The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-05-16
BY THE Last MAILS.
Protest Of the British Minister.
The Present Imbecile Cabinet must 60 out.
- PROBABLE WAR WITH ENGLAND.

WASHINGTON, May IA, 1910.
The British Minister, Mr.. Pakenham, formally
protested, this morning, against the course adopt
ed by this government against Mexico. The
reasons assigned are those which are usually adj
vanced by that power upon similar occasions
that Of the injury and interruption to commerce,
which such a state of things naturally produces
The British merchants at Matanzas, you are al
ready aware, have protested against the occupa-
ton of the territory opposite to that city by our
troops, and the blockade of the river upon which
it is situated, by our vessels and, in furtherance
of this declaration, her Majestys Minister has
lemnly entered his protest If this country do not
at once succumb to this threat-a thing which it
will not do-he will ask for his passports, proba-
bly,, and depart Immediately for some Of the British
provinces, near this country, until he hears fur
ther from his government btful-very.-
Ed. Hcr.] Such is the crisis to which Mr.
Polk and his miserable advisers have brought
US at last. The country has never had any
confidence in his cabinet, and how can it sustain
it now, when the emergency calls for the cooper
alton Of the mighty minds Of the nationa They
must be forced from his councils, and able men
placed in their stead. We want no land specula-
tors at the head Of public affairs while in state
OF war with any country. We want patriots, and
such men as are above suspicion like Caesars wife
In my letter in yesterdays Herald, / referred to
the manner and the probable motives, that in
duced the government to push our troops on to
Matamoras will now place another platform
of the same kind on the top Of that, and occa-
sionally another, and another, until we get high
enough to look down upon all the iniquity that lies
under the official garb that covers some men.
In September last, a company OF land specula-
tors was organized in the city 9fNew York whose
lying between the Neuces and Rio deF Norte
Having appointed agents to 60 to that country,
they We're accordingly sent there for that purpose
When they arrived in Texas, information was con-
veyed to them not to make any purchases for some
time, as the value ofthe lands would be shortly d-
minished, from the fact that the United States
troops then stationed at Corpus Christi, would
be moved upon the Rio del Norte. How these
gentlemen received this piece of useful informa-
ton, and from whence, may be more readily ina
gned than told but true to their mission, por-
ton of the company returned to New York,
leaving one or two there TO buy up all the choice
bits that might offer, in the interim, for the enor
nous price Of two and three cents per acre Il
was only last Saturday that the principal agent of
this joint stock concern passed through this place,
on his way out to the promised land,' receiving,
n matter of course, here, his instructions how
to net. And this is the cause why now
plunged into war with Mexico, and, probably,
with England. repeat, the cabinet must be dis
missed, one and. all, before Your honor and rights
can be maintained. Give us men at the head Of
public affairs in whose honesty, patriotism, la
Tents and capacity for carrying a great nation
through such a crisis as the one upon which we
have been forced by their-what7 have no
words to express my indignation on the subject
and then we do not fear England, nor all the
powers of the world combined. Mr.. Polk, you
must reform your cabinet, or you and the country
are ruined.
The situation of the government is, that if
General Taylor's forces should be overcome by
the enemy, General Scott is to take the command
OF an army of $4,000 men; and the former, pro-
badly, given the command of n division of the
Same. Should General Taylor, however, be able
to overcome the Mexican forces, he will be
placed at the head of only 10000 troops, and COM
PEELED to operate with that limited force alone.
This is the plan Of action determined upon by
the wise men at the head OF affairs.
The mail is Just in from tho south, 10 minutes
past 5 o'clock. There was nothing received up
to l0A O'Clock, A. M, on the 7th inst at New Or
leans, from General Taylor. The belief there
was, that ho was hemmed in on all sides, and
that his communication had been completely cut
of from Point Isabel, and the latter post in the
possession of the enemy. ARIEL.