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4 THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. ber of OTir Americnn citizens. The scene was liow as lively and jovial as need be. Pistols were cracked, songs sang, shr.uts shouted, races ran, and ftdl play given to all kinds of sport. The circular sw in g and the flying horses were put in motion; the “Schiller band” raised their sturdy chorus’, and the Gymnasts exhibited their .agility in all manly feats. ^ The afternoon exercises consisted of songs, mu sic, an excellent address from Dr. Jonassohn and a concluding speech. A second shower came up, even more drenching than the first. After this, the air grew cooler, and the crowd began to return. The last of the meeting, however, did not leave the ground till it was nearly dark. Thus closed the Pentecost festivities, which we hope to see r e peated next year, with equal spirit and enjoyment and under a more auspioi ms sky- -SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBOTE. NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 24. Mmigai'y and AHisti'ia. ‘God-is patient ’hecause eternal,^ says tlie great St. Angustine. It is necessary to re iterate tliis truth in order to preserve a firm and living faith in the wise and just Govern ment of the Universe. Viewed superficially and with reference only to the passing hour, History is often a perplexing enigma to the upright, devout Theist. But a more patient considering, a broader survey, a more search ing scrutiny, corrects the error of the first false impression. ‘ Time at length sets all things even.^ Joseph, sold by envious breth- rjp. into slavery and cast hy slanderous ma lignity into prison, might well have stag gered the faith of a devotee, had not that fhith the power to assure him that these wrongs were Divinely permitted as the trial of Integrity and clesiped to insure its tri umph. So the partition of Poland, the bloody subjugation of Hungary, might well shake the serenest faith in Divine Provi dence if they were to be accepted as final results, and not as the darker recesses of a labyrinth through which the human race is winding its way to an exalted and benignant destiny. In the light of that'destiny, op pression and wrong shall he seen to have wrought evil only to their contrivers, leav ing their intended and seeming victims only chastened, purified and elevated hy their harsh but salutary discipline. —‘ Why speak again of Hungary ? Is she not blotted from the list of Nations V We answer, No more in 1849 than she was a century earlier, and had been even in centu ries before. At the close of her struggle for her natural and constitutional rights under Bakoezy, a century and a half ago, one of her patriot chroniclers thus mourns her pros tration and despairs of her recovery: “The liberties of Hungary have played their last Th ha at t p a r t h a s been long and bloody. There en done on the one side to suppress them ; there is nothing that has not been done on the other to maiiitain” them. The world p a rt 1 s nothing that ha: age of light and inquiry like the present, to walk in craftiness and subsist by perjury, conspiracy, and the darkest hypocrisy. In the first place, be it ever borne in mind that H u n g a r y i s n o t a r t or A u s t r i a , but a distinct nation, having (prior to the recent catastrophe) the acknowledged ^ight to be governed by its own written constitution and laws. The Hungarians are pot even Ger mans, hut an entirely distinct race, (the Magyar,) who came into Europe from Asia during the tenth century, and established themselves on the great plains of the Danube and its lower tributaries formerly known as Dacia and Pannonia. There were other races inhahiting the country—Slavonian, Wallachian,&c. and the conquering Magyars have been regarded as the ascendant race, just as the Normans for eight centuries have ^ been in England; hut they had no special^ privileges known to the laws. Those who have called the recent struggle ‘ The AYar of Eaees in Hungary,’ and spoken of the Mag yars as the nobles strugglmg fiirthe perpet uation of feudal prh ileges, have been, dis- Jaonest or grossly deceived. The nobles are simply the AYarrior caste of a former era, and as such enjoyed certain exemptions from taxation, &c. as a consideration for their lia bility to be called into the field for the pub lic defense, just as the firemen of our cities are usually exempted from Militia and from Jury duty. But while many nobles are of the Magyar stock, many more are not, while thousands of the Magyars are simple peas ants. Says De Gererando, “ Intbe county of Maramaros there are found four hundred and eighty-three Magyar nobles, sev( hundred and seventeen Slavonian nobles, andithn land seven hundred and fifty Walli fifty Y 3 numbers are taken from the pul ;ry.”