The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-14
new YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1860


praying relief frcm taxation. We give the docu-
ment IL report Of the proceedings Of the Board.
Al the meeting OF the Board of Aldermen last
evening message was received from the Mayor
relative TO the action OF the Board in declaring
vacant the Office of Chief of Police. The Mayor Is
OF opinion thai the Aldermen have no power TO
Mr.. Matsell but he comedies their right to
prefer charges for the consideration OF the Police
Commissioner. The Commissioners have already
taken the preliminary steps towards q thorough
invesjg alton Of the question OF Mr.. Matsels cit
zensllip, and the Chief has promptly signifed his
Willingness to obey the cali and abide the result.
II the allegations put forth by the Special Police
Committee are sustained, Mr.. Maisell viii be re-
moved.
We have received the annual reports of the Trus
tees and Treasurer Of the Fire Department Fund.-
and shall endeavor to find space for them in our
columns tomorrow or the day after. The perma-
nent fund Of the society now amounts to $93,750.
The Legislative Police Committee met at the City
Hall yesterday, and resumed their investigation.
Justices Osborne, Connolly and Moore and Mr..
Mccarthy, formerly lieutenant Of police, and Capt
Ditchett, OF the Fourth ward, were examined. From
the table Of offences adjudicated upon at the Tombs
during the present year, and which win be found in
Of criminal business disposed of there Justices
Connolly and Osborne state in their testimony that
the number Of police magistrates is inadequate 30
the amount Of work 10 be DONE They also state
that the clerical assistance afforded them is insult
fcicnt, and complain that the law gives them no
control over their clerks. All The police magis.
trates, without single exception, agree upon this
point and it IL matter that deserves the special
t,ny, N<< Al.
Gen. Sam Houston and the Texas Legislature are
at war; The first overt act Of hostility commenced
In the House Of Representatives. It was the coup.
ling of Com. Moore with the General in vote to in
vite the latter to seat within the bar of the House.
deadly feud has, as is well known, existed for
long time between the two The next demon ration
was the passage Of resolutions endorsing the
Kansas. Nebraska act, against which g. Housr
| ton voted. Two days afterwards at Know
Nothing meeting at Austin, Gen. Houston made
slashiDg speech, attacking the administration of
General Pierce, and defending his vote on the ques
| ton alluded to. The House of Representatives
came to the scratch promptly, and the 2sth nit.
adopted, by vote Of seventy-fve ayes to three
noes, resolution declaring that the Legislature of
Texas disapproves the course Of Sam Houston in
voting against the Kansas-N ebraska act. Such was
garded, even by the Know Nothings, as JONAH"
who must be Thrown overheard" to save the ship
Accounts from Kansas represent the inhabitants
Of that Territory az being under arms in response to
the call of Gov. Shannon. Three thousand men are
said to be already in the field to put down the oppo
nents OF law and order, and a violent collision is
looked for between the belligerents.
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The Designs OF GrenL Rsltai4 Against Chime
Dangers Menncing Her Own Possessions In
India.
The fresh projects of aggrandisement which
Great Britain is developing in the East CONT
nue. to OCCUPY the attention Of political obsery-
ers. Her movements in Burmah and her gra-
dual concentration of troops on the southwest
erD coast of China, indicate plainly the objects
which she is aiming at. Those movements are
! Of too extensive and accumulative character
to be intended merely for local application.
Her difficulties in regard to Bmmah itself can
NO longer be said to require the maintenance
OF snch a large force in that quarter. By her
usual intrigues amongst the population she
has not only broken any force of combine
ton that she might have feared, bat she has
attached most of the native chiefs to her in
field to their cupdity. All this has been done
silently, steadily and with persistency, under
all the troubles and endorsements in which
she has been involved in connection with the
Russian war. Tenacious Of her traditional
policy, which places her commercial interests
always in advance of her political honor,
she has been pursuing in India the very
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rope. The professed foe to aggression and
despotism at home, she does not hesitate to
carry out, in the execution of her projects
abroad a system of Wholesale aggression and
spoliation to which the history of no other
country presents parallel.
Curious to say, whilst grasping in her inor-
dinate ambition at objects 80 vast and appa-
rently SO visionary as that of the absorption
Of China into her already overgrown Indian
empire, her hold upon the latter was never at
any time SO loose and uncertain as it is at the
present moment. Every fresh arrival from
India brings us evidence Of the impotence and
frettulness of the native populations under
her rule. The Sontal insurrection, the dis
turbances amongst the Hill Dacoits in ARA
can, and the troubles that prevail along the
line Of the PuDjaub frontier, are rendered the
more embarrassing by these complications
arising out of the religious feuds which have
broken out between the Hindoos and Mahom-
motans in the dominions Of the Nizam and the
King Of Dude. Both those tributary
soveregns are regarded as the rally
ing points Of MahomHctsaism whilst
the English government and It's agents
are understood to lean to the side of the Hin
docs. The destruction of temples, and the
Wholesale slaughter of each other by the
fanatics, Of which we receive such frequent
accounts, would not be in themselves facts of
such political Importance but for the statement
tha. the native governments are secretly stimu-
lnting these outbreaks on the part of the Ma