The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-07-05
The Oregon and Mexican Questions in England
and France.
The Effect Of the Brilliant Battles or Paio
Alto and Resncca de La Palma.

| From the London Times, June Isl
| The dispatches of General Taylor are remark
able for heir succnct energy, and the absence oil
| those verbose and grandiloquent strains which
we are accustomed 10 meet with IN narratives OF
| American exploits. He writes like man of
sense, skill, and courage and we have not the
CALAMITY earned under the flag of his country.
| Whatever opinion we may entertain OF the cause
| of this war, and of the political motives in which
| il originated the behavior of the American gem
eral and his toops deserves to be Judged of 6y a
| much higher standard than the policy of the 90.
| vernment which it is their duty 10 serve. The
conduct of the Mexican army, on the contrary,
| demonstrates the utter inability of that govern
ment to protect any portion fits dominions from
| invasion; and it degrades the descendants of the
Spanish Americans still lower IN the rank OF ma
| lions.
From the London Chronicle, June l61
The detailed commercial accounts from the
United States haveexcited considerable attention
they show how extremely sensitive great COM
mercial country, as America unquestonably is, is
OF any cause which unsettles business and dsturbs
credit. The mercantile class, in all the large
places of business, and especially in New Orleans
and New York, have already suffered so much
| from the alarm and dlscredlt which the Mexican
| war has created, and particularly by the certain
withdrawal OF the government deposits from the
| banks 10 provide for the war expenses, that we
must expect that resort to hostltes on the Ore
| gon question will be more than ever an unpopular
| thing with those classes. Moreover, the dealers
and farmers in the western States have also dis
covered how quickly their interests affected
oy any cause Which interrupts commerce.
" estern produce was accumulated at New Or
leans, and was unsaleable, owing to 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 iost Tor negotiating upon terms equally favor
able to 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"
hp Mi caAh nv ry1o
companying It with desire that an amicable
termination ofthe long-pending controversy might
thereby be accelerated. The act of the Senate, in
postponing the bill sent up from the House Of Re-
representatives., for extending territorial govern
ment over American citizens in Oregon, is urged
as another evidence OF the strong desire on their
part to settle this dispute amicably, and not fur
Their to embrol it. England will act wisely to
meet these expressions in a similar spirit.
49, From the Manchester Guardian Of June Ill
we are somewhat surprised to find many par
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, II the Mexicans should be unwise enough
to engage in them nor do we not doubt the abil-
ity OF General Taylor to drive his enemies from
Matamoras, and to penetrate into Mexico, as far
as the nature OF the country, and Instability to pro-
cure supplies, Will enable him but If the Mex
icans are firm, the real contest will be then only
beginning Like all men of the Spanish race. the
Mexicans are admirably fitted for guerilla war
fare and the Americans would soon find that
they had something else TO do than fight pitched
battles that the sort of warfare most fatal to 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 can take him
at advantage. We believe that ii the Mexicans
should display one halfthe constancy which has
been usual under similar circumstances amongst
| their Spanish and South American brethren, the
war Is not only far from termination, but that it
sacrifices inflic ore at
losses upon, the invaders, before they can dictate
terms OF peace to the Mexican people.
From the Liverpool Times, Juue 1871
The rupture between Mexico and the United
States has, OF nece ssty, attracted much attention.
| and has interfered, more or less, with business
The fear of shipping in American bottoms has,
like the baseess fabric of vision, disappeared,
put Lloyd's still cling ridiculously to their high
premiums. The feeling is not confined to Eng
land, The Paris paper, La Pssse, asserts, in fact
that many American orders have been counter.
manded in France, in consequence of the rup-
| ture between the two republics
The wer 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 one or two trifing guerilla re-
verses good deal Of sympathy was shown for
the Mexicans, and if Jonathan had suffered more,
the sorrow, we greve to add, would not have
been intense. But when the Britannia arrived
with an account of the battles of "Palo Alto and
the SPAIN Ravine," in which the Mexcans, on
what they claim as their own soil, with a force
two or three times greater than their antagonists,
were "wolopped" by the Americans, all SYM
pathy disappeared, and contempt was the feel
ing universally felt and unequivocally expressed
brave peop,e can afford no sympathy with pol
troons The bird that cannot fight on its own
dunghlll IS only tit to grace the spit. The excla-
nation OF the old veteran, who declared that
there were only two things in nature that he alb
horred-a poor man and coward-expressed, in
ITS antlthesis, good deal of the philosophy of
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 judiciously RETAINED from playing the brag-
CART paper the same self confidence, tits clear
sustains him IN the field.
Correspondence Of the Liverpool Timesl
PARIS, June 15.-The Journal des Debats has
lately published remarkable article on the state
of affairs between Mexico and the United States.
Your contemporary asserts that Mr.. Polk has on
ly gone against Mexico TO compensate his defeat
IN Oregon, ana to regain the popularity which
that defeat had brought upon him. 1t thinks that
Mexico is totally unable to resist the United
States, and that the existing hostlities will result
in its ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 1t thinks, too, that the
States will endeavor to seize the CALIFORNIA;, to
make up for what they will be obliged TO lose in
Oregon and il says that the Calilornias inf
nitely more valuable than that barren territory.
Ii views all this with regrot but, beyond few
sneers at MIR. Polk, for whom it appears to enter
tain profound contempt, i says nothing offensive
to the United States This fact deserves TO be
specially mentioned, for oflate 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.
The Epoque, the recognised organ of M. Guzot,
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
| ern America. This article points out the necessity
of France and England interfering in the matter
IN order to bring about a 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 in the
business, she assurcdly will do so. Indeed, for
my part, entertain not the slightest doubt that
the French government will be prepared if ne
cessary, to give eiiecual protection to Mexico