The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-14 00:00:00

Tii. 1) 76TATE46.

' NEW YORK; M Ock-28.
Thimnoderate tone of• the.. Message of President
Pierce. to Conaess on the subject of the Black
Wairii.cliffiettlVy has met with general and hearty
aomrhendation.' The matter was warmly discussed '
• n the Cabinet, and it was with some difficulty
hat the Filibuster tendencies of certain members
'f that State Council were made to give way to a
iplicy upon which such great issues depended.
some days before the message was sent to Con-
.o-ess very decided and peremptory instructions
Aire prepared for our Minister at Madrid'
Immediate and full satisfaction and reparation
'lave been dem inded, and if this is not granted
he public feeling of the country will demand A
wire summary course of procedure. It is well
anderstood that the President has pledged himself
a, his Cabinet, and to the committees on foreign
affairs in both houses, to take a very firm and de-
rided course if there is any delay or evasion on the
part of the Spanish Ministry.
The news from Mexico is important. A tevol
bition which promises to be formidable is in full
oroaaress. General Alvarez is the chief leader:
Santa Anna's troops have made no headway and
tchieved no ad vantage in marching on Acapulco. The
ifficial journal of Mexico informs us that his Serene
lighness is preparing to send 10,000 or 12,00.?
troops; but this may well be doubted. The spirit
if disaffection is ripening into revolution in various,
other parts of Mexico, and it is not believed that
•a) considerable a body yf men can. be spared' from
-he capital. If they are set in motion, it is some'
That doubtful if they do not join with the fuser'
ents on the march. Santa Anna wants money*.
Ila is ready to obtain it, like other persons in hitt
•ircumstances, on the best terms he can make, but
eoney he must have or abandon his possition. 1/-8,
lave the report current, and it is believed, thal,
Santa Anna has sent . a messenger to Washington
to announce that he accedes to all the au-lentil:ller°
_proposed by President Pierce to the --Gadsden
reaty. lt is thought that the messenger iis
clothed with authority to accept of any amend'
nent, provided his master can get the 15,000,0.7
dollars. There was little prospect of the ratty
ration of the Gadsden treaty, even with the amend
newts proposed by the President. It is nolv
thought that some member of the Senate will prn•
pose the cession of Lower California and Sonora,
'already half-possessed by the Filibusteros. la
(his case almost everybody would vote for it, be'
ause it would give us about as much territory se
we want for a year or two, being somewhat larger
than France ; and we have recently as_ertained by
t careful estimate that we do not gorge an area
Arger than France oftener than once a-year'
Phis seems to- be about the rate of our 000-
gumption. It should be advocated, beside,
in grounds of public morality, for it is pro"
per, at all events, for pirates to pay for' tight!
:.hey have stolen after they have got it in then:-
possession. Poor Mexico ! And if this state tn
-things continues much longer, we may say,--Alst
for the United States! Nations are no more exemla'
,han men from the great moral law which requirrt
that we do to others as we would be done by.
4eeins strange, but, it is true, that our Republic.'
the "Modelepublic"—should bedisposed, because
it has the power, to grasp, either by war or mooch
the possessions of our neighbours, when the very
-attempt to do it on a small scale by the Emper°
of Russia has set Europe in a blaze.
The State of New Hampshire, where President
Pierce was born, and where hehas always lived, hss
net held its annual election. It was looked for'
yard to with the deepest interest by the Adiny
ustration and by the whole' country. Ne"dr
aampshire had always been a D imoeratio State'
It is almost the only State of the Union that never
;ast a Whig vote. On General Pierce's election
he swept that State by an unprecedented ina.lS
rity. The Administration made a desperar_
struggle during the late election ; they sent their
best speakers there and vast sums of money, 0.1;,,
it was supposed that a heavy majority would
the
cast for the'vindidates who were friendly to tuv
President and his Cabinet ; but the result has
shown how little confidence is felt in the prese,,n.,
Administration. A clear
.majority is confidently
asserted to have been elected to the Legislature by
the Opposition. It is the most significant and sin;
portant political- occurrence we have witnessed
since the election of General Pierce, Two Unite
'tates' senators are to be chosen by this Legisla;
tore, anti they will be hostile to the Preside') •
They will be the first two United States' seuatorS
from New Hampshire who ever opposed a reel;
cratic President. So many issues depended uli.'9o
this election that, after the infamous Nebraska P 1
had passed the Senate, the friends of the Admit-11s;
tration hail agreed that it was best not to bring l'
tip in the House of Representatives until the volea
of New Hampshire had been heard.
Among hundreds of memorials, petitions, and
protests laid before anigress, praying that bodY
not to enact the Nebraska Bill into a law, there
have been two of singular import, dignity, and
'influence. One was from the clergymen of No°
York city anti its vicinity, embracing 150 Moir
tial names from almost all sects and denominations'
The Episcopal Bishop of the New York diocese %IS
the first signer. Teis petition was duly received'
But a few days later, when a petition signed, b!,
5,5J0 clergymen of New England was laid before
the Senate, it was treated with the deepest int",
pity. • Senator Douglass rose in a passionate phillP:
pie, and assaulted the whole body of the petitioue;
in the most insulting manner. The offensive porti°
of their memorial was in the following words
"The undersigned, clergymen of different religi°"rt(
denominations in New England, hereby, in the natn' t:t
Almighty God, and in his presence, do solemnly Prote,-,1
against the passage of the Nebraska Bill, or any l'el)p
or modAcation of existing legal prohibitions of slav%
in that part of our national domain which it Proposes t
organise into the territory of Nebraska and Kansas. ,,We protest against it as a great moral wrong ; 139 ,
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breach of faith, eminently injurious to the moral Prl,,
„-;
ciples of the community, and subversive of ail confideeTo
ii, national engagements ; as a measure furl of dagger
the peace, and even the existence of oar beloved timlLnit.
and exposing us to the righteous judgment of the ""
mighty."
General Sam Houston, of Texas, rose and pr,,,,,°'
nounceti a most eloquent and well-merited trihni;
of respect to the petitioners, anti added new laurf.o
to the reputation he had already acquired by hits
Ibis
measure. and uncompromising hostility to taat
measure. Tile country has real with the deepest
regret a leading article in the Washington Ae".a. i
tiael, which is the official organ of the til"taho
States' Senate, iu which the editor says that t
t,
memorial of this " piahalti regiment of arrogant,
parsons" is a "high-handed measure. It is tined.
donable, impious arrogance. Did Almighty "Qv
commission these -..iari, as they intimate, 4,
engage in this crusade against the Nebra's,'„f,
Bill I" All this appears in the.official journal
the United States' Senate, which professes to yO,
e
the most enlightene I and dignified body on tAb 1
earth, presiding over the destinies of the "Mewe
Republic" of the 19th century. Such proceedinis,
manufacture out of upright, conscientious, diarlian..,:'
sedate, anti prudent men Abolitionists by the thou'
sand every hour. Slavery has hitherto had ito tell'
ante so strong as upon the' good faith with whet'
the North has stood by the Missouri Coinpromise:.
This has been the firmest prop of slavery ; mina:
it, and sound, wise, and just men are agreed that
the days of slavery are numbered.—Times.

