The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-08-02

INV YORK HERALD.

These facts speak for themselves. As a sheet
for business advertising, the Nec York Herald is
without rival, and has circulation double that
Of the Tribune; and very frequently thousands
over that point, as we have on some occasions is
sued nearly thirty-eight thousand copies per day,
and others, twenty-eght thousand according to
circumstances. Notwithstanding that the cholera
has no doubt affected our circulation immensely
yet we believe, taking all things INTO considerations
that the Herald, with an aggregate circulation Of
nearly EfIy.fre thousand, stands at point far be-
y2nd that Of any other newspaper establishment,
titho tn this country or Europe. There certainly
is journal in this city, or eff on this side of
the Atlantic, that has such an extensive circu-
lation.
So much on this score. The philosopher
admits that the Herald circulation has I'M
doubtedly increased, and very naivcly inquiries
howl The reasons the philosopher gives are
quite amusing. First, the course which we
have pursued on the slavery question secondly,
the policy which we have pursued towards the
Opera house and its riots; thirdly, the structures
that have been published in our columns or the
conduct of the Mayor, shutting up the small
grog shops, and wnking at the large ones; and
fourthy, the remarks made in our columns on the
u
black felcn, but allowing a white man, who had
the misfortune to be an Irishman, to be executed,
after receiving similar sentence from the bench.
Perhaps the philosopher is right in assigning the
course pursued by us on some Of those subjects, AZ
the cause If the increase Of our circulation, and Of
the popularity and influence Of the Herald in this
community, and throughout the country; for on
those points, we believe, al sensible and indcpen-
dent men entertain the same opinions Us those that
have been promulgated through our columns
TnE BRITISH Cr-,M uroK NioAIAouA--The ex-
traordinary document, OF fyonuaeiamenio, issued
by Mr. Barclay, the British Consul for New York,
concerning the agreement entered into by the
agents Of the New York and New Orleans Steam
Navigation Company and the government OF NJ
csrsEun, for the exclusive right of navigating the
81 Johns river, and for the privilege of erecting
store houtes and other buildings has not, we hope,
efcaped the attention Of the government at Wash
ingon. This document is ofiicia and the British
government, speaking through Mr.. Barclay, in
forms that company "fhat the boundary line of
tie ~. Johns river touches the Machuca Rapid,
about Thirty miles below the Lake Nicaragua, and
that rom thence TO the mouth Of the st. Johns tie
navigation ct that river belongs TO Mosquito. |
have likewise TO inform The company that the port
of -. johns, now called Grey Town, at which
they have agreed with the Nicaragua government,
to build store, also belongs to Mosquito; that
her Majesty government Is bound TO protect The
King 81 Mosquito in the exercise Of the territorial
nights which he possesses aver Grey Town, and
over tie lower part Of the 81. JONAS nvcr, and
that the government Of Nicaragua has entered
into an agreement m regard to places where it has
no competence
To those who know the disrepuiable means
which the British government took to wrcst the
Mosquito territory from Nicaragua, by taking up
boy chief, making hun drunk, GROWING hun King
Of Mesquite. and going through the form Of swear
ing allegiance 10 hiG--to those, We say, who know
the means which the British government used to
srize the Mosquito territory for their own purposes
this movement Of the British s the most lnsolent
that that nsoleni government ever undertook The
title of the Mosquito territory is in the State Of
Nicaragua, and that State having granted certain
privileges to American citizens, we shall
whether those privileges he wrested from them by
foreign government or not.
We, therefore, call upon the administration at
Washington to take this matter in hand at once,
and to act promptly concerning it, It is part Of our
ndUcHdl CIttu bdl HO P'NNis "h' i'dot
Of oil, Grca, Britain, shall acquire any more terri.
tory on this continent, for any purpose whatever.
The doctrine is an old one and good one. They
may retain what they have, If they can; but the
policy which England has pursued in India shall
not, with the consent liberation Of the United
States, be followed on the American continent.
Let this determination be at once made known to
England--Ie, the action Of the government Of that
county be protested against. and, II need be, let
the government enforce the rights which the State
of Nicaragua granted to our citizens. A fleet
should at once be despatched to the Mosquito
coast, and other means adopted to check the in
science Of The British government, as far as thus
continent ia concerned.
We again hope that Gen. Taylor and his cabinet
will O. CT promptly and determinedy ia ih,s matter
Not a none Mt II to be lost.