OUR POLICE SYSTEM. 8 SHE METROPOLITAN AND MUNICIPAL PO 11CE CONTRASTED. 1 EFFICIENCY AND COST OF PATRONAGE—WILL 1lih ULL SEDEERE TT) THE RESULTS OF RE-ESTABLISHED 1 ne «Will the Metropolitan Police District be re established?” isthe quest jon that isagitating the memhyrs of the Police force of the cities and towns that foruserly composed the District, and that is canvassed by tho more intelligent of our citizens A careful inquiry among this clsss shows that a majority are strongly In favor of return to the old ay stem. There are many and obvious reasous for this piefercuce, chief among which is the knowledge that the old force was managed in a cheaper and cer tainly more ficient manner, because political influences were not allowed to interfere or to dictate promotions or trensfere. Where formerly there was well-constructed, eaay-running, snd perfect machine, doing its work with regularity and precision, there are now but fragments, met only not working in common together for the par poss of protecting the lives and property of those within the limita covered by the various commands, but even failing to perform well the work expected of them in their respective districts. It has been recently shown that crime has increased in this city and Brook yn out of all proportion to the natural increase of popu lation, aud the same may be sald of the outlying towns and villages within a radius of 30 miles froin this city. There never were so many professional thieves to be found in (his city and vicinity as at the present time, and they p'y their vocation almost without fear of being held soccoun:ahie for their misdeeds. In the lighter crimes of petty thievery and pocket-picking there is a decided tnerease, while in the heavier business of house-breaking, burglary, and felonious assault there has been an ad vance of fully 50 per oent since the reorganization of tho force. A WANT OF COUPERATION. In the matter of coiperation there is the greatest lack of efficiency in the new system. Under the Metropoli sau act the police, to any required number, could be massed in any part of the district, or, for that matter, in any part of the State, provided the Commissioners chose to send them. Tt was for this reason that pugilists be eame 80 shy of fighting in this neighborhood. Informa tien would be received that a prize-fight was arranged to occur at a certain time and place. It might be that the news came to Superintendent Kennedy only a few hours before the time of meeting, and after the princi pals in the fight and thelr backers had departed for the scene of the conflict. The police telegraph was at once drought into requisition. If the fight was to come off near enough to Brooklyn for the police of that city to ve ueed, Inspector Folk was ordered to take a sufficient force, break up the assemblage and arrest the principals and those actively engaged in abetting them. Often in lees than two hours from the time the information was re oeived br Suparipiancdot Kennedy at Police Headquar ters in this city, Jonpector Folk was on the way to the fight at the head of his men. The fact that his force had to be summoned by telegraph together at the Police Headquarters, or some other c-ntral point from stations wide apart, yg well for the eijcioney of the force. How well Inspector Folk perform the duty as signed him, is shown by the broken heads of certain prize-fighters and politicians, ameng them a coroner and severul members of the Brooklyn Common Council. If the fight were to come off at a point too far away for the Cn St Ay Police to reach—in Staten Island, at the Puli sades, In Weetchester cous. of on one of the {slands in the East River—the Police at was brought into use, aud force from this city dispatched in it to the point pearcst the flgat. A score or more of pugllistic contests were in this manner broken up. It is true the magistrates of this city and Brooklyn were in sympathy with the vio laters of the law, and almost invariably dismissed the offenders with a tritling fine, or shelved the complaint agaiust them altogether. But the knowledge that the police would club without mercy any one found taking Jar, inor ahetiing these brutal exhibitions, had its {u nded effect, and, for a considerable time, prize fights within the Metropolitan District, or near it, became al most unknown, It waa not alone, however, in preventing prize fights outside of this VR beside atteuding to their usual Qutiey, that the Metropolitan Police were found go uee ful. For years the roughs and thieves of the metropolis bad been in the habit of attending tbe count