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Tremendous Bargains at the Obleu LECTURE ON COMMERCE. capital required to be forced into it tt was useless afterwards. The discovery of the mariners' compass gave an impulse to commerce, and the fifteenth century saw greater activity than any that preceded it. Christopher Columbus discovered America. These two events, and the doubling of the Cape of Good Hope in 1495, gave new life to commerce.

The cities of the desert were depopulated Alexandria came to nought. These and the discovery of printing gave such velocity to progress that details slip by like fence posts on a railroad, and we go at the rate of forty miles an hour. The East India Company from a dingy street in London sent forth decrees that shook empires and thrones. They became prime ministers guided Legislatures and judges on the bench. But it formed alliances with religion and suggested thoughts lor misssoniry undertakings to the heathen world; it opened markets for agriculture and arts providing means tor popular education, and furnishing the money wherewith to build up the churches of God.

The labors and success of Robert Fulton was the last crowning triumph of invention. As you stand on the deck of a clipper ship you see the improvements offifty centuries you are debtors to them all. (which they pretended to vindicate, and which it was their office to guard) in order to destroy me without law. Because they knew that a jury ot my countrymen, impartially impanneled which was all I asked would be sure to acquit me, therefore they took care to pack a pretended jury, partly of Englishmen, partly of the Lord Lieutenant's tradesmen, wholly and entirely of my enemies, not to try, but to convict me. Third I charge them with acting upon the sham verdict thus obtained from a pretended jury, and under that fraudulant pretence robbing my place of business.

Fourth I charge them with further acting on that pretended verdict, by bolting me in chains and carrying me to Bermuda, and afterwards to the Cape of Good Hope, and en endeavoring, for two whole years to procure ray death underhand in secret dungeons. And fifth and last, I charge them with doing all this in order that England might continue in quiet to consume that Irish food for want of which the Irish died in hunger. Now, if all this be true, the Queen of England and her servants are the felons, aud the respect you pay to rae is a blow to them I accept the honor; I hope they will understand the insult. You will not. imagine that I relate these things to you as merely a series of personal outrages on me.

relate them that you may judge what species of pretended government that must be where such things can be done in the open day, against the will of nine tenths ol the eommuity that you may see how entirely justified every man is in endeavoring to overthrow and to punish such a government. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30. The Police Force It Number and Distributlou. There are serious complaints indulged in, in various parts ot the city, epescially in the outer wards against the insufficiency of the police, and the unjust and unequal distribution of the force throughout the city. We stated a lew days ago that the third election district of (lie sixth ward had not the protection of a single policeman.

This fact is bo astounding as fo require no comment, it involves a serious responsibility on the Corporate authorities of the city. A government whether national or municipal, that fails to protect the lives and property of the citizens fails in the first essential duty ior which governments are created. The manner in which the lorce is distributed is one of the sources from which this inequality arises. The inner wards whose respective areas are not move than one fourth the outerwards, have two thirds of the policemen of the City for their protection. The extent ot the sixth ward alone is equal to that of the five first wards the amount of property for which it John Mitchell.

As we stated yesterday, Mr. Mitchell arrived from San Francisco in the Prometheus. A sa lute was fired on the Heights by the Napper Tandy Artillery, Capt. Hooan, in honor of his arrival. He is now at the residence of his mother in Union street.

Brooklyn. Mr. Mitchell was called upon in the course of the evening by several gentlemen, and a crowd was congregated about the door. Between nine and ten o'clock a number ol Irish military companies came to give him a serenade, accompanied by Maxahan's brass band. There waB the Mitch el Guard, Capt.

Sharkey, the Irish Rifles, Capt. Butler; the JackBon Guards, Capt. Kelly; the Meagher Cadets, Capt. Houston, the Meagher Republican Grenadier Guards, Jersey City, and the Montgomery Guards, Jersey City. About this time au immense multitude filled the street opposite the door, and, after several Irish and American airs had been played, there weie loud calls for Mr.

Mitchel, who came to the window, and was greeted with tremendous cheers. He then addressed the multitude as follows Gentlemen, Xrithnien, citizen toldiery 0 America 1 am utterly unable to express the gratitude and delight I feel at this kind reception. For many a long day have pined set my foot on these shores. (Loud cries of you are welcome.) The banner that the New York militia undertakes to guard Is a glorious banner, and 1 hope that all Irishmen who enlist underit will be loyal to it, and defend it to the death. I have no doubt that the Irish in this service, as in even other in which they have fought, will be true to that flag when they carry it, will carry It deepest into 1I10 heart of the enemies of your adopted country.

1 will say nothing now about Ireland, though God knows I feel deeply to night about my native land, I shall only say.aj I gee your glittering arms before me, what Sarsfield said on the plains ol Lan den, when he was pouring out his heart's blood: God that this were for Ireland I hope you will excuse me tonight for any further observation of mine. I am fatigued. Bnt I hope to have an opportunity of addressing you at length. Iudeed, I shall feel disappointed if I have not the opportunity soon of addressing both me Irish and American friends, In the meantime, I shall bid you good nipht, with heartfelt thanks for the honor you have done me. Mr.

Mitchell then retired amidst tremendous cheers. At the dinner given him in San Francisco. Mr. Mitchell, made speech quite characteristic of the man: He said he would have refused auy personal offering, but could not refuse the sympathy with his cause which they offered. He took a grim delight in the hearty welcome extended as the echoes of freemen's scorn will ring in the ears of DttATlQU, lAKOEST, ANU UtltiAf KST CARPET ESTABLISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, No.

