The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-07-06

by any cause which interrupts Commerce.
: Western produce was accumulated AT New Or
leans, and was unsaeable, owing 10 the great
tightness of money" War, therefore, is more
than ever unpopular, and it is generally hoped in
The city that so favorable an Opportunity may not
De lost ior negotiating upon terms equally favor
able 10 both countries, for the settlement Of the
Oregon dispute. All accounts breathe strong
desire to see this question settled, and hope that
England Will make such reply to g the notice.
as w second the spirit evinced by Congress in ac-
comPanying It with n desire that an amcuble
termination THE longpendng controversy might
thereby be accelerated The act of the Senate in
postponing the bill sent up from the House of Re-
representatives., for extending a territorial govern
mcnt over American citizens in Oregon, IL urged
as another evidence OF the strong desire on their
part to settle this dispute amicably, and not fur
Their TO embroil it. England will act wisely to
meet these expressions in similar spirit.
from the Manchester Guardian of Juno III
we are somewhat surprised TO find many par
ties assuming thar the victories on the Rio Grunde
prove the utter inability OF the Mexicans to con-
tend with the United States troops, and that they
Will put a speedy end to the war. We never
doubted the success OF the Americans in pitched
battles, If the Mexicans should be unwise enough
10 engage i'll them nor do we doubt the Qbil-
i!ty OF General Taylor to drive his enemies from
as the nature OF the country and stability to pro-
cure supplies, will enable him /; but if the Mex
leans are firm, the real contest will be then only
beginning. Like all men of the Spanish race, the
fare and the Americans would soon find that
they had something else to do than TO fight pitched
battles that the sort of warfare most fatal Ia an
invading army. is that which he has to sustain
with hunger and thirst, and toll, and with foes
who keep out OF his way until they take him
at advantage. We believe that ii the Mexicans
should display one halfthe consistency which has
been usual under similar circum stances amongst
their Spanish and South American brethren, the
war Is not only far from termination but that it
VIII require great sacrifices from, and iniiictgreat
losses upon, the invaders, before they can dictate
terms OF peace to the Mexican people.
[From the Liverpool Times, June 1911
The rupture between Mexico and tile United
States has, OF necf ssity, attracted much attention.
and has nteriered, more or less, with business.-
The fear of shipping in American bottoms has,
but Lloyd's still cling ridicuousy to their high
premiums The feeling is not confined to Eng
land The Paris paper, La Presse, asserts, in fact,
that many American orders have been counter
manded in France, in consequence of the rup-
ture between the two republics.
The war itself has exercised the pens and the
tongues OF all the professional politicians in the
old world In the early stage Of the struggle on
the banks of the Rio Grande, when the American
forces sustained or two trifng guerilla re-
verses, a good deal of sympathy was shown for
the Mexicans, and If Jonathan had suffered more,
the sorrow, we grieve to add. would not have
been intense. But when the Britannia arrived
with an account of the battles of 'Palo Alto" and
the "palm Ravine," in which the Mexicans, on I.
what they claim as their own soil, with force
two or three times greater than their antagonists
were 'woilopped" by the Americans, all SYM
pathy disappeared, and contempt was the feel
ing universally felt and unequivocaly expressed.
,.o brave Peop'e can afford no sympathy with pol
Ioons. The bird that cannot fight on its own
dunghill is only fit TO grace the spit The excla-
nation OF the old veteran, who declared that
there were only two things in nature that he abb
horred-a poor man and coward-expressed, in
life
BY the way, the brief but lucid dispatches of
General Taylor have attracted much admiration
His pen, like his sword, deals only on the practi-
cal: Merit is generally allied with modesty; and
as he judicously RETAINED from playing the bragg
CART on paper, the same self confidence, it is clear
sustans him IN the field.
Correspondence of the Liverpool Timesl
PARIS, June l5.-The Journal des Debdts has
lately published a remarkable article on the state
OF affairs between Mexico and the United States.
your contemporary asserts that Mr.. Polk has on
y gone against Mexico to compensate his defeat
IN Oregon, ana to regain the popularity which
that defeat had brought upon him. II thinks that
Mexico is totally unable to resist the United
States, and that the existing hostties will result
IN ITS dism!,esmberment. 1t thinks, too, that the
States will endeavor to seize the Caliiornias, to
make up for what they will be obliged to lose in
Oregon; and it says that the Calornias are inf
nTiteiy more valuable than that barren territory.
III views all this with regret but, beyond few
sneers at Mr.. Polk, for whom it appears to enter
tam profound contempt, it says nothing offensive
10 the United States. This fact deserves 10 be
specially mentioned, for of late the great organ of
the french government has appeared incapable
OF even naming the American republic without
flowing over with wrath, or rather with disdain.
l he Epo1ue, the recognised organ of Nj. Guizot,
Minister for Foreign Affairs, has also had a very
long and carefully written article on the pending
dispute between the two great republics Of North
em AmericamThis article points out the necessity
OF France and England interfering in the matter,
in order to bring about reconciliation and to
protect Mexico. 1t alleges that France has inte-
rests sufficiently vast in Mexico to warrant such
interference. Considering the connexion be-
tween this journal and M. Guizot am inclined
to attach some importance to this lucubration, as
showing that if France has not interfered III the
business, she assuredly will do so. Indeed, for
my part, entertain not the slightest doubt that
the French government will be prepared, if ne
ccssary, to give effectual protection to Mexico
against her great neighbors; for | remember that
IN the course of the present session, M. Guizot de-
careu from the tribune on two occasions that il
was OF vast importance to France that the United
States should not seize Mexico, nor the English
race absorb the Spanish and as he is not man
to talk without weighing the force and calculating
the consequences OF his expressions, take it for
grained that his declarations indicated the policy
the French government had determined on pur-
SUNG. have made statements to this effect be-
fore, but they can scarcely be too often repeated,
"a | fear that too many of your readers run away
with the notion that because Mr.. Polk declared in
his message that he would not admit any interfe-
renee OF European governments in the affairs oil
the American continent, European governments
would timidy refrain from interference.
In the {, hamber of Deputies, yesterday, the
Minister of Marine, in reference to the war be-
tween the United States and Mexico, was asked
If he intended to permit tolerate the extreme
abuse which the Mexicens appeared disposed to
make ef their tiers OF marque or whether he
intended to maintain the principle formerly adop-
ted by French admirals, that all armed vessels,
even bearing regular letters of marque, should be
considered pirates, if the captain and the crew
SUBJECTS C.
tually born subjects) of the country which issued
the letters of marquel The Minister replied that
The principle which guided the Ministry oil the
that for ship to have the right to sail under the
French flag the captain must be French, the Off |
GERS must be French, and two-thirds Of the crew
must be French Nevertheless, in certain cir |
cumsiances, it was considered sufficient If three
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