLATED WARU, JEWELRY OF ALL KINDS, are to be Bold at aRHAir baugaiws, In order to help tboia wish to moke preaenta for the Holiday a. JOHN D. CHASE, 503 Foitox SiasiT mar Co icobd, d23w Manufacturer of Jewulry and Silver Ware. Locust Mountain Coal. We havo now on hand npplT of the justly celebrated LOCUST MOUNTAIN COAL, receive I direct from the mines without iranafiiomenl, which ve are prepared to deliver to Fam lies In bro.

ifcivn or New York, in fin order, from under ve guara olI unmixed whh any other CoaL The absence of clinker aih sm ill quantity of flBhes or ate render his Coal sup rior io any other for Ranges, Fubmaces or Stoves, Order nv irod at onr wharf between Fultov and Ca hari.ve Fesiuks, Brookltjt, and at 9i Beaver street, two doors from Wail York. MARSTON 4 PoWER. A Cakd. We hereby ecrdfy ihal we have mate arrangement withMessrs. Makstok 4 Power give them a fnil'sup.

nly of our eelehra'cd Locust Mount iln oal for ihe year 1837. It can be obtained from themlu Its purilj Inconsetiuon of improvements in our machinery the ooil of this year's production csnrjot be excelled in preparation. Philodtlphla, May 1st, 1857. Davis, Piaksou Co. jJlTJoiLN Butler, manufacturer of Butler's Patent Unglc Gas Oenerator or Portable Gas Apparatus, wouM respectfully ca.l the attention of the public to the vitally im proved apparatus sold by blm, designed for the use of Country Kesldences, Churches, Hotels, Factories, 4c.

The wnrks are very simple, safe, and cheap, and warrau.etl to gl eperfeetsau ilaotloa. Office 112 Fulton st Brooklyn, whre references, descriptive pamphlala, and pUns ean be obtained, and the working apparatus and quality of gas can be seen (the store being lightad whh the gas from 40 bnraond. nl8 li JIT PETER LYNAN, 'WHOLESALE AND iall Dealer in North River Bine Stone, Oake cor. I'MnUsa fct Urnoklvn. Flarunur laid to oMar.

lvfia eg Edward C. Morihoosb, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, landlord and Tenanicoses promptly attended to. Oflloe (Police Court City Hall. Peirl treet. 'nibS7tf Jg Ladim I Use Harrison's Peristaltic LOKHOIS.

For PERIODICAL DIFFICULTIES nnd (JOS TIVENE8S. For aale by R. J. DA VIES. d9 In3m MORSE a LXNDE.

Couitaiixor.a ay a Villi: 2upr iism tbe Ijargeit Circulation of ej 3T: reiilng Paper published In the IJnxtcc? States. Its TalKo as an Advertising Medium It tkcfr.n TO CORRESPOITDEtirS. No notice can be taken of anon moas Communications. Whatever In intended for Insertion must be Authenticated by the name and address of the writer not necessarily I or publication, but an a guarantee of his good faith. We rannct undertake te return rejected Communication.

SATURDAY KNING, DECEMBER 26, Kungug. Everybody but tha professlonol politicians are sick of the everlasting Kansas squabble. Only for ths necessities of demagogues aspiring for the Presidency Kansas would hare matured from the condition of a territory to that of a state, as quietly as Nebraska, and would have been ad. Ucn to the roll of Btatea without any excitement whatsoever. But the effort to prevent its quiet admission was persisted in from the first and will be kept up, if possible until tho next Presidential election.

First the preteuBa was tbrt an effort was being made to establish Slavery in Kansas that delusion can be nc longer persisted in. no one now can affect to dread that bugbear. The necessities of the case compel the incendiaries to change their tactics. From denounc ing the idea of squatter sovereignty and insisting that Congress should dictate the institutions to be established in the Territories, they take the antipodal position and insist that tho people of the Territories are so supremely sovereign that they cannot "delegate" their powers to any Legislature or Convention, of their own election even, all such bodies being bound to submit the result of their doings to a popular vote and thus legislation become resolved into mass meetings Did Ureeiey and his lesser satelites in this State, who now demand the submission of the Lecompton Constitution to the people of Kansas, demand the submission of the Metropolitan Po lice Bill to the people of that District Or did they inFist on its enforcement and execution, although it was well known (ns the subsequent; election proved) that ninety nine in every hun drtd voters in the District were opposed to it Oh no, the Fribunt'a principles of self government do not apply except to negroes and people in a distant territory. The people are bound by the acts of their lego representatives, and ought to be.