— De Puhlic Uachian no th e public dng that has not beei 3SS them ; there is n( me on the other to maintain them. The world lows the catastrophe of this tragedy, but the orld is divided in the judgments which it has formed with regard to it.” The years 1848-’49 saw all this gloomy portent dissipated, this wail of despair changed to shouts of exultation, as the min ions of Perfidy and Despotism were chased from or buried beneath the free soil of Hun gary, until the Austrian tyrant trembled for ' the very existence of his empire. It was saved by the powerful intervention of Nich olas, while Hungary was crushed by the treason of Gorgey. But neither is this con clusive. We have reached a period in hu man history when months do the work for which years would have been requisite two ' • centuries ago. The restoration of Hungary to •; Liberty and Independence is the work of this generation, and cannot long he postponed. And at all events, since Americans have been found or bought to varnish over and obscure -the gigantic crime recently consummated by the Allied Despots, and their purchased traitor, it is proper to reiterate the material facts in the case until the public mind shall have been fully possessed by them, so as to ■- . Tender it impervious to misrepresentations ■ ' • .so gross, so infamous, so cowardly, as those '/ A ■ forth in the article on Hungary in the AmeHcan Review for January last. For that libel on the prostrate, the wronged, the exiled, the dead, we demand of its ufc- terers the most ample reparation in the pages of their work, and, until it is made, we hold it the duty of every lover of Liber ty and Justice to refrain from countenancing that Eeview in any manner whatever. If they were paid for uttering their calumnies by Austrian gold, let them feel that they have made a bad bargain of i t ; if these cal umnies were uttered in mere wantonness or from an instinctive adhesion to the side of Despotism, the utterers are equally unwor thy of the patronage and confidence o f a Free People. To send forth to the world the most cruel calumnies on Kossuth and his martyred compatriots as ‘ North American,’ is an. outrage and a libel on our own country as well as upon Hungary. This great wrong must be atoned for, or the Eeview must look for its support to^he tyrants to whose filthy work it lends itself. Meantime, we most earnestly, call public attention to the article on Hungary in the last Christian Examiner, which for ability and clearness of statement has not l?een surpassed. It is from the pen thORSI ble£ These i archives of the country. Hongrie, p. 319. The article before us gives abundant in stances of this kind. In the counties of Arva, Lipto and Trencsen, the aggregate number of nobles is seventeen thousand one hundred and sixty-nine, while the whole number of Magyars is but twenty-three hun dred. And be it understood that all these nobles are equally entitled to vote for and be eleeted to the National Diet. And, while Political Franchises were confined to the nobles, the number of voters in many coun ties was from six to twelve thousand—more than in almost any English (not to mention Irish) County, or French Department at that Now as to the assertion that the recent re sistance to Austrian arms in Hungary was a struggle of either the nobles or the Magyar race to perpetuate their privileges: Its false hood is Written in blazing letters aU ojier the recent history of Hungarian legislatiou. It is abundantly on record that the anti-Aus trian or popular party, whereof K o s s u t h was for many years the life and soul, has contended for an equalization of public bur dens at least since 1830, as it did in fact long before. The Manifesto of this party, issued in 1847, includes the following sum mary of its demands, v iz: the peoi alone subjected to taxation, enect. also, to strengthen our const W e desire that the Diet should dec litherto t W e wish inithii ititutionaU alguaran- icideas to tees. W e desire that the Di the disnosition of the impost. *' 2. Participation of the non nobles, of the inhabi- royal cities, an4 of the free districts, 1 municipal rights, leforeefore thehe law.w. tants of the r in legislative legislative and “ 3. Equality b t la The abolition of the urbarial dues, with indem- »thei landed proprietors. W e think it desir- nity to t able tbai d proprietors, that steps should he take demption of these universal, throng] of the State. “ 5. Securii abolition of inder the re- assistance i ty given to credit and property by the the aviticitas.\ Again, in the following year, after the late French Devolution, the same party put forth the following summary of its demands “ 1. W e ask freedom of the press, and the abo lition of the censorship. “2. A responsible ministry at Buda. “ 3. Annual Diet at Pest. “4. Equalitj^ before the law, both as regards re- Kgious and civil rights. “ 5. A national guard. “ 6. An equal distribution of the puhlic burdens. “ 7. Abolition of the urbarial [feudal] relations. “ 8. Trial hy jury. “ 9. Representation on the principle of equality. “ 10. A national bank. “ 11. The army shall be required to take the oath to the constitution; the Magyar troops shall not be taken out of the country; the foreign troops shall be withdrawn. “ 12. Union w ith T r a n syl'^nia.” Now, is it possible that any intelligent man can be made to believe that the party which demanded equal political rights for aE, un