fairs up the Hudson and on ong Taaud, the boat-races, and every other affair where large masses of people were to be drawn together. Pickpockets plied belr vocation witaout Diudraace and it has happenea on vorp) oécasions that the thleves have banded to- 28 Jove fled the authorities of the places whera hi Ratheringy were Bald, ape Jithdered “lores, robbed the efenseless citizens, dnd eo bed before aid could be ob tained from elsewhere, The incoming of the Metropoli tan police put an end to this. A ewall force under the command of a roundsman or ser It was sent to these small gatherings, and with the algo a detective ¢f two, arrested the thieves as soon as they mada thelr appear ance, and either ordered them to take the first convey ance out of the place, or Sieg Vo locked up until the fair or Satheriog was over and the opportunity for deproda tions passed. The expenses of the police on these occa sions were urne by the town or village authorities. Gap the occasfon of the boat race between the Ward Brothers 22d the Pittsburgh Crew, near Poughkeepsie, a few years ago, the Mayor of the latter city received {u tc lligcuce that a formidable gang of New-York and Philadelphia thieves and roughs intended to be present for the purpose of robvery. There was unusual danger of un outbreak where £0 many outlaws were Congrega ted together, and threats had been made to Warm any coppers who wterfered with them.” One hundred picked pokcemen were placed on board the police boat, aud sent to PoucLkeepsie before the race begun, As fast as the roughs came in by rail and steamer, they were pointed out to thie Poughkeepsie authorities, who at once ar rested them and locked them up, The rascals did not dare to resist, owing to the presence of the Metropolitan Police, Tiis illustration of their value was more strikingly repeated not long afterward when a a Hag of some Kind was yApeci in ing sig. The arden of the pidson at that place received inforination a day or two in advance that an attelopt would be made, while the attention of the authorities was directed else where, to effect a general jail delivery. The convicts were to rise and overpower their keepers, and in this they were to be aided by their friends from without. The timely discovery of the plot, and the preseuce of a larger number of Metropolitan Police than usual at such gatleriuge, preveuted its being successfully carried out. ARE THE POLICE IN FAVOR OF THE CHANGE} There {2 no question that the great majomty of the police of thls city and Brooklyn are in favor of tue change, aud the police of the outlying districts are almost unanimously favorsble to it, in consequence of the toereased aid it would give them in emergencies, Scarcely a week passes during the Summer that the rural police are pot cugaged iu couflicts with the rufliaus who attend target excursions and pic-uics, and occasionally, because they are so largely outnumbered, the police are severely beaten. This would not be the case did the rougbs know that before they could reach the city they would be ju tercepted and arrested Ly a force dispatched for that purpose, as soon as the news of the attack bad been re ceived at Police Headquarters, Above ull, it would place the Police almost entirely be. {om the roach of politicians, What a police force may owe when subject to direct political influence is best shown Ly that of New-York sud Brooklyn to-day. In this eity there is one police captain, concerning whom leading Democratic politician, in an open meeting, offe to wager $6,000 that he could prove him a thief, while the sare captain is openly accused of being in coliusion with paucl-house kocpers and gamblers, and of receiving a good Joes of their unawiul gaing on cou ditien that be allows them to remain iu his precinct unmolested. Another, whom THE TRIBUNE conelnsively proved to be either an imbecile or the partner of thieves, ‘was merely transferred to an adjoruitiz precinct, instead of being summarily dismissed. It was proved by a trial before the Police Board that a third captain would not arrest a thief who bad stolen a case of milks, eventafter the captain hud been assured” that the thief was in his precinet and could be secured, and the rkubsequent arrest and incarceration by this captain, ona trumped up charge, of the officer who had arrested and scoured the conviction of this thief, lead orly toa transfer in stead of a dismissal. The transfer of capiains wud ser- geants frown one precinct to another on the eve of an election, or the compelliug of leaves of abscnoe at these times, in order that honest and upright