The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-07

uB gTatHylnB 70 learn tnat tne pdrteS afrested IN
Boston, charged with abetting the recent fugitive
slave riot, and causing the death OF officer Batcheder
are in fair way to receive their deserts. Three of
them committedto jail by the police magistrate
yesterday for the murder, and three others held in
taree Thousand dollars bonds for ri5t.
ADDRESS BY sPANfARD.
We publsh elsewhere en- enthusiastic address OF
a disting ushed Spaniard on reaching this country
and finding himself in free Land. The translation
may seem high flown to us; but expressing as it
does the feelings Of a man Just escaped from the
desotism OF Spain, the language viii not be regard
ed as extravagant. It win be read with interest.
CITY AFFAIRS.
The sapient committee that convened, on the
evening of March 7, 1858, powerful meeting in
Metropolitan Hall, and announced TO an admring
world the benevolent intention of reforming the ex-
isting abuses in local AFFAIRS have again turned
up" in an Address TO the People of New York, !"
which we give the benefit Of our immense circula-
tion to-day. There is throughout this manifesto
continual reference made to what ought to be done,
and what should be done, and what will be done;
but search in vain for anything that has been
done by these sefstyled reformers. 1t ia gratifying
however, to learn that "the committee by no means
despair of bringing about better state ofthings."
The committee of the State Senate appointed to
examine into the affairs of Columbia College COM
menced their investigation yesterday. The rejec
ton of Dr. Gibbs the primary cause of the pre-
sent inquiry, but in addition 60 the alleged anti
progressive tendencies of the institution there
seems to be other matters of more material char
acter which require overhauling. In our report Of
the proceedings yesterday may be found list Of fif
teen questions propounded By the committee, en-
bracing range of subjects calculated to bring out
all the facts in regard to the management and con-
diton of the college. The trustees state that they
desire strict and impartial examination, and we
hope they may get it. The chemistry class, having
made the amende honorable, was yesterday rein
stated
The resolutions passed at meeting of the Wing
General Committee, held at the Broadway House
last evening, will be found elsewhere.
Coroner O'Donnell was yesterday engaged in the
investigation of supposed murder, the body ola
female having been found, packed in box, in avery
advanced state of decomposition. The evidence, up
to the time Of adjournment, will be found under the
head of Coroners Inquests" Coroner Hilton was
also engaged in remarkable case respecting the
death of young woman at No. liz Thompson
street The deceased prior to her death, told very
curious story about the conduct OF certain dentist
in giving her chloroform.
The Board of Aldermen sat to late hour last
evening, and transacted considerable amount Of
business. The Russ Reid pavement in the Bowery,
as usual, occupied the attention of the Board for
some time and was ultimately again referred.
| resolution from the Councilmen, to appropriate
| $4,000 for the celebration of the Fourth of July
was, after some opposition, laid upon the table.
The tailors' conspiracy case, which was set down
for trial in the Court of General Sessions yesterday
was postponed until the next term, with the con-
sent of the District Attorney. Several fremen be-
longing to an engine company, and hook and ladder
| company No. 8, were convicted of rioting on the
18th Of March last at the corner Of Seventh
| and Forty-tfth street
| The first and second parts Of the Common Pleas
adjourned yesterday at an early hour, in conse-
| quence of the death of Thomas ]. Henry, Esq, a
member of the bar, and ex-Alderman of the Sixth
| ward.
| Our Foreign Policy-The Cuba Question
| Annexation OF Honduras.
| The question which now appears to occupy
| the minds of the Cabinet, the Kitchen Cabinet
and Congress, the lobby and the letter-writers
at Washington, is the Cuba question and its
entanglements. Southern members seem to en-
terrain the alarming idea that unless the island
is soon acquired, its Authorization" will for
ever close the door against US The Cabinet
organ at Washington has been laboring violent
ly to infame its partisans and the public mind
to the fighting point, as if q sudden descent
were projected by the President upon the
brightest jewel in the Spanish crown"
Simultaneously the President issues his pro-
nunciamento against the yfiibusteros; and Mr..
Soules belligerent negotiations dwindle down
to the reclamation of the six thousand dollars
extorted from the Black Warrior. Still the
paramount subject at this crisis at Washington
is Cuba, and the means aud measures by which
it can be most speedily brought to the fulfil
ment of its " manifest destiny
Gen. Barrundia, meantime, the ambassador
from Honduras, has officially signifed to the
President that he is charged with question Of
annexation, which strikes us as far exceeding in
Importance the existing clamor concerning
the other day, Gen. Barrundia as broadly
as the occasion would allow, intimated that
his mission was nothing more nor less
than to secure the quiet incorporation of
the State of Honduras into our federal
Union. This may be done, too, without
Gadsden subsides-without infringing upon
the rights Of any other State-but from the sim
pie acceptance of a free-will Offering from the
authorities Of Honduras, in behalfo the people,
TO merge their territories, their allegiance, and
their fortunes in these United States
Now, we believe that the most superficial
view Of the annexation OF Honduras will con-
vince the intelligent reader that it is question
of more immediate and comprehensive impor-
lance than the Cuba question. The bay of
Honduras commands the passage between the
Gulf Of Mexico and the Caribbean sea-the
State lies in that exact geographical position
which viii enable US not only effectively to
check the Vaccinations Of British, French and
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