qualified Freedom of the Press, Equal Tax ation—and which party proceeded to estab lish these very reforms so soon as the pro gress of the European Eevolution rendered resistance by Austria impossible—^was all the time attempting to uphold the very ine qualities anddeudal privileges which they so loudly condemned, and finally abolished? Now, that the Austrian Court and Cabinet steadily and stubbornly resisted all these measures of Eeform and Progress so long as resistance was possible, is as certain as that George III., Lords North and Bute in 1775- 80 were not in favor of American Indepen dence. That they assailed the Freedom of the Press, and in it aU other Freedom, by arb itrarily imprisoning Kossuth for years, without trial or legal accusation, is not more notorious. But let us look once more at the broader causes of the Hungarian resistance of an American woman who is thoroughly Austrian power—causes already more familiar with the history and literature of forth in our columns on the basis of the nations of Eastern Europe. And, al- ■thongh the material facts, asset forth in Count Teleki’s statement, were mainly pub lished in our columns last year, we propose here to recur to a few of the more essential, in order to reassure and fortify the minds of any who may have been disturbed by the North American’s calumnies or by those of Consul AYalsh or any of his colaborers in the cause of Absolutism. Few as are the Eoyalists among us, thereris yet a very gen eral deficiency of intimate knowledge of the cssenrii^'^icfepraTity of Monarchy and the moral which constrains it, in an Count Teleki’s memorial, which no one has yet begun to answer. The Christian Exam iner’s statement is essentially identical with his. f To he eoveluded in our next,] M assachusetts . —^The Loco-Eocos of the IVth Congressional District of Massachusetts! held a Con vention in Charlestown on Tuesday. The attend- anep'was very small, not exceeding 40, and, after a warm debate, it was decided, 22 to 18, that it is inexpedient for the ‘ Democratic party’ to make any nomination at the present time. So there are now only two candidates in the field— THOMPSON, Whig, and P a l f r e y , Free-Soiler; and if no new candidates m a k e their appearance, of coarse the next trial will lesolt in a choice. T b e fr e n c h E l e c t o r a l l i a i r . We devote this morning a good deal of space among our details of European news to the particulars of the Bill for the regula tion of the Electoral Franchise, just intro duced in the French Legislature, and the debate which attended its introduction.— The matter is one of great importance, and cannot fail to engage the attention of all who watch with any care the varying phases of foreign politics. Indeed, since the revo lution of February disarranged all parties and frustrated all intrigues, no event has so distinctly marked tho tendencies of the falsely named friends of order as this.— Nothiug has so demonstrated their .despera tion and their impotence; and of aU the de feats which the liistorian will hereafter re cord as falling to the lot of their fury and their folly, none will be reckoned so decisive as that upon which they are nowrushiag. If it be ever true, as is said, that the faults of a ruler are crihies,^ it is tea times true of the faults of the ruling party in France. Not to mention the lighter wrongs it has done, the Insurrection of June and the Invasion of Eome are crimes of the gloomiest hue, which no falsehood and no sophistry wiU ever erase from the long ac count of its offenses. But in branding these with the stigma which justice forever fixes upon them, we ought not to overlook the fact that* the men who were their principal agents were urged into their fatal course by motives to them irresistible. W e ought not to forget the Necessity which stands supreme over that whole continent, §)rcing men with resistless hand to p one way or the other. Among these criminals were many of up right and honorable intentions, such men as De Tocqueville and Barrot; they meant weU; they sincerely pui^osed the good of their country and of their race; at least so their previous history must make us believe. But now they were called on to decide be tween Socialism, of which they knew no thing except to distrust and fear it, and a course of policy which at first seemed easy find simple, the policy of holding fast to what was already recognized as good and practicable, if not already established. There was no neutral ground on which the;f could wait till the battle was over and then take sides with the successful party. ’ They must take sides now; must themselves be found among the champiens; and being there, they must follow struggle to the end. No compromise was possible; no stop, whe ther they chose one path or the other. But the misfortune was that neither of these parties could be stationary. That whose word was Forward could not halt at any one point to suit individuals among its members and go no further. That which be gan as a conservative party soon foupd itself forced to become a reactionary party, and to do deeds at which the majority