99 BOWERY, HIEAM ANDERSON. EIGHT SPACIOUS SALES ROOMS, WHOLESALE I AND RETAIL. SALES ROOM NO. 1. Contains the most extensive, fashionable and handsome assortment of Hare's celebrated English and American FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, of the newest siyfe, satin finish, marble, Italian, Fresco, and Scroll Paintings, ever offered In this city, from 2s.

Od. to 41 the square yard of 1 to 0 yards wide SALES ROOM NO. 2, There aretwo hundred and fifty pieces of the choicest, moat beautiful and desirable patterns of English and American INGRAIN CARPETING, at unparalleled low prices, from five ahUllnga to six shillings and sixpence per yard. Manufactured for our city sales. SALES ROOMS AO.

Contains three hundred pieces of English and American Im Serial THRRE PLY CARPETING, 01 magnificent scrollond lothic figures. Imported and manufactured to order, some of which cannot he found at any other establishment In the United States. SALES ROOM NO. 4. Contains one hundred and fifty pieces of fine INGRAIN CARPETING, of splendid new patterns, at astonishing low prices, 2a.

3a. and 4s per yard. SALES ROOMS NO: 5. Displays a wonderful variety of ENGLISH DRUGGETS, of 4 yards wide. yds.

of Druggets, of h. 2 aud 3 yards wide, at 3a and and Us. per yard. Also, magnificent Mosaic and Axtnlnster HEARTH RUGS, aud 1000 TUFTED RUGS at20s each. SALES ROOM NO.

6. Is fully stocked with every variety of Striped and Fli STAIR and HALL CARPETING, at s. to ured yard. Also, English Tapestry, Brussels and Velvet Stal to 6a pe rCat pet at 7a and 10s per yard. SALES ROOMS NO.

7, Royal Velvet, Administer, Tapestry, ana Brussels Carpeting, Imported from the celebrated English manufactories of John Crossly It. Sou, and Henderson's expressly for our city trade Also, Mosaic Carpets, of one entire piece, the size IB feet by 21, and 12 feet 8 Inches by 17 feet, worth $350. SALES ROOM NO. Are the PATENT TAPESTRY INGRAIN CARPETS, exhibited at the World's Fair and to be exhibited at the New Xork Crystal palace. Also Window shades, at 20s.

ps Table and Piano Covers, Plated aud Brass Stair Rods, air; lish Sheenskin. Adelaide and Tufted Parlor Door Mats. ng Also, white and Checked Matting, 4 4, .1 1 and 6 4, and Cocoa Matting. All the above goods will be sold 20 per cent, less than any other establishment in the United Statea. HIRAM ANDERSON, 99 Bowery.

N. B. Families and Merchants visiting the great metro noils, U1 find it much to their advantage to examlnathls porinou tstock. s26 3m E. Mathkws teacher of Piano Forte and Stuping.

Music Rooms, I Ob Orange street. Residence, S7 Oraneu strAt. Brooklrc 3 if Short Kbmpton, Manufacturers ot ROUND FLUTED COLUMNS FOR BUILDINGS. Address Short Kempton, Ainslle street, between Lorrimerana Leonard streets, Wiiriainsburgh. 3m S8 Bills of Exchange, on England, Ire and, Scotland, and Wales, in sums of 1 and upwards, for sale; and uncurrent Bank notes and Specie, bought and sold at J.

S. MACKAY'S Exchange office. No. 9 Court street. next door to the Mechanics' Bank R.

Lkffeuts, Exchangk Broker, No. 1 Fulton street. Brooltlvn. L.I. MR.

LEFFERTS reanert fitlly Informs' his friends and the public generally, that he will hereafter carry on business solely on nis own account. He returns bis sincere thanks fortlie liberal patronage bestowed upon him during the past six years, and hopes, by strict ai tontion to business, to merit a continuance of the Bame. Brooklyn, Auguat24, 1853. au2S if Great Bargains in Dry Goods 1 1 at ROSSITER'S, 105 Fulton street, wnere the most aDprov ed and marketablestylesof DRY GOODS are sold at a very small advance from cost. The Ladies and Citizens of Brooklyn, are now well satisfied that ROSSITERls the man that can and will SELL DRY GOODS CHEAP IN NEW GOODS1 am now offering 40 ps.

RICH PLAID SILKS 100 ps. do CASHMERES lOOtf SHAWLS, Long and Square. 50 ps. RICH, all WOOL, PLAIDS 50 p. MERINOES St COBURGS.

These are the Richest and Best Goods iu.the Market, to which yonr attention Is early invited. ol tf S. M. ROSSITHR, 106 Fulton 81., Brooklyn Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, The Undersigned has a larger and better assortment ol Stoves, lie, than any former season. He will be found at Ms old stand, No.

45 Fulton street, having enlarged aud fitted up anew. In addition to a larce assortment of Stovea. he keena Chil son's, Walker's and Keyser's, Hot Air Furnaces, KejBer's Portable Heaters, and the Metronolitan Ranee. This Ranee Portable Heaters, and the Metropolitan Range. rlangu la a new and very superior article, it has a very large and elevated oven, and can at a small expense, not only do the cooking for a large family, but at the same time heat the parlor or parlors above.

The Reyser Heater placed in the basement will heat both It and the parlors above, and cause a great saving In expense and get rid of the dust and dirt. The Album Parlor Stove is of surpassing beauty, an excellent heating stove, and of grea durability, being lined with soap stone. A very excellent assortment of Cooking and other Sloven. Every Stove, Furnace, Heater or Range, warranted aB represented. NATHAN T.

