The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-12


sold O. 81 90. Pork wa, heavy for mes, win
sales Of small o.s, at sl3 Is . SIS so. A large No.
was offered at SIS 81. Lard was Id rrsty freely
for export at 10 lclc. IN b5is Iri 10. g lie. In
kegs. About 600 bales Of cos.0n were g, chiefly
Tor expert. Dealers IL produce were AK ml,
expecting tie arrival Of TIE Pacific. Sterling bills
We dull, aSd vailed from o; to 1888.
Both BRANCHES Of tie Common Council were Ia
full b.as last evening. large amount Of business
WAS ir.lsacte TIE s2eci.J committee of the
Board ii aid rmen Ga the conssru .tion OF a new
City HaJ, mace report recommending the plan Of
Martin L. Thompson ss h,ss suited for the ,ur-
poses designed. TIE report of the commit se, and
descrist on Of the plans, together with diagram
Of the proposs d BUILDING, may be found in our
columns this morning. Afte- an acrimonious
detate, motion TO lecommit the report, With
Instructions that tie committee receive and
examine al plans that may be submitted to
them by arch tects, prevailed by q majority
OF one vote. The domination by the Mayor of
Elias l.. Smith to The office OF President of the
Croton Aqueduct Board, was rejected by vote Of
fourteen to six. Nominations O. clerks for civil
courts we're received and laid on the table, In the
board OF Councilman resolution was offered and
referred calling on tn Com troller for q detailed
stat. ment Of all moneys. for .ha ever service, due
by the corporation, and which have not been salts
fled in consequence Of TIE irsuffciency OF the ao-
preparations. An Interesting communication from
the Board Of Education, giving the statistics Of the
attendance OF pupils at the public schools and the
Total estimate Of expenditures for 1854 exclusive of
certain specified sums, was received. 1t is given In
our report of the proceedings.
The steamship Pacific, due a. this port from
Liverpool, bad not been telsgraphed at the station
al Sandy Hook at midnight. She is momentarily
expected, with seven days later news.
The Board Of Supervisors met yesterday afternoon.
The only business Of interest transacted was thu
adoption Of resolution increasing the salary of the
Recorder from So 900 to 50 500 per annum, to take
efsct on the lst of January next.
We publish elsewhere graphic description Of
the new mills recently erected at Windsor Locks, ia
Connecticut, by Messrs. Persse l. Brooks, OF this
city for the manufacture Of printing paper, to-
gether with detailed account Of the process by
which the raw material is converted into an article
ready for use. The HERALD of to-day Is specimen
Of tue work Of these mills.
The structures which appeared in the HERALD
last week upon the very miserable rooms provided
for the Superior Court, fully borne out by the
fact Of Judge Roosevelt yesterday pronouncing the
place intoerable and thereupon sdjourning the pro-
ceedrgs of the court to first part of the Com
mon Pleas.
From Nassau IN. P.) we have received our regu
lar files Of Wss india papers, dated to the 2Otn Of
October. Later dates had reached us via England
but the journals contain some interesting news
The Bahama Legislature Is summoned to meet on
che 9th of February, wi en- It is thought that ths
Governor will propose the abolition Of the Custom
House at Nassau. It was reported, and believed Ia
Dominica, that the Eogish government had agreed
to transfer that island to the French. People in
Gradaloupe and Martinique canvassed the subie
freely. and the Dominican papers advocate it as
one chance Of saving The inhabitants !" from total
ruin ard barbarism."
Progress OF tho Chinese Revolutlon-.Pros-
poets Of Manifest Destiny In the East.
Our latest intelligence from China shows no
abatement in the bloody work of the moment
Gus revolution which for several years past has
been sappirg the foundations of that vast and
ancient empire. A hundred thousand rebels
around Canton, the continued burning and
sacking of villages and cities through the inte-
Iior, the continued harassments to trade, and
the increased perplexities of foreign ministers,
consuls and fleets, between the hostile parties,
give 10 prospect of peace short of thorough
going and complete reconstruction Of the gov
eminent.
The latriarchal barbaric system Of Chira,
which claims istcry of thousands Of years
behind the Egyptian Pyramids, is assailed by
the modern principles of " manifest destiny"
and must go down. Something of the pro-
gressive spirit of the age, !" something of civil.
cation and Christianity, must supersede it.
Whether it shall be in the form of an indepen-
dent Christian empire or republic, or in the
shape of Russian province, or another British
East India protectorate, it is for time to deter
mine. The ancient Chinese system is under
mined, and must fall to the ground.
The present policy of the British, French and
American diplomats and consul, in China ap-
pears to be strictly limi ed to sort of allied
armed neutrality against imperialists and re-
bells, for the protection Of trade. Our late minis
ter. Mr.. Humphrey Marshall, exhibited adecid-
ed leaning to the existing Imperial dynasty,
on the ground that the success Of the rebels
would result in reducing the country to a con-
dtion of anarchy, from the evils of which It
could only be rescued through the humane
interposition of the East India colonial
policy of England. In this view Mr.. Marshall
argued that the interests of the United States
in China and on the Pacific Ocean would be bet
ter subserved by sympathising with the legiti-
mate regnipg Emperor than with the savage aud
bloody rebels, whose leader modestly assumes
to be no,hirg more than younger brother OF
Jesus Christ, appealing TO arms for the extr-
patton Of Pagan!sm, and the substitution Of the
benign dispensation Of the New Testament. The
consistency Of this chief is certainly question:
bic. He dispenses the truths of revelation with
the zest and simplicity of a new convert, while
he devastates whole provinces, and piles up