If they neglect their duties, or permit demagogues to lead them off on a wild goose chase, it is their own fault. If the people of New York had selectt legislators from among those known for thtir ability and fidelity to the intemtt of thtir own consiliums, instead of electing corrupt politician, because the vehemence of their pretended affection for Kansas and negroes, the infamous police bill would never have been passed. And if the Freo State men of Kansas had elected delegates, to the State Convention, they could have had a delegation after their own hearts but as thev preferred to become the factious tools of Black Bopuolieanism, they have no right to rob the law abiding minority of their rights because they gave up their own. No government can bs fo free ns to dispense with all legal forms and establish institutions on such a basis as the proceedings of a Topeka mass meeting under the lead of itobinson and Lane. For a faction to retist all law becius3 they refuse to have a hand in its manufacture, when thoy are offered a fair opportune is to establish anarchy.

Kansas has been long enough the prey of demagogues and the tooner the President succeeds in releasing it from ihcir bloody talons, the more will he have earn ei the thanks of the country. rr jjs.oLui.t3 in JVA.XSAS. intelligence has been received from Kansas, which, if true, we iear is out trie prelude or a more troublous time than has yet been experienced in that dis tracted Territory. It is stated, on the authority of a letter to the Missouri Democrat, that a bittle occurred at Fort Scott on the evening of the 16th, between parties of Pro slavery and Free State men, in which fivo of tho former were killed and several were wounded on both sides. Twenty Free State mea were taken prisoneis and confined in the Fort.

It is also stated that a strong force of Missouriang were assembled on the borders, and further fighting was apprehended. The alleged causo of the collision was tho fact that Clark, (said to be the murderer of Barber two years ago) was going about, accompanied by a deputy sheriff, collecting taxes of the Free State men, and seizing thuir property in default of payment. A call had been issutd for the re assembling of the Freo State delegate Convention at Lawrence, to take action in regard to the failure of the Legislature to submit the Topeka Constitution to the people. A murder recently perpetrated in the vicinity of Chicago, is very similar in its principal features to one perpetrated in Brooklyn during the present year, the particulars of which our readers will doubtless recollect. A man left Blue Island for Chicago with a load of oats, and on his way another man named Albert Staub, a Swifs, obtained leavo to ride with him.

Staub, after proceeding a phort drew a revolver ard placing it at the back of the other's head, phot him dead, and then dragging the body out of the wagon, and leaving it by tho roadside, he took possession of the team, drove to Chicago and sold the oats, and proceeded thence to waukfe, where he was finally arrested. In the Brooklyn case the murderer was decided by the Court to be insane, but this does not appear to be the case in the present instance, as the murder was deliberately planned for the purpose of btainibg money. Panic Paocr The financial panic which oiigi nated in New York and spread over the commercial world, and caused even the Bank of England to suspend, left one city, 3Iadrid, unaffected by the crash. The felicitious escape of tho capital of her Catholic Majesty is accounted for by the fact that business and credit there are so bad that it is impossible to make them worse. An effort is being made to organize the Board of Aldermen, as usual, on the first ofJaouarr.

As the next election for Aldermen takes place in April and the new Board assumes the reins on the first of May, it is hardly worth while to change the organization of the present Board. Ths effort is not likely to succeed. Tokbllt to BE Haboed. The Court of Pardons of New Jersey has refused to commute Donnelly's sentence he will therefore be hune vu tu 01 nexivmontli, mercial panic commenced and extended hence to England, so the hard times it produced are beginning to be deeply felt there now. We learn from the English papers that a pro cesBion of 1,500 paupers had marched through Kanchester, and applied to the magistrates for redress of grievances imposed by the Jworkhouse authorities.

colliers of "Wales have struck for wages, and have taken, to the hills to hold meetings and concert combinations. At Nottingham 1,500 are added within a week to the out door pauperism. At Leicester bread riots are going forward, and the have been called out. At Leeds, Wolverhampton, and the Potteries short time is ireneral. The shoe trade in Northamptonshire is so depressed, that cord wainers cry out loudly.