BEERS, 45 Fulton street, Brooklyn. A Second Hand Wagon, suitable for a Grocery, for sale, cheap s20 3m Brooklyn Fire Insurance Company. Cuarteredin 1824. Fidton, upper corner of Front and No. 6 Merchant1 Exchange, Wall street, Nea York.

TbisCompanyhave their Uapitulinvested in the most un doubted securities, and taring a surplus of SSO.OOO.conttnut to insure dwelling houses, stores, and other buildings, furniture, merchandise, vessels in port and their cargoes, upon as "arorabletermsas anysimllarinstltutlon. OfRKCTORS. WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, President Isaac V. Fowler. George Gllfillan, Solomon Kipp, Theodore Martina, William OkelL Nathaniel P.

Freeman, Harmanus B. Duryea, Samuel F. Whiting, Henry Quackenboss, Isaac Jacobson, Jerome B.Fitzgerald, n2C tf H. Phlneas T.Barnum, oseph M. Greenwood James Gaylor, Andrew Froment, Langley Bruce, John C.Smith, Robert C.

Bail, John Eadle, Charles T. Cromwell, QUACKENBOSS, Secretary. aB Poisoning. Thousands of parents who 11IA VAmtirilffa Pmnnnga nf latnr fill Onlnmal tr i. not aware that while they appear to benefit the patient, they are actually laying the foundations for a series of diseases, such as salivation, loss of sight, weakness of limbs, In another column will be found the advertieement HOBENSACK'S MEDICINES, to which we ask the attention of all directly interested in their own as well as their children's health.

In Liver Complaintsand all disorders aria (Dp front those of a blllious type, should make use of theonly genuine medicine, HOBENSACK'S LIVER PILLS. Be not deceived, but ask for HOBENSACK'S WORM SYRUP and LIVER PILLS, and observe that tedhasthe ignatureof J. N. HOBENSACK, as none ise are genuine. 68 tr Imported Carpetings.

Fall 1853. rjfrrirT, cinXT f. nrTMPtropv mq D.nnj...n,. street, New York, call the attention of their friends and the trade to their LARGE and magnificent Stock or Rich and Elegant CARPETINGS, Imported direct from the English and French Manufactories, for our city retail trade, consisting Bouvaise" Carpet" one entire piece medallion centre, landscape border. Medallion Carpets, from the most celebrated manufacturers, and are not confined to one man's exclusive make.

Velvet and Aubusson Carpet, of rich design and of every new pattern made up to the present time. Tapestry and Brussels Carpets, which for variety, style and quality, are unsurpassed in the United Statea together with all other styles of carpeting manufactured. We do not deem it necessary to particularize our stock, or mention the number of our sales rooms, but merely say, we defy the WHOLE TRADE together, to produce a better all of which will be sold on the most reasonable terms. PETERSON HUMPHREY. o7 SmM No.

379 Broadway, New York. Jambs Gillen, Warerooms, corner of Nassau and Adams streets, residence, 178 Pearl street, Brooklyn, Undertaker, Coffin maker and Cabinet Manufacturer, respectfully returns hit grateful acknowledgements to his numerous friends, the citizens of Brooklyn and Its vicinity, for the liberal and extended patronage bestowed upon him during a period, embracing nearly seventeen years; and avails himself of the presentopportunity of informing them that his Warerooms are Bupplled with COFFINS of alfSIZES, made under his own immediate supervision, by the most experienced and competent lianda thatcan be procured. Hischargea, In general, will be found extremely moderate, when compared with thoae of other establishments; and as he invariably devotes his whole time to his business, those errors and mis takes which might otherwise occur, are thereby precluded. FURNITURE made and repaired in the best manner, according to order, at prices unusually moderate, and dellverd within the prescribed time. INTERMENTS ere procured by him in any Grounds or Cemetery.

COFFINS, CAPS, SHROUDS, HEARSE. CARRIAGES, and every article for Interments, are furnished by him with promptness, and of the very best material that can be procured in Brooklyn, or New York. JAMES GILLEN, Undertaker i Cabinet maker, Warerooms, corner Nassau it Adams streets; residence 178 Pearl street, Brooklyn. au29 3tnO Marsh's Fashionablk Haik Cutting SALOON, 61 Fulton street, Brooklyn. A TheProprietorinforrashisfrionds and the public that fib continues aa heretofore to cn Gentlemen'ahair and trim their whlskersin the newest and mostfashionable prevailingstyle.

It will be his study to main tain the character of his Saloon for comfort, cleanliness and has so long held He feels grateful for paatfavors, and intends to give satisfaction to those who may think fit to patronise him. He has constantly on hand a varied stock of choice Perfumery and Fancy Goods, In which are embraced Labia's Extract; Hair Oils, in alltheirendleBsvarietieSjthe celebrated RuaslanKezansoapi tooth, nailand airbrushes, of French, Engllshand American manufacture; Rogers' andotherrazora; genuine Cologne and Baywater. Also a new article for the hair which effectually destroysdandruff.scurf, and acts as a powerfulinvigora tor to the roots of the hair, warranted to be entirely free from any deleterious matter, and possessing only a needful aud stimulating property. He particularly recommends the Invl gorator as an Indispensable article for the toilet of the Ladles. Its use for Ladles' and Children's HairlslnvaluabU, glvlnglt a beautlfulgloss, disposing tt to curl, and keeping It radicallyclean.

Hetruats.by unremitting attention, to meet Ihefavorsof the public. This Saloon is closed on Bun. DAYS 09tf IjSf Burial ok thk Dkad. The undersigned, General Furnishing Undertaker, keeps constantly on hand everything necessaryfor the burial of the dead. Having Deenlnbusineia more than twenty five years New York and Brooklyn, heTeels competent to discharge aU the duties of htsprofesBlon.

