The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-09

drcpped. The Assistants received and laid on the
table a curious petition from Samuel s. Cornwall,
who alleges that he ia President Of the Bank Of the
World and is DESTROYS Of purchasing the City HAL
for banking house.
The Colamban Engine Company, OF Baltimore
which left this city for home, yesterday, were last
night received in Philadelphia by large torch-hgns
procession.
By telegraph and otherwise we have accounts Of
series of very destructive fires. Several valuable
msnufa cturing establishments were entirely consul
ed in Cleveland last Thursday night A man has
been arrested suspicion Of having set the buildings
en- nre. The railroad depot at Cecil Nd, was d.
stroyed by fire yesterday. Six houses, with t,eir
contents, were burned ON St.ten Island yesterday
morning, as will be seen by the report elsewhere.
The navigation Of the upper part Of the Ohio
river has been partially resumed in consequence Of
a rise OF about two and half feet IN the channel.
Freights continue very high, and passengers gene
rally adopt the more sure and expeditions plan OF
travelling by railroad.
Judge John Glenn, of the U. S. District Court Of
Maryland, died yesterday afternoon. Rev. Henry
Church pastor Of the Mariners Church in this city,
also expired yesterday
serious st.bbing ARRAY occurred board the
ship Jacob A. Westervelt early yesterday morning
According 70 the police report, portion Of the crew
commenced fighting among themselves; the mate
attemptedSo quel the disturbance, and in 80 doing
was dangerously cut with sheath knife.
To-days inside pages contain much interesting
information relative to different Summer Retreats
and Summer Travel; Late News from Rio Janeiro
and Buenos Ayres; Postal Convention with England;
Commercial, Judicial and Miscellaneous Intelli'
gence &c.
Decline and Fall OF the Uncle Tom Mania.
Private letters frcgn Europe inform US that
Mrs. Beecher Stowe was quietly residing in
Paris, unnoticed 10y every one. and suffered to
60 where she pleased, without the slightest
word Of comment from the press; indeed had
it not been for an amusing article in the ChGri-
carl, in which funny interview between her
translators and herself is described. no one
would have known that she had crossed the
a circumstantial account of a fit of dyspepsia
with which she was afflicted before she left Bos-
ton, did not even eondescend to apprise the Bri-
fish people Of her departure from their shores.
The Earl Of Shaftesbury wrote no letters
to the papers on the doleful event. and even
Douglas Jerrold refused to celebrate the
national disaster in graceful elegiac.
All was silence and neglect, where a few weeks
before the whole reporting staff of the metropo-
lis could not bestow publicity OF Exeter Hall
noise enough to do honor to the authoress of
Uncle Tom. John Smith or Thomas Brown
could not have perched his carpet-bag and en-
barked his person in the cheap train to Folke-
stone with less ostentation than the lady who,
fortnight previously, had been the idol of
every aristocratic coterie, and the guest of
every noble mansion.
Here was fall indeed! What had Mrs. Stowe
done to occasion SO startling a revulsion of
sentiment among the nobility? What crime had
she committed what blemish had she revealed in
herself, to warrant so brisk change from adula-'
ton to indifference, from sympathy to neglect?
Had the folly ofabolition flashed all at once upon
Stafford House, OF nad the common sense view
which the Times and the middle classes of Eng
land took of "Uncle Toms Cabin" at length
prev allied over the maudlin sentmentality of
courtly praise? Sorrowfully, indeed must the
nobility of England confess that to none of
these causes could the change be ascribed. A
much simpler event had occasioned the polte
face. Her Majesty the Queen had refused to
receive Mrs. Stowe; Buckingham Palace had
closed its doors to the panegyrist of the negroes
the British philanthropists had vainly attempted
to procure for their favorite an admission to
court. As soon as the fact became known, new
light burst on the Stafford House set. To be
excluded from court was to be out of fashion;
to be out of fashion was worse than to have
committed murder. theft, or any other crime
on the calendar. 1t was. in fact, endan-
gering ones own position to associate with a
person who had VIGOROUSLY been refused an
admission to the Queens presence. Firmly i'm
pressed with sense OF their duty to themselves
and their rank, the British nobility did not hest
tate moment in this conjuncture. Fashion
must be indicated. though the heavens should
fall. Mrs Stowe and Uncle Tom were ruthlessly
sacrificed. The negro-mania went out in
twinkling, and its heroes were forgotten in an
hour
Sorely smitten by this heartless desertion,
the Professor-who seems to have quite forgot
ten those imperative duties which required
his presence in Boston on the LIST June"-sought,
with his companion. more sincere welcome
at Paris A second disappointment awaited
them. No fattering paragraphs in the papers
heralded their arrival; no crowds of admiring
readers thronged their drawing room. Mr.
and Mrs. Jones, of Holborn, could not have
enjoyed more delightful privacy. The EN-
peror had expressed his opinion of Uncle
Tom" and kindred works; and his complacent
organs were but too ready to carry out his
views by their silence.
In point of fact, the governments of Europe
seem at length to have awakened to know
ledge Of the fact which we placed many weeks
ago before our readers. They now see that
Uncle Toms popularity in Europe was not due
to any regard for the negroes of the Southern
States but to the warm language in which It