men may be replaced with Tammany tools, who will do anything they wre bidden to do, is another evidence of the peruicious effect of political influences, to which may be added the elevation of incowpetent officers to posi ticns of trust and peaporsililey, for no other reason thun that they rendered substantial service by carrying a doubtful district or ward by disreputable measur. Ail force, and they will gladly hail a chauge that will thor ARE UUARANARALIYE LATENDED UF 10E TWO BISIENN, oughfy purify the Department. Even with a nominal reduction in the expenses of the Brooklyn Department, by reducing the pay of the ser geauts from $1,600 to $1,200, and of the patrolinen from $1,200 to $1,000, the cost of the several departments is abown $0 be considerably greater than when all were incorporated futo one district. The Mctropalitan District consisted of the Couutics of New-York, Richmond, Kiuge, Westchoster, and the towns of Newtown, Fluslh and Jamaica, in the County of Queems. In April, id when the Metropolitan Pofice was dissglved by the vision of the district, the force coniisted of tho fol WNT SRM: 1 Ueprigimdent, peetors, 1 Fire Marshal, 0 1 Chief Clerk. 18 clerks, bookoepery, and stcio v ‘ne force wee vided pe foNowat N Torta lacporsts. plains, 134 Rergeants, 2,000 Pateoimes, 70 Doorman. Brookirs=1 lospecior, 17) pry 3 Sarge, 48 Sergeants, 368 Patsslmen, end 24 Doormen, Richmond Coutty—~i Captain, Surgeon. 2 Sergeants, aud 25 Fatrolmen. Yonkers 73 Sergeants and 35 Patsolssen. West Farms! Besgeans sod 6 atroligen, The amounts appropriated to meet the expenses of the folics of tle District for the Jou 1870 were estiuated us ollows New-York, $3,136,270 11; Brooklyn, $599,300; Richmond County, $66,419 7¢; Yonkers, $42,410 45, und West Furme, $14,007 65. The fouswing were the etd wates in detall for the force of this city us udupted by the Board of Fatimate $8500 seeean sos 8,500 TwoCon's, #5 09 exch, 16,000 Superin endent of Police, 7.200 Four Inspeet’s, $5500 14 000 Kiet Clr ev crrene cas 50 Fig Devuty Cher...... 2.54% Tie sures Bovakecyor, 2.000 Fropaty Clee... «2040 1 Presigedt's Recietury. 1,5 Chore of Sgperintendent, 560 ON Ler XL Tne ew st cea Rt Precensseeee B1,6M 2 Inept 5 Clie #1.500¢, 5,000 10 Lep'y Clerks, #1 500e. 2800 4 Doomcn, 8000 ¢ch... KENT) 16 Surge ns. $2,250 each, 3,0 WM Captains, 92.000 each. £500 134 Seageants, dl 000 ee, 210 400 2,04 Putrolwen. $1.2 te. 2 400,000 0 Doormen, $50 each... 63,00 Tota).vovreiinnn. $2,781.40 tatiouery, police steamboat, 9 ple umvuut Kiven above, DiGi Le ial up For tho year ¢ading April 4, 191, the expensce of the Muantoipal Pe” jce of this city wero as follows: Comiiis8i” ners, Bu; exintendent, and Inspectors... $78.72] 62 Chief ory, Prat Depots Clerk. Tieasurcrs, Look. ee’ or, Property Clers, and other clerks, as pro NF A for DY [BW oc cvvieranerarieiiiiinitiiiies KIRK] FF cc Marshal R00 ASIBARL Lover versrrarenens 0.161 WR a a tn lezraph Cuperintendent and operators. coeiiiaee 14.970 14 BUTEOOLS .cvvvereranrnts conirssansisnnnnisnise 41,6103 COPLAIBS ev verrrerisnrins tissesirsarinssncinnns th 0.) Bergeantsi. ove. serersrsresrrrscansresris: 2 SHIT] 23 Patro!men. 2,064010 42 Deduc. ons for Police Life lusuranee Ford. 14.06.63 Fines for Police Life [nsurance Fond. 3,57 40 House of 1 ewcrtion Sergeant aud Doormen. 5471 W0 BP Alter tions, 8t4inz up, additions to, and repaire of Biation-Heus s,. ......couee cevevese $100574 24 Construction of Starion-Houses. 22578 Contingent expenses of Pouce. 13.404 14 Election exposes... 0,732 52 Supplies for Police... 101,583 (8 conannise $516,612 65 3443 009 2 Totals corneas veo These Hzuves show ain incroase of expeuscs for the New-York Police of $308,389 61. Tis is not owing to an increase in the numbers ot the force, as many would sup pore. On the contrary, the pay-rolls how tuat there has actually been a less nuwber of officers and men eiu ployed than during the previous year. The large in creare has been owing to tie greater amount expended in constructing and building station-houses, in gencral expenses, and in the increased salaries of the Commis sloners and SayerinSoikdsut, In 1864 the President und Treasurer received $4,000 each, and tho two remaluing Comnissioners £3,600 each, In 1866 the Legislature in creased the pay of the entire police force, and mado the salury of tue President $5,500; of the Treasurer the same, and of the other Coinmission rs $5,060 each. Thet also received $500 cach us ex-oficio members of the Board of Health. The sai ury of the Superintendent was likewise fnercasod from $5,000 to £7,500. The salaries