The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-17

rected that the taxing officer should proceed aud
tax al costs prior 70 July, 1885, under the Chancs<y
Fee bill, and all subsequent costs under the Co6A.
Judge Roosevelt delivered an important opinion
in tbs Supreme Court, yesterday, on banking and
financial affairs, in the matter Of the Knickerbocker
Bank in which he stated that al idea OF increasing
the assets, by Withholding their SALE for the benefit
of stockholders injurious to the blholders and
dtposisors, and at variance with all decisions made
by the highest Court Of the State in analogous cases
Of assignment made by insolvent individuals. The
decision will De found elsewhere.
A verdict was rendered In the Court Of Common
Pleas against tie proprietors Of she Bloomingdale
line of stages in the sum Of $500 and costs, for
damages Occasioned by Of their vehicles running
over man in Chatham street, in 1853, and mutt
latDg his leg 30 badly TO render it still useless.
In another part of to days paper will be found q
correct list of marine disasters, including wrecks
upon the Florida Reef and arrivals of leaky vessels
at Key West, Florida, together with the salvage
awarded, &C., for the year ending Dec. 81, 1854.
The cotton market at New Orleans on Monday
had experienced slight decline in qualities below
good miodling, but other descriptions were I'm.
changed.
Cotton continued firm yesterday, with sales OF
$500 bales, included in which were 600 in tran
stu. We quote middling uplands and Florida at
SIC. $780,; do Mobile at Sc, and New Orleans do.
at Sc. Common brands Of State -four were l2kc.
per barrel lower. Southern and Canadian were in
fair demand, but easier to purchase at quotations.
Wheat continued to be quiet and nominal. Old
mess pork closed dull at $l2 Is. Old prime was
scarce and nominal. New prime sold at $l3, and
1000 barrels new mess, deliverable by the 1st May,
sellers option, were sold at $l3; and lot Of long
middes bacon sold deliverable free on shipboard in
Philadelphia, at &c. There was rather better de-
mand tor sugar, with some irmer feeling, and Rio
coffee was in fair demand at ole. q 10:.
soule's ResignatiOn-The Crisis I'm the Cabi-
net Come Mt Last.
The fulflment of our predictions has COM
menced. The crisis in the Cabinet has come at
last. According to our telegraphic advices
from Washington, published yesterday, Mr..
Hon. John G. Breckenridge, Of Kentucky, has
been nominated and confirmed to fill the va
cancy. He has been prepared at any time to
fight with rifles for the administration, and this
is his reward. Republics are not ungrateful.
After the disclosures which we have pub
lished during the last six weeks, in reference
to the OsteDd Convention, and the close con-
nection of Soule's diplomatic policy with the
intrigues of the Buchanan clique, at home and
abroad, for the succession, it is hardly neces-
sary to explain at length the causes of Soule's
recall or resignation. 1t is sufficient to know
that the filibustering Cuba war policy of JEFF
Davis, Cushing, Dudley Mann and Soule, which
was to be forced upon the administration,
which was intended to drive Marcy out of the
Cabinet, and to give the war clique the ascend
sncy, and which was to carry Buchanan through
the next Baltimore Democratic Convention, as
the war candidate Of the spells democracy--it
is enough to know that this flibustering
Kitchen Cabinet and Ostend programme
has fallen through. The abandonment of
Madrid by Soule breaks up the plot, and gives
the victory to Marcy.
1t does not surprise us, therefore to be re-
assured that Buchanan will return from Lon
don at the earliest possible convenience; that
Mason's place at Paris is to be filed by trans
fer from the Cabinet; and that, late in the day
as it is, we may expect soon complete re-or-
ganization of the Cabinet ITSELF from stem TO
stern. The only existing trump card of the
Buchanan clique seems to be, to persuade Marcy
to rest from his hard labor as premier for sea-
son, amid the recreatlons of Paris, and TO slip
Cushing into his chair in the State Department
as Buchanan's confidential prime minister for
| tbe succession. The failure Of Soule's mission
| 10 Madrid, with !" a hundred millions in one
hand and wax in the other" his failure to bully
the Spanish ministry into the sale of Cuba,
and his failure TO provoke them to personal
rupture, involve the collapse of the whole Os-
tend conspiracy, with all its Cabinet and Pre-
sidential complications.
In the outset Marcy was led astray upon the
sans eulette flibustering programme of Dudley
| Mann. Hence those ridiculous official circu-
lars upon diplomatic costume, and the amusing
and notifying consequences resulting from the
foolish attempts OF our ministers abroad to
disregard and defy the social usages OF the
European courtly reunions to which they
were invited. Hence that elaborate and windy
document upon the red republican principles
Of liberty, equality and fraternity" known
| rs the Kozsta letter; and hence, too, the origi-
nal, pointed and emphatic diplomatic instruc-
tions of Marcy to Soule, Belmont, and others.
He was deceived by bis squire, Dudley Mann,
and by the supposed tull and accurate know
ledge OF his assistant of the secrets and intri-
cacies OF the diplomacy of the European CONT
mental powers, and by false representations Of
the actual strength of the revolutionary circles
of France and Germany. Thus, for season
the flibustering alliance Of Mann, Soule.
Sickles, Sanders, and Kossuth, promised to as
sumo the control of our administration and the
direction Of the foreign policy Of the United
States
But, though Marcy is admitted duh and