The herald., 1837-02-27
lE'rom the Weekly Herald of Feb. z5.l
News OF the Week.


The last seven nights and seven days have been
rather active and lnactve-rather stupid and hveiy-
somewhat absurd and somewhat important Inc
world has been going on in pretty much the same style
it appeared to be doing w2en Adam ana I'VE had 70
leave Paradise and seek their fortunes by the bank OF
any stream they could find fruit tree to sleep under
The history Of the world for week is sample OF
the six or the sixty thousand years Our races nave
passed through heretofore All the pa ssions ana weak
nesses of man--al the vagares and foes OF the soul
all the crimes and virtues of the human race are more
or less brought out as yoa would the veins oat OF
marble block.
Our news from Europe to the 10th from Liverpool,
has been very unimpotan The nations IN that part OF
the globe are moving onward in the same circle
Russia at the head of the contlnent-and England
the chief on the islands, shores and the ocean, ms
is the great age of aPpeu 70 fehgloh
10 rovernment-to law-to war-to amusement-to
commerce.
We have nothing of any consequence from any
mart of the world-and less than nothing from South
America. ..u =.
self-wasting precious time-spending money foolish
iv-and exhibiting series OF acts that would make
rhe bloody nosed sardns OF the Five Points blush for
their conduct. The whole session has been wastedIn
ridiculous investigation, set on foot by couple Of
madmsn, called Wise and Peyton They got up a
committee, and set upon the rogue Whitney, who Is
however (et us be just) more OF rogue than any
politician out of ten thousand is IN similar circumstan
ces. Whitney made fght-and after the waste OF
much talk and the preparation OF much folly, the
House called hlm to its bar and he had no sooner got
there than they very glad to let him "cut and
run" as the loafers say
whitney has certainly done nothing more heinous
than hundreds of politicians of both partes-of all
parties He had an opportunity to get rch-and
he did not let the opportunity shp 80 few make mo-
ney by politics that, IN mercy, one now ana tnen
should be permitted to steal without going to the State
Prison. merely to keep the rest IN spirits and IN hope
Neither the tariff-ncr the surplus revenuenor the
, public lands-nor any matter of importance ls yet
settled by Congress-. week only remains OF tins
session and during that time they will have hardly
time to call the ayes and noes one half the import
ant bills before them. This confusion and inaction
and uncertainty arises from the close of one Pres-
dents reign and the accession OF successor.
There is an opinion prevailing extensively in many
quarters that the eve Of an entire change In
the policy of The government, IN some OF the most
important measures now before the country-par-
ticuary these in reference to the currency Others
again doubt this view, and contend that the new Pre-
sdent will not change the action of the government
an ota In this state of uncertainty shs the public
mind broodng future events, like hen sitting
over her future chickens, which to her astonlshment
may turn out to be young ducks, and take to the wa
ter No one seems TO know the precise hue of Mr.
Van Buren's mind-we doubt whether he knows it
himself He is a creature, not Of impulses but Of
circumstances His resolution today may be ehaced
tomorrow by change of circumstances. Our own
opinion is that he will gradually shape his course
cordne to the of that species Of intelligence
which 10 found in the atmosphere with which he 10
popular opinion and the humbug democracie," his
course every thing relative to the crrency, public
lands, commerce, trade and manufactures, will tend
towards that class who want TO make fortunes by
speculating on expansions and contractions-supply
and demand. The theories and morals which have
heretofore distinguished powers of
administration, spring from the west-those which
will mark the action of Mr. Van Buren's adminstra-
ton will be identical with the hue of Albany, and the
coloring Of certain cotcries in Wall street.
In the state legislatures nothing very remarkable
has been doing. Our own Legislature is still busy
talking the pilots, on usury, on small bills, on
the currency-talklng on every thing, but nothing
doing They are following the example of Congress
In the city, the week that has Just past has been
important The first batch of rioters, called the Ham
bin gang, has been tried and all convicted This IS
only the beginning of complete and wholesome re-
action, in favor OF the peace Of society. The other
rioters and general brawlers will soon follow. Re-
cordsr Rlker, in able and luminous charge TO the
jury has set the question respecting the liberty of the
press the clearest and broadest light Every edi-
tor has a right 10 publish what he pieases on public
men and pusc questions, being responsible the law
for any deviation frem fact and truth.
Our theatres during the week have been doing
good business, and some of them, not all, making
msney. The literary world is very quiet, but the
fashionable walks of life were never so hvey Pro-
badly two dozen public and private balls were given
during the week. Last night, there two public
balls, and three private, gwen in different parts Of the
CITY,
For the movements changes, fluctuations, course
OF acon, general feeling in stocks, the money mar
ket, and commerce generally recommend our
readers 10 series Of Wall Street Reports, now
considered by ALL the best of the kind ever published
IN this country.
LATER FROM EunoPr.-By the ship New York,
Capt. Niven, frsm Glasgow we have papers of that
city JAM l4th. They contain several repettoDs of
the report respecting the Erie, from Lloyd's List
fyIlows:-
"The Erie Funck, from Havre fol, New York,