of the Conmnnissivners were afterward raised by a Democratio Legislature to §s,00 each, against the protest of Cominissioner Acton, Under the Clty Charter of 1870 the new Municipal Po lice was created. By one of the provisions of tue Cuar ter-the Commissioners’ aularies were made the sawe as that of the Recorder, This was popularly supposed (0 mean $10,000 per annum. It was so construed, however, as to include the combined salaries of the Recorder as Judge Commissioner of the Sinking Fund, etc., amount ng fn the aRfrefaie to $15,000 bp annuum. The Treasurer of the Board receives $1,000 per annua additionn). The salary of the Bupernntendent was also raiscd to $10,000." It will be nouced that two {tems of expenditure for the past year, for the construc. tion and alteration of station-houses, agereguted $35,352 95. Thus Is fai in excess of any previous year. In 1863, the larger portion of the present Police Headquar tds was fliished. The building is ergeted on six lots of ground, having a frontage of 75 feet on both Mulberry snd Moit-sts. The entire cost of ground aud building, £129,010, was peid from amnouvuts gaved for the Rrevigus five years from the appropriations by the Board of Su .rvisors for the maintenance of the Board of Police. Fhe north wing of the building was constructed iu 1868 and 1660. It has a frontage of 30 feet on both streets, and cost, with the ground, §101,806 34. 2 nm Be ta Naam 0%" The €8LAIRRALANA DEEL LENGE AI CA La 1h TE 1s a on A made by the Board of Estimates, were as follows: 2 Kurgeons, Bt $2,290... coiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisniiie $1,500 00 10 Captains, at SLON ooeaiverinrennnns tires srene 20000 0) 48 Sergenuts, at L600... oiiienariiinnane ceernrnes A600 CO 363 Patrolmen, at $1200. 00iienannnens sncess secon. S000 C0 24 Doormen, at BY0U.coeiiirerresrssrsasssises sersereces 21600 ©0 Totalieenes crennene ss $064,500 00 Advertising, binding 9.0 00 Contingent eXPenscs™ ...oooervarcesens TO La tw 0 Ret of Central Office and taxes, 2.550 06 TTT TL Bub-Station....ovues PPT Keeping of four horses, at $206 rer month each. .o.vu. “reve 1,248 00 Proportion of subristence of detsined witnesses at House o Detentioesee cess PTT IT ITTIrIT PTITIT Crs b ERR ct ried 1.300 0 Alterations, fitting up, and repars of Station-House, Foriy-® Thin] SUD-BIAtON. ev sserrescrensssesccesssssssress serene 5000 0H Proportic of gene ral eXpenscsierseeiiiisriersssrsrsoneee 22.202 28 Tota).. YYTIIT IIIT 840028 0.1 28 This war under Metropolitan rule. The Brooklyn Char ter passed by the Legislature of 1870 gave the city an in dependent police. One of the provisions of the act fixed the pay of sergeants at $1,200, patrolinen, $1,020, and door men $800, instead of $1,600, $1,200, and §00 respectively, under the Metropolitan sysiem. The following 1s the amount allowed by the board of Estimate for the cur LAA Add dd 1 Commissioner (President), $5,000 10 i AN nea 1 Commissioner [ressurer). by 00) 49 Sergean‘s.. we 98,000 1 C Lief of Poitee 4.500 363 Parole. 363,00 tL Cloef Clerk... 2, B00 22 25 DOOFMER esses torsennsrees 20,000 11 FD Auvertingg, "Printing, and 1° Pr. 1.000] [ITT 2 ATTIRE 2 500 1 Property Cloris. oveennans 1200 [Contingent expen 15.000 1 Niwa ORTAPEOE. «cou veenviin 1,50] Telegraph. 2,000 ow 1 ler vo Chi we Police. 1.00 Mountei Police 1,74) 1 Teloginph Foperiatendent.. 1,800 subs.stence of witLesses..... 1.00 1 Fire Marshal...... TIT) 2.0.0 2 Doorwen ut Central Olea, 1.600 TOY. ccuversrerenns ss SIL 2 Surveous. 4.10 Ex TR Tuer should also be added $11,600 I0T Tent Of Lo Led tral Office, and $13,000 for altering aud adapiing thie same, making a total expense of $645,140, against $599,200 under the: Metropolitan system, Henee, effect a ving or §74,000, thie pay of whe entire force below the rank of ¢ap tain has been reduced nearly 20 per cent, The following are the additional items Incurred by Brooklyn in running separate Police Department RAE DAIArY 01 WWo Lomitiesivaers we 5,000, $3.000.