Ayents are said to be engaged iv this country engaging all the "available talent" that is discoverable ; and ere Ion;; whole cargoes of " Tommy Dodds," mighty consignments of '•imineusikolFji," and vast shipments of "rackety roaring Itams," will be despatched to the other side ol the Atlantic. A curious reflection is suggested by the opening of the "Saw York Alham bra." Has the mine of Ethiopian minstrelsy boon worked to the last vein '/ is the nigger , 'business " played out""' Such may really be the eaje. Slavery is dead ; the negro is free ; and social or political interest may cease to be felt m .Sambo. He has sung all his songs ; he has cracked all his jokes ; he has danced all his " break-downs ;" aud when a man with black grease on his face comes forward to sing mawkishly sentimental soiij^H we are apt to think .Sum bo uot only ail im poster, but a bore. New York may be of the same opinion. Le /loi ext Mori, Vive le lioi! Niggerdom is moribund, "Long live the Alhambra!"-//yW. It is very painful for an English journal to have to record any ucls of oliicial cruelty or excessive severity, even when directed against such unquestionably guilty men as the leaders of the IVnisin plot. But, however we may applaud a firm repression of anything like conspiracy, we are strongly inclined to the opinion Mint, justice should be tempered with mercy, and that nothing should be done to aggravate the domestic misery that. m:ij bo caused by the punishment of the unfortunate nieu. Wo therefore rend with pain a story m the Irish papers relating to Captain Muckiiy, once the leader of the Cork Fenians, but who is now m gaol. When his young and devoted wife, after an enforced separation of several months, was admitted to an interview, she found that prison diet und prison rules had so iiUected his appearance, that " she hardly knew him again — he had grown so fat." — ■ Ibid. It may be questioned whether a father does not feel as much pleasure as pain when his son for the first time ventures to dispute his authority. 