ofits followers would have once started back with horror. And yet when the time came there was no choice; the wrong must be committed or else Socialism would be sure to triumph; the Eepublic of Eome must be put down by French bayonets or the stock jobbers of Paris were endangered in their craft. To hesi tate was out of the question. The Necessi ty was there palpable, inevitable, imminent, and it was obeyed. The world cannot stand still. It must go forward or backward. This is the secret of these unparalleled criminals who govern France. They would no doubt have prefered a medium between the two; they desired moderate progress, as they delight to call it, that is, progress which would leave aU their privileges intact. But the times would not admit of such a thing. Their compromise, their Juste-milieu was impracticable. And thus not daring to go forward, not having heart, faith, courage enough for that, they could only endeavor by violence and fraud alike unscrupulous, to force the nation backward. The result of their labors affords one of the most instruct ive chapters in political history. The Eevolutipn of 1848 had for its first purpose the establishment of Liberty.— That was admitted, apparently at least, by every party. It is true that French states men had not an entire faith in Liberty; Democrats as well as Eeactionists had hitherto learned to regard the people as un fit to hear the whole truth; but this they did not say openly, and Freedom of Speech, of Association, of the Press, together with Uni-i versal Suffrage, were solemnly guaranteed by the Constitution of the Eepublic. Now all these are rights whose exercise by the mass of citizens tends to carry a nation for ward, not backward; in France, as she now is, with her present inteUigence, her present contrasts of wealth and poverty, they tend and can only tend toward a Eadical Social Eeform. There is no escaping this. Provi dence has made it so. Human Nature has made it so. The Necessity which dominates all political combinations has made it so. Only one coui’se then remained for the men of “ moderation,” of the staftis quo, of living on^ others’ labor. They must clip these rights. No matter for the Constitu tion ; no matter for their oaths to support) it. For except this thing were done, what should save society, what should keep under this swelling flood of dangerous ideas ? Accord ingly they first suppressed the liberty of Association; ilext the liberty of the Press; they prevented oral and written discussion of these ideas. And with this, every coUat- eral trick of tyranny was employed, every device of calumny, every resource of lies.— But still it was not enough. The evil spread in spite of them. The greater'their violence, the more headlong their folly, the more en tire and disastrous, was their failure^ . The election of Engene Sue is the last drop in their useless, has only urged the nation forward w h p they were risking aU to drag it back- And now they lay their ax at the root of the last right. They flatter themselves that by curtailing Universal Suffrage they may be safe. The BiU they have introduced will diminish the number of voters some three millions. It is drawn with skill hy the ablest men of the majority. It does not propose to require any unconstitutional qualification in electors. It dodges dex terously about the provisions of the Consti tution. The Legislature has a elear right to define hy law what shaU constitute such a residence as shall qualify a man to vote. Hitherto six months has been the prescribed term. This is long enough, but the Assem bly may increase or diminish it. They take advantage of this power, and propose to increase the period to three years. Thus they violate the spirit of the Constitution, though they keep within the letter. The Bill has not yet passed. It was in troduced and the question taken upon de claring its “ urgency.” This exempts it from the necessity of passing through cer tain formalities and waiting for a fixed' pe riod before it can be definitely acted on. A large majority was found in favor of the ur gency. No doubt many, like Yictor Hugo, then voted Aye who will oppose it at all suV • sequent stages. They desired to have it brought up and decided as speedily as pos sible. But still there seems little, if any, reason to doubt its final passage. For the Necessity is stiU there and still implaca- cable. The majority will do it because they must. And wiU the people then rise on the per jured and faithless majority, on the unscru pulous Ministers and the brainless aspirant for imperial gewgaws who fills the chair of President ? Certainly they have had provo cation enough. Nothing has been spared that could rouse an ardent and generous na tion to insurrection. If the stern infliction of popular justice were ever deserved it is now at Paris. But the People wiU remain calm. \They know that the victory is theirs. They know that their adversaries are doomed. They know that even without these three millions of voters, nay, partly because they are deprived of them, they will carry the next general election as triumph antly as the