The silk trade at Mid dleton is more depressed than it. has been for thirty years, the weavers starving Jwholesale. Fifteen thouf.aud persons at Rochdale are on short time, and fifteen hundred without any em ployment. Oldham, Stockport, Bolton, Preston, Derby, ae equally distressed. Two hundred mills in Lancashire are entirely stopped.

Char tism begins to bo heard of. Misplaced Stmpathy. Two negro girls were brought before the magistrate at Southwark Mr. Burcham on a complaint of the Mendicity Society. The two young ladies were named Rose and Minnie Avery, and passed themselves off as fugitives who had escaped from Kentucky, and came to Europe by a vessel which landed them at Greenock, from which place they had travel led on foot to London.

They had excited im mense svmDathv the Duchess of Sutherland was about to invite them to her soirees, and a grand entertainment was projected to be held in Exeter Hall, in which America, and the South more particularly, waB to be held up to universal odium. The programme was spoiled by the fact leaking out, that the young ladies were impos tors, whose parents were in the Chelsea Work house. A vast amount of abolition sympathy was thus wasted. The Bank of England and the Discount House. The city editor of the Times accused certain discount house" of having acted unfairly towards the Bank of England, on tho 12th of last month, at a moment when the demands up on its resources were most intense.

The house was not that of Peabody Co. but that of Over end, Gurnty who have replied to the charges by a specific denial of the statement. A GodandtheEmpeess," was a co injunction of names iu Russian thanksgiving, which even Byron was shocked at. The recent (Jueen suecch of Lord Palmcrston is almost as irrever ent. He has Rot so accustomed to the phraseolo gy of diplomacy, that he addresses the Almighty in tho same way as ho woulet a crowned neaa Be assures his hearers that it has "graciously nleased Divine Providence to bless the land.

Why that is the Court Circular and Downing street etiquette all over just as the world is informed that her Majesty has been graciously" pleased to appoint Titsnoodle, to the Consulship at Timbuctoo. Foreign Mercenaries. It is stated to be the intention i the Government to raise several regiments of Africans for service in India, the staff of the new regiments to be composed of well conducted non commissioned officers of the three West India regiments. It is believed that a force of above 50,000 strong can be organized in about six months. The Kino op Delhi The Pays has received a private letter from London of Dec.

2, stating that it has been decided to spare the life of the King of Delhi, and that he will be imprisoned in the Fortress of Vellore for the remainder of his days Uouvadja Shah, King of Delhi, now in his ninety third yt ar, is the representative of the family of Akbar Khan, one of tho founders of the Mogul empire. The English and the Fepoys seem to vio with either in paying little delicate attentions to such of their opponents as respectively fall into their hands; the Sepoys, however, it must be confessed, generally exceed the Erjglish. The blowing from the mouth of the cannon is not to be co.npared with the uuivith of the reception given to the beseigers of Delhi by the inhabitants. The Sepoys took all tho Europeans they could catch and burnt thein alive. The charred bodies, tied to stakes, were found by the stoiru ea, with the Queen's buttons still recognisable Madame Lind Goldschmidt is, it is said, about to give, with the assistance of her husband, a grand concert, in aid jf the funds for the erection of a monument to Handel, iu the town of Halle.

Thb Birth op the Prince or Asturiis has set all society astir in Madrid. The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier caused 12,000 reals to be distributed amongst the charitable associations at Seville, on occasion of the birth of tho Prince. Among the personages of distinction present when the royal child was brought from the Queen's chamber, are the Duchess Dowager, mother of the Duke of Alba, and the Countess de Montijo, mother of the Impress lugenia, both ladies of the Queen's chamber. Among other steps taken by the court to secure tho good will of the public, is the liberation of all the prisoners confined in the gaol at Madrid, by administrative order." The Pope's Nuncio is to represent his Holiness as sponsor at the baptism of the Prince of the Asturias. The Queen's sister is to act as godmother.

