New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-20

weather, we shudder to think of the world hard
ness about these days.
To CORRESPONDENTS ALI persons directing
communications to The Tribune are desired to
give real name and residence. Many matters 0,
importance have gone to oblivion because they
came tous in an anonymous form No person
should write Inc which he is afraid OF ashamed
toown.
For EuRopg-The Arctic will sail to morrow
room. Mails close at lOl AN. Mail for Bre-
men will close to-day at PM
~ We may begin to take Time into our
houses and pay By the month az we do Tor gas and
water-for a ~ Peyrot Of st. Etienne, has ar
ranged an electrical clock, which at small expense
and by means Of communicating wires, Will lndI-
cate the same moment upon myriad clock.taces
In this manner one clock will serve whole city
What vista Of pleasant possibilities this discov-
cry opens No more inaccuracy in dinner arrlY
als-no more being caught at home, by difference
in clocks at hours arranged for friends or creditors
to call Decidedly there IS no end of the things
| of which our philosophy Las not dreamed
The OPERA-This evening Signora TRUFFI
BKs1DErTI sings in Donizettis Parisini, one OF
the new operas which the indefatigable Maret-
EEK has produced this season. TRUFF1 is so much
favorite that the announcement of her appear
ance should be enough to gather the old crowd Of
| her admirers.
BERrUccAs Amina was very successful on
Wednesday evening. We hope to hear oftener
La Sou,namJala for after Don Gioranni we re-
call no opera pleasanter to hear.
THE REFUGE AND Hosp1TA1 ron ENIGRASrs
on WARDS IsLAND.-W'e had yesterday the
pleasure of accompanying a party OF the Com
nissioners of Emigration with the members of
the Legislature now in the city, and few of the
editorial corps, 10 visit Ward Island and The In
stitutions of the Commissioners. The party left
town at noon, reaching the island in about three
quarters Of an hour. and after a thorough eXamin-
alton OF the hospitals and condition of the emf
grants returned at o'clock, after most success
tul and pleasant excursion, notwithstanding the
extreme inclemency of the weather.
The object of this little visit was to inform such
members of the Legislature as CHANGED to be pre-
sent OF the practical operation of the Institution
under the sanitary and other regulations adopted
any time be made to the Assembly for assistance,
there might perfect understanding among the
members, of the aim and working of the under
taking.
There was the most entire satisfaction ex.
pressed upon the part of the visitors, yesterday
| not only with the wise spirit which animates the
arrangements, but with the detail Of those ar
engagements in the hospitals, lodging and
schools. After visiting the various wards for the
treatment Of diseases Of the eye in which, since
the introduction Of certain principles of gen.
eral treatment, very remarkable improvements
are manifest both in the number OF cures and the
! duration Of treatment, the visitors proceeded to
the departments appropriated to other diseases.
| In every one there is the utmost cleanliness and
care, and the best ventilation possible to the re-
! sources of the commission II our anxious hu
mainly might have suggested in quarters
more complete ventilation, equally conscen-
! tious care proved that the utmost was accom-
| plished consonant with the character of the build
ing and the means Of the Institution. The names
of the gentlemen of the Commission of Emigra-
ton, of which Gulian c. Verpanck is President
and Robert B. Mnturn and Rodof Rodewald
President of the German Society, are prominent
members, is sufficient guarantee OF the character
of the management
We were especially pleased with the admira,
BILE arrangements for the care of sick children,
and of pregnant women. The washing depart
ment too, in which a steam engine Of 10 horse
power wrings out and drys the clothes, so that
the washing of 800 or 1000 persons is performed
with CELEBRITY and ease-elicited universal admira-
ton The school and chapel are in & large and con.
venient apartment,-a corps of some ten resident
Physicians and Surgeons is permanently attached
to the Institution beside the consulting advice of
the most eminent members Of the New-York
faculty; and the most sagacious phianthropist
would find little wanting upon Wards Island to
the feasible care and treatment of the thousands
of Emigrnnts who yearly experience the adyan-
| tages of the Institution.
We have only time this morning thus briefly to
allude to the visit and to its salutary impression
proposing at very early period to return to
completer consideration Of the position and claims
of this Institution. 1t would be difficult to over
estimate the importance to our country, of judi
cious and humane treatment of the 100000 Emf.
grants yearly landing upon our shores. A treat
| ment which, to be truly humane and nationally
beneficial, must be removed beyond party preju-
dces of whatever character. The aim and scope
of the Commission is so lofty and Christian affect
ing much more nearly the vital, prosperous per
| nanence of our institutions than q superficial
glance might suppose, and the character of the
| present Managers is so generous and wise, that
| we cannot but bespeak for it the most serious
thought of the community. The treatment of
Emigrants is question peculiar to ourselves in
magnitude and Importance. Let us meet it in
manner peculiar to ourselves, of wisdom and hui
manitV