official returns in another col umn of this paper show they have just car ried the day at Paris and in the Saone and Loire. They know that the Eeform of Social ■\Yrongs for which they aspire is sure to be accomplished, is working out even now; they know that the Necessity of the A g e is in i t ; and we cannot belleve.ihat they wiU delay the hour of its realization by impatient or untimely action. FEOM WASHINGTON. M o v em ent o f the S lavery Propaganda—Cuba —Our R e lations •with Spain^ & c . fisc. Correspondence o f The Tribune. W ashington , Ttreaday, May 21. Movements were made yesterday in both ends of the Capitol hy Southern men favoring extensive measures on the Slavery question, to embarrass the Administration, and to excite popular feeling against them, for tbe prompt and justifiable mea sures taken by the President to prevent the inva sion of Cuba by American forces. Before either Mr. Y u l e e of Florida or Mr. I noe of Alabama in troduced their resolutions, it would have been well for them to have ascertained what were our treaty obligations that we are under to Spain in all inter ference with the Island of Cuba with a view of finally bringing it within the jurisdiction of the United States. If such examination had been made, it would have been found that a secret treaty was in full force, by virtue of which we have stipu lated •vfrith Spain that in the contingency of Cuba becoming severed from the parent steiq, that that Island should remain an Independency. A similar treaty was also made with both France and Eng land ; so that Spain has the treaty obligations of the three greatest nations of the earth that if she is deprived of Cuba, no other power shall derive the advantage of sovereignty over it. The idea that the South entertain is, that if Cuba can be revolutionized, and finally brought into tbe United.States, it will increase the Slave power of the nation just so much. But for the fact that it is Slave territory, you would see none of this sym pathy on the part of Southern men for Cuba, nor for those engaged in the unlawful enterprise of in vading and subjugating that island. If, then, I am correct as to the existence of this secret treaty, even though the expedition proves successful, Cuba can never be annexed to tbe United States. It •would be a -violation of our treaty obligations with Spain, that neither France nor England would see practiced with impunity by us toward Spain, more especially as she is bo much the weaker power. And I question whether, with all the imaginary ben efits our possession of that Island would bring to us, the people are willing to hazard a war, not only with Spain, but with France and England, for the sake of acquiring it. • There is an organized design to make politica capital out of this Cuba movement, and to influence the minds of the populace against the Administra tion for ordering a fleet to proceed to the -vicinity of Cuba, for the legal and constitutional purpose of preserving our obligations toward Spain from be ing violated. But, after all the experience the country has had, growing out of the Annexation of Texas, which not only involved us in a war with Mexico, but was the serpent’s egg that has pro duced aU the difficulty and sectional strife that i s , now agitating the country, I question whether the sober sense of the people will second or approve any such attempt. Those who have engaged in this expedition knew it was an unlawful one, else why all this secresy in fitting it out, and in taking their departure for the scene of plunder ? And, knowing its illegality, they deprive themselves from aU sympathy or commiseration on the part of the public, if, in enforcing the laws, they fall vic tims of their own indiscretion t^d blindness. No resolutions of inquiry, nor thunderings o f manufac tured indignation, will exercise the remotest influ ence with the President in the course he has set out upon. He will usurp no power, nor infringe upon no provision of the Constitution—hut, IfOep- ing within his legitimate sphere, he wfll arrest all attempted jnvasion of a foreign power with whom we are at peace, without regard to the consequen ces that may fall upon those participating in tbe Centenary o f Bedford) N. H . The people of B edford , N. H. celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the founding of their town on Wednesday, 22d inst. The day was fair and bright—the only clear, warm, rainless day for sqme weeks—and the attendance of some two thousand citizens and ex-citizens gave a deep in terest to the celebration. Several had traveled hundreds of miles on purpose to attend, though obliged by stress of business to start directly from the ground on their homeward journey. Bedford was first settled something more than a hundred years ago by pioneers from the great cen tral hive, Londonderry, N. H. which had been settled some twenty or thirty years before by a colony\ of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, who received grants of lands there in consideration of their signal services in the cause of Protestant Ascendancy in the memorable Siege of Londonderry, the