The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-11

powdered charcoal.
Thomas Dow5, the proprietor Of drinking saloon
in this city, yesterday arrested the complaint
of q woman now imprisoned for intoxicstion,
charged with selling liquor contrary to the provi
sions of the Prohibitory law. He held to bail in
the sum of $500 to answer at the Court of Special
Sessions. No liquors were seized.
The Brooklyn Common Council, at its last session,
passed Q resolution asking for the opinion Of the
City Attorney as to the constituonabty Of the Pro-
hibitory law, and also whether the city would be
liable for damages shonld its executive officers un-
dertake to enforce the law, and it afterwards be
declared unconstitutional.
In the Board Of Aldermen, last evening, after the
transaction Of the usual routine business resolu.
ton was adopted, calling the Counsel to the Cor.
poration for information whether, under the law,
the Mayor possesses the pc to establish bureau
Of surgeons to be connected with the police or any
other department.
The Board of Councilmen, last night, took up 70.
veral papers, petitions and reports, but none Of
them were important to the public.
Captain James Smith, who was tried and found
guilty in the United States Circuit Court Of traf
ticking in slaves, was yesterday sentenced by Judge
IngeraoI to pay fine Of 81 900, and to be impris
oned for twenty-one months.
Cotton was more active yesterday, with sales of
about 5000 . 1000 bales. The market advanced
4c. a 90. per ID. since Saturday. Middling uplauds
closed at lOac. 10sc., chiefly at the latter figure.
Common to medium grades Of flour closed firm,
and in some cases slight advance was obtained.
Canada white wheat sold at 81 40, aud . snail lot
Of new Southern sod at 81 IS . 81 As. Corn was
frmer, and sales ranged from ole. s4ac., chiefly
at &c. 94ks., and parcel sold for delivery in
A. - d. ~~As- uuSkA .tro 80
1000 bbls. new mess the spot and to arrive, at
| $40 IS cash, and at $40 81. Freights were I'M
changed to Liverpool. 400 bales Of cotton were
taken for Bremen at t. Sugars sold to an extent
| Of 1900 hhds., and closed rather frmer. Coffee
was also quicker, at steady prices.
The United States and Europe-An American
Balance OF Power-Our Policy and Our
Destihy.
The United States Of America are beginning
to be universally recognized in Europe as a
living, positive and rapidly advancing power
among the nations. England and France have
for some years fully realized this fact in their
commercial exchanges with US; Russia has
never overlooked it in her diplomacy Of the
last half century but it is only since the con-
tinental revulsion of 1889 that the German
and italian States have had their earnest atten.
ton, and their hopes and fears, drawn to the
prospective strength, grandeur and overshadow-
ing influence of this great republic of the West.
At the present time it may be questioned
whether our vast commercial and our intimate
social intercourse with England and France are
producing deeper impression Of our growing
power and Importance upon those govern
ments than that which is felt all over Germany
by the reaction upon her people at home from
the masses which have mingled with ours and
identified themselves with the institutions and
destinies Of this country. Practically we have
ceased to be distant nation, detached by the
dividing barrier Of the Atlantic Ocean from the
nations, the interests and the diplomacy Of
Europe. Emigration, trade, and steamships
have brought the two hemispheres into imme-
date contact. Our California gold, our South
ern cotton, and latterly our Western wheat
corn, and provisions, have become indispensa-
BILE to the financial, manufacturing, and CON-
mercial classes Of both England and France
We could, upon pinch, dispense with the
hardware, cloths and Gotten goods Of England
and with the silks, brandies and bijouterie Of
France; but suspension for year of our
supplies to them would prove more disastrous
than this Russian war to both. Stop our sup
plies Of cotton to England for a year, aud the
result would inevitably be a series Of bloody
yiots in her manufacturing cities, if not
general popular revolt against the whole ma
cbinery Of the existing government. Suspend
for year our contributions Of all kinds to the
industry Of France, and Paris, in the gene
raj cry for bread and employment, would pro-
badly be thrown back upon the b,rricades.
The extra subsistence required for the dense-
y populated countries of Western Europe must
be drawn from Russia or the United States. or
both. Pending this Eastern war, the Western
powers must look for their needful supplies be-
yond their own productions, almost entirely to
this country. At this moment the masses Of
the people Of England, France and Germany
feel as DESTROYS almost as ourselves for abun-
dant crops of breadstuffs and provisions
throughout the United States. We, therefore,
hold the actual balance of power in the affairs
of Europe at this crisis, and were 1t consistent
with our system of peace and non-intervention
in the affairs of other nations, we could prove
our neutrality in this war to be of greater mo
ment to the Western powers than the active
belligerent cooperation Of Austria. We could
prove this by picking quarrel and provoking
rupture with England and France upon their
oficious and offensive int rferences In the affairs
Of Cuba, the island of Hayti, and Central Anne.
RIGA, during the last year or two. Had we any
inclipations that way, no better opportunity
than the present could be desired for teaching
Lord Palmerston and Louis Napoleon the
exact meaning Of our Monroe doctrine of Euro
pesn non Intervention in the affairs Of our
American neigbbors.