The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-09
The Foreign News.

| The Foreign News.
| We give in our columns to-day, the news
brought by the Hbernia, in telegraphlc detail
| All that we publish came over the wires from
Boston great deal of it, also, was telegraphed
in England. Our readers, after reading 1t care
fully over, while drinking their coffee, can reflect
on the immense cost of the same. 1t is the
longest Geographic despatch OF the kind ever
published.
The Presidential Election, md the New Ele-
ment In the Contest.
The present is, no doubt, one of the most anus
ing and interesting contests for the Presidency
that has ever taken place In this country. The
prospects and calculations are as changeable and
evanescent as the I" little joker" among the gam
| blers. "Now you see it-now you don't see it."
Just as we were receiving the first returns from
the recent election in Vermont, and were about
calculating the weight and importance of the free
| soil movement the coming struggle in Novem-
Der, up starts the spectre of Henry Clay, surround
ed with the remains OF four or five thousand parti
Fans, singing, speaking, believing, hurraing, and
| reminding us of one OF those scenes in Vauxhall
of years past, when it was the rallying ground of
every rowdy party or curious exhibition. The
meeting of the old wings at Vauxhall Garden, no.
| IulUdllHR NIL clay LOT IItSlucHCy, anu Iepu-
dating General Taylor, throws new element
into the election, which may have some import
ance but, as yet 1t difficult to tell how much.
According to the curious disclosures made by
| Willis Hall and other speakers on that occasion,
it seems that this meeting for the nomination of
Mr.. Clay and the reputation of General Taylor,
has been delberated on at Albany, Richmond.
New York, and perhaps, elsewhere, for several
months past. The old leaders and friends of Mr..
Clay, IN this State, held caucus or private assem-
bly, IN Albany, some weeks since, as stated by
Willis Hall, and agreed to come forth under their
own colors, and make the movement which they
have just done in Vauxhall Garden. Taking these
disclosures in connection with the recent similar
movement attempted by. Thurlow Weed & Co., in
Albany to repudiate the nomination of Gen. Taylor,
| it seems certain that there has been conspiracy
among certain leaders ofthe wing party IN this State,
in connection with others, probably in New England
and Virginia, for the purpose of bringing up Mr..
Clay, by hook or by crook, to give HIM some cleo
tora votes, SO as to defeat the popular election of
General Taylor, and to throw the Presidency into
the House Of Representatives. The attempt at
Albany to get up meeting by Thurlow Weed, the
issuing of notices for that purpose, and the re-
ceipt, by telegraph from this city, of the contents
of letter of General Taylor's, to Charleston, are
now all better understood By the public. There
can be no doubt that Willis Hail. Dudley Selden,
| Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley, and various other
| leading whig politicians in this CITY, and else
| where, some of whom have been protesting
friendship to the cause of General Taylor, have
been concocting the revival of Mr. Clay's fortunes
and his nomination for the Presidency IN the shape
| which II has assumed.
Such being the state OF facts in connection with
this movement OF the revival of Mr. Clay as de-
cared by the parties themselves, and as nationally
conjectured by the complexion of the whole
affair, we may expect to see attempts to get up
similar movements throughout this State, for the
purpose of having an influence in the wing State
convention, which will meet in Utica next week,
calculated, possible, TO induce that body to repu
diate General Taylor, and substitute Mr.. Clay in
his place. The efforts of Thurlow Weed, and
other unreliable men, hitherto protesting to
be in favor of General Taylor, united with
those who are outand-out in favor of Mr..
| Clay, like Mr.. Hall, may be able to accom-
plish something IN the approaching convention
that may look like disorganization among the
friends of General Taylor. If they should,
by any system OF action, produce division in
that convention, and bring about re-nomna-
ton of Mr.. Clay, by only part of the members a
similar attempt will be made in the New England
States, in Virginia. and elsewhere to get up and en-
courage the Clay movement, in order to carry the
election Of the President into the House of Repre-
sentatves.
Such is the new element-such the new move
ment which is attempted to be brought into the
Presidential canvass, by those politicians, headed
| by Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley, Willis Hall,
| Dudley Seden, and others. What will be the
amount of its influence How will it affect Gene
raj Taylor or Mr.. Clay, or Mr. Van Buren,, IN
November next7
II is difficult, at this early stage of the new ag-
tatIon to calculate its exact weight or preponder-
ance. II is quite task TO make calculations on
such matters, because II is difficult to make any
rational calculations on the sagacity, wisdom,
promptitude, energy, or honesty of the wing poll
tcians, or wing Journalists, in the present crisis
of affairs. When we see papers like the Mirror
and Express, of New York, protesting to be
thoroughly for General Taylor, so utterly ignorant
and foolish as to call one of General Taylor's
best letters forgery, it is impossible to make
any calculations on a class Of politicians so
utterly void Of common sagaciiy or common
sense. The truth is, the democratic party have
been so completely disorganised, az indicated
by The recent returns from Vermont, by the
movements Of MI. Van Burer, lba, tie friends