Battle of Boyne W ater, and other straggles in Ireland - betw een' the adherents of William III. and James II. respectively. Bedford lies on the west run of the Merrimac River, opposite old Londonderry, now divided into three or four townships, one of which (Litchfield) intervenes between the pi-esent town of Londonderry and the River. W ith Nashua, some fifteen miles south, and Manchester on the north-east—the two being the chief seats of Manufactures in New-Hamp- sbire—Bedford remains constant to its primitive Agricultural pursuits, to its Presbyterian faith (in the main,) and to its simplicity of manners and pa rity of morals. The soil, though in good part strong, is hard and rocky, except some fertile intervale on the Merrimac and two or three tributaries. L ately, the growth of Manchester begins to overflow in dwellings on tbe Bedford side of the River, increas ing the population and wealth of the town -without changing its general character. Its main aspects have scarcely altered in thirty years, and the dwell ings scattered within sight of the Presbyterian Church in its center are about as many as they* were then—say forty in all. Dr. P e t e r P . W oodbury (brother of Judge Levi) presided at the Celebration, and a most in teresting Historical Discourse, illustrative of the origin and settlement of the town, and of tbe North of Ireland ^^cotch-Irish race and their extensive migration to this country during the former half of the last century, was read by I saac 0. B a r n e s , late Marshal of Massachusetts, a native of this to-wn. Many of the facts therein embodied are fading Irom tbe memories of even the descendants of that hardy, God-fearing, man-defying race, and will be read with vivid interest by thousands. The weak voice of Mr. Barnes rendered his address inaudible to three-quarters of the assemblage. The first clergyman of the town. Rev. John Hous ton, was the only man in it who took the side of Great Britain in the commencement of the Revolu tionary struggle. Though previously beloved and esteemed, and a most worthy and devoted Chris tian, be was deserted, imprisoned, treated as a public enemy and compelled to flee the country. A large portion of the able-bodied citizens were in the first American Army that beleaguered Boston and fought at Bunker Hill; nearly or quite half of all who could handle a musket were with Stark at Bennington and with Gates at Sai’atoga. Col. (af terward Gen.) Stark lived and died on his farm just North of the Bedford line. Matthew Thornton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived and died just South of Bedford. John W a lk e r , son o f tbe first settler of tbe town, was present at the celebration, aged 87. The sec ond' wife of the missionary Newell and several others who have been eminent in Religious efforts, were bom here. Some six or eight Presbyterian Clergymen, natives of Bedford, were present and took port in the exercises of Wednesday. And when th e w h o le congregation rose to join in singing the seventy-sixth Psalm, according to an ancient version and to a venerable tune, the resemblance to a gathering of Scottish Covenanters of the olden time, as described by Scott, among others, was very vivid and striking. A procession was formed in the morning which marched to a temporary stand, in front of which an ample free collation had been provided for all. Af ter appropriate Religious exercises came the Ora tion ; then the Dinner; after which brief Address es, in response to the sentiments proposed by the Committee, were made by Rev. Messrs. C yrus W allace of Manchester, D avis of Amherst, C la r k of \Manchester T. S avage of Bedford, A ik e n of Lowel], T. W oodbury of Deering, and P otter of Manchester—also by the Orator, the President of the Day, by Hon. J ohn A ik e n of Low ell, J ames S avage of N. York, J ohn A tw ood of Albany, Dr. L. F ren c h , andH. G r e e l e y of New- York—all, with perhaps one exception, natives or former residents of Bedford. Finally, at 5^ P.M. the Celebration was concluded by prayer, and the assemblage silently dispersed. It may he well to add here, though quite needless thereabouts, that no Intoxicating Liquors were seen or obtainable on the ground or -within miles, and that there were no exceptions to the propriety of deportment and uniformity of interest befitting, the occasion. electionunlawful andiyustifiahle u act. In doing thiij he cu p o f hittemess. It shows them that all j w ill h e sustained b y all those w h o s e good o p inions theyh^YG doue a t such sacrifices has been I or^whoseconfidence is w o rth enjoying. The Daily Milwaukee Sentinel and, Ga zette has been enlarged and improved. The Go,- zeite was established in 1844, and is the oldest daily in the State, and is one of the ablest Whig papers in the W est. Gen. K ing , the Editor of the Sentinel, is an enterprising citizen and a whole souled Whig, and abundantly merits the success indicated by this enlargement. T h e H om e stead .