He invites theattentlon of thoto Sersonsupon whom demands are madefor the burlal of thsir ead, when expenditures for sickness have consumed all or nearly all thelrmeans, and Ills not in theirpower to provide rortherespectablelntermentofthose near and dear to them He assures such that they shall be furnished with all things necessary on the most favorable terms, and at alarge discount on theuiualchargos, thereby relieving In a measure the bur thenthoyfeel.when It la necessary to provide forthelnter ment of a relative or friend. S. N. BURRILL Montague Place, corner of Court street, Brooklyn, Octoberl vtb, 1S5S. olo if nr rev.

dr. visTO.v. Tlio Athenaeum Course. The second lecture of the Atheneum course was delivered last evening, by the Rev. Dr.

VixTox. Subject The Merchant or the Progress and influence of Commerce could not claim so early an existence as Agriculture, which commenced with Cain, who was a tiller of the earth. It is a curious fact that the antedelnvian world was waxing old before manufactures or the fine arts were established. The mechanic and fine arts date their origin just before the flood. The mechanic and fine arts are brethren bom of different mothers but the same father by them the human race is knit together in a fellowship which nothing can dissolve without annihilating civilization.

My subject to night is Commerce, its growth and influence. Our wants, like the green eyed monster spoken of by the poet, grow by what they feed upon, aud supplying one awakens another. By commerce we exchange our superfluities for those of others, and both parties are enriched by the exchange the sum ol temporal happiness is enlarged the mutual dependence of man on man springs up and human individualities are fused into fellowship and commonwealth. Barter is most free and natural, and just in aim and aud will outlast all artificial contrivances. Barter is the principle of trade that neigms your snips and fills them with cargoes 01 your prouuee ami brings you back the pro uucLioiis 01 omer dimes bv it nations are bound together and the sweet relationship of jaunty 13 uiuatuu, inttKittg manKinu line launly ol children, where every one is himself, and alt are one.

lbe earliest mention of money is in the time of a price was fixed on bond ser vants and paid in money anfl the first transac tion in real estate is between Abraham and Ephraim, when the former purchased a tomb from the latter for lour hundred shekels of silver. The allusion to silver as the current money shows the early use of the precious metal. Solomon built a large commercial navy inis navy brought to Solomon the riches of Ophir. Learned speculations are abundant to prove that Ophir is California and although no precious stones nave been found in California, anu inese navies would Have had to traverse an immense ocean, yet that did not stagger the learn ea speculators. Tyre, situated on the coast of Phoceucia, was oue of the most ancient commercial cities, and was the home of those who went through the Straits of Gibralter to trade with the early Briton's and other nations.

SCom mercc in those days was a dread interminable lomidding waste. here the Hesnerides Guard ed the golden apples where Atlas stood with tne worju on nis shoulders where the Tritons sported their scaly forms and the weird sisters dwelt in the deep the ocean was not a highway out, a grave. Among tne lirst recorded voyages worthy of the name, is one mentioned bv Hero dotus, the father of profane history wherein tue navigators saueu rrom the Ked Sea, going around Africa, and doubling the Can of Good Hope entered the Mediterranean through 11 j.vtiijLiug luid vujttgt; Lucre is uu tradition ol any other lor more than twenty ueuiunes uiiiu ihk. in mose early ages when mnamen wove cotton and made shoes and toos sessed other arts, the Britons were the most savage race on the globe, and our fathers clothed their bodies in skins and their feet in sandals. Though now their ofl'spring are at the head of civilization and justify the poetical prophecy of ctsuop jserseiy "Westward the alar of empire takts it's way, The four first acta already past A fifth shall close the drama and the day Times nobleBt offspring is the last." America is time's last and noblest offsDrino And now the Japan expedition and its results will open to her the trade of India, whose wealth has enriched the world in all ages.

Columbus prosecuted his great idea of discovering America in the hope of finding a new passage to India the Arctic expedition was originated in order to find a northwest passage to India: the project of a ship canal across the Isthmus, is to cut a shorter passage to India and tho great achievement which Providence has reserved for this age, the construction of a railroad to the Pacific will have its quickest reward and shall confer proud renown upon this generation by shortening the way to India. It is only in the East that for a long serieB of ages, trade has been deemed an honorable calling. In Hindos tan, the Merchant is one of the nobles of the land. When Alexander penetrated to the Ganges he found cities and ompfres founded by commerce. But trade was then carried on by means of camels, which carried precious burdens that enriched the East, and hence were the ships of the Desert.

Wherever they lingered on their routes, cities sprang up, and the oasis of the desert became inhabited. Babylon and its cotem porary cities owed their greatness to Indian commerce. Where commerce came civilization followed. Among the commercial cities of antiauitv. I mention Carthage.

In that city the ship of the desert and the ship of the sea met. and join ed together the uttermost ends of the earth. But when we speak of Carthage, how the mind is 9tartled by her decay How little do we know ot her wit as rams! Her every locality is a sermon. In her days of prosperity she competed with Phceuecia, and both concealed what they knew of geography, as merchants now conceal tne way to make profats. Grecian commerce was piracy, and the expedition of Jason and Argus in search of the golden fleece fully illustrates it.