The royal festivities, which are to be on a magnificent scale, cannot take place until after the Queen shall have visited the church of Atocha. Montreal Election. The election for thePic Parliament took place Monday and Tuesday, preceded by an active canvass and the usual speech making recriminations, incitements to sectarian jealousies, and newspaper assaults and publications of private letters, and revelation of plots and counter plots, such as eminently characterise tho electoral contests of e.ur provisional neighbors. Yet the excitement amongst tho ci we learn, was less than had been antic't Contrary to usual exnerierce few were to be seen inebriated, and the city was remarkably free from riot and disorder. Griffintown (oae of thedisorderly precincts) was as peaceable a district as in the city, and no acts of violence were committed there or in noy of the suburbs during the day.

The polling seemed to be con. ducted openly nnd unrestrictedly. At the close of Monday the poll stood, orrosrnoN. MINISTERIAL. Dorion C.47 Carter nino Rose 2371 Startles 2336 Holton 2 1(59 JlcGeo 247 Progress or Enlightinsiint in Africa.

The sable community of Liberia is making rapid strides in civilisation as an evtdenci of which, they have found it necessary to import a lawyer, a highly respectable colored gentleman from Baltimore, named Draper. The Liberians can no.v indulge in the luxury of lawsuits. In a short time they will have aldermen, railroad directors and brokers, with their concomitants, ius contracts, Scbuylers' and Huntingtons', black bulls. nnd bears and other highly colored transactions, like their white brethren oyer here, this Water question, the more startling become its developments. Agreements solemnly and publicly made in reference to special construc tions, guarantees ot tun ana taitntai penonnan ces, enactments of legally constituted bodies, seem to take wing, and dissolve into thin air.

What a complete exposition of the acts our Water Commissioners will divulge when their, fictitious legal breastwork of defence is overturned, I dare not attempt to predict, except in general terms. I would not exchange, places with them for ten times the contract for ten times the sum, either as it was, os as they have made it On the 3d of May, 1856, a contract was executed in due form by the Nassau Water under the full advice and co operation of the Citizen's Committee and the Water Committee of tho Common Council. This contract was reported to the Common Council May 5th, and after certain amendments were made, it was endorsed June 4th, by that body, with an appropriation of $1,300,000 to commence the work, on the pe cial condition that the amendments to the specifications and contract, proposed and approved by this Common Council," should be acceded to by said Wells Co." Wells Co. did accede to the amendments, and on the 9th of June, the Mayor signed the Company's subscription books with a richly decoi ated eagle quill. A goose quill would have been inadequate to the effort.

Xhe new Directors of the Company, who are now Commissioners, went to Albany the next winter, with the assistance of the Water Committee of 1857, to get all this action endorsed, and in the copy of the act, industriously circulated by them among our citizens, these Directors are named as Commissioners, to supervise the construction of the works to be constructed for supplying the city of Brooklyn with water, and to complete the same under and according to a contract for that purpose, entered into between the "Nassau Water Co and Wells bearing date the 3rd day op Mat, 1859," and the uction of the Common Council of June 4th is by Sec. 8th of this law, "ratified and confirmed." The citizens of Brookljn, satisfied that the action of these men was thus hedged in by the highest legal authority, were content to allow them to go on for nearly two years, unquestioned end untrammelled. No one could dream that seven men of ordinary business capacity could be found, who would openly defy these restrictions and proceed with the construction of works essentially different in character as to the Reservoir, Engines, Engine House, Aqueduct, Canal, and Pones. Now, what will our citizens think of these men and their pliant associates of the Water Committee, when I say that the certified copy of the act of Februaiy 11th, 1857, has been examined, and tho contract of May 3rd, 1866, on the guardianship and inviolability of which all our hopes were centered, is wholly ignorkd in that bill, that the copies of the Bill caused to be printed by tho Commissioners are forgeries in this respect, and that a new contract dated June the 10th was made by these men, after the Mayor sigued their subscription books, Which NEW CONTRACT, AND NOT THE FIRST, CONTROLS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORKS, AS THEY THINK and intended, and is in conformity with the law which Messrs. Prentice and Lowlier got in this surreptitious manner rough the Legislature.

