The New York herald., 1845-03-19
The Political Meetings Last Night.

We give in cur columns to-day full report OF
the meetings held las night-the one of the wings,
and the other of the ''natives." We recommend
them particularly 10 the notice oi our readers.
IL will be perceived that numser OF highly I'M
porant issues are concerned in the approaching
charter election. One Of the chleiest of these is
sues involves the determination OF the char
acter OF the municipal government of the city fol
the next year; another is side contest between
the organization of the wings and that of the ''na
tyes" for existence hereafter. According to al
rational probability, the gross unpopularity of the
native party will cause complete revolution il
the election this year, and may give us an entirely
new set of men tor Mayor and Common Council
But the very existence Of the 'natives," rs party
appears also to be seriously endangered from the
indications afforded by these preliminary meetings
From the enthusiasm and energy displayed las
evening among the wings, il is very certain thai
they do not mean 10 yield in the slightest degree
To their antagonists, the 'natves" and this elec-
ton, which will take place in few days, will de-
telnle whether the or the other willg go 10 the
wall
AT all events, one thing appears TO be pretty GER
tain that is, the defeat of the new reform party IN
the effort to retain the government of the cty-a
trust which they have so shamefully abused during
the past year. We commend the reports OF the two
meetings, however, to our readers, and shall here
after have much to say on the interesting and
important issues involved in this contest before il
be decided by the people.
The ADMINISTRATION OF Mr.. PoLK.-The first
movements of the new administration are now
fully before the country, and according to all ap-
NH Ill
advisers will give the country more repose and
quiet than it has enjoyed for many years past.
The selection of Mr.. Polk's cabinet may have
created some disappointment in certain quarters
both North and South, but this disappointment lie
trivial when compared with the general acqu-
escence oil the great bulk Of both parties through
out the country. With wonderful degree of tact,
MIR. Polk appears to have cut all connexion with
the great leaders of cliques-those standing candi-
dates fur the succession. Silas Wright, John c.
Calhoun, Lewis Cass, and all others in the position
of candidates for the succession three or four
years hence, are discovered entirely from the admi.
nisration. 1t is a new era in the administration
OF public affairs, introduced by new set of men
IN power There is strong disposition in the
country amongst all parties to give fair and homo
rable support to Mr. Polk's administration in all
those measures and principles TO which he was
pledged in the election. His appointments, thus
far, seem to be very generally acqulesced in by all,
and there is every probability that we shall have
that peace and comfort In republican government
for few years at least, to which we have beer
comparatively strangers for long time past.
During the next three years, therefore, we may
expect great revival in all the arts and science!
of life, utility and taste. Commerce and manufac
lures must improve. Literature will have a fai
field for exertion and display. Theatrical move
ments will have fresh start, and every thing con
nected with civilization, improvement, enterprise
industry, and human effort, will experience tn,
salutary influence of a quiet, harmonious and re
spectacle administration of the general govern
ment.
MOVEMENTS OF THE SOCIALISTS. - Mr.. Rober
Owen, the great father of English socialism, ha
arrived in this city from Washington, full of phi
lanthropy and philosophy, and intends, in a lev
days, to commence course of lectures on his pc
culiar dspensation. He ccnsiders the present or
ganization of society to be all that is erroneous
principle and most irrational in practice, and tha
1t is attributable to three great errors, namely
That man has the power by his will to form hi
own individual qualities, physical, mental, AM
pleasure-That he can like or dislike, love or hate
or create his own feelings fer persons and things
according to his will" Mr.. Owen means to cradi
cate these "errors'' by the announcement and en-
forcing 0" three great laws of nature" which h,
has discovered, namely-"Tha man has no know
ledge or power to enable him Individually to form
his physical, mental or moral quaties-That he
must believe or disbelieve according the strong
est impressions made upon his mInd-and, That ht
must like that which is most agreeable, and dislik,
that which is the most disagreeable to his lndivi
dual nature"
Mr. Owen has been, in. Europe, the great rivs
of Fourier, the French socialist, whose doctrine
he considers, in some respects, repugnant to tn
laws of nature, althoughpagreeable to those law
in other points In the course of his lectures MI
Owen will give full and lucid views Of his new SO
cial system, and satisfy every one that he is goin
10 begin the millennium, for if there is to be one
think it must be now nigh at hand The Rev
Mr. Hale of the Journal of Commerce believes, in
deed, that we are now in the millenium-that
dawned upon the world several years since. Pro
badly he dates its advent from the time when h,
began to receive $75a night for the use of the Tia
bernacle, exclusive of FIVE dollars for carpet OF
the platform, and ten dollars for bottle of grog il
the committee room.
The lectures Of Mr.. Owen, however, cannot fai
to be interesting and instructive. Unlike the apos
ties of French socialism, who have perambulate,
this country, Mr.. Owen possesses comprehensive
and cultivated mind, and there is philosoph
dignity in his discourses which efiecualy sets ridi
cue at defiance. In unfolding his benevolen
schemes for the regeneration of the human race
he will very probably occasion little uneasines
in Brisbane, Greeley, and the French philosophers
as he may expose their weakness and charlatanr
inthe same line Of improving the world. We sha
endeavor to give full account of Mr.. Owens lee
lures, and state precisely where he differs from tn
Fourierite notions Of Brisbane and others.
BEAUTIFUL LroHT.-There was a splendid atmos
pherical sight presented to yesterday afternoon
About five O'Clock thick snow squall passed owe
the city just high enough for the sun to shine IN