— The “ German Association of Buffalo, for the Protection of the Laboring Class es,” throunh their Committee, Messrs. John A. Weimer, Gottfried Berger, and I. V. Vanderpoel,. thank Messrs. O. Allen and Elijah Ford, members of the late Legislature, for their efforts in procur ing the passage of the Homestead Exemption Bill. The Committee say that it was to secure such ends, and fo” such purposes, that this Association wos formed. Success to it. T h e I mmigrants . —^From the 2d of April until last Saturday, the number of immigrants who arrived at this port amounted to 41,457, an thousand per day. Of this England, and !;• ill rigs and 137 sctiooners, making a total of 624 ;sseZs from foreign po^'ts only> Germany, grants were brigs and 1! 1,604 were from Bngla] via Bremenremen andm Hai a reyed in 1 ,517 from ivre. These immi- ships, 112 barks, 178 iking a total of A rrival of I mmigrants . —The boats from N e w York this morning were crowded with immigrants. The Newton brought near two thousand, and those destined for the \West by canal filled five boats. [Alb. Atlas, 21s 1^^ A correspondent of the Louisville Journal gives a sad account of a feud between two famiiiei of Garrard Co. Evans, some his neighbor y. named Evans and Hill. L 0 two or thn lamedmed I r three me eighbors na Hill, and t posed to Indiana. On Monday last one of the Evans’ and one of the Hills came into collision, and exchanged shots without effect. The Hill gang then fell on Evans with knives and cut’his throat on each side, and bis upper lip nearly off. While this butchering business was going on, a brother of » appeared and shotI down with isively, Russell Hi” “ -erick --------- Evans appeared and ■ sly, Russell Hill, id H( snccessi Hill, Jr. down with a revolver, Fred Hill, WiUiam T. and Henry Sagacy, a brother-in-law. Nu merous shots were made at him without killing him. The battle was over the wounded Evans, and who was supposed to be dead. None of the five wounded are dead, and it is thought they may all recover. T h e B om b shells at W orcester . —Jubal Har rington, charged with being the author of tbe late explosions a t Worcester has been examined and held to bail in tbe sum of $2,000. He obtaiaed the NEW VEESION OF THE BIBLE. . . ANNIVERSARY OF *THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. G reat R a lly o f the B a p t is t Denomination. The Thirteenth Anniversary of the American end Foreign Bible Society (morning session) was celebrated at tbe Norfolk-st. Baptist Churcb May 22. The spacious building was filled in every part, by the friends and adherents of the Society, ' and those who were drawn thither by \interest or curiosity. The general anticipation of a peculiarly interesting occasion was abundantly fulfilled, and the wrapt attention of the vast assemblage was sustained unwaveringly to the close. * At 10 A. M. the exercises were opened with singing by tbe excellent Choir of the Church. A- portion of the 119th Psalm was read by Rev. J. W . T aggart of this City—followed by Prayer by Rev. Mr. G r i n n e l l of Paterson, N. J. The hymn commencing, “ Howrprecious is the Book Divine, By inspiration given” ----- was then sung; and the speeches of the day began. Rev. Dr. C one , President of the Society, post- * poned the remarks he intended to make until the afternoon session—;as bearing directly upon the question then to be made the order of the day. The presence of Bro. S utton from the Missionary field at Orissa mainly impelled him to this course. Ac cordingly the venerable Doctor made no'speech at the morning session. W m . C olgate , .Esq. read an abstract of the T rea s u r e r ’ s A nnual R e p o r t . W e gather from it the subjoined interesting particulars: RECEIPTS. iril6,1849 ...................... $63195 >n« and in^vidu^a ........ I b ’ ss Societies ......... 10,S3 Donations from Auxiliary S o ....^ mob ........ . ............... .. ow Sales of Bibles and Testaments ...................... . ........ 9,043 15 Returns for books donated .................................. 2,517 20 Making the whole Receipts ............. . .............. .$41,625 01 EXPENDITURES. Baptist Miss. Union, for Scriptures in Uhina .......... $1,500 00 ................................................. in Siam............................ 1,500 00 .................................................in Assam ........................ 1,000 DO for the Karens ___ 3,000 fld for jhe TeUoogoos 580 OO in France in Germai r’s Report was accept ne , Esq. of Baltimore— > H um phi !Y of Albai, d, and ordered Salarief Total Expenditures . . ........... .. . „ . Balance in Treasury, April 6,1850 ........ On motion o I W m . C r a n e , E s < seconded by Hon. F r ie n d the Treasurer’! printed. An abstract of the M anager ’ s A nnual B ei W m . H . W y < much ground. W e have sp; short distance. Daring the 2 the Report at theco. commencf iPORT , Esq. _____ ______ e of signal prosperity which have hitherto distin guished every period of the history of the Ameri can and Foreign Bible Society, have continued id vigor, Avery encouraging view ii- ar now closmg, (say» Lent,) the same signs hich have hitherto distin- with unabated vigor, A very encouraging view is given of the operations of the Society during the year—especially in the foreign fieldi The frequent ly Buccessfiil struggles of Priests and Princes to re gain lost ground, will necessarily cause many doors to be dosed which have “heretofore been opened freely. Already, upon the resumption of power by these vindicators of talse religions, the persecutions- ^ave commenced and the laborers in the harvest experience many privations and much suffering. The work, however, goes on unceasingly. A num ber of letters are embodied in the Report from dis tant Missions, giving most encouraging accounts o f the progress ot the Word. Colporteurs are in some localities loudly called for. The corrected version of the French Testament h a s been issued, and a large num ber of copies have been sent to France for the revision and cri- had already been prepared and fbrwa proper Italian autborities, praying for his when the news of his departure from Rome threw a gleam of joy over the hearts of his many friends, on this side the water. The Report contains, also, an interesting article upon Orissa, and sundry other Missionary Stations. The concluding portion of the document refers di- 3 Version question. W e extract, en- ig to Uiis subject. \ Testam sty’s existence, its operations in the circulation of the Sacred Scriptures were confined to heathen lands. In the year 1838, the Constitution was amended so as to embrace “ a l l la n d s .” At the same time the fol lowing resolutions were adopted hy the Society: Resolved, That this Society will expect of their Board of Managers, in carrying into effect the Second Article of. the- '’'inihtuiion, the most ------------ -- ------ *— -------- »- rsions only of the Sac the Heathen as have d. Er6 Approved by COluyd.\;iAi. d.d.auAiuc;iD. 'iesolvcd. That in the distribution o f the Scriptures in the iglish language, they will use the commonly received rsion until otherwise directed by Ihe Society. At the last Annual- Meeting of the Society, the flowing resolufi ’ ' ’ and petitions 'arded to the rectly to the Version ques tire, the paragraphs relatini ing of the fc y the Society on tb lommoniy r« reeling the English Testament. That C reported the following resolutions, which, after a long and interesting discussion, were adopted in. January last; Resolved, That, in the opinion o f this Board, the Sacred- Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments ought to be faithfully and accurately translated into every livmg lan~ now in use, known . the meaning o f the or obscured, suitable measures ought to be prosecuted to correct those versions^ so as to renaer the truth clear and intelligible to the ordinary reader. Resolved, That in regard to the expediency of this Board. undertaMng the correction o f the common Eaglisu version, a decided difference o f opinion exists,.^.nd cnerefore thatlt be judged most prudent to await the instructions of the Society. —The opening Address was now delivered hy Rev. Prof. M. B. A nderson of WaterviHe, Me. Rising to move the acceptance of the Managers’^ Report, Mr. Andewon went into a- long and argu mentative, and sometimes eloquent review of tfa& whole question of Bibles^ Bible influences and New Versions. He is thoroughly convinced of the necessity for the free circulation of the Bible ; likewise of the Version, under dispute. He said are of the different opinions aroused by vvuiu. xuc speaker w of his hearers for a few remarks, to pleaif for the which we ail love and ievere. ^ Bible which we ail love tints have a fashion of speaking r W e Bap- f right out and right y,y, either to friend on, when we have anything to sa or foe. In God’S name, brethren I speak out. Now in regard to this question; T se Bible Society for Christianizing the v I disposed to consider thei question; W e have been accus- ible Societies prominently among tbe world. The speaker was disposed to consider them rather as supplementary agencies. He believed in first sending the living preacher; and to foil; ------ believed ending the living preacher; and to follow -with tbe Bible in the track of the Missionary. The Bible should follow the Church to trace Church—classing 1 ism and Spiritualism, or Pantheism. W e are ac customed to look upon the heresies of our own age as something new, hut they are not really record distributer should follow the Church bufid^r. He proceeded to tra c e the history of Heresies*\in t h e Church—classing them under the heads of Formal- W e areac- hen we come to consider the ancient i and find the same3 superstitionsuper -wrapt u s literature of India—^in the -history of in numberless the difficulties and in numberless other sections of the earth. How to be met? By giving Jt a all its ] ■'y. Chin^ By giving to these rity. The Heathen parit world must he furnished with a pure Bible that may grow up in accordance with its teachings and be individually Christianized. The speaker did not believe in general theorizing upon Christianity, but rather in individual bolin'ess. He thanked ihesive power of fat benefices au public plunder; no Presbyteries nor Hierarchies- a Church is a body of believers met for God's -vror- “ ’ ■ rorld will neverhecome Ghris-