But still commerce brought civilization Cadmus brought letters, nnd Thales and Solon were active merchants, and Plato neddled oil when he travelled, to pay his expenses. Rome had no navy until the Punic wars comnelled them to create one. When the hordes of barbarians invaded Rome they destroyed her commerce aud nations that had been bound together by it became ignorant of each others existence." At length, in the darkness of night, there sprang up at the foot of the Appenuu'S, Venice, Florence, Genoa, com mercial emporiums, rising higher 2nd hirber bv trade. Commerce and the fine urts revived together sculpture and paintine: the Guelnhs and the Ghebelities were princely merchants and Raphael and Michael Angelo gave their cre ations to the temple ol art churches and palaces sprang up tne neatnimi was cncnstied poetry revived The Crusades, although their warriors had no sucu aim, were made subservient to commerce by God. The JJntch were tne earliest to enter into commercial pursuits of any modern nation they ursi toon to sen 10 procure nernng men tliey repelled the tides of the ocean and the first efforts of little boys and girk were directed to keep out the tide by tiny spades.

They may be called the owners of their country, for they won it from the sea. The Hanseatic League established the fact that union is necessary to liberty. The Hanse towns first introduced credit in commerce. Commercial honor had been hitherto unknown. Bills of Exchange originated in llfiO with the persecuted Jews, to enable them to remove their property from one nation to another in 1307 they were regulated in England by law in 1782 stamped for revenue and in 1825 the enormous sum of $200,000,000 was represented in Great Britain by Bills of Exchange in 1853 it would be impossible to estimate their amount.

Banks received their name from Banco or Bench on which the money changers transacted their business the first was established in 808 by the Jews in Lombardy, hence they were called Lombards, and Lombard street in London is the Wall street of that city. The place of deposit was the Mint. Joint Stock Associations were first established in Paris in 1157, and In Geneva, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and other cities, at a subsequent date, as they bad proved successful. These financial operations are now the pulse of society, and beat strongly or flatter, as there is sickness or health at the heart. Another agent of commerce which sprung up was monopoly.

It was a useful stimulant when commerce was in its infancy, and vis inertia Once "stranger" and "euemy'' were synonymous, and one Latin word represented both now Commerce has made all men broth jrs. The unforeseen possibility of 1851, the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, has brought people of different religions and languages, and customs and costumes to stand beneath the triumph of Anglo Saxon skill, and inspired all with reverence for human fellowship. The roof of that Palace was the diadem of neace. Two of the tiriucinal temptations of commercial life were covetous uess and impatience to get rich, against which he warned them. As Commerce has civilized the world, its duty now was to Christianize it.

He concluded with an exhortation to the merchant by Dr. Young Commerce gives gold, religion makes it gain." At tlic Institute. LECTURE BV THE REV. HENRY JLJ5S. The third lecture of the course was last evening delivered at the Brooklyn Institute, by the Rev.

Hexry Giles the subject being false and exaggerated Eulogy in popular Oratory." The audience was numerous and attentive. The lecturer, after referring to O'Connell's powers of wit and sarcasm, and his propensity at times to bestow lavish and unqualified praise, which he termed as inconsistant with manly justice as it was far from the truth. He dwelt particularly upon the commuu propensity wnicn tne orators 01 our day have of pandering to the popular taste, and flattering their audiences. One sidednessand exag geration lie continued were with orators ess sentrai elements of party rhetoric while there was also an exaggeration as to party itself. Were we to believe our Dartv sneakers, we should find that the safety of our countiy and the peipeiuny 01 our noerties depend entirely upon their disputes, while their comparison of men and things of to day are extravagant almost beyond description.

The prominence which men gain by politics is exorbitant every other distinction being overshadowed by it the artist, the author, the student, the moralist, and man of science must be poor creatures when compared with office holders or political speakers. Genius that works in deep and eternal thought, and beauty is but feebly recognised by the public voice. The speaker thought that party was valuable because it belongs to liberty, because wherever liberty is there must be party but its worth was more in this incidental relation than in any power of ts own, for the life of liberty was its character. It was generated in the hearts and houses of a nation, and with out this continuous, universal life the zeal of party would quickly become the presage of destruction. The liberties of a country may be perpetrated by the strifes of party but in them, also, it may perish, unless it have this true, inherent life.

In the battle of Dartv. libertv mav be wounded, but it is onlv in the deeeneraev of paiby tutti, uueny cues, ine lecturer strongly condemned exaggerated encomiums which are so frequentlyand lavishly bestowed UDon what are styled self made men, and said that every man was self made, or rather nature made. Every man must have the root of the matter planted in him.and then by himself it must be watered and cultured. Of the thousands who crowd into universities or go out, few of them are the orators the statesmen or the thinkers of the world. There are men who don't need colleeres.

men whom colleges do not suit. Thus Burke brought out of me university nut little scholastic lore and Gibbon and Shelly were expelled. Gibbon left it with a great deal of creed but no Greek while Shelley left with a great deal Greek but no creed. The lecturer sooke at some leneth of grave injury ot the misuse of euloev as connected with writers, orators and eloquence. He thought the evil entered as deeply into our writings as our speaking.

Writers of the present day must have intense applause, and read muoi uttvg uuLueuiuiu u.uuemeui. intensity is the characteristic of our style but intensity is not the characteristic of our nature, either in spirit or iu matter. The suggestions of nature do not mislead us in the use of speech. So largely have the writers and speakers of our day drawn upon the stock of adjectives wherewith to eulogise their heroes, that if one is inclined to say a good word for Homer, or Plato, or Virgil, or Socrates, a complimentary term scarcely remains. Our common idea of eloauence is that of uuuumg lUBionc.

iuontaigno cans rnetoric a deceitful art," and says that all who use it make it a business to deceivu their listenem. The worst result of rhetoric is. that it is an art which can be used by the unprincipled, and take the sacred name of eloquence hut it is far from it. Eloquence is not even in force of mind nr even imagination, but that order of speech which tne wisaorn 01 ages does not renounce, or ad vancing man repel. True eloquence is that which accords with the moral bearing of intellect, which enlightens, elevates and inspires, and continues forever to be a living voice among nations.

