Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-12-22
From the NeU Orleans Crescent.
MIC AR A G u A.

As we predicted when Mr.. BARCLAYS protest
against the exercise of their rights by the Ameri-
can Navigation Company first appeared. the diff
cutles between Great Britain and the United
States IN regard TO their relations with Nicaragua
become every day more and more serious. We
have before stated that any compromise of the re-
spectIye claims of the two governments would be
difficult, If not impossible and the latest news We
have r1ceiVeo confirms the opinions we have pre-
syiously expressed. The telegraph informs thai
Sir Henry Lyton Bulwer, the new English Minr
lister. has instructions prevent any interference
of the United States With the relations Of Great
Britain and Nicaragua and yet we have but the
other day heard that our Charge to Guatemala,
Mr.. Squier, has negotiated a treaty by which the
island Of Tie.e is ceded 10 The Uaited States. AT
the same time we are told that British flee, was
in full sail towards the Gulf of Fonseca in order
TO take possession of this very Island Of Tigre.-
Imagine the rage of a real John Bull Admiral
when he gets to the Island, and finds those ever
lasting stars and stripes waving where he thought,
TO see fort manned by none but Spanish Amer-
cans and Indians. How The old gentleman or the
young gentleman, as the may be, will gnash
his teeth with very wrath, and curse The Internal
Yankees, who always get ahead of all creation.
No matter what may be the wish disposition
of the President and his Secretary of State it will
be impossible for them, under present circunstan-
ces to retreat from the position assumed by Mr..
ohSNSoSo'oS
European governments will not be permitted by
the United States to interfere with the rights of
any of the people on this continent. The feeling
| of which Mr.. Monroe was she exponent, and which
Gel. Jackson so faithfully represented, is becom-
ing every year stronger and stronger In the Ame-
| rical people. With sense Of their growing and
now almost Irresistible power, comes sense OF
the duties they owe TO their weaker brethren in
the way of protection and support. Wrongs to
| uhscb
years ago would have been passed by without no.
lce or remonstrance, now call forth from the w.
States protests which imperative, and InJunc-
| tions which are decisive. No longer nero COLO
nies emerging into independence, and struggling
as if for life ard death to maintain our own posi-
lion Lonorably and we'll, we have arrived at that
higher state of power when we give assistance to
our friends who may be struggling with stronger
| and tyra nnical nations. .itt
The people of the Unitod States will not, then
be disposed to give up any of the rights they ma y
nave acquired in Nicaraeua-nay, thoy viii moi
! be disposed oven to forsake weak and friendly
country--for fear of any consequences that ma ,
cnsue from British wrath or British enmity 1ha
we have rights in Nicaragua, no one can be lgno
| rant of. Even had our citizens not received
grant from the Nicaraguan government, still, as
neiehbor of the United States, we have r'ght tf
see that no power nmcal TO ours is introduced
into an adjacent territory. Great Britain IS, iron
all appearances, attempting TO gam an au'horlty
! in Central America, which is not only dangerous
TO the present occupants Of that region, but may
in the end prove highly detrimental to the lnte
rests of tho people of the United States. 1t be
hooves us to take stand in the matter before tn
danger becomes too urgent. If we delay, 1t MAJ
be the work of years to re-conquer what we nav
lost and il is only by timely action that we cal
| hone TO forestal the energetic efforts England ]
/ making for the supremacy of the lsthmus OF Sal
Juan de Nicaragua. p tHa
Steam Poaces in France.-An official report +
the French Government shows thai Inc nu"oe
lof steam engines employed in France has increase
since 1877 from five hundred to ten thousand
4 There have been but forty accidents in all tina
time, and during the three years which e'apso
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