The New York herald., 1847-05-25
Opinion I'm Englan Relative TO Opening the
Isthmus OF Tehuantepec.
From the London Times. April 20.

edy beat on though from strong position force near
ly quadruping their own they seem to have no great
grounds for triumph Santa Annas movements have |
been very eisurey and therss reason to think them
otherwise than voluntary. The debatabe ground was
between Saltlo and Aqua Nueva From the latter place
Santa Anna ia said to be moving his original line of
operations towards San Luis and from the former place
Taylor himself announces his resolution Of retiring to
his head quarters at Monterey The disorganization
which the American General attributes to the enemys
forces and the composure which he ascrbes hit own
must, Of course, be understood with considerable al
lowances
The operations in the Gulf more intelligibe as
they have not yet beyond the prenares Of
of March, and landed l20 900 men, without opposition
three miles above Vera CRUZ The following days
occupied in investing the city completely by land while
the squadron blockaded all the approaches to the
castle and port This unressted investment of the place
probably gave rise to the report mentioned in our last
advces that the town and castle had already fallen
the Americans We have already quoted authorities in
Vera Cruz will do little than the capture of Tam
pico towards concluding advancing the
less the effects of the Three Million Bill should begin to
be simultaneously felt 1t is ut this point however that
the real push made The movement in the north was
purely Mexican, nor will the American force in that
quarter have further orders probably than to maintain
such hold on California and the line Of the Grande,
will both suggest and facilitate the pesceabe transfer Of
these coveted districts at the contamination Of peace
| The American papers contain a long communication
between the President and the Secretary Of the Trea
dated the 23d Of last month from which 1t clearly
appears that the scheme broached time Of
cupying all the Mexican aboard, and blockadng
entire empire into capulation is to be seriously pros
ecued that the of Vera Cruz step
| in the plan. The ports both in the Atlantic and the
racine TO be SelZed anu the communication
| the isthmus is to be secured Mexican duties and
prohibitions to be everywhere abolished, and such
tariff devised will best the ends of raising
venue and increasing commerce. BY these means 1t Is
conceived that the United States treasury will be eased
Of of the burden Of the that the duties
collected by American officers will go far to support the
troops engaged in the contest that the goodwill of
tral nations will be secured by arrangement much
favorable to all their interests than the absurd
srictons of the old Mexican tariff; and that the Mex
cans themselves will be at length crcumvented into
honorable peace We will not ut present remark upon
the blockades and Bieges which this
pect discloses, on the probable duration of war
tensve country and which at the of its
second year, has only yet the occupation Of
attempt to calculate how far the opinions of neutral
nations upon the whole casus bei may be qualified by
the bonus held out to them in the proposed arrange
ments for the campaign. We will only say that if
all the three first expectations should be verified but
little advance will be made towards securing tho
the Americans themselves that the Mexican nation
subsist in abundant comfort upon its piaeaur
and leave the invaders to enjoy the coasts long
they please. Ifthey choose TO indulge their obsnacy,
there nothing in this blockade to them They
men, money, patience for the permanent occupation
of any points they may seize, otherwise they would
display much anxiety about the peaceabe con-
veyance Of the property The appropriation the Mex
lean customs may assist but it can never reimburse
balance against the Treasury and growing feeling
against the Its novelty has already worn of its
serious and its termination more invisible than
ever. The States want part of California and the line
Of the Grande They have already taken them and If
done. But their tenure is not worth dollar without
such consent of the Mexcans as will preclude the
cessity and the cost Of armed occupation This consent
they are laboring to extort but they by
their promising scheme have to conquer and
py every port either coast while the Mexcans have
nothing to do but sit still and be suky is not diff
cult to discover which party has the harder game.
Emigration from Great Britain to America.
| From the Liverpool Mail April -
! The Government of the United Stetes to have
| Iaio ntpd n mos m
wholly putting stop to, the shoals of emgrants from
this have been for years and are still
weekly landed their shores-the greater portion of
them state of abject desttuton, and considerable
numbers of them aborng under pestilental diseases.
vention of international treaties not prepared
present to determine One thing however obvious
enough. The shippers Of these eigrants have had no
reasonable notice the intentions of Congress in this
respect. Many of them under contract to carry
certain number Of passengers, in limited period Of
time and as that limitation appears be the 3lst Of
May next it is impossible for them to fulfil their en-
The new American law enacts that from and after the
period above mentioned ships shall be allowed to
the ports of the United States carrying steerage
fourteen superficial feet each passenger. This
told, cannot be supplied by any British ship at
sent the trade The low rate of faro which these
eerage passengers charged between Liverpool and
New York renders it that very limited
the smallest they possibly be slowed n should be
the frghtul confusion that prevails and frequency Of
fevers often break during the voyage
times indeed before the vessel has cleared the land
The American government have long had cause to
lament this food of Irish emigrants who carry with
them their idle and filthy habits into every part Of the
world where shipping agents will convey them. 1t is
true that the territory of the United States sufficient
ly ample to absorb the whole, provided the emgrants
themselves would resort had the Of resortiug
to settlements and the waste lands But this
they do donot in fifty and the great towns,
the seaboard of America, swarm with Irish beggars in
rags in misery in tlth and In disease nearly as much
as the towns in England.
If the people of England have just grounds for
plant OF these Irish nvasons, surely the citizens OF
America have still stronger reasons for murmurng.
Hence take it, the origin Of the restrictive law now
| promulgated
But might not we take excellent lesson from their
statute book? Why should not the number Of seerage
passengers board the steamers trading be Eng
land and Ireland be limited u number consonant
| with the usuages of humanity! These peasants are
brought to these shores packed together more like pigs
than human beings NO regulation IL made ms 10 water
OF provisions The poor wretches without a crust
potatoe and they landed In state Of starvation
Who benefited by these horrd cargoes and overload
| ed vessels The owners Of the vessels alone. Who
suffer The ratepayers Of the parishes Of England
Surely those who receive the gain should contribute
something TO the less, but this they carefully avoid
They make money by bringing beggars here and they
| make money by carrying than back again Some
remedy must be found for this evil but chance
Of any being proposed OF enacted until some awful
pestence shall awaken our countrymen to sense OF
their danger They say in London that dangerous
building is taken down until it falls and kills
alderman, a common councilman or couple Of citizens
Then cure is applied at that critical moment when |,
is too late.
The same may be said of Liverpool The number OF
Irish poor who have arrived at this port from 9th
January to the 18th April instant, was, Of men,
aud children about l2s,000 about 10000 Of these
supposed to haze emigrated TO America, acing about
10000 10 beg. This numoer is increasing daily the
the number wH rapidly sweH as the warm weafher
| approaches When we consider for moment the
wretched and filthy state in which these immigrants
are, and the abomnable lodging to which they must
the hot weather the crammsd cellars the stencil
the want Of food, the unwhoesome nature OF thsir
food how 10 IL possible to prevent terrible plague wa
hear that public meeting is to be called ON the subject
it cannot be called too soon.
The RUSSO A erican Company.
Tho Russian colonies in the northwest Of America,
according advices from St Petersburg IN the German
consequence Of their excellent admin,strauon they
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