Bl si.vers or the Road. Nineteen hundred barrels of American Hour and seventv fiva bar rels of ashes, besides various other lessor commo dities, arrived here over the Atlantic road at 3 0 clock Saturday morning. The St. Lawrence is now closed ud to business. and the great western traffic bound from Europe, via Montreal, must pass exclusively, for the next six months, through Portland.

There are to be tour freight trains mn each way for the present, and perhaps all winter. The Advertiser says that one house alone (the well known flour dealers, Robinson of Boston )have now stored in Montreal, flour to the amount of 30,000 barrels, consigned to Rogers of this city, waiting transportation hither. Fifteen thousand barrels to the same consignees, and for the same house in Boston, are now in Portland and on the way here. Portland Argus, Monday. A Sad Mistakk.

Mr. Miller, of Huntingdon township, Luzerne county. while out hunting on the 15th instant, with his son in law, Mr. Taylor, was mistaken by the latter for a deer, and shot. He died the next day.

The Nassau Fire Insurance Company ok Brooklyn. UJjtcei, 10 Court itrtet, Brooklyn, and Merctianti' Exchange, New York. Capital $150,000. WITH A HANDSOME SURPLVX. Insure Buildings, Merchandise, Furniture, and other Pro periy.BgalnstLoss or Damage by Fire, onfavorableterms.

SainuelSmlth. DIRECTORS: ConkllnBruah, William H.Carey, Henry C. Murphy, E.B Litchfield, It llunford, Ablel A. Low, James A. H.Bell, John T.

Martin, Leonard Cooper, George D. Morgan, James Weaver, Daniel Van Voorhls, J. W. Harper, J. Johnson, Isaac urban, Wm.Hunter.jr., Carton Brevoor Charles W.

Lynde, Alexander Underbill. Elijah Lewis, Loomis Ballard SamuelS. Powell. Wm.F.Bulkley, Peter Balen, Thomas Stralton. William M.

Harris Thomas J. Gerald, Stephen Haynes, Abm.B.Bayllft. John Dlmon, John J.Studwall, Michael Chauncy, uanieimcuarug, ohn French. WM. M.

HARRIS, President. J. Beerman, Secretary The Office will be opan evenings until fl o'clock el is taxed is more than double that of any one of the said wards and yet, while these five wards have the services of 80 policemen, there are never on duty in the sixth ward, at one time, more than six men. The beats ol these six individuals extend for miles, and no one need be told that the protection they pan afford is a perfect farce. A communication was presented on Monday night to the Common Council, from a Mr.

O'Neii. of South Brooklyn, complaining of the want ot police in the sixth ward, which was referred to the Mayor and Chief of Police for report at the next meeting. The occasion was seized by Aid. Fowler to charge the Mayor with derilection of duty in not regulating the police force himself, and thus perforin a duty which the charter devolves upon the Common Council. The Mayor, in his message to the Board, recommended a redistribution of the police force, which it neglected to carry out.

But it appear. from an examination of the matter, that while the outer wards are slmost entirely unprotected, the inner wards cannot spare atay of its police, and there appears no other alternative than the appointment of an additional number of men. Something must evidently be done. The outer wards require police more than the inner. Being sparsely populated and yet to be built up, upon the charae ter they now acquire for peace, order and respectability, or lawlessness and rowdyism, will good citizens or disorderly ruffians seek them as their home and will they in future be a credit or a disgrace to the city.

From Panda, Central America, we learn that much excitement existed against the Governor among the Americans at Virgin, in consequence of the brutal treatment and final shooting of one of our countrymen. Through the instrumentality of our Minister, Mr. Borland, the Governor was arrested and tried, but was afterwards reinstated. The most bitter feeling exists in that, as well as almost every other place in Central America, against the people of the United States and it will require the most judicious management on the part of Mr. Borland to protect our citizens from the grossest insults and aggressions.

At last advices Mr. B.was at Man gua, Nicaragua, endeavoring to negotiate a treaty. He would soon leave for Costa Rica, and afterwards pay a general visit to the five States. The hostilities between Guatemala and Honduras still continue. The latter government had committed an act of aggression on a Peruvian vessel sailing in the interest of Sardinia, against which the Sardinian Consul had protested, characterizing the matter as an act of piracy.

Travel. The railroad trains last week were everywhere heavily loaded with persona going from and coming to New York. The nasseuMr business of the N. Y. and N.

Haven railroad was as follows Pats. out of Y. Monday 1,210 Tuesday 1,572 Wednesday 3,221 Thursday 1,799 Friday 1,1140 Saturday 1,725 A'li. ot Pan. 3,335 3,281 5,443 4,498 4,529 4,307 10,668 25.893 This shows that a number of persons passed over the road during six days, equal to the entire population of New Haven, with its suburbs.

The largest train was the 3 P. M. train out of New York on Wednesday, which had 669 passengers. The morning train had about 600. The news brought from India to England by the overland mail is of a gloomy character.