¢, i Chivi of Police. cvvvrinnninne 3,500 Clief Clers, Deputy C lerk. Treasurer's Bookkeeye er. Property Clerkooo..o. Stenoe: cupher.. epzisss eee 1.500 1,000] 1.200 Totadievves sonsionnse ans BUST FE EAT TRY aot J pat 1000! Cirrg WO Let 05 Youce. «eo 340 2 1t ik no wonder that the citizens of Brooklyn protest against being compelled to support this large numer of useless officers, whose aim seems to be to use the men under their control to thwart the will of the people as ex pressed at the polls, instead of attending to the protee tion of ite and property. SECKET OF THE BUCCESS OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE. The success of the Metropolitan Police was largely due to the efforts of two men who were conuected with it almost from its formation until its ending—_Thomus C. Acton snd John A. Kennedy. Mr. Acton, who was made a Police Commissioner by Gov. Morgan, to fill the va carey occasioned by the retirement of Parker Pillsbury, in 1-60, resigned April 29, 1869, in consequence of fa:ling bealth. During the greater part of this time he was President of the Board of Comnnlssioucrs, Iu the riots of July, 1863, he was almost alone in the di rection of affairs, Superintendent Kennedy, on who Le largely relied, havieg been struck down and lefv for dead by the mob on the first day of the outhreak. Mr, Kennedy's tevin of service was even longer than Mr, Ac ton’s, He was appoluted May 23, 1:69, and resigned April 11, 1870. Both these able officers say they have wo desire again to enter on the duties of thege ditliculi offices, but it i= beligved that if it conld be nude to appear to thew that the sentimnent of the better portion of the community was strongly in tavor of their recall, they might be induced to recovsider their determination. Mr, Acton, in conversation with a friend a few days ago, strongly denounced the act which gave the Commission ers a large salary, but concealed from the public the actual gr, and declared that under no consideration would he enter the Police Board until the galeries were reduced to a reasonuble figure. By a provision of the pct of 1866, increasing the salaries of the poiee to their preseut date, it was provided that whenever currency should be on a par with gold, the salaries of the cibicers avd members of the poice suonid be redoeed 20 per cent, There 1- a strong probability that the incoming Legislature will reduce the raiarios of the force to just the:el Xtirnit THI N/ AT TON Al, CONGI NERS, Considerable interest is manifested by Me tropolitan chess playcre in the Chess Congress now in session in Cleveland, Olio, as the gathering is the fret of the kind for i number of years past. The delegates usscmbled on the morning of Dee, 4 ut the Kennard House, sud proceeded to transact the preliminary busi ness of the meeting. The Joint Committee of Arrange meuts wade important chapges in the plan of the tour ney gawes, reducinz the nuinber of contestants of the second clase, and modifying the list of prizes, the gehes dule of which is as follows: Fast prize in first class, $100; vecond, Sop third, $40; four, £0. Second class, $0 and 220. Toe entries for the first class are as follows: G. H. Mackenz.e of New-York, H. Eller of Detroit, I Ware of Boston. H. Hosier and W. B. Haughton of Clicsgo. H. D. Sipitn of Cass polis, Mich., H. Harding of Juckron, Mich, Max Juld of Cleve. land wrod M. Johnson of Cinconati, Second cluss—=J. T. Wilson, E. D, park, 12 W. Godde:d, and J. J. Juld of Ceveland. Among the players who were not at the first meeting, are J. C. Edgerton of Pittsburgh, Pa., F. Bock of Chi cago, and G. H. Foster of Utica. Positions were drawn by lot, ux foliows Ware ve, Jadd, Hardinge ve. McKenzies, Elder vs. ‘Hos iuer, Emith ve, Johnson. W. G. Yates was chosen as referee, and Eugene B., Cook of Hoboken, N.J., and F. H. Macon aud J. (i. White of Cleveland, as committee of examination for the award of LIIZER. THE EEYNOLDS CONSPIRACY CASE OFFICLR LYONS AND JUSTICE LYNCH ARRAIGNED. vy r Otlicer Thomas Lyons of the New-York Police force, and Justice John Lynch of Brooklyn, were arraigned yesterday before Justice Walsh of Brooklyn, on the complaint of Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, who churges them with conspiring to defraud her of her deceased hus band’s Nt Lyons was tried receutly before the New-York Poles Commissioners for the same offense, and dismissed from the force, Mrs. Reynolds, in Ler afli davit, complains that Ly ors, Justice Lynch, Lewis Guld swith, John McArdel, Edward Harr, and John Quinn, conspired to procure the arrest of herself and daughter that they might remove Ler husband from Lis bed and force hin to sign deeds Conveyiug his property io them; tha’ Justice Lynch, on Lyon's affidavit, issued. an order for their arrest, and in the interval Lyons reinoved the SICK umn to Bellevue Hospital, where ne died soon after wird; that Reynolds was induced hy Lyous to sin a mortage for $25,000 on his house and’ lot: No, 1,639 Ber gen-st., Brooklyn, which 18 worth ouly about $1,900; that they also induced him to sign 8 will, Which was taken to the Surregate’s office: that Quinn wade an affidavit tint he was the cxccuwr; aod tuat the deceased had