From that day, when first its name was changed to New-York, it has not ceased to be overrun by the stragglers from every country and clime, but especially by those cunning vagabonds from Connecticut, and her sister states, who had well nigh taken in their toils the venerable Petrus and his jolly trumpeter, Antony. And they have now trodden down, or overturned, every remnant of social order, that was so remarkable in the time of the honest Dutchman. In one respect, at least, these interlopers seem to be the favored of heaven—for their seed has multiplied as the sands on the sea shore; and it is shrewdly suspected, by some, that the gambols of the cunning Antony with the lasses of New-Haven, in his famous journey thither, may have had some hand in this, since never was a people known who could blow the trumpet of their own fame, better than these same descendants from the colony of New-Haven. THE OLD WALL BROKEN DOWN. From their love of continual change—which they call improvement—they had no sooner gained a footing in the city, than they persuaded the honest Dutchmen to break down the _city wall_, which had hitherto prevented them from robbing the cabbage garden or tapping the hollands of the rich burghers, and which, some have said, was erected partly to prevent their too frequent solace of themselves with the softer beauties concealed by close caps and short petticoats. And they further persuaded them to convert the ground into a street, thence called “Wall-street;” which, being the scene of their first victory over that prejudice which prefers to keep folks honest when they are so, has ever since continued to be the focus of all enterprises undertaken for one’s own benefit, to be accomplished by other peoples’ means. And it is even said, that the projectors of this work, in reality, designed only to gain for themselves unobstructed access to the good living, and the pretty damsels, of Niew-Amsterdam, now New-York. Want of means themselves to perform so great a work, first suggested to them the idea of a Stock Company, for objects of public improvement; the principal virtue of which is, to replenish the fortunes of those who plan and conduct it, as is more than suspected, since most of the money generally stops short of its intended application, and can only be accounted for by mistakes in the original estimates, or expenses preliminary to the commencement of the real work. MR. SOLOMON SINGLE-EYE.