Pe gu is overrun by hords of insurgents, acting, it is said, by advice of the king 0 Ava, and his more than probable that the ruling country will find herself forced to attempt to reconquer the terri tory at great cost. Reports were rife in the northwestern provinces that a Russian army had advanced to within ten days march of Oorgune, the commercial capital of Khivah. The King of ot Persia was assembling a large army in Sulta nieh. The gossip from Washington asserts that the candidates for the Public printing, are Armstrong of the Union, Tucker of the Sentinel, and Wallack of the Star; that Gov. Marcy's influence is on the wane 'that the Messaee is com plete, and will recommend the construction of the Pacific Railroad and all the aid the government can constitutionally bestow and that Judge Donglaes will judge of tun Administration from its future policy and not from the past.

The latest case of absence of mind is that of Samuel Woodside of Boston, who undertook to use his carving knife upon his wife on Thanksgiving day, instead of upon the nice roast goose she had provided for him. He discovered his mistake when he found himself iu the clutches ot the police. We learn from Paris, that Alexandre Dumas, the prince of romancers and dramatists, is about emigrating to the United States, for the purpose of permanently establishing himself aud spending his last days in the land of liberty. On the Eastern Railroad, yesterday, the one o'clock train was thrown off the track in Chelsea, by a stone, killing the fireman, named Hall, and injuring the engineer. George M.

Chase, American Consul for Lahaina, arrived at Honolula, on the 15th of September, in the ship Benjamin Howard, from San Francisco. Spirit of the PreN. The Mirror has an article on wire pulling at the capitals, from which we make the following extract "Almost every mail from Albany and Washington brings us more gossip than we have room to publish, or time to read, in regard to the pushing and caucusing for Speakerships, Clerkships, Sergent at armsships, We have already given the names of the various candidates rumored to have high prospects of success bnt. as yet very little can be predicted with certainly. A private correspondent, well posted in the movements at Albany, assures us that Mr.

Robert n. Pruyn's election as Speaker of the Assembly is a settled question that Mr. Sherman, of Utica, is much talked of Clerk of the House, and that Hugh J. of the Albany Knickerbocker; has 'a good look' for Clerk of the Senate. Hastings is a thorough Miner oartv man, and oue of those free and easy, popular sort 01 politicians against whoso success is never safe to bet very large." The JVorth British Mail relates the following story of a reverse of fortune "In midsummer last year a merchant fitted out a vessel from they Clde for Melbourne, he being owner of both vessel and cargo.

She car ried out a number of passengers, and among tne crew was a poor boy who was taken out free for his labor. When the vessel arrived at Mel bourne, the owner sold the cargo, and shortly afterwards tno vessel, and remitted the proceeds to nis tnends at home. This noor bov eot em ployment in one of the numerous lighters that ply between the large emigrant ships and Melbourne, carrying cargo, a very prolltable trade, and he last week rermnitted 10 of his savings accompanied ny a letter, in which lie says, am well employed and saving money. You may pernaps be aware tnat ship 1 came by was sold here, the owner is driving a cart through Melbourne, the captain is employed as a laborer about the wharves, while a young gentleman a relative of the owner is carrying a hod in a brick store. The Times in speaking of John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, says "And forsooth, when it nation, the most noble men of which were once denounced as rebels, for the same cause and by the same power, evinces a uveiy synipatny ior sucu as he when we would honor those who have been overpowered in a struggle for the privileges which were only won ior us alter many iiaru tought battles, we are charged in pompous tones with designing an insult to a friendly government.

If to honor the very essence of our existence as a nation be an insult, even to England, we fear she will not only have to bear with those she has already received, but await with what disposition she pleases a renewal of the offence as often as her cruel ty drives forth patriot exiles to our shores. Jons' Mitchell will be honored by Americans for what he has suffered for a principle dear to us as to him, and be will find their warmest sympathies in all that he may henceforth engage in that tends to enlarge the sphere of happiness and elevate mankind. His every act and. word has reflected honorably upon his manhood, and he deserves the favor of all who admire men of honest purposes, and possessed of the courage and firmness necessary to carry them 011 to success." The Herald believes that the appointment policy will be the test of the Administration in Congress, if those principles and that policy doliot find favor with a majority of the members of Congress the present administration will then have to choose between an ignominious and ungentlemanly retention of office, contrary to the wishes of the people, and 11 resignation of at the earliest possible convenience of the Executive. If, on the other hand, the majority of Congress concur in the doctrines these twin manifestoes expose, the administration may slumber in peace, aud the nationals will be compelled to adopt some new course of tactics.

The Journal of Commerce, has an article on Going into business," it which it reads a lecture to clerks and subordinates to earn high wages, and they will get it without striking; and to employers to treat their employees more liberally, and they will he much more faithfully served. Fall of a Brii.m.vii One Man Killed and Several Others Wounded. A number of men were set to work yesterday morning to tear down the old frame building, No 31 Cross street, New York, which had probably been standing half a century. Soon alter commencing operations, two or three hundred men, women and children entered the place for the purpose of gathering pieces ot board, Ac The workmen first tore off the clapboards, and were in the act of pulling down the joists, posts. Ac, when the frame eave way aud a large portion of it, fell, burying up a number of the poor people.

Word was immediately sent to the Cth ward elation, and Capt. Bke.vnax, with a force of men repaired to the, place, and soon succeeded in removing the rubbish. Cornelius Sullivan, latent No. 153 Anthony street, was taken out dead and his remains were conveyed to his late residence; Den is and Margaret Fi.ynn of No. 157 Anthony street, George Skrkeli.

of No. 15 Orange street, John Connor of No. GI'. Cross street, Eugene SrLMVAX of No. 148 Anthony street.and Patrick Sixuvan of No.