Here is a fact which admits of no palliation. No man dare assert that the first Board of Directors of the Nassau Co who executed the contract of May 3d, or their Chief Engineer, or the Citizens' cr the Common Council, were privy to this forgery. And it makes no difference whatever to the principl i at issue whether the new contract was an extct tramcript of the first one or it makes no difference if these Commissioners were actually executing the works eccoidiug to tho agreement made in good faith by ihe Common Council what I have to say in relation to tnis transaction, and the publication of a forged copy of the Bill, is, not only that it has invalidated the subscription of the city, the value of tho bonds, the lejral basis the works, the legal authority of the Commissioners, but that it reveals a premeditated depth of intentional depravity, or a pitiable weakness, which ought to be, and will be held up to the sccrn of the whole city If these gentlemen flatter themselves that such superior cunning has placed them beyond the reach of law or exposure, they are fastapproacb ing the hour which will tear off the mask and overthrow their brtastwork. When I promised them that my enquiries should not go unanswered, I meant all that I said but the flame of investigation lights up darker gulfs than the open and evident changes of plan developed, and my duty to the interests of the city daily grows more apparent. This fatal ex poBt facto contract, on which the Common Council never passed a vote, must see the light, with all the other contracts and agreements, made from time to time sinco then.

No power on earth can prevent the examination which the city is demanding now in tones which hourly grow more audible That the honorable Chan? man of the Water Committee should have played "pilot fish" at Albany as ho now does at home on the abandonment of the Rederved fund, is in the line of his business but what have the Common Council been about, that folly or crime liko this should be committed over its head What right have the Mayor and Comptroller to issue bonds under an act, which distinctly and directly vitiates the resolution of tho Common Council of Juno 4th, 1856, which resolution did not and could not contemplate the new contract of June 10th 'the forged copy of the Bill which in sec. 2d, changes the contract date from June 10th to May 3:1, 185G, the moment it stands detected and exposed, reveals an impudent and highhanded fraud on our Common Council and city and is intended to throw into full force the on cludiDg clause of section 2d of the Bill actually smuggled through, which authorises the Com mUsioners to "exercise and perform" the powers and duties of Directors "as it no tranbfsr of tho rights of tho said Compaiiy had been made to the city of Brooklyn." If their personal security to the city of $20,000 each is drawn as carelessly as their law, we shall lose one fea tnrj in our actual analysis dot before us of this subject, which would have done something towards restoring the injured Water Works. With due respect, John A. Dayton; Brooklyn, Dec. 26, 1857.

Mr. Editor, It is well known that the Hon. Henry C. Murphy, now absent from our shores. always advocated a liberal policy in reference to tne maDagemont or the Oily Railroads.

Od tho hypothesis that they were conducted so as to give reasonable satisfaction to the public, he predicted thai the stock would at no distant day be worth fifty per cent, more than its par value. It is equally well known (at least to the writer) that he deprecated the close and i arrow policy practised by ono of the leading officers of that Corporation. His mind was more comprehensive, and could foresee consequences tha.t were remote. Hence he would not stop and advocate any penny saviDgpound foolish plans that might militate against the popularity of the people'i cars, well knowing that the public are always jealous of their rights, and that any monopoly in order to security in its privileges must regard the welfare of those on whom it relies for its pa ronagc. There are other great monopolies in our city which woulcLdo well, if they were wise enough, to acton this principle.

But present possible dividends are to most minds too large to allow them to look beyond. It completely fills their visions, and they act on the principle taught in their primers, that a bird in the hand is worth two iu the bush." This may be good logic frequently but it has its limitation, and sometimes overshoots the mark. When the cars first rnn through our streets, displacing the omnibuses, the Comuanv seemed desirous of giving all the accommodation the circumstances would warrant the public in ex 1 peoting. They thus placed themselves in a good vestigation was going on before the Coroner's Jury, the supposed murderers were found, which proves be his wife and hejbrothei, both of wnom nave an arm broken, so that suspicion appears clear. (He has not lived with his wife for sometime.) Conjectures are that he was walking out, and seeing another man with his wifs.

rushed, upon them, and they In return, killed him and flung him over th bank below the Halls. Rochester for a short time past, has. been one of varied scenes; such as homicide, suicide, rob bing nnd attempts at garroting almost limitless vuujeb uuwmiiiieu. We had a beautiful view of Niaeara Falls. last Thursday, from the great Indian curiosity store and museum, kept on the banks of the river, directly by Table Bock.