made a previous will bequeathing bis property to his wife und dauguter. The accused were held to uuswerp, PICKPOCEETS AND BNEAK THIEVES BUSY dhe merease of crime, and especially of horse-robberics und pocket-picking in the sircot-cars und pubic halls, hes forwed the subject of recent articles ig Tor YrIvUNE. Several additional cases of small thievery Lave sace come to light. On Wednesday eveniug Jacoh North Stockbridge, Conn., while riding in a Fourth, uve, carson Lis way to the Grand Union Depot, bad a wallet, staining $1,200 and valnalle papers stolen from Ja wreast pocket, Tue tideves escaped. A lew plghts previous a stravger ia the cuiy had £16,000 wor tf of bonds and currency stolen from donner oh. Th while sig on The sama line of curs toward the Grand nlon Depot, The re denoe of [sane Vv. Hrckaw, of the Yom of Prokaw Broioers, cloilieis, SUNG AS Eat Twerip ff thst, was ented by g eooeake thief, and won y and jag eiry ainounting to $1,200 stolen. Every day cases of Jobe Stpieiiity on the cunor of sneak: fudevipg al provable residduces Re revorted at Ylice Se. Telegraph Superivtendent...$1.800 Dr. Captan .coien ns A BEY (Contingent expenses. Rent of Central Otfice. 11.40 Adspixtion of Central Ofiice. 15,000 Advertising, Printing, &e... 2,50 NEW-YORK DATLY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1871. the thet arrested ‘fie aly mb A nothing of tho fact, the police being exceedingly reticent in such CHINESE OUTRAGES—QUR JAPAN INTERESTS--TIIE. SIGNAL BERVICE APPROVED A COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION. RS SIGNAL SERVICE APPROVED A COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION. At the mecting of the Chamber of Com meree, yesterday afternoon, Walter 8. Grifiithe presiding: it was expected that the Special Committee of ten ap pointed to investigate the Quarantine and Harbor Master abuses would report, but it was decided among themselves that tueir report sheuld not be furnished until the next meeting, on the 3d of January, 1872. Bey mour A. Bunce and Wm. Woodward, ir., were elected members of the Chamber. A. A. Low submitted a letter from Olyphant Co. of China, regarding tho cutrages reoontly committed on Chinamen in Los Angeles Cal., to gether with extracts from certain newspapers thero on the samo subject. The letter suggested that such out rages will tend to render the lives and property of Ameri eans in China very unsafe. Mr. Low said: I trust that the Chamber will take some action In regard to this matter. It appears to have originally arsen out of the feud between two parties of Chinese there, one of whom was brought before the courts, and afterward under bail released. He was set upon by the other party, and the officer and one or two others who were called to his ald were shot ny the Chinese where enon the latter were set upon by the mob, and 25 or 30 of their number killed, thus Jorpetradiug very great wrong. Tue Chinese in California have been fvjectel, from the first, to attacks from the lower classes in that State. Tuere is an antagonism there between the labor of Chinamen aud that of white men, and this letter sets forth the dauger that constantly beseta the Chinese. Now these people are passing always to and fro; and these repeatod acts of cruelty must lead te the aiscouragement of emigration, and to retaliation on the part of the Chinese. It is true that wo have no euch class as these Cirlilese representing us in China; but the revenge will tall, by-and-by, vpon a puch better class of persons, unless the ontruges veise. I think it is wortay of gowe action on the part of our (Gtovernment, that the character of the nation in its treatment of these people may be sustained. We should treat tue as we treat the lower classes coming here from Europe, They should not be met with fll-treatinent at their very entrance into the country, nor ut any thine. Every one familiar with China knows that our difffcul ties in that country proceed from a deep-seated prejudice in the winds of the people of that country against ull foreigners, which ought to be overcome, The letter and the accompanying newspaper accounts were referred to Standing Committee No. 4, with Instroe tous to report thereon. Mr, Low then presented a come munication addressed to tho President of the United States by Thomas Walsh, a wember of the Chauiber, which gays: The treaty made with Japan has ereated a very favora ble feching there toward ws, but foreign nations nore alive to the value of relations with Japan than we, have really displaced us to such an extent that we now occupy but a third or fourth rate