The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-06

Oupa, mexico 0hu tenIA America gre OF the
most significant and interesting charsc ter; the
postal service, the army, the navy require the
prompt attention Of Congress; and, sboveaE, the
crushing effects Of the late financial revulsion,
and the widespread financial and commercial
disorders which it has produced, call impera-
lively for the interpcsition of some general aud
uniform act Of relief and regulation.
In this business view of the case, then, no
less than in consideration of the paramount OBJ
jeot of decisive and final settlement Of this
vexed question Of Kansas, we submit to the
conservative democrats Of the Senate that their
duty to the country, to the administration and
to their party, is to consent to the passage of
the Orittenden bill. It secures all that can be
gained under the Lecompton or any other bill;
and in placing the act of admission in the
hands Of the President 1t endorses his honest
adhesion to the law, and secures an honest,
certain and final solution of the whole question
Revival Of Spring Busiaess-The Weather,
Opera and tho Balls.
The very delicious weather which we have
been enjoying during the last ten days has had
great effect upon all branches of metropolitan
business The hotels are filing up; Broadway
is crowded with delegations from all parts of
the country; the travelling season has fairly
commenced; and the array of spring bonnets,
with the expansion of spring crinoline, gives
our principal promenade the appearance Of an
immense flower garden. Our mercurial and
excitable public is preparing to pass from the
prayer meeting to the bal nsasqse-from the
sackcloth and ashes of Lent to the gaiety of the
Concerts Musard The prayer meetings them
selves arc on the wanc They did no! succeed
in converting either Burton or Forrest, and
were obliged to content themselves with Awful
Gardner. The last standpoint of these gather
ings-Burton's old theatre-has been abandoned
by the parsons, and it will now be used as an
ordinary court house. Instead of applications
there will be repllcations; instead of religious
emotions there will be only dry motions before
q terrestrial Judge; instead of humble confess
sions there will be pleas of not guilty.
Rynders reigns in place Of Beecher; Blackstone
replaces Watts.
In the world Of amusement we end the chief
topics to be the grand fee at the Crystal Palace
on Thursday the concerts Of Musard, and the
bal mdsquf under the same direction, after the
fashion of the Grand Opera at Paris. Every
body is going to the Crystal Palace everybody
must hear the Concerts Musard, everybody is
discussing the bal masquf. Still another topic
agitates fashionable circles. Mr.. Ullman has
just concluded the longest and most successful
Opera season ever given in New York. He has
succeeded in creating an immense sensation. No
manager has been so much talked about. He
has satisfied the public, but has dissatisfied eve
rybody else. The prime dome have quarrelled
because one got more applause than the other;
the tenors have quarrelled because the public
quarrelled because war is their normal state;
the critics and composers have quarrelled about
the originality of operas; the Italians have
quarrelled with the Germans the Germans with
the Italians, and the French with both. Fry's
opera, ''Leonora,' made several pretty quarrels-
Some people said it was an amiable plagiarism
from Bellini, Donizetti and other composers,
while the friends of Fry insisted that these
masters plagiarized from the author Of
"Leonora-" The public did not come to
hear the opera, aud it was .faseo; so the
friends of the composer are dissatisfied with the
manager who as we said before, has disappoint-
ed all the cliques, but has made great success
with the public. More particularly has he dis
gusted the old clique Of oyster house critics,
who have been brought out from their holes by
the warm weather. and who, encouraged by the
partial success Of the oyster cellar conspiracies
against Mayor Wood, and the similar demon
STATIONS against the administration at Wash
ington by the disguised democrats and black
republicans, have resolved 10 form q grand
combination to crush the little Napoleon of the
Opera He is to be smashed up without any
mercy whatever. With the artists the oyster
house critics the fiddlers and the red rcpubli-
cans against him, and only the public In bis
favor, his case is certainly deserving of sympa-
thy. Let us hope be may have a safe deliver
ance.
Meantime, however, things 60 on as usual
The concerts and balls afford topics for grave
discussion in society here as well as elsewhere.
Before the bal masguf at the Academy, the wife
Of California Senator gives similar enter
tainment ut Washington, TO which oil the world
r. invited. The question Of what to wear at these
balls has given far more trouble TO the parties
concerned than the Kansas imbreglio or the
Central American difficulty. OF course all
fashionable New York goes to Washington for
Mrs OWNS ball. and TO return the compliment
every body in society at Washington will come
here for the Musard bal masquf fortnight later.
BY that time we may hope the contending par
ties of the Academy viii have arrived at some
settlement Of the troubles. II they do not /" il
isn't" as Mr.. Toots would say, "of the slightest
consequence"
AMERICAN SHPBt1LDNG FOR FoREres CoUS-
TRIEs.-The accounts which We publish to day
of the trial trips of the steam corvette japanese,
built by Mr.. Vim. II. Webb Of this city, and the
Man;oor bui1t at Roaion for Tho earvica of tho