T. Burnett is its owner and proprietor. The view from the mu seum beggars description. On your right, Canada side, the Horse Shoe Fall, as the waters pBss uown into tne aoy83 below have the appearance of a curling fall, a sort of coiling as it passes down. On your left, the American side.

the waters fall and strikes projecting rooks, (not in sight) and causes a sort of attempted return of the waters to pass up over the Palls again. It is wonderful to behold it is grand, it is sublime, it is magnetic a sight only can givo you its reality. The Museum above referred to, is probably one or tne rarest niiea assortment of: every thing in the reptile, canine, feathered, fish, for est animals, mastedon, whale, and monster bones and skeletons, beautifully and tastefully arranged, on the continent. The two large Buffalo's, male and female, are still aliTe, and show their ferocious nature, on your approach to their sight, all for twenty five cents. After leaving this grand and imposing sight you pass along the on the banks of the vast Niagara River, (water 250 feet deep,) to the Suspension Bridge, here you behold one of the most magnificent superstructures ever suspended ia the air, a distance of 250 feet from the water we stood and saw a locomotive draw over eight heavy laden cars, and could not perceive a parti ole of vibration from the bank where we stood, near by.

the American side, can be seen at a glance, two, propably, of the greatest curiosities so adjacent to each 'other on the continent. Yours respectfally, J. T. H. Rochester, Dec.

20th, 1857. Io the Editor of the Eagle. Sir I observe in the Eagle, a statement regaruing tne ponce ol this district, accus'ng the Commissioners of intriguing to remove superior officers from its force, to make way for the promotion of their particular partisans. So far as that statement deals with my name, it is entirely incorrect. The facts are, that for months past I have entertained the idea of retiring from the Inspectorship.

Of my own volition, and without inducement, advice or representations from any quarter. I called on the Commissioners, and intimated my wish to resign. He inquired the reason. I replied that the labors and anxieties of the post were too arduous for me. He said if that was the case I might resign, and he would do what fie could to get me another less onerous position on the force, asking me if there was any I preferred.

I told him that I was conversant with the court business, and if detailed on courts could perform the duty satisfactorily, besides it being easier and that I should prefer that position to any other; This was all that passed. By inserting the above, you will oblige, Yours, Henry Guischard. From Europe. The Persia arrived yesterday with English dates to the 12th. The Indian news is rather gloomy.

There is a force of 70,000 around Lucknow, and it was doubtful if the garrrison would hold out until the arrival of Sir Colin Campbell. Sir James Outram's force had been seriously reduced. The chronic rebellion in Oude is more troublesome than ever. Dates from China are to the 30ih of October, at which time preparations were making for an assault on Canton. It is said that the Chinese Government had demanded the withdrawal of the Russians from Amoor.

The English news is not important; the Bank and commercial questions occupied Parliament. The Indemnity act had pnssed the Commons. Very little progress had been made in the launching of the Leviathen she is about half launched at an expense thus far of $350,000. In money matters there were no material chaoses the supply of money was increasing. At Hamburg, the pressure was unabated, and all relief measures had failed.

There is little general news from the Continent. Winter had set in severely in St. Petersburg. It is stated that the Council at St. Petersburg has peremptorily denied the right claimed by Austria and England under the treaty of Paris of interdicting Russia from blockading the Circassian ports.

In Spain an amnesty has been granted for political offences, and to persons condemned to light punishment. Crih. Con. Case in Syracuse The Syracus Standard learns some of the particulars of a case of crim. con.

between parties who reside in that city, which will probably soon make some stir among the Btandal lovers. The lady is the wife of a wealthy farmer named Black, residing a few miles from Syracuse, and the mau is a well known officer of the United States government in that city. The lady had been susDected. and a short time since shejstarted from home to go Weston "a visit. The officer started about the same time, and the pair were watched and dis covered in Bultalo in a peculiar position.

