The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-16

6on VIVA euenuaung circumstances. All the osner
president has orCered their immediate release the
General and the parties to the civil action
have reserved their rights IN respect OF damages
70 se discussed ' ss s T
reurGeneral asks for o stntence OF thirty years
banisbInent against NM. Perrier and Delley, and oil
four years imprisonment against the nvc Others.
Tho RAILWAY Congress. now sitting ut Berlin, have
decided considerable reduction IN the charge for
heavy and bulky articles tranpsrted by the railway.
Germany
The celebrated painter, M. de Schadow, director
OF the Dusseldorf School Of Fine Arts, has been cured
Of te disease of the eyes, In consequence OF which
he had been blind for some years.
n. Ger Vinus has been dismissed from his func.
tons q Professor IL the University Of Heidelberg.
Sweden
A despatch from Stockholm states that the Dan.
ish and Swedish fleet has been recalled before the
term for the cruise OF manoeuvres has expired and
ordered in haste into the Baltic.
Australia.
Tho chip Nelson, Captain Frazer, Of Glasgow, has
arrived on here from Melbourne In los days. having
on board about 70 900 ounces of gold and fifty pas
seDgers some Of whom landed here, with the master,
on bis bringing bag Of letters on shore.
Inc LONDON Times says:-" Accounts have been
received to-day from Melbourne (victoria) to the
z7th Of April being eleven days later than those by
SINGAPORE and by theAnglia to Madras, whence they
have come overland, via Marseilles. Messrs. WI
grams now ship the Kent, had reached Melbourne,
from England, in 81 days, and the Harbnger steam
er, belonging to the screw company, had made the
passage In seventy days. including six days spent In
day.
which left Plymouth on the Sd of January, and was
therefore ia days out At the date Of the present
advices the markets were bare, III consequence of
the non arriva! Of the large fleets, including alto
gether upwards Of 100 vessels that sailed from this
country In November, December, and January last,
and which for long period were windbound in the
tho gold production, and it is to be inferred that in
that respect every thing was going on satisfactorily.
The departures from the port Of London for the
Australian colonies during the week, show no mate
rial alteration. They comprised altogether nine
yesses-four to Port Phillip, with an aggregate
burden Of 1888 tons; three to Hobart Town, with
an aggregate burden of ,720 tons to Adelaide,
of LII tons and one to Sydney, of Gl9 tons. Their
total lcap.city was, consequently, 9O3 TONS The
shipments of manufactures and ordinary merchan-
disc present tendency to increase ana the rates Of
freight have further improved.
The D1ilv NeacS adds--" From useful state
ment drawn up by Mr. Miller, of the Jerusalem
Coffee house, we are enabled TO extract some int
resting particulars as to the proposed course Of our
Australian trade during the month now commenced.
It appears that less than ninety six vessels many
Of which are of large tonnage, are fixed to leave
Gravcsend Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Southamp.
ton during August for our southern colonies. or
these, twenty-six vessels arc for New South Wales
thirty mine for Victoria, twelve for Adelaide, nine
for Hobart Town, four for Launceston, two for Swan
River, and four for New leland"
The lost London journals cay" The commercial
accounts by the overland mail to-day were rather
'discsuraging. At Bombay, owing to the setting in
Of the rainy season. there had been business, and
of nIrsffa fhnr mad haa vvifh
in some cases, further slight decline in prices.
From China the reports of the extent Of transactions
are also unfavorable, but less SO than might have
been anticipated under the critical events that were
The Singapore dates by the present. mail are to
the 10th Of June. Business had shown considerable
activity during the month, but the traders had
neglected cotton manufactures, owing to the dis
turbances In China, and had chiefly invested in
opium and Straits produce. There had been Q sud-
den rise In gutA percha, in consequence Of tho &C
counts Of the demand for It in England. The last
intelligence from the Island Of Labuan was to the
10th Of April The colony was healthy, and four
vessels were loading Goals for Hongkong and Singa-
pore.
The New York Crystal Palace In an English
Point ~ View.
from the London rnes. August IL
The Americans certainly are very great people.
What reason can we possibly have for dsputing 1t
They are our own cousins. They are the Offspring Of
virtues, weaknesses, gloiies, and calamities. To
some extent they indicate that to which VIC tend for
the parts Of England most like America are Manches
ter, Liverpool, and Glasgow, and there ore many
who tell the best thing all do is to be lea
vened throughout by these model cities. So, az
matter Of selfprotecton to those who think
otherwise and even as ~, matter q srutS it be-
and then present themselves for offering little
caution about our Brother Jonathan, viz, the
occasional disparity between his promises and his
performances. Like many young fellows, with great
natural strength and much mechanical skill with
more land, more money, more children, and gene
rally more Of the stuff Of this world than fell to the
;;5s Of asS ,ssssr Hmm he i apt BE- what
he makes o very grand figure In the world, and is
In q fair way to nuke still grander. Most hearti.
DO we we xish that. that he may for every consider
Us to wish him all that he may como by honestly
between his two oceans. But young people and
young States ought TO be modest They win learn
more for little modesty They will take moro hints
and cstch more notions in those higher regions Of
knowledge and taste where instruction IL whispered
and looked rather than preached or dnned into the
ear: But the best way to acquire this healthy and
tnvigoratng virtue is to just compare what one does
with the performances Of others under equal circum
stances. Fortune happily soon gives the opportu-
nifty Of this comparison as II to wake people from
tnny has fortune given our TRANSATLANTIC cousins in
the rival Crysral Palace they have boldly and mer
toriously set up at New York. We must say. and
they must say, that on the whole they look rather
pdAhy DtCdusc lucy really
could not do better. It fault Of that we have
not Q Niagara on the Thames or excellent land at
Sc. an acre on the Great Northern Railway. In
like manner, II really is fault Of the United States
II they cannot get 80 numerous and so splendid
coIcourse Of visters and 80 wonderful mass Of
contributions as we did in metropolis OF two million
people, and within few days journey Of dozen
cousins were to "fog us as they iogged oil crear
ton besides, and that, at word, they were to
raise up cloud OF glass quickly ourselves. The
thing was to be done the very next year, SO that
half the articles in onr Exhibition were TO be trans
eed at once nom their pedestals or their counters
An Hyde Park to new ones OF Brooklyn, or some such
suburb ofNew York.
In the first place. the snartest nation In the world
has failed in the prime condition Of success-it has
rot kept time. Having prudently postponed the
exhibition rom 1862 70 1853, 1t has been obliged,
after oil to defer the ening from MAY 10 JuIy IL.
and meanwhile had acquired no much credit for pro.