35 1 2 Orange street, were taken out more or less injured. Most ot them were conveyed to theN. Y. Hospital, and the rest to their homes, where medical attention was afforded them. An inquest will be held to day on the body of the deceased, when an investigation will be instituted as to the cuuse of the occurrence.

Arrest of a Counterfeiter. Charles Clark was arrested on Monday at a house in the upper part of the city, charged with being concerned in the recent emission of counterfeit notes on the Farmers's and Drovers' Bank, of Somers, N. Y. On searching the premises, over S1O.O00 in spurious mnoey was found, with implements used in the manufacture of the counterfeits. The prisoner has been committed for a further hearing before the mayor.

Phil. Ledger. tyrants high places. High hearts and strong hands are bred in Ireland, and the cup of slavery is still a bitter draught, as of old, and the sting of universal contempt is maddening, and time and charjse wait on all men, and steel still cuts, and fire still burns and Heaven is above us all. The graves, indeed, of two millions of our famished murdered nation will not give up their dead, though the graves are shallow and the dead are coffinless.

The seven years of Ireland's sore agony in the talons of British civilization have been endured they cannot be erased from the calendar they cannot be forgotten they shall not be forgotten. Nations have no future state, and therefore national 'punishments and compensations come in this world; and as surely as "sorrow tracketh crime," that foul British Empire will be brought to a stiict accounting; Ireland will yet have her victory and her revenge. High words these, some men will say. The unhappy being forgets, they will say, that he has been five years brooding in solitary cells, or buried in the forests of the Antipodes, he forgets progress, and electric telegraphs, and how far the species has been striding ahead while he has been gnawing his own heart in a jail; ho forgets that the Irish he once knew are mostly dead or fled, and the remnant contented, or cowed, or bought, and bought cheap enough, and so they will say he begins to rave again about the cruel Saxon, and the rights of Irish nationhood, that empty sound, the very echoes of which have died out in the waitings of famine, or been wafted over the Atlantic, or drowned in the pteans of peace and joy that hailed a queen's visit and a Crystal Palace I know what the slaves and cowards will say. I know their cruel cant.

And I say to them again that I had considered all that. Too well and keenly I feel what a gulf yawns between the today of Ireland, and the day when I was carried from my home with chains upon my limbs a gulf deep as the grave, black as the smoke of Tophet. I have heard of the idiotic pretence of loyalty that the Irish were once more deluded by iJritiBa taisenooa to make before their she tyrant. I have read of their puny and false mimicry of that English humbug of all nations. Oh, I have heard how Ireland is at last going to be ameliorated, for that two millions and a half of her lawless Celts are famished to death or driven to seek a livelihood in foreign lands aud how the survivors begin to live better and how a Lord Lieutenant continues to encourage the manufacture of tabinet for the viceregal waist coat, and now a Urystal Palace stands in Dublin to display the productions of Ireland.

Oh, mockery the productions of Ireland but, the committee have not exhibited, as I hear, the real staple and characteristic productions of that country model squalid rows ranks of humble tenants at will, with their hats in their hands pyramids ot ejectment decrees basins of transparent poor houBe gruel, (a great work of art) cases of famished corpses, to show how lean an Irishman can walk before he dies, while an Englishman eats his bread dead children, half gnawed by wolfish mothers these were an exposition of Irish industry for a Queen of England to open in state these were the true mirror of the country's condition. But because the grisly picture is true, it will be carefully turned wish its face to the wall, and all manner of glittering, flattering lies will take its place. Let that Palace of falsehood stand while it may it is but glass. Let the poor worshinners of that obscene golden image which the Prince Albert has set up, wallow and grovel, and eat dirt there, and crave the crumbs that fall from their master's tables. But now I will turn away from Europe and her politics, and before I close, will confess to you that 1 have a personal reason, as well as the great public one, for joyfully receiving the honor you have done me.

The Queen of England's packed jury, you are aware, called me a felon. Now, from that foul verdict I appeal and I consider this assembly of American citizens a competent tribunal to reverse it. Two years ago, you reviewed my (riend Terence McMauus' trial, and found him not guilty and the news of your generous reception of htm, when it reached us in our police districts, elated and cheered us as an insolent pardon from Queen Victoria could not have done. The great city of New York has reversed the finding of the packed jury ofClonmel), and the sentence of the unjust judge who sentenced Thomas Francis Meagher to be dragged on a hurdle to the place of execution, ana mere oe iiangea uy tne necK until ne was dead, and who prayed Heaven to have mercy on his soul. New York lias decreed that rebel as worthy of being borne in a triumphal chariot, through ranked myriads of cheering freemen, for but having attempted, though in vain, to right his country's wrong And now, citizens of San Francisco, you pronounce, do you not? that I also am not a felon.

But I will go farther. Either I am a felon, or those who carried me from my home in letters, under a false pretence of law, are felons that it to say, the Queen of En Iand and her Ministers, and her partizan Judges, and her perjured Sheriff, and her learned Attorney General. Now, I wish to state, and in a few words, what that Queen and her servants did to me and mine. There are men at this table who know the truth of every word I shall Bay it is my counter indictment, and I shall fearlessly ask the verdict of America and the world upon it. First, they procured an act of Parliament to name the work I was engaged in a felony, and to attach to it the penalty of a felon, with the avowed ob jret of degrading Irish patriots to the rank and to the society ot cut shroats and rick burners, and so making Irish nationalism scandalous and ignominious.

Second.when their act was passed, and when I disobeyed it, of course, then came the trial. If 1 had violated law, I was to be punish ed by the law. Now, I charge the Queen and government of England with setting themselves above the law; that is to say, breaking the law.