The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-10-14

ate loss in killed and eennded stns nothing from ais
defeat. which we have seen. did not deprive him Of
single position necessary to his defence While weigh.
Kelermsn escorted by strong body Of cavalry was ut
the ouposts and demanded interview. For Junot At
regsinng Torres vedras, had occupied MARIA. and
was preparing fight ,gan, when he received ntell
gence that Lisbon was on the point Of insurrection
wherefore sending forward false account Of the action
he followed it up with Reinforcement for the garrison,
and called council Of war to advise with re-
sPec to the English That general being conducted to
the quarters of the commander inchief demanded
sation of arms and proposed the groundwork of
vention under which Junot offered to evscuate Portugal
iine than this proposition and Sir Hev Daympie read
'y accepted Of IT, as an advantage which ooud
Ia He knew from plan Of operations sEstched by the
chief Of the French engineers Colonel Vincent and
Ken by The Portuguese that Junot possessed several
either upon Almeds, the river upon Elvas,
was not only within the contemplation of that general
perfectly easy Of execution Hence the proposed con-
vention was an unexpected advantage offered in
ment Of difficulty and the only subject of
was the nature of the articles proposed by Keerman
basis for the treaty Sir Hew being necessarily gno
for information and the latter ticking enlarged view
Of the question in ell its bearings, conceded as to the
Of 1a
try that 1t had complete military possession Of and by
which not only great moral effect in favor of the gen.
era cause would be produced but actual gain made
both Of men and time for the further of the
war in Spain.
The basis of de6nitve treaty then arranged sub
ect to the final appreciation of Sir Charles Cotton with
Articles LIST and I'd declared the fact of the armistice
and provided for the mode Of future proceedings.
Article Sd indicated the river sisanare the line Of de-
marcaton between the two armies The position of Tor
res Vedras to be occupied by neither.
Article 4th Sir Hew Dalrymple engaged to have the
Portuguese included in the armstce and their boundary
line was to extend from Leira to Thomar.
Article sth declared, that the French not to be
considered prisoners of war; and that themselves and
tnelr property, public and private without
detaner to be transported to France To this article
ton Of Portuguese property; WSereupon KelermsD saS
that to be taken in its fair of property justly
obtained and upon this assurance it was sdmitted
Article sth provided that all guns of French cabre
and the horses Of the cavalry to be transported
Here we have case almost precisely parallel
to General Taylor's, and we see that he adopted
almost precisely the same means as were adopt.
ed by Sir Arthur Wellesley, now the Duke of
Wellington, under similar circumstances and it
will be seen that almost every consideration that
influenced him to accept the terms Of cessa-
ton of hostites, prevailed, and no doubt were
perceived by General Taylor, and influenced him
in coming to the conclusion he did In both cases
lime of demarkation was drawn-in both cases
the vctors apprehended scarcity of provisions
in both cases further victories could not be acquired
without great loss. There are points OF difference,
however, which clearly show that the terms Of
capitulaton in General Taylors case were far
more favorable to us than were the terms of the
armistce that the Duke of Wellington agreed to-
BY that the French were not to be declared pr-
soners ofwar, and themselves aud all their property
public and pripate tcee to be transported to France
by the British.
We think that all this shows that General Tay-
lor is still Old Rough and Ready" and one of
the greatest Generals of the age
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS We were the first to
call the attention of the public to the difficulties
then existing, and likely to increase, between
Cave Johnson and the Railroad Companies, and
that, too, to the great inconvenience of the pub
lie. We understand the whole subject thorough
ly, and will endeavor, to condenso it in a nut
she'll
The main difficulty lies in the occasional non
connexion of the New York TO Philadelphia line
with the Philadelphia to Baltimore line. by which
the whole Southern and Westerys mails are thrown
into disorder. The mail leaves New York at s PM.
and arrives at Philadelphia variousy from before
10 P. M. to after IL P. M. BY order of the De-
partment, the Philadelphia and Baltimore line
must leave Philadelphia at 10 p. M. Therefore,
ifthe Northern mail fails to arrive before 10 p M,
there is. Of course, no connection, and Baltimore
and Washington do not get their mail I'm tme
Now Mr.. johnson requires the Railroad Com.
panies to deliver the mail in Philadelphia before
or by 10 p. M. The companies do not comply
Why?
l. Because they are under contract to do it. Their
last contract has expired and by decision of the Depart
ment they are holding over under old ch
allows them till ii IS r. NJ. to arrive in Philadelphia
sent account Of the inconvenience every way to New
York.
g. They cannot travel faster than they now do because
is night after leaving New Brunswickther charters
the New Jersey boroughs-they have several ferries
and 81 mile. Of night river navg alton, with the river
full of vessels Sc In short, they will not and cannot
on account of the danger. run faster.
a. And lastly they reply, a. we think conclusively,
that the mail lies still an hour and half Baltimore be-
fore leaving for Washington, and that Mr. johnson
would save all trouble and obviate all by
curing the Baltimore Line to start from Philadelphia pre-
cisey that hour and half later by which arrangement
would lie still NO where and he would always get his
Northern mail IN time.
We have only to repeat what we published be-
fore, that the railroad companies have several
times made Mr. Johnson the offer to allow him
their roads to run cars, and carry his own mail,
at any hours and at any speed he likes. He is
too wise to accept the offer, because he cannot
do it so cheap as he can hire them to do it.
Cave, Cave-you must manage beter-you
must
Musical.
CAMILLE SVoRI.-The great maestro must have been
highly pleased with the hatterng reception he met with