portion in their consideration. “We look,” said Mr.aLow, “upon China and Japan as gemi-civilized, I might say semi-barbarous, and yet these nations are so well aware of tLe value of educating their youth in our civilization that China has voted seve. ral hundied thousand dollars for this purpose; and 1 know of one house which nas subscribed as much as $0,000 to aid in the education of their youth tu this coun try. I waderstand, too, that at the hewd of several classes in the Brooklyn Polytechuie Institute stand to day certain Japanese pupile, one of them related to the reigning house. [I therefore move that the communica tion be printed under the direction of Commitee No, 4, al kent to the members of this Chamber.” Adopted. The Comittee on Arbitration, instructed to ascertain it any member of the Cuamber was concerned in the frands against the city, was reifeved from the daty at ita own request, on the ground that certain provisions of the by-laws incapacitated it from taking such action. Ar. Ruggles, of the Specfal Committee appointed to attend at Albany to wituess the experiments in the towing of canal-hoats by means of a submerged cable, reported that the eXpoH ents were eminently successful, George W. Dow of the Comunttes on Meteoroiogy pre sented the toilowing resolutions, which were adopted: Jeesolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New-York is well pleased with the a il7 weieorological reports of the War De; art ment at Washington, and congratulates tne I'epartinent on the proficiency which it has already attuned in forewlling the state of the weather and appro ching storms. tis ho ped that Coagre s will continue to make liberal zopropnations for this excellent service, and that its Lenel: may not be coniined to commerce, but sho be extended to the sgricuitaral interests of onr country As lar xs possible. Jtesclred, That a well-regninied clock or timeDball, eopepienonsls locxtend and such gw wey be ackioaledged by all as perfectly correct, 1s week needed in this great metio; oly, aud the stteation of the Neo retary of War is respectfully exiled thereto, presmning it to be practicanie and within the duties of the Sigua! service Buresu thus (0 regalate vu: tine by (he 1aeans aud forces unoer Lis contiul, Tee report or the Commitee appointed to investizete the su'siect of graying tha anail to foreign ports was re ceived and adoytsds George W. Bluut presented the following, which were adopied Resoleed, That a Special Comm tee of five members be appointed Ly the (hawber oi Cow rede whose duty iL shall be to make a thor ugh examination into ail the resnciions mros d upon the commerce of thiw Ye puriicularly those patie ng to Lsasuntive, i Dock and Huchor a-ters, and report to toe Clinaber, al an ve J av. pac) I rt will relieve the comincicial ung Bp pAT Toberes Fh Ry ay burdens, Jgpoived, That the Committee hiave authority to add to their number, snd igvit- the cooperation of other commercial bodies, and those fui este] in the commerce of the city, in the promotion of this o'jeet. Tho following were ppinted the Special Committee: Solon Humpireys, of E. b. Morgan Co.; E. PP. Fabri, of Fabbri Chatneey Ro Warren Weston, of Weston Gray; W. IL Fog, uid L. 1B. Wyman, Mr. Dow oftered a resotution, which was adopted, that the atteniion of Comnnttee No. 4 be called to dhe repo of the Secretary of the ‘I'reasury recommen ling sieh measures «8 will lead to the revival of our shipping in terests. Mr. Dow said: I have looked over the tariffs, commencing with the original one oi 17%, In that there was an additional duty of 12 per cent on merchandise which came to us in torcizn vesseis, and beside that a dizeconut of 1o per ecit, making 22 per ceat in favor of our own siippine, Again, in 1817 Bo 2oods were allowed to be fruported from coun tries with which we had no treaties, excep In American vessels, Tu 1815 and 1824 tue 10 per ceut fiupesed on goods brought in foreign vessels was soll continued. In Isid it was cons tinned, and bere that, 20 per ceut on ardelos that cameo tro beyond the Cape of good Hope. In 149, the Scere ary of the Treasury issued a circular withdrawing all sien restrictions, 1 think the present crippled scite of onr conmeree les in two toings, Fuet, tee hugh duties on the articles making up our ships, Sceond, the Ligh price of labor. When you compare these prices with those in foreign countifes, you will see that we never conld have had the shipping we have had but by the as: istiice of these tants, and that our commerce vegan to decline the moment they were removed, In 18010 we had come down