The husband of the faithless lady, who is a very respectable and wealthy man, has instituted a suit for crim. and will probably apply for a di voroe. Such occurrences aro not unfrequent in the immoral city of Syracuse at least so we have been informed. A resident of Syracuse once remarked that two out of five of the mar. riod women of that city were addicted to drink and free love associations.

Syracuse mav ha justly considered the hotbed of immorality, with BLjjiuuju jaem ui juiuiuucu iruit. tiong Iilnwd Itcma. Burglary and Hobbery. The watch and jewelry store of Fayette Gould, of this village, was broken open and robbed to the amount of about one hundred and fifty dollars on Tuesday night last. No discovery of the thieves, or clue to lead to their discovery beyond vague rumor hat yet been made.

The shop was entered in the rear, by prying open one of the window "shutters with au iron poker, whioh was left on. the premises, tcgether with a pocket knife and a small bottle containing powder. An attempt was made to blow open the safe by putting powder in the key hole, but it was unsuccessful had they succeeded in opeuing the safe they would have gained access to several hundred dollar worth of valuable watches and jewelry. Ths poker found on the premises has since been identified as belonging in the Presbyterian Church tbo church was opened by prying open one of the blinds, and raising tho window, and appeared to have been ransacked throughout, but nothing was missed except the poker, and a small lamD which has Bince been found near the cnurch. LLong islander.

New Toik Item. Another Counterfeit. The police on Friday night arrested about a dozen persons who at tempted to pass counterfeit bills on the John Hancock Bank of Springfield, Mass. It will be well for shopkeepers to be on their guard, and not receive any of such notes. The Free Love establishment at Ludlow which had been in existence for a year ar two, has been broken up, and Edward Alvord, chief of tho family, sent to the House of Correction, na a vagrant.

Some of the parties had previously been tarred and leathered, but they stuck to the place all the more. ant law, bearing on the consent of owners of property along streets in cities, where any railroad is to be constructed, has been enacted. It is not beyond the range of possibilities that on the completion of 4th avenue grading, and of 5th avenue, which will follow in due time, that it may be to the interest of the company to extend their tracks up one of the streets leading into these avenues, so that passengers may be landed near to the Greenwood gate. At present the walk from the corner of 3d avenue and 36th street is near a third of a mile and from their new stables nearly a mile. Unless" interested directors succeed after depreciating the value of "my lots" and the property of other proprietors in the vicinity, In purchasing these locations, they may find it quite difficult to obtain the needed assent.

Besides, a line of omnibuses from the South ferry through 4ti avenue to the nearest point of Greenwood entrance, is already anticipated as a profitable investment. Ia view of the rapid changes of a great and growing city, it is well to entirely disregard the future 1 A mind like that of Mr. Murphy's which can see beyond one or two dividends, will act in Buch a a manner as to grasp the future and secure if possible its coming benefits. It will not hedge up the way against itself. I have no misgivings as to the ultimate results of thi3 controversy in its local application to 36th street.

By giving heed to the dogged stubbornness of its officers, the Directors of this Company may refuse to run their cars this winter to one of "their respective depots" but then the game will be played out. They will discover in the end that their course is suicidal to the best interests of the stockholders and it will not be repeated. The politicians too, who refuse to stand between an outraged public and this monopoly, will learn the lesson that he who thus neglects his duty can claim no favor from the public. J. Bbrgeh.

Eighth Ward, Dec. 24, 1857. To the UdUor of the Brooklyn Eagle Sir, Surprise has been expressed in your Jourial and elsewhere, at the movements now on foot for the opening of a street through Greenwood Cemetery. A brief statement of the conditions which have led to this movement may satisfy you and your aeaders that it is not altogether an unreasonable one. The original plan, in founding the Cemetery, was to dedicate a space of ground to the sacred purposes of sepulture, in order that the members of families who successively passed away from among the living might belaid together in a resting place which should not be subject to be disturbed by the hand of improvement, had been certninly the case in the gravj ynrds in cities.