CURIOUS CUSTOU OF JINGLING MONEY ON A TO)1131;
STONE AT ST. BARTHOLOMEWS CHURCH ON GOOO
,t.heanrdecttrour;tte
F Rev.Ftr. 13 A:l.r:
AT
bo
itsy,
and tgh eG)o d
churchwardensFri(la
of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, die,t;;;
bated 20 sixpences to as many poor widows of the
parish. The donor was a lady who, some centuries
ri
since, resided in the p rish, and left a certain sum 10
perpetuity for the purpose, on the strange cmidition ther
ewahciochsixecreetrkcy e
recipientshotild lre
wasthrownto p
onassh.er gTriai
nvee,st
ho
on ew,e°,/e.rtt
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has destroyed every vestige of the stone, and the
r
is thrown on the ground over the grave. A furt
0
sum of 20s. is allowed for preaching a sermon on 5-a
occasion. A iire.it number of the parishioners An
others were present to witness the curious ceremon4ho
N TOBACCO CHEEWING IN THE UNITED STATES.
this
ew Yoik Tribune of the 25th ult., thus writes On"iec.
practice :--" At the end of the announcement of e
ture to be delivered in Rome, New York, y
hj
Ward Beecher, the Committee of Managers insert "io
following reasonable request P.S.—Will persoeshile
the habit of using tob ,eco abstain from its use t',,ve
there ? as the ladies who furnished the church o'o6,
justly an unwillingness to its being used for leetertho
through fear of its being desecrated and soiled by ot
juice of the weed.' The trait in our people which el to
disgusts well-_bred strangers, and is equally repulsive it,
well-bred Americans, is this tobacco chewing and f'rdi,
ting. Apart from the fact that the use of tobacco
ical
minishes the volume of flesh and the outline of phYeed
beauty—lessens the weight and hardness of the pea
bones of the human economy—it is one of the gre9'-e-
-habits tbat can be practised. None of the brute °re
tion is so filthy in his native state as the civilised let'
with his tobacco chewing. Artistically speakinPlist
seems unequivocally satirical for a statesman or awl" ve
to be holding forth on liberty or ethics, and be the e'e t,
to the nasty habit in question. It is above all di-guas,d
ing to women, and the first effort of a gentleman eiVirby
be to have his manners approved of by the sex. '
should a man chew tobacco, when he would look wo,
horror on a woman who should do so ? In our 13°„tego
in stage coaches; in railroad cars especially as W,Lere
west and south, in theatres, in courts of justice, `,..ting
is a congeries of beastliness by means of tobacco-sPi` the
which wou d make the doubter or cynic proclaim Slutu
filthiest of people. It seems by the above caution,
the habit must be particularly bad at Rome, 14;1d
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trust that the Romans have not only observed this ie.
cool
tiniation in this particular instance, but will eo !ite
pletely reform their habits as to malt/ such
usatosiotri inteigtok" .

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