to 61 per cent of foreign commerce, and in 1871 it is reported to be less than 3% per cent. At one time, In an earlier period of this country, we had a com merce, but it das been gradually faliog off until there is but little left. Mr. Tousey offered the following: Resobced, That the Committee on Forown Commerea Le instructed to prepare a mmemer.al to Congr, asking uch lop Sitoa by Wad bay ue shall serve 14 place the vabjects of Quarantine sud Riigiation uder the charge of toe General Goverment. Unanimously adopted. Adjourned. A PRODUCE EXCIIANGIE COMMITTIL, The President of the Produce Exchange, in accordance with a resolution passed yesterday, appointed Pdward Hincken, Btephen U, Cary, and W. M, Caich, u committee to confer with the committees of =hip-owners, and others, in relation to quarantine, harboc-masters, whariage, pllotage, and other maiters of coumituercial iuloreatl, TIME TO DO SOMET!IING, Lrom The Evensuy lad We are glad to second the gallant attacks of Tue Trip SE against the Quarantine abuses wand the exactions upd triads of harboi-masters, It lus pre sented an overwhelming reass of testimouy as to these watters, and aroused xemcthing like pubic spirit among our merchants, who to-day are called to assemble at tho Ciinnber of Commerce and mike public demonstration of their just indigeation, With them, after ell, rests the responsibility for i continnauce of illegal exactions and of (yranufeal regulations of their business. Tuk Trip {Ni hus presented the facts aud aroused public atten tion end senument. Will the men who are most ju terested now step forward and prevent the present ex citement about their wrougs trow passing away without appropriate action, as the great Cooper Insritute meet ing of Bet, 4 prevented public Indignation against Tam many teoir working itself off in were denunciations If the werchants fall of thelr duty now, they will deserve to be fleceed and bullied by a succession of corrupt Car pochians and harbor-masters uniil even the most tunid sufferer will be driven into resistance, Better begin Jat, wlien the current of reform 18 so strong aud resists [TH EE EE AN EMIGRANT SUES TO RECOVER HER BAGGAGE. Margaret Brown, who brought an action Ea: re TRS TH rr lI ny I TT rE: 7h TTTTTL Margaret Brown, who brought an action against tne Liverpool and Great Western Bteamship Company in the Buperior Court, before Judge Monell, yesterday, alleges that, on Oct. 1, 1607, she embarked in the steawrlip Manhattan of the defendant's line, for this city, where sne arrived on tho 14th. Her trunk, con taining articles alleged to be worth over $600, was placed on bourd u lighter, a8 she believes to be landed at Cas tle Garden, and the plalutiff before leaving the steamer received a check marked Castle Garden, D 345,” and was told to apply at Castle Garden for the trunk. The next day she applied there for it, but was informed by the haggage-musters that her trunk bad not come ute their possession, and they knew nothing about {4 Bhe then went to the managing agente of the Company and demanded her trunk, showing the check in Ler posscs sion, terday for the reception of patients. A woman from uate, saw-miil at this place, was Ci i the machynery on Wednesday, and instantly killed. Lyons FArMS,—A Post-Oflice will be established at thir place, y Defendant's answer admits the passage of the plaintiff in the Company's vessel, but claims that the plaintiff upon prercuting ber checks received her bagguge in uccordance with the usual custoin, It appeared lu the evidence that Mrs, Brown's husbaud worked his passage os a common eallor, while plaintiff came over a8 oteeraxe passcogor, and it was cited by counsel for the defendant as nn rather singul ar circiuustunce that a steerage passenger should be pos sesncd of articles worth «0 much. Tbe defense produced evidence showing tust the pluintiff and her husband brought over taree other trunks beside the one in contro versy, all of which she obtalued at Castle Garden, Naor this most valuable oue; that the one she did not get fis still lying at Castle Garden unavlled for; but that it is not s trunk, but a cinvas. covexed bus, and the check bas hy somo accident beon lost fAvm it, by em for the defense stated to the Court that Lé should think the best thing for the plamtiff to do Win tayo to agile Garden and take away the valuabio Articied wine New, Brown alleags are In the trunk; at the VILE re funy to touch oy Woy clahwing that it is BOT LLC 016 Tox Whial he Lolds thé cheek. Judge Monel? ehuvged that the Company was still respomsible yr the La ggnee after Parse? into the baad