For this purpose, an ample space of ground, amounting to about one hundred and twenty five acres, was set apart remote from the thickly settled neighborhoods, and legislative enactments were procured, guarding it from all municipal interference. Had the Managers of Greenwood been satisfied with this much, all would have been well, but it is believed that availing themselves of the natural sentiment of reverence for a place of sepulture, and finding how vast a source of profit the neighborhood might become, they have succeeded in including within its boundaries large tracts of land, amounting to hundreds of acres, until by its overgrown dimensions it has become an insuperable impedimont to the natural progress of our city towards the Southwest. If you will cast your eyes over the map you will find that Greenwood now cuts off seventeen streets on the west side and six principal avenues on the north, and that over five hundred acres of land are included in its boundaries. It is easy to perceive how utterly hopeless it is to look forward to any growth of our city in this direction while all the thoroughfares arc thus shut up. Again, the Cemetery has more and more got to be a mere graveyard, a place for indiscriminate single interments which is a departure from the original plan of family mausoleums.

Owing to this circumstance the adjacent tlreets are constantly thronged with funeral corteges, rendering it an eyesore to the residents, and filling the atmosphere in the warm season with the odors of mortality. No intention is entertained of interfering with the vested rights of lot owners, but when we look at the enormous dimensions which tho Cemetery has now grown to, and see its depressing effect on tho interssts of property holdeis in its neighborhood, is it unreasonable that the inhabitants of Sjuth Brooklyn should desire to have at least one aver nue opened through its enclosure Mr. Editor. Wo left New York on the evening of the 19th of last month in one of the Merchant line of steamers it was warm and rainy. We arrived in Albany On the morning of the 20th refreshed with a good night's rest foutd ourself in another climate winter had come the ground covered with snow, and the weather cold.

We soon entered a car on the Central K. B. and wore at once rumbling, tumbling and riding on tho rails. We arrived at Oneida station and lodged for the night. On 8aturday, 21st, we started ou our own hobby horse, arid soon arrived at the Oneida settlement of Indi dians, 3 1 2 miles distant.

Spent the Sabbath in worshipping with them in their neat little church, and delivered to them a large number of magazines, advocates, pamphlets and books, which were donated them by the De IJalb avenue M. E. Church abbath School, under the pastoral charge of Bev. J. S.

Inskip, for which they recoive the most hearty and warm thanks of the Indian Sabbath School, over which Mrs. Hall, th. ir matron, presides. On Monday we again returned in like manner to Oneida station and took the cars for Rochester, where we arrived on Monday night, the 23d. Here we learned that some $60,000 worth of potatoes were in car nal boats, froze in the ice.

Friday, the 27th, we went on, stopping at Albion, and there had a sk lgh ride. We then passed on to Medina and had another winter it seemed havo taken the farmers by surprise one had ten acres of potatoes undug, and somo had their corn yet standing uDgaihtred. The warm weather agiin I owever returned and put all right. We went to Niagara Falls suspension bridge and Canada. A dreadful accident occurred in Buffalo last Weduetday night a Mr.

S. Brittan, a painter, was at wgrk by the window of a four story build in Terrace and on the corner of Main street, when the casing pushed out nnd he was precipitated to the sidewalk somo forty feet he struck on the iron railing over the Terapiu Lunch and brcjke both his legs i pitched horizontally ou the walk, striking his face, breaking his jaw in two places and brokp also his left arm and strange to say, there are yet hopes of his recover jy. A few day6 previous to this a hemicide was jmmitted by a German who has besn tried and convicted of manslaughter in the 2d degree. About the same time a person committed suicide by hanging. Rochester has been a place for the last few days of more than ordinary interest.

Conven. tions of the lay delegation of the M. Church, also an Anti Slavery Convention of the Preachers and Laymen of the M. E. Church.

Yesterday afternoon a Jewish Rabbi was crossing the R. N. Bridge when the plank on which he was crossing, tipped and precipitated him into the river below, which owing to the recent freshets, was very turbulent. He halloed loudly, but no assistance be ing at hand( he was thus towed over the Falls. Searohiwas immediately made, which has, so 1 :1 J.

inuvcii uiiuviiiiiup uuu wiuic ill blB BruTCQ, a body was found, which pioved to be that of Chas. Little, Efq more commonly known aa Charley Little, ajlawyer, which roved to have been mur uemovea to Huey Bmldint Sit t' 0,.